skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed this happening in other areas a few years ago, but with faked blogs. The titles and subjects would sound interesting, but then when you tried to read them, you'd need a specialized decoder to get through the utterly baffling word replacements. But they already got their ad revenue by the time you notice the article is complete gibberish.

The first one I found was about dog illnesses. They kept referring to dogs with phrases like "Your domesticated canine," and it was quite a chore trying to figure out most of the symptoms that they were listing. "Heart worms" was translated to "love snakes," which I thought was delightful.
Personally idk if these questions are even worth asking at all. Modern economies are mostly automatable bullshit not worth a constant human attention. The only reason why we have to work hard is that making content and appliances by organized human labor is hard. It’s high time to switch attention from this crappy hamster wheel efforts to humane things.
> third party content generation and paraphrasing tools.

Presumably this is an arms race against things like https://www.turnitin.com/

Empower students ‘to do their best, original work’ and this is what you get. Though what the alternative is, I have no idea.
Director Health Care System of the Ozarks Kelvin L Parks, an Offer
Contrary to what some people might say, there was no zeroth year.
This definition is referenced in the article and is outdated according to newer editions of Fowlers but still the one I go by

http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/FOWLER.HTM
To use it on the web.
You still need a browser if you want to do anything GUI related.
Should I also switch countries? I cant uproot my entire life just to spite google
> That's a completely separate issue

How so? It seems quite related to me. Anecdotally, one would expect a pretty clear negative correlation between torturedness in the sense of this article and indicators of research quality.
So if you had invested 10000 yen per month in nikkei from 1980-1990, where would you be at today?
For anyone that does know Rust, stop here, its more fun finding them yourself ;p

> crates.io - The Rust I/O library.

This is the first time I've heard that crates.io was a lib.

> structopt - A third-party crate that provides an easy way to define a basic struct.

Apparently... you can't define `struct`s in Rust?
Also, the first line of the linked page is:

"Parse command line arguments by defining a struct. It combines clap with custom derive."

Come on, you could've spent the effort to at least read the description of a library you're linking. A copy and paste would've been more correct!

> The playground is an IDE for Rust development

The (rust playground)[play.rust-lang.org] is apparently a IDE now? ~~Don't I wish.~~

> The Rust language requires explicit declarations for types and definitions for actions. __The requirements are more rigorous than C++__, and can involve significant more time and effort to implement.

This is the first time that I found out that `struct`s were somehow more complex than... `struct`s.

> Rust is known to leak memory

What.

The quiz also seems to think that Clippy is somehow a playground specific feature.
Thanks, the question isn't "do they still provide a service?" but "what would happen if they disappeared?"

As you showed, research might be unsettled for a while, but pretty soon they'd just be a bad memory.
You're right; its a ridiculous comparison.

The risks of amputation are relatively well-known and understood.

The risks, especially long-term, of mass, imperfect vaccination, using an entirely brand new development technology; not well known. Not understood. Are there long-term, rare side-effects of the vaccine we don't know about? Will the imperfect nature of the vaccine and its rollout cause wider evolution of vaccine-resistant coronaviruses? We don't know.

Its a ridiculous comparison because one of these things is dangerous; the other has unquantified risk.

That's why "First, Do No Harm" is such an important foundation of medical ethics. We are dealing with systems more complex than you can even imagine; between the human body, multi-human interactions, and planet-scale resource allocation during a pandemic. There is a LOT we don't know.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't get vaccinated. I have. Many people should. The benefits are well-known and understood; they're pretty strong. But it does mean, maybe there's a middleground we need to find which doesn't involve demonizing and ostracizing the people who choose not to. We should be better at understanding each-other, and understanding how dangerous unknown risks can be, especially when we're put into a position of making decisions out of fear.
Nice article, thanks. Reminds me of this Ed Byrne bit, which I've totally forgotten about but always thought was quite funny: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpB0kDLEts&feature=youtu.be
YouTube got unlisted videos thanks to a high school teacher (2010)
I personally commit and push to a branch when I think there's enough changes for someone else to review my work (of course with WIP flag), in case if someone is curious and once any of the changes are ready to be merged (this can be before the review changes), I'll clean up and write nice commits.

I guess it's personal preference, I don't recall losing context, as I don't let too much of time passed. And I actually ensure nice commits are written before code review otherwise it might be harder for the reviewer to get the context of the changes.
You it be faster though? E.g. as a replacement for electron (please note I’ve never worked with electron so I’m using anecdata)
> We got a big bang for the seat belt. But backup cameras cost around $5.7 million dollars in cost for every one life saved.

Where does that figure come from?

Car sellers don't sell OEM cameras at cost. They have a ridiculous markup (between 5x & 10x and yes that includes certification & testing). Your $500 dollar reverse cam is cost at ~$50.

By mandating them, the 'luxury!' margin will magically disappear.
I wonder what would the body of this recommendation be? "Worked poorly by our standards, but maybe will be more enthusiastic in your company. Otherwise great dude (AI-rated at 78% "great" and 87% "dude")"
Consulted at such a place. Entire leadership was eternally gone on "leadership seminars" so entire floors were almost vacant.
I'm also gonna flag this, after careful deliberation. I'm gonna leave a comment, because I'm not the shadow powers that be, I'm just a dude who thinks this is an incohesive rambling that's a waste of everybody's time and, despite the promising title, ultimately rehashed flame-baity non-tech non-news.
On the other hand, two generations would be dead after 100 years and federal inheritance tax is 40% and has been higher and the exemption limit was only about $500,000 up till the 90s, so that return is not so great, mainly because of taxes. If you are a tax exempt foundation like an Ivy League University, it's absolutely awesome though.
Ask HN: Is glorification of mindlessness-as-a-service the right thing to do?
I'm starting to perceive that an increasing number of recent products are selling mindlessness-correction-as-a-service.

Apple AirTag (https://www.apple.com/in/airtag/), MightyApp (https://www.mightyapp.com/) are some prime examples at the top of my mind.

Is this kind of glorification of mindlessness the right thing to do?
Somewhere I still have source for a PDP-11 bootloader I wrote back in the very early '80s. Managed to boot 2 or 3 different types of floppy and a HDD in a 256-word ROM, complete with command line interface. I vague recall a trick where I happened to have 102 in a register (from loading the bus event interrupt vector) and a free shift gave me 204 which was a sector read command for the FDC - that got me a crucial extra word saving I needed, to shrink it from 257 words to 256.
I always thought the term fossil fuel came from Latin fossa, or ditch, trench. Coal being an exemplar.

This probably ended up with its cognate fossil, an item, usually of historical value, dug up from a ditch. Since dinosaurs are represented by fossils, people put the two together.
A high profile case (on the internet) similar to the one described in the article is when Siraj Raval plagiarized a paper on quantum ML and made some amusing replacement phrases:

complex Hilbert space -> Complicated Hilbert space

Quantum gate -> Quantum door

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/14/ravel_ai_youtube/
It’s the URL printed in the book.
Sounds like he believed in The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis:

> The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis /səˌpɪər ˈwɔːrf/, the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language affects its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

> Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.
What I liked best of this scene is how all this truckload of truth was delivered with the guy relaxingly devoring a piece of meat at the office.
Cable, Internet Companies Stand to Gain from Funding in Infrastructure Bill
Ah yes, COVID-19, technical name for a respiratory disease, totally in the same category as Gestapo
I was looking for an old video of Tom Brokaw interviewing Gates and Schmidt, and found this. For a little laugh and innocent nostalgia: Flashback! The Internet In 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A

I watched that clip and my inner monologue was all "Oh my sweet summer child, what do you know of 'The Internet'? "
More to the point - the propaganda that BLM is a "Marxist domestic terrorist group" effectively discourages people from studying the group's actual beliefs or positions.
WASM isn't "assembly" either though but bytecode ;)
Archive: https://archive.is/v9w7D
ah thats much more reasonable. The reviews on this phone are pretty awful although looks like its rather new to the market.

Anyone who comes across this comment use one?
I wonder how much the American Trade War against Japan has contributed to Japans stagnation/"the lost decades".

If I remember correctly then Japan was about to take over the USA in terms of the GDP, but started to become strong in many key industries, and then Raegan, who was running under "Let's make America great again" slogan, initiated the anti-Japanese trade war.

And if I am not mistaken or am not simplifying too much then Trump was even hiring the same consultants from that "anti Japan" trade war to start the trade war with China.
> Most of the money was used to pay the debt from Kirchner's government

Do _you_ have a source on _that_?

Anyway, here's a source [1] for you. It says in the month before the elections, the central bank of Argentina sold over 4 billion dollars to keep the dollar rate at bay (2.7 billion _just_ in the week prior..

Between the "PASO" (Elections where all candidates can postulate, but only those that get over a certain % of votes do make it to the primaries) and the primaries, more than 20 billion dollars were sold in the internal market:

> Desde las PASO las reservas cayeron USD 23.000 millones y los depósitos, unos USD 13.000 millones

(Im' quoting the article here). Where is YOUR source.

[1] https://www.infobae.com/economia/2019/10/31/el-banco-central...
>Those fit on satellites in zero g. The moon has gravity so you support them at an angle you need bracing on something else

UltraFlex/MegaFlex is rated for 3g acceleration on those satellites even when fanned out, why do you think it would have problems with 0.16g? That's one twentieth of what they're supposed to withstand.

>but that doesn’t work on the moon as it hits 260 degrees Fahrenheit in the day

That's just not the case on the Lunar south pole: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/60707425-2...

> Further you need cables from wherever they are to where up your using power.

High-voltage cables are not that heavy.

> Sure, and that worked wonderfully a lab. But, production systems need to worry about a great deal of stuff that doesn’t apply in a lab setting. I don’t mean this dismissively yes I completely agree in theory it could work, but it’s just not working technology yet.

Of course you don't; you're just disingenuously moving the goalposts.
No pedantic comment complaining, that the internet is older and not the same as the WWW? Well, then I am doing it ...

So someone using youtube might be using the www, but is not when using the android app for example. Etc. blabla.

And yes, the WWW is awesome, even though the spec is a wild chaos.
Odd critique coming from the head of a DNS company, that could easily offer a competitive service with MailChimp.

The obsession with class (in the title, and content) and misunderstood genius reads more like within-class squabble than an argument for a different order.

I did some freelance work helping someone worried about Google censorship move their services to more independent alternatives, including EasyDNS. This post makes a lot more sense to me as signaling, in that respect.
> That's all I'll say.

I respect that but I'd wish you'd say more. I have no way to verify who's more knowledgeable about this, you or the person writing the article but as someone who knows a friend of a friend who might be dealing with this kind of problem I'm having trouble finding any real conversation about it. it seems like it's all advertising or armchair psychology when it comes to online resources about this.
Electron is not native. Stop calling it native.
> The paper was not bad but the authors did not know English very well, so it was quite difficult to read. That was its main problem.

This seems to confirm my suspicion than these cases are not so much about AI-generated content but rather a result of machine translation.
> I’ve looked at KeePassXC and Bitwarden. The former isn’t easy to use for sharing and sharing permissions.

For a while, I used KeePassXC work my encrypted database file checked into my Dropbox storage. That allowed me to sync my passwords between devices but not give the cloud provider any way of knowing the passwords (since my KeePassXC master password was not stored anywhere besides in my brain). Unfortunately, Dropbox eventually changed their Android app so that synced files no longer were stored on the local filesystem, so adding a new password from Android or getting the new passwords from other devices would require manually uploading/downloading the file through the Dropbox app. I somewhat suspect this change was due to Dropbox eventually adding their own password management functionality to the app, but I didn't consider that until later, so I'm not sure how the timings lined up. In age case, after weighing my options I ended up deciding to just switch over to Bitwarden. (The migration was extremely easy; I was able to export the KeePassXC database file locally to XML file and then import that into my newly-creates Bitwarden account without any issues).
It's not pedantic. It's a basic software engineering fact. Electron is not native. This is not even debatable.
A successful academic is a successful product manager. Someone like Jeff Huang has learned to make well calibrated predictions about demand for a prospective product (a paper, from a project) in a prospective market (a journal or conference). How do you teach that?

If papers are products, what features differentiate the accepted from the rejected? It would be interesting to have a corpus of papers, where they were submitted, and whether they were accepted or not. Only the survivors are published. What didn't make it? Reviewers comments would be interesting as well. Journals have all this information; research groups have a similar but smaller and biased sample. Opthof, et al, "Regrets or no regrets" [0] is one study on this theme.

A given research project may have expression in multiple papers. A given paper may be submitted multiple places. Researchers would have this. Opthof, et al also looks at eventual citations.

Academics are custodians of their disciplines who are working at the leading edges of it and intersecting disciplines. Grant approvals/rejections will tell you the mind of the market. Colleagues and students will tell you if something is interesting. What other tools could academics use to inform investment decisions?

[0] https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/article/45/1/255/4141...
> Would knowledge in automated theorem proving (e.g. knowing how coq works) be somehow transferable to research in this field?

Possibly.

First, Coq is not an automated theorem proving tool; it's an interactive theorem prover.

If by automated theorem proving, you're thinking of a tool like Z3 or CVC4 which find models of statements in a decidable theory (which are pretty much always mathematically uninteresting), then...absolutely! SAT/SMT are at the core of constraint-based synthesis. Heck, CVC4 has a SyGuS mode that won the synthesis competition one year.

If you're referring to actually searching for interesting theorems, as done by tools like Vampire and Otter, then probably not.

Last month, I was discussing the matching algorithm used in the paper "egg: Fast and Flexible Equality Saturation" with a collaborator. It uses code trees, which I read about a few months earlier in the Handbook of Automated Reasoning. It stands out because I had pretty much never encountered a mention of any of that stuff in the preceding several years.

I touch on this slightly in this blog post, about the benefits of learning Coq towards synthesis: http://www.pathsensitive.com/2021/03/why-programmers-shouldn... . (And the benefits I mention are in understanding the type theory, not the innards.)

> What are some existing open-source program synthesis libraries/frameworks where we can tinker around and maybe make something with it?

https://github.com/microsoft/prose
Sketch: Download and manual from https://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/
https://egraphs-good.github.io/

I searched for a few others, but they're either tools rather than frameworks, not directly synthesis, or I couldn't find a download.

Though I may as well plug my own Cubix framework: http://cubix-framework.com/

> Thanks! I'm super curious about this field and it's somewhat related to what I'm working on so I'm pretty interested to learn more!

Awesome! I hope to see great things coming from you.
They adjust for it in the sense that the value of the index itself doesn’t drop, but yes, Apple’s proportion needlessly changes.
Looks like the outcome of some custom/wild "battery optimizer" logic. AIUI, this just doesn't happen on stock hardware without such customizations.
Also “haze figuring” for cloud computing.

It sounds like something you'd find in 30s, 40s, 50s sci-fi for sure! Like “visiplate” (E.E. “Doc” Smith, Heinlein) for a computer display screen. (Along with ticker tape printouts and tape reels in the far future of course.)
If you have Scheme code that you, for some reason, want to run on top of Java (or the JVM), then Kawa is still relevant. Clojure is similar to Scheme (in some ways, but mostly by virtue of also being in the Lisp family and being a Lisp-1), but is not the same, compatibility with Scheme code was not the intent.
It can also mean we are looking in the wrong places.
This is what happens when white collar crime is institutionalised.

Buying back shares is neither "financial manipulation" nor is it a "white collar crime".

When interest rates are low and you are bullish on the company, it makes perfect sense to buy back shares.
Why a shrinking population is terrible for a modern economy
I bought a bottle of some random scotch whiskey. I t was young and raw but not actually bad. I did a bit of research and it's common for distilleries to sell excess under a popup brand label or sell it for blending.
If we can accept Javascript as bytecode we can accept this as assembly...
There are only so many ways features can be permuted. The I'll defined nature of NN's requires the manuals step because of a neural hash collision.

My challenge to you is this: what stops this system from being abused for non child pornography purposes?

The answer is: nothing.
That's what has people's knockers in a twist. It is a backdoor, invisibly crafted, waiting to be subverted by an abusive power that manages to get into an advantageous enough position.

Arguing that Apple's algorithms are fine misses the point. The behavior should not exist.
> elimination of all redundant forms

Does anything like that exist. Nuances are intellectual keys conceived for discrimination.

Get proficiency over the language, and you will use 'learnings' when you mean learnings and 'lessons' when you mean lessons. It is having mental dominance over complexity. Simplification itself requires that dominance - it is thought management.
I don't think you need big cycles of destruction and renewal like those guys claims.
Perfect example was what happened in Europe when the western roman empire disintegrated.

The whole knowledge transfer chain from master to student got disrupted.
So much so that the institutional knowledge base got eroded and people forgot how to do/maintain products.
Maybe because you a cluster of smaller empires no one could finance those prestige projects, without those big projects
the knowledge transfer chain will also be disrupted.

This me just thinking up loud and accepting the shit I learned 10~15 years ago and haven't used in a long time have simple been forgotten.
Human memory is extremely fragile, so the invention of paper must have been super important to keep those knowledge transfer chain going over the millennia.
Thanks for the link; This was something I wanted to see.

All in all, I doubt that number is entirely accurate. Argentina is a _very_ large country, and even the minimum price varies greatly depending on the region.

I have family in Patagonia, for instance, and they tell me it's impossible to get the cheap milk brand over there.
We do have plans for those but before that we are integrating a few of the regulated European exchanges.
Where's the dilapidation?
Am I missing something or is this actually bad?

> Glenfiddich has sold off spent grains left over from the malting process to be used for a high-protein cattle feed.

This sounds as if the leftovers used to be sold as cattle feed, but now they are turned into fuel. If correct, that's horrible! Valuable protein is destroyed in the process. That protein will now have to come from somewhere else, and that's plants fertilized with ammonia, which is in turn made from natural gas.

Destroying protein is not green! Never! Fueling the very same trucks with natural gas is as easy and more efficient, because it skips the intermediate steps.

> The Scottish whisky industry hopes to hit carbon net-zero targets by 2040.

I'm curious how they plan to do this while burning peat in the production process. My guess is by creative accounting.
These are all eye popping numbers. Somehow the YouTube number is scarier than others. With that much content, how is anyone supposed to find what they are interested in? No wonder YouTube’s algorithm is so bad. Even google can’t do a good job of search and recommendation at YouTube
Isn’t fossil-derived carbon the problem? The whole point is that fossil carbon was sequestered. How does using non sequestered carbon in place of sequestered carbon not massively reduce the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase in the long run?
Nailed it. It’s easy to pick apart the “official” writings of AA since they were mostly written in the 1930s, but the books don’t do justice to the actual experience of someone recovering from alcoholism.
At the risk of stumbling into something terrible, who accepts Javascript as bytecode?
If it were reasonably easy to just replace the existing modules, they coukd have been replaced.

But if you want these specific modules, already integrated into the station, which are an opposite of a commodity, the price includes a significant premium.