skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's difficult to eliminate the possibility of a tremendous degree of incompetence, without outright fraud, based just on the p-values near 1.

As noted in other comments here, one possibility is that the authors failed to correctly describe the procedure they used. Sheldrick does consider this, pointing out that even if they actually did try to match subjects, unlike what they said in the paper, it would be very unlikely that they could match them well enough to obtain the reported p-values. But another possibility is that they were totally incompetent at using their statistical software - that the reported p-values are not actually the real p-values for the tests that they said they did. Maybe they accidently used the wrong dataset, for example. Or perhaps they copied numbers from the wrong column of the table the software produced.

In a wider sense, though, this would still essentially be fraud - it's dishonest to publish a paper that purports to be a competent study when really you are totally clueless about how to do research, or care so little about correctness that you put no effort into checking that you did things correctly. (And surely they would have to suspect that they don't really know what they're doing...)
I can't speak for everybody, but the main reason I don't do this is that I've done it and it created additional work rather than saving any.
They have altered the page to be about psychology, economics and water resource management as well as medicine.

If you look at this page, you feel as if you have stumbled into some psychological/sociological discussion.

This, to me, is an example of how wiki editors are trying to dampen down the implications of the replication crisis.

Take a look at the current version against previous versions, eg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Replication_crisi...

The strong "Overall" statement early in the article is gone, and instead we have lots of dull, makeweight context and background.
My choice, because it's the stack I know very well, would be Prosody ( https://prosody.im/ - I'm one of the devs) and a web client such as Converse.js ( https://conversejs.org/ ). XMPP is highly extensible, Prosody is highly modular, which make them a good foundation for building on top of.

That said, the right stack is generally the one that matches your requirements, and (if this isn't primarily a learning exercise) whatever you're most familiar with. The hardest part of building a Discord or Slack-like in 2022 is actually not the technical stuff. There are many comprehensive open-source products already out there that compete with these companies, such as Mattermost, RocketChat and Element.
> We aren’t talking about law, we are talking about spirit.

ah damn, one of the the philosophical free speech people that made up a standard the spot, I wrote in a related comment:

> its hard to tell which people just completely misunderstand the first amendment, and which people are talking about a "philosophical" free speech that they made up on the spot to bolster their point

so, what does that have to do with any particular country? what countries is it different? what is particular about the country you speak of?
You're not wrong.

However, while I agree that SaaS is a really dangerous trend that Steam definitely contributed to, I can't agree 100%. Specifically, out of all the SaaS products out there Steam is probably one of the best. And I run most games on Linux with Proton and all my games have local binaries. I have even replaced them with no ill effects. Steam has the capability to hash the file but under normal situations it just calls the exe by name. And it's offline mode is pretty legit also (although it's up each games to respect that setting for their own analytics).

EA is completely untrustworthy. I will not use Origin.

As far as Windows goes; as a professional domain administrator my opinion is this; it is literally the only realistic way to apply users, groups, and policies to a domain. It is impossible to run a successful medium-large scale non-tech company without a Windows environment simply because it is a ubiquitous and easy to maintain system. At home I am a strictly Linux neckbeard like the rest of you, but when it's time to make money at the office you need a Windows environment. That doesn't mean you need to setup Azure AD and offload all your infrastructure. You can do it all on premises and even use your own KMS activation servers if you really want to. But honestly windows is a good product that is worth the price if you're trying to make money with non-technical people.
good point. getting an internship for summer and maybe fall/spring part time is a good way to defray the opportunity cost of not having a full-time job for four years. I think you have to be a pretty strong student and well organized to get an internship before junior year though.
For public key cryptography my go to analogy for non-technical people has always been the mailing padlocks example (where the padlock is the public key, and the key to unlock itbis the private key that stays with the sender).
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At least they’d have an incentive to make it work reliably and not nuke your files. Sounds like an improvement already
> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology.

This is true, and an argument that keeps getting repeated, but isn't the same issue. The politics of open source software are about software. How it's made and how it's used.

The modern push is about injecting outside ideology into software (and everywhere else). Bringing geo, gender, and racial politics into software is a whole lot different than software politics in software.
Putters, too!
But if you can't copyright something that was created via automation (https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2022/02/23/thaler-loses-ai-author...), does this even matter?
How long before GH starts pushing email spam with digests of "Projects that might interest you"? It would be great if they could instead redirect efforts to tie their recommendation engine to their search results. User intent is clearer and serendipitous recommendations surfacing in the results would actually be of value.
> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology

They did have a strong ideology and they worked towards building the world they wished to see. Not by breaking existing things to virtue signal their support for "the current thing"
Yes, people affected should absolutely go to court. Let the courts decide if this activity of this nature in violation of the law. I absolutely support that.

Package authors who did this are also going to be ostracised by the community. So they will most likely pay a price.
Something like this?
https://www.powermag.com/china-starts-up-first-fourth-genera...
Yes, I agree it was many factors. This video seemed to be the breaking point, but it was certainly a long time coming. I recall several videos over the past 2 or so years where he drew attention to the invective he receives. I don’t really participate beyond watching the videos, so perhaps there are others who are more informed about the factors behind his decision.

Regardless, I wish him all the best and hope he’ll find a way to showcase his talent or at least find fulfillment elsewhere.
The 'ideal ssh flow' involves a program that I think the author has written and a website login. Do these certificates require an existing system running single sign on or similar to hand out access to other machines, in single point of failure fashion?
I support a more broad approach: a public body whose inside will be jailed for life if discovered taking payments from third parties, with enough tech to appear generic Citizens to the corporate surveillance, with funds to buy things regularly, and get donated to poor thereafter.

If they found anti-user practice they have sanctioning power in the order of % of revenues, little the first time, hard the second, claiming personal executives responsibility a third breach. They not only check products but also services, software and hybrid stuff.

Selling crap is subject to little sanctions, like if you sell thing that are clearly designed to break in very little time, you sell things to elicit more money forcing mandatory services etc you'll pay so much that's simply illogical trying to.

Imposing just a phone number and a reachable human on the company side I fear is far from sufficient: these days is common arrive to a humans, but a powerless one, who can just open or "bump" a ticket. Again simple laws who take into account only one side fail for easy corruption, that's why a public and transparent, forced to be independent and only able to operate to a certain extent actor is needed. Most people is honest in a society because that's the best evolution behavior but most if far from all, so rules must be crafted on humans defects making bad behaviors disadvantageous from all side possible. It's hard, of course, but not impossible, and a real Democracy can control and block dangerous derives quick enough.
Not to mention, this also makes me think of (paraphrasing)

you have a right to free speech, but that doesn't mean others are obligated to provide you an audience
Ultimately Manhattan Project "prove" the usability of Uranium->Plutonium path and simultaneously made inroads for power generation using Uranium (or Uranium-Thorium mixes). So why experiment with untested version if the tested one is more versatile?
Thanks for the info.

Not seeing any mention of obesity in the article unfortunately.
The chinese did some good reports on ME/CFS prevalence after Sars. About 50% of everyone who got Sars had linger symptoms initially after recovering from the acute phase and around 10% of everyone still had ME/CFS about 12 months later, none of which have recovered from that, but a few did die. There are at least 3 papers on it, I went through them just as Covid19 was kicking off.

Covid19 produces somewhat less commonly lingering symptoms compared to Sars and less severely but no where near as much as we might like (more like 5% long term).
Oh that's an interesting approach.

I'm really into these kinds of projects because I'm trying to create a "design language" - a DSL built specifically for UI/UX designers. The idea is to provide them with something kinda like CSS, but using their own vocabulary and mental models. My thinking is that if they can write code describing interfaces in a way that makes sense to them, then all a developer would have to do is wire it up with behavior. No more handoff or recreating UIs from design mockups.
How many times a day did you typ that wrong!
This post reminds me of an interesting short film on HBO now called "Please Hold".
It's so much easier to deploy and update web apps: https://daringfireball.net/2004/06/location_field

The UI for webapps is worse than for desktop apps, but not degrades enough to compensate for the better deployment story. (For most apps.)
This might be true, but it's also misleading. Intellij is a pretty huge application, with a gigantic set of features and capabilities, likely far more substantial than even the largest/most complex Electron app out there.

Intellij would require notable memory and cpu regardless of whether or not it was Java. See XCode and Visual Studio for comparison, as they are probably closer to the same feature profile than something like VSCode would be. Their memory footprint and performance is not what I'd call substantially better than Intellij (and as with most comparisons of this nature, many caveats exist around which plugins/addons/features are in use).

Would Intellij have a better resource profile if it were native? Ya, possibly, but it's also possible that another language/platform would have been a significant barrier to long-term success. Not many cross-platform UI toolkits from 2000 to choose from, and many fewer have continued to be well-maintained and usable today.
I mean, I see VPS as the worst of both worlds.

You're still managing a server, but now you're paying through the nose to do it.

The costs just simply don't work out nicely to anyone who can afford to buy at even small scales.

A 4 cpu, 8gb ram machine will pretty commonly run you $50 a month, with less than 200gb storage. You're paying 600/year for a machine that I can build (with better specs) for ~400.

Not to mention that the machine you buy yourself will have a lifespan of 3 to 8 years.

So sure - once you factor in bandwidth, storage location, power - you're probably not going to save money in the first year. But by year 2 you are, and by year 4 you've saved a considerable sum.
>be told conflicting things by different people via email

What makes you think phone support would be any different? I have been told different things by different people on the phone, do we demand in person support? What makes you think even in person support wouldn't lie to your face to get you out the door?

The problem is quality not formfactor. As long as people buy the cheapest they can support will always be cut to reduce costs. I just wish there was more pay per incident support that actually got you world class support and was cheap enough to be worth it.
Isn’t there a hidden service bbs/forum out there where the primary topic of conversation is opsec and anonymity applied in this manner?

I thought I read (on hn) of such a community…
Yes! This is a great podcast if you are a fan of William Osman, NileRed, Michael Reeves, Peter Sripol, and the like.
Scaling a customer support organisation is difficult. You need to find people to do a low-status job with unpredictable hours, in a tight labour market.

Also, you probably don't just want to speak to any human. You probably want to speak to an intelligent, skilled human who can fix your problems. That pushes cost up further.

If great support is a priority to you, I recommend being an early adopter of startup products. These companies get their edge from being customer-focused and will be happy to speak to you for whatever reason.

Of course, there are tradeoffs to that approach too. As customers, we want it all: we want cheap products that add tons of value to our lives and never break. In reality it's necessary to make some tradeoffs
The longer the better. A memorable sentence is a good place to start.

ssh-agent will cache the passphrase in memory, which helps avoid needing to type in a long phrase repeatedly.

But it's worth saying that if any private key is leaked (passphrase or not), it's time to revoke it and generate a new one.

Having a passphrase in place raises the bar from "key leaked, 3rd party has access to everything" to "key leaked, 3rd party has to now attempt to crack the passphrase". It mitigates a very bad scenario and buys time.
I’m ok with it as long as the maintainer is consistent and does it for “the current thing” every time. That means Sudan, Darfur, Iraq war, ISIS, Assad’s regime, etc… Heck why not even Florida after the “say gay” thing?
Revolutions have succeeded time and again. The problem is that in most cases, the kind of people who lead successful revolutions are not the kind who can form a non-autocratic government. It can take generations to correct the resulting chaos and totalitarian excesses.
bro you have no place to talk to tell people to “go back to Reddit” after posting that comment. “like typing the N word in all caps” what on earth are you even talking about?
Depends if you are going with the book definition of capitalism or just "more money for rich people".
There's a lot of things companies can do to make it easier for customers. I try live chatting all the time and it's typically answering 10 questions for a stupidly dumb bot, finally getting someone online and then answering the exact same questions. Then telling CS my issue in detail and being given a macro answer that ignores everything I just wrote.

The level of training of CS is bad in a lot of companies and I can become that mean customer. I don't use abusive language but I'm upset having to explain myself repeatedly and getting nowhere.
I think you're being downvoted by the same nerds obsessed with self-hosting. "But how can I self-host without ssh?!"
Our on-prem instance hasn't had any downtime I'm aware of in the past year at least.
well deserved. prot is a fantastic person and his emacs packages are all stellar. can’t use any theme besides those in modus, for example
MacOS. "Cross-platform" really just means Mac and Windows, and Mac is too hard to develop for, even if you use a cross-platform toolkit (you have to own a Mac, and you have to install the latest XCode, and you need to figure out how to navigate XCode's bewildering and buggy GUI, and you have to digitally sign your app every time you release a new version).

Meanwhile, making a webapp that will work on all platforms (including Linux, Android, and iOS, as an added bonus) is the default. Just create it somehow, and it'll work on all of them.
Since I don't need it for monitors or ethernet, my only concern is fast charging on my phone. So, I find a generic cable brand, keep buying it, and buy lots. I pitch them when they stop fast charging (which always goes first? somehow) or relegate them to a secondary use. And, this is part of why I try to keep black and silver sharpies on me..
You’ve completely and utter missed my point. The fact that I’m in a thread advocating Firefox usage should demonstrate that I’m in favour of people using Gecko. I’m not saying Chromium being open source makes everything ok. I was only disagreeing with the GPs point that things are worse now than they were in the 90s and 00s. To use your example, back then MS owned the protocol AND the browser code.

Just because I disagree that things are worse that doesn’t mean that I like the status quo either. Which is why I use Firefox (well, one of the many reasons. But a pretty big reason).

I remember writing my own web browser around 1999 (give or take a couple years). Just a toy thing but born out of frustration with Internet Explorer, or Internet Exploiter as I used to call it. That was a massive undertaking. But these days if Google do stagnate Chrome then it’s still possible to fork Chromium and push it in a different direction. Not to mention we also have WebKit, kHTML and Gecko too. That alone makes this situation better than it was when Microsoft owned the web. Add to that, Chome doesn’t come pre-installed on as many computers as IE did (lots if you count Android but at least Apple hardware ship something else. Opinions of Safari aside).

This doesn’t mean we should be complacent nor assume Google doesn’t still have a stranglehold but it does mean the GPs point is inaccurate.
The problem I see is that there is no way to discern a "corporate customer" versus a guy in his bedroom building an app. The whole fakerJS fiasco really pissed me off because the developer seemed to assume that the only folks using his software were greedy F500 companies.

And that's the problem I see with many of these political statements. There seems to be this politically driven assumption that the only users of OSS are greedy companies that won't pay to support it. So they make a political statement, take down their package or make it malicious. All this does is creates a minor headache for the big corps that have resources and fucks over the little guy.
> costs are a pittance

That is completely dependent on the support burden at the margins of an additional customer. If your business is high-touch, your business won't scale.

Which is perhaps the problem. Companies should not scale beyond what they ought to (when additional scaling hurts those at the margins).
> the tutorials never wade into these weeds and show how FP makes real world applications easier to build

Yes that's true, and it's unfortunate.
There already are nuanced exceptions. Technically, recording someone having a conversation on a phone can violate wire tap laws, even if you didn't interfere with the device. You can record police, but you're required to be back a certain distance (8' I think). Many states also allow private recording, but only if you reasonably believe a crime of violence might be committed. Etc

Ostensibly, the officer is open to a US 42 1983 color of law violation since there are court decisions affirming the right to record police in public.
Where did I say this country is unique? Every country could be identical for all I care, that isn’t the point. The point is, here, we have the idea that you can’t shut anyone up. Maybe everywhere else they have that idea too, but again, that isn’t the point.
Styled-components npmjs postinstall malware
I have six opened jars of salsa in my fridge, and exactly one is not spoiled. This is a problem with salsa.
This presumes you're scanning lines but if you really want to speed read you should scan whole blocks of text as you draw the eye down, there should be little to no horizontal movement when you're really reading fast.

- - - -

An interesting and effective method of speed reading is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP). These days it's mostly used in the context of psychological/perception studies, but it came about as a I/O method for military machines IIRC. Anyway, the trick is you display text one word at a time, in the same location, so the eye doesn't have to move at all. With a little practice and some tweaking (i.e. slight extra delay after periods and commas, that sort of thing) you can read very very fast. (For me I could read faster than my internal mental voice can speak.)

- - - -

There's an interesting effect where you can take some text and, for each word longer than ~5 letters, you leave the first and last letter in place but scramble all the "interior" letters. The resulting text is still legible!

(I'd give an example here but I'm too lazy. Exercise for the reader, eh?)
A central-bank-issued digital dollar could enable a dark future
Didn't see that, but...

Now if someone successfully publishes a hack that steals everyone's data and/or creates a botnet everywhere it's installed, there's no way to actually pull it down and override it.

Unless there's a centralized authority with the ability to do that, in which case it's not decentralized and we're just changing who controls it.
I published a science fiction magazine for 5 years, and many of my friends are in the industry, so I'm familiar with the market. Trying to promote science and technology with science fiction short stories is like trying to promote a blockbuster movie with an off-broadway arthouse play. The existing audience for science fiction short stories is miniscule compared to the existing number of science and technology enthusiasts.

That being said, I love any new market for SF short stories, so I wish you the best of luck!
> In theory the same things could happen for PIP, Maven, Gradle, their Rust and Go counterpart and any such package manager. Any data on this?

in theory, but why is it always node.js/npm? I work on completely different things... is it a different community culture? is it the thousands of tiny low quality packages people include to do the most basic things?
> and how could that be worth it in the long run?

fake internet points.
You are missing the crux of that argument:

"Thaler listed Creativity Machine as the author of the work"

You cannot claim that the AI was the creator.
Same uptime as my development environment of GitHub then! (And similarly, my statement is as relevant as yours when it comes to the services CI uptime)
Chef Habitat 1.6.477 Released
> Same way we don't allow children to wonder around in the city by themselves

Here in Germany, it's absolutely no problem for kids aged 8 to go to school on their own.

On the other hand, we offer public transport and our cities are walkable...
Oh you're right, having coffee at the terrace while typing on the phone, I meant 'pure' functions which take and return immutable data structures.
There is so much anti-business rhetoric on this site lately. A regulation like this would severely hamper peoples ability to start and profitably run a business. My guess is that OP has never run a startup.