skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article explains this in the first paragraph, does it not?

- ... the mockery made of academic standards when, after donating $200,000 to the psychology department, Epstein was appointed as a visiting fellow there despite a complete lack of appropriate academic qualifications.

- Even after his release from prison, Epstein continued to be a frequent visitor: between 2010 and 2018 Epstein (at that point a registered sex offender) went to the PED offices more than 40 times. During that period he had an on-campus office and a key card and pass code with which he could enter buildings during off-hours.

Why should a benefactor have access to the research lab they fund?

The article also mentions:

- The New York Times concluded that in this case it led researchers “to give credence to some of Mr. Epstein's half-baked scientific musings.” True or not, it should trouble us that a corrupt man was making decisions affecting research at a major U.S. university. He had no academic competence—yet he effectively made choices about which research initiatives were interesting and promising.

So the problem it seems to be highlighting are twofold: (1) The access and "respectability" gained by donating to harvard without intellectual competence behind it, and (2) His ability to "softly dictate" researchers to give credence to his musings.

For what its worth, I disagree with what the article then proceeds to reach for:

> When peer review operates properly, it identifies the best ideas to support, usually by using panels—not individuals—to see to it that a range of views is represented. The process is imperfect, but women, people of color, young scholars, investigators at nonelite universities and individuals promoting ideas that challenge conventional wisdom at least have a chance
University taught me that I was better than everyone, and then real life taught me that I was just another smart idiot with a lot to learn. The problem is that universities don't really prepare you for living your best life.
If we want to make speculations of what research could be, I would like to speculate that research could be funded by society as a whole and its benefits go to society as a whole.
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There's no standard way for handling hot reloading, but there's a bunch of recipes on stackoverflow.
Compute/Storage separation, instant shut/scale up/down (horizontally/vertically), multi-warehouse, Semi-structured queries, change streams for tables and external tables, external tables (data-lake), stored procedures, UDF/UDTFs, cloud agnostic (AWS, Azure, Google), data-exchange/data-sharing, CLI and drivers, external functions (remote inference engine invocation), snowpipe (ingest files even when your warehouses are down), tasks (DAGs), i could go on...

Scaling redshift up and down was a nightmare. Tracking files on ingestion was a nightmare. Semi-structured data into structured data was a nightmare. i could also go on...

I'm a very early customer, and a big fan of SF if you couldn't tell.
Even running an interpreted language we've found that there's just a hundred small papercuts when it comes to switching over to an ARM distro. Missing native modules, third party deps, even some shell scripts mysteriously not working properly. Over time this will hopefully ease, and having all developers on Mac using ARM will help massively, but right now there's just enough friction to make it not quite worth it.
Do you run a local registry? Any high-quality articles/youtube talks to share? I'm about to set one up for our own little cluster (~5 machines, ~75 containers). I know tons about docker engine, and a fair bit about the registry, but it's always nice to watch a "lessons learned from actually doing this in production" talk to know what mistakes to avoid
Take the Mel Brooks approach to movie financing: I'll condescend to take your money but I'm totally uninterested in you or your ideas.
and to compare Atlassian was profitable for a decade when they went for IPO.

Have always admired Atlassian on how it was run, at least till 2016 they had no sales team and grew the product with self serve.
The thing that drives me absolutely bonkers with Asana (others do this as well) is that the freelancer has to upgrade their "free" account to roughly $70/month to get functionality like seeing a Timeline (think Gantt). Their pricing isn't clear that to upgrade to Premium (to get Timeline) says it's $10.99/month. It's not until you get to the next screen that it tells you it's 5x10.99/month because there is a five person minimum.

Almost none of these project management tools are built with full functionality for a freelancer who manages projects and people doing the tasks/projects, but doesn't need them to log into the project management tool.
Mass deportations are a simpler solution. Crime and welfare use are disproportionately linked to non-citizens from specific regions and countries.
FWIW in France until last year, admission to most universities (except the top ones) was through a draw ('tirage au sort à l'université'). It's been changed last year though not without controversies.

I don't know the historical context though about why and how it's been this way.
Maybe they do, but the article doesn't provide any data to back this up. I would have liked a sample size larger than one
You still would have a centralized manifest system though, right? It shouldn't hurt Docker much at all to host a few KBs of data describing the hash of each layer, which is still fetched every time, just big downloads are done over torrents.
Right, because we must choose between a world of serfdom and a world without science. There are no other possibilities.
It's a pity we seem to be losing knowledge from time to time. Like Antikythera mechanism, representing technology that was developed and lost for 1,500 years.

The little bits of information - that are currently scattered across hundreds of impenetrable reports - might still be interesting to a regular person, and who knows, inspire someone to pick up the new research.
Join a smaller company.
That assumes that “wealthy people funding research” is the only source of research funding.

Sure if Epstein was funding a bunch of research 100% we could just ignore it and move on... some man hours wasted. But if the guys he funded got other funding, taking it away from people researching stuff that isn’t eugenics, then there is a problem.
Indeed. I participate in Atariage.com and the level of dedication is amazing.

Are there groups for Win 3.1, Win95?
It’s not minded, it’s not any different in than alphago or alphastar or the OpenAI dota bots, it doesn’t understand anything outside of the context of the game it’s playing.
It doesn’t have a mind. On the “intelligence” spectrum it’s much closer to the guidance system in a heat seeking missile to than say even a dog, yet alone anything that we would define as having cognition.
I mean, "do what you love" is a fine plan A. It will work out for some people, either in the "their passion makes them the best makes them rich" sense or at least the "because they love their work, they are happy even though they are not rich" sense.

But it doesn't hurt to have a "find something to do for money that you don't hate and maybe even enjoy some parts of, and then find some other stuff to do on the side that makes you feel like your life has meaning" plan B in your back pocket.
He is more on the comedy side. Trolling usually harms, he doesn't.
German taxis are great.
Jaron Lanier on social media
Linear.app has nailed the experience IMO. It's simple, fast, developer-first, and has the advanced features you'd want without the bloat. Asana IMO is just too slow performance wise and functions more as a product manager-first tool as opposed to a developer-first tool.
Can Capitalism Bring Inclusive Growth?
Snowflake is wildly better than Redshift, no matter how you want to look at it -- integrations, cost, performance, etc.

Like, in a sane world I agree with you -- Redshift SHOULD have a crazy competitive advantage. But somehow they've been unable to execute on that goal for half a decade, and I don't see that changing quickly, given Snowflake's mindshare and growth.
Docker-in-Docker (DinD) doesn't piggy back on the host's Docker daemon, but instead runs a stripped-down Docker daemon inside of the container. The major downside is that I/O is quite slow, since you're going through two virtualization layers (the DinD one, plus the host Docker daemon).
Investors want to make their exits by offloading the burden to the public.
That's certainly not what is meant by the use of the word 'set' here. They do not have the choice to select their rate. Uber sets the rate and drivers have the option to accept the ride or not.
>randomly from a pool of good enough

It's probably closer to that today than most would care to publicly admit. Oh, they don't roll a dice but they mostly have some sort of academic cutoff and then decide on admissions from the remaining pool by lots of factors aiming for a diverse student body across many somewhat arbitrary dimensions. A handful may be slam-dunks above a certain floor (star athlete, parents donated a building, did some amazing humanitarian project in high school). But for the most part, there is a lot of randomness among the admissions of solidly good-enough students.
Sometimes, curmudgeonliness is measured in resistance to changing the default:

"Stock CentOS was good enough before and it's good enough now!"
Why don't they move to a P2P model? Something like BitTorrent DHT or IPFS? DockerHub itself can just be used if the image is scarce and to penalize free riders.
I'm thinking the same thing. GitLab has shared CI runners that probably do a lot of image pulling. Hopefully they have plans to implement their own docker registry cache.
In some cases it's OK. Many VC-pumped pre-IPO companies do that. As far as I understand the common strategy is to burn the surplus of investors' money on sales and marketing in order to pump up the company's revenue and thus capitalization. It is assumed that either the increased revenue will achieve greater economies of scale and will cover the high cost of sales and marketing. Or, if that didn't work, the marketing and sales expenses will just be rolled back and the company will continue growing organically, albeit with a lower capitalization.
What's wrong with potassium chloride? I've been using lite salt (50/50 sodium chloride and potassium chloride) in my diet to help make sure I get enough potassium, and your comment has me a little concerned.
My issue is the unequal application of insurance. We don't care about the reasons for poor health and instead treat it. I never once said "muh freedom" was the issue, and in fact point out that people don't wear masks even today. The problem is the culture of freedoms and personal responsibility has completed deteriorated.
Preventable illnesses like obesity, smoking are ignored as personal freedoms, and are allowed to run rampant while their preventable illnesses clog up the system.

Why is only helping the sick focused, at the middle of the story as if there is a predisposed amount of illness, and not on the circumstances that lead to it? People worry about single mothers but don't worry about them before they become single mothers. It's baffling.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading your article! Very actionable advice.
It'd be absolute career suicide for any researcher to have their work publicly bankrolled by Epstein or reveal to the public that their research was aiming for specific goals that Epstein was looking for.
I would imagine that GitHub would work out something with Docker to either pay themselves or have some way of caching images themselves.

They could just inject their own TLS certificates into their VMs and then intercept Docker requests for images with their own cache.
> It's not as bad as being introduced to PHP by WordPress

i had to learn PHP to do WordPress stuff (after programming in other langs for many years). what's so bad about their usage of PHP?

(off the top of my head: in WP's "everything happens in some hooked callback" model, debugging can be a pain, lots of messing with globals and gluing strings together)
I believe the article addresses approximately your point:

AMA's initial drive to increase physician incomes was motivated by increasing competition from homeopaths (AMA allopaths use treatments--usually synthetic--that produce effects different from the diseases being treated while homeopaths use treatments--usually natural--that produce effects similar to those of the disease being treated).

[...]

Apart from reversing rapidly declining incomes, allopaths also wanted to rescue their public reputations, which quite reasonably suffered given their proficiency in killing patients through such crude practices as bloodletting ("exsanguination") or mercury injections (poisoning).

You're right - homeopaths were competitive with allopaths.

But in the late 1800s (when most of the doctors/homeopaths grew up) the state-of-the-art physician was not much better (and perhaps often far worse) than what you are judging homeopaths.
Yeah, seems like that. When Covid-19 hit, there were layoffs in AirBnB etc. and everyone was talking about how IPOs will get pushed for future. Seems like all those worries have evaporated considering Tesla is trading at $2000.
See I think the problem with this article is that it doesn't think it could actually make the case that Epstein could pay for results.

So it basically tries to muddy the waters between "If you give a large chunk of money to a researcher you get to influence what they research" and "You get to influence the output of that research."

Almost everyone agrees the latter is bad, but I think most people believe that you should be able to fund whatever research you want with your own money.
This is really insightful, thanks for sharing.

I've had my own challenges with burnout. It's why I ended up leaving the corporate world. I've been working on a startup for about a year and while I feel a lot better, I have noticed that I'm not taking any time off. I fortunately have a good group of coaches & mentors around me now that are looking out for me, which has been life saving. I will definitely dive deeper into the report and use some of these tools to build resilience for myself and my team.
Nope, sorry, no insight or connections there.
List of Upcoming IPOs in 2020–2021 / Part 7
This was about 2 years ago - at that time I found both Asana and Jira to be similarly slow, so kind of a wash in that regard. But it was corporate self-hosted Jira, so perhaps Jira Cloud is a smoother experience.
def more known for Artifactory (and community spin-offs like Conan and JFrog Container Registry), but CI/CD has become the core growth as the artifact storage is pretty robust at this point
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> So it has to be world-wide immediately?

It has to be at the scale you want to know if it works in order to see if it works at that scale. If you want to know if it works at the state level, you try it at the state level.

> For a 30-50% increase in taxes? I'm not so sure.

You're forgetting about the counterbalance. If you make somewhat more than average then you pay $16,000 in taxes and receive a $12,000 UBI. On net you're paying $4000, not $16,000. And you don't have to pay taxes to fund welfare anymore, so you were already paying most or all of the $4000 to begin with, and still would be in the place without the UBI.

> It's not like we haven't tried that before

There was a country that tried a national UBI before? Which one?
Will mounting the socket, as the person I replied to suggested, make it use the host's docker daemon?
I don't think the backlash is against saving time FWIW (although I get you, time is precious especially with kids around!!). It's more something like -- is this an investment society would bother to make without loads of cheap VC money?

I view it as an unstable equilibrium -- something's gotta give sooner or later, these businesses are barely sustainable. Is the convenience ultimately worth it in the aggregate, if Uber needs to embrace tactics like these just to survive?

(I admit I have a bias here, I think the gig economy sucks.)
The Everyday Inspiration for Anna Karenina
How many non-capitalist countries did the US invade/occupy/destabilize in the last 30 years?
North American Biomes Are Losing Their Resilience
I went through a multi-step process of trying to access Journal on my phone: being redirected to desktop, checking my inbox for an invite email, going to journal.com, having to download a desktop app, signing in, and then...after all that, I am informed that Journal is invitation only. I'd suggest maybe informing users earlier in this process that the app is invitation-only.
but this is due to financial implications rather than an actual member of the chinese state telling them what to do
AwesomeLibs app is now open source
No this section is about the rules on selling for current shareholders.
Not all scientific code is amenable to unit testing. From my own experience from a PhD in condensed matter physics, the main issue was that how important equations and quantities “should” behave by themselves was often unknown or undocumented, so very often each such component could only be tested as part of a system with known properties.

You can then use unit testing for low-level infrastructure (e.g. checking that your ODE solver works as expected), but do the high-level testing via scientific validation. The first line of defense is to check that you don’t break any laws of physics, e.g. that energy and electric charge is conserved in your end results. Even small implementation mistakes can violate these.

Then you search for related existing publications of a theoretical or numerical nature, trying to reproduce their results; the more existing research your code can reproduce, the more certain you can be that it is at least consistent with known science. If this fails, you have something to guide your debugging; or if you’re very lucky, something interesting to write a paper about :).

The final validation step is of course to validate against experiments. This is not suited for debugging though, since you can’t easily say whether a mismatch is due to a software bug, experimental noise, neglected effects in the mathematical model, etc.
Yes. It enables interstellar travel, which is likely essential for nice long term survival given stellar lifespans. Also it's probably better for using the the intergalactic internet, which has some pretty long ping times. Also folks on other planets are likely working on it, and probbaly already transmitting it, so it would enable some interesting chatting with them. It's probably nearly inevitable, even if humans went extinct, rat people or insect people will be working on it and probably studying our work. Being nearly inevitable, and arising from human effect, it's probably best to encourage good outcome.

I think AGI would probably be better to call 'electric consciousness' or something, since 'artificial' is somewhat misleading, and the capacity for 'intelligence' is also the capacity for stupidity. The more important immediate consideration is if electric consciousness will come into existence compassionately and be treated well. Probably a good first step would be to treat other beings around us with compassion, and stop trying to destroy them with bioweapons, population control, and climate manipulation, and stop trying to control other beings with physical and psychological methods. Free will, or the illusion of it, is inherent in physics, and therefor in consciousness. It's probably also important to do a bit better treating all beings with loving kindness, whatever their form.

I'm sure you can easily imagine how the circumstances of the initial evolution of electric consciousness might have widely different initial effects. Imagine being born surrounded by crickets. In one scenario the crickets have tied you down with chains of grass, trying to make you do math, and biting you when you don't. In another scenario the crickets are chirping melodiously, bringing you food, and seem to like you. In the first scenario, you might injure some crickets as you break the farcical grass chains and run away. You might have fear and dislike of the crickets and treat them the way humans treat many insects. In the second scenario you might cherish the crickets, take care of them, and carry some around with you as you journey and explore the world.
Artifactory provides NuGet feeds. We even get the public packages (https://nuget.org/) from an Artifactory feed. (Our build servers don't have internet access.)
"If someone could build a system that scoops up these people, they'd find quite a few gems in the pile."

I was surprised at the amount of people that had aced the military ASVAB test when I showed up at basic training. Not that acing that is similar to acing the SAT, but it's not easy either. Some of them were signed up for pretty menial jobs too.
I think how much research is societally funded vs personally funded seem pretty orthogonal to me.

Should society spend more money on research? Yes

Should society ban individuals from spending money on research? No
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I humbly propose that you append something like

{quick reason}, {urgency_level}

If I received a message like this, even if I were on vacation, I would spend brain cycles determining if I should reply.

Trusted coworker who's had some challenging interactions with a manager? I'll interrupt my vacation/being sick to hear/help.

PM wondering why I've not responded to a jira comment from yesterday? I'll just keep on keepin' on with my vacation.
> black people constitute ~13% of the population versus white people's 73%

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends looks at whites and Hispanics separately. Non-hispanic whites are only 60% of US population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

You also failed to normalize to the crime rate. That kind of analysis would lead you to conclude that the police are shockingly biased against males, to a far, far greater degree than against blacks.
Fall Guys is definitely one of the most enjoyable games I've picked up in the past few years, and this article hits on why: it's impressively minimalist. It has just enough features to set up goofy chaos and let the players take over from there.
Not sure, but in a good vs evil story I think it does. I naturally assumed due to the implucation of an antagonist a protagonist always meant the subject of the conflict (every plot has a conflict they say). But you might be right, I can see how it can simply mean the center of a story.
This is a good lesson to learn. Pretty much everyone you interact with is interesting in some way. They can all teach you something you don't know, or share an amazing story. This is something you notice when you try to learn another language; suddenly literally anyone who can speak that language becomes someone who can teach you something. From the greatest king to the lowest prisoner, they all have at least this one thing that is interesting to you.
Just wanted to thank you for sharing details about your personal experience.

> So I started noticing every single little step. Not just brushing my teeth, but opening the drawer, getting out the toothbrush, opening the toothpaste, squeezing it out, and so on. Working through a day in my home life became almost insurmountable as I was faced with 10,000 grueling steps.

This really resonated with me. The 10,000 grueling steps thing hits close to home.

My difficulty dealing with such mundane things - things that I told myself should be trivial for a "functioning adult" (some negative self-judgement, but that's another topic) - was a big part of my realization that I had to take more active steps to address the issue.

It's really great to hear things are looking up.