skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t test the logic without the parts that interpret the logic. Your mock will fail if I change the name of a alias in my query. A database won’t.

Don’t confuse how it’s done with what is done.
I assumed it was tongue in cheek, but the end of the article really convinced me that the author is serious about his ‘let it get worse so it can get better proposal’ stance.

“Widespread fraud would force us to re-strengthen our community’s academic norms, transforming the way we do research, and improving our collective ability to progress humanity’s knowledge.

“So this is a call to action: please commit more academic fraud.

[...]

“Let’s make explicit academic fraud commonplace enough to cast doubt into the minds of every scientist reading an AI paper. Overall, science will benefit.”

Given the number of people in academics and politics and software and just about any field who argue from the ‘let’s burn it down and rebuild it’ position, even if it is satire, it’s basically impossible to tell.
The faculty have very little say in most of those aspects of universities you're complaining about.

The media is just a crazy sideshow that cherry picks a tiny subset of stories to run or people to destroy when it fits the right narratives. When it comes to real scrutiny, I'd say faculty are under vastly more than people in industry. Though yes, google as an entire entity will analyzed more than some random professor. But the rank-and-file professor is also probably in far more constant danger of being ruined than almost any individual in a comparable role in industry. Also more than most businesses that no one cares about.
That's almost an overly-simplistic view on the matter, it wasn't because it's a good idea, just because it's cheaper. American likely would not have any global hardware company like Apple without outsourced labor since the dollar-priced device would be way too expensive for the rest of the world and maybe Americans too. And much of the comfort Americans depend today rely on China's cheap labor (or elsewhere for that matter). When a shared bedroom in SF cost two thousand dollars, most people who earn four thousands can live a considerably comfortable life because they are getting paid in dollars but buying with Chinese Yuan, so to speak. but if they are only allowed buy things made by their fellow Americans, it simply would not be enough.
I find it amusing Australia had a decades long mining boom because of China's appetite for resources but now they hate them...

It's really simple every year the West has a trade deficit and China uses those billions to strategically invest becoming the new superpower.
Sound familiar? It's what America did after WW2.
Very good paper. However, it doesn't overcome the problem of superluminal travel. Rather, one of the problems. There are other remaining fundamental physical issues related to FTL, including the need for superluminal matter, causality violation, the impossibility of accelerating past the speed of light and and a few more. Subluminal warps, instead, can be fully consistent with physics.
I agree, which is why I said the coverage was botched. But even the person I originally responded to said the 'Wuhan lab hypothesis'. Which hypothesis? I thought an accidental lab leak always seemed like valid avenue to explore (my version of the hypothesis), but depending on who you say hypothesis to it means different things.

I think the whole situation highlights the challenges with communication in such a hyper us/them environment with the memeification of out of context quotes. The later is also commonly seen with experts who say something like "you don't need to do X, unless A, B, C occurs." The only thing shown to the masses is "You don't need to do X".
I just generally avoid Amazon Marketplace (third-party sellers) because returns are always a hassle in some way (shipping not covered, out-of-country return center to mail to, no shipping label, need to contact through email, force you to give reason why you want to return even though that is illegal, ...).
For those not aware, China has considerable economic leverage over Australia. Much of Australia’s boom has been due to the massive exports of natural resources to China.

Recently China had been doing things like delaying seafood inspections until shipments spoil. Refusing iron ore and coal imports from Australia.

It’s clear that China is trying to pick off Australia from the Western alliance. Since Australia is uniquely at risk from Chinese economic actions (Highly dependent on China, but China won’t be hurt that much) it makes a great test case for China.

And all China is looking for from Australia is “neutrality”. Don’t align with the US on territorial disputes, don’t back Taiwan as an independent country, don’t condemn China for its treatment of Uighurs.

Australia is right that as long as the Western countries stick together they have the power to check China in the region. But if they get picked off one by one, China will win.
Presumably you're probably filtering out extremely talented engineers that know what they are worth then?
>looking for holidays to book

Well, I assume you weren't looking through an offline printed holiday guide of some sort :-)
If you walk up to someone and punch them, it is reasonable for that person to press charges even though the repercussions may only last a few minutes. The consequence will be more-or-less immediate, even if it starts and ends with a discussion with a police officer.

If you slander someone, their recourse is to sue even though the repercussions may last for months or years. The consequence will not be immediate and the victim may not even have the means to pursue it.

I don't know if there is a good solution to the problem. You are perfectly correct in pointing out that the proposed solution can weaponize the power of the state. On the other hand, speech can, and has been, weaponized.
According to the political compass view, socialism is authoritarian. Not the only kind of authoritarian, but one of them.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/authLeftBooks
My wife, I, and some of our friends have also had this sort of gut feeling. However, I suspect it's a combination of selective memory (how many thousand random things have been thrown at you by advertising/YouTube suggestions in the past couple months?) and data mining being scarily more effective than we suspect.

Maybe the sorts of things or the pace of your web browsing early in the morning indicates grogginess. Maybe the machine learning has even picked up on some pattern like insomniacs clicking on a higher percentage of war and poverty news stories vs. celebrity gossip stories. It's also possible the ML has also used your browsing habits to pick up on the cause of your insomnia, while you think the advertising is due to your speaking about its symptoms.

Also, there's a bandwidth/battery life tradeoff associated with 24/7 sophisticated voice conversation tracking. It would certainly take a lot of bandwidth to send everything to Google, and the amount of processing power to filter for conversations about thousands of potential advertising products is significantly more than just listening for "Hey Siri". This is especially true of the amount of semantic processing to know that, unlike 99% of the mentions of "Chad" in English (and maybe Romanian) conversation, "Chad" isn't referring to the dude down the hall who makes a mean quinoa ceviche. I would expect that the kind of sophisticated processing we're talking about would kill a phone battery pretty quickly, and offloading it to the cloud would cause operators to start complaining about the bandwidth usage. Though, I could be wrong.

Edit: so, I think something spooky is going on, but I suspect that machine learning is sometimes just spookily accurate. I think it's Target that mixes in other coupons with baby product coupons when its ML has figured out a woman is 2 months ahead of giving birth, to make it seem less spooky.
Not an export on this but I heard what blocked a lot of projects based on kindles was the proprietary waveform driver stuff to draw on the displays. Meaning that basic linux had supper inefficient redraw behavior compared to what the eBooks are doing.

What’s the situation here?
> In the long run, if you’re good, they will come around and you can get a better deserved rate.

No. The chances of this happening are extremely low. If a US based company is trying to hire in South Asia, almost certainly they’re trying to keep costs down.

Try to get as good a deal as you can during signing, and then renegotiate after to get an even better deal if you know you’ve provided that much value. Don’t leave money on the table.

The hiring market is insanely hot right now, don’t let it go to waste.
No. You've got a license to use the s/w at best.

The device may be yours, but the s/w is merely licensed.
At worst, maybe you're just a subscriber who owns nothing.

You're right where they want to you to be.
The paper both provides new positive-energy solutions and improves existing negative-energy solutions.
Why not charge it back with your bank?
Even if you disagree with China's view (which is fine), you need to understand it. Rudd's BBC coverage is currently on the front page. You should educate yourselves with one strong view in China right now. (Blanket blocking posts because they link to "globaltimes.cn" is a recipe for ignorance, sorry to say, but it's true).

If you read this article, you will see that it's very rational. If you can separate your (media indoctrinated?) emotional resistance (amygdala processing), you will be able to comprehend China's view. Which (even (no, especially) if you choose to count yourself China's enemy,) is to your advantage.
It's coincidence mixed with him talking about things that interest him, which are of course advertised to him.
Other ways of targeting may yield other results, but surely there is value in verbal keywords as well.

In fact, not only keywords but even by just knowing verbal habits such as phrases used, frequency of curse words, accents, etc, could be very valuable in targeted marketing. The couple who regularly say phrases such as "please prepare the tea, dear" may be better to target different ads to than the couple which regularly say "wazzup dog".
>Some time ago, my wife ordered something from Amazon, and it was reported as “delivered,” but the photo was of someone else’s doorstep.

This happens to me about every third time I get something from Amazon. Fortunately, the wrong house they keep delivering to is in my neighborhood and I recognized it in the picture.

I report this every time, but I don't expect it to do any good.
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My first encounter with an Eliza clone was in the early 90s when the Sound Blaster card I had on my computer came with DrSbaitso and remember spending countless hours chatting away. I was like 10-12 years old and the mystery was real, I poured my life away towards Sbaitso and the biggest frustration was that it would not remember my previous answers. It eventually became obvious that it did not understand a thing I was writing and the questions asked were vague.
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Ah yes, experts in open source... Microsoft
Yes, the sleeping pills are far easier to find mundane explanations for than the Flag video suggestion. Either one individually could be a fluke. But together a pattern is beginning to emerge.
It took me months to get a fraudulent refurb phone refunded. I've also had several purchases where I didn't want to fight just slide. So I stopped using Amazon.
But we're not. All our western countries have, in the past, committed heinous crimes against out fellow human beings. All those western countries admit to these heinous crimes and teach them to our children today. Where are the schools in China that teach of the CCP's own heinous crimes?

If the Westerners have done it before, surely China can do it now, right? That's like saying Israel can continue its campaign of infanticide and oppression because hey, it happened to them!

In Washington State I was educated from childhood for the next decade in the genocide of our native people. I am well aware of our sins. The Chinese people and the world's are lied to, from Tiananmen to Tibet to Taiwan in a ruthless campaign of disinformation that warps the narrative every moment we draw equivalence to such tawdry narratives as US prisoners for hire equivalent to a genocide as large as half (I'm including the numbers for the estimated half-million Tibetans sent to camps [1]) the number of all Native Americans in the US at their height.

If the CCP wins this global narrative we are condemning these people to their erasure forever in the memory of the world. This is carte blanche for these abuses to continue.

I stand with all human beings, everywhere, as my sisters and brothers. May none of them come to harm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_camps_in_Tibet
I really dislike Go, but its creator(s) is more than familiar with language theory, and it is absurd to say otherwise.
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What dimension does thought occupy?
I'm another Instinct fan, absolutely love this watch. Its just the right balance of smart watch features while not compromising on being an actual watch. I think the only real weakness is the Garmin software itself but its still decent.

Sadly most smart watches seem to be heading the direction of just being a tiny phones with apps and crap that I'll never need and the segment of people who are just looking for a few concise features in something durable and stable will eventually have no options
"Incorporated by Microsoft" feels like an important detail to me.
Not signed by the artist you can't.
Well, this trend is more or less everywhere but it's not uniform, some countries have much more extreme "publish or perish" cultures than others.

For example, in Spain practically everything related to the academic career (promotions, salary decisions, tenure, etc.) is measured by pure bean counting. Actual quality doesn't matter at all, it's all about having X papers in Y journal quartile during Z period. Evaluations are conducted by scientists but they might as well be clerks, because there is usually a grading scale on everything saying "each paper in this quartile gives X points" so the weight of the actual opinions of the evaluators is zero or close to zero (even if they read one of those papers and it's total bullshit, the regulations still say that they have to give it X points). As a result, the kind of subtle fraud described in the post is widespread, with most people gaming metrics and trying to publish in the crappiest possible journals that happen to have a high impact factor.

In contrast, for example in France things seem to be more relaxed. I don't know the exact details as I'm not from there, but I have many colleagues from there and I do know that they can actually spend years thinking about very difficult problems, and then publishing a really good paper (even if it's in a journal or conference without such good metrics) and their career seems to be more or less fine. As a result, research coming from France in my field tends to generally be really high quality (IMHO) even though in Spain those people's CVs would be considered bad due to not optimizing metrics.

The US seems to be somewhere in between, China looks similar to Spain, Northern European countries seem to be somewhere between the US and France in the spectrum, and so on.
The lies in science and academia are out of control. Whether its this example, the replication crisis, the funding crisis - the upshot is that we cannot be confident about the 'reality' that is being presented to us.
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https://www.ipcc.ch/
The assumption that the first thing you should do is read the article has never been backed up by any sort of logic. Doing so means that you must trust the metric that is the HN scoring system. A system that can easily be gamed by bots and fake users. As this is an unreliable metric, your behavior is exactly what we should prefer.

You rely on the personal accountability of the peers that you have built up a rapport with to determine if an article is worth reading. Not only should this not be discouraged, this should be encouraged. There should be more ways to easily determine that the people that you have vetted as trustworthy have rated an article high enough to comment positively on it.
Others have pointed out that your main point in negotiation is that you bring $X in value to the company so you should be paid something based on $X but I think there are some other questions to be resolved too:

- Does the company _need_ $X in value? That is, perhaps you're overqualified for the position and it's in their interests to employ a cheaper developer. You might need to convince them that they really do need (and need to pay for) the skills you have.

- Is your desired hourly rate competitive globally? If they're looking at remote developers, perhaps you could be undercut by somebody in India or Eastern Europe or even somebody in your own country.

- What is the position worth to _you_? If you reject their offer, what does it cost you? What's the delta between your current earnings and their proposal? How easy is it for you to find another job and do you expect similar pay?
Why is Chinese repression so much more interesting than Saudi repression? We focus on the sins, both real and perceived, of our enemies; the United States and more generally the Democratic West has zero issue with allying itself with all manner of brutal dictatorships, as long as they do our bidding. I don't think this is a cynical take, but frankly a matter of public record, and ignoring it is to fall for our own propaganda.
I'm sympathetic to this view but, respectfully, it too is a simplification. There are so many factors at play here probably no one person truly understands it well.

Take for example that even if there was labour available at costs close to China within the US there would not be the incredible supply chain in terms of flexibility and speed that exists in China. Something that Apple is trying slowly, without drawing too much attention, to change because being that reliant on one political territory is very dangerous.
Paranoia. Born of an impractical attitude.
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Me neither. The problem is the all powerful government that doesn't answer to the general population.

It's great when they're doing what's best for the majority. But inevitably they start doing things for the powerful minority (themselves) at the expense of the rest.

In a democratic system (which can, in fact, have heavy socialist elements) there are ways to legally and peacefully change the government. The public officials are servants of the people (well, ideally).

In the Soviet/Chinese/other "communist" style system, they take all the power with the promise of bringing true communism/socialism later, and they keep that power and never fulfill the promise. Public officials are strong "leaders" (read "rulers") of the people.

It's not that different from monarchy or feudalism, actually.
Give it a try. Highly underrated as a reading and notetaking device on top of being one of the rare laptop with eink screen that you can buy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27323631
This struck me mostly as tongue in cheek, and the the author's main point is the blatant fraud is just the tip of the iceberg, the subtle fraud is happening under the surface and affecting almost every field.
Yes, but that ‘observing’ is not the same as what science calls ‘observing’.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322020
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Could you expand on what you mean by "West Korea"?

Thanks!
Did you verify that the drives holds 2 TB of data? From Wish.com I wouldn't be surprised to order a 4 TB drive and get a fake 2 TB drive that actually only holds 500 GB.
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> a description of humans being human...

Precisely. There's some sort of "if you have authority you must be better than me" feeling and "better than me" admits no flaws or human variety at all, apparently. Some folks want perfect Gods to follow and keep failing to make them from people made of meat.
I think the argument against it is that social aspects matter to some degree but the drinking scene in college is literally and figuratively toxic.
Do you know of any historians or academics who base their analysis of politics and economics on the political compass?
Please. Not every remote hiring company works this way.

There's great examples like Basecamp where they have a fully remote staff paying 90th percentile of SF wages.

Some companies cast a wide net to get the best talent.

There is nothing wrong with voicing displeasure against companies who cast a wide net because they're cheap. Moreover, if companies are trying to skirt around putting money back into the local economy and employment taxes, let's not do business with them anyway.
Don't think that you're worth $40/hr, know that you're worth $40/hr. It sounds like you're unsure, and any good business negotiator is going to pick up on that and use it to their advantage.

The way you know is to get paid that much already, or to have multiple firm offers for that much from other potential employers. If neither of those are true, then you don't know what your value is, and you're negotiating from a point of weakness. If you can't reach that level of confidence, then the next best thing is to find out exactly what the job entails, and learn what the local market pays for that skillset. If you bring extra skills, point them out and use them to bring your price up. If you bring only a subset of those skills, use that to set expectations for future rate increases when you can prove you've added value.

It sounds like you're guessing as to your worth, and negotiating based on the pay you want. Do the research, get competing offers, and know what you're worth. Be prepared to explain to a potential employer how you arrived at the number. It's the only way to get paid fairly.
2FA has become the bane of my existence. I hate it and would very much like the ability to turn it off.
I live in house that was built in the 13th century (also in Tuscany), which isn't typical, but as far as I know the building isn't of any historical significance whatsoever.

I'm no hurry to have it submerged, but I can see how various past administrations didn't think much of doing so. For a more striking example, after the second world war there was an effort to empty out the inhabitants living in precarious conditions in prehistoric dwellings in Matera (and those are almost ten thousand years old).
>There's some quip about lack of evidence not equating evidence of lacking.

It's not, but the burden of proof is still there. It's up to the claimant to prove that some activity exists, not for it to be assumed to be true and for others to prove it's false.

>But more importantly: at some point the quantity of individual anecdotes, along with the technical ability and interest of the parties involved, become data in and of itself.

Ever heard of the saying "the plural of anecdote is not data"? I think this applies here. Specifically, I think this sort of phenomena is highly susceptible to publication bias/p-hacking. ie. you only remember/hear about all the instances that confirms this theory, but not all the instances where nothing happened. With billions of facebook/google users worldwide, and dozens of possible "topics" being generated per day, I'd expect millions of anecdotes to surface just by random luck alone.

Finally, if we're going by "a lot of anecdotes is proof in and of itself", what does this say about other paranormal phenomena? eg. ghosts or bigfoot? Those have a lot of anecdotes as well.
You need to lay off the Peter Watts.
> All our western countries have, in the past,

"The past" being 2020? https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/immigration-dete... Or 2018? https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzj8z/social-workers-forced...