skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The results are so intriguing and promising as to send multiple grad students across multiple groups barreling into replicating and expanding the results.

One important task of the advisor is to filter bad projects. Does the paper pass the smell test? Are the authors reliable or they had published "dubious" results before?

[I was recently discussing a paper in a virtual meeting. My conclusion is that Zoom does not have enough negative reactions.]

Also, before assigning an experiment to a graduate student, try to have something like a plan:

1) This will surely work and is interesting enough for the dissertation and to be publish.

2) This part is dubious, because it's related to a too resent research paper or there may be some hidden technical problems that are difficult to see.

2') An underspecified alternative to 2, just in case.

3) Extra task for bonus points and perhaps a Nobel price.
Not at all trying to be cagey, and also not our pill. The main paper is here for more info about the most notable medication:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183

Important to say this definitely isn't the only medication the doctor will prescribe. That's a decision to make in conjunction with the patient after a full medical history.
Why are we accepting that a payment transaction company that is part of a duopoly with visa gets to define itself as the moral arbiter of legal business.
They can't just limit hires, which already hurts the flexibility, they would have to limit shifts to different amounts based on the time of day, which would basically kill the idea of spontaneously working whenever you want.
I think you need to draw a line between "not replicable" and fraudulent.

This is about the latter. This is the kind of corruption that spreads. It's a very bad thing.

It is related to the former problem of "not replicable," which is about application of the "scientific method." On this, my worldview has evolved a lot over the last decade. I think we've been applying overly Popperian methods, and formalisations of the scientific method where they don't work well.

Say you are studying the effects of a breakfast program, 2 hr recess or push-up regiment on high schoolers. The study is well constructed, faithfully conducted, etc. You find interesting, potentially actionable ways of reducing obesity, improving psych health or something.

Do/Should we even expect such a study to replicate in 1990s Tokyo, 2000s Miami, School A, School B, etc.

Does that mean this study should not be conducted? Does it mean we can't generate knowledge and understanding of things this way? Is there any daylight between "anecdote" and a result that qualifies for publication in Physics?

A lot of articles published in many fields feel like they are being hammered into a Popperian mold they don't fit into. Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to say "this method doesn't work here. we're actually doing a different thing." Instead, they sort of eye roll the article into the frame and let readers unscramble it for themselves.
> by [Apple] doing nothing, spending nothing, investing nothing and taking no risks.

Apple did none of those things with respect to launching a search engine. Apple did all of those things with respect to building an audience of daily engaged (often affluent) users. That’s the investment Apple made to earn the position to cash Google’s check.
You probably can and it won't be nearly as bad as what it is on MacOS. You only need a code signing certificate for drivers from Microsoft. You might not even need that if WinFSP provides signed binaries and you don't modify the driver part.

(Source: until 2 years ago I used to work at a company that did that using a proprietary driver - CBFS - and was looking at WinFSP to replace it.)
I can’t open the Twitter thread without hitting a login / install app wall. When did Twitter implement this?!
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As Thomas Sowell has put it:

„Why anyone would expect better decisions to be made by third parties who pay no price for being wrong is one of the mysteries of our time.“
British founder here so I'm genuinely sorry about this! Thought I'd fixed it the day before we launched on HN. Our infra will be updated by end of this week.

If you'd like to be on our waitlist, just drop me a quick email on richie@joinfella.com and I'll make sure you're in our system.
I don't know what you mean by "man made" or "created". The origin of the vast majority of the genome of SARS-CoV-2 was a bat virus. If that makes it automatically natural in your view, you're correct by definition, but only because your definition of natural includes most modifications that could have been done in a lab.

Directed evolution in a lab (e.g. serial passage in humanized mice, or even captive bats) would be one thing. Would you consider that "man made" or "created", or is it natural?

Small genome sequence edits for experimental purposes would be another type of modification. Would you consider that "man made" or "created", or still natural?

Full genetic synthesis base pair by base pair is more difficult (longer sequences become much more difficult), but as I understand it is technologically possible... barely. If someone takes the genome from a natural virus genome sequence and synthesizes it that way in a lab, possibly with minor edits, would that be "man-made" or "created", or still natural?
DDG search has been much better for me than google and has been for a few years. Google search has become a complete disaster. I'm curious about what you mean by DDG being so much worse.
I admire people pushing projects like this.

Its hard to put in words, 28+yrs later, the hardware still working and so many people being aaround it to make such an initiative worthwhile… i’m just eternally grateful to the person who introduced me to this amazing platform back in the days.

Looking foward to putting one in my A1200 as well.

Oh and finally the needed excuse to get yet ANOTHER pi too!
The schools I went to were more propaganda than education, I don't regret dropping out to learn on the job one bit.
> I’m not sure my body could handle the bus version here

Why is that, hairpins up mountains or abrupt driving or so?

I hate buses for long distance (1h+) as well for what it's worth, would much rather catch a train even though the Netherlands has some very straight and smooth asphalt, but technically my body could handle it!
So happy to see this! Shattered PD is by far the best mobile game I've ever played; hopefully this means many more can experience it. Note that it's free on Android - highly recommend!
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Maybe English motorways, but not many buses on there!
As for using it to create a new file system, the repository has a basic tutorial for that: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/doc/WinFsp...

> What kind of permission granting seances would they have to go through, if any?

From personal experience of using this: WinFSP have ready .msi installer. After going through the standard process of installing it, then you need to install the file system implementation you want (for example SSHFS from http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/rel/).

The required permissions amount to the standard installation prompt, at least from my experience on Windows 10.
The most recent release (version 5) of 1vyrain fixes that for Ivy Bridge.
By convincing the people deciding about their career advancement that negative results are worth something too. (no, that isn't easy, since it's the same people to a good degree, which is a problem with solving many problems in academia)
You can build an app from the command line with Gradle: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline

That said, it would be quite difficult to write anything substantial without Android Studio.
Remember reading others facing this as well and that it was pretty recent.
Enough of these "falsified science" stories come out and people will become interested in stories debunking bad science. I subscribe to a podcast called "everything hertz" for this reason.

https://everythinghertz.com/

https://twitter.com/jamesheathers

https://twitter.com/dsquintana
Practically speaking how useful are the Rust doctests?

I thought they looked like a genius idea but I don’t get how they work 95% of the time when examples don’t come with all the plumbing required to make valid state for a function to actually work on.
Microsoft tried and failed to make a third alternative and force competition, spending billions to make it happen. As they found out, app makers don’t want to build for yet another platform. It doesn’t matter whether you make an awesome mobile OS, you’ll never get the app makers to support you enough to convince the users, and without the users you cannot convince the app makers.

Meanwhile, in desktop land, there are real alternatives because almost everything you’d want to do runs in the browser well enough (for regular home users at least). But on mobile the browsers are locked down, so the web is not a credible mobile app strategy. Linkedin and facebook oroginally tried a mobile web strategy and discovered that mobile browsers aren’t good enough. The lack of real competition, especially on iOS keeps mobile browsers underpowered for apps and maintains the strong gatekeeping function of mobile app stores.

For me a possible solution is to force platform owners to allow real browser competition on their platforms (again: especially iOS) and hope that is enough to kickstart a browser arms race like we enjoyed on the desktop a decade ago, with the end result being that mobile web apps become a real alternative and we weed out much of the bad behavior by apple and google because they have a genuine competition for the native platform.
I'm working through it at the moment (in Python and Julia) and it's great so far.

> https://monkeylang.org/

Do you know if the tutorials strongly depend on Go or can I easily map it to other languages?
I was about to compose this exact comment… thanks for saving me the trouble. In K-12 education, and especially elementary level, the job is at least as much about daycare as it is education. And well-socialized children makes the daycare part of the job a lot easier, so less stress = less demand for financial inducements (compensation).
Are you using a Linux phone by any chance? Could you share some details? I've been thinking about it but I didn't pull the trigger because the alternatives I've been looking at all have shortcomings. Curious to hear more.
The problem is that even with an investigation there will be no consequences. For one thing, too much evidence has already been lost. Whether that is deliberate or due to mere passage of time doesn't matter; either way, we'll barely be more certain after an investigation than before. For another, even if we were absolutely certain, geopolitical concerns would preclude any real repercussions. Again, whether that's realpolitik or corruption/collusion doesn't matter; either way, anyone who does get punished will surely be a scapegoat while the real culprits walk free.

The only thing an investigation at this point will do is waste time and money and divert experts from more useful tasks (like finding the next potentially catastrophic pathogen). I believe that demands for one should be considered purely performative. The only thing they achieve is to declare allegiance to one group and drum up discrimination against another.
Quite an unusual, but effective, way to mark something as a proof of concept that's dangerous to use:

From [1]:
"This is as unsafe as it sounds and I don't recommend anyone do it outside of a testing environment."

[1]: https://github.com/bouk/monkey#i-thought-that-monkeypatching...
cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
This is the only game I still play. I play like twice a year. When I'm too tired to read HN and still don't want to let my mind wander towards work. It's always a joy. And the new maintainers improvements made it more balanced and enjoyable with online help/guide. The original game was too difficult for casual gaming (it's a fork of pixel dungeon). Great job. Going to update now...
Surely there are people getting banned from Google who are not HN users. Social media outcry is not a good solution as its not accessible to everyone.

Agreed about wanting to see more transparency.
If the results are not replicable, how can they be actionable?
If your time is limited, golang is the way to go. It is a language that is designed to scale with people. You'll find you can read and understand any go code. Also, it builds incredibly fast and is not a huge step away from dynamic languages.

Rust is a kitchen sink language - more of a replacement for c++. It takes quite a bit longer to learn/master.
It's more that the muscles (assuming same muscle mass) have to do comparatively more work if they are carrying around more weight.
That's an interesting point, so I looked it up. Etymology for master: https://www.etymonline.com/word/master
Apple has all that data, if not better, on a much more valuable audience at that, and can market themselves as "privacy friendly" because only they will leverage said data and won't let anyone in on their platform, and naturally you will trust Apple.

Hell they can even throw a spin on how it's about "privacy" and not about taking another way to bank on their walled garden monopoly and the Apple crowd here will gobble it up with "we are finally free from Google spying, praise Tim and his holy father Steve in heaven".

I've been arguing app stores are a monopoly for years now and the amount of cultist here that were like "Apple is doing it to protect me from bad software" and "I would not use my iPhone if there was an option to install a different store" was staggering.
Can they genuinely survive this. I mean doesn't it just become patreon without the porn?
When I think of OnlyFans, I literally only think of pornography and the sex industry, this is based on everything I've heard about it.

This alone tells me that this seems like a bad idea.
> If China accidentally released this then the world deserves to know what happened

"China" didn't accidentally released anything, and is easy to see why. The group of scientists that were working in Wuhan (some Chinese, other not) don't represent the government or the entire country. How they could?

Would be so absurd as to claim that "US" or "Italy" released accidentally covid-19 because a few scientists from US or Italy worked in the same project. The reason to use the words in this way and to use the mass media to fix this wrong idea in the people is 100% political and should be a red flag about the real purpose of this (gain leverage with post-truth, instead to find the truth).

The problem is that post-truth could mes enough to bury the truth forever, and all actors are interested into saving face and sneaking their own version.
You are only considering salary and not overall quality of life. As one of my teachers at private school said, "you get paid a little less, but you don't have to worry about being robbed by your students in the parking lot."
> So anyway, back to your point. You might scoff but actually Nintendo are in a far more stable and successful position than Sony and Microsoft (with regards to consoles).

I'm not saying its unsuccessful, just that people who play Detroit or Gears aren't going to buy Switch just because PS5/Xbox is out of stock.
> Nintendo might be a running joke amongst hardcore gamers but ironically they're the most successful console manufacturer out there.

I don't think sales numbers are the parent comment's point. Rather, that "Xbox or Playstation" is a common enough question to imply there is direct competition (and there are lots of shared titles), whereas the Nintendo consoles exist more or less in a vacuum.
In this case stop pivoting
Because for the most part this situation has been only weaponized against those who are out of ideological compliance with the tech industry. As long as it is a tool for punishing what a small geographical area considers wrong-think, it will go on with the blessing of Bay Area tech scene. With OnlyFans there's some uneasiness because suddenly those who have been cheering on the use of this weapon are starting to realize it might expand into areas that could harm them.
The "creators" should cooperate to buy the company. It will be cheap enough soon enough
> you can launch them with a catapult like setup, they can drop off their load and fly back autonomously.

This had me thinking about homemade disposable rockets. Either use them for cargo, or attach one to a strong enough glider, so that it can reach the desired area, release the glider (that can use maps + GPS and sensors to land safely) then proceed for a while fooling whoever would follow its heat trail.

Not that I wanted to become a drug smuggler, just brainstorming. We will need all that stuff when the next reptilian invasion occurs:^)
GNU/NT (WSL1) is the best operating system.
How it is different from Git-annex ?
https://git-annex.branchable.com/
> How would we make sure another Covid couldn't happen

I don't know, I'm not an expert. But clearly, having more information is strictly better than not having it.

So let me flip the question around and ask why should we not investigate?
I have no clue. But, based on the theory that I really just don't want to get sued, even if I happen to be right, it seems important that neither does the author:

> permits you to use TypeIt in any [...] personal project

That's trying to establish some requirement to be non-commercial, which the GPL doesn't do. In fact the author here should know this better than most people, considering they are trying to sell something that's also GPL-licensed.

So if you get a good lawyer to give an all clear to use this in your Uber-for-Platypus-Stylists venture, they will get just as mad as if you don't.
> If I ever design a laptop it's going to have: An array of different charger inputs, so I can skip all of these silly shenaneggins and just use whatever laptop charger I pick up off the street.

For various older models, Cooler Master sells a "universal" AC adaptor with interchangeable plugs. It works for most older kit, although Dell has the deplorable detection circuit (noted by the OP) that may cause problems.

For modern laptops, USB-C makes it possible[1] to charge with any USB-C AC adaptor.[2]

[1] Edited to recognise that my experience is limited to a set of three Chromebooks and three "smartphones".

[2] Edited to USB-C AC adaptor, not just any USB-C adaptor.
> What's the purpose of this? It will just give ammo to anti-science Trump like people.

It's bizarre how today, in USA, for some it's all about "the other camp can't have a win, at any cost", and not what is right. Fake science hurts science the most, and covering it up IS WHAT is going to give ammo to whoever you do not like, calling a fraud a fraud doesn't do that.
If you're on Firefox, try the Privacy Redirect extension which re-routes to Nitter.
i'd just use https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html rather than the twitter web.
Sorry for a shameless plug! I read up a lot on this subject while working on [my own toy compiler](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262149).

Other well-known languages that have hand-written parsers are Rust and D.

And here are a couple quotes from compiler developers explaining their reasons for going with hand-crafted parsers.

Someone from the C# compiler’s team gave the following reasons [1]:

>Hello, I work on the C# compiler and we use a handwritten recursive-descent parser. Here are a few of the more important reasons for doing so:

>Incremental re-parsing. If a user in the IDE changes the document, we need to reparse the file, but we want to do this while using as little memory as possible. To this end, we re-use AST nodes from previous parses.

>Better error reporting. Parser generators are known for producing terrible errors. While you can hack around this, by using recursive-descent, you can get information from further "up" the tree to make it more relevant to the context in which the error occurred.

>Resilient parsing. This is the big one! If you give our parser a string that is illegal according to the grammar, our parser will still give you a syntax tree! (We'll also spit errors out). But getting a syntax tree regardless of the actual validity of the program being passed in means that the IDE can give autocomplete and report type-checking error messages. As an example, the code ` var x = velocity.` is invalid C#. However, in order to give autocomplete on `velocity. `, that code needs to be parsed into an AST, and then typechecked, and then we can extract the members on the type in order to provide a good user experience.

GCC actually used Bison for a long time but eventually switched to a hand-written parser, the team gives some reasons in the changelog [2]

>A hand-written recursive-descent C++ parser has replaced the YACC-derived C++ parser from previous GCC releases. The new parser contains much improved infrastructure needed for better parsing of C++ source codes, handling of extensions, and clean separation (where possible) between proper semantics analysis and parsing.

Some people argue coding parsers by hand is prone to errors. This line of reasoning certainly makes a lot of sense to me, but it's not that simple in practice for non-trivial grammars. For instance, ANTLR 4 emits a so called parse tree which you would like to convert to AST, if you have a somewhat complex grammar. This conversion takes quite a bit of code written manually, see AstBuilder.java [3] to get an idea (I'm not affiliated with the project). So, there's still plenty of opportunities for having errors in that amount of code. To be fair, creating AST-s is an explicit non-goal for ANTLR 4 [4].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915150

[2]: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html

[3]: https://github.com/crate/crate/blob/5173b655a9fbf72028876ae7...

[4]: https://theantlrguy.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~admin/blog/20...
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I am curious. Why does this news around OnlyFans strike a nerve with HN crowd? I hadn't heard about OnlyFans before this news exploded. Is OF known for their tech capabilities?
I think it might work the other way. Remembering more details prevents the reader from likening their own life to what they read because they can more easily recall the incompatible differences between the two.
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Look at all the projects killed by google. Why would they not just create another language and kill off go overnight?
This is fairly new. Magnet schools and accelerated classes for smart poor people used to be something that we considered good, because we want at least a few smart people getting educated. Now that "smart poor people" generally means "people of asian descent," we're changing course and getting rid of all of those programs.
One of the worst examples of a 2d to 3d transition is Europe Universalis 2 and 3. The 3d map got all messy and hard to see stuff on and it lagged alot even on fast computers.

I tried to D2 open beta and surely the monster stood out way less. If 3d would be as clear each monster would have to have a thick 2d border.