skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a process that's best learned by watching other scientists do it. That's how I've learned to do so. Though you're never done -- you can always improve your bullshit detectors.

There's always obvious things to catch: do all of the data points plotted on this graph make sense? Does a predictive model fall back to chance performance when it should? Should the authors need to z-score in order to see this effect? Other labs typically use X statistical model here: why are these people using something different, and how should I expect the results to change? If my brain is having a difficult time understanding how they went from raw data to a given plot, that's usually an indication that something's fishy.

Then you need to check for consistency between the results. Figures should come together to tell a coherent story. If there are small discrepancies in what Figure 1 and Figure 3 are telling you, investigate. It could be that the authors are hiding something.

Then there's sociological factors: how much do I trust the work that this group puts out? Being in higher-prestige journals is actually an indication that you should be more skeptical of the results, not less. There's more riding on the results telling a neat and coherent story, and more space to hide things in (given that you typically need to do 2 or 3 papers worth of experiments to publish in Nature these days).

Unfortunately, there's a great deal of bullshit published every day. Every paper has a little bit of it. The trick is to get great at spotting it and getting something out of the paper without getting discouaged with science as a whole.
I have looked at it objectively over the past 4 decades. I think deeply about Iran and what went wrong with Iran.

Character is destiny.
> What could cause something like this to happen?

Insufficient testing?
This person seems to think that cloud-based router control is worse but I think it’s better. The router initiates the control connection and never accepts connections of any kind. This is strictly better. If someone wants to take over a cloud-managed router they have to exploit its packet-handling features, DHCP or DNS services and this is far more difficult.
It was done in one of the Google coffee bars. I don't remember exactly how that works, but you can be sure it was done with professionalism
I'm a Portuguese native speaker, and use a US keyboard with the US International layout (the pt keyboard layout is terrible for programming). Having dead keys for Portuguese diacritics is basically essential, but I do occasionally need to type things in other languages where I have no clue how to input the diacritics. The macOS input method makes it possible to input those characters in a predictable, easy to remember way.
Completely unacceptable as an input method for anybody with any level of typing proficiency.

I can type couple words during the time it would take to input one character...

Also, while typing 10 characters per second visual elements stop working. When I make a mistake and visual signal has to reach my brain and be recognised I have typically already typed half a dozen characters.
In my experience, documentation quality for closed Yandex projects ranged from excellent to absent. It is definitely not project management culture. Perhaps, Yandex tries to use its open source projects as kind of advertisement targeted to developers, and puts extra efforts into its quality.
why is spying on others "valuable" ? how is it not just obsession-material at the individual level and security-state building at the social level?

one existential answer to this is -- "security" must be constant by its nature. Over time, budgets, training and attention settle to a lowest-common-denominator of "security" while authorship, initiative, marks of individuality and evolution fall by the wayside in the murk of "responding to threats" .. while insecurity and overwhelm in an individual push towards addiction and obsession.

Basically, viewed one way, this hack tool feeds a public movement towards funding constant security while there are provable deficits of resources and attention in many directions.

As an American I heard stories of the "awful" East German communist state with Stazi informants, yet similar reinforcing dynamics seem to be in play now in the "free world" ..
The question mark in this case doesn't indicate that the sentence is a question. This usage is common but not permitted in formal writing.
> Is this a mistake, e.g. 2.3 < 3.6?

Yes, it's CNBC's error (probably the proofreader's). The original sentence probably would be:

> Intel said on Thursday that its disappointing report reflected execution issues and dropped its forecast for full-year earnings per share to $2.30 from $3.60.

I do get that the author might want to highlight the drop but it feels ungrammatical to me. Personally, I would simply write it as:

> Intel said on Thursday that its disappointing report reflected execution issues and dropped its forecast for full-year earnings per share from $3.60 to $2.30.
TIL. Thanks for letting me know that: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/std/collections/hash/map.rs.ht...

I don't know how I missed this, is the Swiss port a fairly recent development?
You’d think they’d have some kind of migration system to detect if there are devices on the network that are lost after the switch over and revert if so.
The author's experience during the Bosnian conflict was no doubt horrific, but translating it directly into an American context doesn't quite have the same effect. In the US, a lot of very different things would have to go wrong simultaneously for the same kind of collapse to occur.

These kinds of articles border on fetishizing the doomsaying, and end up promoting the worst kind of fear-driven consumerism, including consumerism of guns and ammunition. The ads sprinkled between every paragraph are a nice touch, too.
That's not the purpose of papers, the purpose of papers is to communicate to other scientists that might attempt to replicate the results.

People want "here's solved science" as fast as possible, which is understandable! We all do! But there has to be some channel to first disseminate results, and ideally that's a channel that is open to all, and not hidden from the public and limited to scientists only.

That channel is scientific publication. And science is not error-free, it is self-correcting. So expect errors, and expect them to hopefully be identified.

If you want things that are 100% solved, go to the science from engineering textbooks. If you want to be on the cutting edge, there's always some risk that the frontier of discovery will be wrong.
This is something I've never understood. Food additives, flavourings and colours do not get the same level of scrutiny as medicines. If you launch a new medicine into the market, you not only have to demonstrate its efficacy for the treatment, but also the safety. But food additives and supplements seem to get a free pass. These days you can find hundreds of artificial flavourings from artificial smoke, cookie dough, cheddar cheese and what not. Who regulates how these are distilled, safe levels of concentration for consumption and the long term effects on the body? Surely they must have the same safety concerns as any new compounds that are going into medicines? Consumers are likely to consume much greater quantities of food rather than medicine. Who knows how many such situations we will encounter where we find out some food additive is very harmful only in the long run.
The first person down a path, unfortunately, tramples a lot.

It takes serious internal problems for the third or fourth person following to repeat those mistakes.
Google “replication crisis” — its huge topic, lots of information.
Ah yes, the unmistakable sound of an organist.
Found an interesting part:

> Otonomo is one example of the dozens of companies that market their attempts at keeping information anonymous. Otonomo describes its platform as having “privacy and security by design” and notes the use of patented “data blurring” technology to protect user privacy.

> It also has an “Otonomo Driver Pledge” page promising drivers the ability to easily grant or revoke access to personal data,

This doesn't add up. If they collect only anonymized data, then they won't be able to find that customer's data and do anything with it.
Whilst working as a web developer at a design agency, I suggested using an open source CMS to improve our development speed and quality.

The only reason they rejected the idea was because they wanted to lock their customers into their proprietary CMS.

Whilst at a software company, was told the expectation is to develop bug-free software and that quality engineers should not find bugs.
Kind of like how in older societies there have been examples of reclusive people from aristocracy. You don't hear about that in the lower classes, of course, because it's so unsustainable for someone in that position.
I agree with your disagreement. By this standard we shouldn't teach F=ma in introductory physics, and we should require kindergartners to understand the ZFC axioms before we can tell them what "3" is.
Why you should reach out to old friends
An insightful article, I'm curious to know what role border countries Canada and Mexico will have if this occurred in the US.
I would say this is more about gender roles than gender norms, particularly women’s place in social status / power hierarchy.

It is a fact our increasingly connected world favors some traits that have been traditionally thought of as feminine, such as high emotional intelligence, openness, and agreeableness; and people are adapting. All this anxiety about feminization of men - and masculinization of women - is just useless gnashing of teeth from those who are having trouble coping with rapid change brought on by technological advancement.
The "good" reason is often that the seller can talk the buyer into a higher price for the extra "feature". It can even be higher marginally: i.e. insulation costs $0.50 to manufacture, and they can sell it for $1; adding foil costs an additional $0.15 but now they can charge $1.50. This is common, even pervasive, with consumer pricing.
it takes two minutes to shave your head! even less if you get one of those shower mirrors that doesn’t fog up. why mess around with creams?
What do you mean? To the DOT, license plates ensure drivers have had basic training and that the vehicle has been inspected for basic safety and emissions standards. To police, the license plates offer a way to find out who the driver is. You might not see direct benefits today, but there certainly is a point to plates. If you find yourself in an accident that is the other party’s fault, you might understand the benefits to you of their license plate being visible. I hope that doesn’t happen to you, but many people in the past have been glad the offender could be identified.
Are there any descriptions that I'm missing? Why is this one called "Distraction" https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/5aec677df005411b1a6c794...
I remember reading here that a smarthome company has already failed, essentially turning the physical hardware into junk.

The default option should be self hosted, with premium subscription for those who choose
China to hold live-fire exercises in waters near Fujian, opposite Taiwan
I think technology made dominance inevitable. Many other issues, including disease and internal conflicts, absolutely accelerated the pace of victory but consider the technology. You're looking at steel weapons/armor, gunpower/firearms/cannons, crossbows, and horses against unarmored unmounted opposition equipped with basic stone instruments and simple bows.
Larkin isn’t really becoming “high art.” He’s more like Kipling: a great poet, but too popular for scholars.

Are really going to have students write reports on This Be the Verse?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
I miss view-source.

It used to be you could open up your dev tools and figure out how things were made. And you could learn all sorts of things about architecture and style and techniques this way.

Now its all buried in build processes and obfuscation techniques, as if your button handler is a tightly kept secret that's somehow protected by scrambling your variable names.

Although the other day I came across a complex app that was built in modern vanilla JS with native ES6 imports alongside regular old CSS. It was a work of art.
Yep my reading of everything regarding websockets and durable objects is there will be a per connection metering fee, which sounds like “expensive”, so I opted to go with the much cheaper and likely sustainable pricing of http polling and storage read/write requests.
The problem with software is that even though the program itself doesn't change, the OS and hardware that it runs on often changes and customers expect to be able to use the same app on new hardware too. This requires a continuous maintenance work from the developer side. So, it's often not only "minor bugs" but major bugs introduced by hardware or API changes.
I think a lot of people outside of academia misunderstand the role of academic journals. To academicians, the journals are more like "interesting lines of research" rather than "settled results".

Likewise, "peer review" typically just means that 3 academics read the article and thought it was interesting and worth publishing. It's important to recognize that a reviewer accepting an article for publication does not imply that the reviewer endorses any conclusions or arguments made by the article.

It's usually not a great idea for laymen to be reading academic journal articles, and it's especially not a great idea for the news media to report them. It's not that academia is trying to "hide" things from the public; rather, the academic journals are simply not writing for a public audience, otherwise they'd write differently.

Sadly, there's also the "publish or perish" factor: as an academic, you have to publish something to justify your existence in academia, get tenure, etc. So there's a lot of material that in an ideal world might be considered filler.
Answering the question of why does coping with these pressures take this form does indeed have a biological component. It’s not excuse making to ask why humans respond to certain negative pressures in a recognizable pattern.
I enjoy the process of using a vacuum pot, but I also found the cloth filter was hard to keep clean and non-mouldy.

Hand-burr grinders are great - I can highly recommend the Knock grinders and the Aergrind is my favourite for travelling as it's sized to fit partially inside an Aeropress. I usually aim for somewhere closer to french-press grinds and use the inverted method to give total control over the brewing time.

Edit: A small press pot is going to work in a similar fashion to an Aeropress, though the Aeropress has the advantage in making just a single cup of coffee and completely separating the grounds from the water so that the coffee doesn't keep brewing after being made. I'd love to see a glass version of an Aeropress made.
Wolves don’t whistle though, at least cat’s actually call.

I get what you’re trying to do, but come on.
The herbivore (I assume that's what you meant), 草食系男子 has little to do with "not wanting family" and more to do with men that are not keen to approach / take initiative towards women. Usually not just because of shyness but because relationships are very very low in their priority list.

絶食系(roughly translated to "fastivore", fasting) are probably the one you're referring to.

The statistics that says 40-60% of 30s year old males have never been in a relationship is probably more from this attitude.
Is America immortal?
> There is no need for more money to pay off interest, because time and labor and other things have value.

An historical example of needing more money because an economy ran out it and people couldn't get any to do financial transactions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Slump_(15th_century)

See also the Great Drepession for another problem with a fixed money supply:

> However, Temin (1989) argues that, once these destabilizing policy measures had been taken, little could be done to avert deflation and depression, given the commitment of central banks to maintenance of the gold standard. Once the deflationary process had begun, central banks engaged in competitive deflation and a scramble for gold, hoping by raising cover ratios to protect their currencies against speculative attack. Attempts by any individual central bank to reflate were met by immediate gold outflows, which forced the central bank to raise its discount rate and deflate once again. According to Temin, even the United States, with its large gold reserves, faced this constraint. Thus Temin disagrees with the suggestion of Friedman and Schwartz (1963) that the Federal Reserve's failure to protect the U.S. money supply was due to misunderstanding of the problem or a lack of leadership; instead, he claims, given the commitment to the gold standard (and, presumably, the absence of effective central bank cooperation), the Fed had little choice but to let the banks fail and the money supply fall.

* https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c11482/c11482.pdf
Override the font on all YouTube text elements.

You'd probably think it'd be simple, right? This being the kind of thing that Cascading Style Sheets were designed to handle elegantly and gracefully?

https://maya.land/user-styles/youtube/

I always thought people on here were just cranks complaining about style bloat, because a lot of the "this could have been a text file" arguments were applied to things that were genuinely better with the presentation polish. But this? How can developer ergonomics be worth this?

Anyway, user styles and user scripts and bookmarklets are all great and I use them all the time. This level of Big Tech deformation of the basic web technologies makes them more annoying, but still not impossible.
I separate them because things often do poor band choosing and things too far from an AP are using 5ghz when they should be picking 2.4 at that range. By separating I can choose which band I want this thing based on the coverage topology. Fwiw I’ve never found band steering to work well.

Finally I also selectively put devices into 2.4 just to keep my 5 band clearer.
Michael Pollan has an interesting take on being addicted to Coffee. He suspects most of the modern world is thanks to caffeine and coffee breaks. His conclusion is: although there are some 'negative' side effects, those effects are minimal and the positive effects outweighs them considerably.
Those numbers look excellent, but we'll need to see the pricetag for a dozen, and also if they can be rolled off the line rapidly.
Yep, I refuse to use Plaid.

It should be downright illegal for a third party to ask for a bank password.
I think their question was about the replication of a specific method, not scientific replication in general
lol -- I've done similar, I know the feeling (-_-). Feel free, tho, to reach out anytime in the future. I'd value hearing your opinion, especially on matters like this!
Arris / Arris-variant DSL/Fiber router critical vulnerability exposure
It is worth noting that pretty much all the "quick oil change" brands have horror stories associated with them. Everything from minor ("they didn't notice my air filter needed replacing") to fraud ("they tried to get me to pay for an air filter that was replaced the week before; and showed me a dirty one that wasn't mine") to outright dangerous ("they left a tool on my engine that could have (or did) destroy when it fell into the workings, later" [1]). As a general rule, they tend to hire people without any _real_ training or motivation to be good at their job. I highly recommend being very wary of such places.

To be clear here, not all of them are like this; possibly not even most of them. But enough of them are that I generally try to always go to a local shop to get my oil changed. It's not worth the risk to me. If you have one that you know enough about to be comfortable with, none of this applies to you.

[1] I had this happen to me. Got home, popped the hood, and there was a screwdriver sitting on top of my engine. If it had fallen in on the highway, it could have caused some serious damage/injuries. Luckily, it didn't.
> The "free market" will always, always end up with large fish eating up the small fish

I still think this has much more to do with market interventions enabling 'artificially' large economies of scale. Infrastructure, police, subsidies/grants, IP protections--all played and continue to play a massive role in shaping markets today.
> Metadata in images serves no other purpose than invading privacy

I don't upload my photos anywhere public. I keep metadata on so I can sort them by location. Uploading photos to the public web is really what is invading your privacy.
Anarcho-Tyranny
> sophisticated cyber security breach

Like an unpatched Windows XP machine?
Mozilla offers a similar API. Kinda funny for a "privacy" company.
America needs better charging networks
I think this is very insightful. Math is designed to tackle problems which are challenging/not possible to visualize. So to get good at symbolic mathematics at some point you need to let go of needing to visualize everything. To get a bit more perspective one could contrast symbolic math with geometry which is built on visualization.
Interesting. I'll have to check that out.

Maybe related, depending on how close the light from the far target is to tangent near the lensing star, there is also an atmosphere around the star that is emissive. I was thinking that's mostly noise, but maybe it's accelerated enough to shift its spectrum and serve some purpose in measuring the lensing strength? But either way, would need to characterize it enough to remove it from signal.
With all due respect…
The root of all evil... is the database.
Peter Attia has a good series on how to read and evaluate scientific studies. It's available at https://peterattiamd.com/ns001/, give that a try.

Also, I do recall a book Bad Science that I've had on my read list for a while now ;) It seems to cover the topic but since I didn't read it I can't vouch for it.
No, what's important is the truth or falsehood of a given claim. To attack the messenger, or to put focus on the messenger, is a dangerous path that leads to the deep divides we see, where reality seems just subjective to entire groups of people. It also contributes to a society more concerned about whether a fact is convenient or not for one's belief system, as opposed to an inquiry by a hungry mind which seeks to understand the world as-is (an ideal we should be fostering as intelligent people, for the good of society).

This is more religious-inspired thinking than protecting the world from what you call an information operation. Ironically those institutions do the same thing in reverse (omitting or cherry picking facts to fit narrative).
Foil backing is normally used on polyurethane foams, and is necessary to give the panel sufficient structural rigidity during manufacture.

One could use a plastic film instead though, or even corrugated cardboard.

The effectiveness of the film for insulation depends on many things.

Energy is lost through radiation, conduction and convection. At every layer of a house wall, the contribution of those effects varies widely.

Within the panel, radiation has near zero impact, because the foam material is directly in contact with the foil.

Outside the panel, the foil might have a benefit. The benefit would be maximized if there was a multi-millimeter air gap, followed by a very hot surface (Radiation doesn't scale linearly with temperature).

The foil also has a downside for insulatitive properties... The aluminium the foil is made out of conducts heat very well.
That means if part of the wall is leaking some heat (for example has a nail through it), then the foil will spread that head sideways through the wall, increasing overall losses, sometimes dramatically.