skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientists are the new priest class. They deliver edicts and answer the public's questions about the universe. The problem is that the answer to 99% of the public's questions is "I don't know" or "It's very complicated." We don't like that. We want the right answer, right now, delivered in one simple sentence. We find the one goober who hasn't walked inside of a lab in decades who wants to feel important to give us what we want.

Worse is that people envision scientists as unbiased saints. That's just not real. Real science is about one thing and one thing only. Money, aka grants. Grants get you labs and underlings which bring more money and maybe someday tenure. And once you have tenure, you can finally publish what you really think about what interests you instead of chasing funding fads. Except that part never happens.

That means you study the subjects that give funding. You give papers that increase the chance of more funding for more papers. Your accuracy? Doesn't matter. Funding matters. No one is going to check your work anyhow beyond simple peer review. Someone tries to recreate your work or recalculate your numbers? Tell them you lost the data. It's a bit embarrassing but no one is going to call you on this stuff anyhow.

There is only one solution to the replication crisis. Funded third-party replication for all experiments. Money is the root of this problem. It has to be the solution. How many scientists are going to publish "mistakes" if they know that four different teams at four other universities are going to automatically attempt replication?
We accept that any complex software, even well-designed and well-tested, can malfunction -- often spectacularly. What, then, can we expect from humans? Consider that virtually no effort went into the design; and the test framework is horrific, relying primarily on trial and error.

The natural outcome is that any human "expert" is no more reliable than your average startup codebase. In fact, it's a wonder that human societies manage to organize themselves into anything resembling civilization.
I agree there might be a few bad comments out of millions, but it's not the violent swamp that the media have lied and told us it is.
> Few people care to repair Android phones because you can't upgrade the OS after 2 years regardless.

I sincerely hope the EU will actually do something about that as well. As you point out, it makes no sense to allow to repair something that receives no support for its software components.

What I hope they will do is actually mandating that, if an item is sold as having networking capabilities, the manufacturer is required to maintain (as in, provide security updates for) the software required for the item to continue working as sold, at least for the intended lifetime of the item (that should be explicitly stated by the manufacturer). Maybe exceptions could be granted - after a minimum period of mandatory first-party support - if all code required to build the firmware was open sourced.
> This information will piss off one side a whole lot, and the other side not at all. Is this information non-neutral?

Of course reporting just this information is non-neutral. You are specifically picking facts that back the policies of one side over the other. That's obviously non-neutral. If you are a weather-service, it might be apolitical, but as a general news organization it's hard not to read that as political.

> Could I make my editing neutral by also including the occasional statement that Trump won the election in a landslide?

I mean if your firehose of all facts includes "Trump won the election in a landslide" then sure, but I don't think you honestly believe that to be true. I suppose you could report on members of the house claiming this to be true? It might make more sense to e.g. report on perverse incentives setup by entitlement programs (to go with the climate-change theme, how about how tax-breaks for clean-fuel vehicles disproportionately benefit the rich?)
They sort of broke due process of law, that’s the problem. They exercised the force in their possession that should not belong to them.
There's a bar near Union Square, SF, which has a sign including the words

> .. never had any safety issue so far

It's the 'so far' which really tickles me.
Ok TBH I'm unprepared to back up my statement. I only vaguely recall second hand heresay in regards to their exchanges with OpenBSD developers.
“the western elites just recognize the balance of power has shifted in China's favour and have started to accept the "facts of the ground””

What’s a “Western Elite”? Russia, India, Japan, Australia? What “power” are we talking about? Military power? Economic power? Intellectual power? Cultural power? What are the “facts of the ground” you are talking about? How have the Western elites accepted “facts”?

These are all open questions to the unbiased reader. Could you elucidate? Otherwise it sounds like you are just juicing Chinese stocks...
> This provides extra anonymity, because your own traffic is hidden in the other traffic you're routing.

Tor's take on the common proposal to do this is at

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#BetterAnony...

and notes this threat model issue:

> There are some cases where it doesn't seem to help: if an attacker can watch all of your incoming and outgoing traffic, then it's easy for them to learn which connections were relayed and which started at you. (In this case they still don't know your destinations unless they are watching them too, but you're no better off than if you were an ordinary client.)

(I'm not mentioning this to criticize I2P's design, just to point out that the benefit you get from this decision depends a lot on your threat model!)
Didn't Moderna already announce the seasonal flu vaccine programs on the research presentation day?

Anyways, I really hope them to succeed, my mother didn't take the flu vaccine ,,because it's risky and not that useful anyways''.

Moderna can make it much more efficient with less side effects, so I'm looking forward to it.
There is a C++ implementation that is pretty nice:

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
When you decide that a value N standard deviations away from the mean is an anomaly that must be investigated, you implicitly make an assumption about the underlying distribution of the data.
Those common definitions are priceless. On top of not repeating yourself you also avoid questions like “why does carlineng’s report say it is week 43 but mulmen’s report shows week 44? This is even worse if we both calculated revenue but I did SUM(payment) and you used SUM(price*qty).

I do think there’s a potential for performance benefits too because you can sort the fact and dimensions in ways that make sense for each one. Calendar is sorted by week number, product is sorted by a category. Fact is sorted by a date and locale, etc. since you don’t materialize the full projection more expensive but flexible sorting like interleaving becomes possible.

It’s probably academic but it’s not as hard as people make it sound and I think there are real benefits over these wide tables with simple sorting.

Plus if you use a tool like Looker it will write the reporting SQL for you! Generating star schema queries is easy once the tables are in place.
I don't think you can say that life is built on computational processes unless you use a definition of "computation" that is so vague and all-encompassing that it becomes effectively meaningless.

The Wikipedia definition of "computation" is "any type of calculation that includes both arithmetical and non-arithmetical steps and which follows a well-defined model". But this only makes sense in the context of a designer or observer external to the computation who can identify what that model is and thereby make sense of the output. So you can't say that brain processes are computational, much less life itself, without committing some variation of the homunculus fallacy.

John Searle (famously known for his Chinese Room thought experiment) made this argument in a paper called "Is the Brain a Digital Computer?" [1] He points out that "if we are to suppose that the brain is a digital computer, we are still faced with the question 'And who is the user?'"

A related problem is qualia. There is no computational process that will produce the sensations of colour or sound or touch. At best you will have some representation that requires having actually experienced those sensations to understand it. So a computational process cannot be the basis of or an explanation for those sensations, and therefore consciousness generally.

[1] https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Is%20the%2...
Okay, bud. If you're going to make a blanket assertion that the entire journalistic field is nothing but a propaganda machine then there's really nothing I can do for you.
Xterm has popup menus, though I don't know when they were added. I've blown people's minds when they saw them. There's also the Tektronix vector terminal emulation in a separate window. It's also trivial to modernize it with features like scroll wheel support because of the flexibility of X resources.
Isn't it ironic some mobile phone manufacturers leave the charging brick out of the box for the "environment" and then proceed to make their phones impossible to repair?
PowerBook Duo Screen Replacement and Hard Drive Replacement
Pro1 x by xda team. Can run lineage and Ubuntu touch.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pro1-x-smartphone-functio...
Fermilab is very close to the CME data center and is focused on neutrino research now, maybe a good opportunity for a partnership for some extra funding...
Don't put it past Polish law and order to rule pornography illegal soon. (And contraception probably sooner) I wouldn't be surprised at attempts - they're quite conservative.
The second cop's death was a seemingly unrelated suicide.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/10/another...
If it were to
have a Linux emulator, it could be named Liquor.

(“Liquor is quite useful on removal.”)
Misapplying LazyRecursiveDefaultDict
That bugs me also, there were abundance of unexplained findings while QM being developed. They were weeding out theories. Now the things we are looking for requires international efforts like CERN for finding Higgs. We won't have any better unless some one finds a way to make smaller accelerators and better detectors.
LMAO SPAC
Really good news!

Hopefully these get approved relatively quickly. I'm most excited about the seasonal flu vaccine. That could be a major game changer.
I think PBS gives it a sporting try, but reality does have a well known liberal bias.
That's mobbing
(Caveat: amateur opinion based on mainstream broad understanding, not an actual scientist.)

This is interesting, but so far a weak first step on flu. Each year experts stare at numbers and perhaps read some tea leaves to choose 4 strains to cover, often missing somewhat.

The innovation I'd like to see: ignore the "choose 4" process, and instead aim to cover all known strains.
Which social costs? Is it a social cost having too few kids? Or too many kids? Should we price that in? And what’s the cost we should price in? Who decides? Can we all agree on one price?
That's kind of creepy, actually.
A great example maybe to demonstrate inability of current criminal code and judicial systems,

but not a good example to convince someone that privatized censorship is akchally a good thing.
Vaccines are interesting, but I'm much more intrigued by what this may mean for future therapeutics if their methods work well moving forward.
60% is pretty good for an inactivated full virus vaccine. That's about what the trivalent seasonal influenza vaccines (using the same general technique) achieve.
How changing 1 character in an algorithm accidentally made it 18% faster
Nah, they can be sniffed.
Someone recently put it really well, and I'll try to paraphrase.

Social networks are like bars. If you and some friends go to a bar and you see a bunch of Nazis getting kicked out, your reaction is probably not going to be "that bar doesn't allow Nazis, let's leave and go to the bar that will let anyone in."
Amazon.com isn't the same site for any two people. It shows you different product suggestions based on what you purchased or looked at before.
That depends, are you a hobbyist or lobbyist?
I cannot unlock the device at all, and I cannot erase it and start from scratch.
A fair point. I think it is a lot easier to start a civil war than it is to successfully replace a government by force.

I'm saddened that we are even talking about those scenarios.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/innovative-universal... (“Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test”)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1118-7 (“A chimeric hemagglutinin-based universal influenza virus vaccine approach induces broad and long-lasting immunity in a randomized, placebo-controlled phase I trial”)
As someone who uses Ubiquiti NanoStation M2 APs very often as a part of wireless bridging solution for our own products, I was wondering what is happening with Ubiquiti. I have close colleague in Taiwan and he was so excited to inform me that he’s now working for Ubiquiti. I was sorta shocked because I thought Ubiquiti was a US based R&D team. When it first started, I remember watching the video of all the awesome engineers that left Cisco to start this new revolution. It’s sad to hear how the company is now being driven into the ground (merely for profits over innovation). I always thought that Ubiquiti would champion something in the 5G realm that would give US an edge over everyone else.
Thank you for both of your explanations. I was wondering for a while what gamma squeeze is, as it is a lot on the news lately. I learned a lot more from these two comments than from the article itself.
Yeah I don’t have experience with all the tools. I’m sure they are great and have their strengths. My current setup uses both EMR and Redshift but the data model is the same on both.
Trump approves emergency declaration for Washington for Biden inauguration
Silence people who disagree with you, I think that's a popular policy these days. I'm still waiting on that quote, though.
Then just add a time sensitive seed to it? I don't think it is equivalent to leaking plaintext. It can't be used to guess passwords on other websites.

If your SSL layer is compromised, you can't trust the client-side encryption. The attacker can send arbitrary javascript.
If I go to a store and ask for a KitchenAid, should it be illegal for the salesperson to try to sell me a mixer from another manufacturer?
At least in the AWS ecosystem, Athena makes this very simple to implement. Stream load balancer logs to S3 and query directly.
Around 4,000 people in the United States died prematurely yesterday due to COVID. 9/11 was a big deal because it attacked America's symbols. It altered the skyline of New York City, took down a side of the Pentagon and almost was able to crash into DC. The attack on January 6th acted in the same way. Yes, they killed fewer people but they attacked heart of America and the symbols of America.
> It's not even clear exactly how our brains work so its hard to imagine that they couldn't be implemented with a sufficiently powerful computer

We don't need to know. It suffices to expand "reason" to include not just inference, but properly those things which inference depends on, namely, conceptualization+abstraction and judgement. You could never infer that "all triangles have angles adding to 180 degrees" unless you were in possession of the signified concepts. And here is where the temptation to frame brains in terms of computers becomes plainly, let's say, problematic. Concepts like "triangularity" or "the color green" are abstract in that they do not exist as concrete things in their own right. You can have concrete green triangular objects in the world, but not triangularity or green as such...except in a mind that is able to abstract universals from particulars. So images (including the vulgarized CS sense) won't help you because they're always concrete impressions (one green triangle at the expense of all other possible green triangles). Formal structures expressed in what amounts to some notation won't help you either because they only get their meaning from an interpreting mind. Often, it seems attributions of intelligence to computers stem from a tacit failure to remove ourselves from the picture, projecting our capacities onto a hunk of cleverly arranged metal.

> If silicon chips prove an insufficient mechanism there is no particular reason we couldn't somehow use a biological substrate or indeed even one we haven't thought of.

Computation is a formalism independent of substrate. You can implement a Turing machine using anything that can maintain the appropriate interpretive correspondence. But even then, a computer is not an objective kind of thing like a tree. Unlike a tree, a computer is only a computer because the observer has chosen to interpret it as such, or to use it as such. (The naive materialists in the room might try to expand that claim to encompass anything, but in the very act they've made things worse. The mind's capacity to comprehend the world is severely crippled if not destroyed, and now you have to explain this mind that somehow can entertain the existence of wondrous things like trees and elephants that the rest of the universe is unable to evince, thus making the mind even more mysterious than it was before the reductionist took to his hatchet.) So if substrate makes a difference, then it's the substrate that matters, not some correspondence with a computational formalism.

> You need to start by proving that brains and all idealized computers we can build are inherently on different levels.

The burden of proof is on those claiming minds and computers are the same thing.
A whole lot of those NCPD missions amount to "kill these three-five bad guys." Yeah, they are in interesting spots, but I've cleared several of them in under a minute. Some of the "Assault in progress" can be done in <5 seconds late game.

I'm not talking about the gigs that you get from the fixers in the different regions. Those are interesting, they are mostly the same concept, but you can choose to go in stealth or rambo, and for many, if you scope the place well enough and have the right build, you can b-line to the objective.
You can't if it's stuck in "Activation Lock" and you can't logon to the Apple ID. I have one of these situations. A perfectly good device is effectively bricked.
So should facebook deny or give access to rioters in Hong Kong? What about Arab Spring? Or will daddy zucc decide which leader is "good enough".
Would you mind explaining the market dynamics in more detail? My understanding is that the positive gamma causes long market makers to put pressure on prices to mean revert, but I don't quite grok the rest of the dynamics.
AstreZeneca showed 70% efficacy in the general population. Does this qualify as “far more effective” when the mRNA vaccines showed 95% efficacy?
This is what IPFS does and most decentralized platforms under development are built on top of it.
> someone mutilating a corpse

Those words may technically be accurate, but I don't think that's a very fair representation of what's going on in the video.

It may be worth considering how ordinary and unremarkable such a sight is to all the world's humans. Even in the first world, a stroll down Chinatown of any major city is bound to result in seeing some "carcasses" hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Some may object to the idea of labeling the customs of such a huge swath of the global population as something which demands a warning.
what does it ever mean? its devoid of meaning
I think experts exist, but there's a problem with translating expert opinion in evolving fields into actionable advice that can be communicated to the masses through the news, and that can withstand aggressive, organized skeptical attack.

Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, just because it rolls a whole bunch of different things into one blanket statement, and sounds like a rant, which it kind of is.

The world is fucked.

What's the point of an organized skeptical attack on experts? I think I can attribute to Imre Lakatos the thought that if you can completely discredit the experts, and make it impossible to decide on facts, then you create a power vacuum that can only be filled by those who are capable of acting in the absence of facts, such as thugs and tyrants. You have effectively censored the experts with greater efficiency than any government censorship program could ever dream of. I believe this is the precise reason for "the war on the truth."
When is the last time you had to type an IPv4 address that you couldn’t copy paste?
Thank you for the link!

EDIT: End to end we do not give enough information from the application to OS to the hardware for perfect optimizations. We do not start with enough information and we lose too much down the stack. Especially around concurrency. I think that at the end of the day there is some atomic information needed by hardware and OS to make optimizes about all code running on the system.

I see the approach taken here in an effort to retain needed information by integrating compilation and OS level functionality. I think this is correct but we will see a shift to OSes having there own byte code as a translation layer between higher level languages. I also think high level languages lack some needed information in the first place...
The attack last Wednesday was literally successful in preventing a vote about an election and you can't fathom how terrorism is a threat to democracy? Imagine if those two quick-thinking staffers didn't grab the electoral votes and take them to the bunkers.
Is the salesperson selling ads or selling goods? If she's selling goods, she can show me all the alternatives she wants!

If she's selling ads, she should not pretend to not hear me say KitchenAid unless KitchenAid pays her enough to "understand" KitchenAid.
I think this has good intentions
The difference between a security research and a hacker is the same as between a protester and a terrorist, apparently.
Where is this 60 million number coming from?
I do wonder about single address space, I've seen a few experimental systems follow this strategy lately and it feels reliant on hardware less defective than we presently have in commodity user gui performance systems.
It should be illegal for the salesperson to put the KitchenAid product behind a mixer from another manufacturer, just because the other manufacturer paid them to.

You need to actively scroll past the ads. They aren't after the organic results. They are at the top, you need to ignore them or click them. It comes in b/w you and the first result.
I regularly write trival regexes like /\d+/ to grab integers out of unstructured text.
Now you are denying the large number of photos of heavily armed insurrectionists there?

And they weren’t stopping their co-“protestors” from beating cops, there were more assaulted.

And we know who planted the bombs, they already arrested multiple individuals who were armed, had pipe bombs or Molotov cocktails and who were photographed at the building.
UDM Pro can do it. But there is no standalone security gateway that can do gigabit.
Moderna has a much more flexible production process so should be more resistant to misses.
That doesn't seem very CryptoPunk of you.