skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit flips are guaranteed to happen in digital systems. No matter how low the probability is, it will never be zero. You can't go around thinking you're going to dodge a bullet because its unlikely. If it weren't for the pervasive use of error detection in common I/O protocols you would be subjected to these errors much more frequently.
The design drawings being referenced. Are they public documents, or I suppose I'm asking, how did those engineers get a hold of it? Can I, a public person get it?

This isn't something I've thought about until now, are all buildings' drawings available at some... Central authority, an archive?
Have they made any sort of statement?
Asshole Astrology: Week of 5 July 2021
A great description from the 3rd century BCE:

Now Dissembling would seem, to define it generally, to be an affectation of the worst in word and deed and the Dissembler will be disposed rather to go up to an enemy and talk with him than to show his hatred; he will praise to his face one he has girded at behind his back; he will commiserate even his adversary's ill-fortune in losing his case to him. More, he will forget his vilifiers, and will laugh in approval of what is said against him; to such as are put upon and resent it he will speak blandly; any that are in haste to see him are bidden go back home. He never admits he is doing it; and makes pretenses, as that he's but now come upon the scene, or joined the company late, or was ill abed. If you are borrowing of your friend and put him under contribution, he will tell you he is but a poor man; when he would sell you anything, no, it is not for sale; when he would not, why then it is. He pretends he has not heard when he hears, and says he has not seen when he sees; and when he has admitted you right he avers he has no remembrance of it. He'll look into this, doesn't know that, is surprised at the other; this again is just the conclusion he once came to himself. He is forever saying such things as “I don't believe it”; “If so, he must have changed”; “I never expected this”; “Don't tell me”; “Whether to disbelieve you or make a liar of him is more than I can tell”; “Don't you be too credulous.”

- Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BCE)
I get that. But talk to a female colleague about her experience with it. They get not only the "nerd" label but also the whole "choose something that's feminine, no boy wants to marry a girl smarter than him" thing. It's fucked up.
A temperature below absolute zero (2013)
Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2
Not theft bro

Taxes paid for the research, taxes pay for access to journals (institutional subscriptions by libraries and universities) so the whole paywall thing just feels like taxpayers are getting fleeced.

Make access to journals free and save us all the penny.
It looks like this utilizes Chrome's tab groups, which Firefox doesn't have.
The irony of needing an unlicensed copy of an article to read about a website that publishes unlicensed copies of articles.
My preferred policy would be that platform stores either have to comply with strict regulation or open up the platform.
I'm glad you pointed out video games because that's a great counterpoint.

It just seems strange that with a billion desktops, there aren't a few million who would buy software like OmniFocus or Things if it existed on Windows.

And yeah, desktop Linux is messy.
And here I was thinking they were talking about the adaptation of the Chaim Potok novel. Oh well.

(Great book, great adaptation.)
PID is often good enough and more robust than ad hoc algorithms to do the same.
That’s just it - I loved a lot of boring, dry stuff as a teen too. I went to competitions doing CAD and 3d animation. Some kids will gladly take a school bus for 6 hours to compete in CAD, and that’s fine. But man, if I made my kids do that… They’d learn to resent me pretty quickly.
PID is a damn sight more sophisticated than most datacenter dynamic capacity control algorithms - most autoscalers barely even qualify as ‘bang bang’ controllers - they detect a need for more capacity, and add nodes at some artificially constrained rate until capacity is reached or they hit a max cluster size limit. Even rudimentary control theory is an improvement.

Of course the problem with applying PID to server capacity is that compute resources come in discrete chunks that are slow to bring online (‘computers’) rather than being a continually variable resource.
This is simply not true. The world has changed a lot the last 10 years. In many scientific fields, you are actually expected to publish your "preprint" in the open and also your source code.
Just donated, thanks for the tip! (and for anyone wondering, yes that BTC address is correct, I triple-checked).
That Google does it isn’t sufficient evidence that it’s good.
You're so close! If the majority group and minority group have equal distribution of ability in a subject, why are the minority a minority?

Women are 55% of the population. Why aren't they 55% of tech workers? Why are only the 20% who are really good at it working in tech?

Saying "the minority are always going to be better" doesn't explain why. And the why is really important.

Pro tip: talk to women who would like to work in tech but aren't for an answer.
Parachute pants and perms are peak fashion right now
> most prestigious

The existing "prestigious" journals are prestigious because of the peer-reviewing process. How do we solve this problem with Sci-hub? I mean, you can publish your research anywhere (like your homepage) already if you choose to.
Can third parties (especially foreigners) finance legal battles in India? Can we donate?
Reminds me of my Whitespace Corpus in its organization, especially the table in the README. I cataloged all known implementations of the Whitespace programming language, including interpreters, compilers, and programs. I recorded detailed information about each in projects.json, then generate the table and other documents.

https://github.com/wspace/corpus
I don't know if that's right. It could be but it sounds wrong in that I've never heard of "έξω", on its own, without the possible privative, at least not as a verb (there is a modern noun "έξω" meaning "out").

Also, wikipedia says this about alpha privative:

>> It is derived from a Proto-Indo-European syllabic nasal n̥-, the zero ablaut grade of the negation ne, i.e. /n/ used as a vowel.

But the wiktionary article says this about αλέξω:

From Proto-Hellenic aléksō (“to protect”), from Proto-Indo-European h₂lek- (“to defend”) (...)

Note the difference between "n̥" and "h₂". I don't even know what those are, but they seem different enough that they may be ... different?
Is injecting malware into PDFs still a thing? If so, it could be a national security matter to give people access via a trusted source so they don’t have to go to a grey market to get their research papers.

And I’ll just +1 here that even when I did have access through university, the flow for logging into elsevier was like 8 clicks, and then after finding the paper, the button to download and read it was hidden on the side as an image-button, no alt or title text. Just an image with the word “download pdf”

So yeah, I went to sci-hub every time.
It's ironic and frustrating that the site requires you to sign in to read the article...
> Apple makes everyone use the same app store and web browser, then run ads saying "Think Different"

Ironically, in the case of web engines specifically, mandatory WebKit on iOS is the only remaining substantial resistance against a Chromium monopoly. Safari/WebKit sits at ~18% while Firefox/Gecko has dwindled to ~3%[0]. If third party web engines were allowed on iOS, WebKit's share would almost certainly plummet to match that of Firefox with Chrome and other forms of reskinned Chromium taking its place.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
Similar research from February* (where Pt-Au improves on Pd alone) contains this tidbit:

>Currently, [hydrogen peroxide] is mainly produced by the sequential hydrogenation and oxidation of anthraquinone (AQ). However, this process is not only energy intensive and requires large-scale facilities, but AQ is also toxic.

The new process might just obsolete those dangerous inputs and big plants. But it appears to be so efficient, it also might obsolete competitive purifying technology. I wouldn't invest in any water filter media companies right now, but this could be great for pools, aquariums, hospitals, and municipal water supplies.

* https://phys.org/news/2021-02-synthesis-hydrogen-peroxide-pl...
i wanted links to products that are being used widely, not crypto influencers
You can just publish to a relevant journal, and make the PDF available easily to Sci-Hub. As in, put the PDF on your homepage along with the DOI so that Sci-Hub can easily pick up.
That trend of canceling them seems to be in reversal, at least a bit. https://www.nightjet.com/en/reiseziele
If you don't link to the thread, everyone will prefer to disregard what you say.
What makes you think the reason we can’t handle, for example, climate change is “we are not that intelligent”? I think the reason in this case is quite simple: some people/organizations/governments don’t want to apply measures against climate change because it will cost them money.
Typically approved, permitted plans are public record on file at the local authority (city or county usually). If you have an address you can request access to the plans.
It's disingenuous to suggest that "on error resume next" evolved into, or even influenced, Maybe/Optional types.

The "on error" construct existed in QuickBasic, but it took a goto line number or label as its operand. "ON ERROR RESUME n" would give you a relative line, allowing you to jump n lines down. Since Visual Basic didn't care about line numbers, "on error" took a goto label instead. Visual Basic 3.0 introduced the "on error resume next" construct in 1993 so that the QuickBasic usage could be imitated.

Meanwhile, already Haskell had Maybe/Option types and monadic notation in 1992.
This seems well intended but all I see now is more remote job postings requiring candidates to not be located on Colorado.
I too would love this icon, and would take a PR from teams who can speak to that.

Hard to judge often!
What you say does not correspond to my personal experience. As a single data point, in my research group all twelve phd students and five postdocs use SciHub regularly. Some of the faculty don't know it even exists, others do.
At least for NYC, it's not easy to get, but in theory NYC has records of all buildings and renovations (that were legally done) as they have to sign off on the drawings to issue permits.

I wish it was public, but I haven't be able to find drawings but you can find permit info.
Something I've always wondered is why Alexandra put her name and identity out there. Would it not have been easier to remain anonymous?
Yes, of course.

Do you really think drug cartels need the IPTO? Or that the opioid crisis couldn't possibly have happened if the opioids had been generics?

Who has an IP monopoly on alcohol production? Is alcohol addition a huge problem, or not?

Why do you believe tech monopolies rely specifically on patents and not on massive spending power, political leverage, and other influencing mechanisms?

Do you not understand that if you have the spending power, you can open-source your code and IP without even remotely endangering that monopoly?

The reality is that patents are a relatively tiny element in cost of entry to markets.

It's honestly baffling why the anti-copyright crowd believes removing patents and copyright will be some kind of magic bus ride to utopia, when there is no rational reason whatsoever to believe that.

And none of this has much to do with making scientific papers public domain - because that isn't even the same class of issue.
In the USA most approved plans are public documents, and approval requires code compliance.

Some buildings, like banks or certain public buildings (jails?) don't have publicly available plans.

Some buildings' usage (such as chemical storage or compressed gasses) will require additional detail.
Interestingly etherum also takes the completely different software approach as well: there are 5 different main clients
Cool! Never used bitcoin, but that may be the first time if I figure out how to do it.
PID is poor algorithm in this case because there is relatively large delay between signal to spin up a server and observed effect of it. PID requires a lot of iterations to stabilize, which multiplied by delay will require a lot of time.

A model predictive controller will need much less iterations because it would actually try to predict number of servers necessary based on some kind of model of the server farm.

Parameters for that model can even be learned/adjusted over time, automatically.
From my experience, so-called "knowledge workers" tend to be more introverted than average. Even some stereotypes about different professions (like programmer or biologists) and industries (like finance, biotec or tec-startup) hold to some extend.

Being self-employed may on the one hand worsen your problem: Since you'd be billing your expert knowledge, your clients may challenge your ideas more than they would with an employee. So you find yourself arguing about the best solutions more as well as you might have to verbalise your progress. On the other hand, you might communicate with management rather than co-workers, so this communication might be more concise.

After all, introvert or extrovert, it boils down to culture. Is your employer allowing you to work from home even without a pandemic? Do your colleagues share your values, so that a discussion about progress and best practises comes more naturally? Are you forced into meeting structures you and maybe your colleagues may not find beneficial bur burdensome?

It might sound stereotypical, but maybe you as a quantitative researcher, should consider switching to an industry more focussed on STEM and less on "exploiting" the financial system. This is no moral judgement about the work of hedge funds, but these companies might attract more of extroverts than a typical (bio|physics|...) research company.

One last thing: I consider myself as an introvert, too. And still, I managed to give training and coaching sessions to tech teams. My personal experience and what I observed in other people: Your colleagues do matter. This "culture" thing won't turn an introvert to a party animal, but in the right setting, I was amazed how socialising even the the most uncommunicative introverts have become.
Interestingly, when I was still in university, I never used Sci-hub at all. I can download almost any paper using school's network (or VPN) since the library have subscriptions for basically all the major publishers.

I only started to use it occasionally once I've graduated (but I didn't really do any formal research any more.)
> which isn't anytime soon...

I mean, it depends what you mean by ‘soon’. Infra subsidised today will largely still be there in 20 years.

To be honest, I’m shocked that they’re considering subsidising anything other than fibre at this point.
Fair enough, "eliminated their government".
Smoked. Never tried it sublingually.
The article about the pirate queen is behind a paywall. The irony.
In theory, it seems you can. https://www.buildingrecords.us/blog/how-to-find-blueprints-o...:

“Once the blueprints have been filed by the contractor with the municipality building department, these building plans are public records and technically attainable by anyone wanting to view them.”

That page links to https://www.buildingrecords.us/construction-data/building-pl...
The metaphor backfires because if everyone runs red lights they will collide with one another, as well as with those going through green lights.
I guess progress must be made in small steps... sigh...
as soon as I saw the title I thought, "huh, that really doesn't sound like a good idea". It would likely be over sensitive or under sensitive and likely require lots of continual tweaking with the tuning. Not to mention the discrete step wouldn't be smoothed out till you have quite a lot of server resources in play.
> Mr. Kilsheimer cautioned that it is common in construction for the final product to differ from drawn designs.

Yes, and there's also a decent history of structural failure, or nearly so, from that particular habit.

The Hyatt walkway collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse...) is one of the better known - designed one way, built another so it would be easier and cheaper to build, and nobody thought through the changes in terms of how it impacted loading. Result? 114 dead.

The I-35 bridge collapse was another case of "various safety factors were eliminated until the safety factor was less than one." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge...

> On November 13, 2008, the NTSB released the findings of its investigation. The primary cause of the collapse was the undersized gusset plates, at 0.5 inches (13 mm) thick. Contributing to that design or construction error was the fact that 2 inches (51 mm) of concrete had been added to the road surface over the years, increasing the static load by 20%. Another factor was the extraordinary weight of construction equipment and material resting on the bridge just above its weakest point at the time of the collapse. That load was estimated at 578,000 pounds (262 tonnes), consisting of sand, water and vehicles. The NTSB determined that corrosion was not a significant contributor, but that inspectors did not routinely check that safety features were functional.[126]

There's a lot of redundancy built into modern construction, but if you remove some of it because it's cheaper to build, and other degrades over time from wear, well... at some point, there's nothing left.

It's going to be an interesting report to read, whatever the causes.
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> Ms. Elbakyan attacked me rather hysterically on Twitter when she learned of an article on my site that describes several methods to acquire free copies of scientific articles,

Just looks like an emphatic disagreement to me: https://web.archive.org/web/20200928010251/https://twitter.c..., https://web.archive.org/web/20200928011503/https://twitter.c...

Also, considering the etymology ("of the womb"), your criticism of her replies comes across as quite sexist.
That's great, and easy to do! I have an old NAS around, will try to set it up this week.
This is listicle spam, and the website should be banned from HN for being entirely SEO garbage.
In Montenegro, most ISPs are very asymmetrical. I have 120 mbit/sec download but only 6 mbit/sec upload, the tech is DOCSIS.

One way to get better upload speed is corporate contracts, but they are expensive, hard to setup and availability is limited.

Fortunately, the new wireless stuff is symmetrical. I’ve tried one of them for a few months as an experiment, measured 40 mbit/sec both upload and download, the tech is LTE.
If you have enough of anything it starts acting continuous.
A single particle strike would only affect a single transistor. If that transistor controls a whole column of memory, then sure it could corrupt lots of bits. With ECC, though, it would probably result in a bunch of ECC blocks with a single bit flip, rather than a single ECC block with several bit flips.
Thanks for checking but probably best if everyone double checks for themselves too.
Is it possible to give an example other than “cosmic ray”? I know it’s an informal short hand, but it also raises the question of what’s actually causing these flips.

Is it just random stray electrons that happen to stray too far while traveling through the RAM? Very interesting to me.
Salvador Dalí's Paintings for Dante's “Divine Comedy” (2014)
Nocedal and Wright is an excellent overview and a good starting point. Also consider:

- R. Schneider, Convex bodies: the Brunn-Minkowski theory. The first two chapters are an excellent introduction to convex geometry (plus a little bit extra!) if you have some undergrad-level analysis.

- Hiriart-Urruty and Lemarechal, Fundamentals of convex analysis. This book has been highly recommended to me but I've never used it. Might be an easier go than Schneider for convex geometry.

- Golub and van Loan, Matrix computations. Excellent book on numerical linear algebra.

- Bonnans, Gilbert, Lemarechal, Sagastizabal, Numerical optimization: theoretical and practical aspects. This book has a detailed description of bundle methods, which are important and in my opinion underutilised.

- I. Maros, Computational techniques of the simplex method. This is the only book I'm aware of that discusses how to build a working implementation of the simplex method for linear optimisation.

I'm not aware of any books that cover line search algorithms in detail. These are important in implementations but, beyond discussing the Goldstein and Wolfe conditions, generally glossed over in prose. Even in the absence of stalling and numerical difficulties, you can see an order of magnitude speedup from replacing a bad line search with a good one. One line search algorithm I've had success with is described in More and Thuente, Line search algorithms with guaranteed sufficient decrease.

Lots of tacit engineering knowledge goes into building a fast and robust optimisation code. Some of that knowledge gets forgotten when code is rewritten or ported from one language to another.

Mercifully, a lot of that engineering knowledge has been encoded into freely-available optimisation code. Quite a bit of that code is pretty readable. Off the top of my head, I've learnt things from:

- Liu and Nocedal's Fortran L-BFGS implementation,

- The CUTEst problem collection,

- Chih-Jen Lin's LIBLINEAR and LIBSVM,

- Lin and More's TRON,

- Csaba Meszaros's BPMPD,

- Jacek Gondzio's HOPDM,

- The GNU Linear Programming Kit,

- and probably quite a few other sources!
> win the case in India which would be a useful publicity stunt

It isn't just about publicity, it is also about legal precedent.

In the English common law system, a judge is allowed to cite not just precedent from within their own country's legal system, but also precedent from courts in foreign common law jurisdictions. Foreign courts are not binding precedent, but a judge is allowed to say they are persuaded by the foreign court's reasoning. The propriety of citing foreign court judgements has become rather controversial in the US, but in England and other common law jurisdictions it is an accepted practice which few question.

I doubt a legal precedent from India is going to persuade the courts of developed countries like UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Even though most of those are technically allowed to consider Indian court decisions (as a fellow common law jurisdiction), they rarely give Indian courts much heed in practice. But it may be much more influential with the courts of developing countries in Africa and elsewhere. That's what Elbakyan is trying to do, win a case in India and then use that as a springboard to winning cases in other countries too.
Lots of people upload their research to ResearchGate (even though I really dislike the site for other reasons), make it available from their research group's web page, or in some fields upload it to ArXiv or BioRxiv. It's usually not against the terms of paywalled journals to do any of these things. Google Scholar or even the regular Google search engine can be decent at finding these PDF links. As a last resort, if you're serious about wanting to read a paper, you can contact the corresponding author, who will usually email you a copy and be glad you are interested in his/her work, though this becomes a bit impractical if you need access to multiple references.
You are right. Every app lives in its Sandbox, so it is really not an issue.
>This will be the tech founders dream. No designers needed.

Would it? Designers are a dime a dozen already, and are the least of the worries on a founder's budget.
As a submission to HN, most of the homepage wasn't useful to read. You should change the link to https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html#table-of-contents and link straight to the contents.