skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm concerned I may be kind of overstating my case, but it's hard for me to know exactly how widespread the worst-case version of the problem is. Certainly what I'm describing can and does happen."

You're absolutely on the ball, except that everything is ~100x worse and more hopeless than you're describing :( Far from overstating it, you're understating it.

"If you have a record showing that a particular PI has published 10 provably false/fraudulent papers, is the NSF really going to keep funding that person?"

Absolutely. The problem is: showing fraud according to whom? I can point to dozens of papers by the same authors that I personally consider provably false/fraudulent, funded by the NSF. That isn't going to achieve anything. People can't even reliably get papers retracted, let alone cut bad researcher's funding.

From https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...

"If you look at the NSF's 2019 Performance Highlights, you'll find items such as "Foster a culture of inclusion through change management efforts" (Status: "Achieved") and "Inform applicants whether their proposals have been declined or recommended for funding in a timely manner" (Status: "Not Achieved") ... We're talking about an organization with an 8 billion dollar budget that is responsible for a huge part of social science funding, and they can't manage to inform people that their grant was declined! These are the people we must depend on to fix everything."

"with funding by people like Bill Gates"

Bill Gates is one of the primary funding sources for epidemiology, which is more or less dominated by pseudo-science and fake research. The article we're discussing was published in a journal of epidemiology so presumably the researchers polled for data were mostly epidemiologists, and only a few percent of researchers were honest about basic things like whether they'd share their data or not. You can imagine how bad the rest of it gets.

Gates doesn't care. Like all the other sources of funding for public sector research, he wants to be a philanthropist cheerleader for Science™. The act of spending money is the end, not the means. Whether that money is spent well and yields accurate conclusions is neither here nor there to him, as he has too much for that to be relevant.
Bashing Python, or language-bashing in general, makes you sound like an immature and unprofessional programmer. Python is perfectly fine when used in the proper way by a knowledgeable professional, and Rust can be a dangerous tool when used by a beginner. It takes the knowledge of a tool to use it properly and safely; just because someone hit themselves on the head with a hammer doesn't mean hammers are inferior to nail guns and unsafe, they still have their uses in several areas where nail guns aren't the best choice.
But the (eon-persistent) price premium on gold is well beyond what's justified by functionality. That's what merits the bubble comparison.
"It's not open source, it's code licensed as open source". Hmkay... I find it impressive how concisely you're contradicting yourself in that sentence.
((new DOMPoint) < Number) > (4,5)

Comma operator makes (4,5) = 5
(US perspective here not sure about other countries)
This type of thing has made me think we should pay politicians more but then say they can't make money any other ways while in office and for some amount of years after they leave office.

No stock trading, no deals to get a private job after you leave office (unless you leave time to make sure your decisions could have no impact on the business you're joining), and no public speaking fees. You can still speak publicly but you shouldn't be getting paid for it if the whole reason for speaking is that you were a public servant. I think we have some sort of fundamental disconnect between expecting people to be a public servant while still saying they can act as a private individual financially
Hey,

Please don't forget about accessibility. Getting this right from day 1 will make your life a lot easier in the long run. If I remember correctly, I was never able to use Atom with a screen reader. Hearing custom UI already makes me nervous and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to use Zed with a screen reader either.

Blind developers exist. Please don't forget about us. It's one of the few areas where we can actually make a meaningful difference together with our peers on an equal playing field.
Technically, they still could be all from one party checking the result for the other party.... even in primaries.
Is it not possible to determine which article(s) the user downloaded based on the memory locations read? Of course, multiple small articles from within the same 100KB cannot be said, but for any medium to large article, you'd be able to make a good guess (if there are a handful of articles there) or an exact match (if there is <=1 article in that chunk) no?

Or does the server go through a large chunk of its memory (say, at least a quarter of all of Wikipedia) and perform some oblivious computation on all of that data (applying the result modulo this 100KB return buffer)? That sounds very resource-intensive, at least for something large like Wikipedia (a doctor's office with some information pages of a few KB each could more easily do such a thing).

In the latter case, is each request unique (does it involve some sort of IV that the client can xor out of the data again) or could an index be built similar to a list of hashed PIN codes mapped back to plain text numbers?

Edit: I had already read some comments but just two comments further would have been my answer... :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669630

> > With a proper implementation of PIR, the server still needs to scan through the entire encrypted dataset (this is unavoidable, otherwise its I/O patterns would leak information)

Now let's see if I can also find the answer regarding the ability to build a lookup table...

Edit #2: found that also! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669924

> One query for one item in the database is indistinguishable (without the client’s key) from another query for the same item later; in other words, it’s similar to something like the guarantee of CBC or GCM modes, where as long as you use it correctly, it is secure even if the attacker can see many encryptions of its choosing.

That is some cool stuff indeed. I'm going to have to up my game when building or reviewing privacy-aware applications. Sure, a file sharing service is not going to practically allow this, but I'm sure that with this knowledge, I will come across places where it makes sense from both a usefulness (e.g. medical info) and practicality (data set size) perspective.
That seems extreme.

Any ecosystem has to strike a balance between which things should be opinionated/officially-sanctioned/standardized, and which things should be left open in "userspace". I think Atom made the wrong choice by outsourcing some very standard features to the community, like hover-overs and underlines. VSCode seems to have hit a sweet-spot, offering standard solutions for common functionality but leaving plenty of doors still open for people to build on.
> Myers acknowledged in court that on almost every Election Day, Myers transported Beren to the polling station to open the polls. During the drive to the polling station, Myers would advise Beren which candidates he was supporting so that Beren knew which candidates should be receiving fraudulent votes. Inside the polling place and while the polls were open, Beren would advise actual in-person voters to support Myers’ candidates and also cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers’ preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls.

> Beren and her accomplices from the Board of Elections would then falsify the polling books and the List of Voters and Party Enrollment for the 39th Ward, 2nd Division, by recording the names, party affiliation, and order of appearances for voters who had not physically appeared at the polling station to cast his or her ballot in the election. Beren took pains to ensure that the number of ballots cast on the machines was a reflection of the number of voters signed into the polling books and the List of Voters. After the polls closed on Election Day, Beren and her associates would falsely certify the results.
> Election returns centers have a lot of people in it.

In Philly they barred GOP poll watchers from observing the process and they (GOP) had to get a court order to force the center to allow them in...so all it takes is a few partisans at the top of the food chain.
> Black Americans experienced largely similar improvement in AAMR in both Democratic and Republican counties.

Doesn't this prove that it is something other than who your county voted for in the last presidential election causing an increase in AAMR?

> Rural Republican counties experienced the highest AAMR and the least improvement

What if living in a rural area is more of a factor than being a "Repulican county"?

This study seems like it is bending over backward to try to tie the risk of death to who you voted for in the presidential election.
Can you elaborate?

I went into details in the post about what I believe is the root cause of why cache invalidation is hard, which seems different than what you are saying.
> Skin color certainly is not a factor on ability to get an ID.

"GAO compared turnout in two states—Kansas and Tennessee—that changed ID requirements from the 2008 to 2012 general elections with turnout in fourselected states—Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, and Maine—that did not. GAO used a quasi-experimental approach, a type of policy evaluation that compares how an outcome changes over time in a treatment groupthat adopted a new policy, to a comparison group that did not make the same change. GAO selected states for evaluation that did not have other factors in their election environments that also may have affected turnout, such as significant changes to other election laws. GAO analyzed three sources of turnout data for the 2008 and 2012 general elections: (1) data on eligible voters, using official voter records compiled by the United States Elections Project at George Mason University, (2) data on registered voters, using state voter databases that were cleaned by a vendor through data-matching procedures to remove voters who had died or moved, and (3) data on registered voters, as reported to the Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. [...]

GAO also estimated changes in turnout among subpopulations of registrants in Kansas and Tennessee according to their age, length of voter registration, and race or ethnicity. In both Kansas and Tennessee, compared with the four comparison states, GAO found that turnout was reduced by larger amounts:

among registrants, as of 2008, between the ages of 18 and 23 than among registrants between the ages of 44 and 53;

among registrants who had been registered less than 1 year than among registrants who had been registered 20 years or more; and

*among African-American registrants than among White, Asian-American, and Hispanic registrants. GAO did not find consistent reductions in turnout among Asian-American or Hispanic registrants compared to White registrants, thus suggesting that the laws did not have larger effects among these subgroups."

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-634

I'd like to see a more recent study, but analysis shows voter ID law impacting
I don't disagree with your characterization, but given children are not agents, and are subject to the whims of their parents, I think it's appropriate.

Locking a child in their room is imprisonment, yet is widely used punitively at the whim of parents. Beating children is assault, yet operant conditioning is effective and also widely practiced towards children. It's also permitted in most jurisdictions if undue harm is not caused.

> among non-conformists

Why do we need these, exactly? What benefit are individuals who have not been appropriately conditioned to work, suffering, and self-sufficiency?
A brainfuck developer?
Edge Machine Learning: From PoC to Real-World AI Applications
> a few isolated instances of innocent people being falsely convicted

And otherwise abused by the legal system. It's not a few isolated instances; plenty of research shows that it is widespread and systematic.
>such a conspiracy would produce some kind of written communications or financial transactions.

How would we ever know if those exist?
> "VISUAL DESIGN AND METADATA

> Apache Hop, short for Hop Orchestration Platform, is a data orchestration and data engineering platform that aims to facillitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration. Hop lets you focus on the problem you’re trying to solve without technology getting in the way. Simple tasks should be easy, complex tasks need to be possible.

> Hop allows data professionals to work visually, using metadata to describe how data should be processed. Visual design enables data developers to focus on what they want to do instead of how that task needs to be done. This focus on the task at hand lets Hop developers be more productive than they would be when writing code."
The logo bears a striking similarity to Lightspeed's...like, flip it along the vertical axis and the resemblance is uncanny.

https://www.lightspeedhq.com/
One of the largest regrets I have is getting rid of all my Apple ][e stuff. I kept it for years in attics as I moved from house to house. I had a couple of ][e's, disk drives, ImageWriter printer, Apple monitors, and so many original software titles including manuals and boxes. (Of course I had 2-3 large boxes of copies too).

About 5 years ago I was moving house and just got rid of everything because I was tired of moving it. I started regretting it 6 months later and even more today.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31672541
Yes, in fact the article number is not even decrypted by the server, so the server doesn't know which article you asked for!
>until dentistry had modern options gold fillings were common

gold inlays/crowns are still BY FAR the best dental material. People just don't like the looks of it, but it's still medically the absolute best.

Gold crowns typically outlive the owners.
Fair! Maybe I should've said "got web apps as desktop apps to finally take off"
You find a bunch of people that can't or wouldn't vote and collect their automatically mailed ballots, fill them out and have them dropped off in boxes.

That's one way to illegally harvest votes. One that almost certainly occurred in nursing homes around the country in the last election.
The author specifically said that the solution is to find a less partisan approach. Who are you arguing with?
80-year-old engineer appears for IIT-Madras entrance
it should also be enforced by the language. and then you can still check and remove it using a transpiler, if you want (for smaller sizes + speedup due to lack of type checks). but if you're gonna add type annotations, they should do something
I think that's a valid argument to be made. Stats have shown the Republican party has become more blue collar over time [1] and that white collar workers are trending left over time [2]. This would explain why the gap is growing: blue collar workers make less and sacrifice more of their health on the job than white collar workers. Blue collar workers also generally don't live in cities, because factories and industry aren't located in cities.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/gop-rapidly-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/11/democrat-...
It's just less than/greater than:

https://astexplorer.net/#/gist/b0dff7bdaf1d8f9024fe18fda70a9...
Well clearly I suck at 'searching' :-) for some reason I thought searching on github `language:haskell` would spit useful results, but now I can see I did it wrong.

that's a good list to look at into for inspiration, thanks!
> It seems that productivity growth is still necessarily limited in the end by physics.

Biology will put limits in place long before physics will.

Sadly, most techies completely ignore or miss this point.
As an outsider, it also seems the different subcultures mix now. In the 80s, you would never see some of these groups mingling together. But do they today? Honest question.
Take Florida in 2000, population 16 million. Assume no fraud at the presidential level, but even a tiny amount of fraud in local city/county races could have tipped the Presidential count one way or the other. With 6 million votes cast, it seems likely that there were 600 fraudulent votes in the state. TLDR; even a very small amount of fraud can have world changing consequences.
Yes it can, but it doesn't follow that these studies are justification for removing accountability from individuals, their households, culture, and practices. Nor does it follow that the solutions are not found in changes to individual behaviour.
Interesting! I hadn't heard of brackets before.
It just evaluates to false, as this is just two comparison operations.
It's easier to comprehend if add a parentheses around first operation as such:

(new DOMPoint < Number) > (4, 5)

(new DOMPoint < Number) evaluates to true and it becomes (true) > (4, 5). Because (foo, bar, baz) syntax always evaluates the last item, we can finally simplify it into (true > 5), which surely enough in Javascript evaluates to false.
I wrote a script that opens a random bookmark. I set it to run every day when I know I'll be taking a break.

Now I can safely close tabs, having successfully satisfied my brain's objections.
If a house wasn't seen as a way to get rich we would have more housing. Everyone could put their savings into other investments and pay a pittance for their home.
Totally off-topic, but...

https://www.facebook.com/help/152637448140583

> No, we don't sell your information. Instead, based on the information we have, advertisers and other partners pay us to show you personalized ads on the Facebook family of apps and technologies.

A lot can be said about Meta but I find it counterproductive to make up facts. It's not correct that they "sell personal details".
Total above-ground stocks (end-2021): 205,238 tonnes.

81 tons out of 205,238 tonnes used per year...

rounding error.
https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

Asimov was way ahead of TFA :)

I like to think that life is a thermodynamic mechanism that:

- locally reduces entropy by consuming
lower-entropy energy and casting out
higher entropy stuff
- reproduces

by which definition stars are almost alive. I say "almost" because stars only manage to keep local entropy from growing very fast, but they don't manage to reduce it.

For example, life on Earth consumes low-entropy (because colimated and short-ish wavelength) sunlight and molecules of various types (e.g., CO2) and uses that to build locally-lower-entropy things (plankton, plants, animals, ...), in the process emitting lower entropy things like detritus, feces, etc., but especially longer-wavelength light in all directions. Because Earth's climate is roughly in equilibrium, if you examine all the light going in (colimated, low-wavelength sunlight) and all the light going out (longer-wavelength IR in all directions), the energy must balance, but the entropy must be much higher on the outbound side. Similarly, Venus must be dead because it reflects so much sunlight, thus failing to use it to improve local entropy, thus it must be dead.
> It’s a barrier preventing citizens from exercising constitutional rights.

No, election fraud enabled by lack of voter ID is a barrier that prevents eligible voters from fully exercising their constitutional right to the franchise by diluting the power of their legitimate votes with fraudulent ones.
WWDC 2022 Keynote Proves yet Again Assistive Technologies Live Not in a Silo
It's not a tech solution because it's not a tech problem. The prisons don't use these convoluted solutions because they can't just use a normal phone and give the prisoners calls on a normal phone contract for free, they do it this way because it's profitable
upvote and amplify this -- there are hundreds of massive factors that are not at all causative via political voting. I have heard obesity rates mentioned in other comments, and that is consistent with trends I have seen.

edit: hah- I said "obesity" and "massive factors" .. B&B score
Retired? Or in Academia?
> Organized anarchism is an inherently ridiculous idea.

That is quite silly. Ridiculous even.

Anarchism is not a recipe. It is an approach to organising without unjustified hierarchy. It is all about organisation.
Hardly unique to gaming.

In the guitar world it's a running joke that only 5000 of the the 1500 1959 Gibson Les Paul's survive.

($$$$, 6 digit prices for real ones is the rule, and top examples go for $500k+).
Curse her out. Say "Alexa, STFU" every time she hits you with a "By the way..." It seems to help; I get BTW messages quite rarely compared to other users.
tl;dr: Yes, but its measured in seconds.

wild.
> presumably predominantly decoration and wealth storage.

People without access to banks wear their wealth on them. That seems super risky but you see it every day on the street. I suppose they have no alternative.

I have seen in photos that when my parents married my mother was draped in gold, which she never wore again. As a kid I once was with her when she visited her safety deposit box and I picked up one of the bangles which immediately bent out of circularity. It wasn't designed to be worn, or at least to be worn once, very carefully.

Jewelry stores in the US don't seem to sell by weight. I remember jewelry stores always pulling out the scale and calculator to tell you the price -- it must have changed every day.
gold is a reliable hedge and store of value that survived 5000 years: longer than any empire, longer than any bond issue, longer than any real estate holding, longer than any fiat currency.

financial utility IS utility.

nothing is detached from anything.
as Pew Trusts reported, that is only a “low-hanging fruit” solution.

It still does not solve the California’s lack-of-living space problem overall, much less Oregon’s.
Depends on the relative replacement rates. Could be a while.
What about quality compression after uploading such PNG (larger than 900x900 px) to Twitter?
> The HN community (rightly) skews towards entrepreneur hackers who have a general distain for BigCo employment.

On the contrary, I find that most work at bigco or smaller companies and come to HN to play out their dreams of what it would be like to take the risks that people with lots of wealth can make freely
Allow me to understand. The packaging is identical to the originals, the CDs are identical, the games on those CDs are identical, but the product is considered a forgery?

Why do vintage PC game collectors care whether the product in their hand was manufactured in 1995 by the original company or in 2021 by someone in their garage?

Is the goal to play the game or to acquire bragging rights about an old object just because it's an original copy?
Assuming you can trust them. All 3 of the major baseball card grading companies are being investigated by the feds for widespread fraud right now. Same companies also grade Pokemon & Magic the Gathering cards and there have been some high profile fakes of those (that were graded as authentic) highlighted recently as well.
Apple Will Handle the Lending Itself with New Pay Later Service