skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as someone in the system, it's all true and an open secret, everyone knows it and we complain about it over some beers all the time.

But isn't something like this true everywhere?

And blaming the individual is futile. I like Scott Alexander's Moloch [0] concept more useful. If you apply a high standard against your own research regarding thoroughness, not overclaiming etc. never looking at the test set etc., you won't beat the benchmark, which contains entries you know are too good to be true. But if you don't beat them, you'll get rejected. The pace is extreme, lots of groups work on very similar things and it's a race to publish very similar stuff first. As a PhD student you need publications. You are in your late twenties, early thirties, you can't afford to lose several years.

The big lie is that there is so much discovery happening as suggested by the thousand upon thousands of papers at big conferences, most of which is never really engaged later on. We have to pretend that all grad students in every group can contributing some actual valuable, bulletproof novel thing to science every few months and pretend that you can have multiple papers at conferences while remaining painfully critical towards your own work. I mean how could it be that people happen to always find something that works out in the end? How can people sit into a project at the start of the PhD and immediately crank out a valuable novel contribution? It isn't realistic, but we have to pretend because this is the background assumption behind a PhD. But the current state of affairs is inflating away the value and prestige of a PhD. It means less and less because everyone knows that it's not just a measure of scientific research skill and knowledge.

However, what people are suggesting, namely making it less based on peer review and more on some social media like system is also misguided. It's like the instagrammization of the field: the sexiness, the dopamine hit, the celebrities.

But this isn't specific to AI or CS or academia. This is how humans are. It's how status hierarchies are always gamed. Think office politics, actual politics, dating.

Atvthe same time actual AI methods are really getting better, it's not a lie and not just hype. It's actually quite paradoxical how well the system works despite the flaws. Vision algorithms work really damn well, its very obvious to anyone who remembers the pre-2010 times. Perhaps there is somewhat of a stagnation in the last few years but also a lot is happening in smaller niches, as the big deep leaning ideas are adapted and applied specifically to particular tasks. The methods work, but the literature is distorted. You need to be an insider to know what to actually believe.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
I'd like it natively since my RSS reader has an internal web browser that doesn't support browser extensions which I would otherwise use here.
Pfizer’s conduct endangers the entire world
Considering the Overton window, the argument could be made that today's "right of center" would have been considered dangerously extremist by the right a few decades ago, and that growing extremism is causing previously right leaning groups to apear to "change sides" and "ganging up" when they're not actually changing their stances at all, they're reacting to what they perceive as growing extremism. When a minority group gets more extreme, it appears to people in that group that everyone else is moving away, when in reality, it's them that are actually shifting beliefs.
The nature reserve with a 500-year plan
> Brush your teeth for 3 minutes in the morning and in the evening. (apacare site)

When do you do it though? Doesn’t it undermine the brushing if you eat or drink coffee within an hour afterwards?

Or does it not matter and you brush first thing in the morning?
It actually contains good advice. If it's not relevant to you, move on.
You're not supposed to eat the xylitol, just get it onto your teeth. So use xylitol toothpaste.
Running the 1G Analog Phone from 1997
Even though I appreciate the origins of "informatics" I prefer "computer science" nowadays because the word is less loaded in Germany. I feel like in the US there is more appreciation for CS. The word "informatics" has already been taken over and devalued by clueless business people like "IT" before it.
There's another solution: give up on academia.

The model of academia works well when some part of society is willing to fund researchers spending time on open-ended basic research, even if it produces no results. Saying "Don't engage in unethical behavior" is well and good, but if the incentives are towards unethical behavior, you shouldn't expect very much.

Academic funding and employment is very closely linked to the number of published papers. The article says that a grad student who publishes three papers a year is a professor's dream - but on reflection, it should be clear that this is not because three papers a year is necessarily good science, it's just a good metric. The professor's lab looks good for publishing so much, the professor can ask for more funding from grant agencies, and the student is likely to get a good faculty job which reflects well on the professor.

So it's extraordinarily difficult to stay in the field, have a well-funded lab, hire enough grad students, and get tenure if you're optimizing for the quality of your science over the number of publications. The "publish or perish" culture (literally, in at least one case, it seems) isn't driven by the practitioners; it's driven by the requirements of getting grants and getting academic jobs in an increasingly competitive market.

Now in some fields you do need the facilities from a university to do your research, but for CS in general - and especially for AI - you'll be just fine in industry. All you need is a pile of cloud VMs, and industry can get you that. Perhaps you also need interesting data and real-world problems; industry can get you that too.

Society today underfunds academia and overfunds industry. You, the individual researcher, are not going to be able to fix this. Go where the incentives are better aligned for you.

(And if you're a Ph.D. student who sees no future in your life after being complicit in fraud, please, please reach out to industry. Your prior publications are nowhere near as high-stakes as in an academic job; you can contact the journal, get it retracted, drop out of the program, and have a great life ahead of you. What saddens me is that the student who allegedly took his own life was probably so deeply surrounded by academia that he didn't know there's a world who won't judge him for having one fewer paper on his CV and will even look on him positively for reporting fraud and getting his advisor into career trouble.)

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That said, my argument is undermined a bit because the papers OP denounces have coauthors in industry. So I don't have an answer for why those coauthors went along with it.
There are also 3rd party companies that are similar to PO Boxes, they scan the outside of the mail. Then you can tell them if they should open it and scan the insides. This can be useful if you plan to move as a PO Box you need to visit.

I plan to set one up soon as I am hoping to go digital nomad in the next year or so and do not want to be tied down, but still want a fixed address, that is not my brothers house.
>You can tell they're increasing the scrutiny on drivers as well with them having to take photos of the delivered item, and they've clearly always been closely tracked on time and location.

Not really, I'm currently living out of an apartment with a mailroom and it seems like half of the orders are correctly marked as "Left in mailroom" with a picture, less than half the time they actually put it in the parcel locker, most of the time it's just dumped on the floor even when it would obviously fit, and when it's not marked as "Left in mailroom" it seems that delivery drivers are exploiting the fact that they don't have to take a photo if they select "Left with receptionist". We don't have a receptionist, so every time they select that not only do I have to try and figure out where in the mailroom my package is, I have to do it immediately because now I have no clue if they correctly put it in the parcel locker where it's safe or if it's just lying in a stack of boxes out in the open.

Not to even mention all the times packages are marked as delivered the day before, presumably to hit some delivery quota. Currently if you open up a case with Amazon for a package marked delivered that you haven't received they make you wait at least 2 days because odds are it's still in transit.
Based Gardener's Stream of Growth
i have a question. What about "right to be forgotten" ? if doxing would be illegal in future, would that mean the crony capitalists like google and facebook would decide declaring your old photos and "stupid" past as "too important" and just like your AFK history is written and unchangeable.
The endgame will be that only rich people can afford justice once you need to finance the real consequences and the due process and everyone and every procedures involved. Really, sometimes, I believe the only winning move is not to play.
Well, from what I know about them anyway.
Or rather you'd never had known about it. Much worse things have happened in private companies, only a few of which ever make it out in the press.
Sure, or this is what came out of an effort by some startup to monetize existing ML technologies in a low hanging fruit use case of generating a deep fake. Might not be the revolution we're all waiting for.
> It is cheap and easy to set up a blog on your own custom domain.

And no one needs Dropbox, because everyone can easily set up some rsync and ftp server
Show HN: Tubenotes.xyz – Annotate and Loop Videos
I have a mental debate over "The Congress" being the best film I've seen in the last 10 years. There is so much there, I find new incredible mental gum with every re-watch that occupies my mind for days.
Wasn't there an auto-GDPR clicker extension to help us get rid of them?
does it get to how syncing would work in the tutorial itself?
Cool post but kinda dated.
It's not wrong as such but of it were written today I would expect a lot more context and depth around various aspects.

E.g. Apache Arrow.

E.g. Julia's constellation of different dataframe (Tables.jl) libraries that are mutually compatible.

E.g. efforts at standardizing dataframes in python.

E.g. tidyverse etc in R
http://archive.is/a9oS7
Hi I’m the creator of Big Mail. As the subscription is sold and managed by Apple we’re bound by the App Store terms and conditions (things like refunds, liability, etc)
But isn't there textfield for you, where you can specify your specific reason?

I mean, I am not sure, if anybody ever reads those, but you I would not have to lie this way.
How is it possible that professors with impeccable academic credentials get fired for jokes nearly instantly [1], yet this student's professor was allowed to carry on until he resigned two years later [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Tim_Hunt_contro...
[2]
https://eu.gainesville.com/story/news/education/campus/2021/...
Does the question not become redemption from what? There are individuals who support X or support Y - but in the modern era to some group of people support for either of those letters is abhorrent.

Today people are 'cancelled' for holding certain political views. Perhaps in the future they're cancelled for having eaten meat, or spending money in a communist country. What about holding stock in Nestle, or perhaps at one point in time supporting a (now disgraced) cleric. The nuance is rather important - the world is neither black, nor white.
>But the best results are what matters.

Not the kind of cherry-picking condemned here, which is more like your drug killing 90% of the animals it was tested on, and making a small difference in 2% of them, and you present it as only that 2% ever happened (and thus represent 100% of the cases).
Product Not As Described.
(It was described as the actual product, not as a counterfeit.)
Whenever a teacher got stuck trying to explain something I always jumped the opportunity to do it for them. Since I just learned the subject myself I understood how one could fail to understand it.

edit: of course there is also something to be said for surrounding yourself with knowledgeable people if one wants to learn something. (as opposed to oblivious teens)
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing Omega Mart would want to experiment with. Though perhaps they might feel an AI would be overkill this case…
Sorry for poor explanation, basically I want to build an app for managing trigger action plans: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wJutA2czyFg6HbYoW/what-are-t....
The idea is that, when I'm first implementing one I'll want to review all the ones I've just made each morning till they're a certain level of automatic. After that, I'd want to make them less frequent, say every other day, and then continuously decreasing as I get better and better at doing them. Vaguely akin to spaced repetition.
You're going to sue me for running, in my head, the program "if misbehave, then boycott"? Because that's all it takes to be a member of a "mob". Or you're going to sue me for passing on information of <misbehavior>, even if it's true, because you're afraid of being cancelled? That's a fairly horrifying dystopia you're painting.

Nobody has to incite a mob. It just happens. It's collective action. There's no one to sue, unless you feel like suing everyone.
I ran into these issues in an adjacent field a generation ago. Many candidly spoke to me about having to be a ‘team player’.

This is all due to the criteria for survival and graduation. Let’s be honest, not every idea will work and this does not reflect badly on the researcher who came up with it. But the only way to graduate and put food on the table is to keep getting funding through novel papers that have great results.
For you fans of Phabricator macros, you can still get your meme hit on GitHub using https://gitme.me !
I see no true Scotsman, am I right?
Either way, even if the problem will be solved it will be the small guys who get screwed. The top dogs have built their careers on this bullshit, now they pull up the ladder and would want to make the playing field harder for anyone else.

Typical strategy also with startup companies that skirt the dark gray zone of the law when they are small, but then when they extract enough money, they suddenly demand regulation so the rest of the up and coming are smacked down.
Moral of the story: any public interfaces should be peer reviewed by various stakeholders if possible :)

If no one is available, stepping away from ones own work and reviewing it with a fresh mind can have a similar affect
“A Scanner Darkly” captures a moment in American drug culture intersecting with the cult of Scientology very artistically, in my opinion.

“Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said” is among Dick’s peak stuff, too.
Interesting, if todoist has tags then I could probably do it like this by just syncing the python script and having it do things via todoist API
That's how it's spelled in spanish. (I live in Sydney and am learning spanish.) I did however find the inconsistent use of "." and "," for decimal point unusual..

I got hugely into architecture about 20 years ago, and it was my favourite building in the world. I'm a pianist, and for a while back then had a regular gig playing piano in the restaurant near its centre. I'd often look at the ceiling while playing—it was like being inside a giant typewriter—and think how lucky I was!

It's priceless. It's impossible to imagine Sydney without it.
IPFS for storage, the blockchain for verified immutability
this is amazing to see something like that.
While it's certainly aesthetically pleasing, personally I find the link text too low-contrast. I think it should be slightly brighter.

I normally prefer and use dark-mode UIs, but this one is actually slightly harder for me to read.
I presume the “their” and “them” in this comment refer to third party sellers, which could be anyone. I would rather order from the brand directly, or Home Depot or Best Buy or any other established business that does not try to pawn me off as a customer to someone else.
It’s addressed in comments on the page. The author does not want to get sued by a large company over a chrome extension, not worth the risk.
This wikipedia article is not very accurate. In Hungary "informatika" is usually used only for primary/secondary school subjects covering every-day IT tasks like document editing, typing, or sending email. The most commonly used names for CS courses are "számításelmélet" or "számítástudomány" which translate as "theory of computing" and "science of computing".
I know just how you feel, being from Australia. I'm often a little envious of other countries having such rich and meaningful heritage surrounding them, it can be harder to feel grounded in a country so young.
The Future of Journalism: War Stories
Where do you get uncompressed, drm free music?
No need to get rid of good tools, such as teapots.

But PGP is simply not a good tool.
Last theory I heard it's why we have depressed people and asperger/autism: all qualities fitted to perform some edge functionalities (being alone at night, extreme dedication to problem solving,etc.).

Anyway, seriously: just because our genomes stir us to it doesn't mean it's good for the individual.
I’ve specifically programmed stuff like that. Very specific specs are given to the devs to show a close button after a certain amount of time, only showing back/next buttons after a certain time/event, all mangled with deliberate tracking scripts that capture all of those user events.

It wasn’t necessarily to increase clicks, but more so to prolong time on page, and sneak in more ads in between their browsing.

When we were done jamming all this in, our boss took a look at it and said ‘increase the time before the buttons are visible, and show one more ad as well’. Relentless.

Tracking the user and showing syndicated content/ads is more profitable than just charging them a flat fee for many businesses.

The user experience did not matter at all to the stakeholders.
Are there any negative side effects from this procedure, short term and long term?

How frequently does it need to be repeated?
Those are not describing a process you can go through - they are telling you manage your robots file and handle your own content security if you own a site, or talk to the site owner if you don't own the site, and then gives very narrow conditions about removal if you cannot get the site owner to control the content.
When you mentioned infinite structures, I thought you'd bring up the idea that our goal to automate often pits us against problems defined as collections of infinitary instances. I don't think the potential infinity of tapes and running times poses as much of a concern by comparison.

Maybe computer science is about giving, to borrow a little bit from Hilbert, finitary representation to infinitary structures. (Finitary representation with other properties of interest, such as tractability and whatnot, of course.)
A native looking webpage for a native looking app :-)
There are large and finite structures in mathematics that would be very odd to call computer science. Take group theory and, say, the monster group [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group
Good. At one point they will transgres the threshold of acceptable behavior or we will get used to them so much, we'll figure out ways to bypass them.
okay, I can work on getting a local version working. Would it be all that much harder to have the text file already be on the site (since I'd be the only user?)
Faunna – Esports Wagering service (open mailing list)
I play video games and I am inviting you to be apart of our "Early Birdies" mailing list so that we enter our beta, you can also be a part of it.
I would find that horrible. In normal times, I'm most definitely often not at home on Saturday and Sunday. As it happens, I live in a relatively rural area but I absolutely expect deliveries to be left at my front door without me signing for them except for the very odd high value item. If I had to deal with drop-off/pickup arrangements for every order, I'd use Amazon a whole lot less.
Ask HN: How would you build and host a CRUD app for a small charity org?
Hi HNers, I'm doing some volunteering for a charity org right now, and the problem I've been asked to solve is that their current system of registering users on their service is all paper based. This is obviously making it really hard to stay on top of what data they have (they operate over multiple locations) and to stay compliant with all the relevant regulations (ie. GDPR).

So they need a simple CRUD app that their charity organizers can log into and submit details of the people who use their service. They also need to keep records of which people have attended sessions that they run.

My first thought of how to build this would be to start them an AWS account and use RDS to store the data, and then write a simple API app to perform CRUD operations on it which would run on Fargate, then serve up a static front end to call the API.

I was wondering if anyone has any better ideas that I might have missed? I'm used to working full time for large tech companies where hosting and maintenance are just a normal part of life, so I'm aware I might have a blinkered view of how to go about this. They're a charity with no full time tech staff so maintenance needs to be minimal, and the cheaper the hosting costs the better for obvious reasons.
> . If you have a way of detecting a good song, or at least filtering out rubbish, then you can generate thousands of attempts to get the good result.

So often the filtering technique is a human in the loop, manually going through the output. Humans become the hidden, undifferentiatable and undisclosed loss function.
> Efficiency is not important at all when you talk about a mathematical proof.

Precisely, and that's the main difference between computer science and the rest of mathematics.

Typically CS cares about the process to find a result, and not just its value nor the possibility or impossibility to find it.
Depends on what industry you're talking about. Those that publish are working according to the same practices. Google, Facebook et al. need to pass peer review too and they care about papers as a dick measuring contest.
Best thing to do is buy straight from manufacturer if possible require insurance on the shipment—that way the post has to deliver it or they are paying you!
What are these better tools?
Decrease JavaScript app size by 33%
This is something coming in a later release (Groups)
Yeah I remember that I started reaching my first CS successes once I knew enough of the mathematics and properties of the hardware to "think like a machine" and was trying to explain some of my peers still struggling how to do a more step by step execution in their mind.

In hindsight it's clear that you dont tell a story when you program a computer or not the way I'd describe my day or teach my kids about a phenomenon. It feels more like unrolling a tape and executing a receipe in the most simple way you can after you built a mind model of the machine. You mimic an actor maybe, rather than imagine an event ?
How to Ask Useful Questions
I had one of those display panels on a rugged Win7 tablet and it was pretty impressive.
Don't you miss anonymity online?
I have had a similar bad time using Phabricator, but I think it was because of the procedures implemented by our customer and me expecting it to work more like Stash/Bitbucket.

Phabricator seems like it was the right choice for many large project, and I’m sad to see it go on their behalf. It won’t sadden me to never having to use it again though.
After a week at my mom’s house I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand
Google Suddenly Flips the Password Privacy Switch for Billions of Users
Why would that be surprising? Processors and ICs contain a lot of analog electronics.
It still does not explain the amount of orders, by far.