skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the critics because I am not in that particular field and would not have called for its retraction. But having read it, I do think the paper exemplifies a deeply flawed schema for how science works today and how scientists should be judged. In my opinion it shouldn't have been published, at least because it's superficial and doesn't contribute much in practice beyond citations or h index, to the extent those might be used. Should it have been retracted? I don't know and don't really care, to the extent I think there's lots of stuff published in the academic literature that's questionable.

The paper makes these assumptions, at least implicitly: (1) that scientific value should be evaluated in terms of contemporaneous reputation of some sort, and (2) that scientific products reflect something in the individual, as opposed to groups, political factors, and so forth. Both of these assumptions are deeply flawed, or in the least, might be seen as controversial.

I can't speak to astronomy in particular, but in biomedicine academics has become a sort of FOMO rather than focus on correctness, rigor, or insight. In my areas, large citation counts almost always reflect an idea or evidence being on the mind of lots of people, with a small number just having been first to get it on paper for whatever reason. It's kind of like trivial patents or something, where something has a lot of value but is pretty obvious to anyone knowledgable working in the field. Then on top of that you have the group-work phenomenon where things really reflect the group, and not the individual, but because of promotion, the nature of crowds, etc. certain individuals are always trying to soak up attention like a black hole.

Take large observatory projects, or probe missions. Does sending a probe to a planet reflect 1 PI? 2 co-PIs? The team? There's lots of things like this but even more incremental.

It also ignores the role of political factors, which are huge. Imagine a computer science department where all of the non-hardware faculty are bullied out of the department by those doing hardware, physics-type research because of a belief on the part of the latter that anything non-hardware based isn't "real science." Junior faculty are threatened, not given tenure, senior faculty have their salaries frozen and are slandered, people leave in droves until they get what they want. Do we judge someone in that type of environment the same as someone who is surrounded by supportive colleagues?

Academics is broken, and this paper sort of proceeds as it's not. It's not really about diversity, except to the extent that diversity issues can often be a canary with regard to deeper problems with abuse, dysfunction, and corruption.

The short version is this: the paper is circular. Foxes guarding the henhouse, etc.
Startups stepping into the unicorn status territory are a much better bet. Their stock grants have value since the companies are getting closer to exit, and there's a real chance that the stock will 10-100X.

Your four year vest of $250k could be worth $2.5M - $25M in the future.

These are the best jobs. They can be extremely lucrative, and the work is exciting and palpable. Scaling a company to the point of IPO is fun.

Look at the market the company is entering. How big? Is the company growing like crazy? What's the competition? How's the leadership and culture? And do you like the work?
How do you sync readwise and Notion? I also have use Instapaper & Readwise but would like a center page for all highlights for easy searching
Yes, these puzzles are entirely self–contained. There are no hidden tricks or rules. In principle you can completely solve them with no reference to outside material, just by studying the problem itself. The math involved in a Rubik’s cube is actually quite interesting too.
These kinds of studies have all sorts of issues. The main one is it's cheap to answer a study. Nobody has any skin in the game. What do you think of Apple? Oh great phones, very nice UX.

Where it matters is when you're asked to spend money, for one. And the other one is what we're discussing here, where do you want to work? The natural experiment of choice is more telling than what a bunch of people can recall about some name that they barely know anything about.
A CLI year (time) progress that small, fast, and just one single binary
The iMovie of that era really was spectacular. It was such a perfect balance between power and simplicity.

EDIT: The story of how iMovie got nerfed is an interesting one: iMovie '08 began as an engineer's side project to build a tool that could put together a movie more quickly. So it did away with the more powerful features. Apparently leadership liked it so much they decided to make it the new iMovie.[1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/LSVJfn-BiYE?t=2168
You’re basically saying that just because we haven’t been great at general fishery management yet doesn’t mean we won’t get it right next time. But the problem here is that fisheries are literally the textbook example of the tragedy of the commons and there will always be someone looking to capture the benefits while externalizing the costs. I’m not disagreeing with you that unsustainable eating is the root of this (and many other) problem but the only successful solutions has been extremely strong semi-militaristic (eg Coast Guard with teeth) enforcement of fishing quotas that are quite unpopular for all involved: fishers who lose jobs, eaters who lose access to a favorite taste, etc. No one likes taking their vitamins as it were.
> This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing.

Same, I remember being so resistant to porting to XP. AND funny enough, when I finally made the shift, it was the first time I ever wiped a hard drive, losing all my precious pirated MP3s.
Would you mind sharing how long the upgrade took, did it require a lot of changes?

I am wondering about jumping from relatively large codebase in .NET Core 3.1 to 6.
If my inbox is any indication, hiring has picked back up in the last month. Tons of interest from big companies (Google, FB, door dash, and lots of smaller companies). It seems a bit odd to me as I thought the end of the year was usually a slow time for staffing.
I imagine many FB employees also envisioned themselves working their way to levels of seniority where they could nudge policy and practices towards the better (however they might define that). After all, one might have said, there’s no other place where an individual’s career in tech can have greater impact on so many people’s lives.

Now, seeing how even senior people on dedicated integrity teams had little ability to steer the ship, and being constantly reminded of this by friends outside FB even if it had previously been whispered internally, must be sobering for many of these folks.
Or to put it another way: depending on the timeout value, select() can achieve blocking or non-blocking I/O on several sockets simultaneously. In both cases, the sockets themselves can be either blocking or non-blocking.

There is no practical difference between blocking on select() for multiple sockets or blocking on recv() for a single socket - in both cases the thread can't do anything else.
These things are just the editor plugin executing the code in a background REPL and showing the output inside the editor, no? While for example real-time updates are pretty cool, I don't see how that makes it not REPL driven development. Nothing is stopping you from having this in Common Lisp (and I'm kind of sure CL already has this in emacs).

Also, this doesn't really allow for everything else Lisp has that go well with the REPL: conditions and restarts, interactive inspection of values and stack frames, etc.
Well, to begin with, I think people worry too much about vendor lock-in. Use the tools your cloud vendor provides to make your life easier. Isn’t that one of the reasons you chose them?

That said, moving containers to another container orchestrator isn’t terribly difficult, so I don’t personally worry about vendor lock-in for containerized workloads. If your workloads have dependencies on other vendor-specific services, that’s a different story, but basically a container is easy to move elsewhere.
I usually don't complete online courses(I get bored watching educational videos) except for one. This course is on data structures and is conducted by University of California, San Diego. It is available both on edX[0] and Stepik[1]. The reason this online course is so engaging is because it uses the active-learning way of teaching. I was surprised how well that technique worked!

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/data-structures-an-active-learnin...

[1] https://stepik.org/579
I’m not any particular fan of Facebook, but to run with the cancer analogy: normally a cancer consumes and destroys its host. To the best of my knowledge, Facebook’s market valuation has basically only gone up for the last decade. The only (and very recent) bumps for then have been privacy related, which are closer to the core business than to any diversity initiatives they might have. So where, exactly, is the cancer?
Maybe that's why Google has made a few dozen amazing things while FB has made basically one thing and acquired the rest. A culture that respects engineering leadership.
Some of this is because instead of presenting data, we are now presenting personalities.

When people in media, or politicians say "Trust the science" they do not point to a piece of data, or research, they instead point to a person, often a high profile person, that we are to trust.

I trust data, not people.
It doesn’t have to be hard. I started by writing down one thing that I had learned and that I might need to do again, but not soon enough that I was likely to remember. I think my first document was a bulleted list of 5 items or so. That first page or two is often the hardest to get started on. Then I added another page, and another. Now I have hundreds of documents in my own notes and hundreds more in my notes at work.

I do similar things using Trello (for todo’s), Markdown files (for more complete info), Ponder (my own browser based scratch pad), and a notebook for Stray Thoughts (for capturing thoughts at bedtime or throughout the day).
How often are hospitals overwhelmed? What does “overwhelmed” mean - 95% capacity? Excess beds but not enough nurses? Turning patients away? Operating at max capacity?

What qualifies as “so many excess deaths”? The Hong Kong flu was per capita comparable to what we have now and most people didn’t know anything was happening.
The related article on blackjack (linked at the bottom) was also a great read. I've never felt like I really understood card counting but it makes a lot more sense now. Also explains why I don't go to the casino :)
Which would you choose?

If I had to trade places with one of those two, I’d pick Ellison. I didn’t even bother to look up their (theoretical) net worths, because at that scale it no longer makes a difference; what does make a difference to me is Ellison’s face isn’t regularly in the news attached both to stories about how they engage in censorship by removing people who break the site rules, and to other stories about how they take sides by failing to remove politicians who violate the site rules.
Ask HN: Are there reverse-proxy providers for my use case?
I want to run web-servers from home, with public DNS, but I'm worried that my IP address will change. I'm willing to pay in the range of $100 / month for some sort of proxy, and I only need about 98% uptime.

Is there some sort of service, similar to ngrok[0], that will:
a) have a consistent IP address that I can point a DNS at
b) forward all requests (maybe some weird ports / protocols) over some tunnel to my local machines
c) let my local machines re-establish the tunnels across restarts

Context:

I don't _need_ to do this. I just want to.

I have 3 Intel NUC[1] boxes at home, on battery backup, hard-wired to two residential fiber internet connections for redundancy (Google Fiber & AT&T).

One of these is an Ethereum validator[2], which has been successfully running for almost a year now. It's had ~98% uptime, which is good enough for my needs.

I'm interested in helping other proof-of-stake networks grow, and they all have different hardware & networking requirements. In particular, one of them requires a public DNS entry for each of my nodes.

I sort-of like the idea that the networks are more "decentralized" when running in my house vs in a datacenter somewhere... But honestly, I just think it's more fun to own the machines (pets, not cattle[3]).

[0]: https://ngrok.com/
[1]: https://www.newegg.com/intel-blknuc7i7dnk1e/p/N82E16856102205?Item=9SIA2F873V9947
[2]: https://beaconscan.com/validator/0xaf21b320e306f2e932748403cc4c0a8a8fc78bcf2ccabbc3f04f7242cc7448ba5cc2995267d68d134ca8fa63e6256113
[3]: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-pets-vs-cattle/
Sounds very similar to McDonald's Ice Cream machines.
Money corrupts everything, it replaces the original motivation.

If companies didn't have to maximize x% of the profit made on the investor's money per quarter/year, they will be able to focus on product/service, customer and employees more. It may result in less profit but it will be better for the society as a whole.

We can see this happening when some company is acquired solely for sucking money out of it. Sometimes it leads to worsening of the service/product made by original company, y% of employees get fired because new owners don't care about the product or the employees. Money saved by using cheaper but worse raw material and firing employees shows up as profit.

Because money is sole motivator, we end up over optimizing a company's operations around it. This could be seen everywhere when Covid started. Hospitals didn't have have back up PPEs. Auto makers didn't have parts/chips in inventory for emergencies. They're optimized to order the amount they need in immediate future, without any serious thought to contingency.

When an Amazon worker is asked to self x products across the warehouse in y minutes, like a machine without a thought to the well being of the worker, its because Amazon has to show profit to the investors.

We don't have product making companies anymore, we have stock making companies. They don't sell goods, services, they sell stocks.
YAGNI has merit for sure, and bookmarks may work for you, but they certainly are not enough for everyone. You cant do search within of all bookmarks at once, highlights, notes or spaced repetition integration of highlights with simple bookmarks.

I applaud your minimalistic workflow, however, ive always found bookmarks next to useless (i still use them). Of course thats my own problem, just pointing out what benefits I get using other tools.
> When society
is run to protect companies over the
well being of the people, thay have
lost their reason to exist in the first place.

According to you, seeing as almost every country in history was run exclusively for the benefit of the ruling class, none of them had a reason to exist?

> But the US has done a very poor job at
selecting their politician leadership for
a long time now.

Agreed. But i think it's a problem in the system itself. The us have a binary choice between hilary/biden and trump with no middle ground.
The Netherlands becomes global market leader for electric cars
"Global Electric Vehicle Catalyst Index 2021"

[pdf]
https://images.connect.arcadis.com/Web/Arcadis/%7Bd61c8322-c...
does it fire the missles? how does it handle IO? what if we are poking global mutable state?
Sweden is a strange country. Even moderately right wing people advocated for stronger lockdowns in unison, whereas the left wing perspective was think of the children (keep schools open) and think of the working class (who are the ones to lose their jobs).

Says a lot of how malleable political discourse is, I guess.
Rather it's the list of countries that Sweden borders on, that are culturally and geographically most similar to Sweden...
I have to wonder if job satisfaction at Facebook has a very binomial distribution. This is pretty much true at any large corp, where there can be a ton of variation between teams, but from the outside looking in it seems that Facebook basically has a dichotomy:

On one hand you have teams working on interesting and industry-leading tech, like React, GraphQL, Oculus, etc. But on the other you have legions of people working to make the money machine printing, and I've got to think most of that work sucks: the nitty-gritty of keeping the site up, content moderation teams, all the ad plumbing. A lot of that stuff would be good for a new grad to learn how stuff works at such large scale, but that's the cohort who I think would be most turned off by Facebook's social/brand problems.
Among the Unvaccinated: Meaning, Death, and Owning the Elites
Facebook is (was?) used by the masses. Twitter is mostly the same group of influential people talking to each other.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-pew-study-echo-chambers
> The metaverse bet you shrug off but adding emoji reactions impresses you?

I'm not sure the metaverse play really is anything other than continuing the same thinking that led to Facebook login required for Oculus. The idea is probably to roll out VR no differently than rolling out emoji reactions. It's what you do when you get big. 1B users * 10% using new feature = BIG NEW USER BASE and you get to report growth for years as 10% turns into 20%.
I found his courses rigorous and approachable too. I think they were equivalent to the courses he taught while at Stanford.

https://timroughgarden.org/videos.html
Competing question: Do you need the best?

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are built. They have their management systems and structures in place. It would be wrong to think that everyone at Facebook needs to be a genius for the company to succeed, and putting a genius into many of the roles that are needed to keep the company operating won't work out well for either the genius or the company.
I had the same observation.
Yeah, pretty run-of-the-mill as far as similar projects go. Maybe a tad over-complicated to put it mildly.

I've done something like this except not with KVM, but with headless Xorg+PulseAudio+Wine to have Hearthstone with sound over RDP.

Did it run? Yes. Did it run like crap? Absolutely!
There are two kinds of optimum strategies for farmers, and there has been a long term shift from one to the other.

The older strategy is for a farm to be no bigger than a single family can handle, and to be as self-sufficient as possible. Here equipment is run as close to breaking down as it can be without actually being broken down. A tractor would be used <30 days a year (planting, fertilizing, weeding, harvest) and sit idle otherwise. It doesn't make sense to pay for a super-expensive machine to sit idle. The optimum is lowest cost to purchase, lowest cost to repair, cheapest option that can get the job done. A farmer builds a collection of nearly-broken down machines over years to have backup options if one isn't working when needed.

The other optimum is to have the largest, most effective, most efficient machines and use them enough to justify it. This makes sense at the industrial farming scale or as a contracting business where the equipment is owned by someone who does contract jobs for many smaller farmers. For this case the tractor needs to be running and making money as many days a year as it can; any down time is money lost.

The shift over years has been that the second strategy produces more crops with lower expenses than the first, and is taking over to the extent it is almost impossible to run a small farm without going bankrupt.
i.e., it was a one-off mistake, and people were held accountable (even if not to the degree you feel appropriate), and it was not systematic as you and GGP are attempting to imply
I do worry about the oversight and auditing of such metrics. The article does refer to the problem of "I planted X trees therefore I removed Y carbon", when that is true only under particular conditions.
i dont think a tech company will move away from a engineer centric focus, everyone which dared disappeared. Oracle as patent company is a different story
I think the bigger problem here is not "we’re acting out of caution as the science" but more that politicians are incapable of saying "we are NOT going to act because the science is unclear"

They must be seen as ALWAYS doing something, anything, to solve every perceived problem. This is the root cause of most of the issues, Just once I would love to see a politician say "This is not for government to solve" ... Just once...
I'll say it: macOS is in decline.

It used to be we would pay a premium for slightly less good hardware, just to run the macOS.

Now, we buy hardware that is world-leading, and sponsor people to try to get Linux running on it so we can flee the mess that is macOS.
Cryptocurrency, Part 2
I’m working on an open source static site thing that might be interesting to you. Would be delighted if you contacted me through my profile.
This is monopolistic behavior all the way. Let's leverage our cash to make it more expensive to get customers, and force app publishers to sell their product through our channel. This needs to be stopped. Now.
Critical mistake in this article: assuming that more activities at work will reduce or even stop work-induced burnout.

No. Send me a compensation for working hard to launch your project and order me to rest for a week. I'll figure out what to do to unwind, don't you bother yourself with this -- it's on me and I'll handle it.
I think you mean bimodal. Binomial is something else completely
Definitely agree on the auto insurance. It’s my understanding it’s an artifact of the no-fault insurance policy but that may not be the whole story. The lack of great public transit makes it worse because there’s little option because it’s such a car-centric region. I also agree that AA is expensive, but I think that’s in part due to the affluent populace of the college. If you’re willing to forgo the status of living in Ann Arbor, reasonable housing can be found in adjacent areas including college towns like Ypsilanti.

I found property taxes reasonable if you’re outside of Detroit. Detroit, IMO, still has the vestiges of the corruption that caused its original downturn. I know of one company that moved to TX due to it; the last straw was a 7-figure “license” to hang their company sign on their building.
Thanks!

Unfortunately, no, you'll have to add them manually from the Share menu in Notion.

I'll include it in docs.
Not only is there no particular reason to believe anything you are saying, but even if it were true, it would still represent a meaningful investment. Fixed wireless will fail to reach some people, but would represent a big step up for a lot of other people.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good and don't let cynicism be the enemy of getting anything done.
+1, Erik Demaine is a great lecturer.
This is a good starting point: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7wAPgl1JVvUEb0dIygHzO469...