skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... campaigned against devices with touchscreens, internet connection, and QWERTY keyboards ...

I dislike touch screen, and I would prefer to use wired rather than wireless connections when possible, although I do want a QWERTY keyboard.

(I also would prefer a different programming language than Python, such as Forth, and would prefer access to the machine codes too.)
Interesting, I'll have to take a look at yubikey. I just installed a Tofino firewall with the Modbus Enforcer LSM between one of our DCS and accompanying SIS systems. We have never had a system communicate process data directly up the networks except through OPC (mostly DA, which is even more problematic for firewalls). Luckily OPC UA is now natively supported on our application, so things are starting to move in that direction.

Luckily a lot of our customers use PI, so we install the PI OPC interface on the application layer and only PI ports need to be opened to the next level.

Even more so the vendor we work with, Emerson, even has IPD firewalls to go between the DCS computers (engineering, historians, operator stations) and the I/O (what we refer to as level 2). The price tag can really jump when you implement all these security features, but an argument can easily be made that it's worth it when you consider some of our customers run batches that can be worth $500K or more per batch.
It's possible for a company to benefit from an M&A deal in a way that is not anti-competitive.

> For Apple and Amazon I don't know where they are benefiting from their M&A (this is likely my ignorance, I would be interested to know).

It's mostly around specific and niche tech in the case of Apple, which is a good example of the above IMO. Unless they involve tons of patents (which is not my impression) they aren't really anti-competitive. Other firms can develop this same technology should they wish to make the investment.
emerging economies don't have number porting?
The Ti-89 has a fairly powerful symbolic algebra system (that allowed me to get through pre-calc without memorizing the identities I would later need for physics and other related classes)

Also there are some IR networking libraries
http://sami.ticalc.org/irlink/
Hmmmmmm (ತ◞౪◟ತ‵)
The state of DCSS is interesting because it's like a software Ship of Theseus. It's been actively hacked (and slashed) upon for so long that it is hard to claim that its the same game, even if the git commit history shows a direct lineage otherwise. Or, at least, the aspects of the game that I once so greatly admired (which I wrote about here [1]) are longer present. Only a superficial similarity remains. A very opinionated group of core developers with a minimalist design philosophy has driven the project for years now, and the game now is not the game I knew.

[1] https://rhizzone.net/articles/crawl/
You can use the same phone number for more than one account.
Uncertainty Quantification
They do, but a lot of people don’t bother and just get a new number along with the new phone.
This paper has not actually been published yet... (The article links to a paper-like thing in "ResearchGate" -- which then suggests it may be published in the upcoming fungus issue of the journal.)

But even that journal came in for some criticism from CNET:

https://www.cnet.com/news/sorry-nasa-photos-are-not-evidence...

The real bugaboo seems to be Mr. Joseph (one of the authors), who has a really bad history of insisting he's found life on other planets, dating back to the 1970s.

https://thenextweb.com/news/mushrooms-mars-hoax-nasa-rover-d...
I call these kinds of games (roguelikes, terraria, minecraft) "learning curve games", because your peak enjoyment of the game is when you have fought your way up the learning curve about halfway. Once you know everything about the game, it becomes boring. And until you get to that halfway point, it's a lot of trial and error (or looking things up in wikis).
One thing covid taught me is , so far online shopping was seen as supplementary to in-store shopping. Websites are designed in such a way that users know what they want. Unlike in-store shopping which surprises you when you go across the aisle. websites are flat out search based. For Local Businesses, there should be a straight out website, where businesses can enlist for a zipcode and publish their catalog so we can find them. But this is a good start for sure.
So then you're up against the halting problem at the "digital border" and you've only reduced the problem to say one in 300 million.

There are many differences. I already mentioned locality and scale. Another is that it's possible to make secure software (aka math) that precludes undesirable behavior a priori, whereas such thing is impossible in the real world.
GCC and LLVM already do this, the idea of what you wrote is still there, if you want to debug add debug info, DWARF exists for a reason.
> 1. If you were a gifted child, what were the activities, games, questions, or ideas that you most loved, or that ignited and really engaged your interest in science and technology?

Free learning played a bigger part than anything else. As in, I just kinda did stuff, got intrigued, learned all about a topic and got more and more invested. It had nothing to do with science/STEM directly. If your kid seems interested in something, let them mentally wander through it. Make lots of mistakes, learn to learn, learn how to ask questions and think critically.

> 1a. Was there any one person who had a disproportionately positive impact on your STEM education, and if so, why and how?

My grandmother spent a boatload of money on positive-minded gifts. She bought me my first computer, but also bought me lots of books, instruments, outdoor play implements, etc. Anything that wasn't "brain junk" she'd buy for me basically whenever she could.

I will also say that I would've never done any of this had my parents tried to push me into it. That's where the free learning comes in. Prior to 4th grade I brought up being vaguely interested in school band, the next week my grandmother set up a clarinet rental and had the forms ready to go for me to join. When I wanted to quit, she said no problem, ended the rental, was happy to wait and see where I'd go next.

> 2. In what areas will science have the potentially greatest impact for the benefit of humanity in 20 years? What are the biggest and most challenging problems to solve just over the horizon?

I would echo the sentiment of other commenters and say you're thinking far far too specifically about your child's development. Your daughter is 4. Encourage her to learn and play.

Basically, I think if you're thinking much further ahead than encouraging your child to enjoy learning, exploring and experimenting, you're probably overparenting. Your kid should like you. Your kid should not think you're pushing them in any obvious direction (other than cultivating them as a human). Be open to the idea that your child might be the next Mozart. If your child is actually gifted, allow them to use their gifts in a way they're comfortable and excited about. They're still a child, which means they sometimes want to play and eat candy and be bored.
I mean, it would help my government better plan health care resources and where they're needed. "Ok, this region over here is going to have a lot of cancers, build a treatment clinic there".
Tusi wasn't Arab, unless you mean Ibn Shatir.
Learning to Build
In some countries you can buy a SIM card, or even a dozen SIM cards, with no more hassle than buying a loaf of bread.
Of course, the canonical work on this subject is Danny Cohen's On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace [0]. It's an informative and highly readable article. My favorite quote, from the conclusion, is:

The "Be reasonable, do it my way" approach does not work. Neither does the Esperanto approach of "let's all switch to yet a new language".

His bottom line conclusion being

It is more important to agree upon an order than which order is agreed upon.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt
Right. That was my understanding, but I now see that there are more ways to understand it. I don't know which is correct, so I wrote a response to moonchild's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27091726
That’s the odd thing though: Amazon has several disadvantages compared to your local bike shop (not being local, not being able to see your bike, not having a human who can talk to you, and not being able to hand you the parts right now). That your local bike shop, despite starting with these significant advantages, manages to be less convenient and efficient for you is interesting and unexpected (and does not bode well for them and others like them).
I think its simply not worth the extra effort.

Most people cant tell the difference between 90% and 99% close to original so they dont need to improve their quality to that point.
Interested question : would those folks be interested in low bandwidth / long distance network over the 800khz band ( Lora ) ?

There is incentive to deploy those network now. A agreement to deploy is all what is needed
( private property style ). Electricity is a plus but that work well on solar too.
How about my Liberty to live my life without being afraid of crazies running around with military style machine guns? And my Liberty to go to church or the cinema without having crazies attacking me with machine guns? The problem with words like “Liberty” is that they mean different things for different people. Your “Liberty” to have access to guns impact my “Liberty” to not get shot by crazy people or people high on drugs.
Anywhere from $50 for a bad rep, $500 for something that looks pretty good, and ~$1,300+ for something that’ll pass for the real thing. (Source: wife is fascinated by the rep industry)
I have not been to the restaurant yet since COVID, but I dislike that too (for one thing, I don't have a cell phone). I think that they should use a slow updating display with the menu where anyone can see (and photograph, if they have a camera and want a copy). It may also help if you can purchase a printed copy of the menu.
The TI-84 is generally considered a very safe choice for exams and standardized tests. Yet, I always had a copy of Symbolic installed on mine. https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/228/22851.htm...
Adidas has unseen Chinese competitor that sells any Adidas made in any size throughout Europe. They advertise with Google but the webshop images are just a couple of pixels too small to do a decent reverse image search.
They challenged Google for a multitude of reasons, one of which being that Google stepped in and forced manufacturers to cancel deals that epic had made to get the EGS launcher pre-installed on phones.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...
Direct taxation.

Run on a road or highway? Pay a toll. Run a container through the ocean? Pay a fee for protection. Want to have nicer neighborhoods with better maintenance? Pay higher property taxes to your municipality.

You can't escape direct taxation. And as long as you keep competition between companies, municipalities and jurisdictions; the system will balance itself where individuals will pay what they are comfortable with by their own volition.

The current system is broken because a small bureaucratic minority has too much power over your own property (they can seize your property/money at random). It's also too easy to get popular votes and people onboard with it (free healthcare for everyone!).
Or could it be that since the farmer was no longer tending to his farm because he was too old, and since there was so little going on there anymore, that the grouse decided to reclaim a great perch with a view?

I once pitched a tent somewhere in the deep forests of Sweden, on a trip with my mother and my sister. I sat the tent up on some natural cushions of dry peat, so the ground was nice and soft to sleep on. As it became darker I suddenly heard a large CRACK about fifty metres away as a big twig was snapped in half. The sound was followed by the deep sniffing of air and loud stomping, so I popped my head out of the tent to take look.

Atop the closest hill was the King of the Forest (that would be a moose), looking like he was pondering some deep mystery while on his evening stroll, his mighty antlers brushing away big branches like they were toothpicks. He wasn't too worried about his surroundings until he noticed my scruffy old head. He stopped dead quiet and opened his eyes wide in surprise. Then he snorted heavily in disappointment, like he was muttering a curse, and then he shuffled his heavy body around and walked the other way.

I got the distinct sense that this proud being had a very sincere distaste for people...
I don't get it either. I do backend mostly, but my main differentiator isn't even functional vs. imperative, it's typed vs. untyped. As much as this take is going to make half of HN throw up, I'll take Java over Clojure any day, and Java doesn't even have a good type system to begin with.

I could see myself being very productive with lisps for small, plumbing-type stuff that you would use Python or Perl for, but in that area the foremost priority is libraries and the ecosystem, and Python isn't going to lose to any lisp in that department, even though I'm not a fan of the core language.
I say more power to them! I really don't understand why some fashion accessories are so darn expensive in the first place.

If all it means is that a few rich folks will feel bad because some poorer people have the same handbag as them at a party, I'm okay with that. They could probably do with being a little less materialistic anyway.
Wait what issue are you referring to? My version absolutely works, it just falls back to making one copy a lot.

In my version the callee can absolutely make a copy of only the modified fields if the function A) modifies some fields but not others and B) doesn't do anything which demands a full copy.

Anyways, discussion on the intent of the article isn't super productive, I wrote a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27091726 which asks the author what their intention was.
In the past, the US has absolutely acted laws that require third parties to respect fee speech of other third parties.
It took me 30 seconds of scrolling and skimming through the README to understand what it does, and

X-Transformers is a re-implementation of Machine Learning Transformers that has been built based on experimental Arxiv papers

doesn't really give any more information than what is already in the README -

A concise but fully-featured transformer, complete with a set of promising experimental features from various papers.

What useful extra information did your sentence add vs this?
Excel-based solutions are almost infamous for being fragile and buggy. Excel itself is quit reliable, but so is javac and gcc.

Low/no code seems like they’ll eliminate some types of bugs but probably not the ones that really hurt (it does what I told it to do, but what I told it to do was non-sensical).
One my fondest high school memory’s of playing Block Dude (TI-83+)
I was able to contact Google, provide government issued identification and they removed the 2FA on the account.

Took about 3-5 days once I sent in the documents.
I've been making software for the agricultural industry for 5 years, and I'm really not sure what to make of this.

The big problem agtech has isn't that we don't have enough "open-source agtech initiatives". The big problem is the divide between 'ag' and 'tech'. A few individuals bridge it well, but for the most part most ag people don't know about tech and most tech people don't know about ag. And often they don't want to know.

The standards mentioned are largely ignored and that will continue to be the case. Public data would be useful, but I don't see it as a game changer.

Happy to be proven wrong, but problems here aren't in tech, it's in the lack of two way communication that lets us apply it effectively to solve industry problems.
That was originally a surprise to Epic. It was just supposed to be a shooter, but then people started socializing in it. Then Epic realized they had a giant social network on their hands.
"it is more about what gets played on the radio. The music is good and new"

But is it good?

That's a matter of taste.
I've been working the entire time and my kids go to private school that is open.
No one is getting mad or feeling bad about fitting a smaller size than they've earned. It takes a complaint for it to be an issue.
Typing python on that ABC keyboard? No thanks.
How many not-otherwise-rich people have primary residences worth $10 million? I'm going to guess "not very many".
How GoodRx Makes Money
I'm glad this got a second chance, because I really think it's a brilliant idea.

I just have a difficult time seeing how it could be cost-effective, without being eye-wateringly expensive.

Being able to detect forgeries requires some pretty intense domain expertise, and that tends to come with a lot of experience and schooling. Those folks don't run cheap. Very often, you need specialists in each domain. For example, you can't have a fashion purse expert determining whether an "antique" firearm (where forgery is a big problem) is fake.

I'd assume the biggest value would be to contract with auction houses or appraisers, where the workflow would be familiar. With regular users, the workflow would be all over the place, and I could easily see the whole thing taking hours, because the user keeps sending cruddy photos in a tungsten light, so the color can't be judged, or the focus is off.

But I guess if it's really just sending links to Amazon listings, things are fairly "standardized," so a number of assumptions can be made.

Nonetheless, this is not my area of expertise, and the OP insists that it is a viable service, making a profit, so I must offer kudos.
I don't put any credence on this. As the authors say this study merely suggests a possible relationship that needs to be investigated in a proper RCT.

What I don't like

1. Passive observational studies only. Therefore a huge risk of confounders (e.g. people who generally live a healthy lifestyle).

2. The effect size is not very large, making it much harder to winnow out confounders.

3. Invariably attempts to 'control' for confounders use simple linear models that that come nowhere close to actually controlling for confounders.

4. They generally only control for known confounders. If there is an unknown confounder it will get through and mess up the results.

5. It is really hard to tell what is a confounder and what is a legitimate node in the causal chain. As a simplistic example consider 'controlling' for lung cancer in a study of whether smoking is bad for you. Of course this would take away much of the reason why smoking is bad for you. You need a proper causal model informed by data - something that is hard to do. See Judea Pearl "Causality".

6. Note the heterogeneity of results. This suggests that things are going on that are not captured by the studies. Note also that the types of mushrooms don't seem to matter - a strange thing if there were some magic factor in mushrooms, given how mushrooms vary greatly in nutrient content.

7. Misuse of the term "significant" usually a shorthand for statistically significant. A very different thing from "practically significant, large enough to matter".
> The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions.

To be clear, we’re talking about Kovid here, right?
is there something you’re trying to imply by saying this?
In Germany you'll get sued very quickly for offering others' copyrighted content, there's a whole industry there of lawyers mailing you that you've violated their clients' (copyright holders) rights but if you pay the around 1000 Euroes "damages" and sign a letter agreeing to not violate their rights again it'll go away. If they catch you seeding/uploading a part of another of their copyrighted content, then they'll ask for even more money.

So if you think seeding is the right thing, you'll probably end up really broke and unable to pay your bills there.

The other side of this are lawyers profiting off people who get these letters and charging money for basically copy-pasted emails on how to respond.
Can you give a short summary of the changes? I'm not familiar with the current state of the game
Bingo. Not sure why every biology/medicine post on HN is unquestioningly upvoted and accepted as established fact by so many commenters, who always discuss the applications instead of the validity. I wish this community of all would know better.
What kind of day rate do you manage to pull?
He is not homeless, search for 250,000 in this very article.
Dunning-Kruger at its finest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

BTW, why use a throwaway just to make a mildly controversial remark? The internet points aren't real. What's the point of anyone using consistent names at all if we use throwaways whenever we say something interesting?
I absolutely agree, but you COULD say one company holding your data is better than lots of them having it too.
My first programs were written using the tree menu of a TI-83. Probably nostalgia talking, but I truly think it may have been the most engaging programming I've ever done.
TI is a parasite on education.
What Is KAVA, Is Game Changer for DeFi?
Thx to you and others for the suggestions (I upvoted everyone and appreciate it). Good point that CUDA is its own world and won't really give me that pure software feel. Part of it might be me getting old and missing the days of my youth where I could code non-stop for a week. Just want to get back into the flow.

I found one of my old File Systems text books the other day .. maybe I'll brush up on that with C++. Defn excited by async io in general, and totally unclear on how that works with modern C++. I guess boost:asio is a good starting point. Appreciate the pointer! In the old days, I'd spawn a bunch of threads but that is definitely old school (gotta checkout coroutines in C++!). I also fell in love with Systems programming in my youth writing socket software. So that is also a nice suggestion.
The problem with counterfeit warhammer figures is that 99% of the players don't care much if its fake or not! Its going to be interesting how it pans out when normal 3d printing can become just as good as their sets.
I actually didn't know that wabbitemu existed. Don't have much of a use for it anymore, but I definitely have it setup on my phone now -- thanks!
Sure. And what prevented Apple from telling those users their security had been compromised?

Not much beyond a desire to not make a lie of their "curated, secure walled garden" PR.
So? There are links to real research papers written by real scientists.
I'm a long time out of the game (PhD in solid state physics in the early 2000s), but the key phrase here is "phase transition". She's making an argument along the lines of:

* MOND is a field-like hypothesis which explains some set of currently-unexplained astronomical observations;

* Dark matter is a particle-like hypothesis which explains a (different) set of astronomical observations similarly

* because of wave-particle duality the field explanation and particle explanation may both correspond to the same thing in two different regimes (one where "wave-like" behavior is the most convenient explanation, one where "particle-like" behavior is, and most likely with the transition between these regimes corresponding to observations at different length-scales)

* this can be analogized to a phase transition in solid state physics

* the people who understand phase transitions aren't working on astrophysics (and the communities largely do not overlap)

therefore it might be that people are attacking the problem from the wrong perspective with the wrong mental models and mathematical tools.

I have no real idea if the argument is sound or not, but it's centainly true that the communities don't overlap much and Sabine Hossenfelder has been one of the most active prominent scientists in her field in terms of outreach to other parts of physics so her perspective is likely to be informed.
Its also restricted there so you can only use 1 per deck!