skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book is pretty illuminating, but at times is kind of grim reading for anyone with past academic experience. What really sank Schon was the failure to replicate his work, but there were a lot of grad students and postdocs who wasted several years attempting to do so, ending up with nothing to show for it. Even so, there was a reluctance to admit that fraud had taken place. From the book:

Following the exposure of a major scientific fraud, senior scientists sometimes voice concern about the possibility of harm to the public image of their field. News reports and transparent investigations sometimes seem to be making the problem worse. But in practice, the scientists most seriously affected by Hendrik Schon's claims were more affected by the reality of fraud than the bad appearance that followed its exposure.

Leading journals like Science and Nature are also reluctant to withdraw papers for similar image reasons, and Schon was a consummate con artist: "He knew it was important to be friendly towards reviewers, and to thank them generously for their valuable comments. He was not to shy to solicit editors politely for their support." He also would go to senior scientists, ask for their opinion on what kind of data would be expected if his imaginary devices worked, and then fabricate data according to their estimates.

Initially, there was also a major pushback against fraud claims by Bell Labs managers, up to giving poor performance reviews to some of Schon's co-workers who questioned his behavior on the basis of them 'not being good team players'.

So, yes, if people had managed to replicate his work, even partially, he'd likely have gotten away with it, and would now be some top scientist in some prestigious institution.
> iTunes [is] lossless

Is it? As far as I know, lossless is only offered for the Apple Music streaming service, but not for downloads from the iTunes store, which remain as 256K AAC files.
So we start with a wronged party like a copyright owner. They ask a service that is likely in a different country for all the info on the people who looked up metadata of ip they own and don't get laughed out of court.

Then they demand that isps all over the country give names and addresses of people all over the UK that broke no law and did no wrong in hopes of conducting a fishing expedition and don't get laughed out of court.

Now they know who pays the bill for each home network but have no idea who actually downloaded the perfectly legal metadata and no way whatsoever to correlate the data of unknown users of the data with potentially unnamed buyers who legally purchased mp3s from multiple channels like Apple but you think a judge is going to let you paw through every computer in someone's home because you think they probably ripped a cd instead of downloading it on itunes 6 years ago on a different computer at a different address.

Does this sound real?
OK but sir this is a Wendys and there are 12 people on their lunch break lined up behind you. Please collect your child from the floor, shut them up and move along.
I'm not sure when this 90-day rule was written, but I imagine it was written in a time before now with high-performance laptops, video conferencing, common jet travel, and people wanting to work 30 days here, 90 days there, 120 days over there, etc.

This should be revisited. Also I think this is a good example of the need to have expiration dates on new laws and regulations. This should be something that expires and has to be changed to reflect how people live today.
And what is Redox? The website doesn't really say!
I don't use Grammarly but it is nice to see a company do more than just talk about supporting Ukraine. This makes me think I should review it.
I never said to give the income tax to the suburbs. I said the model of whether or not suburbs are tax sources or tax sinks depends on how this is computed. People create models where cities that swell to double the size in the day generate all the tax revenue and every other community is a financial burden. This isn’t saying cities get all the money. I’m just saying how you measure tax generation has big impacts on which communities generate more taxes than they consume.
I've been typing SQLAlchemy for some months now and there's lots of scenarios where if you end up on mypy's issue tracker (which is very often), you will see "oh use a #type: ignore to deal with this occasional use case" as official advice. And here we see a compiler that considers all "# type: ignore" to be bugs and will eventually refuse to compile them. That's simply not realistic for the way Python typing works right now and I am skeptical.
Is this where the ashen one is supposed to link the fire?
Now only if the ranking could happen on my machine too, based on my (search) history... not in this life probably.
There are multiple other solar plants operating with molten salts without issue, including the biggest in Morocco.
99% yes.
Why hasn't this happened in decades?
Only crossfit (no veredict yet). Thinking about trying BJJ next.
TL;DR: They help Ubuntu developers maintain short-term productivity, in return for bloat and a collapse of the system architecture.

Longer version:

1) They encourage bad engineering

Unix is based on designed, long-lived, standard APIs like POSIX, and it works really well. The "problem" Snap is intended to solve is the ability to pull a JavaScript, where APIs are completely reinvented every 18 months by having each component lives in an isolated space with its own libraries and subsystem.

Debian worked perfectly fine 25 years ago, and for the most part, programs from then work fine today. A lot of us value that stability.

If each program relies on different versions of libraries and APIs, you can no longer remix and mix-and-match pieces. I can't pull out a few functions from one program, a few from another, and use them together.

Not needing to maintain backwards-compatibility or think through API design is a huge boost to short-term productivity, but leads to unmaintainable systems. That's true for a lot of the ways tools like Docker are used as well, for that matter.

2) They explode package sizes

In the era of terabyte hard drives, blowing up a package from 50kB to 50MB might not seem like much, but it makes a huge difference. Debian and Ubuntu have thousands of packages. Things like download and install times make things like dev-ops (or just setting up systems) a pain.

3) They murder performance

Again, this might not seem like much, but the end impact is that you can't use tools inside of loops or workflows since startup / shutdown / install time is up many-fold. Unix tools are designed to plug together. <100ms run times and small sizes means you can do that practically.

4) They discourage consistency and backwards-compatibility

I learned to use Unix decades ago, and my child is learning to use Unix too. It's a bigger learning curve, but it's much less overall time than learning DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, etc.

Broken things are worth fixing. If something isn't broken, it's usually not worth replacing. In most cases, rewrites are easier than refactors or fixes, but tend to move things sideways, going backwards as often as forwards. That's especially true of things engineered to last versus thing hacked together in 6-month agile sprints.

See second-system syndrome, and Joel's classic "Thing You Should Never Do, Part 1."
It isn't worth it to get into the weeds with the specifics of political movements.

Agree that "cult like" devotion isn't seen as such when it is aligned towards the dominant narrative of a community. That is seen as normative. The reasoning or lack thereof can be equivalent in all aspects as long as it suits the bias of the viewer.

Getting back to the topic at hand, the intense hatred, the half-baked misapplication of the word ponzi, could be described as cult like. I'm not sure "cult like" is especially meaningful as a criticism given this. It reads as more of a signal of affiliation to one tribe rather than a insightful critique.
That's a good point. For .cc in particular, it's the TLD for an Australian territory and is managed by Verisign so I'd expect the risks to be lower than with some TLDs. Still, though, a lot can happen in "forever" and you're right that it adds an (unnecessary?) risk
Everyone you meet is a knot where two strings intersect. Sometimes these strings twist around each other for a while and it's very natural to judge your path with another. In the very short term this might even be accurate, but then strings diverge and go on towards infinite more collisions. Any comparison of more than the briefest timeframe is meaningless. You don't steer your path as much as influence the variables that determine direction. You do this through both action and inaction.

1. If you want to impact your path, choose intent over accident

2. The direction of your current vector is more important than your life's total displacement

3. Life is lived when strings intersect, with each knot influencing future direction

4. There are no cartesian coordiantes for your final goal. You define an ideal as your target and make progress towards it; both change over time.

More pragmatic: spend some time with your former colleague, reconnect, enjoy their company. Find out what they've been doing with their entire life, not just their job title. Realize that maybe you're focusing on a single dimension in a forest of many, and perhaps your head-to-head comparison isn't as relevant (or important) as you initially thought.
If you get a 550 then it did NOT accept the mail. What grandparent is talking about would be the server replying with 250 OK and then neither delivering the mail nor sending a delivery failure notification.
Yeah. My point in organizing it between the remote workers themselves was kind of so you could bypass places like WeWork.

The idea is to have a building/location with actual private offices after all.
I like masks too. I wear a blue surgical mask when I'm confined indoors (e.g. a supermarket) with a bunch of maskless wonders. The blue mask may have poor protective properties (for me), but that's not why I wear it; I wear it to protect my fellow shoppers. In fact the purpose of those surgical masks is to prevent your surgeon or dentist infecting you - not vice-versa. It seems obvious that wearing a mask will reduce the number of droplets released during exhalation.

I'm a vulnerable person; I have a pre-existing lung condition. I therefore try to maintain "social distance" in addition to wearing a mask. Around here, only older people are still wearing masks, even though there's a recent flare-up locally. Impatient people in supermarket checkout queues often press up behind me, as if pushing forward is going to get them through the checkout faster. Those people annoy me more than maskless wonders.

I find I like social distancing more than mask-wearing. Pandemic or not, I find I like having my personal space respected. I don't want to inhale some girl's miasma of cheap perfume, not some homeless man's stink of B.O. and booze.

I never wear a mask in the fresh air. And I've received hostile comments when walking into a pub with a mask on; so I don't wear a mask in pubs (I find it's hard to drink through a mask anyway).
The Secret of Success is Sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made - Jean Giraudoux/George Burns (some versions replace Sincerity with Honesty).

People who have been dealt a bad hand by Nature need to be aware of all sorts of cognitive biases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases) and then find ways to bypass them to focus on their strengths.
This. Security questions are almost always visible to humans in plaintext, and those humans are expected to be the judge of whether the security question was answered correctly.

I used to do random characters, but have switch to a string of random dictionary words. Still not perfect (since "a string of random words" could potentially be accepted as a valid answer), but I feel like having it be human-readable makes it less prone to that kind of fuzzing.
Yeah. It's not like it's parents to blame 100% for it. Most of it is inconscient behavior, and also in a lot of cases there's few options for the parents - it's not like they live the lives of Pharaoh's lmao.

The way I see it, the current state of children won't change directly, as in parents learning better ways directly by being convinced by rationality(this happens, of course, but it's weak force). It takes a full society change for this state to evolve. But I don't think it will take that long, if you ask: history is moving fast and there's a lot going on - I'm an optimist.
> I am not sure why the ecosystem went this way

Because when activitypub was still getting off the ground, mastodon built their own client api. A lot of excited people built apps for mastodon so pleroma, and then others, started building Masto API support so that their instances could use mastodon clients. Now the Masto API is the de facto client api.

I super agree with you, using the client-to-server protocol so that we could have one account would be the best situation. I've been arguing that on the fediverse for a while, but all the developers in the space seem to think the client-to-server protocol isn't useful enough so you would have to fallback to a custom API for the missing pieces anyway so you might as well use the API everyone's already using.
If there are two technologies, and all else is equal, and one is slightly more efficient or slightly cheaper or slightly anything, it’ll often catch on and completely overtake the other one.

Only when they’re perfectly balanced does it seem that both come into play and remain (left vs right hand drive, for example).
You are thinking small and that’s fine. It is wonderful to bootstrap an app and make income. However some ideas are much larger and need a big team and years of effort before the big payoff.
Silicon Valley was a great show
Unfortunately the candy bit is not the only bad piece of advice on the list. It's honestly a very mixed bag.

> Anything you say before the word “but” does not count.

This gets repeated a lot but it's still BS. Lots of things are nuanced. Deal with it.

> When you forgive others, they may not notice, but you will heal. Forgiveness is not something we do for others; it is a gift to ourselves.

Another one. Forgiveness is the result of a process, not the start. You have to heal before you can forgive, not as a result of it. I suspect anyone who claims otherwise simply has no idea what they're talking about. This is such basic stuff.

> Life lessons will be presented to you in the order they are needed.

Guess he should tell that to people who've been the victim of war crimes or similar. Dangerous advice to give out in general.

> To rapidly reveal the true character of a person you just met, move them onto an abysmally slow internet connection. Observe.

I hope he's only joking here.

> For a great payoff be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.

The only thing that that accomplishes is having a bad time. Double down on your strengths and delegate the rest instead.
I don't know, I guess. "The academic field of cryptography" is much more abstract than "a lump of gold". My point was more about what bitcoin isn't - specifically, it isn't a natural resource like gold is.

One useful distinguisher: when someone invents a new use for gold, the value of gold increases. When the field of cryptography progresses, bitcoin becomes more obsolete.
Webb Telescope in full focus, ready for instrument commissioning
> What’s interesting is that the attack mostly came from data centers. We’re seeing a big move from residential network Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to cloud compute ISPs.
The negative side effects are not to be taken lightly, especially if they cause profound suffering prior to a patient’s death or severe lifelong morbidity for a survivor. Yes, there are amazing uses of the technology, but the doctors who refer to proper use are speaking from a place of having seen the improper use.
What if they start to enjoy the instrument or the sport to the point that practicing/training/playing becomes play for them?
Looks interesting. How long did it take to build it all?
Dataflow analysis is commonly used to extract small-scale parallelism for modern superscalar compute - either done by the compiler, or directly in hardware. On a slightly larger scale, high-performance async programming using job-stealing schedule strategies across multiple compute cores can also be viewed as a dataflow approach. So all of this stuff is in fact being commonly used today, a lot more than most people might realize. Your database queries are probably handled via methods quite indistinguishable from much "Symbolic AI" or "expert systems", and parallelization is gaining ground there too.
I've blocked them in the past too for this, but it seems they are better behaved now. I don't have any longer term data, but over the past week they averaged 1.5 request per minute and that is divided among ~630 unique websites.

Infact, the UAs I blocked are no longer in use it seems so they are no longer limited.

EDIT: btw, not endorsing their search or anything, just mentioning thye may have learned and improved ;)
Here’s “Passing Words” by Magic Hour, 1995.

https://magic-hour.bandcamp.com/track/passing-words
A birthday means more at 13 than at 90. She should have gotten, like, at least two.
URL shorteners were (still are!) probably the worst idea/trend on the internet. They solved a silly short-term pain (twitter not storing full URLs) but introduced a long term dependency, and normalized tracking via these links.
This has been a talking point for at least 10 years. Not necessarily the lack of doctors but 3rd world developers out competing domestic ones.

I don’t think it will ever truly happen. Not due to the skill of the workers overseas, but all the other intangible stuff around running a business.

Many places I’ve worked at have outsourced work to overseas, but it’s always in a supplementary fashion. I’ve heard of places that went all in but unless you have superb engineering management onshore, it usually ends very badly.
Didn't even know Epic Games owned Bandcamp!
I suspect "nobel tech" may have been a typo for "novel tech", rather than "noble...".
Those points are then given site-wide no matter what a certain page content would rank? For sintance on dev.to you have a sizeable amount of garbage/spam articles which would benefit of this...
Use a SaaS Bootstrap
> But there is a lesson. That the other person may or may not like you depending on how you behave and may or may not be willing to extend courtesy based on that.

This might be true on an symbolic level. But I am afraid children don't learn all that well on an symbolic level. They learn by imitation.

What you proposed would work if the parent refused to do something they would normally do (e.g. lift the kid on their shoulders), to teach them that it is okay to refuse to do something for others if they are mean to them.

What doesn't work is if the parent does something they ordinarily wouldn't do and blame it on the kid aka "look what you made me do". What this teaches the kid is that they can blame their own behavior on others if they think these others give them a valid reason to do so.

Parents always teach by what they do not by how they explain it.
I wanted to write what you wrote, but yours is on point and way more eloquent. I agree with this comment 100%.

To OP: please, do look for professional help. It's impossible to play dr. House online, but if I pair my experience of dealing with people with the problem you described, I would guess that you're not happy to begin with - and that spilled over to your career life.

Explore whether there's a root problem, if yes - solve that problem. Then the symptoms will go away.
A big portion of python's slowness to start up is that 'import' actually evaluates any code at the top level of the file it's importing.

If you just have function and class definitions, this isn't too bad, but when you start doing things like setting up caches, reading files, and testing whether or not there's a GPU at the top level, you can add several seconds to the startup and balloon your memory usage. One wrong import somewhere in your code base, and your application will craw to a standstill on launch.
I’m not suggesting altering the flow of tax money. I’m suggesting changing how it’s measured when you determine which communities are sources and sinks. It’s very superficial to say a city with a job generates 100% of the income tax from that job when the city doesn’t house the person and provides barely and services to that person or their family. If you measure things that way of course cities are the only tax sources. But it’s a bad way to measure things.

It’s more reasonable to measure where taxes are coming from by some combination of where people live and where they work. If you do this then suburbs are not tax sinks. This isn’t saying you change how you distribute tax revenue it’s only saying you change how you measure where it comes from.
It doesn’t have to ask if I recall right.
We need more libre IF games written in Inform6/7 too. If so, a lot of games could be translated and enhanced from Spanish to English back and forth.
And viceversa. I can read Anchorhead with patience, but in Spanish would be amazing (and in my native language the prose can be obviously as good as in English).

Also, Anchorhead had ben expanded and the author got a nice chunk of sales
with that release. Why should the free version stay as freeware? People would have that game in any Linux/BSDdistro and still pay for the images-enhanced one as Lovecraft themes with proper media it's a huge boost for inmersion.
> I think everyone wins here.

One theory I have (and it may be wrong): is that part of the rise we've seen in housing prices is due to WFH and AirBnB.

Lots of people I've worked with who were WFH in the pandemic would spend a week (or a month) in a rental while they work, here and there. And during that time, their house/apartment would be empty.

Imagine everyone does that for (say) 3 weeks a year. That's a 6% increase in "housing usage". A 6% shock to the housing market is significant when supplies can't react quickly to the rise in demand.
> You now know what you don't like and don't want to do.

Edison's "10,000 ways that don't work" is a terrible way to invent a lightbulb, but a great way to live your life from my perspective.
I’m a lisper and i did roll my eyes :D
> I still buy Music CDs. Why? Because once I have the disc in my hand, no-one can legally take it away from me.

Precisely. The same reason I am wary of digital money. Its just too easy for the powers that be to flip a bit to make it all inaccessible. I do not trust them enough to give them that much power. They can still make things inaccessible, but they would have to put up with some inconveniences.

Mark me old school, but I like the physical cover designs, art work and well done liner notes too.
There's literally people working on it right now, for free, that they could pay and give access to all of the docs for the hardware that they designed in house.
That's even worse than using some larger url shortener used by many people. The incentive to keep that one running are way larger than having it as side project of some publisher or university.
> In Silicon Valley or on Wall Street, when people lose jobs on reference checks, people often get hit men sent to their house

What?!
This is a serious decision, not just between 100% death and 50%, but a significantly worse death for the other half of people than the original certain one.

Take the final period of a person’s life from them and their family for a devastating treatment that doesn’t help and then see how simple of a choice it feels.
Twitter, Elon and Fosstodon – A Post-Mortem
You're thinking of older Boeing designs. The 777 is fly by wire.