skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The slippery slope argument. If we don't hold the line, pretty soon we'll be calling astrology a science. Psychology has the potential to be a science, but it's early and we don't know enough. Electricity wasn't a science until Michael Faraday made it one. On the other hand, astrology has no potential to be a science.
“This Motorcycle Airbag Vest Will Stop Working If You Miss a Payment”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airba...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054629
Biology has a replication crisis almost as bad as psychology. I agree with a lot of these criticisms but I wonder why we don't see articles questioning if biology is a science. Perhaps there was a period in the past where biology was more rigorous, whereas psych has always been really handwavy?

There's not a lot of real predicting in bio research IME (granted only with a couple subfields). A bunch of things are tried and then whatever works is the focus of the publication, with a write up implying there was a clear hypothesis from the start. Of course not all bio labs are like this, but I'd argue not all psych labs are either.

A lot of this is bad incentives and poor training, but human research is especially hard to control. So I think the issue is partially inherent to the field (in both psych and to some extent bio).
Attkisson vs. DOJ and FBI for the Government Computer Intrusions
What really pisses me off too is the size drifts to make you think you're going down pant sizes. So every so years you need to try clothes on again to get your new number.

Pair that with covid not letting you try things on and it just plain sucks. Sometimes I have to try shotgunning it so I'm not making 3 trips to the store just to try a new number.
Orchards of fruit/nut trees are both commercial agriculture, and centered around perennials. Are industrial orchards less productive than industrial farms?

Or how about vineyards?
Other than friendly banter over a beer I've never given af how someone pronounced as long as they used one of the commonly "accepted" versions. Also never heard -anyone- call png "ping"
I'm not a journalist. Compiling with npm, cargo, go - all of it works well. Also run Chrome in the background. But on this particular laptop, others have run video processing/other compute/memory intensive tasks and it's held up well.
> It seems to me that this could have been solved by a single method: expect_match(result, eq(3)).

Except now you've circled back to the issue rspec originally tried to solve: getting the result and the reference in the correct order.

While I care very little about rspec, that is definitely one thing to be said for it: the matcher system makes it extremely obvious and regular: you `expect` a (result) to (match) a (reference).
>Is the way they are addressing it compatible with existing laws?

Obviously. Private, gender separated clubs exist everywhere in the United States. Ever been to a sports club or a fraternity? Civil rights legislation addresses employment and 'spaces of public accommodation'. You're obviously JAQing off because you know this
Whether or not it’s a science, applying the scientific method to psychology has uncovered extremely important findings in areas such as gender, personality, parenting and children, diversity, mental illness, work, marriage, and to a small extent happiness.

The issue with psychology is that it’s 1. relatively new 2. Area that is challenging to work in 3. Many in the field have questionable motives and perform work that lacks rigor.
Something about the AMD implementation is notably harder to exploit, though last I looked it wasn't clear what that was. It's held up much better, and a lot of people have looked at it.

Still exploits, but almost impossible to do in the field last I checked, where Intel has been demonstrated on live systems handling production load.
Not a Flutter-fan myself, but this argument is flawed:

> As we have touched on previously, there are already enough UI toolkits available for the Linux desktop. Most notably among those are Qt and GTK

The aim for Flutter is not to just support the Linux desktop, but also Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, tablets and phones.

Something tells me you won’t find neither Qt nor GTK a popular option for delivering cross-platform applications to all those targets.
What is a unit of wealth? Took us a while but we figured out fiat currency.
The moon lander wasn't really reusable, though. It was a two stage disposable rocket that happened to hang out somewhere during the interstage period. Calling it "reusable" is like calling the Apollo capsules reusable because they go up, then down.

SpaceX benefits enormously from fast computers, advances in metallurgy, CAD, etc.
No, I got it, as sophisticated as it was. But my analogy is this:

A law against fraud is like a law against mugging, you cannot commit fraud and you cannot mug. Both pretty clear and reasonable.
But a law against trading because you might get scammed is like a law against getting mugged: YOU ARE NOW FORBIDDEN TO GET MUGGED, problem solved!

Of course people, because they are good hearted and their intentions are so pure, often fail to see the difference. After all, how can anyone be against a law prohibiting mugging?!
SQL is one that I regularly flip flop just to annoy people :) .
Talking to Pins
Calling happiness subjective feels weird to me. It's not like "How would you rate The Avengers?", I think asking "How would you rate how you feel at this moment?" is asking the subject to measure something objective about their well-being, no? Maybe I'm oversimplifying it.
For the workloads I manage, the AMD instances are the same or slower per $ than comparable Intel instance families (m5/m5a and r5/r5a). Those use the 1st gen Epyc AFIK

Regardles, when third generation epyc Milan rolls out to AWS this year or next, the wave of movement to AMD will be massive

For c5a in us-east-1, it's simply not offered in all the AZs we've been assigned
RadixVM: Scalable address spaces for multithreaded applications [pdf] [2014]
I've taken NOW brand for other things like Vitamin D and they seem pretty legitimate.

Though the reviews here seem like the side effects are horrible & counter the the purpose.

https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Supplements-Nicotinamide-Dinucleo...
Covid-19 Vaccine Cards
Related to this, often I see a survey question along the lines of say, "which cup do you think would hold more water" with one that looks like it'd hold a lot more than the other. I'm never sure whether to answer with the meta-analysis of the fact that it's a survey question included in my answer.

That is, if I saw the two cups in my example naturally I'd say the obvious one holds more water, but often there'd be no point in putting it as a survey question if the obvious answer was the case. Therefore I'm almost sure the correct answer is the seemingly wrong one.

So I put that as the answer and get it right. But for whoever's running the survey, I'm probably messing up their results by meta-analysing the questions.
For the employees and contractors? It's a bit strange to describe a non-profit as a money-making engine.
Yeah, quaternions didn't seem that exceptional, "just" the generalization to rotations in 3D, but Geometric Algebra did get me excited because I finally managed to understand what was the whole deal with those weird "pseudo-vectors"...

https://www.av8n.com/physics/clifford-intro.htm
> retail really benefits from economies of scale, it's simply more efficient for both you and the business. That efficiency gets passed on to the economy to be spent elsewhere.

Seems more likely to be passed on to shareholders of the large-scale business. And compared to being put into circulation (with a much higher multiplier) in the local small-scale economy, funneling some more moolah into the already overflowing coffers of the Waltons or Bezoses does pretty much diddly-squat for the economy as a whole.
That's fair; I come at this from a CDN perspective where end system performance is most important.

Do you see any benefit from the fancy features? Can it source/sink min sized frames at 100GbE? (144Mpps) ?
New York Attorney General declares top ISPs committed net neutrality fraud
A qbit is a mathematical model of some quantum phenomena that exhibits superposition & entanglement, like particle spin. The model seems to match the behavior rules of spin (and other quantum phenomena) as far as measurement and manipulation are concerned. Physicists generally avoid the question of whether nature really internally keeps track of the spin of a single particle with a complex 2-vector; instead we just say the model matches the experimental behavior as far as we have actually found, so the model is useful as a reasoning tool. Sorry for the sort of abstract answer.

When we talk about information being communicated we're talking about someone choosing a bit that is then somehow reproduced with some fidelity somewhere else. Quantum entanglement doesn't allow such straightfoward possibilities. Instead it offers correlations that are stronger than would be possible with purely classical means. If this answer is frustrating because it doesn't match your intuition of what communication is - welcome to quantum mechanics! You just kind of have to learn the rules of the systems and get used to them. What you can do with entanglement (quite a lot!) is more important than what is "actually" happening under the hood.
Ironic isn’t it? The author complains about people not thinking enough but his articles don’t seem well thought out either. It’s full of reductionism and oversimplications.

Slowing down, concentrating, and having lots of time are definitely helpful for thinking but he implies that it is sufficient for thinking and that everyone has that luxury.

What about people operating under duress like in wars or pandemics? Can epidemiologists slow down while a pandemic spreads exponentially? Can soldiers slow down while they’re being shot at?

I’m pretty sure those people would like to have the space to make better decisions but more often then not, they don’t. Those are very wicked problems.
It’s amazing how much scientific progress is caused by accident.
Exactly - agree a sale price. Then discuss payment. And at that point cash has no benefit to the dealer, but a loan does. So the loan can get you a discount but the cash cannot.
They may also be referring to the McDonnell Douglas DC-X. It flew and landed itself in 1996, but it was heavily based on the 1967 Douglas SASSTO.

Neither project was government funded or ordered. There's no particular reason to think it could have even been built in 1967, and even in 1996 it may not have been possible to land a rocket after reentry. Coming in backwards at supersonic speed is incredibly challenging. Flipping around would have been even more so. Transitioning from supersonic to subsonic would have been a total guess. The DC-X certainly could not have done any of those things.

The OP may also not understand the incredible gulf in difficulty between landing a suborbital rocket and a real first stage. A suborbital rocket doesn't weigh that much more going up than it does going down. The F9 first stage weighs less than 5% of what it has to lift on the way up. Getting a rocket to output 25% thrust is easy; use four engines and turn off 3. You can't just turn off 19 engines; the F9 first stage is huge and needs huge power swings to remain stable.

SpaceX built custom sparse voxel GPU solvers to design around combustion instabilities and supersonic flows around the rocket. Even in the 90s they would have had to make huge concessions for the sake of running 20+ engines at once. There's absolutely zero chance they could have done it in the 60s or 70s.
> This is far from ideal because multiple small engines gives poorer power to weight than fewer big engines

Are you sure about that? The Merlin engine Falcon 9 uses has the highest thrust-to-weight ratio of any rocket engine currently being used, more than double that of the much more powerful RD-180 used on the Atlas V. You'll lose some advantage because structural support and plumbing for more engines is heavier, but I'd expect they'll still come out ahead. The Raptor has been downsized from the original plans, and Musk has said that was to improve thrust-to-weight ratio.
First come first served. In a pyramid/ponzi scheme you get paid by the next fool who invests money but bucket must stop somewhere.
You did not provide one link nor citation in your entire 400-word rant.
I suppose there was a time when planes were as rare and special as rockets are today.
I've always thought that at slow speeds - ie less than 1/10 speed of light, then time can be ignored
Oh sure I'll do that.
You mean predictions that can be tested right now? Unclear why the proposed time horizon is the right one. This standard would have rejected most of quantum mechanics, some of GR, and many other useful theories and explanations when they were first proposed.
Ok sure, so what is it then? The point is you need that unit before you can measure.
I am from Brazil, I've heard plenty of stories of people that bought imported Ford trucks and then are confused when their trucks get impounded because they drove without a license, not realizing that trucks here require a different license unless they are literally car-sized.

Example:
Fiat Fiorino:
https://www.hojeemdia.com.br/polopoly_fs/1.792949!/image/ima...

It used same Chassis as Fiat Uno
https://quatrorodas.abril.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/...

So it was obviously a car, with the rear-part modified to carry cargo.

Meanwhile the 1980s F150: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/89/50/8a/89508a513b5076ef6413543f2...

It is obvious that thing is NOT a car, when you learned to drive in a UNO you can't expect a F150 to drive the same!
Any good examples of how the socket API could have been better if they did stick to the dominant abstraction?
I always say latex just because it makes pedants grit their teeth, and then just for fun randomly pronounce it correctly. A lot of CS people need to learn to chill a bit.
China’s Transition to Electric Vehicles
I'm pretty sure it's when you replace the big metal tube part.
Chinese companies produce those chips, that explanation makes little sense. Rather than the companies "hoarding", it may be they're simply not exporting as much to the US and Europe anymore, for political reasons. Any major company in China is under CCP supervision and towing the party line. It's not like it's a free market where private corporations do as they please.

Turns out relying on a single region and in that region mainly on a single country for producing most essential goods wasn't such a good idea. Especially when said country is ruled by a rival regime.
I mean, all observations involve a subject. The question is whether there are other subjects that can observe an object and reach consensus about the object. If yes, then, in my view, it's objective. If not, then it's purely subjective.

I go for a run most days and my watch asks me how I feel afterward. I don't answer, because I really have no idea whether my "Good" answer one day corresponds to a "Good" answer on another day. Often, it probably doesn't. In my view, talking about subjective well-being is anything but simple.
But it's the right answer for an individual org in that situation.

Of course the correct answer for everyone, in the long term, is to have backups and not pay.
Article doesn't mention this, I wonder if this includes non-European visa-requiring visitors, if yes then do they offer residency?
Yeah, in spite of Google's best efforts to the contrary you can still download maps for offline use.
Why the downvote? This can be bought via biotechnological produced stock in any dietary supplement store and is pretty relevant to the post

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847515/

"Pharmacological studies on Yang and Yin tonifying herbs suggest that Yang tonifying herbs stimulate mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate (ATP) generation, "
The meter - while arbitrary as a UNIT of measurement - is defined. It is the length light will travel in a vacuum in 3.33ns ish. Whereas the unit of happiness has no such definition and varies from person to person.
> >In Europe, they are bound by the same law, so return policies are not something I worry about.

> No, the law does not mandate a specific returns policy. It just sets minimum standards.

If you're satisfied by that legal-minimum standard it comes to the same.
Biology is huge. It encompasses everything from neuroscience to zoography. Somebody could probably make a good case for psychology being under the umbrella of biology, if they were inclined.

I'd guess the replication crisis in biology is not evenly distributed among branches of biology; for instance I guess it's much worse in biomedicine than it is ornithology. And even within one branch of the biology, I expect the replication crisis is not evenly distributed. Studies about the behaviors of birds probably reproduce less than studies about the distribution of birds (particularly since the introduction of photography, which removes a lot of ambiguity from the later but not necessarily the former.)
It is whatever the scale decides it is. A unit of mass isn't anything, either, unless you decide to use Planck units. But we have myriad units of emergent phenomena. This is just on a higher level of abstraction, and so it is harder, but I don't believe it's impossible.
> Someone who doesn't understand finance and doesn't know how to invest is bound to lose the money sooner or later. There is always fraud, there's always wastefulness.

I agree; if you don't spend a lot of time researching how money works, you will almost certainly get scammed. There are so many perfectly legal ways how to deprive a person of their money in a way that seems like investing. And the people who want to take your money will approach you, helpfully provide advice when you ask, get recommended by your friends (whom they also scammed, in a way that is not immediately obvious). Even the serious institutions provide some product that are designed to be bad.

I didn't inherit anything, but since I got my first salary, I tried to save and invest some of the money. Two decades later, I see (with the knowledge I have now, but didn't have back then) that almost everything I did was pretty much guaranteed to make the money gradually disappear. So if I inherited money, but not a very good knowledge how to handle it, it would probably be all gone by now.

The only good investments I made was real estate and bitcoins. Ironically, two things that many smart people on internet are strongly opposed to. If I knew in my 20s what I know now, maybe there were better options available. But all the other options I knew about were scams.
Reproducibility in social psychology is less than 50% [1].

So yes I do think the majority of psych researchers are making stuff up (through p-hacking and other nefarious means) in order to get funding and tenure

1. https://replicationindex.com/2018/11/20/how-replicable-is-ps...
Psychology is to psychiatry what astrology is to astronomy.

Are my ego and id in contention? Is Mars in retrograde? Same effect on my mental health.
There is absolutely no way to understand quantum mechanics without learning the math. All metaphors are faulty and will lead you to incorrect conclusions. Fortunately the advent of quantum computing has made the math quite easy - it's just linear algebra of the type one would pick up within the first week of an undergraduate course. I made a video aimed at computer scientists which you might find useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Riqjdh2oM
> component like corning gorilla glass is made in the USA

Unfortunately, most GG in the world is made in China.

> any low labors cost country can assemble the phone

FYI, some parts of USA had already for a few years lower skilled labour costs than South China.
In Europe, most banks already assume in their threat model that your PIN may be already in the hands of criminals.
That’s why you need a second factor for most bank interactions: a physical card, a smartphone/smartwatch, or a token generator.

At the same time, why should a bank even include a large-scale leak in their threat model? If a leak happens, the bank is doomed no matter what. No one is going to trust them with their money ever again. So from the bank’s point of view, any post-exposure mitigation, such as hashing a PIN, would likely be a waste of money.

Also, most customers are ok with their account being temporarily locked down in case someone enters a wrong PIN more than a few times. No other business gets away with doing that.

I suspect those are two of the reasons why brute force attacks aren’t at the top of your bank’s threat list, which is probably why they get away with four-digit PINs in 2021 and still sleep at night.
Italian is a very approachable language for an English speaker. 6 months of immersion should be more than sufficient to be able to handle some paperwork. Plus, it's Europe. There are tons of people who speak English, and you can easily get an interpretor or bilingual lawyer to help you with things.
Ubuntu certified system runs on AMD R1000 as low as 6W
>Additionally, Google doesn’t have a particularly good track record when it comes to maintaining projects.

This is not a great argument when talking about a Free Software project. Flutter is 3-clause BSD licensed, so even if Google abandons it, it's not like it suddenly traps all the applications built on top of it. If the toolkit code was unusually difficult to maintain, then sure, you shouldn't use it.

The article seems to hint that Google might open-core Flutter like they did with Android, but I see no evidence for this. Hell, even Chrome, technically an open-core project, is more or less entirely usable as Chromium (the Free part of Chrome) and projects exist specifically to remove all remaining Google services and telemetry (e.g. Ungoogled Chromium). If Google made Flutter practically unusable without other proprietary components, then yes, Google abandoning it does become a risk of using Flutter. However, I don't believe this to be the case.

Applications looking out-of-place on Linux is not something Google invented. Linux does not have a common look-and-feel, nor is there a single point for theming to occur. Even concepts like the window decoration, once exclusively the property of reparenting window managers, have been totally encroached upon by the window toolkit. So adding Yet Another Toolkit to Linux app development is not any more of a harm than the current situation already may be.
> I wonder why we don't see articles questioning if biology is a science.

Simply because we can't question the results of the field: medicine, vaccines, etc. Whereas for psychology, I fail to think of a single tangible result.
That why I mentioned Bazel, once monorepo reach certain size you need to invest in right tooling. What people do instead is splitting into multi-repo and keep using the same tooling. By splitting repo you exchange easy problem of scaling tooling for very hard multi-repo/micro-service/coordination. IMO, the biggest problem with splitting repo is Conway Law, once split you change important dynamics of product development.
I often wonder about things like this. It reminds of Tullock's spike:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike
I think in some sense you can split economics as a field. There's the part that deals with mostly mathematical rules - these are things like the supply and demand curve and what they imply on a system. Then you have the part that seems to study human behavior and tries to somehow quantify it. And last, you have what I'd call politics (political activism?), where it's about trying to justify certain political decisions. Sadly, these are all mixed together.
I mean, from a technical level, it’s hard to argue that playing a single voice, or single hand, requires less effort than sight reading multiple voices or two hands simultaneously.