skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> basically all images in scientific publications are not scrutinized for photoshop

This was (mostly) true back then, but it is definitely not true today. People tempted to commit fraud now have to be worried about people like Elisabeth Bik exposing them and ruining their careers. In my experience, the type of people known lie in papers overlap strongly with those that are career-minded/money-driven. So having a few journalists with the skills to detect fraud is an obvious win. Some of the frauds will just get better at, that's just how it does, but it's not like there are no imaging experts in the field.
I get paid to give advice to tech executives and directors. Something I often have to say to them is: hire talented managers. Talent dominates technique. They need to stop reading blog posts like this and just think about talent.

We’re obsessed with technical talent but we hire managers at random after asking a couple of behavioral questions they’ve heard a thousand times.
Why use k8s and AWS instead of ECS?
I think that it’s a reasonable goal. However, strategically I think that it isn’t wise given their other reductions in service quality. I had Netflix pretty early on when the catalog was vast and they would send DVDs immediately. Once it became clear they were starting to throttle the amount of DVDs being sent, I stopped subscribing. I think that this new policy will inspire a portion of their customer base to leave.
Don't think GPS would be possible in this day and age, I mean, "inventing" it and "implementing" it from zero. It was possible to "invent" and "implement" it in the late '70s - the '80s because back then the "capitalist virus" hadn't entirely invaded the US MIC (and the scientists associated with it), it was all basically a socialist system. That is no longer the case, even when it comes to Government-sponsored work.
A prediction is not what will be, and that's all a market projection is.

Just a single government providing grants for h2 refueling infra can dramatically change things.
"Since you have shown you have limited capacity for empathy," for starters.
https://www.energyvault.com/gravity

Its a company with as I understand it proven designs.

Besides, the concept is trivial and applicable and replicable by almost anyone. I don't understand why there is so much skepticism around these things...
I found klavaro to be useful for purposes of learning touch typing. Never got past 60wpm, but this is good enough in my job
Technical Debt and Refactoring
The headline uses the words "top" and "talent" in unconventional ways.

When the writer examined Rick's code, it is revealed as messy, buggy, and long-winded --- "a lot of copy pasta", laden with "thousands of hours of technical debt", "bells and whistles", and speculative programming for requirements needed in "five years".

Rick was not a good programmer with a bad personality. He was a bad programmer with a bad personality.

More specifically it sounds like Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with certain telltale signs like gaslighting, the inability to accept fault, and dependency injection of the self into the lives of everyone else. The writer says, "I don’t believe Rick started out this way." I think he's wrong. Narcissistic Personality Disorder starts in childhood. So Rick was like this when he entered the business. In fact it is probably how he became "universally recognized on the team as the top talent" --- not because he was, but because he bullied his way up to that with his own self-aggrandizement, and his coworkers were too timid or inept to suggest that he was never actually a good programmer.
I think you got it - there are many ways for studies to fail and its hard, at this time, to validate that a study succeeded except multiple studies confirming the original finding.

Even then, I would worry that the results may be caused by some confounder in the original dataset/design instead of something you can trust.
Ashkenazi and Scythians
It was released over 2 weeks ago. :) Looking forward to Windows support.
This doesn't work in countries with book price fixing.

So the problem rather is online distribution of counterfeited books in countries that, for whatever reason, abhor government intervention in the book market. In the US, this is a political problem that stems from political decisions. It's not the problem of a single company. (I'm definitely not defending Amazon.) The main question here is are these political decisions in favor of book authors?
> What we're talking about here is loosely analogous to air conditioning the entire Earth (with the heat being sent to space rather than the outside air). Sounds like a hard engineering problem, but not impossible.

It's possible to make radiative coolers that do exactly this, within limits. It's easy at night; harder in the daytime. Here's an example.

https://www.futurity.org/radiative-cooling-system-2141732/
Some is, some isn't. Much of what we call science was work done by engineers.
Any study in life sciences will have lots of discussion of claims and modes for the future. But at the core will be the data, which is really the only thing that any researcher actually should trust from a paper.

What are you designing new experiments for? Are you taking results in one cell like and condition and trying to transfer them to new cell lines and conditions?

Are you trying to reproduce the same data in the same cel lines/organisms?

There's such a huge wide array of what your could be taking about, but based on my experience in life sciences what you say does not seem the least bit realistic, in my first interpretation of what you are saying.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29643921
Not convinced at all. This stuff makes people more productive. This may mean fewer jobs orbit may just mean more output as the lower costs (not wages) make custom software more accessible. I see this as making the Google/stack overflow turn around much shorter.
I've seen real time to mean "must finish in x seconds or else fail" which means technically after x seconds you may simply exit the process, and the definition has been fulfilled.
I don't know, they're fucked up and have fucked up? But that's the whole point, twitter fucking up is not an accusation of a crime. It's twitter fucking up.
I have came to the same conclusion and was surprised to find that RAR is the only popular archive format that included parity.

Personally I use 7zip for compression and par2[0] for parity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Don’t have anything on-topic to say. Instead, I will say: great presentation. The animations etc. kept my attention for something I’m not all that interested in.
The Future of Composable Software [video]
Meh. If tournament organisers want, they can run tournaments where inspections count in the total time, get enough steam and I'm sure it will be exciting enough.

Competition is based on the details in the format, which competitors will optimise for.

Counter example from the examples given in the video. Olympic swimmers race, with heats and rules deciding who takes the less draggy centre lanes. But if we're truly looking for the fastest swimmers, we would conduct individual time trials in temperature controlled single lane pools at sea level, with times measured starting when the competitors' legs leave the diving board and when the competitors' fingers touch the wall at the end of the measured distance. Why should reaction time and inconsistent water drag count for the competition?
Just so you're aware: in that image, the border is not the prominent river. It's somewhat to the west of it.

Looking at the rough area on the satellite view in Google Maps [1] suggests that there's not all that much difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Indeed, in your [a] link, you can see a decent swath of the Dominican Republic that looks as bad as the Haiti side in the picture... were you to continue a little southeast, the Dominican side would open up to an area just as large and just as deforested as that Haiti side. For most of the Haiti-Dominican border, it's actually challenging to distinguish the Haitian side from the Dominican side.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/yP9fnL2vCUCpLxBc9
My guess: In theoretical physics, you reproduce by spending an afternoon manipulating equations. Maybe a few days at most. But you reproduce in life science you need to get test subjects and treatments, etc. For example, how would you reproduce that a diet high in olive oil reduces the chance of heart attack?
> Yes you do. If you have the money to pay off your house, you are likely better off getting a very low interest rate mortgage (which you will be able to do as you can provide 100% security for the loan) and put your vast pile of money into a higher rate CD or similar. Or even some of it in low-medium risk index fund.

Typically small net returns with long tail risks that include you losing your home. Seems like garbage advice to me.

> These people are not claiming to be victims due to crypto crashing, in fact many have their entire balance with Voyager in US dollars/USDC (which I just checked, is still 1:1 with USD).

They gave money to a company they did not understand. The company lost the money. As far as I can tell the company only claimed that US dollars were insured not that it really matters.

> What you are saying is no different from, say, BofA declaring bankruptcy and that it wasn't actually FDIC insured so everyone has lost the money in their bank accounts; then I turn around and say that it's those people's fault as they didn't understand BofA's financials, and that the people who lost money didn't verify the FDIC insurance themselves. I sure as hell don't understand Wells Fargo's financials, and rely on them not lying about being FDIC insured.

Bank of America is a very old company subject to regulation and is not suggesting anything about big returns. Hardly comparable

By all means, let’s regulate companies. But let’s not pretend people aren’t accountable for validating their own investments.
Skip lists: 90% of the benefits of more complex tree data structures, with a fraction of the complexity.
If publication bias is the exclusion of publishing results that doesn’t support your hypothesis, how are they taking that into account?

If I’m interpreting this correctly(and I by no means am sure that I am), I infer that they are saying in a fair publishing environment you’d expect to see more results that show less decisive results, therefor the current set of results is likely biased.

Couldn’t this bias also happen in the other direction? It sounds like they’re saying the results are too good and don’t match other scientific patterns of publishing results.
That's a bit harsh, while I don't agree with OP I don't think that your language helps in promoting a healthy discussion about what is reasonable to expect from a HN front-page post.

Also you say that "it's not HN job to entertain you". What is HN's job then? Because honestly I do come here to read things that entertain me.
I saw a topic come up on macsysadmin that you might be interested in: https://www.reddit.com/r/macsysadmin/comments/w6tt99/sysadmi...
If you are doing electrolysis then solar/wind is a much better option than nuclear.

Much lower up front investment and none of the huge downsides of nuclear.
I know about Vi Hart but hadn't seen this series before, I just watched the first two videos and my mind is so blown right now, this is incredible. I love fun math stuff like this.
I just started tracking the word "Autodromo" on the WatchRecon app---Autodromo's a watchmaker whose designs were inspired by Italian racecars. I'm interested in getting my hands on one of their Intereuropa watches, and because it was discontinued I'm hopeful that I can get it on a site like WatchRecon.
What Happened to the War Dead of Middle Earth?
For humans, good sources are milled flax seeds and walnuts.
I think believes is the key here. There are definitely people who believe that if they can work on complex graph colouring problem in a real-time processing scenario and the interruptions are minimal - then indeed their talent is utilised well. And I can imagine such a scenario happening at Google in advertising department/division/tribe .
> This is not a problem because the parents (usually) have a vested interest in their children's health.

If only.
Where do you think scientists get their data?

Much of what you think of as science came from engineers.
> so far it seems impossible to switch once you started with any one of them

Do you think cloud vendors (FAANG companies) are fools who have accidentally created this situation? And do you think they will stand idly by while you try to abstract away the differences between them?
> Listing scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer.

It feels a bit healthier to assume this is all of them, and even the ones that are "true" in some binary yes/no sense, may still have nuance to be discovered.

One of the things I like about the original Wikipedia is that it's rarely so binary about things, often covering contemporary controversies and areas of current research.
I think the linked page gives a better overview of what this Python lib can do, but if you want to know more:

The repository is here: https://github.com/amoffat/sh

And the full documentation is there: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/index.html

In particular I was wondering if it supports piping, and it does: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/piping.html
But
Ah, I know what you mean - and yes I ignore themes/fonts/etc that require you to choose between files, and I don't download random DE hacks from forums or third party locations. My workflow is typically: Settings, [Themes/Styles/Fonts/Whatever], Install New [Thing], sort by highest rated, search for what I want, download a few, try them each out, stick with one and move on to next customization. It simply doesn't produce _instability_ for me (and I've done this maybe a dozen times over the past 10+ years, some time in the KDE 4 days) - though certainly, depending on the skills of the theme developer, some aspects may be janky. I think cursor changes require a restart (probably an X thing, and maybe no longer an issue on Wayland), but most of the rest are instant.

To each their own. The lack of customizability in Gnome drives me nuts.
Actually, I believe the original would be the Science article [1]

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Potential fabrication in research threatens the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183302 - July 2022 (236 comments)

Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828509 - June 2022 (307 comments)

How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225 - Dec 2019 (382 comments)

The amyloid hypothesis on trial - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618027 - July 2018 (43 comments)

Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17444214 - July 2018 (109 comments)
What do you think people use to build systems like these?

A lot of medium/large shops build their own deployment and BaaS platforms on top of Kubernetes/Terraform/AWS. You just don’t hear about them as much because they often aren’t provided as a service externally, and aren’t open sourced. (I work with and on such platforms)

The mistake I see people often make is assuming it’s worth using such complex tools directly with a small project. People like the flexibility but don’t understand cost to build/maintain it.
What is early, and who besides Steve Jobs (who I would not consider an early silicon valley pioneer anyway) fits that mold? Most were straight-laced tie-wearing scientist-engineer types until the dotcom era.
It's marginal compared to the other power expenses to be sure, but computing is another rising power cost. Besides my AC, and cooking, I don't have any regular power expenditures other than digital devices, so it seems reasonable to me to want to optimize power expenditure there.

Regarding the distributed vs centralized, the reasoning is large data centers are inefficient and could be replaced mostly with local, low power systems which are barely on at all, versus constant-on, constant-ready server rack systems.
The gas based production is no better because of the CO2 emissions of course.
Sooraj Nagari == Sun City ~= Sunnyvale

Pahar Ganj == Mountain Neighborhood ~= Mountain View
Most interesting to me, is how if you get the model wrong, thousands of scientists will use it anyway, billions will be spent, but no one challenges it! Amazing.

It really lays open how easy it is to mislead everyone. All these siloed scientists won't have a clue anything is wrong. This is how conspiracies would work... if there is advantage to someone somewhere and they have the means to alter the model in their favour, why wouldn't they?
Yes, git can be complex. It's also a requirement for modern software development. It is well documented, and not esoteric.

If someone hasn't taken the time to learn the tools their team uses, they will be a burden to the rest of the team. They don't need to become an expert, just experienced enough so they don't cause problems for others on the team.
>It is practically impossible to conduct a long term health study on something like an artificial sweetener. The only way I can think of to accurately remove environmental noise is to collect extensive records on a _large_ population, and then line up A / B sets where the only major difference between the sets (other exposures similar) are the sweeteners.

The concern with cohort studies isn't "noise", it's confounders. eg. people who eat smoked meats tend to eat other unhealthy foods, so they live shorter lives, but smoked foods in and of themselves aren't harmful. Having a bigger sample size does nothing to combat this. You can "control" for confounders, but comes with its own problems. Control for too little variables, and you still get confounding, control for too much, and you run into p-hacking territory.
The problem here is that CDC did not want to acknowledge they might be wrong. Even a slight suggestion asking that we concduct a study (at least parse data from Californa and Florida) is considered as “conspiracy”.

we need to get humble scientists: the ones which do science with the goal to find the truth but not one which just want to be right and have too much pride admitting wrong.
Perl actually had a pretty good UI story way back when. Perl/Tk always was well documented and Perl's syntax works quite well with the original Tcl-ish/Shell style.

Note that GIT's default GUI parts are written in exactly that.

Tk then hit a bit of a limit when it came to common widgets, and so got less popular.

Perl also had a good implementation of Win32, if I remember correctly.

These days, both Perl and GUIs are on a steady decline, so there's not much moving in that space. Gmusicbrowser[1] is written in Perl/Gtk, if I remember correctly.

[1]:https://gmusicbrowser.org/
I would argue it's because the debate is frequently hostile and political, as in your post.
The idea that the copyright to a piece of artwork is an asset which can be owned, and therefore stolen, is a relatively recent invention of dubious social utility. For this completely new field of human endeavor, we could choose many different precedents to apply when inventing rules of conduct.

The history of private property is rife with abuse and exploitation. We should not rush to extend such ideas into new arenas.
I had to assume "top talent" and "genius" were used ironically because neither applies to the Rick in this post. He has the megalomaniacal cowboy bit down, though.
> Once an AI gets just 1% efficient at automation, it achieves 100% efficiency quickly thereafter

This is really optimistic and completely overlooks the 80/20 problems that have plagued both AI automation and traditional automation. The AI sweeps up the easy cases and humans are left to fix, or paper over with heuristics, the remainder.

Example? Speech-to-text. It's pretty good and the spread of automated closed captions to youtube videos is a definite benefit. But broadcast TV will almost exclusively use human subtitlers still, because the last few percent of accuracy isn't there.

Software hasn't even effectively been reliably outsourced to cheap humans yet. Perhaps you can automate some of the production of CRUD tools, in the absence of a better framework for them (frameworks, compilers, libraries and npm should all be thought of as forms of automation). But anything with a competitive advantage will be relying on humans for a long time.
I did actually! I bought a gravel bike and [trained for, competed in] 104mi Unbound this year. It has definitely had a positive effect on my mountain biking ability; I can climb faster/longer and my heart rate settles faster.

What's more hilarious is the reverse cross training of mtb->gravel. The Unbound course is notoriously unmanaged "gravel" (pile of sharp rocks) for certain sections. Most roadies are squeamish to hit rough terrain at speed, and the ability/ confidence to pass _a lot_ of riders helped me move up quickly in the front half of the race. Even the ability to cross wet/rocky water crossings without dismounting added up quickly in both energy spent and time.
This assumes sexual performance in a relationship is worth optimizing for. There may be many other factors at play. Reduction of time spent thinking sexual thoughts. Partner’s with a reduced sex drive or disability etc. Just worth bearing in mind the study (which is very useful/interesting) looks at just one objective.

There’s also the degree and how long one looks at porn. And how that can free up time for other things that are attractive in relationships (financial security etc). As a hypothetical consider a person who looks at porn for 5min every two days, and stays very focused on accumulating wealth for a few years and then reduces this and focuses more on sexual performance.
> I suspect this is likely to be met with significant kickback…

Why do you think people would have an issue with them tracking us furry humans?
Great article! Enjoyed the argument but I have a few disagreements

I disagree with the response to objection 1. Look for more than a few moments at the right side picture and the shadows of the chess pieces are low quality, the shadows continue off the table, and the checkers on the board look more like backgammon than chess. The AI generated sites that clutter google are easily identified as low quality GPT 3 nonsense.

I’d also disagree that the AI “understands” the physics of the sun, or that Africa has a lot of desert. The prompt includes the desert, so it pulls from pictures of the desert. It doesn’t understand that people have a face when they concentrate either, it finds a picture of someone playing chess then maps an “African fortune teller” onto that person. Oh, it also has to grab photos of an African fortune teller. The AIs used as examples in this article (DALLE, Copilot) are regurgitated humans. What happens when we have new tasks that we can’t train on? They don’t “understand” things, they recreate them.

Maybe I’m just typically bad at estimating the exponential growth. I’m not optimistic I can replace humans with Copilot authored pull requests anytime soon. It might be good at “write a function to convert ISO date time to MM/DD/YYYY” but we’re decades off of “create an API for managing a warehouses inventory.” Either way, being replaced by copilot would require business partners to be able to explain what they want, so I’m not worried.
I suspect there are also people who share their account out of inertia. Some kids go off to college and stay on their parents’ account. Sometimes they don’t think about it since the password is stored on the app.

Also, Netflix might be losing money when people share their account and want to get to a place where the profit per account increases and then go from there.
China Has a Problem with Data Leaks. One Reason Is Its Surveillance State