skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think" can usually be inferred from context and isn't needed, but bad or adversarial (hard to tell the difference) reading & online forums have encouraged everyone to write worse, in order to defend against flames from poor readers and assholes. You have to try to cover every stupid way your words could be read if you don't want other posters to pounce on you, like by throwing "I think" in front of things that are obviously opinion or otherwise not being advanced as absolute, indisputable truth.

[EDIT] Point is, yes, making that assumption is a normal part of ordinary communication outside the "well akshually" Web.
Ask HN: Are website failures becoming more common?
Yesterday virtualbox.org was down for hours and today flatassembler.net is down for hours. Am I just unlucky or is it more common for sites to go down now?
>In other words, there are thousands of papers supporting beta-amyloid and/or building off the data / theory.

It is important to note that the fraud doesn't encompass all of beta-amyloid, but is specific to a subtype called Ab*56.

The plaques are there in autopsy tissue. We can see them. What is causing them is still uncertain.

>No, in reality, this should indicate there is systemic fraud in the industry.

Disagree. This indicates that the field can successfully identify and remove bad/fraudulent lines of inquiry in a relatively short amount of time (a decade).

>A complete overhaul is needed

This is extreme. Fraud happens. Scientific process is designed to root out unverifiable theories, by design. The process is working as intended, why burn it down?
> But the decision to leave instead of trying to engage and improve things is pretty black and white mentality in itself, isn't it?

You've got a point here. Yes, it's giving up. And to be honest, we both gave up. But since we're responsible for our little one, we still try to make the best of it, hence want to restart somewhere else. But I get your point. It's just that we both spent all of our energy over the last 25 years to improve things in all sorts of different dimensions and simply ran out of "mana".
Microsoft doesn't own the Unity engine, even though it uses the MS tech stack heavily. The IOC stuff though you aren't wrong on.
Hi, I am curious if you might consider publishing directly to the stores (Kindle) as a free book (or $0.99). It would make it easier for people to access. I am an engineer but failed to try and get a kindle book downloaded and read last night after seeing your post. So I imagine your work is out of grasp to all but the most technical who have a computer handy. I was 100% on my phone (no computer to upload), and I just couldn't figure it out and gave up. I would support you over other publishers.
Astronomer here. This is clearly an overhyped title. Sure JWST is great and a lot will hopefully come from it, but we don't need to overhype it. So far we learned from JWST that it is performing well, but no ground breaking results (but for sure they will come).
(Tbh I stopped reading quanta because every time there is a news "X solved problem nobody thought could be solved" and titles like that.)
Yes, you can see the observing schedule and a list of approved programs:

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/observing-sched...

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...
It’s okay to recognize a problem without proposing a solution. I agree that there are alarming levels of fraud. But heading straight to “tear down the journals” seems mistaken.

New progress is rarely made by burning down old structures. New work tends to transcend old work. So the best way to remove the gate keeping mechanisms is to make them irrelevant.

I suspect that a few more generations of tech progress might make that a reality. It seems like a matter of time till some teenage upstart is hacking on their brain the same way I hack on ML, for better or worse. And teenagers tend to notice correlations that the old guard miss.

We’re just not there yet. And that’s fine. Our options are to work within the confines of existing systems, or build new systems. Removing mechanisms is a bit like removing a dam because it’s leaking. The best strategy is probably to fix the leaks.
I feel you, but I'd recommend taking a step back, breath in, breath out, look at the government budget, and realise that the plans you may not agree with your government only add up to 1% of those "hard earned taxes".

Somehow, in the era with universal access to raw data discussions seem to never have been so polarised. But I'm afraid that's the same anywhere :-(

I still there's a few places better than Germany to live, even more if you've started a family.
> Science will see it

Sure if they create the next one too I suppose they'll "see" that one too.
Their website is terrible (this was the best resource there I found: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/#customizing-calibre-s-e-bo...), but the Calibre software itself is really powerful, letting you do things like:

* Read eBooks in just about any popular or semi-popular format

* Manage your library

* Convert books to and from any of the supported formats, specifying details of that conversion like tables of content, typography, chapter headings, etc.

* Edit book metadata

* With a plugin, strip DRMed ebooks of their protection so you can use them on other devices

It's just a one-stop GUI for doing just about any sort of ebook maintenance/library management/cleanup. Helpful if your source materials are free or pirated, or if your device is unsupported at the major ebook stores. Lets you take a Kindle-only ebook, for example, get rid of the DRM, rip it to a more standard format, and send it to some obscure ereader that you have.
Generally speaking yes (a little), but as always it depends, should be lower for low/medium income but higher for higher incomes.

Canary Islands (though part of Spain) are a "special territory", and have some different tax rules from Spain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territori...

VAT is different and there are some subsidies for (say) establishing a company there if you employ locals.
You make a reasoned argument why Russia might want to invade Ukraine while ignoring Russia's actual actions. Russia keeps changing it's stated 'reasons', with Russian's themselves saying the silent part you ignore out loud. They say Ukraine is not a real country, Ukrainians are not a separate people from Russians, and that because Ukraine tried to go it's own way it must be folded back into mother Russia and along with Belarus create a new slavic union. Ukrainian is being removed from the schools in Russian conquered land. Ukrainian books are being removed. Russia has human trafficked 2 million people from Ukraine to Russia at this point. None of that is to protect Russia from NATO. Why do you cover Russia's visible actions with a pretty pretense? Russia has said it is fine with Finland joining NATO, greatly expanding NATO on Russia's border. Your argument makes no sense outside the theoretical paragraphs in which you write it.
Yes initials of Norwegian guys.

AVR--Alf (Egil Bogen) and Vegard (Wollan)'s RISC processor.

In addition, to my understanding, they held the patent on the first single-clock-cycle instruction execution. Atmel doesn't seem to want to acknowledge that so they don't pay patent royalties.
In Canada, so-called scientists, academics, and medical doctors have consistently been among the most vocal initiators and proponents of the obviously-idiotic and useless restrictions that have caused widespread harm.

They've also been among the most vocal proponents of censoring and silencing any opposition or questioning of their claims.

We've seen a massive amount of anti-scientific behaviour from the "science" community.
> why did drug companies still spend billions on it?

Due dill is hard. Why did no one catch ubeam? Why is energous still a thing? Why has no one called out LAZR on their nonsense?
You are not accounting for incoming temperature, heat of compression, pressure, etc

https://www.air-compressor-guide.com/articles/water-in-compr... has a reasonable view.

The short version essentially amounts to you will end up with a lot of water to deal with.
Can you share your working out for the “real” tax rate? We could see how various US states, first world countries vary. Does knowing that the lowest state is say 50% make it easier to pick Portugal at say 60%?
What kind of entertainment? I find entertainment in Singapore is very 'manufactured' and prefer the UK. People don't have to be limited to Singapore, travelling to other Asian countries is very cheap.
Countries that often seem idyllic on paper often have some rather bad downsides - definitely do your research without blinders on. I've done small stints(long vacations, not work) in a couple island places that seem nice, but healthcare is terrible, white people perhaps are treated differently, etc etc. And even in places with better-ish healthcare, a lot of times there's some resentment from people like us driving up their house prices and such.

Are you considering the US? There's a few states that would meet your criteria of weather. You'd really want to talk to some people privately regarding what you want and politics - California and Florida could not be further apart WRT the people, beliefs, and governments.
If you check the reporting on the incident, they are able to calibrate almost all of this away and use the telescope as normal. It's bad but not that bad. That the telescope would be hit was expected so it can account for this amount of damage.
Aside: Our local Taco Bells were a trial for ordering kiosks ~25 years ago. One of my friends worked on it. According to him, a significant contributor to the failure of the project, at the time, was that they didn't want to spend money on industrial PCs, and grease and commercial PCs don't get along very well together.

They were shockingly similar to the kiosks that got deployed at the same location ~3 years ago.
Indeed Sweden as a whole is safe, but organized crime related gun violence has become a problem of different size than here in Finland for example. It's quite worrying as gunfights between gangs do carry a high risk to other people who just happen to be nearby. A typical stabbing at least here in Finland involves drunks or drug addicts and happens in a private apartment.

On page 12 you can see statistic of gun-violence related deaths per million inhabitants in Nordic countries. Sweden is clearly doing worse than other countries, where overall trend has been declining rather than rising. The higher rates in Finland at the beginning are due to statistics also including stabbings.

https://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/744136/ON_Luod...
As a multiple-times-emigrant I can tell you this one thing: no matter where you go, it will be plusses and minuses compared to where you are originally from. Some things will be better, others will be worse. Sometimes much better and sometimes much worse. And there is no way to know this up front you just need to go there and live there for a while before your own personal scorebook can be updated, other people will have an entirely different view on these things depending on their own background, stage of life they are in, personality and so on.

Whatever you will end up finding: it will make you a more balanced person and better able to appreciate the good and the bad of where ever you are in a much more objective way than before.
The explanation in the article does not make sense to me unless it's talking about window units. Ducted systems do not cool the outside air so the amount of temperature drop in the air passing through is not relevant. As long as it can cool faster than the air is being heated inside it can drop the inside temperature to the temperature of the coil, which is unlikely to be set at 80 degree in your case.
You make a valid, and ultimately depressing point.

I see lots of commentators arguing about 'lockdowns', but very little discussion what actually constitutes 'lockdowns'. Lockdowns in China looked very different to lockdowns in Europa or lockdowns in the US. Lockdowns in 2020, in most countries, were very different to lockdowns in 2022.

> Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with both nuanced information and collective action problems.

There is a point to be made that the number of collective action problems has increased, relative to one or two generations ago, and will further increase.
I might consider Hawaii or Massachusetts. School especially would be excellent in the latter, when time comes. Progressive and liberal politics. Cold winters unfortunately but at least the gas does not come from a hostile superpower.

One other thing about most US locales, is property taxes are relatively high, and they fund the local government (i.e. your town - they pay for police, school, etc.) which is something a lot easier to control than state or federal government. I've known fellow engineers who ended up investing time/effort to join the local town government and have impact on how that money is spent.
Will it be archived?
I did about ten years back for a client. Android-based tablets, peripherals connected via USB HID, front end built on libGDX (it was a gaming-related product), in-house remote management agent + back end (a WebSocket key/value store + pubsub db managed with a Django app, SSH + adb for fallback device access). Overall I was happy with the approach but if I were building it today hopefully there would be better off the shelf software for the back end. The client's business involved renting the kiosks to customers of their larger gaming business.
> No doubt some cynics will bristle at the seeming naïveté of calling for civility towards monsters. I understand their skepticism. Many of our beliefs feel more like identities, and to disagree with those is to negate our very existence. The thought of extending charity to those looking to erase us seems masochistic, even suicidal. But this perception of existential threat is an illusion. Yes, there are monsters in the world, but they’re so few in number that you’re unlikely to actually encounter one.

I'm definitely not a cynic, but this really understates the power of the threat that bad ideas can have to peoples existence. That threat is higher based on your specific intersectionality.

My socio-economic position personally lets "this perception of existential threat is an illusion" ring true the vast majority of the time. When I was below the poverty line however, the ideas of someone in a position of power about poor people threatened my ability to better my existence.

I quite like the idea of "optimism isn't naieve, it's the refusal to accept the present as the future". I believe this is a healthy way of seeing things as long as one doesn't bury their head in the sand about current realities that can be much more depressing than the bright future you can envision.
Replication is far from trivial. It's still worth pursuing, but it's easy to overlook how challenging it can be to successfully execute scientific procedures.

Labs generally specialize, as there's a long learning curve to climb before you can reliably execute even 'bedrock' molecular biology protocols like immunoassays. Small ambiguities in protocol can lead to failure, and there's always simple human error involved that can tank a result. Generally you'll have positive controls available to tell you whether a protocol was successfully executed, but there are cases where that's simply not practical.

In the end, 'failure to replicate' does not necessarily mean there was anything wrong with the original work. Positively concluding that requires a lot of additional work that could explain the discrepancy.
What's communist about North Korea, apart from "something often said"? It's more of a feudal monarchy.
In my personal experience a lot of the mess stems from complex layer-to-layer interactions. Within my own modules I'm pretty good at keeping things clean but marshalling data from C# to C++ (or Python to C or this lib to that lib) is where I get sad. Or mapping return and error codes, or catching exceptions etc....

The cleanest code I write is for embedded systems without an OS, basically a sparkling gem of refactored goodness.
My wife and I live in the US. My kids spend the school year with their mom in Canada, and spend summers, vacations, and many weekends here in the US. We’re only about 100 miles away from each other, but it crosses an international border. For more than a decade, my kids have been on my account. All of their history and recommendations are attached to their profile in my account. If they want to move their profiles over to their mother’s account for the nine months of the year that they are in Canada, they can’t. They just use their existing profiles in my account at both homes.

In my case, nobody is “stealing” anything. My immediate family has had to deal with these international issues for about eight years, where the kids spend about three months in the US and nine months in Canada every year, crossing the border every 3-4 weeks.

I have no idea how Netflix’s changes are going to affect my family.

Taking another example: Disney+ and Hulu. Hulu is majority (but not entirely) owned by Disney (post-20th Century Fox acquisition). In the US, we have Disney+ and Hulu as separate services. In Canada there is no Hulu, but Disney+ offers something called “Star” which is more-or-less non-US Hulu. In other words, Disney is already getting 2 subscriptions out of me in the US for content that only requires one subscription in other countries.

But I don’t mind. Why? Because Disney has high quality content. Even if I don’t want to watch it, none of it is necessarily “bad”. Netflix, OTOH, churns out so much garbage. And most of their original shows get canceled far too early. I now avoid most new Netflix shows until it has a few seasons under its belt, because I’m tired of getting invested into shows that are canceled after a cliff-hanger.

Ted Sarandos: I’m looking at you.
I can think of a few reasons:

1. writing a game that movement happens along 8 axes, and needs to trace lots of rays

2. several other reasons similar to (1)

3. had a clever idea to optimize a thing and went ham, for fun
I develop perhaps the most affordable family tree and organigram software. "Kiosks" in under-developed countries offer customers the option to create their family tree with it. Since it's collaborative, free, and cross-platform, customers can then share it with their relatives. The kiosk's cost can range from $0 to $12, no subscriptions charged

Front-end stack:
Android and iOS: CN1, HTML5, java, obj-c
Web: HTML5, js, wasm

Backend: nodejs, datastore (no-sql db), GCP buckets

6groups.com
This is an experimental project, being very clearly pitched as such, and with the documentation being really clear about how if you can use any other language you should. They're bending over backwards to make the expectations clear. It is being developed in the open, targets a goverance model of an open foundation not controlled by any company, and has a goal that no more than half the contributors to the language should be from any one company. It's also a programming language whose compiler you'd run on your local machine, not a networked service that can actually be shut down.

Out of all the projects where you could trot out this tired "killed by google" shit, this is literally the worst one. What is your thought process here? "I don't know anything about the subject, but let me repeat a lame joke that people will surely find hilarious despite it being the thousandth time it gets posted to HN this year. Surely it will play to the crowd."
Cody's Lab: it's free palladium
I expect they're talking about the Linux userland C++ ABIs.
just curious, i always remember seeing this article on boingboing: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

and always saw it linked there. which is original?
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in haskell
Show HN: A better CLI tool to generate Golang constructor code for a struct
All science reporting is bad. All of it.
It's mentioned in one of the comments at the bottom of the article, but it seems many of the Nazis cast in the movie were in fact Jews escaped from Germany. So in this scene, many of the actors tears are real.
In finance there are a number of hedge funds who do this, like Citron Research which specializes in exposing fraud and short selling it for profit.
You're arguing with a religious person. Logic has no place in these conversations, unfortunately.
For what it’s worth, this hasn’t been my experience in ML. But I’ve had a limited window into academia.

We were always questioning each other’s results. Especially when something seemed too good to be true. “Integrity” can take many forms, and it’s surprisingly easy to fool yourself when you’re doing work in the field. So the default assumption was that we were all fooling ourselves, not each other, unless proven otherwise.
The current system only works for people who already own property in inner suburbs with low density and short commutes. Obviously that does not scale.

Increasing density should both reduce commute times and lower housing costs. But there does have to be a tradeoff, and each individual or family can make that decision for themselves.
I ran into this last week and found a thread somewhere that resolved it for me. I can't find the link but it was a PowerShell command that enumerated all of the packages on the system and reregistered them. I wonder if it was related to this issue.
It's definitely as hard to read as C++ though.
I've lived on an Island for nearly five years, hardly ever left for the mainland. Depending on your personality Island life may be 'just the ticket' or indeed 'isolating'. For me it provided the lack of through traffic and quiet that I was very much longing for.
This exactly. Mobiles are now the standard general purpose computers and they're all locked down. We don't really own our devices anymore nor our data :(
Poe too, I actually had a phrase about poetry in my original comment that I removed cause not generally interesting.
I think this is an intermittent state produced by a multi-year process of exodus from public communities into tightly vetted private communities, specifically discords.

Also there is an obvious generational dynamics with HN being avoided by smart zoomers having better communities to fit into.

Maybe it's not terminal.
This sounds just like cholesterol to me. Yes, beta amyloids are correlated with Alzheimer’s and cholesterol is correlated to cardiac issues. But correlation is not causation. Why is their seemingly no mainstream discussion that perhaps these correlations are simply the markers of an underlying biological function that has become disregulated and leads to the presence of higher amyloid/cholesterol/etc? When we try to treat cancer, do we focus on the symptoms, or do we try to obliterate the cancer? As far as I can tell, we aren’t looking for the “cancer”, we are trying to treat symptoms.
That's a great read, although I remember reading it published under the title "Work Clean". A cursory glance at Amazon.co.uk looks like the two titles have identical text however the Kindle edition of "Work Clean" is half the price of the one re-issued as "Everything In Its Place", for anyone else interested...
yes, this seems to me to make sense, contextually. If you did Piranesi on architecture, it wouldn't make sense to exclude his drawings. or Ronald Searle's diary of his time in the PoW camps in Japan, or Edward Ardizzone's war diaries, or the sketches by "DD" watkins in his books.. or heaps of others.

arthur rackham's illustrations for childrens books, just like e.h. shepards for winnie-the-pooh, or Quentin Blake for his contributions to childrens books: its senseless to re-publish them without these illustrations (when the IP becomes available, of course)