skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you care to explain why the suggested actions would be "somewhere between ridiculous and useless?"

Not OP, but the proposed "solutions" not only add more work items to the ever-growing checklist (as mentioned by meow1032), but to be useful everyone must spend even more time checking everyone else's work items:

Solution 1, requiring data sharing and preregistration, greatly increases the work of peer review, perhaps by an order of magnitude. Someone needs to check that the data produces the published results and that the final analysis plan matched the preregistration. That is hard, time-consuming volunteer work, with no reward incentive. Current peer review currently trusts the authors did what they said they did, correctly, and it still takes 4-12 hours to review an article. Most reviewers cut corners. If no one does the work to check the open data or preregistrations, "open science" will be merely performative, with no quality improvement.

Solution 2, changing hiring policies to "look beyond publication and citation numbers", is pretty much what hiring committees already do. But with ~ 200 applicants per job opening the depth of examination per applicant is somewhat limited. As in solution 1, lack of time for deep checks is a problem. Applicants who are well-networked with good pre-existing reputations (i.e, who are plugged into the web of trust) get hired; everyone else doesn't. From a perspective of research quality, this may be a good thing.

Solution 3, funders fund boring / rigorous research, could improve matters in theory. But with only enough money to fund ~ 1 in 10 proposals, projected impact will always be an overwhelming concern. Proposals will include a "research integrity" section or similar and nothing substantive will change.

Solution 4, scientists "vote with their feet" (stop participating in the dysfunctional parts of the system), is a call for people to come up with their own solutions or support other proposed solutions, not a solution in its own right. Ironically, it is perhaps the most useful because it pushes back on the idea that poor quality science is inevitable under the current structure. "Perverse incentives" must not become a generally accepted excuse to sacrifice scientific integrity for the benefit of one's own career. Science is meant to discover new information. Without a culture of integrity, that information will always be suspect, regardless of what top-down interventions are attempted.

An effective intervention must reduce workload or at least break even, not increase it. Or increase the resources available. Otherwise people will be forced (actually forced, not just incentivized; there are only so many work hours each day) to cut even more corners elsewhere to make up for lost time.
> 'And the other recommendations about fixing it are comparable to "lets solve evils of the US 2-party system! All we have to do is make those two parties vote to take away their power".'

that's a bit unfair. yes, it does require that in some semblance, but that's not necessarily the one and only lever we have. most of us realistically expect, i hope, that we'd need a variety of political maneuvers to move our democracy toward a more representative and less insular direction.

science is no different--it took many small steps to get into this situation, and will take many small steps to get out, any one of which will seem wholly incapable on its own.
> I’ve never worked in SV

I am assuming you're from the U.S. Software salaries there are inflated practically everywhere compared to most of the rest of the world.

> As of 2015 90% of libraries had a digital lending program - you have no idea what you are talking about.

It's true that this was maybe 5 years back, (when I was still at uni), but while the option existed, it required some Windows/Mac only SW to decrypt the DRM and the reader itself was way worse in terms of features than literally any PDF reader.

As one form of "protection", you couldn't even highlight text. That is a major part for me to focus on the part I am currently reading and thus made the whole thing practically unusable for me.

I don't think you're quite aware just how awful most of this software is. It's one thing for it being "available" and quite another for it to be a "good experience".
> I have some friend who have been working at a company who went remote-first and after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice.

You mean they think of their job how it should be thought of?
I would argue that the whole article is an advertisement. The second half is just where they admit it. How does this kind of trash make the front page?
Indeed! We are like virtual colleagues, help each other out, cheer for any achievement, and grow ourselves and our products together.
I watched my father fade away from Alzheimers over the course of 5 years before he passed. Based on anecdotal stories in a support group, we were very lucky that he realized early on that something was wrong and he was very cooperative throughout. Other families in the support group experienced everything from lighthearted denial to emotions running amok.

Personally, I want some solid tests so I can have reliable information to make sure I end my days as myself.
I dislike the sensationalization in the article ("Put down the banjo, Timmy"). The headline makes it sound like learning music is about as useless as sitting on your couch, as far as intelligence goes. But it goes on to say that the study talks about looking at a wide range of studies and stating that quality studies compare music learning with control groups that do other types of activities, like sports.

You don't really need a PhD in psychology to figure out that any activity that involves putting effort over long periods of time will yield _some_ sort of result. Whether that actually translates directly to hyper-specific measurements (e.g. school math grades) as opposed to only "soft" long-term changes in behavior (e.g. developing an interest in the relationship between music and math, leading to e.g. an interest in software engineering over medicine, or an increased interest in arts, or whatever) seems to me like asking the wrong question.

Both music and intelligence are incredibly multidimensional. Trying to narrowly define a supposed correlation between two very narrow aspects of both might be a disservice to the idea of the development of a well rounded individual. I feel that many people take these sorts of soundbite titles to heart as if they were little life hacks to "get ahead", rather than thinking about life as a holistic experience.
Their bias has been increasing for years. I was turned off by NPR back in 2008 after this terrible Inskeep interview:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wipedoffthemap/

I still listened to NPR for years after, but I listened to a lot of out news sources and always balanced the information I was getting with the bias I knew they held.

NPR is a lot like RT, in the sense that it is sponsored by the State. Although you might say, "Well NPR is federal grants for non-profits and RT is state propaganda" just lines start to get blurry when you realize both have leadership that have certain agendas.

I guess I shouldn't have said "Stop watching" and instead say "Be sure to watch ALL of these" and then add that you should watch independent analysis (Viva Frei, James Corbett, No Agenda podcast) of all these sources, weigh their biases and come to your own conclusions.
I'm fine with that because I just make damn sure they fix it, and if I have to fight at all for it, I take my business elsewhere.

I had a plumber crack the porcelain on the sink when tightening the drain. They told me about it and bought me a new sink. That's my plumber until I move. In another town the same thing happened and they put some silicone on it and didn't tell me. That plumber was never called again except to tell them why.
Sandboxing and workload isolation
> We could give people money, or we could say "up to so many kilowatt/hours this is free" or "you are entitled to this set-amount of groceries for free".

The point of the article, is that centralized planners are really bad at calculating these things, thus the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union and China moving to a much more market based economy.
Usually security is one of the top reasons to update software systems. Would a security flaw in these clusters have been an issue? Were they aggressively firewalled?
> mdraid being pretty critical to a lot of server work.

No, mdraid is not critical for server work. Never run mdraid for production, it will fail, you will lose data.

Servers use hardware RAID, either on a dedicated card or integrated into the MB.
Is the solution to “content diversity” problem (right wingers current fake issue) flooding readers with more trash and low quality content? Isn’t this what Facebook’s for?
This breaks down on many different fronts:

1) What about IP? Companies that do not work with land, but tech, science and ideas. This scheme would not be a barrier for Apple for example to appear.

2) This (as well as the parent comment's) idea is similar to tariffs and trade wars. "Yeah, you are smart and efficient, but you work 200km from here? Fuck off."

3) It confines businesses to think small. Big projects would have to be handled by governments and entities that are exempt from locality laws. Sometimes there are good reasons to own large swaths of land in multiple locations, without being a trillion dollar company.

I feel like you are merely trying to make capitalism less efficient and hope that this would make it magically nicer to participate in. What was the main problem again?
They are an advertising company
Without having to deal with a commute, I've been doing a lot more biking for exercise lately. I've been looking for a way to plan out decent bike routes. I live in a corner of NJ where we several highways a couple miles a way, so it's pretty important to have a route planned so you don't accidentally end up on a road where bikes are inappropriate. This is very helpful!
https://archive.is/t9qC2
NIH-funded encyclopedia detailing the inner workings of human and mouse genomes
Yeah, this blows my mind as well. Believe it or not, people are actually able to make meaningful friendships outside of work. For example, I got into whitewater kayaking after about two years into my career (software) at age 27. It's an activity that requires groups of people to work together. You need multiple people to run vehicle shuttles up/down the river, and you also need multiple people for safety on the river. I've been doing this activity for a few years now, and through it I have formed some of the deepest relationships I've ever had. I hang out with these people every week often on weeknights after work. One of the good friends I met through this activity even got ordained and married my wife and I!

My point is that kayaking is just one means of meeting people and forming relationships. The idea that an office is one of our only opportunities to make relationships is just absurd. My experience with relationships in office is that most of the time they are very hollow and superficial. Also, if most of your relationships come from the office and your career, you are limiting yourself to a narrower field of ideas. If the main people you hang around are managers and software developers, then you are going to miss out on a lot of other viewpoints. Through kayaking, I've made close friends with people from all walks of life. We were out to eat one night at a restaurant, and at our table sat a plumber, a realtor, an orthopedic surgeon, an electrical engineer, and an FBI agent!
> handful of devs who passed our interview process with flying colors, but couldn't actually deliver anything once they got in the door. They could recite any leetcode problem from memory, but didn't know how to contribute value to their team or company.

Interesting, why do you think was this the case?
> Google lies that if you so much as touch the AGPL, you risk your business imploding and the end of Google products like Maps, GMail, etc. which suddenly become open source! That's really scary!

I mean, this isn't a lie though. Statically linking AGPL software, even by accident, does put all of Google's services at risk. It's not a certainty that they'd need lose, but you're denying that it's a risk. That's false.

Consider the values: We link AGPL software and there's an x% chance we have to spend 10 billion dollars in litigation, engineering effort, and fines to keep our stuff closed source. At what value of X do you make this rule?

> Damages aren't a trillion dollar punitive thing -- they're designed to set things right. You pay either

Punitive damages exist. They're a thing. Why are you pretending that they aren't?

> Google is trying to kill an open ecosystem, adopting exact tactics from Microsoft's nineties-era anti-Linux playbook, right down to adopting the exact same mean, dirty language to scare people. That's a nasty, dirty thing to do.

I don't follow this argument at all. What ecosystem is Google trying to kill? The AGPL "ecosystem", which is what exactly? You yourself keep insisting that AGPL only really makes sense for products, not libraries, so in what sense is there an ecosystem to kill? A random collection of products isn't an ecosystem.
They still do that.
The image in that Wikipedia article then must be a rare photo of a frigate on the ground.
Looks very realistic!
Looks the same size as bin lorries (what other countries might call a refuse truck or a waste collection lorry), and they get around most of London just fine.

Amazon have ordered 100k EVs from Rivian, and it'll be interesting to see what sizes and shapes they turn out.
Thanks! I will review and merge :D
Very cool, and great presentation! Have you considered getting on a service like Twitch or YouTube? Not so much as a way to produce the step-by-step snippets you're already doing, but to document yourself working in livestream, with all the upsides and downsides it entails?
This is called "Liability shift" yes. Shift is imposed where a retailer cannot/ does not accept chip cards rather than where for whatever reason a chip card wasn't able to be used. In the US shift was supposed to be imposed everywhere left this summer, I expect COVID-19 is offered as another reason to yet again delay, but retails stores are already covered, it's mostly things like some unattended 24 hour gasoline pumps that are still mag-stripe in the US.

Also most (all?) card holders don't have a problem with the chip, they may be unable to remember a PIN, or unable to enter one, in which case the chip terminal requests a human witness them signing something or asks the retailer to accept just the chip. Americans using European terminals may not have a PIN either, their chips tell the terminal this user doesn't have a PIN, they may be asked to sign something instead.
https://archive.is/lC2TG
4 Hours on Social Media = 78% of Young Girls Are Lonely
Hey, maybe I can run NetBSD on my toaster after all!
> If gaming the system looks like “the child doesn’t have to worry about stable housing while growing up”, that seems like an upside.

To be clear, you are talking about children's trust funds being raided as a good outcome.

How would you feel if that violation of your rights happened to you, and it didn't happen to other children, and then some adult told you that it was ok that it happened?
Can you please give an example of this supposed cultural knowledge? In particular one that PoC raised in the same country and having the same education would supposedly have a disadvantage in?
I use my chipped card frequently when going to the grocery store. Pretty much 20% of the time, it won't read the chip, reporting "Chip Malfunction". Even wiping any sort of gunk off the chip contacts doesn't fix it. So you have to go through 3 failed read cycles before it will let you use the mag strip on the back.

Going back to the store a few days later and the same machine will work, I wonder how often the machine's readers are cleaned.
That's a good point. And I guess the payloads will often be smaller, because the large datasets often just stay in the DB until needed. Whereas if the front-end needs to load data for a huge table (from a location that's obviously not in the same datacenter), it's easy for this optimization to save you hundreds of milliseconds if not entire seconds.
On dual-boot machines, I've always prefered to use the built-in UEFI boot manager (yes, UEFI has one!). This way, Linux boots using systemd-boot/grub/whaever, Windows using NTLDR and whatever else is there, it uses its native way too. It avoids exactly this, where the TPM doesn't consider that there might be an additional component, properly signed, but might cause havoc with sealed values.
1. Yes, that's why I put "light pollution" in quotes with a clarification, because I wasn't using it in the sense it's generally used (the kind that affects your ability to see stars), and describing a different mode of pollution (of pockets of light that leave other areas much darker and thus hard to see because of the high contrast).

2. Hence the last paragraph of my original post, that you do need some minimum level of light. I was specifically speaking about conditions above some minimal threshold.

Is there a better way I could have said either of those things so you wouldn't miss them?
If they were running around at your office

Which happens how often exactly?
It also blurs the distinction between "people who support themselves" and "people who need support". Given that one of the arguments against UBI is that it might create/expand/entrench a dependent underclass, giving it to everyone might be an important feature.
+1 for the NLE example, as it's one of the biggest problematic areas to me. What even is the difference between Shotcut and OpenShot? Both are 90% of the way to being the perfect everyday video editor, yet they both get destroyed by the first shareware result for "free video editor" when it comes to polish.

But we really can't blame the authors - there's no money in open source user apps and polishing isn't fun to most people. I'd immediately jump on the opportunity to build an NLE from scratch if given the time and financial freedom, but I can't see myself digging though someone else's code and sanding all the rough edges for fun.
interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts/preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup/business.
I don't think "encouraging" is enough. It needs to be built into the fabric of how science is performed.
Haskelephant
Thank you!

The site supports user subscriptions for advance reader and searching functionality, so my hope at least for now is that people will use the free version and at some point want higher limits or more functionality and then upgrade.

I have a lot more planned for it long term (everyone always says that, but it is true) such as an API service, but for now, I am focused on improving the reader service and adding more sites to the index.
> Most of the scarcity I see is artificially induced by the people that want more profits

There's just no empirical evidence for this. The general profit margin for most enterprises in competitive markets is between 5-10%. For food it's actually much, much less than that, but let's use the higher figure for the sake of your case. Even in a world with 0 profits, if you produced everything at cost and redirected profits to more production, you would only be able to meet the needs of 10% more people, at best. And that also ignores that without profit, there's no incentive for people to actually start the enterprises that have resulted in our current levels of production.

> Removing money from the equation and just leaving the resources, I don't see much scarcity

The scarcity is in the labor. We absolutely have the raw materials to make stuff for everyone, but you need to convince the factory worker to show up everyday, the ship operator, the strategic planner, high skill workers, etc to all move where needs aren't being met and actually show up to work. In that regard, we absolutely have a scarcity.

> It's just that under the current system, if there is no profit to be made, then it doesn't happen. Same reason we haven't colonized the moon and mars.

This is a bit of a self-refuting point. You're exactly right, it doesn't happen if there is no profit to be made, because the profit is the incentive for the enterprises to produce and distribute the goods & services. Insofar as there exists people whose needs aren't being met, it's because they are unable to provide the incentive, I.e. the revenue, for the profit-seeking producers. The UBI is the cleanest and most straightforward solution to this problem.
Well that and the growing penchant for revising history by destroying dissent, blacking out unpleasant thoughts and facts, and the onslaught of ridiculous copyright strikes against fair use content.
Learning music doesn't make you smart. But for smart kids, learning music sure as hell makes you more interesting and useful in life.
>Admittedly it’s better on Mac keyboards, with Super directly next to the space bar. Less strain and movement to hit that with my left thumb than to stretch down to ctrl

I'm not sure what you mean by "stretch down to ctrl". On a standard keyboard, with the control key in the bottom left corner, all you need to do is rotate your left hand slightly and use your pinky to press it. Doing so also puts your index finger in position to press the x/c/v keys. On a mac keyboard this is less doable because the control key is swapped with the fn key, but it also doesn't make pressing the command key any easier, as you still have to bend your left thumb to reach the command key (this is most apparent with c/v).

>The rest of the layout is wildly better than any other I know of for composing text in English

is this on non-US layouts? Looking at this https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple... or https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple..., the rest of the keyboard looks pretty close to standard ansi layout.
Dietary fiber is known to be largely undigested, (the microbes in your intestine will feed off of them). Your body is really efficient at pulling nutrients from simple carbohydrates and fats. I forget what happens to excess protein though.
There is a myth that administrators drive up the cost of colleges. The truth is that overall university headcount, including administrators, professors, etc. have all increased, and the costs along with that headcount has as well.

The rapidly increasing headcount growth, including professor headcount growth is driving the increased cost which is driving increased borrowing.

Universities need much bigger class sizes, many fewer professors, and many fewer administrators. Overall headcount at universities needs to shrink by ~70% to get the cost back inline.

No politician, or university president is going to say that because it would be so brutal to oversee. But... students are suffering with massive debt loads and someone is going to have to make the right choices to cut those costs.
Just an convenient example of an actor with power to influence that easily could be seen to have an non-mathematical ulterior motive.
It's fair to assume that the docs are simply wrong/outdated about the specific duration and color when it works, but I would start to question those assumptions when it doesn't.

Pedantically proving instructions wrong (e.g. with a stopwatch and colorimeter) is a great way to submit a useful bug report with solid steps to reproduce, and a lot of the time it ends up solving the problem as well.
Doesn’t that suggest a market need for another search engine for this purpose?
Studying music will make you way better at music than studying sequences of ravens matrices will make you good at ravens matrices.