skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Russia even blinks at a nuke the international response will make the sanctions look like child’s play.

Why do you think this? Unless we're going to start WWIII over this, all of the things currently preventing us from imposing harsher sanctions on Russia will remain as strong - most importantly, Europe still needs Russian gas to be able to sustain its industry and population comfort.

It is true that India, China and all the other countries who didn't agree to the sanctions may change their tune. But Russia has to weigh the probability of that versus the costs to their regional power if they lose the war. And trusting in Putin's rationality is a pretty tough sell from my point of view.
The check cashing is outsourced. I’ve toured the facility where it happens.
And you believe that won't be rigged? Sweet summerchild. The pressure will be for citation, crudely said: citation bait. Well researched articles on researchable topics aren't quoted that much (it's boring, and what's left to investigate and publish about, after all?). I don't think a single measure is capable of correcting the current system.
I'm using zk and the zk-neovim plugin. Works well, its easy to link between notes and navigate. They are future proof because they are stored as plain text. Would like to auto commit and push the notes to github every once in a while, but I've yet to set that up.
What do you mean it didn't take off? QR code detection is implemented in native iOS camera and IIRC most android implementations too. Almost everyone can use it.

In that sense it took off more than bitcoin.
I've seen this almost everywhere I worked, albeit in milder form.
Thorium reactors are a type of breeder reactor that can breed using slow neutrons, whereas most breeder reactors built so far use uranium and fast neutrons.

There is a lot of hype about thorium online, but almost all of it is about breeder reactors vs. non-breeders. None of the hype is truly thorium specific.

I wrote up a few pages on it around 2014.

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html

Thorium is often associated with fluid fuel reactors.

https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html
It's not HN job to entertain you. Someone wrote some software they thought was useful, so they are sharing it. If you don't like it down vote and move on. Get off your high horse.
I’m curious, why did the author sound dumb? What percentage of the population do you think is likely ‘dumb’ by your standards?
I'm curious, do you have a counterpart to "capital" and "property" in your analogy?

I think capitalism facilitates specialization - and that quite effectively at scale. Specialization can occur without capitalism, too. There are other systems to coordinate specialists.
> The only downside I can tell, is the pricing, but compared to dev hours saved, it's probably a net benefit.

dev hours is already paid - i say that a hosted service for an app is gonna cost even more than the dev in the long run.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can be shown fraud, agree it's everywhere then continue on their merry way as though nothing happened.

If this could survive for 15 years before anyone notices anything wrong then how is it not the sane response to wait for more mRNA studies before mandating it for billions of people?
Solar requires land area. Storage requires land area. Britain isn't that sunny - particularly not in winter.

Nuclear has a very small footprint on a crowded island.

Plus we have Rolls Royce SMRs who have been building nuclear reactors for a while.
While sugar when added to food, and especially when added to beverages, is bad, the conclusions of the study seem consistent with sweeteners being as bad as sugar.

According to this meta study, the sweeteners do not cause any cancer risk, but in the long term they significantly increase the risk of diabetes and of various cardio-vascular problems, without providing any reduction in obesity.

So they appear to be no better than sugar.

It seems that the best strategy is to satisfy one's craving for sweet things only with naturally sweet fruits and vegetables, raw or cooked, and without making juices out of them.

I have actually given up on using sugar some time ago, because both my grandfather and my father had diabetes at old age, so I do not want to repeat their fate.

Now, after becoming dis-habituated with sugar, all the fruits and also many vegetables like red bell-peppers, carrots or even red onion, feel extremely sweet, unlike during the time when I was frequently eating food with added sugar.

So I no longer crave for sweets, even if I had not expected that this is possible.
80% of science? How would things like GPS or rockets work if that was the case? What we consider reliable technology would be blowing up everywhere around us constantly.
The entire world is gearing up to produce green Hydrogen in staggering quantities. It won't be used for wheeled vehicles though.

https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/green-hydrogen-market
Yes, if the goal is to bring prices of SF/NYC down, then make more SF/NYC.

Of course, that type of dense land development is impossible in today’s legal/political/voting system.
It takes a lot of life experience for someone with integrity to find out that other people are simple dopamine hunting monkeys who will flip flop to whatever social pressure is being applied at that present moment. We assume that others are like ourselves.

And so the very people who are supposed to call out and fight the irrationality are actually blind to it. You do get people calling out the irrationality, but mostly they are driven by social incentives rather than duty and so they turn their eyes away from realms that are deemed pure. They have no incentive to look inwards to the scientific institutions because that way they lose the social esteem they gain from association with the scientific establishment.
What you wrote is consistent with the comment you replied to

Just because capitalism has generated good things doesn’t mean it’s perfect. We need to acknowledge the damage it’s causing and think of ways to move beyond it.

Unless you want this to be the way things are for the rest of humanity.
To me it reads a little bit too much like an advertisement for the service it uses to middle-man-secure access to SSH.

It mentions logging into the third party service with a Google account. This is adding some level of dependence-chain risk. Risks 6 and 7 in the article sound like they could be describing the risk added here.

I'm pooh-poohing too much though, it's another alternative method of securing access that might suit where other methods do not. Good to know.
For those of you who would like to learn the basics of poker, Johns Hopkins offers an online course: https://hopkinspokercourse.com/

MIT OCW also has a course on poker theory: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-s50-poker-theory-and-analytic...
Black Plague was natural too. That’s no defense of it.
The comment you replied to was unkind to both sides (appropriately) and you turned it into my team good, your team bad. This is why we can't discuss politics here because it goes tribal and off the rails.

Our relationship with SA is fucked up and that is regardless of party in office.

Parting shot: if you really cared about corrupt nepotism you'd acknowledge the prior son-in-law's self dealing with the SA as well (e.g., a recent $2B "investment"). Let's investigate both sides, eh?

Edit: shitting on Trump in the OP also didn't help (because while true wasn't germane to the corruption/foreign relations).
How to unlock your product leadership skills – Ken Norton, Ex-Google
Math is by its nature falsifiable. Much of what is considered “science” today is not. This is often the stuff that’s used as a political weapon via smug “trust the science” justifications for the application of power.
I'd like to know whether the police have ever been brought in for a scenario like this. It may not seem as clear cut as regular financial fraud, but the end goal is to further one's career, which results in monetary gain. As such, this does seem to fall within most countries' definition of fraud. For example, from the UK:

Fraud by false representation

(1) A person is in breach of this section if he—

(a) dishonestly makes a false representation, and

(b) intends, by making the representation—

(i) to make a gain for himself or another
A new way to predict when software jobs will become automated
OpenAI estimates that Github’s Copilot can already complete 37% of coding tasks. DeepMind’s AlphaCode is estimated to be 59% better at coding competitions than Codex. Will automation start in 2023?
Is a severe compromise an exception clause in Musk’s contract? I’ve read summaries of it but never the actual contract but I don’t know
Science, not engineering
There is an excellent three part video series about the Jan Hendrik Schön fraud on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nfDoml-Db64
First off science isn't a section of society, company, or group of people.
Second 80%? Your wild hyperbole has no value, makes no point, and reeks of immaturity
I dunno, I feel like it’s bad but getting better. 20 years ago, nobody tried to replicate anything. Now it’s much more common and, I hope, expected for results like this one.
Porn use and men's and women's sexual performance
Different products have different standards. Since two vendors control like 90% of book distribution, there isn’t as a robust a distribution network as there once was. Since Amazon is the dominant retailer, they know that it’s not possible for anyone to make money selling new books on their platform.

For other products, that’s isn’t so. For say a laptop memory card, there’s a dozen authorized distributors that supply various resellers.

The whole issue is Amazon saying “Fuck you, we’re Amazon” to the market.
When I read about this my first question was why they use industrial machine as a chess robot. I believe that the answer is “just to show off”. But IMO this makes an opposite effect.

They could use a pair of magnets attached to each chess piece and chess board. One under the board, one attached to the piece. Then move magnets under the board and voila chess pieces move automagically.

I think that I saw a similar toy somewhere.
I have heard of proof of concept camping trailers that not only have batteries but also motors in the wheels so the can provide extra power when you drive (restoring the range you loose when towing) and also regen braking. Not low tech, but would be really useful https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1133124_towing-with-an-...
> Welcome to science folks.

There is no question that a very significant portion is wrong and some of it is fraud, but I feel like this is the wrong summary takeaway. Science isn’t the reason that science is messed up, people are the reason. All fields of human endeavor suffer from the same problems due to emotional and political and selfish people. It’s more like, welcome to humanity. Science is actually the best thing we’ve got, there is no alternative that has less BS and more truth. The 10% or so of science that’s right has transformed the earth in the last century.

I worry about framing this the right way, about the subtleties of how you say it, because there is currently a war being waged on public trust in science, and to some degree that anti-science war is being won. It’s potentially damaging to say “most of science is wrong” and just stop there. That’s a misleading framing in my opinion. In order to fix the funding problems, society as a whole needs to have trust in science, to believe that the majority of people doing science are politically impartial and also not wasting money or lining their own pockets, to believe that scientific progress is human progress.

It’s important to note that the incentive problems you cite mostly aren’t caused my any malicious intent. Disagreeing with someone else’s research, in my experience, isn’t often done with the primary goal of holding back good research, it’s done because the researchers actually disagree on the science, and the reviewer actually believes the proposed paper isn’t complete or correct or up to publication standards. Moreover, for science it’s very important for researchers to be critical of each other. That is part of why we need more replication study.
>There is such a taboo around pay cuts

Huh? Every time the stock price goes down people's comp is cut since most of their comp is RSUs.
Yes than you probably think. This was true in the dot com era, but much less true today.
Even in the hard sciences, the results are fundamentally about statistics. And they often require very expensive machines for reproduction.

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to try to optimize the scientific process for fraud resilience. In the end, we still rely on people doing the right thing most of the time.
There's probably a higher percentage if the article comes from the journal organic syntheses
Hiring cheap contractors can be frustrating too. I am on a project that is behind schedule. Management’s solution is to temporarily staff the project with several temporary, cheap offshore developers. I think a smaller team with competent folks can be much more product. There’s a lot of truth to the book, “The Mythical Man Month”. Now, we have far more meetings and communication chains. We also have to spend multiple cycles reviewing the contractor code and helping them learn software development.
You have a better idea to contribute ?
What is the field of science
People share their Netflix account because they don't think it's worth the full value and/or they're are financially strained.

If you raise the cost they will just leave, leaving Netflix with a total of $0 instead of a "small premium for the privilege" from them.
haha, I stand corrected then, my apologies, thanks for clearing that up. :)

maybe Google would have been a better example?
But all they see is your IP connecting to the VPN IP. And the connection between the VPN and the site has a new IP connection, doesn't the VPN just send L4 data + its own user-ID?
I agree but It’s weird that now Math is being politicized in California then. No limits to activists I guess
That is Engineering.
Obviously two Koreas had different priorities. What you said is true, but on the other hand, North Korea is an independent nuclear power, while South Korea is a kind of corrupt vassal state hosting foreign army on their soil.
I also remembered that quote from the Wiki page, but it seems there's controversy over the source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1804_Haiti_massacre#Sympa...

I don't know if I agree with the editor's rationale for removal, but they list the source book's title if you're interested to dig deeper.
Yes, but only because it got social media attention. If it was just one guy offended by bodega bro then nothing would've happened.
I'm also in physics and I agree with this. There's no chance that 80% is wrong.

One factor contributing to this. In natural sciences, you take other people's papers as truth and build on that. In theoretical physics on the other hand the _first step_ is you reproduce their results.
I would defer to the background checks the U.S. military and federal government is doing in consideration of selling those Baltic states a lot of weapons. They will definitely do a better job that I ever can.
This is true, but hydrogen cars at scale are still more practical than historical fossil fuel approaches.

Luckily we have an even better option available for transport so we can focus green hydrogen on replacing all the other uses of fossil fuels.
Yes, because ratio is the only thing that matters. Decompression speed doesn't matter at all. Who cares if Zstd is 9 times faster?
> When New York Pride festivities kicked off on 24 June, I was aware that monkeypox was an emerging issue – especially for gay men – but I was also under the impression that the number of cases in the city was relatively small. What I didn’t understand was how absolutely dismal testing capacity was: at that point, the city only had capacity to process ten tests a day.

> I had sex with several guys over the weekend. Then a week later, on 1 July, I started feeling very fatigued. I had a high fever with chills and muscle aches, and my lymph nodes were so swollen they were protruding two inches out of my throat.

The connection between the Pride event and the spread of monkeypox seems like something that public health officials may want to consider. Entire industries were shut down for extended periods of time in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID. There's ample precedent now.
Except that will never happen either, for the reasons you gave.
If dissenting opinions were censored by the media why is everyone aware of them?
I got "Decoding error (36)" when data was wrong, so --check (enabled by default during compression) is working for me:

echo 'a b c' > test
zstd test
zstdcat test.zst
sed -i s/a/b/g test.zst # corrupt the file on purpose
zstdcat test.zst
Yeah, this is what I meant. It wasn't a regular thing.
I still love science. I just don’t think the academic model and peer review publications makes sense anymore
For everyone reading, and appropriately outraged, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is.

Even $5 to someone with a long history of finding scientific fraud puts you on the right side of history: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik

I’ve been donating for years and I’ve never been more proud of that decision.
” Any proof of that statement? Or are you one of those people who believes in the invisible hand of providence the way religious people believe in God?”

It’s inherent fact of the reality we live in. People like money and higher compensation.

”Hey, remember back in the good old days of cotton plantations, when the African sl…”

Slavery is opposite of free market. I don’t know why you bring up such an bad example.
Social sciences have a reproducibility problem and is littered with fraudulent data. Of course most of it isn’t really science but they (social scientists, politicians, activists) that rely on it to justify applications of power insist it is. Because otherwise it’s just anecdotal, which it mainly is.

“Sokal Squared” is a great example of the problems in the field.
I agree, the discussion here is reassuring. This may just be a case of a fraudulent paper piggybacking on an otherwise credible research program focusing on amyloid oligomers - not the plaques which recent failed therapies have targeted, and which many of these researchers knew were poor targets for decades before the FDA debacle over aducanumab.

We can blame regulatory capture of the FDA for approval of failed drugs, rather than the scientific establishment. And we can blame Sylvain Lesné for Sylvain Lesné's fraud.

I would encourage those of us whose only knowledge of this topic is the word "amyloid" (I admit I am one of them) to read the scientists' comments and appreciate that there is more to this than we know. There are complexities, nuances, diverse perspectives and healthy disagreements. It's not just a political battlefield. Projecting culture war into it would be harmful to the scientific progress we all value and to the millions who suffer from Alzheimer's.
Real-Time. Consistency. High-Availability. Concurrency. Words with too many different meanings are not sufficient for describing softwares. I treat those words as marketing terms.
Can you please share an US based study which shows that mask mandates are effective? I’m really puzzled but that part.
But there was one thing they couldn't have more rigor on testing - time.
Jumping to conclusions again?

Beware of confident cynicism as a substitute for technical expertise.
Is rocket science possible sans science? Can you be more specific what engineering without dependency on any science is? Like how do you even approach inventing gps as an engineer if 80% of physics calculations don’t actually work for example?
What are parasite words, and what exactly does this tool do? I read the readme but couldn't figure it out.
The current funding system needs a massive change at least. Funding should go to universities in general instead of specific projects. Get rid of most of the KPIs.
And you surely got enough answers showing why the "\s" is important...
This is a guy who knew how to navigate the system and knew CDC treatment guidelines and was still bounced around by an uncaring system which first gave him tylenol and then antibiotics instead of proper treatment when one exists. He then was selected as a special case and bypassed the system to get treatment. Most people are not so fortunate.
Remarks like the fact that the city performed only 10 tests a day are also alarming.

You don't have to be gay to get the disease either, that's an unhelpful framing of the issue - we don't need to revisit the attitudes to homosexuals from over 30 years ago, and we don't need to defend systems that are barely working and deliver minimal support to people.
That’s the last 10% they left on the table. That last 10% makes up 100% of legit science.
“Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.”
The statement is worded critical of Tesla, but IIRC there's some truth to it. They engineered the Model S to be battery-swappable, and there was some advantage wrt. the regulatory credits to doing so. Can't find a link, but I remember reading it.

They rolled out this service to a couple of spots in California, which was probably sufficient for the the credit regime, but ended up not expanding the program further and terminating it after a few quarters. The official explanation was that it was not widely used.

https://youtu.be/H5V0vL3nnHY?t=57

There may have been other business reasons. I have no idea what was discussed on the executive level but wouldn't be surprised if they considered some tradeoffs of complexity, costs and customer attractivenes to not be worth it. Honestly, it's very rare that you actually need or strongly prefer to have this kind of service rather than just recharging at 150kW for 15 minutes. So if it adds considerable cost or complexity, I could understand the decision to drop it.

A short time later, they started welding an extra metal shield onto the bottom of the Model S, to act as an extra layer of protection against collisions with highway debris that caused some high-profile battery fires. I had the impression that this precluded battery swap, so at that point the business decision must have been made to not expand the program further.

If the regulatory incentives was key in the decision to do this and then later drop it, that's a fundamental property of incentives to do something that might not be a good idea in isolation.
Oh sorry, I misunderstood you and thought you were talking about the diet sodas.

Of course sugary sodas are a "bad idea".
I think it's fair to blame this one on capitalism-like structures without implying that the way to solve this is communism.

Clearly institutional competition for grant money has increased and changed what it means to be a successful researcher. Incentives are displacing virtues. But it's hard to find incentives, especially financial ones, that are fully aligned with honest research. Maybe we are trying too hard to find those.
Delta t:. were, past tense, is: present tense.
It depends. For books that have exercises, no. I just do the exercises. For books without exercises, yes. Usually I try some of the key proofs, or to write some code that uses it.

Usually with math/stats books I’m reading it for a specific purpose, so I start using it right away. For instance, I had to do some differential geometry and Lie algebras recently. I did problems in the book until I understood the material and then wrote some code that used it.

For the PL theory stuff, I mostly just tried to write a simple Scheme-like language interpreter that added worked with the thing or tried to use a new language that leveraged the ideas. When I was reading about compilers I basically just started adding compiler stages to a simple compiler. When I was reading about dependent types I played around with Coq, Agda, and Lean.
You forgot Poland:

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