skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Western psychology purports to be "science". That means that results have to be replicable, testable, and observable."

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but the testability criterion was seen as inadequate and was replaced a while back with falsifiability[1], but even that has its own problems.

String theory's claims are supposedly untestable. Is it not a science?

I'm not a physicist, but I've heard there are cloud chamber experiments for which the only observer is the physicist performing the experiment, and are not reproduceable and yet are published in physics journals all the time.

That's not to mention that while many experiments are in principle reproduceable, in practice they usually don't get reproduced, and even if they were reproduced at one point they're not going to be continuously reproduced over and over again by each researcher (who has not the time, education, budget, or interest to reproduce every experiment they've ever read and not yet read but that is still an accepted part of the overall body of scientific knowledge).

Science, just like pretty much every other human cooperative endeavor, largely runs on trust... trust that what one reads and learns is mostly accurate. As skeptical as they make themselves out to be most scientists just don't run out and try to replicate every experiment under the sun or every a large fraction of them. They just trust the results they read are more or less accurate, or expect someone else to catch them.

Back to Western psychology. Some branches of it (like the Cognitive/Behaviorist branches) do purport to be more "scientific", but others like Freudian, Jungian, Humanistic, and Existential and Transpersonal psychology (not to mention art therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy, somatic therapy, life regression therapy, etc) aren't so big on the "science" bit, and aren't so interested in experiments or the scientific method at all.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Mobileye Testing in NYC
Hard to say, very often the sour-cream-and-onion-tiff* cannot afford the same quality of lawyers that the plain-tiff can.

* I don't know what the opposite of a plain-tiff is
No specific employer is obligated to employ a specific employee, but we as a society have an obligation not to allow a slave-wage class to exist. We can do this, but we choose not to.
Well, the license probably requires attribution. Can you point to Copilot fulfilling that requirement?
I think this is a little ignorant of the actual, moment-to-moment realities of working these jobs.

Software development is done from a laptop, in whatever air-conditioned room or office you'd like.

Restaurant work is, by definition, hot, loud, and surrounded by people who treat you like a servant.

You could take two people who have the exact same "knack" for each profession, and one of them would still be much more miserable.

It just sucks more to be in a restaurant than it does to write code. I think that's kind of tough to argue.
I’m starting to wonder if I’ve had a hobby of collecting information and knowledge this whole time, and just now realized what I’ve been up to.

I’m sorry if this sounds like it’s coming out of left field, but I really love you all, for all that you’ve shared with me. Thank you.
IIRC this is partly why node_modules moved to a flat structure
no one I know younger than 40 even knows what http or https is.
Https can also be MITM.
It was found in 2005 that they can take your property and give it to another private party simply by making the claim that its for the public good. This has been used to take homes from people so they can be bulldozed and replaced with new construction, the idea being that the larger tax base is for the public good. This makes the power in effect limitless as you can claim almost anything is for the public good.

A major problem I have with this is appraisal prices often don't jive with reality. For example in San Fransisco houses almost always sell above asking, if the government were to step in and give the land away to a private person at asking they would be in effect getting a discount. Similarly my own home has had a lot of work put into it that doesn't effect it's appraisal price meaningfully, if forced to sell at that price I'd lose money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
does it need to be an app ? The friction of downloading an app is discouraging to try it out.
It's all private code, so I can't give you a citation, but I've often helped junior devs with bugs due to this.

The most common way to get there starts with creating a "bean" object. And then, since it's a bean, it has mutable getters and setters. On everything, because that's just the standard way that people are (or at least were) taught to do these things in Java. And then you ask your IDE to give you equals and hashCode implementations, and yeah sure whatever just use all the fields. And then, later on, you need some sort of lookup table that cross-references the data modeled by this bean with some outside source of information. So of course that's a HashMap. And then you go through your objects and update them all based on that information. Maybe you just edit the description or the lastUsed field, who knows. All sorts of possibilities here. In any case, there's your bug.
"Deterrent value", apparently.
He said them: medical research, and anything related to the internet which is all of the public goods like open source libraries, cryptography, and Ethereum projects like clients, base layer contracts, and other open source infrastructure.
Past related threads:

How-to normalize home volume levels with Node-RED - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349902 - May 2020 (28 comments)

Node-Red – Flow-Based Programming for the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18859019 - Jan 2019 (77 comments)

Replacing a Pool and Spa Controller with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Node Red - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142335 - Oct 2018 (3 comments)

Node-RED: A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495156 - Jan 2017 (6 comments)

Node-Red, a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419984 - Oct 2014 (8 comments)

Node-RED - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310536 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

Node-red, a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8217664 - Aug 2014 (3 comments)

Programming the Missing Links in the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6459564 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)

Others?
The tyranny of scale creates terrible incentives in banking. Someone whose average balance hovers around $100/month might well cost the bank more money than they can earn off the balance, while someone with $10,000 is basically free.

Normally in services you charge more from the people who are more able to pay, because they'll be willing to spend more money for the same service. Yet in financial services and banking, the more money you have to spend on the services results in the lower fees and costs across the board.

I think if there's something that needs to be systematically altered to close wealth gaps, that's a fine place to start.
How is this a justification for paying workers less than a livable wage?
Blue Origin has already flown New Shepard with various science experiments onboard. They've flown it with new guidance systems which they were testing for their moon landing bid which they submitted with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper.

New Shepard can kind of be thought of as a prototype of the second stage to their new (bigger) rocket, New Glenn.

Blue Origin is a serious company and New Shepard is greatly overly engineered for joyrides. That's because the goal of Blue Origin and New Shepard is bigger than just space tourism.
Are you sure? Is this the same FCC that ignored the fact that most of the comments against network neutrality were astroturfed?
Looks awesome. Do you mind if I ask how this works behind the hood? I assume some kind of computer vision ML algorithms are involved, probably GANs? But how are you going from the 2D image to the 3D realm?
Oh man... Deleting a folder with a million files, or even only 100.000 is painful in Windows. You need to use the command line in order to sanely delete such folders.
> Wikipedia as an article on the trucks used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter

Is there a Wikipedia article less likely to be factual?
Justice Department seeks 50-year bar to release of grand jury material
How expensive are they over there then? I feel restaurants aren't best for everyday meals, but rather once a week/month social events with friends/SO. That makes price definitely less important for me.

Also, I consequently completely avoid chain restaurants. I haven't entered McDonald's since 2008 or so.
>the only people that could afford a spaceflight for fun

i suspect the market will be less corporate leaders and more the family of corporate leaders (and saudi royals)
Sounds like restaurants are obsolete if they can’t afford living wages.
> Most countries in the world have state-owned television.
Yes, but not state-owned television almost exclusively. The Orban government managed to buy out pretty much every independent TV channel leaving basically only RTLklub which is free-to-air and available anywhere in the country.

> So many people own smartphones and have internet access. Even older ones, who learn to use them faster than PCs. People can consume whatever media they want. And people can certainly teach their parents how to consume non-government news.

Still not everyone has access to the internet, especially in rural areas. For some people the only news source is television and the radio, both which are predominantly owned by the government.
What you need to create a great freelance network
> When it comes to political decisions, firms lie all the time about their motivations

Of course they're not going to say "we're closing because we don't want to pay our employees a decent wage", that would be bad optics. You can be pretty sure that if you ask employees at the store, they'll say that whatever the stated reason, the intended message from the parent company is "we ain't gonna pay you more".
MSVC has this[1]. .NET code analyzers are also versioned[2].

[1]:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/compiler...
[2]:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/code-an...
RIP Mozilla. It's a shame that at the beginning the browser was pretty good.
According to CGTN a test track was built and tested, but not at a high speed (https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-21/China-s-600-km-h-high-...)
Well sure, at high latitudes and during certain seasons that may be true for higher altitude LEO satellites (Starlink is fairly low), but if we’re talking corner cases, sometimes the surface of the Earth isn’t in Earth’s shadow at astronomical midnight (land of the midnight sun).

Corner cases don’t really count as “frequent,” however.
Why do neutron stars have "crusts", as opposed to behaving more like a liquid?
I found the complains about how reading papers, do literature research, evaluating papers and the field etc., is difficult somewhat amusing. That's actually what a large portion of the PhD education and becoming an academic is about. Yes, it is not easy, if it was a PhD wouldn't take between 3 and 6 years.

Generally, the author makes some good points and there is definitely often a disconnect between academia and industry. I think it is important to remember that science is much more like a directed random walk toward an unknown goal. If industry wants specific answers to specific questions they could (should) finance the studies that provide them the answers. However, my impression is that when industry finances significant studies it is much more toward validating/confirming their already established practices, products... (the topic of these "bought" studies is another can of worms in the topics of academia and industry interactions)
Ask HN: Books on Reasoning about Data?
Hi HN,

I often find myself having trouble making intuitive conclusions about a set of data. An example to make this more concrete: imagine a PM launching a new feature. He/she is presented with a set of metrics regarding their feature and asked to describe the feature's effects on the system as a whole.

I find myself lacking in this critical thinking department and also find the topic difficult to learn about. For example, should I delve deeper into statistics to get better at this, or is that just getting too theoretical and I should be developing intuition instead?

Any books/resources on this would be super appreciated!
I'm not sure if you're trying to be antagonistic with this reply or not. I also didn't feel it was important for me to outline the entirety of the data pipeline -- I merely wanted to point out that FTP is still in heavy use in some industries.

To address your concerns though: meter data is not ingested via FTP. That's done using other protocols. It's transferred b2b via FTP over private tunnels. And you're correct Firefox is not used for uploading data. If it were possible it wouldn't even be a good choice given the volume of data we deal with. It is, however, used heavily for accessing the uploaded data by Operations and other teams.
Sounds like its time for them to raise prices past what they deem to be a reasonable rise. Other restaurants in the area will likely do the same, and not pricing yourself to match can cause a drop in business as people seem to think the more they pay the better the quality (especially when your service or offering is priced on the low end of the market).

You might look at this and say charging $4 for X item is already at the edge of reasonable, but when your neighboring restaurants are already at $6 to $8 there is little reason to offer screaming deals. Its just a sign that its time to reprice to $7 to $8 for your own offerings, providing more profit to interest the dual owners moving forward. Reducing hours would also be a good idea for a owner operated business like this!
Not at the time, but it seems pretty bad to accuse someone else without checking the tapes and, you know, investigating.
If anything some of the comments here prove his point that those invested in the practise have an interest to protect it and therefore say the author was meditating the wrong way.

It's honestly so weird reading comments like those on HN of all places.
Not everyone has a FTP client installed in the system, or a FTP client that can be launched with the server to open (Windows explorer can open FTP servers but I don't think you could with a link. But I'm not sure).

A lot of sites, especially old ones, are build with the assumption that every browser can access FTP links as you would with HTTP. And so for example a download section is a link to a FTP server.

To me removing it is stupid. Is it a security concern? Not really. Also not having it in the browser will not make security better, a person that needs it will use it with another client. Will make the browser faster or smaller? Not really, a FTP client is something really simpler, and browser have them since ever.
Thanks! That plus one other:

Mysterious DNA sequences, known as ‘Borgs,’ recovered from California mud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27868923 - July 2021 (62 comments)

Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27816108 - July 2021 (40 comments)
Have a master degree but not STEM related at all.
This won't make a lot of sense without watching the previous video for context: https://youtu.be/6RiYXI1Tfu4
I don't think the majority of people actually do a full cost-benefit analysis, in particularly with the way advertising works. And doubly so with screens and the way things have slowly changed to become more addicting. That also assumes that all the costs and benefits are well known.

That said, I'm not sure I would take the Amish lifestyle as well, but it's definitely a close choice and I think they live more intentionally and that's something to be preserved. There are quite a few tradeoffs I would take though -- dropping text messaging for phone calls, for one; changing the way our cities are lighted to decrease light pollution; and definitely decreasing noise pollution.
What is that based on? You actually have access to confidential info and are sharing it on HN?
Yes, I absolutely would put "BCC" in the category of select magnet schools which are appropriate for college-bound kids.
> In my view, preparing food for others is a form of slavery. It's one the most obvious form of social inequality.

This is an odd sentiment, the byproduct of living in economically segregated places. Where I live, an hour east of DC, there isn’t a restaurant in town where someone who worked there couldn’t afford to go there at least on special occasions. I was getting a hair cut the other day, and it turns out that my barber likes the cocktails at the nice restaurant (right on the water) where I like to take out of town visitors. The people who clean our house live a few blocks away. (Although the Fed money printing machine is causing our real estate prices to go up, and causing DC’s inequality wasteland halo to keep expanding outward.)

There is, of course, nothing intrinsically coercive about someone cooking food for the person who cuts their hair. An economy is people doing stuff for each other for money. It’s only in a handful of metropolitan areas where you have outrageous inequality and economic segregation that creates the situation you’re talking about.
Ah, this needs explaining - any tool which can cure can also cause injury. Too much of a medicine will kill.

Homeopathy is useless, which is why you can't harm anyone with it.

Meditation does work, which is why it can also be dangerous.
I use it for....drumroll... transferring files

usually waterfox if I'm only transferring one, something else if I need to do a bunch.
It promises to suck every shred of energy from you in exchange for a poverty wage, and you get treated like utter shit by society if you don't go along with it. I think there are some parallels here actually.
> I think there is some sort of a Tverskyan study to be done here about expected value and perceived risk. Overall for most people the equation is always: (probability of data being mishandled) * damage < time and effort required to maintain my privacy.

It's about security advice more broadly rather than specifically privacy, but you might find the paper “So Log, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users” by Cormac Herley interesting: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
> the rest of their land’s/home’s value will be reduced.

That's part of giving them fair value. It's not just the number of square inches you take, but what you did to the value of what they have left.

That's just calculating money. The real problem is time. They can tie you up in court for, probably, a decade. (IANAL, but I think a determined individual who was willing to spend money on lawyers could do something around that long.)
Sometimes it's some .dll extensions which get loaded into explorer.exe which cause these problems.

I once had a PDF file on the desktop and for some reason this file was causing explorer.exe to freeze under certain circumstances. It's all a big mistery.
Sure, except restauration is one of the most obvious form of exploitation, where one works directly for the pleasure and luxury of one other person's desire.

Most people know how to prepare food for themselves.

I'm not against it, I'm just saying it's an expensive luxury which requires hard work.
Your friend shared top secret nuclear security plans with you?
I would be very careful in comparing what St. John means and what is meant in the Buddhist sense. See [0] for those interested in a brief comparison.

Selected quotes:

"The ultimate end of man for Christians is union with God, while for Buddhists it is Nirvana (complete detachment, or a state of nothingness)."

"For Buddhists, salvation is a privation of individual consciousness; for Catholics salvation is an eternally fulfilling relationship with a loving Creator."

"For both Buddhists and Catholics “detachment” is important, but for Catholics detachment is not an end in itself. St. Francis de Sales preached that man must desire to “possess his soul” rather than allow it to be possessed by worldly things. Catholics pursue this for the purpose of elevating their soul by offering it back to Christ. So detachment is a means to a rich and meaningful “higher awareness” (if you will) that reaches its culmination in seeing God face to face."

So this (temporary) dark night of the soul ultimately leads to a deeper, perhaps more mystical relationship with God.

[0] https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/catholicism-and-b...
A baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a Ponzi scheme
I've been looking for a shell written in a vaguely browser-friendly programming language, knowing a huge amount of the really well discussed platform differences would immediately rear up & be difficult (there are good efforts like Lightning FS[1] to begin to rebuild some fs platform on the web, & the web is rapidly advancing it's own implementations, _yay!_).

one of the first i ran into that i liked was Oil Shell. i recommend the Tour of the Oil Language[2] which recently made the rounds & seemed like a great introduction to the language: it really makes me want to bring shell's cool/friendly way of doing things to programming in general! and Oil was Python... ish. which seemed semi a little maybe like it could some day go ~~somewhere~~ on the web.

the story alas trails off. Oil Language seems to pretty intensely hack up the CPython interpreter, via "Dev Log #7: Hollowing Out the Python Interpreter"[3]. it's been a bit since i've toured the out of this world excellent blog on shell-scripting, posix, languages that is the Oil blog[4], but it has BY FAR the best discussion i've ever read on shells, doing enormous & lovely work to set high level context, discuss shells in general, to detail implementation wins & gains & changes... it hits upon everything, and is fantastically well written. Off topic for the discussion at hand, but seeing the Tour of the Oil Language go by recently really rekindled my love for this python-derived shell, and makes me ever more eager & hungry for getting a shell-like environment running in the web.

But again: read the Oil language/shell blog[4]: it'll totally rebuild how you think about shells, and it's a hugely entertaining technical travelogue!! Wish, like this post, it was more likely to be web-compatible.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@isomorphic-git/lightning-fs

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876140

[3] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/11/15.html

[4] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/
There are no propositions that "we are in simulation" would imply (unless someone fundamentally lacks imagination).

Being "in a simulation" doesn't imply that we're in simulation created by later humans, it doesn't give any indication how fine-grain the approximations are, etc. etc.

"We're in a simulation" fundamentally discard Occam's Razor in the fashion of the belief in God as controlling everything. And thus this belief has the same weight as belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Vault?

“Not on the internet IoT” is basically the domain of either large industrial/commercial entities who already pay engineers to design and operate their gear (and for whom there are a number of viable internal-PKI platforms) or hobbyist tech people who want to do fancy segmentation of their IoT gear (and for whom there are a host of open source PKI helpers).

The general human in 2021 who buys IoT gear puts it on their Wifi and goes back to other things.