skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> None of that reflects negatively on the paper.

I think it does. Good papers are written by people who care about doing good research, whose primary motivation is to do good research. Such people will not accept to collude or commit academic fraud to get their papers published, because they are idealistic and are in research because they want to do useful work. To such people, committing fraud is anathema, for personal reasons that have nothing to do with economic or other incentives.

There are such people in academia but they are also crowded out, to borrow tom_mellior's turn of phrase, from others, who don't hesitate to commit academic fraud to get published and who don't give two flying figs about the quality of their own work. This is obviously a concerning state of affairs that can only be detrimental to the overall quality of research.

So I'm sorry but you're dismissing the issue out of hand without having thought about all the consequences. Academic fraud is like, I don't know, broken windows? It just perverts everything around it and creates a black hole of bullshit that sucks everything in it. Good research cannot thrive in such conditions.
I’m confused.

It looks like none of the buying options include the display, just the board or board and enclosure. Is the display on the back side? Just not pictured or listed?

If it has to be purchased separately, it’s not called out either and there’s no reference to which display to buy on the indigogo page.
I think people in the industry are paid based on the potential value they can create (whether real or not), knowing many things or understanding fancy technologies matters little if one can't put them to use for the benefit of the company.
Probably people are honest when they are drunk. There is nothing to argue with any of those comments.

But this one stood out for me!

> Titles mostly don't matter. Principal Distinguished Staff Lead Engineer from Whatever Company, whatever. What did you do and what did you accomplish. That's all people care about.
The way to correct a sure misspelling [strikeout: mispelling] is to post it on the internet...
Probably an unpopular take but cancelling typically occurs in domains that either deserve the maximum amount of public scrutiny such as politics and show business (the reasoning here is that the people who operate in these domains have, always will, and should be held to account for the simple reason that they wouldn’t be in these positions without the inverse, ie. positive public perception—-if you’re not useful, you’re replaceable) or in industries that have a inherently corrosive framework whose success is predicated on extracting a disproportionate amount of value from the those who are doing the cancelling such as big tech and media (no normal person will weep for these people and with good reason).

The only exception here is the cancelling of people with relatively small followings/influence who receive heavy-handed negative attention (like the Reddit bomber or people in academia like the N-word professor) but instances like these are fewer and far between and will probably decline over time as boomers leave the discourse (die).

I used to work at a few big media companies in a position that required a decent amount of public facing and had brushes with this sort of behavior in the past (people tweeting death threats at me, which I just brushed off because I understood what I signed up for and am not naive). These days I work for myself in a “blue collar” industry and mostly ignore social media, so I can’t really be cancelled.

I guess the point i’m trying to make is, if this is something you’re actually worried about, just

1; go work in an industry that lacks the highly educated, overstimulated, and mostly out of touch people that dominate 99% of the discourse but speak for 1% of the population

2; learn how to read the room (ie. listen more and talk less)

Big tech wanted everyone to have a voice and now they do. :)
You are clearly anti-cryptocurrency and there are lots of reasons to have a strong opinion about it.

I explained some of what I meant by "democratization". For another example, people without banks may find it harder to get debit cards to make digital transactions.

The fundamental technology is like giving away the key. The fraud protection and everything is largely there due to the poor structure of the technology.

This was not about BTC specifically so that fee discussion is a straw man.

Being completely immune to trust is another straw man, I never claimed that. But it's objectively true that auditable public ledgers using cryptography require less trust.

You think it's laughable, but that isn't an argument, it's just a baseless characterization.

The fact that a practical cryptocurrency for transactions hasn't been widely deployed doesn't mean that doesn't exist or could not happen very soon or change the underlying technical argument.

The basic idea is that we are not going to give away the actual numbers that enable someone to make a transaction on our behalf. It's just objectively an outdated approach. You suggest something like Apple Pay. We cannot audit the operation of a private payment entity, but it will probably be based on something like credit card numbers or something less secure. And also the principal is the ability to control one's own money and transfer it without a private intermediary.

You just sort of throw out Apple Pay like it's automatically going to be as good as or better than some cryptocurrency without argument. Which is just your bias against cryptocurrency.
I definitely wonder if industry is any better here. At least in academia, the papers are public, so there's an opportunity for scrutiny. But I've heard tell of "AI" boondoggles in both large companies and small. E.g., the large corporate "AI" efforts burning millions without making any real improvements. And I wonder how many startups out there have standards that are in effect lower than academia, but instead of writing papers they are shipping products than harm people's lives when they go wrong.
> That's not correct because the `m` flag gets enabled by the multiline option.

Is this documented? RG(1) only says

-m, --max-count <NUM>
Limit the number of matching lines per files searched to NUM.

Is this a different option or is there an implied <NUM> that prevents 'rg -U ^' from searching from the beginning of the file?
> What's the missing context here?

The missing context is that many women he worked with defended him. That he has consistently worked with, hired, supported, and promoted women throughout his career. That he has done far more to benefit women in science and humanity generally than the whining Twitterati who denounced him ever will.
Building a Raft
Gun Owners and Gun Control: Shared Status, Divergent Opinions
I like it, concise and accurate.
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Display is included in every perk. Sorry for the confusion, will put better pics!
From my experience this is true because the team is so focused on getting the backend business logic sorted out, catering to new customer demands, that they develop new features overnight.

Then just assume the front-end will consume it and output a little, inconsequential DOM element here or there.
A lot of this is described in the book ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by author Professor Shoshana Zuboff[1]. There’s also a good documentary on Netflix (I forget which, I think it’s ‘The Great Hack’[2]), explaining how the ‘Cambridge Analytica’ scandal utilised personal data and more importantly behaviour.

They’re just scarily good at predicting what you are going to do. They’re not listening in. It’s far scarier/more insidious than that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capita...

[2] https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80117542
This assumes that by investigating you will determine the truth. Often times, even if they spent a ton of time investigating, they aren’t going to be able to determine who was at fault.
facts matter more than intentions or narrative.
> It should be extremely trivial to show that some data is traversing the network you fully control.

I obviously agree with you as the GGP, but the logical counterargument would be, these phones upload so much data in the normal case that it's hard to know what's what. And all of it is encrypted with https, often with certificate pinning.

But, well, audio files are really quite large, at least in the quantities we're discussing. And so in order for the data transfer to go unnoticed, the phone would have to be processing it locally, to decide what to upload. That would be a lot of work, in terms of cpu usage and battery life, and that, again, should have caught some researcher's attention.

Suffice to say, while I don't think any of this is feasible today, this is why locked-down devices and certificate pinning scare me. Audio is expensive, but you can learn a lot with a keylogger.
Have worked remote fulltime for many years, have hired locally and remotely and am fully aware of how competitive it is.

All the justifications in the world about how everyone is doing it does not justify paying people what you can get away with vs the value that they provide when asked to.

Generally most people fail the ethics questions. It's like if you picked up a wallet full of cash and kept the cash if nobody's looking. Sure, it's what most people would do. Sure, it's justifiable. Sure, you're still in the wrong to do so.

So yeah, it's the reality that most companies pay this way. It will also continue to be so if we act like that's okay when it isn't. Engineers need to start asking for what they're worth just like folks in sales and marketing do. Instead we compete with each other and companies divide us and conquer. The truth is that most engineers who are great at what they do are far underpaid, even at standard US wages.

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And just to let people know that it's possible, I have throughout my career been able to ask for more than the average engineer in my position because I have a track record that can justify it and I deliver on my promises. I know exactly how much value I provide and that leaves me okay with asking for more money.

I built an entire new platform and resulting new capabilities for my company that enabled us to land 8-figures worth of new ARR last year and a significant multiple of that in pipeline. I have knowledge that most of the rest of my engineering org does not have and is extremely difficult to hire for. There's no way my company just pays me the going salary for my position in my location.
We agree when it sends like we disagree, and I guess both could have worded it clearer.

I state what I as a consumer expect when shopping.

You state what is actually happening today.

I think we both agree with both points.
I hope HN's default look will never change.
Apparently it wasn't always like this, and it used to be common for junior faculty hires to have only 0 or 1 publications coming out of their PhD program.

Why did the culture deteriorate so much and become so myopically focused on weakly informative metrics like publication count?
My wife works with digital ads - on sale side, not tech - and the products that they offer in terms of geofencing goes something like this: they have a bucket of tracked people that went to a car show or a dodge dealer that they can then push ads from a local Toyota, or whomever her customer is. They further can track and determine how many of those people actually went to the said advertised dealer.

They did a compare for one dealer: out of 150 people that got pushed ads for the dealership 12 ended up buying cars there afterwards - on a higher $ purchase that’s pretty significant conversion.
Do you know this because you work on the model?
always a shock to a fresh undergrad who discovers what they really meant to study was computer engineering.
How to make money in GTA Online?
Value created plus how easy they are to replace (supply and demand).
I do lean more towards coincidence but since then there's been no Trivago ads.

To be honest, the ads on TV are basically on repeat so this is why it stood out so much, the fact that I can practically give you the schedule of ads that I am about to be shown during a break which does not include Trivago is what gets me.
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Author here -- it's intended as satire, don't worry, haha. I know that nobody would ever actually do this so I decided to just lean into it. If I had any real power by which to fix things, I would have a much more nuanced take.
Ah yeah that's it. I forgot you can set up things there after I've installed Dark Reader.

Thanks :)
No, just that they didn’t make them successful. Without the rebels, the revolution would have failed, and even with them, it would have failed if they weren’t numerous enough. I don’t think the air strikes did much more than show some support for them, they were useful and made things easier but not material in its success.
I was told by someone at the clinic that CDC COVID vax cards couldn't be replaced because the clinic is being given one card per first dose.

I'm fine with people avoiding the vaccine and living a life of solitude, but I can't see how they reconcile the half-in/half-out nature of "I want to be part of the herd with my fake vax card but I'm too scared to help with herd immunity."
That's right. Btw, I think the author is wrong. This is not "out in the open" now. It's been "out in the open" since for ever. And those who act all surprised about it are probably the ones who knew it better than most.

I don't mean the author, of course, but he is pointing to some of his own papers as bullshit. Why did he publish bullshit papers if he knew they were bullshit? Or doese he mean those papers are bullshit with hindsight? That, I can understand- "I wrote this paper ten years ago and reading it now, I cringe". Sure, that happens and it's only evidence of the person's progress. But to say that one's research was bullshit in the context of an article that describes academic fraud that leads to the publication of bullshit? That I don't get. Surely the author is not confessing to committing academic fraud himself! I didn't get that from the footnote anyway.
A similar dynamic in mathematics is why I chose to leave academia a quarter century ago.
The Great American Reunion
If you're looking for an alternative, Target's store card also gives you 5% off and it is applied instantly at the time of purchase (you don't have to "redeem" the refund later or anything).
A timer may help.
Decade ago I overnight-primed a $200 power supply because it cut out and needed 1000+ watts for mining back then.

Box had someone's old power supply inside with all the cables cut off.

And it was "sold and shipped by amazon"

Was furious and then really worried amazon would not believe me but they overnighted another one to my surprise.

I mean that's got to be a felony on an expensive item and Amazon has to know who returned the item to them previously?

I still don't understand with all their automation and integration why they do not photograph the item as it is being packed so you know what it looks inside the shipping box and then the outside of the shipping box itself? Just out a camera over the packaging station right over the box.
I just use headerdoc-type stuff. Been doing it for decades.

It works very well, and doesn't really add any overhead to my work.

I write about how I do documentation here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

It's a long read, because it's a big topic.
I won't dwell on the many arguable statements in this post, such as "Most of the forces in the world are willing to be our friends and partners because it is in their interest to do so."

I think the more interesting aspect is how it tries to frame the conversation as submission to the US vs. friendship with China, while diverting attention away from how countries might want to join together because they see China's growing influence within their borders (both economic and political) as a threat to their sovereignty and independence.
The first thing to learn is that there are four types of documentation:

learning-oriented tutorials

goal-oriented how-to guides

understanding-oriented explanations or discussions

information-oriented reference material

https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/eu/2017/the-four-kinds-o...
That’s fine. I’ll tel you how it works: in the USA, almost anyone can run for congress, there are primaries to sort out the top contenders for a general election. Congress people get “unelected” all the time which is how the house changes parties every so often.

In China, you are given a list of 41 names and have to select 40 of them, that one not being picked not getting a seat. Ironically enough, Xi was in that position before but his status as a princeling meant he still got a seat anyways.
> FUnny you leave out the part where he also said if you criticize a woman in the lab they cry...

Do you think women in the lab, when criticized, are more likely, less likely, or equally likely to cry?

Is the scientist’s comment mean spirited, or sexist, or just an observation?

I think it’s important to consider what the intent behind these jokes are. The Wikipedia article calls out statements from 29 other scientists that note how women (and men) were advanced within his lab and outside his lab.

So if this person thinks that the women he’s worked with cry when criticized, so we not want him to say that? It seems more like the goal should be to not stigmatize crying as that seems pretty reasonable for all genders, rather than to stigmatize talking about crying.
The 1970's FT material isn't as funny to me as it was decades ago. Blazing Saddles is like that too.

I'm not criticizing. I can still see genius but I don't engage with it the same way (partially due to raising kids and subsiding into their world).

It has me puzzling why some humor (eg: Monty Python, Marx Bros) seems to retain it's universal appeal while some doesn't.
> People who nearly file their papers (eg bills) nearly are optimizing for retrieval efficiency - of an operation that is actually very rare.

It maybe rare but that fact doesn't capture the probability that the importance of retrieval could be disproportionately high - when you really need that bill, you definitely want it and want it quick.
I've never seen a decent price at a Best Buy. At least here everything is marked up.
> To me, the stupidest simplest solution is probably the most likely - some naive marketing analyst probably just grouped all traffic coming from the same IP address into the same bucket and blasted ads to them based on recent Amazon purchases at the same IP address.

I agree with this as well. I've been living back at my parents house for a bit while I'm between properties, and I definitely see ads for stuff targeted at my parents. Sometimes I worry there might be a privacy breach there, e.g. my Dad has been suffering from a condition recently and I've seen ads for coping with it come up on my computer, most likely based on his google searches or whatever.
> whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure

Yes, and if different parts of an organization don't communicate, then the systems they develop / procure will often be stovepiped.

I have seen this in a UK civil service acquisition organisation, that even lacked consistent shared engineering guidance for the different teams. They did at least approximately follow the same acquisition guidance so there were commonalities with how they approached industry and managed the bidding process.
> When I first started, I was enamored with technology and programming and computer science. I'm over it.

This is the saddest. One more soul taken by the shrinking of the hacker culture.
A number of Chinese companies have colonized that form factor:

GPD: https://www.gpd.hk/product

One Netbook: https://1netbook.com/

Both companies typically launch new products with a kickstarter/promo on Indiegogo, to generate buzz, then sell through retail channels such as DroiX: https://droix.net/ and Ali Express.

Support is ... well, it's what you'd expect for a smallish Chinese company launching via a kickstarter. On the other hand, their machines are fairly well-designed and well-made (for products from a smallish Chinese etcetera): I'm currently running a One Netbook One Mix 4, a 10" ultrabook (quad-core i7, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD) with about the same footprint as an old Asus Eeee PC 1000, but much much thinner, lighter, and more powerful -- it works fine.
Citing "open-mindedness" with respect to migrants as a reason to move to Germany as a researcher unfortunately sounds pretty strange in the current political situation...

Also, funding for research might be increasing significantly, but it's starting at low levels. In addition, funding for education in Germany is way below the OECD average [1], in 2017 Germany spent only 4.2% of its GDP on education compared to e.g. 6.7% in Norway or 6.2% in the USA.

It is also quite difficult to find a tenured position in academia in Germany. You are expected to change the institution you work at several times during your career - for many "Juniorprofessur" positions (equivalent to assistant professor), there is no tenure track, so you have spend a lot of time to apply for a tenured position at another institution during the six years (this is the upper limit) of your employment as Juniorprofessor instead of spending that time on research and teaching.

As a PhD student in CS, the situation is rather good, however. The competition for the best students with industry results in PhD students usually having a 100% paid position (TV-L E13 pay grade, ca. 4000 Eur gross/month, see [2]). However, I have regularly heard recommendations to come to Germany as a PhD students but to leave as soon as you got your PhD... also, in other areas of science (e.g. biology), it is common to only have a 50% or 25% paid position as a PhD student (but you're expected to work full-time nevertheless, of course).

[1] https://de.statista.com/infografik/15423/bildungsausgaben-ge...

[2] https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=t...
This is incredible insightful, and I wish more people thought this way. Computers are just a tool. Sometimes we get caught up in the shiny new toys and pursuit of some theoretical perfection, instead of just getting work done.

I'd bet, for every HN commenter extolling the virtues of some new language, framework or database, there are 10X that many developers quietly hacking away writing boring and ugly VB (and Perl, Java and whatever other languages people consider uncool) code on an ancient MySQL or SQL Server or MS Access database, solving real problems, and getting the job done. Which, in the end, is all that really matters.

(I consider myself a professional, I try to pick the right tools for the job, design maintainable systems, and write clean code, but at the end of the day, I'm paid to deliver value for the business, not build a monument of coding perfection. Life is full of tradeoffs)
When a company get components from China they pay cash, when a person orders something from a Chinese seller they pay cash where is the loans coming from ? Bonds ? they are not at the transaction level

Can you shed light on your statement
Watch for such cost effects when a green energy enters a goldmine phase. There is a Scottish energy economist who, working with data from public wind projects, finds the experience curve turning upward (against lower cost). Also IIRC, at his prevailing rates offshore wind was becoming uneconomical to repair after 15 years.

Edit: I owe a reference for such a claim. See: Professor Gordon Hughes accompanying the publication by the Renewable Energy Foundation of his two 2020 reports on Wind Power Costs in the United Kingdom and The Performance of Wind Power in Denmark ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5mXkYcuzWs
www.ref.org.uk
https://www.ref.org.uk/ref-blog/365-wind-power-economics-rhe...
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