skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I do peer review, I don’t think of it as providing free service to the publisher, but as providing free service to the scientific community. I’m indirectly paid to do so by my employer. IMO employers of scientists should strike deals with publishers to get compensation for peer review from them.
But Hossenfelder doesn't propose abandoning dark matter; this comment seems like a mischaracterization of her position as stated in the original post.

Rather Hossenfelder suggests that both dark matter and modified gravity may be necessary, with each being relevant in different situations due to some sort of phase change (?), noting in the comments Khoury's idea of superfluid dark matter (although I'm unclear as to whether that includes modified gravity?) as one example of such a theory.

Edit: Oops, misattributed & misdescribed superfluid dark matter
Has China bothered seriously looking for that, or are they happy to distract by pointing the finger at Italy and making the argument over lab escape? I keep reading reports that China conveniently threw away all their wastewater samples and respiratory samples. I don't see much of an effort towards studying their farm animals or tracking down the bat origins.

There just hasn't been that much of an investigation. China seems to have done enough to provide an air of cooperation with WHO, while not producing anything solid.

For their domestic consumption they've also accomplished their propaganda goals. The global scientific community (outside of fringe articles like here) has generally dismissed the idea that it came from a lab, which China can amplify in front of its population. Then they just muddy the waters with the idea that it came in frozen seafood from Italy and they can move on. There's no incentive to investigating the zoonotic orgins.

And its the same thing here in reverse. Politically we just get articles like this to get people very made at China over the lab release hypothesis, which deflects from our own pandemic response.

Politically there seems to be very little will on the planet towards finding a zoonotic source.
Beavers can change landscapes. No tools needed.
Cyberattack that shut down US pipeline is ransomware, company says
Yes, we have about 8 weeks off in France by law. I feel it could be 12 or 15 and it would be great (what children have at school, at least)
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I'm slightly biased (as the creator of BlockStudio), but I think Scratch/Snap are basically graphical editors for textual code. They solve a different problem (preventing syntax errors) than what BlockStudio is aiming for: using an extension of Graphical Rewrite Rules for programming, with an emphasis on making it accessible to beginners.
There is something about this scientist's style of writing I like. She conveys complex ideas, gives details, and keeps the reader engaged.
Bookmarked.

EDIT: And looking at the non-mobile link I realize now it is a transcript. So that crispness in writing came out from essentially a lecture. Nice.
yeah, this is a problem i've solved by learning what brands are internally consistent with their sizing. i know my size in Levi's, and as long as they don't suddenly start making 36/32 jeans fit differently than they used to, i'll keep ordering from them without having to worry about fit.
Even on desktop, the mobile link is better (opinion). :) ...Unless you like a narrow column of text on your 1080p or wider display.
First edition Harry Potter books are worth thousands of dollars?!? I’m assuming that’s only in mint condition but wow.
I’m concerned about the Linux Foundation being involved in all these projects. I expected it to be an organization dedicated to Linux. But it seems to have expanded to a myriad of different spaces and it’s endorsement is often used to legitimize really bad products, ideas and initiatives (look at the finops nonsense).

Can’t they just be stewards of Linux kernel development and focus on that? If there are other initiatives just create other foundations or redirect funding to those areas.
This paper is just wrong, lots of other people have also done this calculation and shown that it's off by multiple orders of magnitude. Robin Hanson claims the particular error is the paper's assumption of zero pressure: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/03/what-holds-up-a-north...
I wonder what percentage of luxury goods are fake on Ebay? In my own experience, 100%. The sellers are not even apologetic - they take your return, issue a refund, and immediately relist the item.
Wow. I worked in an agtech startup and this is exactly how it went. Hopefully your comment stays on top for others to read.
Often yes they do get assigned the copyright for the article.
What are EXE files made of? [video]
Definitely a quagmire but there are some things you can do.
Some helpful tips

Not every code is pretty so it should make for an interesting learning curve.

Walk through every line of code and create your own documentation using something like this - https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/writing/beginners-guide-t...

Break down the problem into sub-problems. YOU CAN use user stories if possible to understand the business logic.

Talk to your manager and set expectations. It seems they have given you a task that might be more than your currently knowledge set. It could a learning opportunity or a roaring disaster. Either way make sure you tell them what you can do right now and what may take you longer to do.
Yes -- the paper is just wrong, lots of other people have also done this calculation and shown that it's off by multiple orders of magnitude. Robin Hanson claims the particular error is the paper's assumption of zero pressure: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/03/what-holds-up-a-north...

Note that what the paper refers to as "gravitomagnetism" is more commonly referred to as "frame-dragging": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-dragging
Conversely, there are foods like bread & pasta, which you'd think are part of a Mediterranean diet, not included in the list. I think that list should be renamed to something like "Low-carb Mediterranean diet may prevent..."
You can try datatau
It evolved at least 5+ times completely independently in nature in coronaviruses (and in other viruses).

The significance is zero. Nature itself knows how to figure it out.

> but rare among such viruses in nature.

This assertion is false. It is common among betacoronaviruses in nature, not rare. That was the point of those two articles.

We have even found two sarbecoviruses now (directly related to SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2) in bats in Thailand which have an FCS.

It points literally 0% towards lab origin.
I wonder if this could be solved by a sort of collective contract:

A university (and its faculty) sign a contract to publish only in open-access journals. But the contract doesn't actually go into effect until it has signatories of n% of top universities (ivies, UCs, etc).

Therefore, the awful transition (of an individual university being disadvantaged) can be alleviated. Once the contract goes into effect, the pressure is directed towards the other party: those who don't publish open access will need to justify it.
Curious why you got downvotes - there actually is evidence for the AIP diet and using it to control some auto-immune disorders.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/aip-diet-autoimmune-pro...

This place is strange at times.
Show HN: My Hacker News clone (redesigned)
Hi everyone,
I've made this Hacker news clone just recently using their official Firebase Api.

It's completely client-side rendered using React JS, with no additional libraries or add-ons (used useContext hook for partial state management), except that I used React Router for app routing.

As for the styling goes, I've used vanilla CSS and tried to keep the UI as simple as I could, and to stay away from looking too flashy, with little or no animations at all. I added the dark mode for easy night time reading.

Let me know what you guys think about it :)
Seeding copyrighted content? No, not legal.
The author doesn’t consider that some of the “Gen-X” PoV was out of naivete. I’m using Gen-X out of convenience, as HN has peolple of all ages that remember the good old days.

Software engineers never united or created any meaningful professional organization, so it let the organizations with the most money create platforms. To SW engineers, “union” or “trade org” was a dirty word even back in the late 90s (I remember vividly arguing on forums even then).

Today, it’s the FAANG companies that dictate things these days, which unfortunately includes the worst of the worst.

Gen-X was also naive, because it never considered that the internet would become so ingrained or essential so quickly; indeed, it was more incremental until the iPhone and Android.

Therefore it also never seriously considered bad actors manipulating walled gardens and creating echo chambers, as an open internet meant that ideas (including bad ones) would flow BOTH ways.

Finally, it never gave any credible thought to what a a highly accessible internet would do for local/regional/national journalists. This above all else I feel hurts us the most, because it lets bad actors get away with so much.

So if there’s one thing I feel we must solve first, it’s to help revive the journalism field; and I feel ongoing help from software engineers (as a whole) is a must.
No one sets up a site begging for funding specifically for janitorial supplies, either. It’s fine to choose not to open that door if retaining the control of general pool is preferred. But it leaves human heartstrings untugged and opportunity for “crowdfund energy” donations uncollected. I hope that tradeoff pays off for them!
You've used the word obvious several times, but strong political opinions and conjecture underlies every aspect of this response. Debt-based economy does not obviously refer to the fact that the dollar is printed by the fed. Your response also doesn't really address how it saves us from the debt based economy that we all have no choice but to participate in. There is no debate about whether sovereign currencies will continue to be maintained by governments. They will, and they will use their military might to protect the sovereignty. Your position here is akin to saying that if I park all my money in gold, I am no longer a victim of the debt based economy.

I don't know if the gradual, typically controlled and predictable inflation of fiat currencies is worse than constant value fluctuations due to speculators in cryptocurrencies, but that's obviously for each individual to determine for themselves.

I am also curious, is it impossible for new BTC (for example) to be minted? Is it possible to change that? My understanding is yes. If so, it sounds like someone could play the same role as the fed there if they really wanted to.

And what happens to the value in the event of a fork of BTC that attempts to make BTC actually useful as a currency instead of just as a commodity? Is this an additional vector of instability in the value of the "currency"?
I've wanted to dive into FPV drone flying for some time. Finally pulled the trigger on the components I needed to get started...controller, transmitter, goggles, charger, battery, BNF drone. I did this online because it seemed impossible to sort out locally and the prices I did see were +30% or more in price.

Somehow in the process I goofed and ordered batteries with the wrong connector (xt60 v xt30). I spent this morning trying to find other batteries or an adapter in the local metro area.

- There are ~8 hobby stores within 50 miles

- None of them have any stock info online

- I called every one of them and nobody stocked the battery I need, nor an adapter.

- I can go on Amazon, GetFPV, HobbyKing, ReadyMadeRC, etc and find the exact parts I need.

In the same vein I've noticed is that many of the traditional sporting goods stores have basically become clothing stores with an online store for everything else.

Too bad I haven't figured out how to trust random extensions or I would consider using something like this.

All of this said I used to work at a local computer store back in the 90's and can imagine just how difficult it is to run a local store that competes with Internet-based stores.
At high levels, when a Tactic is to hoard certain cards, so that no one can “counter” your deck.

Never mind things like a black lotus which is over powered but still legal due to rarity.
The point about peeking at the holdout set is fine, I guess. But then the slogan should be "models without a truly blinded holdout set are statistical fiction." Prospectivity doesn't do any work above and beyond blinding there.

I already addressed the point about distribution shift above. You need to assume that the past reflects the future at some point, otherwise you can't justify deploying the model even after the prospective test.
But why would a grouse, a shy wild bird, go smell some dying person inside a house and then fly onto the roof of the house to mark it out? It has no reason to care, and even less to stick around.
Have you tried YUMI? https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

I've used it to successfully boot into both Windows and Linux. Although it's is only available for Windows, there seems to be a Linux counterpart as well, which I've never tried out: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-u...
Anarchism means 'without leaders,' not without society.

Actual anarchists are generally interested in how to design a society that can function at a high level without leaders. This usually involves some mix of process and committees, with some serious thought about how to handle delegation of decision making without concentrating power in too few hands.
Similar information is in the book "The End of Alzheimers".

https://www.amazon.com/End-Alzheimers-Program-Protocol-Cogni...
Something that other people haven't mentioned yet either is just how much more oily French press coffee is, I think for many people trying to drinking multiple French press coffees per day will result in heartburn and an unsettled stomach.

Personally filter tastes much cleaner. I still like French press, I just disagree that it's somehow better than well made filter coffee.
If liking freedom and democracy is ideologically charged for you we might just not be able to find common ground for a discussion here.

Have a nice day.
You must be absurdly exceptional at whatever it is you ARE good at!
Also stores offer more services. When I buy a pair of jeans the person in the store will adjust the length so the jeans fit my odd lenght. I bought a watch yesterday and it cost me $60 more in store than online, but in the store they helped me change change the size and if I have issues with it I can drop it of in the store and they will send it for repairs. Just more convinient for me than figuring out how to safely submit it myself.
> I've heard this story so often that if I just say "the fisherman story", most people know I mean this one.

I almost posted the "parable of the stonecutter" too.
It is orthogonal to this discussion, but had Windows NT offered a serious POSIX environment I would never bothered with Linux to start with.
Sanitizers have the ability to bring Rust-like safety assurances to all the C/C++ code that exists. The fact that existing ASAN runtimes weren't designed for setuid binaries shouldn't dissuade us from pursuing those benefits. We just need a production-worthy runtime that does less things. For example, here's the ASAN runtime that's used for the redbean web server: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/intrin...
Thanks for checking it out!
You're right that a browser-based app is not the same thing. At the same time, as an individual maintaining this entire thing, I can't invest the time and effort to port this to multiple platforms, whereas this format enables it to be used by people on (self-reported) laptops, tablets, as well as desktops.
Why are you assuming that the primary health benefits in the mediterranean diet come from omega-3 fatty acids? They could just as well come from oleuropin in olives / olive oil.
Choose React
Choose React. Choose a framework. Choose a bundler. Choose a tool chain. Choose a fucking big bundle, choose dependencies, configs, minifiers and virtual-DOM tree shakers. Choose Gatsby, Next.JS, Nuxt, Flux and Redux. Choose fixed immutable idempotent operations. Choose a starter pack. Choose your Bootstrap theme. Choose CSS-in-JS and matching emojis. Choose a three-part grid on server rendered JSX in a range of fucking kubernetes. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck the maintainer is on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that standing desk watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing code reviews, stuffing fucking catered food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable rent-controlled condo, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose React . . .But why would I want to do a thing like that. I chose not to choose React. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got vanilla JS?
I went to Ontario (California) for a consult gig. My host asked what I wanted for dinner and I suggested tacos. So he took me to some mall, with the fanciest Mexican resturant I've ever seen -- and all these really cool looking people in the outdoor seating, with fancy drinks. I said: "Ali, fuck this place. let me try" -- then we poped to this place: Fredy's Tacos (https://www.yelp.com/biz/fredys-tacos-restaurant-ontario). My guy was a little nervous to get in there. Tacos == BOMB!; Tortas == AMAZING!!! And the beers (Pacifico) were in a cooler outside the counter area, so when I said "un otro" the cook (Fredy?) just pointed like "get it yourself". `11/10 experience, muy authentico
My cat's anti-snake protection manifests as an extreme hatred of earphone wires
> At the time, CD-ROMs spun at slower speeds with data transfer rates of below 1 megabyte, which made the CD-ROM less useful than it might have been in later iterations.

It's all relative, I suppose. Around the same time I had Debian (server) installation that took up less than 40 MB of storage. Nowadays, the kernel itself is larger than that.

Those "slow" CD-ROMs were still an order of magnitude or more faster than the most common alternative, floppy disks, by the way. Not to mention that floppy disks were notoriously unreliable. It was always a challenge to find enough working floppies to be able to install the "A" and "N" disk sets required to get a (minimally working) Slackware box up and running!

I think the first CD-ROM drive that I personally owned was a "4x" drive which, if memory serves, would have been ~600 kB/s. A "standard" 3.5" (1.44 MB) floppy drive might have been able to read data at, what, maybe 25 kB/s at the most?

Nowadays, when I boot a live CD it's almost always over the network (via PXE) -- at 10 or 40 Gbps -- and the entire thing gets copied into RAM before being launched...

It's interesting to think about but it's impossible to imagine how many of today's "hard (upper) limits" -- and which ones -- will seem absurd and completely miniscule in another 25 years or so.
>In late February and early March as the COVID-19 outbreak began accelerating in the US, hospitals and health facilities experienced severe shortages of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. In response, experts like Fauci and the US Surgeon General Jerome Adams advised Americans against wearing masks.

>"I don't regret anything I said then because in the context of the time in which I said it, it was correct. We were told in our task force meetings that we have a serious problem with the lack of PPEs and masks for the health providers who are putting themselves in harm's way every day to take care of sick people," Fauci told O'Donnell.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fauci-doesnt-regret-advising...

He lied. Doesn't matter if it was well intended like he explained later. That's exactly what parent is talking about trust in experts.
That’s what happened to the Loess Plateau afaik. Doesn’t seem that unbelievable elsewhere, I agree.
The gravitomagntesim (note: this effect is more commonly known as "frame-dragging") paper is just wrong, lots of other people have also done this calculation and shown that it's off by multiple orders of magnitude. Robin Hanson claims the particular error is the paper's assumption of zero pressure: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/03/what-holds-up-a-north...
Phylogenetic Assignment of Named Global Outbreak Lineages
But can it explain how a financial institution can reliably send me a 2FA passcode in a few seconds via email, but a message from wife in the other room can take a couple of hours to arrive?
TFA - The fucking article
> Apparently it was a prix fixe multi-course meal arrangement, and you get whatever you get

I find this unfathomable. What if you have allergies? I guess just don't eat there. But the server assumed you knew? Wild.
The French Laundry was only $250 back in 2017? No wonder it was booked out forever, they could (and I believe now are) charging easily 2x that number.
Curiously, I have a cat Brownie who grew up feral in the high sierras and appears to have subsisted on snakes as food/prey. They're still his favorite prey.

Instead of startling, Brownie the mighty snake hunter reacts to cucumbers as: FAVORITE FOOD.

He gets a cucumber almost every day. He hunts the cucumbers, drags them to his lair, and consumes them leaving only a small trail of seed viscera behind in his cave.

He's been doing this before I knew about cucumbers scaring cats on internet, and I think lends credence to the hypothesis that cucumbers trigger a "snake recognition circuit": a cat raised to see snakes as food rather (vs the inborn threat response) reacts to cucumbers as food!
The copyrighted journals do a terrible job curating articles, something which has been demonstrated repeatedly by people who managed to get utter nonsense through the peer-review process. I have seen Springer editors introduce spelling, grammar, and factual errors into published papers. Never in my career have I seen an academic publisher add any positive value to any part of the research process or community -- at best all they do is put their own worthless name on a journal, and at worst they have negative value.

University administrators, grant-writing bodies, and others pressure professors and graduate students to publish with specific publishers. It is not because those publishers are more trustworthy; it is simply inertia, institutional tradition, and credentialism. It is the same attitude that leads some companies to turn away candidates who never completed a bachelor's degree. To give an example of just how bad this situation is, we sometimes hear complaints about people citing the IACR eprint version of a paper rather than the "officially published" version -- not because they are any different, nor because there is something better about the official version (in fact the eprint version typically includes details that are absent from the official copy), but simply because European universities use citation counts to judge professors and only consider citations of articles published by specific publishing companies.

Academic publishers have raised their fees even as their costs have greatly declined. The number of journals that are actually printed and distributed on paper has been shrinking, and the cost of distributing over the Internet is almost a rounding error. Yet in that same period of time the publishers have increased subscription fees to the point where some university systems could not justify paying for the subscription. These companies have outlived their usefulness and they know it -- now they are trying to extract as much money as they can before the business model completely fails.
lol no even a single test in the PR which supposedly fixes this.
Using GDB and defmt to debug embedded programs
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