skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea true. But most people I think know the Dow is kinda of BS handpicked list. Where the S&P 500 pretends it is the top public 500 companies in the USA. Just always kinda bother me how they advertise it. Most of them will become useless anyways. Firms are going to be using in house index so they don't have to pay the fees. Fidelity is doing this with there free index funds.
It reminds me of scientific an article about Canadian journal publishers are being bought by a shady company (OMICS Group Inc.) so they can seemingly publish whatever they want to.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/offshore-firm-accused-of-publi...
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>Based on price is fine -- when splits happen just adjust the weight by the split factor

It's not fine since companies have varying counts of shares, nevermind the stock splits.

The proper solution is getSharePrice() * getShareCount(). Which is what most other indeces do.
So you would have us call to those who are already tired and add death to their burden?

I doubt it?
Clocking and Scientific Research – Opinions from the Community (1998) [pdf]
ES uses a disk first approach but only on first load, and is smart enough to load similar results for frequently searched items into cache as well. That's why search return times differ significantly between hot and cold queries. This is actually such a problem that a lot of the times in older ES versions you wind up prewarming the ES cache before you can actually let it be used in production. Most alternative search engine implementations and especially in vector based search engines load into memory first when brought up versus at query time. ES still isn't great at this and is one reason they're falling behind in modern search, that and their vector search support is kind of abysmal as of even 6 months ago.
What's the point of this? To waste the time of foreign scientists? Would we call this science warfare?
Interesting thought.

I think energy is least of problems. At the beginning forests provide a lot of energy and would be enough to bridge to industrial times (at least for us).

The real issue, I think, is lack of easily available raw materials like iron, tin, copper, etc. We have depended A LOT on iron practically lying on the ground.

Without having some iron easily available any startup civilization wouldn't know to look deeper and even if they wanted, they would not have any tools to do so.

At least with energy there is multiple ways to acquire it.
> not smoke and mirrors because enough people follow it

There is a lot of empirical evidence around it not working. Flow of funds analysis has merit, but that largely occurs by trading against people looking for constellations in candlestick charts.
To me the internet means an access to information not seen by previous generations. I’ve learned a lot of backyard mechanics from my dad. But I have since gone on to achieve a lot more in that field by having access to YouTube or other forums where I can find detailed instructions on how to fix things. I think about hacking my Xbox 360 and jailbreaking my first iPhone when I realized the jailbroken phones could video record and stock iPhones could not. I met my first wife online. I was there in the beginning when pictures would slowly load from the top down because speeds were just that slow. The stuff you can do now over the internet is beyond imagination from a couple decades ago.
The people that have the bad attitude at my job are all of the burned out people who are now dealing with a list of problems most of which I have been bitching about for years that somehow became a giant avalanche this year.

Everything is fine is a rotten attitude when you are piling up accidental complexity all day and victim blaming anyone who can’t or won’t wade through it. If I were king I’d fire every single person who was happy with the state of affairs a year ago. And then I’d start calling all the people I liked who have left for something better and beg them to come back. We got rid of those assholes, come fix things. Please.
Glenfiddich makes some damn fine Scotch.
This is an Elsevier journal. Due to a mistake by Elsevier, these papers were published without review.

University libraries who continue to pay Elsevier should know that they are propping up scammers and grifters.
If one bought and held the Dow from 1921 to present, the total return would be 500,000% (5,000x)!

On the other hand, CPI has gone from 17.6 to 271.7 in the past century, so that 5000x total return is really 324x after adjusting for inflation -- also known as 6%.

Now, 6% after inflation is nothing to sneeze at; but it started at a cherry-picked low point in the market and it comes with a lot of market volatility... and it's still not dramatically better than the 4-5% which ultra-long term investors (e.g. university endowment funds) aim to receive after inflation.
There's an order of magnitude difference between the worst paper published in a good venue vs. the "tortured" fake papers in fake journals though.
Less speculation and more facts:

https://www.upcounsel.com/are-website-terms-and-conditions-l...

This is heavily supported by Case Law.
This is completely false! Please stop telling people that arXiv moderators judge the technical content of papers. That's not their role and it leads to people trusting arXiv when they should not.

It's a complete-free-for-all.

arXiv moderators do not judge the technical content. They don't filter misleading submissions. They don't filter work in need of revision. This is literally described on the arXiv website: https://arxiv.org/help/moderation "What policies guide moderation before public announcement?
"

They filter spammers, check for total obvious nutjobs ("My grilled cheese said P=NP"), for crazy formatting, for blatant copyright violations.

Publishing junk on arXiv is trivial if you're not too crazy and know a little bit how to use the right words. You can publish anything.
> But think about the children…

Actually, I am thinking of the children, most child sexual abuse happens inside the home by people who personally knows the child, and this crypto mumbojumbo does nothing to address this!!!

What we actually need is for every parent to be required to install surveillance equipment, cameras, sensors and whatnot into their home.

Then *something*something* AI/ML can filter out all the excess information, but send the child abuse to the authorities…

(/s)
It's resume inflation.
This is anecdotal evidence at best, but it is worth considering. I know of several individuals who were able to complete their entire Master's thesis utilizing a combination of AI generated content (GPT-3) and a paraphrasing tool.

The generated text was well over 50 pages, completely bypassed all known content/plagiarism checks and was even included in the Universities "exemplary examples". To this day, it is still there.

This is of significant concern as some of these GPT-3 based tools are now integrated within MS Word itself. Word 2021 allows for "add-ons", out of which I have noticed several third party content generation and paraphrasing tools.
Doctors tend to be shockingly "analytic" and siloed in how they approach things. Easily 99% in my experience. Problem: the human body is a system rather than a "bag of parts"!

If they know bones, everything is caused by bones. It's a variant of "if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail". Each specialization has only one tool: a hammer or screwdriver, etc. and that's the only lens most have.

None know how to holistically look at things or, for example, consider that bones are connected to tendons to muscles so all three are likely to be involved in certain common pathologies.

The other issue I have with most: they are both shallow and gullible AF. It's far too easy to "suggest" an ailment and get them to only focus on that. Objectivity is not part of their methods in my experience. That does not build trust either.

So both of these combined to create a lot of "cookbook medicine" - like the old pizza commercial: "I go to the fridge and get the box!" which is everything they do.

At least in America.

I've had better experiences with doctors overseas sometimes. Not always but sometimes concierge/resort medicine does better. More time. More focus.
Honestly, not really. A lot of the blended export stuff isn't great. Some of the older single malts are good (but then again which aren't?), but there are much better ones out there.

It's just got a good recognizable name that is easily marketable to consumers in the US and Europe as a "good" Whisky.

Edit: So it's not bad, it's just super mass-produced. You find it in every single place that sells Whisky (corner-stores, supermarkets, petrol stations, etc etc) alongside Famous Grouse, Bells and the like. They make it for a particular audience is all I'm saying, and IDK if I'd define it as "fine".
Nevertheless, there are no coal or oil deposits being formed or freshly formed (in geological terms).

This roughly suggests to me, for whatever reason, there is no longer circumstances for new deposits to form.
Even more entertaining would be all the traffic being from bots trying to do the same thing.
I worked for the Census both last year and this one. I live in SW Missouri Ozark Mountains and most people here wanted nothing to do with it, and were pissed when I knocked on their doors.

My "Supervisors" have had a very hard time believing me when I've told them that and last year they kept sending me to the same places over and over until I refused to keep pestering those who refused to participate.

The supervisors get a bonus for completed cases, us "enumerators" do not. What we got were increasingly hostile reactions and I got pretty good at calming folks down by acknowledging their right to refuse and apologizing for pestering them.

Last year my 1st Supervisor decided to ride along with me one day to "show you how it's done" and I welcomed that. He quit a few days later. I have no doubt he was getting flack from his superiors who were sitting in their offices at home.

This year I invited my Supervisor to ride along and he didn't take me up on it. He just quit sending me cases instead.

Aside from that, from the online classes for training to the paperwork needed to get paid, their entire process has been a classic clusterfuck.
They posture on identity politics, culture wars, and fear mongering, while their actions do nothing but service the needs of billionaires and corporations. "Critical race theory" in schools as an issue was manufactured out of thin air to make gullible racists afraid of something.
I think you're being overly pedantic by focusing on the distinction between hybrid and native apps. As far as most users are concerned, if it's installed on their computer, /feels/ like a real app and is solving problems they care about, they couldn't care less whether it's built using web technologies or not.
This is a social problem around the shared use of a technological resource. I'm reminded of the old saying, "computers can only solve problems that are created with computers".

But then again you can view _all_ solutions to social problems as inherently technological in the broader sense; I adhere to that paradigm.
It seems to me very reasonable to worry about long-term outcomes when we are talking about vaccinating every man woman child. Maybe its got precedence but damn if its not worrying, and honest skepticism ought to be treated with respect not derided.
Thanks for bringing this paper, it's relevant to the conversation. A couple of points of context.

First, this study is quite early on in the vaccination campaign, when supplies were very short. The main conclusion is that they should be prioritized to people who have not had prior infection. That advice was not followed, largely because determining prior infection status complicates the protocols for vaccination quite a bit, and simpler is better. Now, at least in the US, we're in a situation where we are literally throwing vaccine down the drain[1, 2].

Second, this study in particular predates the significant spread of the delta variant, and there is particular concern about reinfection from that variant[3]. Vaccine effectiveness appears to be somewhat reduced compared with the original variant, but still pretty good.

This is definitely an area where more science is needed.

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/20/states-are-sitting-on-mi...

[2]: https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2021/08/alabama-threw-out-650...

[3]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03777-9
Based on the comment about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphide in agave can be toxic. And the fact that it is only sold in paper thin strips. My guess is the vendors are aware that it is poison but in those parts of the world life is cheap and money is hard to come by. So they just ignore this and carry on selling it. Anyone asking might be there investigating the cause of some of their health issues.
Referees have no real incentive to keep quality high. They already don't get anything in return for doing it. (At best they do it for reciprocity/goodwill.) Papers are usually hard to follow, replication rate is abysmal, etc. The incentives are all set for publishing, not for making real progress.
With due respect, if Elsevier and Springer (and IEEE etc.) went away tomorrow Science would not “be fucked”. We would be forced to sit down and work through a set of new open access journals and conferences. It would be an annoying few months and some publishing activities would be modestly disrupted. But all of the reviewing and editing and conference chairing is already run by volunteers. The only reason we don’t replace the journals now is because of (huge amounts of) path dependence and because nobody can solve the coordination problem of getting everyone to drop everything and do it. But if those publishers went away tomorrow, you’d solve both those problems in an instant.
You're right, in that it's great to be always given new work and interesting projects. But unless the completed work can be handed off to someone else what happens (at least in my case) is that I spend more and more of time making adjustments to past work, either due to requirements changes, competition, feature requests, or bug fixes (which is thankfully pretty rare for me)

These things typically arrive in addition to whatever new project my manager has me on, and the more projects under my belt the less time I get working on what they want me working on, and spend more time firefighting. Towards the end of that job I spent almost my entire day firefighting
I love this comment. I have no idea how these were generated, but even starting with random noise it's possible to end up with vaguely human shapes if that's what originated the hashes to begin with.

These images could be a joke, as I don't think we have a clear technical documentation of how these hashes are generated. Computer vision? Vectors? Face recognition software? It's definitely not a naive hash.

Edit: seeing the other comments in this thread referencing Twitter, it looks like it's more naive than expected, as the hash is resistant to resizing, but not to cropping. The implementation can change at Apple's discretion, though.
Serious:

They've discovered a new form of metaball?

How do I calculate this?
I ran into something like this in an amazon review once. I was looking for a book of transcriptions for the instrument I play, and two of the handful of reviews used the same awkward phrase: "music goals". I scratched my head and then realized what probably happened. They weren't native english speakers and they were being paid to write reviews and they had gotten the wrong synonym. "music goals" was supposed to be "music scores".
TLDR; Big reason is policing is going to get a lot more invasive; however, I have found the very positive reflection that my in-house services are far more reliable.

I have the advantage that I am a programmer, so I can deal with a bit of reading install guides and arcane configuration. I was surprised to learn just how reliable things can be. Open Source tends to move forwards, so I don't have features taken from me. In recent memory, both 1Password and Fantastical have taken my features in the name of subscriptions. I installed ZigBee home automation with a Hubitat. It has never failed me. Internet and Wi-Fi can be down and things still work. The unreliable part is Google Nest (invalidates tokens every now and then) and Apple Siri (randomly can't do things at times). In short, I can automatically scan and OCR documents, have file services, movie and music, and more, and it all just works.

/rant mode enabled

It has become obvious to me that the law is quickly becoming snitch based. With so much information being hosted online, it's just too tempting a target to not use it for other purposes. Google and Facebook are just the leaders in where this is going. There is just no reason for law enforcement to not scan for dissonant behavior at some point, just as they roam the roads looking for violators. As more jobs become remote, the argument will be "the roads of the 21st century are on the Internet." Difference before is if you get pulled over on the road, you can log it. You know when and where it happened. You have evidence of the encounter. You can see what was used against you and who.

The new system you requires you to try to prove your innocence. You won't know when or where you were targeted. You are not allowed to inspect the software or see the matching hash information. You must open your phone to prove the file is innocent, at which is is legal for the police to capture data. Finally, it is NOT against the law for law enforcement to lie to you [1]. This utterly stacks the deck against you.

All of this could be avoided if at the time of the event you could record what happened and challenge it, because ultimately law enforcement is a money making scheme. Cops are the largest thieving group in America, so treat them like it[2]: a car alarm doesn't stop them, it's just means most thieves will choose an easier target. So, private services doesn't stop a cop, but following cloud events is a lot easier than trying to get into my house.

My sincere hope is that the cloud keeps them busy enough to stay far away from me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZlrf8CiM4
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
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This clear instance of reductio ad absurdum is wholly non-analogous. Factually inaccurate court proceeding depictions and legal misunderstandings aside, for one thing, the non-hypothetical defendant’s identity is well-known in this specific instance.
You believe that encouraging Americans to be healthy will work? Has it worked before? In my experience from years in hospitals, the majority of people want less mental and physical health requirements. They want a heart pill or diabetes pill instead of a nutrition-based approach. What would you do in this scenario: as a physician, your patient is at high risk for heart disease, over weight, and above 45 years old. Do you recommend they drastically change their life style and increase routine lab work until improvements are made. Your patient could do nothing and be at risk for a stroke. Your other option is to have them ingest two pills daily to control their symptoms but not the root cause - their lifestyle.

A life is in your hands. I’ve witnessed and lived through both scenarios. The majority of the time people want the pills.

I am curious how you would solve for modern human ailments. Would you impose a government sanctioned food protocol? Would you let people die who refuse to increase their quality food intake and exercise?
You joke but this is a real problem that prevents us from clearing out our political tech debt so to speak. If you expect worse outcomes from the loss of political territory than the harm from whatever you want to change then it doesn’t happen. And you have to constantly deal with both sides trying to change things that they know in advance disproportionately affect their opponents.

Until our political system “stabilizes” where high-profile elections aren’t won by teeny tiny margins or determined by turnout and voting access more than the real preferences of the population this is going to be an issue.
Okay, so now we're getting somewhere. He was a socialist, but not a leftist. So were the NAZIs right wing or left wing?
What is FE/HE?
I'm into wine but my sense was that GF is more like gas station Scotch in Europe.
That is the most infuriating license plate I have ever seen.
Then can we at least draw a border around such "science" so that serious people who have work to do know to not waste time with it?
The number of papers being published is growing at a staggering rate. This requires proportional growth in the number of people reading these papers, which inevitably means the plagiarists and cheaters themselves are being pulled into the review system as well. They don’t care about letting fraudulent papers slip through because they never really cared about the science in the first place.

They see it as a game that they’re playing and they’re doing their best to put as little effort as possible into the game while extracting as much reputation upside as they can.

We really need to make publishing fraudulent papers a career-ending move across academia and even the industry. The only reason this continues to happen is because it has a lot of upside but very little downside. Caught publishing fraudulent papers? Oh well, just leave them off your resume and apply somewhere else.
The animosity towards the government in deep red areas is intense. There's no way you can force those folks to comply, and the laws regarding that are clear, they have to right to refuse.
The Space Launch System is an irredeemable mistake
Anything from Islay is my jam, with Laphroaig having a particular place in my heart.
I like that "citation of non-existent literature" is also a feature of these articles, although I wonder if the non-existent literature was previously cited in other papers. (https://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/the-most-influen...)
Yes, this is a needed and valuable levelling of the playing field. It removes the incentive to pollute more tolerant(bribed) jurisdictions
I just searched my gmail for "democrat" and the 2 of the 5 most recent emails had calls to action in them and 4 were asking for donations. This includes the most recent email I have from Joe Biden which had both.

All of my elected officials have an official mailing list for constituents which separates out their calls to action on government matters from their fundraising, campaigning, etc. This includes Brian Fitzpatrick, who is a Republican. I prefer it that way so I can unsubscribe from donation requests and still get the other.

Seems like you signed up for fundraising mailing lists and then were surprised they were focused on fundraising. Try signing up for the other lists.
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Sounds like automated review of automatically generated papers. And people pay money for that...
For a significant mass of biomass to be pushed down it first needs to be present.

Have you ever been in a coal mine?

Coal deposits can be very thick and can consist of practically pure coal with very little anything else.

Our densest forests if suddenly "pushed" (I guess covered by ash or anything else, without loosing carbon) would be millimeters in width.
I’ve slowly been making my exit from pure tech for this exact reason. 2011 got hired as the “tech guy” for an artist that was winning Grammy’s left and right, breaking world records for sales/ streams/ whatever, with an explicit part of the deal they let me sit in on marketing meetings to learn marketing.

Was able to take “marketing” (really more social science), engineering and design to epidemiology, eventually wrap that together to work in politics, now back on infectious disease (COVID vaccinations). I find “tech skills” just being something in my toolbox to enable me to tackle infinitely more rewarding projects.
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