skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain groups have been serious the replication crisis for 10-15y, but academic culture at large is simply not cut out to discuss fraud in a 'street epistemology' sort of way, such as the way security researchers might discuss cybercrime.

There's a wild amount of pushback to any amount of meta-criticism. But once you get past that point, many roadblocks remain.

In particular, there's extreme bias for meta-statistical methodologies that infer QRPs over other methods of investigation. Often, these methods aren't strictly necessary in context, and afford the opportunity to turn the metasci discourse into endless bikeshedding about the meta-framework rather than the object of dispute.

Many interested parties will participate/perform in this discourse, but few will sit down and really look at things as simple as the logical structure of the paper's claims, or even simpler problems with its content.

In the case of social psych, for instance, many problems lie with (a) stimuli and (b) unexamined assumptions on the part of the researchers that a certain manipulation holds, so these are important to assess. But extending critique to these things is seen as "reviewer 2" behavior — uncollegial, unfair, sniping, waaah etc.

Since "researcher x produces bad research, but evidence of fraud is only circumstantial" isn't sufficient grounds for doing much of anything, little comes of these efforts. When an investigation does nail a fraudster to the wall, well, so? The papers remain, the poisoned citation tree remains, the culture remains.

More than anything, the pushback in the form of tone-policing is what gets me. "Methodological terrorism" this, "reviewer 2" that. It shows how far from consequences the gatekeepers are. If you're a young person, whole branches of the academy have been pre-bankrupted for you. There's no hope there, short of a research path that manages to avoid citing any prior literature. But don't get tetchy with the grantlords!

Meanwhile, all around the US, real effects of this dogshit excuse for scientific inquiry can be seen every single day. Police departments are adopting new policies around known-bad implicit bias papers. These won't work. We know they won't work. We've known this for years.

What would make it stop? Every time cops kill an unarmed person, academics who still haven't retracted their implicit bias papers get fined?

There's the rub. You can't do much to force the point. Effective, timely measures would be fairly brutal ones, and academics aren't ready to admit this to themselves. In some ways, COVID-19 may end up being one of those measures, though it will disproportionately affect younger researchers.
Great to help my reading list. Thanks for sharing! I think many great science fiction ideas don’t require a full novel to get the reader to open their mind. That’s why I love the short stories. Thanks again!
Well. His measly 30TB probably costs the internet archive a single digit amount.

He could donate $10 to the internet archive and they ought to be even. Way cheaper than those $2656.74
I usually have ~20 terminal windows open, some of which have sessions opened on 4 different machines. If the host name and current working directory are not in the prompt, I need to check both every time I switch windows. Otherwise there’s no way I won’t make a mistake and do some stuff in the wrong place or on the wrong server.

I can accept that my use case is not typical, but these things are actually useful.
Multiprocessing vs Threading vs AsyncIO in Python
You’re not alone. My brain works in steps, not proofs. If all code looked like Haskell and friends I doubt I’d ever have gotten into it in the first place.

[edit] algos, over proofs, would probably be a better way to put it.
umm, no I don't. everyone pays taxes by default. it is you who needs to say something more persuasive than churches should not pay taxes because they are churches.
open source phone. The raspberry pi of phones

I don't think an ecosystem based around SoCs from a notoriously proprietary and open-source-unfriendly company is at all a good model of an "open source phone".
That’s the fault of the person falsifying data, not the person reporting the fraud.
Yes, I agree. But it's far easier to push technology----where incremental progress like Pine64-ing everything you own is possible----than push for political stuff when e.g. FTFP means you'd have to move first.

I, for one, see technological replicating the stagnation and over-complexity of human systems (say US was kinda alright in 1790, Unix in 1970). I Hope that if the technological and organizational problems of free software/hardware can be solved, we can use that experience to tackle the real-life problems.
The command line application is also quite useful. Usually you wouldn't need to go into a programming language at all to wield its power
Good list, but a few notable gaps.

Not a lot of people know, perhaps, that Gene Wolfe was a fantastic short story writer. Among my favourites are "Hero as Werewolf" and "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" [1], the latter a pitch-perfect analysis of why we need to read stories.

R. A. Lafferty is also notably absent. If he needs to be known for just one short story, it's "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne" [2]. Probably the funniest time-travel story ever written.

[1] http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/591130106.pdf

[2] http://24.130.149.112:82/get/pdf/2256
I know I've said this before here but.. it goes the other way too.

People make a big deal of SPF/DKIM etc. I think you should, for the sake of best practice. But you can set yourself up with gsuite or Office 365 and pay no attention to these things, and you can fully expect mail to get through to everyone. You can even setup a broken SPF record that disallows office 365 email and for the most part, everyone will still get your email.
I think modern PHP is worlds better than JS, simply because it has a larger standard library.
Thanks that’s exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t want an open source DIY option because I am lazy and just want to plug in Ips and ports.

Also just curious, what’s your annual revenue like?
It’s a good thing we can adapt it to our taste, then.
I'd argue that a lot of what the authors describe isn't actually "fraud", it's more exploitation of an intentionally broken system.

I've definitely had authors on my papers who didn't do work. I've definitely written papers for people who didn't do work. I've definitely done peer reviews on behalf of PIs. Why do people do this? Because the regulators allow it and they want the system that way. Why should who wrote the paper have any impact on review? Why should it matter who the journal editors are? Why should it matter where the paper is from? Etc...
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=cpu-ns32k.net

Some SSL issues going on there
I think there is outright fraud and subtle fraud.

For instance, most mouse studies specifically as it relates to aging, drug safety, and cancer research should be thrown out. This is well covered here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRCzZp1J0v0

That’s not the only issue, but it’s a known issue, everyone is ignoring as it relates to all studies with the most common mice
> a user managing to get hacked and their account used to send a couple hundred spam e-mails

For this reason one of the necessities of survival as an email sender is to classify your own outbound messages, to see if recipients might think they are spammy. If they just look spammy but you still want to send them, you need sacrificial IP addresses on separate netblocks that are dedicated to spam, so the reputation of your main IPs isn't polluted.

If there's any possibility that any of your users could get their account hijacked, or there could be malware on any device permitted to send messages, you need outbound classification.
> time, effort and materials were found

There were hospitals in Leningrad, doctors and medical intruments were in it.

Doctor worked there, they were paid (with food stamps) to do the surgeries.

It would be strange to expect that they refuse a treatment to a woulded patient.
This is likely a relevant topic too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956961
I am aware of these issues and yet also sometimes prefer to have headphones without wires.
The private sector does do research, and for RoI /it actually has to work/.

Academia is a cesspit of politics and dishonesty. Forming the most effective cartels, sensationalizing your results, and being well networked with other academics is not aligned with getting results on actual problems.
Nintendo, Disney, and Cultural Determinism
The problem with efficiency is that it's usually not tied to reduction. We need people to have more efficient buildings and to heat and cool them less. We need LED lighting with no more lighting. So, https://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/are-we-using-le...

Put simply: INDUCED DEMAND

Just like roads or computer hardware (every improvement in hardware can get eaten up by people no longer caring about optimizing software efficiency or modest file sizes: nobody needs their cute family videos to be 4k HD etc)… we can easily use up ALL the gains if we are let to just do that.

We use more efficient building technology to support homes being larger and more luxurious than we need. Defeats the whole purpose.

We need to internalize the costs. Heavy taxes on the source of pollution rather than subsidizing the clean-up or the use.

If energy gets MUCH MUCH more expensive, people WILL upgrade to efficient tech and keep minimizing their use of it.
> it's certainly possible they've lied and cheated their entire career but it's definitely less likely they'll make it that far that way.

The number of people who make "correct, active decisions" is vanishingly small.

It's less they've cheated than "Did you really make correct decisions or did your coin just come up heads 8 times in a row?" Other people may have been as smart or smarter, but if the coin flip went tails, they get politically hammered.

Success has a large part of "survivor bias" to it.
Gmail still sends good emails to spambox even today... For example, a realestate agent sent documents with really personal info in them and it still got qualified as spam
ELI5:

Way back in the early 2000s I was a young mid level developer and we had a SQL Server backed solution. There was a wide spread attack on Sql Server installations that didn’t change the default blank SA password. We were one of the companies that didn’t.

But, even then I knew not to have a publicly accessible database server. We just didn’t give the server a public IP address. Nothing fancy. We weren’t affected but I immediately changed the password.

Fast forward to 2018. The company I worked for was just starting to ramp up an in-house development staff led by a new CTO. Everything had been outsourced to a foreign agency. They had a publicly accessible ElasticSearch cluster. I wasn’t on the team responsible for it, but I know that the architect on the team knew better. Even though he didn’t setup the original cluster, he knew it was insecure and just didn’t prioritize recreating it inside our VPC.

Of course we got hacked and someone deleted everything in it. Then they decided to go ahead and recreate it inside the VPC. Luckily we didn’t use ES as a primary store and we were just offline all day while we ran the process to repopulate the cluster from our Mysql database.

Why do people keep making the same mistake? I was definitely not any world class software architect at 25 years old, but even I knew to be cautious about giving servers public IP addresses unnecessarily.
Agreed. Ballard's sci-fi novels — before he changed tracks and verred over into contemporary fiction — are also worth a read. I recently finished The Crystal World, which, while seriously flawed, was very enjoyable.
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yes, churches not being taxes is a flaw in the tax system, not churches. churches and everyone else can be and do whatever they want to. welcome to the discussion.
" Products launched. Teams managed."

This definitely has zero to do with quality research being published, and even in startup land, those things are nice to have but still don't prove anything, unless they were the directing agents of those initiatives.
CARB should be eyeing google maps.

Google maps regularly directs drivers on 20+ additional mile detours when their algorithms predict that doing so will just save minutes-- a benefit that is usually fictional in any case because they're working with noisy and delayed data.

Worse, even when the user manually tells google maps to not take the detour it will aggressively attempt to move the driver back onto the detour at random times without notice when it falsely believes the driver has gone off course.

The CO2 footprint from this default decision to is probably tremendous but no one except google has the data to assess what it is exactly.

Beyond the massive detours to (maybe) save seconds to a minute both maps and, especially, waze will aggressively route drivers onto surface streets for the same second-shaving motivations. The negative impact to community safety has been widely discussed, but this behaviour also increases pollution by creating longer paths and moves pollution closer to people's homes.
Wikipedia and other sources seem to paint a darker tale.

> Lilian and Walter met in Japan in 1913 and married the following year; the marriage was not a happy one due in part to Walter's infidelities.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland#Early_life.

And apparently in his wife's own words

> spoke like God, but behaved like the Devil

from https://books.google.com/books?id=nmjetV92THsC&pg=PP1#v=onep...

It doesn't seem like Go was the reason for the divorce.
> Liberate research funding from pointless bureaucracies and 4-year grants and instead pay scientists to work on whatever they like most.

Bureaucracy exists to ensure that funds are indeed spent on research instead of jet skis and shiny toys, and hierarchies are established to focus work on specialized topics pertaining to the state of the art of a field of research.

All your suggestions do is ensure that less funds are spent on research, and the few work that is performed cannot be any form of deep dive or continuous effort on a topic, thus resulting only in low-hanging fruits.

And by the way, the minute a researcher complains he needs help with his research is the moment you get a hierarchy.
In most fields this is unimportant. Bad research can have significant public policy impact.

Sure, it sucks for the students, but you have to introduce accountability in academia for it to stop being worthless.
Its ironic how upset people get over the use of "irregardless."
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I think it’s mostly a numbers game, more PhDs, roughly the same number of research position. This means most scientists don’t know most other scientists in their field, and so the metrics people use to select become more important. That and the increased competition, means a bigger rat race, more pressure to publish, etc.
A friend of mine likes to quote the advice of an engineering professor: "The closer your product gets to the physics of a problem, the less money you're going to make."

With relevance to this situation, I guess the interpretation is that you can rarely make a lot of money when the competitive advantage is just that you have 18 months on a certain chip technology before others learn how to do it. Because the pure knowledge of how to do something can't keep you safe forever. It seems to be a constantly shrinking margin against others who are getting more and more sophisticated.

Maybe they saw this and recognized a losing game in part of their territory. Maybe more attention needs to be paid to what differentiating factor has become, even if it changes what Intel is about. I have no idea, but I hope they do!
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There's an interesting electrochemical hydrogen technology from Greg Rau and coworkers.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625192825.h...

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0038955.html

As I understand it, it exploits the separation of acid and base in membrane electrolysis cells, and neutralizes the acid with various minerals. This ends up producing an output stream that can add CO2-absorbing capacity to the ocean. At the stated CO2 absorption capacity, producing the world's current H2 production using this would allow the oceans to absorb an addition 3 Gt of CO2 per year.

Rau has a company, Planetary Hydrogen, that looks like it's trying to commercialize this.
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Highly highly subjective, js is tiny compared to PHP so you have all the issues with what_some_one wanted toName a function vs the standard PHP way. Not to mention js is very composable compared to most PHP.
When all you have is a hammer ...
Only with the investment of massive amounts of energy and landing millions of tons of equipment to process regolith and melt out important components. The same materials can be found in near earth asteroids without that massive investment, or being buried in such a large gravity well.

It’s like saying we can process good out of seawater, which we can, but it’s hand waving away the massive difficulties.
At my last job at an email security provider, this was a huge pain in the ass. We would provision new mail servers, and because the new servers' IP reputation to Office365, Google, etc. was poor initially, someone (until it became a shell script) had to spend the better part of a week taking the new server out of rotation, putting it back in, and so forth, so not too many of our client's emails got stuck in the new server's reputation blackhole.

I was there for 10 years, and this was only a problem in the final ~2 years of my employment, which roughly lines up with your 4 years remark.
What Freud can teach us about “anti-maskers”
Could you list the others? Or at least provide some examples?

Basically all I know are based on either mandatory by law record keeping, or records used to fulfill whatever service/product/goods the user purchased, but even in these cases the processing must be described, right?
I'll trade my credential for a few million any day of the week.

Never have any takers, I wonder why.
It would've literally been cheaper to burn that file to a few thousand DVDs and mail them to individual people.

Nice pricing AWS.
At what stage of your career though, and what role were you? What worked for you then might not swing in so many people's favor right now.
I’m arguing that the idea of a karen is not new, sorry to be unclear.
Coincidence for me to see this here, as a book by Dr. Stuart Ritchie was just published about this very thing.

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictions-Negligence-Undermine...
This is absolutely not the reality of a PhD. On what planet do people with those backgrounds get those positions out of their PhDs? What's the basis for this entire comment?
Interesting, didn't know they used photos of the user's ears.

There has been research done on identifying people by their ears. [0]

> You can't use it because it requires the internet to get the latest _required tos_ to use your headphones.

Can't you just uninstall the app entirely? They're standard Bluetooth headphones, right?

[0] https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2010/10/new-method-to-ide...
You can’t change the noise canceling settings without the phone app. They also default back to “full” after you power cycle the headset. I wanted to use them with a PC and no ANC but no luck without the clunky phone process.
> The only thing I find weird is that ElasticSearch itself does not offer a way to handle authentication, it was just enabled by a plugin that was paid (it seems like its free now).

"Wierd" is an interesting euphemism for "irresponsible." Defaults are very important. Insecure by default is insecure for 90+% of deployments.
Apple seems to respect privacy a lot more and delivers updates for basically the phone's usable life. That removes the top two reasons for flashing your phone.
Given some VPN's and other secure services that got used in Hong Kong turned out to have open logs as just resold services.

So one wonders how many people will be positively effected by this.
> I‘m not sure why you‘re bringing concurrency to the table.

Not using data structures that enable concurrency prevents performance improvements since modern hardware is, in general, more parallel than vertical.
That's an interesting thought. The european GDPR and I think the california CCPA have some sort of clause that says if you decide not to allow, you have to be treated the same.

But loyalty discount cards and your drugstore example should have a way to get the discount without giving up your anonymity. This would be better for society.
> The private sector does do research, and for RoI /it actually has to work/.

The private sector does research with researchers, not product managers.

The process is exactly the same. It's not a public vs private thing. It's a research vs production thing. Research is open-ended and iterative and exploratory. Product design is close-ended, focused, and with hard requirements. Research has zero to do with product management, and you don't change the nature of the problem by pretending that a scientific discovery is a product expecting to be launched.

> Academia is a cesspit of politics and dishonesty.

Oh awesome. Have you ever did any corporate work? Because if you believe that academia suffers from this problem but corporations don't then I have a few bridges I'd like to sell you.

At least in academia you do need to have your publications to back you up. In corporate environments all you have is the cesspool part.
This article is great; it really touched on all the things I immediately had in mind.

GitLabs compensation always felt extremely unfair to me. Their relocation calculator seems to be offline at the moment, but I remember SF having a factor of 2.x and Munich, which is a pretty expensive city in my country, having a factor of 0.3. Guess where the CEO lives.

Now, I can see why it makes economical sense for GitLab to do this, but it feels like they're telling you "we don't pay you because we can" right in the face. And if I have to move for an all-remote company the point is a bit moot. Let's hope that, with enough work-from-home in the market, it will fix itself.
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Part of the point is that the gap in the middle often doesn't matter. I've hung around the Stanford crowd and as I enter my thirties I am awestruck by the opportunities they have regardless of what they have done since graduation. The credential is almost all that matters, as long as they dont mess up massively.

A common path is:

Graduate Stanford => Work at Mckinsey => Get hired into VC.

Graduate Stanford => Raise 15 Million dollar series A with your buddy => Doesn't matter what happens you will end up rich.

It's not a cynical opinion, I have seen it myself and I am doing very well for myself. I worked under an Economics PhD who was the number one in his class (top 5 phd program) and graduated top of his undergrad at UPenn. His incompetence relative to his credentials shattered my respect for the way that we allocate positions of power
https://www.pinnacle.com/en/politics/2020-presidential-elect...