skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my own experiences this is the tip of the iceberg, but the majority isn't fraud per se, more like questionable research practices that cumulatively amount to something similar. So maybe not making up data, but fishing (either variables, people, or models) until you find the right combination. On top of that are all the misuses of things, that aren't really fishing, but rather use of methods that produce significant findings, but for reasons other than what is assumed.
I'm using "C-style language" as a metaphor for "imperative procedural language". I'm not the first to do so.
CA is particularly bad but I've seen this from smaller states as well. I went to grad-school in PA (CMU). After graduating and moving out of PA, a couple years later PA demanded taxes on income I only earned after leaving the state.

It amounted to only like $40 and I was afraid it'd cost way more to fight so I just paid it, even though it was a completly fabricated tax bill. Today I'd fight it just on principle but I was too poor then and couldn't afford to talk to a CPA or lawyer.
I gave it:

(+ 1 1) returns 3 for arbitrarily large values of 1.

And it returned:

That's correct. The reason is that the value of $\phi(+1)\times\phi(+1)$ is either 1 or $2\times 1$ as $+1^2=+1$ and $1\times 1=1$, and for arbitrarily large $k$ and $n$, $1^n=(+1)^n$ as you mentioned.

I'm not sure the answer actually makes sense, but it sure sounds like it does if you don't analyze it too deeply.
Zorin is based on KDE, a Linux desktop environment. Typically looks like Windows but here they have put effort into making it look nicer.
well that sure is a stretch of the word "laptop"
I love how now the fatalities are an undercount and the number of cases is a certainty so it fits this shoehorned argument.

In reality the fatalities are ‘people who died within a certain period after being tested positive’ and an enormous amount of cases without any symptoms go undetected.
You're mixing up a few things here. Every drug has a list of side effects. They are known, that's what your doctor tells you, and then you make an informed decision whether you want to take the drug or not.

It's not Medical Doctors that decided to withdraw approval and then removed it from the market. The approval was all fine. What was not fine was the public perception. Because the anti-vax campaign was very effective. Too many people started to think it's too fishy, so out of caution didn't want the shot anymore, so it became unprofitable to keep it on the market, so the manufacturer pulled it. (A bit surprising they didn't sell the IP or license it cheaply to somebody more adventurous..)

That's how your life can get impacted if the anti-vax lobby gets too strong, and that's what scares me. They can mess up their own health as much as they like, but once my life gets worse because of it, I have a problem.
Yes, thanks and sorry for that - Digger is the old name and we haven't updated the docs. Will fix!
To 60 year olds experience barriers for job opportunities due to ageism
Does it actually need to be accountable to the app developers?

Both Google and apple seem to do fine without that accountability
> I don't see how anyone could possibly know what the subjective experience of being a day-old chick stuffed in a box would be like.

But then you go on to pretend to do exactly that.

You’re projecting a negative human experience onto birds.
In most cases: whatever specification document exists for the particular thing I'm trying to do.

For things that are more open, like API's, I like to look at what mature API's that do what I want to do already look like. And then work backwards from that. :)
The Need for Containers
I just discovered Dan Drown's blog and am very impressed by the many technical posts.

Posts on NTP are quite good: https://blog.dan.drown.org/tag/ntp/
Only if they are implemented inefficiently or your application is constrained in a way that precludes efficient implementation.

As long as you can inject code and steal some memory you can just directly patch in the code snippet and patch in a branch instead of a breakpoint instruction. This is functionally equivalent to a adding a print statement, just at runtime instead of compile time, so should not be significantly slower.
According to Wikipedia, Klaus Teuber started designing the board game years before the computer game was released, so it's probably not a major source of inspiration. He did change the name (adding "of Catan") so people wouldn't mistake one for the other.
Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done?
Some cool ideas here, I love that everything looks so small and cute!
Put them on the market and see.
Workflows I Didn't Know Existed: How to Mail Live Scorpions
Well, meds while in hospital are free, and otherwise they are much cheaper or offered for free to qualified individuals. So they're either cheap or free.

I'd consider that almost free education haha, but also I'm from Quebec, so the average is 3k per year for tuition (also why can't other province follow suit here). In any case, it's far away from a 60k tuition you can get in the US. You won't really see anything above 16k per year in Canada even for med school at the best university.

I'm also from Quebec, so for childcare you get 7$ per day, but yes it can be hard to find availability.

Honestly, I'd be happy with unpaid parental leave even, but off course I'm an engineer, so I can afford it. I think a lot of parents can afford having one at home with 500$ a month and the other working. So it's still a pretty big perk.

> It's not a worker's paradise up here. It's better than it could be though

I think that's slightly off topic, California has way better jobs for engineers, that's why I'm no longer in Canada. But job availability and pay is kind of orthogonal to taxes (unless you'd tell me the tax money goes towards attracting higher paying jobs to the state).

So the question remains, where the hell does the tax money go here? And why can't they offer as many services when the taxes are just as high, especially considering the state is way richer than any province in Canada, it seems they could afford to offer even more services than in Quebec for all that money.
I came here to say make this (lonely) comment. HIV and CoV are very different viruses. Different pathogenesis, different tropism, different social drivers for transmission...
mRNA technology did well in 2020, but it was a very well-funded technology in clinical development for ~10 years before SARS-CoV2 arrived. HIV and Cancer are not low-hanging fruit. I wish them the best, as I hate both those diseases, but I'm not aware that there is anything in the technology that uniquely provides a solution to the problem.
Florida took the approach of "people will get it. (shrugs)" and look what happened. LC has been associated with permanent organ damage. I think that's a reason to worry because of the disability adjusted life years (DALY) involved.
I'm not saying it's perfect but rather that the skepticism you're looking for is found within the process where many scientists who are not employed by the vendor review the test results, methodology, and side effects. By the time something gets through approval, it's been tested in thousands of people with monitoring over a substantial time period (even the EUA COVID vaccines were monitored for a period of time longer than vaccine side effects have historically been observed) and reviewed by hundreds of people.

We actually have an interesting example which I think validates that process even though it comes in the unlikely form of the FDA's recent mistake approving Aducanumab. There is a lot of criticism, including IG investigations, over the approval because it was approved despite having failed to go through the process successfully. The Phase III trials were cancelled after they concluded that the drug was not successful, the FDA's internal scientific review found it did not meet the mark, and the outside scientific advisory panel rejected it so strongly that multiple panel members resigned after it was approved anyway. That to me seems like a pretty good argument that the process was doing what we expect and the way to avoid expensive mistakes is to follow it.
See my other comment about graphing the overlap between "baseload" and solar. What are you pairing this nuclear baseload with? Gas?

At least make an effort. What about, we build enough nuclear to cover more than the yearly total energy demand, and run them all the time. Then when demand is low, like at night we use the energy to generate green hydrogen (apparently also called pink hydrogen if you use nuclear specifically).

We then use that hydrogen in converted gas turbines to meet peak needs above baseline and we sell the rest to farmers to make fertilizer and manufacturers as a feedstock and fuel.

How possible is this? Very possible. Now, replace the nukes with a similar output of solar and wind. And locate some of it in the sunniest regions of the world and ship the hydrogen to customer by boat or pipeline. Is it much cheaper. Yes it is. So why do we need nuclear?
On a similar note, a lot of my neighbors do things that aren't illegal that I don't like having near my duplex. One neighbor tore out their garden for a paved patio - i much preferred the garden. Another neighbor leaves an old car with no wheels on their lawn - what an eyesore.

But who am I to tell them they are not allowed to do these things? What would be next, they would tell me I'm not allowed to grill in my backyard? I'm hardly a libertarian but it amazes me that of all the absurd "rights" people fight for in this country, the right to use, develop, and maintain your house and property as you wish isn't one of them.
He's saying he'd rather depend on his natural immunity than be mandatorily jabbed over and over again.
> I don't believe that the fiduciary duty a corporation has to its shareholders allows it to ignore its civic duty to follow the law.

I agree with this. But laws and ethics are two different things. Corporations often do things that are in line with the law but unethical. By "civil duty" I meant ethics.
whats also easily forgotten is just how many people are alive right now.

the current estimate is that there have roughly been 105 billion birth since 50 000BC, with our current world population at almost 8 billion... about 8% of all humans that have ever lived are currently still alive.
I tried to build something like this a couple of years ago, just by using speech-to-text, and that worked really badly (but it was better than nothing). I've given BoldVoice a spin and am very impressed by how well it works on phoneme level - well done, congrats on launching!
Why do you assume nobody's ever tried?
I was speaking about the QRCODES which are mandatory to vote, go to the hospital, shopping mall and restaurants in France.
Translation: "I hate militias and people who question state science".
I mean if you have a mac and love Linux also (like me) there's always a reason or two to go back to Linux. It may not be as polished as Mac, but there are also things that a Mac isn't polished with (for example a native package manager).
Not sure exactly what you mean with social conservatism, but I'd rather call out misplaced optimism.

In the past the approch was to only target young girls before they had sex for the first time, which turned out to not reduce the spread of HPV as much as hoped. Only in recent years the recommendation changed to also vaccinate boys and increasingly also people with previous sexual encounters.
I am making a moral argument, not a legal one.
No, the plan doesn't expect every single water supply to go empty, and then have 100 years of water in storage tanks. But it does expect that there may be a very large drop in water coming in for years at a time.
This is why I've always preferred a metered tax on pollutants over a regulated "limit". Without revenue attached, there is less-than-zero budget to measure and audit in the firm _or_ the regulator. But with a metered tax (on methane, co2, benzene, etc), weak or fraudulent self reporting become back-taxes owed with penalties which tends to attract interested headcount.
People are already losing their jobs over these vaccines.
Assuming you are asking earnestly, because of diminishing returns. Pfizer has been found to be 90 something percent effective at 2 months. They've noticed it seems to lose about 3% effectiveness per month, leaving you at 70-something percent after 8 months. That's with the data we have today, it could be much higher or lower as more data is collected.

To preemptively answer your question - yes, I could see needing to get a booster every 8 months for the foreseeable future.
Don't forget

1) carrying enough energy

2) getting the price point down to what people are prepared to pay

for telepresence.

These are very tough indeed.
This is an important point. What have the journals done? Raised their prices and business as usual.

Scientific editors do nothing for data validation. There is no accountability, even after retractions.

Scientific journal editors are glorified gatekeepers for "high impact" work (read: flashy), and then use free reviewer labor to cover themselves so they can call it 'peer reviewed'.
In the rare cases when journals do require supporting data, they explicitly ask for excel spreadsheets :(
Anatomy of a $500k Chrome bug (write-up)
> I once ordered shampoo sold my Amazon that was obviously fake, and then I searched around and realized Amazon has a program where they gather the products from different sellers and put it in one huge bin and call all of them sold by Amazon.com

This is a common scam. Third party sellers will send a fake product to Amazon to be FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon). When someone buys this product from the seller on the product's webpage, the seller is hoping the buyer will actually receive a genuine Amazon product instead that happens to already be in the warehouse. The buyer will be happy and will not complain, so the seller receives their money. However that fake product is still sitting in the warehouse, and when some unlucky buyer receives the fake product, they'll demand a refund. Some unlucky third party seller will have to foot the bill for that refund.

Youtuber "chaseontwowheels" ordered a $6000 camera Sold and Shipped by Amazon.com. He instead received a box of rocks. He got a refund from a suspicious Amazon and shipped him another camera. While filming a video about the incident, he opened the box and it was rocks again. He ended up buying the camera from B&H and finally got the legitimate product.

https://www.diyphotography.net/buyer-orders-6000-camera-amaz...

I've run into a similar problem. I ordered an electric beard trimmer and the box looked new but there was hair inside so it was obviously used. There were a lot of recent reviews about this from different sellers. I'm assuming some third party seller sent a bunch of returned stuff to Amazon and they threw it all into the same bin.
> Save your outrage for the cities on our coasts whose antiquated and poorly managed treatment systems dump millions of gallons of untreated sewage into our rivers and oceans.

I was with you until that last comment.

Most West Coast cities have adequate water supplies and management. The drought affects small towns the most. If they are caught off guard its because these are unprecedented weather events. It is reasonable for Arizona to conserve water from the get go. Not so for the west coast, which could rely on precipitation/snow melt for the past several decades.

Also the root cause isn't poor water management by cities, its that the farming industry consumes most of the water.
Yep, my son did buy his first colony from a local college kid, through the GAN Project: https://www.antscanada.com/queen-ants-for-sale/. Since he was away, his mom brought the colony to us, we met discreetly at a library, felt a bit like a spy transaction :-)
Probably also not advertise yourself as a “tax engineer”.
Is there a tort? It seems reasonable for these regions to compensate by funding reclamation projects.
Is no-one curious why vaccines that have totally unexpected side effects in normal people are considered safe out-of-hand?
Stellarator theory has been booming for the past 20-40 years, but very few machines have been made to push it forward. I'd love to see a mid-scale (sub 1 BnUSD) HTS machine be built as a platform to develop coil winding techniques and test turbulent transport models.
I've developed different red flags over the decades, and while I don't doubt you've encountered developers that are really slow, one of my red flags is the time estimate of "1-2 weeks". That's the off-the-cuff estimate that people give when they have no idea how long something will take. "A week or two" is "I can't imagine it would take very long, but my imagination isn't very good" ;)
There are at least 5 problems with doing pedestrian stuff in a corporate setup. Of course, this is part subjective, part circumstantial.

(1) Low pay.

(2) If you mess up you get penalized more severely. If you mess up a hard problem you get the benefit of doubt, but if you do well you get great rewards. Doing well on boring problems doesn't earn you any special rewards.

(3) Consistently doing pedestrian stuff makes you feel dumb in the scrum (esp. when others are tackling hard problems).

(4) You're first on the chopping block since you're not the "core".

(5) Your growth, both professionally and personally, will be shunted.
I just use the term “evidence” from probability theory. “Signal” feels pretty synonymous.
Malcolm -A network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts
This is part of what drove people to CI/CD.
If your code is broken in the morning and the build is green, it’s probably you. If it’s red, maybe you should check other things sooner?
Ha ha no. I didnt even have a discussion about that. I think i need to talk to my manager at some point. But he has been very supportive!
Data Visualization – A Practical Introduction
I would assume they would create an array with a bunch of Futures that would resolve at the end of the assignment, or the std lib would offer some ability to explicitly make things run in parallel.
I learned to just accept changes to Firefox instead of trying to fight every change. I hated the Proton UI when it came out. Then I used Firefox for a couple hours and I realized it's mostly good.

Mozilla is struggling as a company since Chrome has dominated the browser market.

People deride them for every change, but I think the leadership at Mozilla isn't incompetent. They know they won't magically become more relevant if the browser stays stagnant.

The things they have done are trying to make Firefox appeal to a wider audience. Without more users, Firefox can't flourish.

The opinionated techy portion of people who still use Firefox might hate it, but that isn't a big enough group of people to compete, so Mozilla can't just be happy with that.

I doubt Firefox can put up a fight against Chrome in the long run, anyways. Most of my coworkers don't care. I'd still rather see Mozilla try than do nothing.
It was only approved in 2018 for over-26, so it'd be a bit rich to blame that on the ACA. Yell at your insurer if they don't cover it.
You are welcome to be skeptical. But in the meantime, don't cause me to not be able to get a potentially life-saving drug. You may think it's a money grab or not tested enough or a conspiracy or a conflict of interest. Fine, don't take it. But I still want it. 1.4 million with ridiculously small number of question mark cases are good enough for me. They don't have to be for you. But let me have it. I pay for it.
I really don't know what must happen before I give AWS CRUD credentials to a third party.

However, that something didn't happen by reading this website and its value proposition.

I'm saying this as, hopefully, source for inspiration. The amount of trust a third party must inspire before anyone (like me at least?) dares to delegate operation must be overwhelming.
Close, but that looks like a server, I guess a client front end for it could be written in a native GUI.
The trick might be to work on problems that others consider hard but you don't. Or, alternatively, problems that might not be hard, but deliver valuable business value to people who value business value.
This has worked numerous times in the past for me as well, spanning years now. Superficial rejection? Upload a new version of the same binary and resubmit.

This is simply akin to calling up some place again, perhaps for a discount on a bill, hoping you get a new representative that will give you what you want. And it works...
Po: people should use the word po

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_(lateral_thinking)
Oh the law firms doing all those class actions are not doing this for free either..
I also understand that fusion in general is unlikely to be an economically-viable energy source anyway, since the reactor and any surrounding material will be relatively quickly (~few years) be made brittle by the neutron bombardment, while also becoming radioactive - meaning any fusion plant will have to be carefully and constantly torn down and rebuilt, and materials from the old plant securely stored for large amounts of time (not as large as fission waste, but still in the order of decades or centuries). There are other concerns with hydrogen escape etc, but this one seems completely fundamental.
Would be really neat to put Drawpile on the Fluid Framework. You could easily map Drawpile's ordered operations into distributed data structures. I did a similar thing a few months ago with QuillJS's operations and it worked great!

The main advantage of that integration would be a ready made Azure service + future integration with Microsoft Office.

(I used to work on the Fluid Framework)
Cities and suburbs are only one component of water use. A large amount of water is used by agriculture, and they have different restrictions, if any. So it's not a disaster for the metro areas, but really impacts rural areas and farmers.
Well, I guess I've never seen anybody try. Maybe they did!
Don't get too alarmed by this. It's how a good portion scientific progress in America has always worked (especially if the project needs military scale funding). The tech eventually makes it out to civilian space.
Since 1980 total water use has declined in the state by about 25% while population has tripled (300% growth). New construction is required to use grey water where suitable and it's waster water makes it back as treated or depending on geography is used by Palo Verde nuclear station. This is a non issue.
Doctors habitually indicate confidence levels incommensurate with available evidence. Doctors say “it’s fibromyalgia” instead of “I don’t know”, which is neither evidence-based nor “how the process works”.
In regard to the Lyme disease vaccine issue, you are glossing over a very important component of the story.

Due to public pressure, the FDA reconvened to take another look.

While the FDA did not change its opinion (except for requesting some additional labeling and studies) the effect was disastrous for marketing. Sales plummeted. And, it was no longer worthwhile to pursue. The ‘official act’ of the FDA reconvening arose solely due to pressure.

That’s my point.

If anti-vax groups can cause the FDA to “take another look” at a drug that has already passed muster, it is obvious and not fairly deniable that the agency is not immune to political pressure.
Wow. Yeah, that's some chutzpah:

> ...in such sections very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district.

Ironically it's the low density that's parasitizing the city because the infrastructure maintenance is far more costly than what the low density residential tax base can support.