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> But no one - NO ONE - is verifying anything personally. No one is testing the claims. My point is that no one is personally verifying science

Each science article is extensively reviewed. First when you need to force yourself to read previous articles in the same field. Second by your boss and other members in the team. Third time by a peers system, and is not easy at all to pass. Sometimes must be corrected two or three times more. Often is rejected and sent to other journal, that will require the same process. Journals can ask for your laboratory notes and raw data and repeat the calculus by themselves. Is not unusual.

After an article is published anybody can point to something found incorrect on it.

So the truth is that science, the real science, is extensively reviewed. There are groups specially prone to fraud, and many articles are garbage, but are most the exception than the norm.
great comment -- you may like this https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.30.2.53
> they almost always compile and run

Same in Rust. Actually, it's quite better than in C. The only time Rust projects fail to compile is when they pull in some C library and something there (like configure.ac) messed up. :D

And if this C project does anything interesting it pulls in bunch of C libraries that came precompiled with your OS, and might be stale and contain unpatched security vulns.

C/C++ developers pointing at other languages about dependency hell is a curiosity.
The fact that they were able to even call support is what is different.
Ha!! This makes my day - I thought they were on the list of failed startups too, thought the way fact same thing as you and didn’t even realize they weren’t a YC company until I got here. :)

Thanks friend - I needed that chuckle today!
If you’re not going to take a stand now, when will you?

When I'm not at work.

When and where I stand is my business, but "when" is definitely not when I am at work and nobody is bullying anyone.
Too bad Let’s Make a Deal never actually let you switch, IIRC
Does Theranos count?

I'd say they achieved even less than most start-ups.
Squaring it is pretty easy, I think.

Recommendation engines are neither inherently good or harmful -- think of them as an amplifier.

In normal times, they work pretty well -- it gives you more of the stuff you like, which usually isn't harmful. Just entertaining/fluff/interesting/whatever.

But closer to an election, they can be gamed and weaponized for harm -- Russia can activate botnets, fake accounts, etc. and lies spread like wildfire.

So it's not about whether the recommendation engine is good or bad -- it works. The point is that close to an election, bad actors weaponize it 1,000x more or more often than they do the rest of the time, so they're turning it off. When it's not being weaponized so much, they can keep it on.

It's like paying for a DDoS protection layer at times when you know your site is likely to be attacked, but not using it the rest of the time.
Believe it or not, I have no interest in living in the bay area - even if the costs were the same. I personally would like somewhere that didn't get quite so cold in the winter but still has 4 seasons.

I can honestly tell you that out of all the people I know, I can't think of a single one who would move to the bay area even if the costs were the same. Weather isn't everything.
I once used a hosting provider whose business model was to give you "credits" every time you clicked on an ad. Enough credits got you a month of hosting. So of course I wrote up a little HTML page with some javascript that had a dozen iframes to load each click into a different frame, then refresh the ads list. Host told me to knock it off a couple days later :(

He did end up hiring me for a tiny bit of website work after that, paid like $200. My first ever paid tech gig.
Tadaa: curl already supports --parallel to download many URLs simultaneously...
> It's a fundamentally selfish viewpoint that you instead of the site you're using should decide how you consume what the site offers

Properly pay wall it. The site does have control that it doesn't want to exercise. Why does it want to have control over your device to display what it wants.

Your content has left your property to land on mine. I can choose what kind of content I let in and not.

I don't have to store your ads and tracking cookies. Private platforms like reddit won't host all the content I send to them why should I be obliged to.
Seems like hell to me. It's obvious they're not willing to actually take action.

For example, Twitter could easily and automatically remove a ton of white supremacist accounts using machine learning but haven't. Many of these accounts follow obvious patterns that ML can easily detect. Why don't they do it?
> As soon as [social networking] becomes topic specific, the quality of discussion improves in direct corellation to how technical the topic gets.

"5G spreads the coronavirus"

"Measles vaccines cause autism"

"10 scientific proofs why the earth is flat"
on tablets pretty much everything directs you to the app and most people trust this is the best result which with regards to youtube can result in an incredible influx of ads
Actually, among developed countries the US has a relatively high corruption level, I believe. (Insert many caveats about how difficult corruption is to measure.)
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So if you don't have a degree but have a few publications (peer reviewed?) can they replace the degree for H1B and other visas?
Regarding the planes, the Soviets had a plane working with hydrogen (and methane I believe). It's not particularly impossible, and at least much more doable than using batteries (for commercial jets).

The flying wing is a design improving the efficiency know for a long time (Airbus guys teaching us about it during my studies 15 years ago), but creates additional difficulties, on top of which the impossibility to evacuate the plane fast enough. You would have the same benefits whether your plane is using hydrogen or kerosene.

I still do not see planes using hydrogen. Just doing the math on how much electricity would be needed makes it really unlikely.
What is the product? Is this going to be licensed to Zoom, Skype, Teams, etc? Or is this a distinct product? Does it depend on specific hardware?
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I am creating a new framework which will be powered by JSX. On a video you can see code on the left and result on the right. Everything happens server-side and that's why we can use fs there. Browser only renders components. What do you guys think?
I'm sorry that you're being downvoted; I don't think that's warranted.

>> Literal thought crimes.

> These are explicit acts, not thoughts, and not new offences.

> "Contempt of public official", I think they mean "outrage a agent" in French, does not mean the feeling but the act of showing 'contempt' as in insulting or threatening.

As the expression is usually used, "thought crimes" can refer to speech acts.

This may reflect a difference between American ideas of free speech and those more common in Europe. (I don't understand the variety of European views very well.) Most Americans are going to view anything that smacks of lèse majesté as a thought crime and react accordingly. And I don't think we're wrong to do so.
Actually we do know that Google and AWS are investing heavily into custom chips.
I just wish he would go back to writing hard sci fi books like Snowcrash. IMHO after/during Cryptonomicon he started writing books only very serious people would enjoy.

I admit I haven't tried to read anything after his baroque cycle. (Which I couldn't finish. I got so bored.)

Did he ever recover from that desire to write those overly complicated books?
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The solution to that is right at the start of this thread:

> "Never allow dynamic ad content! Ads should be individually approved by publishers and not subject to change after approval."
Everyone here seems to be obsessed with the fact that a console is a "computer" in the turing machine sense but the fact is that people buy consoles with the strong primary purpose of entertainment.

Smart phones and tablets have gotten to the point where they are expected to be able to do hundreds of different things, with some peoples livelihood dependent on it.
I find this article to be questionable, if not outright misleading and incongruent to the creed of Islam. For one, the quote from Ibn Khaldun (the only reputable individual mentioned, albeit briefly in this piece) is taken out of context and mistranslated.[1] Evidence suggests that what Ibn Khaldun was in fact making reference to (the concept of the celestial spheres/emanation) is antithetical to the theory of evolution or anything of its ilk. In fact, the passages that precede the quote that is referenced in this piece and others establish this evidence as clear. [2, pg. 137]

In investigating the remaining invididuals mentioned in this piece, it appears that not one of them is of a doctrinal pedigree similar to that of Ibn Khaldun's (who is what the general public would refer to as a Sunni Muslim). To juxtapose the label of "Islamic" next to the opinions of Mu'tazilites, "Neoplatonist" and Shiites in regard to the theories of evolution, natural selection, et cetera, does not spell for a valid argument from a purely traditional point of view. The likes of those mentioned in this article would be deemed heretic at the least and out of the fold of Islam entirely at the most.

This article is a product of the misappropriation and degradation of Islamic scholarship and history in academia and abroad for the sake of "pluralism" and "inclusiveness". It is unfortunate that Ibn Khaldun has to be shoehorned into these arguments. Anyone involved in these sort of studies would pain themselves to find reputable scholars of Sunni Islam propogating or inclining toward Darwinist thought to the degree of the aforementioned groups that are traditionally established to be deviated from the main stream.

[1]: https://www.islamicboard.com/health-amp-science/134349270-ib...
[2]: https://archive.org/details/ibn_khaldun-al_muqaddimah_201611
Actually we do know that Google and Amazon are investing heavily into custom chips.
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> so many HN readers that claim that salaries are based on the value created by the employee.

That's because those people are sadly wrong. Salaries have never been based on value created. They have always been based on the minimum a company could pay for the talent they desire.
You still get an API that encapsulates the behavior. This is not like monkey-patching (directly changing the behavior of libraries), but separating the abstraction layers. Every complex enough system will have multiple layers (for example when working on communications, if you're working with the network layer you don't need to focus on the physical layer below or the application layer above). Multiple dispatch allows the library ecosystem to better work in the same way:

For machine learning models we have the layer that handles the low level operation (sums, multiplication), which are swappable (you can have an implementation that runs in the CPU - Julia's Base - and an implementation that run in the GPU - CUDA.jl - and even a TPU - XLA.jl or Torch as backend). Above you have the tracker (the layer responsible for the autodifferentiation logic, which includes Tracker, Zygote, ForwardDiff). And above you have the library with rules for generating gradients (DiffRules, ChainRules), and above you have ML constructs (NNLib), and above ML frameworks (Flux, Knet) and above more specialized libraries like DiffEqFlux.

Whoever writes the ML framework doesn't need to care about the backend, whoever writes the GPU backend doesn't need to care about ML framework. This is not because the person writing the GPU backend patched the ML framework, but because the ML framework legitimately doesn't care about how the low level operations are executed, it doesn't work on that level of abstraction. And the user of the ML library can still see it like a monolith not unlike Pytorch or Tensorflow when he imports a library like Flux, until he wants to extend them and then he will find that they are in fact many independent swappable systems that compose into something more than the sum of it's parts.
The HoloLens 1 does what it claims to do. It is uncomfortable, the FOV is narrow, but it's usable and there aren't any big, negative surprises. You can use it and say, "yeah, I get it, I can see where this is going".

The Magic Leap doesn't do what they claimed it would do. But it does do what the HoloLens 1 does, slightly better in some areas, slightly worse in others.

The Meta2 was fundamentally broken. Nothing on it worked correctly. Everything on it was a hack job.
They are nuking them right now (temporarily). It's not just being discussed, it's being done.

But most of the time people like getting content recommended. It's what consumers want.
Is that spike precisely at the end of every month due to how reporting gets done? I can't really think of other reasons it would spike so significantly by the clock like that.
Is SMS still the only 2FA option on Robinhood? That seems behind the times.
Quick fix for me was to "select all" which for you might be Ctrl-A, or Command-A, or a comically annoying ordeal of long-pressing and dragging selection handles around...
People are downvoting without explaining, so I'll take a shot.

First, yes, we calculate our own income tax, but the IRS also calculates it separately, and if the two disagree, they selectively decide whether to come knocking. (For example, they once tried to bill me $300,000 for a tax year when my net income was just over $100,000, because of multiple clerical errors -- we had sold a house, and they had both erroneously tried to apply capital gains tax where it didn't apply at all, and tried to tax us for the full sale price of the house as though we had bought it for $0 and flipped it. It took months of back and forth to fix the issue, despite everything having been clearly documented.)

Second, calculating tax liability is just the first step. Actually submitting tax returns electronically required a third party for a long time, and I believe it still does for all but the most straightforward returns. There's absolutely no reason for that to be the case, other than the outsize influence of lobbying money.

That's without getting into all the loopholes, dodges, and hand-waving that make it possible for someone like Trump to avoid paying taxes entirely most years, while those of us who they know can't afford to lawyer up are the ones they try to collect from.
At least in EU that would be a legal requirement (Payment Services Directive rules that limit liability for unauthorised transactions), not graciousness/PR of the bank.

FDIC insurance (and its equivalent in other countries) is something completely unrelated - it's for cases when the bank is unable to pay you because it goes bankrupt for some reason (which may include massive fraud done to the bank or by the bank), it's not for cases when your money gets lost in some other way.
I think in Fall he calls the internet "The Sewer"... In case anyone was confused how he felt about it :-)
This is the truth. However, bringing attention to it and shaming them over it is still worthwhile since, while their actions are in line with the desire of their customers, it's contrary to the desire of the majority of their user base.
Ask HN: How do I protect my old computer?
I've got a working TRS-80 Color Computer 1 that was built sometime between 1980 and 1983. This is the same model that I used as a kid. I think my Mom purchased mine second-hand and I obtained and used it sometime around 1986. The one I have now was purchased on eBay about 10 years ago for $1.75.

I would like to put the computer into a working display, perhaps just on a desk somewhere. What should I do to protect it so that it can run for as long as possible?

For starters, I suspect I should condition the power to protect it from spikes. Is a decent surge protector enough?

What are the things that are most likely to kill the machine if I set it up and use it regularly?
Just after GHW Bush's passing 2 years ago, I was speaking with a Boomer friend. The conversation quickly spiraled and she was telling me about how GHWB was a pedophile who abused children, then extracted their adrenochrome, and then ate them. He wasn't alone. He did this with his kids (Jeb, GWB,the Clintons, the Reagans, and the Obamas. I was completely caught off guard. This was someone who I had otherwise respected and thought well of - a retiree of the aerospace/defense industry. She then said "I used to never know any of this stuff, but now that I have the internet on my smartphone, my eyes are open." -- That last part has really stuck with me...
> maybe they could have been the reason for change instead of WordPress

I seriously doubt Apple would have listened to ProtonMail. Look what happened to HEY.
To be a complete curmudgeon, this just seems like self-serving nonsense from Twitter.

To pretend that they have some "democracy breaking" power in their platform of the loudest 1% of individuals that actually contribute and that this needs to be tamed with special rules to protect the integrity of elections seems like an absurd fantasy.

Either they're right and their platform can be a tool used for evil in general, in which case, why limit these rules purely to one particular federal election? Or they're wrong, and this really is just some bizarre internal marketing effort.
This article says Atrium ran out of money, but I feel like Justin Kan’s blog post said they gave tens of millions back to investors when they shut down.
And yet not word on the transfer of trillions of dollars to emerging economies that eliminated wage gains for average Americans while inflating corporate profits and dividends? The gains in “productivity” are a direct result in leveraging a global labor pool.
You realize there's a difference between "the media does (attempt to) define norms" and "the media should define norms", right?
No serious actor would blink an eye at having to pay a few bucks to get 10,000 blue-checkmarked bot accounts.

After a short adjustment period, there would just be no non-verified accounts anymore and 5$/year would just be the regular price to use Twitter.
observationally, this doesn't seem to be the case. In NYC, the way it looks is that restaurants that were doing a brisk delivery business before the pandemic are still with us and a lot of great restaurants that were packed with in-person diners are gone. There are tons of exceptions. Source: Brooklyn.
No, though it makes sense that people would. It’s validation of like minded folks. It feels good to make a point and have others agree with it. It’s human nature.
I came here to comment on that exact same snippet. I knew the tone of the piece after that intro. This is getting tiresome.
That's something I've wondered for a long time: Doesn't Broadcom want users to be able to use the full feature range of it's silicon?
I actually think git is MUCH better suited to this than a traditional database.

I've built track-changes-over-times things in relational databases before and it's a real pain to implement!

I've actually started using a GitHub repository to back up the PostgreSQL database that powers my blog, because it's a really cheap way of getting a revision history of that database without having to write any extra code: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog-backup/commits/m...
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Well one could say that all those mafiosi keep the opportunistic criminals out of the neighborhood and make it safe for the law-abiding businessman and resident.

So in essence yes, they built the society by providing a predictable and stable order. Follow the rules and you'll be fine and will be safe from arbitrary crime. A form of societal curation, one might say.

And they need paid to keep maintaining this service, and 30% doesn't seem too high does it? For the benefits they provide? Just don't try to fiddle your accounts to hide any other income you have, or try any other tricks; you might find your contract terminated.
What about Firefox? Video playback from Youtube on FF is plain terrible; 720p is barely acceptable in full screen for technical videos (forget movies) and 1080p stutters like a kangaroo with parkinson. The same videos play perfectly under LibreElec/Kodi, but due to recent crazy restriction by Google, one is forced to sign up with them to watch videos on YT Kodi addons, while browsers are still ok (for now).
Also, Firefox (which I refuse to swap with anything) crashes like 1 in 3 times when I fast forward or backward the video. I keep the crash reporting on so FF devs are likely inundated by reports about the problem, which happens on a stock RPi4 with stock Raspbian and stock Firefox. All constantly updated.
I didn't follow up with the entire novel, but the opening chapter to Seveneves had some of the energy of Snowcrash.
Perhaps by pay scale. Definitely not by talent/productivity.
And there is no guarantee that bad regulation is worse than no regulation.
I've discussed this technique with GitHub employees about this technique in the past and no-one has raised any concerns about it. Maybe I wasn't talking to the right employees though.
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From the top:

From Facebook's point of view, we have recently learned that the whole circus around Cambridge Analytica was a gigantic farce and that they had no more access to anything than anyone else - and that they hardly did anything with it to begin with.

2016 taught us that even if everyone puts their chips on one candidate, and says that they have a 99% chance of winning, it may not be a reflection of reality whatsoever.

Now, given that Twitter is primarily a Democratic Party platform (no silly HN poster, I don't need to post evidence to back that up), I wonder why they are deciding to do this.

Do they know something about the election trends and which way the winds are blowing that they are intentionally trying to silence it to influence things one way or another?

If you have anything left in that head of yours, my dear HN reader, it would be a good time to flex it and read between the lines when these posts turn up. And to not believe everything you read, especially from corporations that hijack social and civic responsibilities for financial gains.

At any rate, make sure you get a comfy couch and some popcorn if you haven't. This will be a fun ride in a months time.
There's also https://github.com/intel/yarpgen which I haven't used. I believe there are a couple of others...
Merriam-Webster. Radicalise? "d : advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs"
and their example is "the radical right"

Anyone who's followed the news over the summer and read the novel 1984 understands this perfectly.