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I largely agree with this comment, but this just means the underlying issues are more subtle. For example:

* I typically get thoughtful reviews, and in particular critical reviews are often thoughtful. Still, I know that some people assert influence on the outcome of the reviewing process of their own papers. Also, there's a fine line: for example, many journals allow you to recommend reviewers for your papers. If you're well-connected, you can recommend your best friends and your editor friend follows your advice. Is this misconduct? I'd say it depends. After some decades in a math-heavy community, most people who are experienced and competent in the context of a highly specialized sub-field will be your "friends".

* Journals that are outright predatory are, of course, a no-go. Still, there are edge cases like some MDPI journals; sometimes there are special issues from credible, relatively junior people in my community. Should we support them or not? Also, my funding provider wants me to publish in high-profile, "big publisher" journals and pays the open access fee; these journals typically rank much higher than community-owned/not-for-profit venues. On the long run, it's better to fully move to community-owned venues only, but as a junior researcher I feel I cannot afford it at the moment.

Personally, for me the problem does not come from outright and obvious ethics violations; sure, I know of some individuals who I consider somewhat problematic, but I don't think these people control the community. For me the problem is to navigate all the grey areas, knowing that the system is largely ethics-agnostic.
> As a practical matter, software that is network-accessible or deals with data from outside sources may well need a security patch from time to time.

This is as good argument as any for allowing the dependencies to be updated without updating the main software.
>They are not consuming other energy sources and to a certain degree, i think this is okay.

Both are using energy, I don't know what the 'other' even r refers to.

>It also combines and supports advantages in science by making this more affordable for the rest.

.. Both of those apply for crypto. Better GPUs are developed because of usage, gaming usage doesn't necessarily give you more than crypto usage and cryptocurrencies are putting a lot of money into cryptography.
What's needed is a way to shut off electricity on a per household level based on prices. Consumers set the max price they are willing to pay in an outage. If the price is above that, they get no electricity. Complicated solutions like IoT thermostats limiting max temperatures would be better but the expectation of such a deployment is unreasonable.
Memorys, in my young year as an electrician, our boss told us to go to a bank. We would have to install a whole new telephone installation. So we went to the bank, the lady on the front desk said, "yes I heard something about new telephones" and opened the door for us. About one hour later, we already started to work, the boss from the bank came and told us what we are doing, because they did not decide until know, what company the work would do .. so we left and guess what .. our company did not got the contract for the work :-)
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This should be weighted against these mining cards becoming e-waste instead of entering the seccond hand market. The energy used to manufacturea GPU is a significant part of its overall impact.
Clearly you've never heard of Foster City!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California
If they want to target an emerging market they should figure out how to get a lot of fuel to orbit cheaply. Starship is going to need a lot of tanker launches and they’d probably pay for extra capacity if it was there.
> In reality, only about 5% of our crude oil use goes towards plastic.

This is such a dangerous take, and so popular.

If we want to fix climate change we need to get rid of emissions in all sectors (and yes, plastic does create emissions, both in the refinery process and later on landfills and in incinerators). It's not a reasonable strategy to only focus on the large and easy to fix emission sources.

Plastic is a hard to fix sector, and it's unfortunate that developments to decarbonize it have barely started.
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Speaking of conceptual integrity, wiki.c2.com is the original wiki, and it's still chugging along 26 years later, as of next month => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb

Take that, all y'all whipper-snappers!
>I'd rather have poor people using electricity than rich corporations.

Deicing power plants and pipelines requires electricity. If electricity cost is $9000/MWh then paying that money is worth it since you unlock the ability to produce more electricity and sell the additional production capacity you brought online for $7000/MWh. Repeat this with multiple power plants and you are back to $100/MWh.

If you just hand it out to random people you might not have enough electricity to keep the electric grid alive.
Just as an aside, you probably (and hopefully) don't need to have the unit to download the manual—which is where the licenses are likely mentioned. Though this one seems to direct the user to Akai's site.

E.g. https://www.mpc-tutor.com/akai-mpc-manuals/
Here too. Annoying how websites do not work at all if you have some basic tracking blocker enabled.
That is a complete rewrite of your original comment, Windows N is about a lot more than a few codecs, it excludes Skype, Windows Media Player and other media playback applications.
Your claim was that Windows 10 only sells in N editions which is blatantly false.
Good comparison though it misses some externalities.

Gamers also use monitors(~40W) for many hours a day, and run the whole machine with 1 card while many miners minimize all other costs but the GPUs. Also gamers typically damage their cards a bit faster and change them for newer ones faster on average (miners keep mining with very old cards still).
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>Mining hardware is just trash when new hardware is released, pretty much immediately.

Except people are still mining with cards they bought 4-5 years ago. This is not True.
There’s the (descriptively named) “low-discrepancy sequence”, the most famous one being the Sobol sequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
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For unimportant products, or features of your product (maybe), sure.

Your bank is down because some yahoo thought Nim and GraphQL on Neo4j would be fun? Less so.
US charter schools do this extensively. It's the whole point of an entrance exam.
Funny arguments go both ways depending on whether people like the censoring or don't. It's either it's a private company so it's their right or that it's the defacto platform therefore getting in the way of freedom of speech. In any case modern politics is a shit show and all parties are corrupt as hell each having there own methods and rhetoric that their public buys. In the end the West and its imperialism is as corrupt and full of shit as the east and its mostly local corruption because they don't have the power to exploit globally. West, lofty ideals backed up with little substance, East no ideals and hence no flowery rhetoric to cover up their misdeeds.
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I did, and tried to comment there, but failed.

I think replicating Warhol's Amiga should include a correct size keyboard. Going through all that trouble to imitate a CRT, and then skipping out on the keyboard makes little sense.
> Is there any way to blacklist a GSM cell on iOS?

i doubt that very much but would be happy to be proven wrong.

even on custom-rom android i dont recall such capability.
It's most likely a pirate tape that contains a completely different film.
I remember getting a pirate copy of Harry Potter 5 back in the day, before it came out in cinemas. The actual content of the DVD was a completely different German film called "Bibi Blocksberg". It happens.
I'm all for exposing and thwarting anti competitive practices but I want to see this happen on both sides of the spectrum.
I suspect the difference of opinion is because those two people are making very different assumptions. One comes across as too dismissive of security concerns, suggesting security is not their problem unless management is bothered. The other comes across as assuming most software is used in ways where security problems are a major risk. Neither is realistic. Combine that with an unnecessarily hostile tone and some ad hominem, and it's going to attract downvotes on a forum like HN where civil discussion and logical arguments are both usually appreciated.
> A lot of users don't want updates. They just want their software to work and do whatever they're using it for.

>As a practical matter, software that is network-accessible or deals with data from outside sources may well need a security patch from time to time. Those updates are good for almost everyone, but by their nature, they should also be transparent to users.

That's a problem of the system you're using. I use Debian stable for my servers because you can only allow security patches: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
True, but if your app is running Rust on Postgres, then that might well be a win over C++ on OracleDB.

For me a key thing is that "boring" doesn't just mean mature and well established. C++ is mature and well established but it's not boring because there are all sorts of nasty memory safety issues to keep things "exciting". OracleDB is mature and well established, but from what I hear you have to pay expensive fees to do all sorts of things: that's not boring!
> I don't see tangible value in crypto. Crypto is worth what other people are willing to pay for it.

That's pretty much true for anything that has financial value, though. Setting aside the chemical properties of gold (conductivity, resistance to corrosion, etc.) that make it more valuable than some other metals, pretty much every financial construct in human culture is only valuable because we decided it was valuable. That's not to say everything is inherently valueless, but crypto is not too dissimilar to, say, digital coins for a game; you just can't usually swap it back in the latter case so it has little/no tangible value. Similarly, the value of stocks, foreign currency, even money itself fluctuates daily. As long as you can swap it back to "real" money, I see it as having tangible value.

That being said, I personally choose not to get involved in any cryptocurrency because I would rather invest in more "established" forms of value, like stocks and bonds and whatnot.
Sounds like the UN was correct in criticizing Brazil for failing to uphold the rights of its people to get an education which likely resulted in significantly worse economic outcomes both on an individual level and for Brazil as a whole
No, they're not interesting, which is why they've been downvoted.
It comes down to opinion but I'd argue there is inherent value in a trustless medium of exchange, a trustless explicit protocol for lending, market making (exchange) or gambling or the platform that powers them.

I'd also agree that price bubbles happen and future speculation becomes a dominating factor in their price action, but this doesn't mean they don't have inherent value.
but why.
There's no such thing as procrastination, it's just a word that's very popular. It's a battle of what you're being programmed to do vs what you really want to do. Even science says that the subconscious is most of your brain power. Procrastination only exists in the conscious mind, so it just means you're relying on it too much and not giving credit to anything but your own ego. When there's no options there's no procrastination, you just do what you have to do. If there's options and you think you're procrastinating it just means your heart is not in the right place and to be frank you'd get a lot more done in life and find happiness if you "procrastinated" instead of trying not to. Just go with the flow and don't worry about meaningless definitions and words. Have a good day my friends and all the best to you.
Not long ago, an airplane rained down a few parts near Denver. Today an aircraft has a similar thing happen.

Is it possible that airplanes that have been grounded for a long time thanks to the pandemic have not received the care they should have?

The two aircraft did not have the same cause and I think different parts came lose but one of the results were similar. And somewhat close together
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I am a software engineer and I don't understand it either.
> My friend Andrew wears the same brand of black shirt every day. He thinks that if he conserves the brainpower it would take to pick something to wear, he’ll bank it and be able to use it later for something else.

>I don’t know if this makes sense for fashion or what have you, but I really think there is something to this.

Johny Bravo was conserving his brainpower all along !

I kind of like this idea, will probably try this, jeans + long and short sleeved versions.
I was not so sure, reading the title. At first I was thinking about whether it might be about the Internet or perhaps even society in general.
well said, and I would add that the acceptance of the "TL;DR" "culture" is cancerous in tacitly encouraging such laziness.
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> Every website has the ground changing under it whenever browsers update to a new version.

Every app has the ground changing under it whenever the kernel updates to a new version.

Yet somehow we can still run binaries from the 90s. The browsers are broken and need to be frozen. Not something that will happen because google, like microsoft before it, benefits from constantly breaking, changing and extending everything to not let anyone catch up to them.
you are missing something. I stopped buying t430 keyboards after the second broke. the machine is still up and running but with an external keyboard.
This would have gone a lot better if you'd said "the French model", or even the "British pre-1970s model". China is a country without a free press; it may appear effective but it's also highly corrupt.
>they would just need to engineer management to task you such a job.

I like the idea of social engineering management into hiring pen testers... How large a shadow organization could conceivably remain undetected on the payrolls of a large corporation, I wonder.

There's a short story in there somewhere, at the very least.
> No other source of energy is weather-independent, can store fuel supplies for several years on site, is emission free and extremely high capacity factors.

No other source of energy has the potential of devastating a region’s water supply and killing thousands with cancer after one earthquake, desigj flaw or incompetent engineer having a bad day.
The actual title is "Can dogs smell COVID? Here’s what the science says"

The subtitle is "Canines seem to detect coronavirus infections with remarkable accuracy, but researchers say large-scale studies are needed before the approach is scaled up." but the first part is not suported by the content of the article:

> But there is just one published journal article on dogs’ efficacy at sniffing out COVID-19, by Volk’s group; he describes it as a pilot study1.

> The dogs identified 83% of positive cases and 96% of negative ones.

> Critics say the German dog study used samples from too few patients. The dogs could be learning to identify the specific scent of the samples rather than of COVID-19 [...]

There are also a few mention of preprints, and other preliminary stuff, but no solid evidence that dogs have "remarkable accuracy".
I agree with the main point that conceptual integrity in system design is important, and it's a great article over all.

However, I really think that the immediate examples given by the author are actually not great examples of conceptual integrity, because the author too quickly conflates "conceptual integrity" with "consistency" (note the repeated use of "everything is a" in the examples given):

Smalltalk ("everything is an object", and the small set of other accompanying principles)
SQL ("all data is in tables", with keys and constraints)
Lisp ("everything is a list")

Conceptual integrity and "consistency" (or "everything is a" thinking) are not at all the same thing.

I would even go as far to say that an over-emphasis on simplistic consistency speaks more to the lack of a genuine concept, or as the classic quote has it: "consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative".

And committees love consistency because it's a cheap sell.

On the other hand, conceptual integrity just means staying true to the concept, however that is defined, so that conceptual integrity could well mean a break from simplistic consistency where the concept demands it.

If I can give it a shot, I would say that the human body is a better example of conceptual integrity in system design: not everything is a head or a hand, not everything is a foot or a finger, not all fingers are the same size, and yet everything works together. The conceptual integrity lies more in the overall symmetry of the human body, its purpose, its functions, its senses, motion, perception, thoughts, speech, actions, and especially in its interdependent relationship to others in community, as well as everything else in the world.
That's why the UK has external sources - both inteconnects with other grids, and stored power - that can be brought up in seconds.

My understanding is Texas doesn't even have connections to other grids?

Historically the UK had "economy 7" usage, where domestic electricity was cheaper at night. It's not convenient, it stems back from the end of the socialist era of the 70s where individuals took a backseat to the good of society. Most users only use it to boil a hot-water tank and 'night storage' heaters.

It's a shoddy solution for a problem that shouldn't exist in an advanced economy.
Both this and the other post trending on HN right now about boring technology show yet again that the Internet is a place for polarising views and clickbait titles rather than sensible discussion.

Choose the right tech for the job. Let's move on.
The incentive structures in academia make it easier to opt to cheat. A furious mediocrity is considered more desirable than thoughtful work : Thoughtful work is not "high impact", high "h-index" or whatever, but stuff that makes you enlightened, and makes you smile and go "oh yeah! now I see it".

But academic administrators do not understand that, because they have never had that experience, and have no idea why some professors go very quiet when an obscure faculty member speaks up to make a point in a quiet voice - that is because that quiet person has earned genuine respect from the other faculty present.

Quality is rare, quality has pauses and takes breathers.
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Not in freight though.
It seems like the fundamental issue is tradeoffs between compile-time and run-time efficiency. During development in almost every compiled language, it would make sense to have minimal cached, shared object (or shared intermediate) code in most use-cases while globally compiling and optimizing for releases. Invoking every run-time optimization and recompiling everything during development or first package installation makes zero sense because it's a waste of time.

Also, shared common package library units for releases by default shrinks binaries rather than having zillions of exhaustive, slightly-different combinations of similar structures and machine code hoarding space in binaries. I've never understood how 300 MiB binaries would ever be acceptable to anyone, especially going against decades of shared libraries that reduced binary sizes and memory usage. Deliberate waste is never acceptable because there is no free lunch.
They won’t do that, because “we want to hide this” is a lot less persuasive than “this is false, fringe, propaganda, etc.”
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I'm in favor of Facebook taking down absolutely any page, whether it agrees with my political views or not. Why? Because Facebook's power comes from network effects. The more people, across the political spectrum, find their interests to be blocked on Facebook, the less people will find value in Facebook in general. Over time, this means Facebook is committing suicide. This is the best possible outcome for humanity.

Die Facebook, die.
Comparing it to roulette is such a hyperbole. Would you say that penny stocks are playing the roulette? You may argue they have similar odds but there are fundimental differences between them.
Why can't Texas simply output it's power to neighboring states?
I agree 100%. I didn't read your comment before I wrote mine because I had this page open for a few days and for some reason just wanted to post, but it's nice to see!! I agree especially with the last point and the mention of the ego.
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Why even bring this up? Whataboutism is a very shallow argument.
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Engineers need to be kept happy. Some like tech, some money. It's a personal preference.
Businessses need to deliver in-time and also profit, or they just need to be stable.

Choosing exciting can be a tech-debt, or it can remove tech debt.
Boring can be stable, but can be soul-crushing.

Exciting & Boring is not mutually exclusive. They can co-exist.
Engineer excitement and Business continuation must be kept in balance.

Generalization is not helpful. As an engineer or business, or in general a sensible person, you must always do pros and cons without bias.

Thanks for comimng to my TED Talk.
Unpopular opinion but I've embraced it. I'm OK with doing everything in small chunks anyway. So yeah, in between three pages of a novel, I'll check my notifications. When my pomodoro counter hits during a coding session, I'll stand take a walk and stretch. Five minutes later, I'll check my phone. Then return to my desk. While relaxing and watching Netflix, when an episode finishes, I'll stop watching, close Netflix, check my phone. If it's bed time, bed. If it's something else, do it for a small amount of time with notable progress.
Small chunks, always. A hacker news post or a Reddit meme. Never hours of /g/. But my phone is my companion, not my enemy.