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> whether they can run my code or not doesn't seem to be of the highest priority.

On the contrary; in that case there are four possibilities:

a: your algorithm doesn't work at all, and your observations are a artifact of convenient inputs or inept measurements.

b: your algorithm works, but the description in the paper is wrong or incomplete

c: your algorithm works as described, but the replicater implemented it incorrectly

d: other

Having the original implementation code is necessary to distinguish between cases a and b versus case c, and if the former, the code for the test harness is likely to help distinguish a versus b. (Case d is of course still a problem, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to just give up.)
Thank you, but Hacker News policy is to use the original, actual title. If the mods choose to, they change it.

Thanks. I hope you have a nice day, too!
It’s a reasonable suggestion, but I would predict comment participation to plunge. Maybe that’s just fine?
The title is deceptive, to say the least.
It doesn't seem clear to me at all that this guy was JUST interested in supporting science.

Epstein's intrest in eugenics is pretty well documented. I don't think it's a stretch to think his special interest in funding an evolution research team at Harvard was directly related to his abhorrent views. Sure his funding probably has had some higher order positive effects but it seems incredibly silly to suggest that such a monsterous person was donating all this money becuase of his passion for science. His constant oversight suggests that he probably had an agenda and use in mind for the research and I find it incredibly hard to believe it was anything good/humanitarian. You also have to keep in mind this is not just a guy with bad views, this is a person who has wielded money and power to directly cause evil for a very long time.
I thought the same, so assume this was the acceptance rate when pitching the idea to small business owners.
Why would an F22 need to do that if the drones can't know that it is even there? Why would an f22 need to get closer than 25 miles to engage these drones? Why would an F22 ever get in a dogfight?
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Thank you! I'm not sure how I missed this other than there's a lot of detail to absorb in this post. Cheers
https://docs.docker.com/registry/

you can set it up in less 10 min and the only thing required is to add '--insecure-registry' in your client. It is not a issue if all your machine are in private network.
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Yeah well, Ubuntu is also the distribution that uses Snaps. Canonical is horrible.
https://archive.vn/8BVpc
Yeah, you’d get an increase in quality at a loss of quantity. As you suggest, that may be the key to the discourse we’re all looking for.
How about something in research?
I'm thinking of a plane built from the ground up to never be piloted by a human. A missile like drone really.
Jamming is a big step I don't think we've seen in the US so far and I'm not sure the police have that tech readily at hand. Inherently though you're going to want to be able to include people into the network easily which already opens you up to eavesdropping of the public channels. For purely public broadcasts radio is nice because anyone can listen and it doesn't reveal location in the network.
VPL's Eyephone was featured in the 1992 science fiction film The Lawnmower Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RJetzDyOY&t=28m18s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPL_Research

https://www.pioneersofdigital.com/about-book/about-pioneers/...

>Here’s an excerpt from the Jaron Lanier chapter in the book [Pioneers of Digital]:

>“In the early 1990s, Lanier got a call from movie director Brett Leonard saying he’d got the film rights to Stephen King’s short story, ‘The Lawnmower Man’. Lanier remembers that Leonard told his reluctant celluloid subject that he’d leverage the King story option to get the project funded but then do a ‘weird science fiction biography of you and your company.’ All the director needed was some explanation of how virtual reality kit worked and some old prototype gear from the era that ended up actually being used in the film.

>Lanier’s entrepreneur character was played by then unknown actor Pierce Brosnan, and real life appears to have mirrored the outlandish plotline as Lanier claims ‘it turned out VPL was part of a justice department investigation later, on the French Intelligence Service using the investment arms of French companies to do industrial espionage on American start-ups in Silicon Valley’.
Sure. I specifically don't think it's realistic to think the architecture of the web can be divided into two separate architectures, one for web sites that are purely "documents" and another for websites that are purely "applications". Because I think the success of the web has been due to the fact that you can move along the spectrum from more "static document" to "interactive application" with the same technologies and architectures.

I don't think it's a general principle about "data" and "code" in general", although of course data and code can also slide into each other in many other venues.

But of course you can write programs that access APIs. I'm sorry if I was unclear and you thought I was saying it was impossible to write programs that access APIs to get persistent data.
I agree. It does sound like a valuable process. However, now we've increased the burden of work on the author. It is not only the author's job to conduct research, validate and share learnings; but also their job to make sure to keep noisy commenters away.

At the limit, this could lead to knowledge getting concentrated to small groups of people? :shrug:
Not sure that's the question the original commenter was asking. My interpretation of it was, what would prevent someone from taking the gold out of the Goldback and selling that gold, if it's worth more in dollars?
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My 20-30+ year old code still runs: TI-85 BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Turing, Haskell, Smalltalk, Fortran, roughly in that order. Bit of a skeleton cupboard.
The real question is are there enough serial rapists in science? They seem to be many more women than serial rapists in science, perhaps that's where we should be focusing our diversity efforts. It really doesn't matter who they rape, as long as it isn't their research subjects, as that would be unethical.
I see a lot of comments are criticizing the article, because it seems to damn the fundamentals of how research is funded. I think that response to the article is justified. That is, yea - science needs a way to be funded, and it should be wealthy people that foot the bill... altruistically.
Do you actually know that to be true? Speed-of-light delays would be important for pilots based in Montana flying in Iraq, but not if the remote pilot is in the theatre. And if it's not speed of light, it's a solvable problem.
Ops and Infra should be a fraction of feature development though. Not most of your team.
Fun fact. If you don't reply at all, and completely ghost them afterwards, no matter what they say, the chances of them carrying anything out gets close to zero.
The whole point of going to top schools / universities is to be around other kids who have the drive, ambition, wherewithal, and societal advantages that you have. Then you get to benefit from the parochial altruism. Why would I go to a random uni when I can aim at the rich person uni?
Def the supplement, it was the Glucosamine.
There must be a huge cost associated with investing in learning in an engine. Almost every mmo that comes out of Asia is still built on Unreal 3, even brand new games. Weird.
Many colleges are trying this now, at least near where I am in the Triangle region of North Carolina (Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State). They call them "flip(ped) classes".
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> Rule of thumb: the more steps you get away from the primary source the more corrupted everything gets. The article is good. The press release is bad. The tweet about the press release is worse. The tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release are terrible. Each one loses more of the critical context we need to actually understand what’s going on. Only the paper itself is a primary source. If you want to know what the paper’s about, you gotta read the paper!

And what about this article, which is about the tweets dunking on the tweet about the press release?
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So no, you don't have a better grasp of antitrust law than the Apple legal team. If they thought they were in the wrong they wouldn't do any of this.

It's such a stupid trope in any case.
In general, no; we sell a lot of equipment to countries that we might otherwise be protecting with our own hardware and personnel at great cost. Selling the equipment is cheaper.

It is weird that we sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia.
I read your rant, so I'll comment on that.

It is generally good practice to put your name or pseudonym on things that you write. I am assuming your nane is Wayne.

While I do agree with most of your points, your article reads more like a soccer mom scolding a teenage referee for not calling that obvious foul on her star child.

Twitter trolls do suck, I just think you have taken this particular incident far to personal.

So how about adding another caveat and fill us in on how you are realted to one or all of the three authors?
You'd get an increase in target-specific informed commentary at the loss of the hallway discussion.
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Read it again then, your entire comment is already answered to above.

You can keep trying to switch direction like a weasel, but I could cut and paste the comment you replied to and it'd still be accurate because you didn't answer a single point brought up.

Let's narrow the foxhole though, see if you can answer yes or no to a few simple questions:

> The answer to the implicit question is simple and obvious.
The stereotypes that proved accurate were often ones which people, for political reasons, wished to be inaccurate.

> A simple example will demonstrate this. There is a stereotype that blacks are stupid.

Your comment is attempting to support the stereotype "blacks are stupid" as "accurate but inconvenient". Yes?

You must realize it's possible to talk about differences in education outcomes for different races without deciding to frame it in defense of the stereotype blacks are stupid, since you link to an article that does so. Yes?

Yet you decided to use it support the stereotype "blacks are stupid". Yes?

"Blacks are stupid" is a racist stereotype. Yes?

You are supporting racist stereotypes on HN. Yes?

You should should keep trying to double down on it? No.
In my experience, yes, a lot better.
Aren't current drones mostly remote-controlled?

In this case the AI is onboard, right? So much lower surface area for being hacked.
I would definitely second export (and somehow import) from markdown
I like the idea, Im not sure how you could implement it on Twitter though.
This safeguarding is likely what is keeping us in danger. We don't have to pretend we are policing the world anymore, enough time has gone by to be able to say it's mainly modern day imperialism. We can work on our defense on this side of the planet without outlining 'the enemy' with outposts and guns pointed at them for 'our defense'.
Bah.

I think recent events have clearly demonstrated that biological weapons are much much cheaper.

create a killer virus

inoculate your people

release it at the rest of the world

profit?
> The profit motives have to be taken out of news.

I assume that would apply to social media too. Certainly social media platforms that have personalised algorithmic news feeds are at risk of recreating the dangers of 24-hour news networks.
Why not?

The Genie anti-air nuclear rocket [1] was designed to take out soviet bombers, in a time when guided missiles were too immature to provide the required precision. A more modern guided nuclear anti-air missile (with features such as PAL security and tritium boosted fission for a higher / dialable yield) would probably work quite nicely for reducing swarm density.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
Poor Patrick Stewart...
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But a swarm can make a big target full of tiny explosives.
Ya, there's no evidence of this. There's some hand-wavy quote in the last sentence saying it is happening, but you can't just switch in a week. This isn't like swapping a CSS file on a webpage.
There is also Magento. Lots of the older web retailers are probably running Magento if not their own in house stuff.
I’ve worried about this too, but it is a two way street. China’s industry can’t stop supplying these components to manufacturers without taking a hit. The extra supply that feeds Makers won’t go away unless the production itself goes away. In spite of all their efforts, this is still Capitalism, and there are still willing buyers.
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If you do 200 builds every 6 hours, you could probably afford to pay $5 a month.
I never answered your last question so here goes:

> Are you saying that the reproductive challenge poses a difficulty to Common Workflow Language?

I don't actually understand how the reproducibility challenge undermines the validity of using CWL / flow-based programming as an approach to promoting reproducible analyses. There certainly wasn't anything in the article that made me think that CWL was challenged, but Hinsen explicitly called out CWL in the abstract, which implies that for some reason he thinks, a priori, that it's a non-solution. He never justifies this implied assumption further, and as near as I can tell, none of the attempted replications used a flow-based language.

If Hinsen really aimed to argue against the viability of CWL/flow-based programming as an approach to reproducibility, he would have done a systematic comparison of historical analyses that used a flow-based system (like National Instruments' Labview or Prograph) vs analyses that are more similar to the approach that he seems to favor (i.e., analyses using Mathematica or Maple).

While I find the challenge interesting to follow, and the retrocomputing geek in me finds it fun, I don't actually understand what it really accomplished other than being a fun diversion. Assuming that an analysis was written in a Turing-complete language and you didn't use non-deterministic algorithms, you should theoretically be able to reproduce the results exactly on modern hardware, and using non-deterministic algorithms I would imagine that a result would be "close enough" within some kind of confidence interval. You may need to go to great lengths (in terms of emulating instruction sets, ripping tapes, etc), but I think a visit to any retrocomputing festival or computer history museum would have made that pretty obvious from the outset.
If it was shrink wrapped software they would need a bigger sales team, a bigger support team, a bigger professional services team, etc. It’s just trade offs.
I'm very interested to know what board you're using at the moment. I did consider using a button, however given the small size I wanted the board to be, it was not possible to have anything mechanical on it.

1. The protocol is actually fairly simple and open. Everything including the website is open source. In fact the site is a single page HTML which can be saved and opened offline.

2. The point about sabotaging which others have mentioned, is a valid point and I have thought about using a sort of a password to restrict who can configure it. I haven't found a user-friendly solution to this yet. As this board is meant to be embedded inside of an enclosure, I am relying on physical obstruction of the sensor as a form of security.
From the developer: Submitted a minor update for @AtticsApp after nearly two years on the App Store and @Apple has decided out of nowhere that I have been engaging in "a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior" and has permanently terminated my account. No evidence or specific reasons given.

This is a completely free "hobby" app by the developer, so the allegation of fraud (with no details) by Apple is quite bizarre.
Sounds like a job for GPT-3?
> Hell, I am only a voting member as far as the flight controls are concerned in the Super Hornet anyways. If I put a control input in that is not aerodynamically sound (i.e. could result in a departure from controlled flight), the flight control system will not move the control surface or will move a different surface to give me the movement I am requesting. Who is flying who?

That's a good take on the matter. Computer systems are already a big part of the aircraft, in the near term this could result in some pretty wicked copilot software.
I sometimes ask on Usenet or on IRC. IRC messages may get lost (although they may also be answered more quickly if there are enough users); Usenet messages are unlikely to get lost (although they may expire, someone will probably still have a copy, and in general you can still post a follow-up message to an expired article). But to try to more likely to get an answer, would be asking in more than one place, I suppose. (I think that audio/video would make it worse, though; text format would work better for these kind of things, I think.)
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About every microcontroller has hardware timer devices that can be set to trigger a signal change with N-nanosecond resolution (N from say 5-50), and even interrupt the core when it is done. The only sharply timing-sensitive bit would be ignition firing, so maybe control those with a hardware timer.

Thing is, you can use the whole repeating schedule, parameterized with adjustments to instantaneous RPM, for many cycles before there is need to check for e.g. throttle input changes.

In between, it is a dance -- shoot some fuel into 1, wait a bit, stop shooting fuel, wait a bit, start closing a valve, wait a bit, schedule a spark, wait a bit, ...

All the settings are chosen, whenever input changes, by table lookup. So tuning means fooling with table entries.
In case people skim over this. One of the nice things about Erlang / Elixir is that the tcp/udp libraries are well integrated with the actor-model. Incoming data can just be another message.

You can flood your process this way and there's no feedback to the OS that you aren't actually handling the data, but there are flags / patterns to cleanly deal with that (e.g, using active: :once which is probably what most cases should be doing)

Further, for the tcp library, there are a handful of message boundary options that can really speed development. Set "active: :true, packet: 4" on the socket, and you're telling the library that each message has a 4-byte length prefix. It'll take care of the rest - on both the sending and receiving end. (pairing this with the built-in object serialization (term_to_binary and binary_to_term) makes it possible to achieve relatively complex logic across systems with minimal amount of code).

There's also a newish socket module that exposes an API which is more similar to what most programmers are probably used to.
Then I learned about things like how MSVC 2017 would wrap the main() function of C programs with telemetry.

Could you provide a link to learn more? This seems bad.
Many of the highest valuation companies are boring. Boring isn’t a bad word when it comes to enterprise software.
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I'm, like, not familiar at all with stylometry on a working basis, so this is absolutely just, like, my opinion, man. But the few examples I've seen of it were far more likely to bunch up subject choice than style e.g. all ethics to one heap, all metaphysics to another, regardless of author. And if you control for something like that (pet subject?) I don't know how much information would remain in the purely structural information of the text i.e. comma placement choice, but I'd guess it's fairly low. There are only so many ways to say things, and even then there are people seem to go straight to the point.

You'd only make yourself identifiable by railing about the same things over and over again, and I think this is something you don't even need a machine to pick up.
There's a reason we've pulled back from the Cold War craziness of nuclear bazookas and chicken powered nuclear landmines. The casual tactical use of nuclear weapons is seen as geopolitically extremely dangerous.
Except for the part where even if you ignore the sales and marketing expenses they're barely breaking even. They're failing to make software for less than they can sell it for, and perhaps some of those hard problems which took 50 engineers to solve would have been better to have gone unsolved even if they lost some sales as a result.
you lose a bit of quality, too. It might up the ratio towards quality, but you'll definitely lose some comments that the author doesn't feel like jumping through hoops to send through.

example : captcha/captcha-like services.

I've written well-thought out responses and comments on various forums and communities , and finally when asked to identify all the buses or traffic lights I quit the process.

Why? Is it because the comment isn't worth while? Is it because some moral repositioning enticed me to not to go through with the comment?

No.

Clicking every bus increases friction, I may not be all that motivated to begin with -- this friction pushes me over the edge and I close the tab. The captcha/whatever process may have succeeded in the job of fighting spam, but it also lost my comment to the ether.

I contend that gatekeeper systems like pop-quizzing the reader, and to an extent captcha-likes, are not necessarily a good gauge for content quality but rather of poster motivation.

Captcha doesn't stop spammers, it sets the bar higher -- requiring spammers to harbor a larger motivation in order to create the systems needed to circumvent captcha-likes.

A pop quiz would not hinder someone filled with vehement hate from posting a comment -- they'd skim the text, cherry pick the answer, and proceed to post the hateful or incorrect comment.

A community filled with people who post due to a large motivation seems like a bad thing.
Lively, but proprietary. A lot of SPARK stuff tends to be automotive, factory designs, fabrication and the sort of stuff where people working there are buried under dozens of NDAs preventing them from discussing their work in any way.

But projects tend to have a longer shelf-life. Contracts expected to take a decade to complete aren't unusual, and the product can be expected to be in use for twice that, or longer.
I can expand upon the $5 - $10 meal by example.

I'm from southern California. I worked in Wellington, New Zealand for a stint, and I found that restaurants were priced about the same as back home. That is to say, an average sit-down restaurant meal of equivalent quality was roughly the same price in USD.

However, in America, there's an entirely different class of much cheaper food (takeout food), and younger people in metropolitan areas eat this food very often. These were usually powered by cheap immigrant labor, often paid under the table to skirt taxes and mandatory benefits.

Labor protections in New Zealand are much higher, of course, and without an easily exploitable underclass, this food simply can't exist there. There weren't really regular kiwis who ate out 1 - 2x per day - virtually all of them cooked most of their meals at home themselves.

This is the environment in which these food delivery companies are operating. These restaurants already have extremely thin margins, consumers are price-sensitive, and as long as the delivery company is just a middle-man, they'll struggle to do this thing profitably. If they lose access to their cheap labor by having to re-classify drivers as actual employees, it might be impossible.