skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, this is overtly not true. Reproducibility refers to all forms: that the paper figures can be built from code and don't have errors, that a reimplementation of new code on the same data produces the same results, and that gathering new data (e.g. by conducting the same experiment again if possible, in other words replication) produces comparable results.

Second, publishing code helps make invisible decisions visible in a far better manner than the paper text does. Try as we might to imagine that every single researcher degree of freedom is baked into the text, it isn't and it never has been.

Third, errors do occur. They occur when running author code (stochasticity in models being inadequately pinned down, software version pinning, operating system -- I had a replication error stemming from round-towards-even behaviour implementation varying across platforms). If you have access to the code, then it's far easier to determine the source of the error. If the authors made a mistake cleaning data, having their code makes it easier to reproduce their results using their exact decisions net of the mistake you fix.

Most papers don't get replicated or reproduced. Making code available makes it more likely that, at a minimum, grad students will mechanically reproduce the result and try to play around with design parameters. That's a win.

Source: Extensive personal work in open and transparent science, including in replication; have written software to make researcher choices more transparent and help enable easier replication; published a meta-analysis of several dozen papers that used both reproducing author results from author code, producing author results with code reimplementation, and producing variant results -- each step was needed to ensure we were doing things right; a close friend of mine branched off into doing replications professionally for World Bank and associated entities and so we swap war stories; always make replication code available for my own work.
Steam has been releasing Linux based hardware and driving generic Linux support since 2015, if it hasn't been worthwhile for the last 7 years it seems an error to bet on the next new thing catching on this time before it's even released.

Even assuming Steam Deck (which is what I think you really meant) is an absolutely roaring constant success then they still realistically have a couple of years before it'd really be a significant chunk anyways. That's ignoring the whole premise of their other development, Proton, which is about running the Windows games on such systems anyways.
This just isn't true. Viral load matters.
Using DMZ doesn't completely solve my problem, the AT&T gateway is still routing every packet (at less than line speed) and randomly dropping some of them.
I notice IceWM gets mentioned here; I'm always looking for a good environment to run for my VNC sessions. Right now I'm using FVWM, can anyone comment on pros/cons of switching to Ice?
No, because people with mental health issues like bipolar or schizo or even ADHD tend to self medicate with drugs before seeking help, if they ever do.
While I publish in a field where making source code available is much more common, let me just make a couple of points:

* I have never had someone come back to criticize my code style. And if they do, so what? I'll block them and not think about it again. I don't need to get my feathers ruffled over this.

* Similarly, if someone's trying to replicate my results, and they fail, it's on them to contact me for help. After that it's on me to choose how much effort to put into helping them. But if they don't contact me, or if they don't put in a good faith effort to replicate the results, that's their problem. If they try to publish a failure to replicate without having done that, it's no more valid science than publishing bad science in the first place.

Overall, I think most people who stress about publishing code do so because they haven't done it before. I've personally only ever had good consequences from having done so (people picking up the code who would never have done anything with it if it weren't already open source).
> a scary conception of how property rights should work

I didn't interpret it to have anything to do with changing property rights. We just shouldn't have a single, unelected person who has the power to make decisions at the level of a major nation-state.

Regardless of the reasons it happens, no individual should accumulate that much power. If that means we need to reduce the amount of power someone has based on the amount of property they have, fine. There are many solutions to it. It's still a problem though.
This sounds personal, and reads like you read headlines every day from 2016-2020 and got very angry at “someone” (there is a common term for this) and now you are happy that the shoe is on the other foot, despite it being a false equivalence and no such similar syndrome existing for the other side?
Even Portugal, a small country of 10 million people / 100k km^2, has quite a lot of linguistic diversity.
Wonder how does this reflects on the ongoing Russia-US NATO talks that just wrapped up. Moscow is waiting an official letter from the WH where Russia’s “security concerns” are addressed. Even if Washington expected de-escalation on the Russian-Ukrainian border, this does seem like a good gesture token.
No doubt, Apple is more opinionated when it comes to UI/UX than others — for better or worse. It's a trade-off.

Fwiw, Apple does provide more control over the display tucked away under Settings/System Preferences => Accessibility (lots of goodies there, actually).

Not clear if you knew that and still found that too limiting, but perhaps others will have fun poking around in there.

At least on the Mac, I can almost always find a third-party tool that can accomplish anything Apple didn't expose.

I largely agree they need to reduce their App Store fees — it is damaging their goodwill for relatively limited benefit, but more-so it's attracting government scrutiny that will likely lead to worse outcomes for Apple and its users if they don't relent.
Here is an incentive they could use: If a paper publishes the code it used, they can be allowed to skip the methods section about it. Describing code with words is at best awkward and usually error prone as people forget to update the text.

To be clear in my field the journals require publishing the code, but in my experience the code that gets reused gets more scrutiny, often without benefit to the researcher.
Why? Cars?
Think about how much less traffic a city like Mumbai would have if it was all electric bikes instead of electric cars.
>Each of those two sets of atoms were split into superpositions, with one path traveling closer to the mass than the other, separated by about 25 centimeters

One path of the particle in superposition was closer to the 1.25Kg mass than the other path, and they did measure a difference when doing that.

I don't know if you are trying to be pedantic, or just want to contradict. I know what you are saying, but the the expression "not touching the field" makes perfect sense to me. Try plotting the 25cm distance difference for the 1.25Kg mass, and see if it makes a difference or not...
Before Paypal launched, only companies had relationships with payment processors and could directly accept major credit cards. Individuals had basically nothing.

Paypal was a huge catalyst for online auctions and small business, and it took took time for behavior like this to develop. And as others have said, they worked hard to not be a bank.
Concerned parents labelled terrorists? False: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/18/instagram-...

You (and your friends if they are real) are propaganda victims.
I'm the GP and I responded to another comment that my views are influenced by the in-depth articles written by Lyn Alden: https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/

It's quite a long read, but I can tell you it doesn't come from a libertarian perspective. It does touch on Bitcoin, but near the end in one of a few theoretical "where things could go" perspective.

>"I think it would represent a fairly strong change in global power structures, but like you I don’t think the sky would fall."

Agreed, it would be shocking but life would go on. We would just have to live with a new international monetary paradigm.
The idealism of not doing so led us directly back to centralized weird web where the New York Times force you to call them to cancel a subscription.

The problem with using the NYT as an example of why RSS feeds won't work for monetized content is that the NYT has RSS feeds[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/rss
Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation
Nissan was outselling Tesla in the electric car market until pretty recently. It was already happening. Tesla actually released an affordable electric car quite a while after other companies like Nissan, GM, and Chevy. I would credit the "revolution" to tax credits and affordable cars, not to Tesla.
It seems like Kubernetes has reinvented JCL from the IBM Mainframe

From the Wikipedia pager for JCL:

"Job Control Language (JCL) is a name for scripting languages used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem.[1]

More specifically, the purpose of JCL is to say which programs to run, using which files or devices [2] for input or output, and at times to also indicate under what conditions to skip a step."
> For a while I was frustrated at how slow people have been to realize that GPT-3 sucks but lately I am more amused.

Generated text was not good before this era of GPT-X. It’s so much better and more interesting to work with now. It will probably keep getting even better and more controllable.
The obvious solution to creating digital scarcity is putting the ownership into an NFT. That way you can still “own” a copy of a movie exactly in the same way DVDs used to be owned. NFTs aren’t ready for that yet, but one day when there is a centralized platform that becomes the YouTube of NFTs then it may be large enough. None of this will happen without regulation in the space though because right now owning an NFT is no different than say having the movie on Comcast’s website, but being unable to play it from any other application. When regulations making NFTs standard across multimedia occur then there will be true use of NFTs, meaning the websites just become the DVD player, and once you own an NFT of a movie you can play it on any website you link your wallet to so it knows you own that specific NFT. I’d guess that’s at least 20 years away though.
This is true. Enforcing criminal statutes is the job of the executive branch. Congress can investigate other branches of government, and for the purpose of formulating policy, but I can see no policy formulation here. This is clearly a show investigation to try and paint their opponents in the worst light for the next election.
Not to steer too far from your points but one of the things I have noticed is that these self driving system are not failing at being good AIs but are failing at the level of basic modeling of their physical environment. Lots of examples of this (not specific to tesla) including cars not being able to tell there is something on the road in front of them, cars mistaking headlight reflects for road lines.

It is this behavior that is the main cause for concern.
Every car manufacturer was fighting it for decades. They did things like lobbying against electric cars, and pushing vaporware to stop change every time. When they gave-up to demand and created some electric car, they would always make it flawed in every possible way so it doesn't compete with the money-makers of the day.

Car manufacturing is a highly oligopolistic market, with almost impossible barriers to entry. If somebody irrational enough to push it didn't appear, those manufacturers would have their way for as long as they wanted.
Discord is missing, a lot of talk before Jan 6th happened there too. Maybe they already cooperated in better faith?
That's disappointing. When I was job searching, I found that SO provided the best opportunities and felt like a more real conversation with a fellow "tech" person, especially compared to LinkedIn.

I also really liked their developer story and the generated PDF for my resume. I guess I'll have to go back to LinkedIn for that :/
I'm not following hardware news really; Just buying whatever Apple cranks out. But I'm considering buying an early 90s Psion MX5 as a mobile typewriter.
Alden’s analysis is certainly thought provoking, but it doesn’t made broad statements about the impact on US global power, which is the topic at hand here.
Show HN: Efficient autodiff using codual numbers
I agree with you and never said that. But specifically hiring local developers for "knowing the market" doesn't match that criteria to me.

I've given plenty of ideas that were profitable, relevant to the product, market and vision of the company. Yet I never lived anywhere close to those markets.

Maybe you had contact with only low quality developers of other countries or we're not speaking about the same thing here...
Your confusion is warranted, the system has twisted incentives. I am a scientist working at a rich university. I still mostly use scihub unless the article is on arxiv, even for articles which have my name in the byline. All this to say, I consider pirating these papers the moral highground and you should not feel bad doing it. Thankfully, I have the job security and funding to demand my work be open access (a whole other can of worms).
Gas, like all commodities, create their own business cycles. You don't want to compare spot prices, you want to compare trends. As a counterpoint, I could say "2 years ago, gas was cheaper than it had been since 2006"
Even more: those suggestions that you see when calling cargo/rustc? They are also applicable through a tooltip with rust-analyzer. rustc has json output where the substitutions are represented in a machine-friendly format. :)
Why thank you! I am testing out pro-freedom arguments when the opportunity arises, "This is my vision, who are you to say I have no right to pursue it?" does seem to be working somewhat. Asking for alternatives similarly, though I think I'll need to pick up a copy of 'doughnut economics' to get the most out of the ensuing conversations.

But taking a wider view, comparing our current situation to any time except Postwar America seems like it should be argument enough. I think the issue is that freedom means freedom to make bad choices if it means anything, and we're currently in a situation of having to deal with the consequences of some bad choices. How that resolves I can't begin to guess.

Edit: It occurred to me, maybe acknowledging that freedom allowed bad choices to be made and that we need to deal with the consequences of those choices would be another way to approach the same argument.
I'd love to see btrfs! It'd be so neat to be able to run btrfs via wasm.
> as well as some drugs like schizophrenia.

If someone offers you schizophrenia at a party, don't take it
They become grim because the conflict is asymmetric.

Slinging insults, hate, disinformation, or just posting plain nonsense is easy. Explaining how things work properly takes a lot of effort and is hard. Eg, saying "The moon landings were a hoax" is easy. Explaining why that makes no sense, and how exactly humans did land on the Moon takes a good amount longer.

There's also that the valuable, accomplished people in a community are a scarce resource. What would you prefer the resident rocket scientist to do, provide useful information for the community on something new going on, or try to reason with the newly arrived conspiracy theorist?
Here's a StackExchange discussion on it, and what a nightmare it is
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/198005/is-plaid...

I see a link to a lawsuit against Plaid in that discussion, but it's from 2020.

Interestingly, this page has someone claiming it's possible to register on Plain using ACH info
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/for-those-hesitant-t...
Scary for property owners, for sure. ;) And there's an important difference between wealth generation like organizing some group of people to produce value, and wealth accumulation at three-comma scales, which usually involves screwing over aforesaid people.
I noticed early in my career that relentless refactoring ended up as de facto empire building because some people would just give up on tracking the changes I was making and abdicated that domain to me.

I think I have a very different way of organizing knowledge, where I worry more about how to answer questions than knowing the answers. This makes me very popular with young and new employees, and quite unpopular with those who think you make Important Decisions by locking everyone in a room until they are made. Oh and using a computer in a meeting is disrespectful so we will make all decisions from memory, then have another meeting when we discover our memory was faulty.
Good quality talent?

Who are these people you are referring to as talented?

Do you mean talent to lie cheat and steal to the top? Kind of like a CEO?

We dont want talented people. Those belong in private industry where the metric for benefit of society is measured in hard currency.

We need people NOT talented in government so that the government does what its supposed to, and nothing else
I was disappointed to find they ran around a block for 3100 miles.

They have my respect for the dedication it took to do this. I feel though that running in circles around a block missing a point somewhere.

The Inter-American Highway[1] is 3,400 miles and would be a rougher journey, but would seem more fulfilling. Or they could go across the breadth of the U.S.A. using the Pacific Crest Trail [2], which is 2650 miles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Highway

[2] https://www.pcta.org/discover-the-trail/
Yes, it is. I am not going to create new accounts, it is fundamentally important for me to reinstate my own account.
They do not. It's an old myth - the society used to blame schizophrenia on bad parents, especially mothers. This has no grounds in medical research.
You can reasonably argue about what should be included but I have a feeling if you started trying to draw a line about what databases are properly "cloud native" and which aren't, you probably end up making a lot of somewhat arbitrary calls.

I'm not sure I disagree with you but I also understand why they might be there.
but think about this, them getting arrested is actually them being coerced into working for the FSB.
Also don't miss the marvelous animation The Secret of Kells [1]

[1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_Kells
What a bizarre take. Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia is one of the most severe, tragic, and random of them.

Even someone skeptical of broader mental health can watch a video of a schizophrenic person and see that there is something deeply wrong with that person.

I don't think you know what schizophrenia is.
Oh absolutely, throwing off all pretense of a believable story for fan favourites Jamie and Bronn to go on an action romp was the first sign of things to come. Only on that season it was that storyline only, on the last two it was the entire thing x)
Would you have said this in 2008 (iPhone 1), early Mac OS X? Steve Jobs called Aqua icons “lickable” iirc and I can’t remember any of these discussions in the 00s. The problem is recent—bad, optional apps with predatory algorithms and notifications

Mac/iOS/Android/Windows etc haven’t changed that much tbh.

Turning Twitter black & white seems like trying to make fast food healthy to me.
You'll probably get more references if you have code, which will probably help your research career.
If you look at the transcript of Trump’s speech (https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-sav...), he literally called for a peaceful march from one location to another:

> I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

And indeed, the overwhelming majority of the ~10000 people in that march never set foot on the Capitol grounds.

As for doubting election results, I feel like there are two things to consider here. One is why we think it is so easy to trust the American election system but cast so much doubt on those of other countries - I feel like that’s just blind faith, particularly when basic security measures like strong voter identification are not in place. The other is that the grounds for doubting election results were laid by the Democrats more so than the Republicans. Remember, Democrats formally objected to certifying results in 2000, 2004, and 2016 (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republic...). Look at the claims Hillary and the Democrats made about Russia interfering in the 2016 elections - polls showed that even in 2018, 2/3rds of Democratic voters believed that Russia literally tampered with vote counts (https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...). Where’s the outrage around all of these situations?

Meanwhile, after a year of sustained rioting and manipulation of politics via violence (BLM riots in 2020), the left crying foul seems incredibly disingenuous. All Sides wrote at length about media bias in covering the Capitol riot (https://www.allsides.com/blog/capitol-hill-breach-riot-cover...). Let’s not forget that it was only very recently that hundreds of rioters were arrested for disrupting SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45754771). This wasn’t the first time either, and there are many similar examples previously (example: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/more-100-arrested-...). Why is it that an escalation of such tactics is only a problem when one political side does it?
I really like carrots because they keep very easily and have such as satisfying crunchy freshness. Mini tomatoes are great when you alternate them with a few tiny mozzarella balls.

I also drink lots of coffee.
All 2300 or so busses in the LA metro fleet will be electrified by 2030 fwiw
> Really good pseudocode might be more useful than your actual code

Hear hear! OP, if you go this route, treat your implementation as a practice run, and write out exactly how it works in pseudocode.

My 2 cents:

I think that hiring a (good) professional for a rework/reimplementation would be productive, but it would certainly run the risk of exposing errors in your work. If that's desirable or not depends on your timeline to publish, I guess.
I disagree, it can be a great choice.

Learning programming requires a lot of perseverance and will power, one of the biggest challenges about learning code is to keep going and stay motivated. Seeing results and building stuff that is useful is a great motivator, Python can make that happen quickly.

Not saying it's for everyone, if the low level stuff gets you excited obviously go for it.

My point is; we all learn very differently, and for a lot of people Python is a great choice as first language because it's high level, and because you can get to results fairly quickly.

Just like you say it will be easier to learn Python later, the reverse is also true. Your first language is always the hardest, the second one, whatever it is, will be much easier.

You hear this "learn the fundamentals first" so many times and it really bothers me as I don't think it's great advice, I think for many people it's not a great way to learn. I know it isn't for me.

My suggestion is to learn in a way that works for you. Getting to results quickly, to only later really learn and understand the things you did is a great method. I know it worked for me, and I know it worked for quite a few people who I helped learn to code.
I Quit Amazon Prime and Survived
This seems to be standard practice, for years?

YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350306 (Jul 2019)

YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251609 (Oct 2019)