skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since my FreeBSD servers don't have a termcap file for alacritty, when I ssh into my FreeBSD servers my backspace key doesn't work (along with a lot of other things).

A hack I've got in .zshrc for this problem:

function ssh {
if [[ "${TERM}" = alacritty ]]; then
env TERM=xterm-256color /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
else
/usr/bin/ssh "$@"
fi
}
By removing pedophiles from society through violence, naturally.
No alt-history on this list? Or maybe I didn't read carefully enough.

There's a lot of interesting short alt-history, the nice thing about the genre for shorts is that the reader needs little introduction to the setting - it's our world, except a little different, and discovering how it's different is often the core of the story.

A great many of the famous examples involve Nazis winning World War II, though e.g. Weinachtsabend by Keith Roberts puts an very interesting spin on that (Britain agrees terms with Germany and the war is over quickly, but decades later things aren't so simple) but much less obviously how about Howard Waldrop's "Custer's Last Jump" in which the Battle of the Little Bighorn happens in an alternate 19th century America that has powered flight...
Interesting notes from the paper mentioned in the article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/174701611989840...

- "only 39 scientists from 7 countries have been subject to criminal sanctions between 1979 and 2015 (Oransky and Abritis, 2017)" That seems...very low.

- "The Retraction Watch database—the largest of its kind—currently includes more than 18,500 retracted articles (Retraction Watch database, 2019). A recent analysis of 10,500 retracted papers up to 2016 showed that 0.04% of papers are retracted." This is once again a lower-bound; presumably if you account for additional authors and p-hacking the numbers go up a lot.

Pushing for replication and improved methodology can help, but some of these issues seem to be related to scale. There are many more people outputting papers than there are people willing to vet them (outside of peer review). Furthermore, when you have many people researching hot fields, you should expect false positives and overestimates to dominate published results, even when everyone is trying to practice good statistical hygiene. (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...)
> People here are speaking about how gmail will "effectively spambox your mails by default". That's not been my experience

It is mine. I used to have to take a proactive approach to email - send an email, and if I don't hear back in a timely manner, I check their MX records. If it's Google, I'd contact them out of band - yep... spamholed.

These days, if it's important I'll contact out of band. If not, meh... I'm not going to bother just because of Google Knows Best. I'm over pandering to Google.
> I'm planning on using PineTab to replace my SurfaceRT for

> movies on road-trips.

First link on DuckDuckGo is somebody really complaining about the SurfaceRT [1]. PineTab should have more than enough power with the Mali GPU at 720. That USB-A port is also _really_ awesome, people seem to forget the importance of commonly used USB ports!

> 2-3 seconds for a tap to respond is not uncommon on it.

Insane, did it ship like that? Microsoft are really not so great with hardware, although I hear better things about later more powerful Surface models. If they don't care about something they really tend to neglect it.

I have an old Kindle Fire that I got the Google Play store running on, after that it was reasonably use-able, but still struggles. A zoom call for example is completely out of the question using the browser (instead of installing their crapware). Still good enough for light browsing, viewing PDFs, writing some notes, emails, etc.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/surfac...
Many companies now hire PhDs to do production work, and it ends up being a complete disaster. There is not much need for pure researchers in most of industry.

And in my experience teams with these academic data "scientists" are far worse cesspools than normal engineering teams who deliver actual products and value.

Also, what are publications supposed to show? They are often a negative indicator of actual capability. Ever interviewed a data scientist who looks good on paper with tons of publications who can't even write a for loop? I have.
Yes.

The N64 had a unified memory architecture, so the frame buffer was just a region of memory within the unified system RAM that was drawn to. The Z buffer was the same way. (assuming the programmer chose to enable to the Z buffer) It was still a frame buffer though.
Yeah, because some asshole business team decided that why should anyone sell a decent product anymore, when you can squeeze your customers for their personal information, and have a recurring/ongoing revenue stream?

It's like these shit-tier blogs and webdevs, who are tracking every single thing you do on their sites. Are they just incapable of creating? all this tracking...it's anti-creative in the extreme. Mechanical, soulless, lowest common denominator. It's medium.com and web 3.0. Where's the exit bros?
You have 15 years of finance experience as you “enter your thirties”?
Yeah, it's like not you would call an in-memory B-tree immutable if you could only add more nodes but not change existing ones. Clearly other people are wrong and we should stand up for what is right!
Can you give some examples of polarizing opinions that you think are considered “cool”?
HRTF is often used in game audio and AR [2], but never [1] as a mix effect in commercial DAWs.

HRTF is a blunt instrument anyway. It's supposed to model your head and not just a standard imaginary generic head, and that's impossible without sticking a microphone inside each ear.

It's also a headphone-only effect. As soon as you play the sound through speakers you get room reflections and all kinds of other artefacts which wash out the spatial detail.

[1] Almost never. There are HRTF plugins, but they're hardly ever used in music mixing.

[2] Apple has some HRTF patents for recording audio on multiple channels - not just two - using HRTFs to capture apparent depth.
Democratizing Coding: The Future Is in the Cloud
I work with a group that got a pretty ground-breaking tech paper published in a top medical journal. They estimated it generated $100M in investment for the group. Over 2-3 years. I think the original investment for the work that produced the paper was about $1M. FWIW.
If I was a betting man I would say it will not be possible. The odds of universities publishing zoom links in light of the zoom bombings[0] seems pretty low to me. Most likely students will be contacted directly by their professors/administration with the link(s) for their classes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing
Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack
That's because a lot of the things Trump does like tweeting his supporters screaming "white power" are objectively bad things which most conservatives and liberals would agree are reprehensible. Of course it's socially acceptable to condemn racism.
Barry Mazur, who is a professor of mathematics at Harvard, also only has a PhD. He left the Bronx High School of Science in his junior year to attend MIT without a diploma. He then neglected to complete an ROTC requirement at MIT, but he was already accepted to Princeton's PhD program, so he never bothered to get his Bachelor's degree. A few years later, he got his PhD in mathematics at the age of 22, which remains his only degree.
Anyone run WordPress through this yet?
Sadly the RS 185 was recently discontinued, and it doesn't look like it will be getting a replacement.

I actually bought a couple spare HDR 185 headsets a few weeks ago, which I'm hoping last me for several decades.
I’ve looked at re-frame for a couple of years now, since right when I started learning Clojure on my own time, and I’m quite interested but still on the fence about whether it would be helpful for my use case.

Our API calls are messy (historical limitations) and clojurescript’s robust data merging capabilities would work wonders here. In a new front-end iteration I’m trying to use the model of a single global data store, but given how many conditional API calls we have to make and how much easier and more idiomatic it is to “cheat” with mutability in JS, it’s hard to convince my team to be rigorous about keeping to this pattern for everything. There are real difficulties and tradeoffs there: ES6 spreads more than one level deep are hard to read, we may want to display a view before its drop down entries are resolved, etc.

The essentials are that we have to handle retrieving the following:

1. A model that represents some global concerns (auth, network/system errors, websocket messages) plus the data required by the current view.

2. A template that determines how to display the current view. This can be a full-page display with nav tree links to other views plus the display form that a given field should use (input, drop down, button, etc.), or it can be a modal view, n layers deep, and also may or may not contain a nested nav tree of its own. (Yep, we have to keep the lower-layer models ourselves and still merge errors/websocket stuff.)

I’m already confident that cljs can turn the messy model reconciliation into something easier to read and maintain. I’m less certain about re-frame’s idea of how to subscribe to its db data, especially since I’d like to reuse some custom components in deeply-nested data. For example, “sticking a drop down inside of a grid column“ is an expected feature in the view template.

Transforming it from js react to cljs reagent seems like a pretty straightforward exercise—famous last words. The impression I get from re-frame is that it’s “a more robust redux with less boilerplate,” and the dev tools look great. But any proof-of-concept app I develop will be a spare-time if not my-own-time exploration. It’s something I want to do, because I think it’ll save us loads of time later and just be more fun to work with. It’s also an uphill battle to sell using Clojure at my org anyway, and I want to make a good pitch of it without spending too much time in the weeds.

Does anyone have experience with a system like this in re-frame, or in cljs more generally, who is willing to give me some feedback?
Sure, look at the self-styled "intellectual dark web".
This is bad for our country.
> But this would actually work well if it was consistent and fast.

So not too concerned about partition tolerance, huh?
I do feel the need to add that these examples of people who were too brilliant to need degrees are not very useful answers for the OP, as amusing as the anecdotes may be.
At the beginning of lockdowns I was wondering what might break down on the fleets of planes that have been grounded, or under utilized.

I wonder what other bugs will be uncovered from not exercising machines that are designed to be used on a very regular basis.
As a followup, here's an example of applying artificial photosynthesis process capturing CO2 and resulting in acetate.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/04/16/major-advance-in-artif...
> The idea of "black American experiences conflicting with curiosity" strikes me as a bizarre formulation.

BLM and its concerns for justice is considered a very political topic. Black issues in America aren’t about to become an unpolitical issue.

An oft repeated argument is that political activist speech kills curiosity. There’s no transparent line to know when political speech is curious enough not to violate site rules.

Also, where does the mandate of the site come from? The president of YC? My worry is that the prescriptions of the site don’t seem to have any story for evolution.
But I thought we should "believe all scientists?!"
I can't see other way than entirely forbid drugstores from having loyalty/rewards programs based on personal identification.

They would be allowed to ask for your information when buying through app/web, but could never give you discounts or incentives of any sort for buying through such platforms.

And that wouldn't mean they couldn't have a loyalty program: they could give customers stamps on paper cards, paper seals and alikes. It may sound archaic, but some big supermarket chains use this method regularly and it works pretty well.
bureaucracy cannot guarantee the quality of research beyond the jet ski bar

hierarchies are established to ensure that the PI gets citations from the work of postdocs and postgrads

typical grants encourage shallow trend-chasing or incremental continuation of the research of - often disinterested - senior PIs who simply get grants because they have gotten a lot of grants.

The chase of the state of the art is just another incremental step - that 's shallow

a research partner is not necessarily a subordinate
I used to love my Bose QC 35 ii's but now I'm convinced they're kind of a scam.

Bose deliberately made the battery enclosure very difficult to open so that you can't replace the battery yourself. Why do you need to replace the battery? Because if you use them every day, the battery degrades so that a full charge only lasts about 1 hour, down from 20+ hours, within just 2 years.

So you aren't really paying $250 for a pair of headphones, you're paying $125 a year to rent them, as they will only last 2 years due to planned obsolescence. This seems to have been a deliberate decision by Bose as the previous model had a removable battery.
If you use the Album>Write Metadata to Files command, it will do so. (I just tested adding a Face Tag to a photo. In Settings>Configure>Metadata, I also checked the box next to Face Tags under Write This Information to the Metadata. This latter action didn't seem to be enough by itself.)
> while we're pretty sure intelligence is genetic to a super high degree.

No? There are tons of studies about childhood development that focus on intelligence being affected by their environment / upbringing.
What are these theories? I always thought It was fairly well known Luigi (and a bunch of other things)was cut due to budget and limitations of the n64 carts. Not just in mario 64 but most n64 games.

I'm honestly curious, i've never actually heard any theories about Luigi and mario 64 other than he just cut due to above mentioned reasons. Much like Yoshi.
If you use iOS, you have no other option than just trusting the vendor. You couldn't do anything to make it more secure even if you wanted to.
Mail in a box suggests being the DNS server in an attempt to be more user friendly, there are a lot of DNS records to setup for mail. How ever external DNS is supported (see "System status & DNS" in https://mailinabox.email/guide.html)
I'm with you 100%, virtually nobody will take the time to code against a fallback profile like that. That's why most sites tend not to work without JavaScript regardless of whether their functionality strictly requires it.

Support for images concern many of us for that reason: sure it seems nice for a few cases used judiciously. But it feels counter-productive to the strengths of the CLI.

I would feel that way about curses/cli-based-gui too in theory, but in practice it's just top, vim, and less for the most part. Maybe I'm just too scared.
> If that didn't work, my next step was going to be filing a lawsuit, just to try to get their attention.

On what grounds? They are free to remove stuff from their website
HN comments are locked to further replies after 2 weeks. That doesn't exactly help.

Sometimes, figuring out what considered discourse looks like in a certain area is an unbounded process.

Sometimes it hinges on drive-by enlightenment by someone who happens to have exactly the right resource and a willingness to necropost it.
With any exponential growth curve, you can point to some semi-recent point on the curve and say 50% is on the right side of that point. If the population is growing exponentially (it is), and the percentage of the population in academia is consistent or growing (that I'm not sure), then you could reasonably expect the quantity of research to be growing exponentially as well. Maybe it's just a curve with a doubling period of 13 years.
Depends on the type of wireless headphone. I can envision that as possible if you can break Bluetooth encryption and crank up the volume, but there are RF wireless headphones where the digital signal doesn't contain volume level, which is entirely on-device and only controllable with physical buttons.
I like alt-history, and mention one in the comments, but I'm not sure of less than novel length examples that really stood out on their own. It may be because it's a relatively easy scenario to put out there.
Yes, I concede it's a bit of a bugbear - apologies for the negativity.

The idea that not spending the requisite minute or so to look up meaning and usage of a new word is acceptable behaviour of adults seems depressingly defeatist. We don't consider this an acceptable attitude during a child's dozen or more years of formal education, and realistically most adults have easy & rapid access to authoritative sources.

That our languages should then be (re)defined by these torpid users -- well that's just a horrible deal.
The Space Force: A Victory for American Leadership in the 21st Century
With trillions of $ invested globally towards space commerce, the US is now preparing for cislunar leadership recognising that space will become a "war-faring domain."

The race is officially on for humans to become a multi-planetary spacefaring civilisation and star wars inevitable.
No fucking shit, came here to say:

If you literally put a massive file on the public internet, what the actual fuck are you complaining about? The quality here is such shit.

Let's snipe at amzn, everyone hates them because they're winning, because of hn readers dependence on AWS to run their shit web apps... It's like: ope! It's been a day since we had a "amzn scammed me" post. Nevermind that the people complaining are either a) too ignorant and footgunned themselves, b) minimizing or lying about their own complicity, or c) outright scammers themselves.
Check out galios, laid the foundations for two a whole fields of math and then died at age 20 in a duel.
I use my airpods with my Android phone. What am I missing out on?
> higher liablility

The problem is you are always fully liable!

The only reason Amazone did not charge the full price is because it's good marketing for them. I'm not sure if this also would have happened if the person would be less good connected/have gotten less visibility.

> so i'm going on holiday and i'm fucked?

That's why AWS is super problematic for any company which isn't big enough to make sure there is always someone reachable by billing alert 24/7.

A more extream case happened btw. a while ago with google serverless. Small startup with limited budged did a software error which massively increased data queries and got good publicity when they lunched and then was instant bankrupt, well except that google was also not sharing them because the bad press that would have caused.

> You know, a billig alert is a nice thing, its not the solution. Host a few things on AWS, tell me your endpoints and your bill just might be already in deep shit before you read your bill.

I agree, I'm strongly in favor of soft- and hard limits. (Per "project", with a dynamic limit of x-times of what the cost had been previous month, etc.).
I meant that Visa/MC/Discover/AmEx should be forcing the use of chip and Pin or other 2FA methods.
Hey! Yes, flamenco is well considered a complex musical instrument of percussion, much like a Jazz drummer could make complex patterns and improvise. Hope we get to dance together someday on some improvised street somewhere in the world! The great thing about flamenco is that, even though it's almost or quite involved like ballet (the national ballet in spain trains top ballet dancers to combine flamenco dance in choreographies), it's something you can start much later and also have a longer career into your seniority (keeping your wits about and Alzheimer's well away).

Also, some versions of the opera Carmen has almost an hour-long flamenco part, it's worth watching, a good french opera.
I've never tried his short fiction, but Gene Wolfe has always been a writer that I knew I was supposed to appreciate as literary SF but never really could. Maybe I should try his shorter fiction.
The experience on Android is they “just work” as Bluetooth headphones.

My experience with the Bose headphones has been excruciating.
Protein from the edible Lablab beans blocks the infections of flu and SARS-CoV-2
this sounds really good. my company wouldn't let me work like this (Japanese mid size, with no remote before covid). Just last week I left my phone charging while still coding (my manager could have seen my commits) in another room. When I checked slack again "he was afraid I had an accident" because I didn't send the "I'm back from lunch" message after taking my break.
I completely agree. I live on the US West coast and work with people from Israel to Australia and let me tell you - it's a challenge. It can be done but it requires a slower pace of decision making, a lot of flexibility, and a team that's dedicated to cross cultural communication.
I also used to work remotely with everyone in the same few time zones and, on reflection, it was basically like being in an office.
Well, it would be very good if TikTok Open-Source the app, the best option.
How the world’s smelliest fruit could power your phone
Research publication, funding, and jobs should not be tied to outcomes of research.

They should be tied to how systematic, logical, and well-documented the research is. We need a system wide change from funding bodies, job committees to publishing criteria.
I think the GP doesn't know the conspiracy theories, but expects them to be invented in attempts to rationalize the inclusion of unused assets.

Let's see... the Luigi portions of the game actually coded in a sound stage on the dark side of Mars (which is flat), but the roundtards don't want anyone to know that Mars is flat, and the Luigi character would have given away the existence of the sound stage studio, exposing the flatness of Mars.
+1 for Longhorn. I started using it in my homelab as an easy replicated/distributed storage.

It was a lot easier to setup and had more of an "it just works" out of the box experience compared to openebs/rook/etc.
I imagine the internet has done a lot to increase the speed of research, communication, and writing. I imagine it also speeds up peer review and has expanded the amount of available places to publish your work. I agree though, it would be nice to spend more time sciencing and less time writing about it.
Online Batch Citation Tool for JAMA Psychiatry Journal
Introduction to Quantum Computing (Lecture 1)
In terms of security, Intel has been bad for a while. The last good chip was the Intel Core 2 Duo. Everything since then has had basically spyware on the processor via the Intel Management Engine. It doesn't matter if it was manufactured/designed in the US or not when you have exploitable proprietary software running on your processor. The only way to truly be free and have a decent insurance of security is with a fully open source, free system which includes your processor and bios.
Don't think $90k. Think $300k. There are plenty of top people glad to be academics for $150-$200k, and beyond that, you don't get an increase in quality. On the other hand, you avoid a lot of problems with misaligned incentives at the top.
(Genuinely curious) in what sense do you mean that it’s considered cool? I don’t think most of these people are treated with admiration and respect in popular culture in the way normally associated with the word “cool”.
You got me, poor wording. My father worked at a very high level in influential investment funds, I grew up around the industry and understand how it works. I will delete this later because its not something I want to advertise