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Ask HN: Why do research authors publish before supplementary material is ready
I write about AI, and pretty much every day have to write an email to the listed lead author of an Arxiv paper about the location of supplementary material that's mentioned in the paper, but not linked to in the abstract or anywhere else.

Sometimes the supp. material (such as a video) is so weak that I can see why the authors would prefer to engage readers before showing proof, but very often, the material is good.

Sometimes the supplementary video never actually comes at all (and I won't even bother asking about the 404 errors to listed GitHub repos, or the fact that they are placeholders 80% of the time).

Can any researchers here enlighten me about these practices? I had thought to try the 'No Stupid Questions' Reddit, but I think it might be a bit marginal for that crowd.
In Russia that has probably happened 50 years ago or so.

In pre-railway times, people had to grow grains everywhere where they lived, including Russian north such as Archangel, and Siberia.

Today, the intensified farming mostly happens in a tiny south-western tip of a country. The downside here is that there's no longer an economical reason for rural life style in most of the country. But, forests and grasslands reclaim former fields all right.
Stop spam posting your websites here.

Also, there’s a reason why Geocities died.
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Not really. A country also has to have the ability to be able to defend itself. If every single country in the world recognized Sealand, but they only had a BB gun to defend itself, and 5 guys came up in a rowboat with some AK-47s, and took over Sealand easly, then that's that. What's the point of being recognized?

Example: Ukraine. They are being somewhat successful at defending themselves, and stomping the shlit out of Russia, at least so far.
Here in India, the leafy greens are eaten very fresh, usually on the day of the harvest.

And, we don't usually buy greens from the supermarket where chikitshadhina even have a chance of maintainance, rather, we prefer to buy from Street side vendors.
Not speculation, it was based on some article I've read. Here you go:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/middleeast/beirut-e...

Except is was not bound for Somalia but for Mozambique. Still Eastern Africa. What do you think they'd use it for? Mining?
Yeah, I already extracted the WAL listening bit out (which is now far behind the realtime changes). And for that reason would rather have those pieces as individual packages for the wider Elixir community and so that it's easier to contribute back.

https://github.com/cpursley/walex
The GPD Win MAX together with Shadow cloud gaming are my daily driver for productivity and gaming.
A really nice device, which got from me a battery replacement last month.
Cause of my continuous charing with my Thunderbold dock over the last 2 years, the old battery turned a little bit round and pushed the keyboard up.
"During the evacuation many people gathered by the streams of whiskey, filling any vessel at hand with the substance."
I have a PhD in physics and I am on my first postdoc in the field of quantum optics so I'm well aware of the quantisation of the EM field. The point is that a lot of people think this is a demonstration of a purely quantum effect, but it is not, it is a classical effect. Sure, quantum mechanics is the full theory for describing it, but that's like saying that the increase in pressure when you heat up a gas is a "quantum effect".

It's basically misinformation, especially in the twitter thread that others mentioned. People are coming out thinking their mind has been blown with some crazy quantum effect, but actually this is described by boring classical EM.
Definitely linking the card and sending stuff via UPS are glaring red flags.

Ignoring that part, even if they just stick to collecting the background information, SSN, copies of drivers license - that is just good enough information for full-blown ID theft.

Even legitimate companies use varieties of third-parties that help with hiring, background checks, payroll etc. I remember entering data to Workday, some background check provider's site, jobvite, {mycompany}benefits.com etc. the last time I went through hiring process. It's just easy to scam candidates unless they pay close attention to smallest details.
Alternatively, psychopaths who are good at pandering on social media and attracting a lot of attention from gullible people, are also likely to do messed up things in their private life.

It doesn't have to be some kind of conspiracy, I don't know who you think is doing the "allowing to become successful" here.
>2) Most of the places where cows graze grass can NOT support human eatable plant food growing. Only grass can grow there, not eg corn or some grains.

This is completely wrong. You can grow regular crops there but usually the land is sloped, the terrain itself is inaccessible or inconvenient for machinery. There are plenty of Asian countries that do terraced rice farming but this requires massive amounts of manual labor compared to a nice, level and flat piece of land on which tractors and combines can drive on.
Well, that might be true when implementing from the scratch, but using a standard often also means, that someone has implemented a well known library to get rid of the boilerplate and basic decisions.

I personally often use jsonapi.net[1], a C# implementation of JSONAPI. This supports OpenAPI/Swagger with swashbuckle, has a very good filtering implementation and together with Orbit.js[2] it is pretty much without having to decide too many things...

[1]: https://www.jsonapi.net/

[2]: https://orbitjs.com/
My company was hit by same or similar scammers. We had people turn up in our office for their first day of work only to be told they were scammed.

The most heartbreaking part of this is these people are actually typically in poor financial situation (looking for a job) and are on an extreme emotional rollercoaster (from not having a job to getting a fantastic job to not having it again and loosing their last money).

The solution to not get scammed is to know at least a little bit how companies operate, but in large population there will always be gullible/oblivious people. Nobody ever will ask you to buy a corporate computer with your own card and then ship it to the office to have configuration on it done. That's just too much hassle. But too many people just don't understand this or are too excited to question it.

What I would ask companies to do is to start having an official hiring rules page on their corporate website that explains the process to ensure hiring process is genuine.
Oh no! There's absolutely zero way I just happened to come up with this exact idea independently. If it was someone else, I'd be calling BS. :-)

I don't have any memory of it, but I must have seen or heard that study mentioned somewhere. Thanks for pointing it out and saving me future embarrassment!
A devastating example of ignoring the "first do no harm" principle.
Forget about the power and just ask for some compromising situations.
Without reference to the present, the past is useless.
Paypal charges the seller $8 fee for every dispute, $16 if the dispute rate higher than 1.5%.

And $2500 dispute fee for each order deemed against their Acceptable Use Policy.
Agree... I'm blessed that my company is remote first and people are super chill but I guess my worry comes from a sudden realisation when I looked back at my chat and felt somewhat embarrassed for excessive use of emoji... I'm sure even if someone finds it annoying, they won't complain, hence the random question ^^;;
My understanding is that they analyzed remains from Cambridge cemetery, meaning they were probably city-dwelling people and not peasants, so less prone to agricultural works where you catch the worms.
'They' are a bunch of algorithms and they don't take appointments. Just say a lot of positive things about the following topics on social media and the algorithms will start working for you:

- Fiat monetary system

- Banks

- Big corporations

- Big tech

- Hedge funds

- Billionaires

- The importance of censorship to prevent misinformation

- Executive bonuses

- Surveillance

- The need for more regulations

- Big government

- Stakeholder capitalism

- Climate change

- Inclusivity

Never say anything negative about them. Only positive but try to keep it realistic, don't go overboard because the algorithms might interpret that as sarcasm. You're welcome.
First thing that came to mind: Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. Read the Carreyrou book, I recommend it.
That's the WEF playbook. Also, depopulation. Eat the bugs.
Reading between the lines here, the situation seems to be a little like the softmodem situation, which was also a major pain for Linux support. The abstraction previously given in hardware has been split into software/hardware to save on hardware costs, but now they refuse to open source the software.

As for the provided user-space software, it's not clear why this is happening. As long as kernel modules keep to the allowed interfaces, (and not the GPL-only internal interfaces) they can be closed source. Is it a case of too much caution from the vendors (after all -- NVidia have closed source drivers)? Is this supposed to be more forward compatible? Is it possible to have a higher performance (zero copy?) user-space exposed abstraction for this kind of video processing?
The headline also over-generalizes the results: perhaps using human excement as fertilizer was more common at Cambridge, but the study did not look at other monasteries (or other Medieval time frames). I wonder whether there is a reason to expect that farming practices were shared between monasteries.
I've used UE4 for years and the Blueprints system doesn't save you much. Those abstractions are bricks, made for building brick houses. If you want to build something made out of anything other than brick, you're back to custom HLSL nodes and better off programming your shader somewhere else.

Blueprints are nicer for known problems, they are a better glue for old knowledge, but when you want to do something custom or new, you're out of luck.

This is the same problem with all programming, you can't make something specific and new without doing an engine teardown and rebuilding it. All the parts are terminally interconnected and always will be.

At the end of the day, UE4/5 is a landing pad for all the work you make in other tools. I agree web dev is no fun though.
I like Krita a lot. It might be the best not-Photoshop on Linux. I just wish I could choose a default tool when I open up an image, rather than it defaulting to the brush...
Eh. Most cattle in Sweden is fed with grass or grass-equivalents. I.e. stuff that humans don't want/can't eat.

Now the idiotic argument that is often heard is "well, if we didn't grow grass we could grow something humans want, like.. soybeans". And the answer is no, we couldn't because the land isn't suitable for growing those high-value crops. If it was the case the farmers would be all over it.

https://jordbruksverket.se/om-jordbruksverket/jordbruksverke...

Horrible link, but it shows that close to 45%(?) is used for "vall/grönfoder" and "betesmark" i.e. grass, grass-equivalents and gracing pastures.
I think I did something similar, too...
What I have seen is corn farmers turn perfectly healthy soil into hard bricks (I mean pure clay) within 25 years.
Absolutely. That used to be much more possible back around 1993. The limitations of IPv4 are certainly a contributing factor.
Wouldn't a simple solution be to require apps that aren't browser to list a limited set of domains they're allowed to access? Then you could use the WkWebKit view for your app but you couldn't use it to allow the user to browse the web.

Browsers would get a pass where Apple would come up with some rule but clearly the Instagram app, the Facebook app, the TikTok app, the Gmail app, the Google app, are not browser where as Firefox, Chrome, Brave are.
What do you mean I don't get to play gatekeeper. What do you think democracy and the state is for? Of course society should decide collectively where the lines are drawn. That's what we have done and will continue to do because that's the only way to meet everyone's interests in any sensible manner.

I don't think you really know anything about my personal ethics, my point is that these sort of products and services have been seen by society as a whole as problematic to a certain extent and so they have been regulated. Consuming alcohol as an individual is not something society considers morally questionable but giving it to people who are under-age is a problem and so we have codified that into laws. Why, as you say, in a free society we should limit businesses at all? Why don't we let people sell organs, I mean, surely there are others willing to sell their organs... but really, we know context matters and we know some people are not truly "free" to make the choices we can. Why in a free society we have stopped people from enslaving others? That is definitely an infringement on someone's rights.

In the end, we have come up with structures that aid us in making these difficult choices.

When you bring up prohibition for example, yes, at some point in history alcohol was considered problematic and there were laws that followed these thoughts and made them into law. I mean, as a homosexual of course I can see why this is problematic. I'm not saying we ought to treat these issues lightly, but you need to be able to acknowledge when there are problems and when people are acting in ways that harm others. I think Facebook most definitely knows their business model and practices causes a lot of harm to a lot of individuals but they don't care; why would they? That's not the framework we operate under.

I think one of the biggest problems in modern society is precisely that ethical discussions and responsibility is being left out of the conversation when it comes to markets because we work under the assumption that these problems will be weighted properly by the population that makes use of these services. But is that really the case? I don't think so, and I think a big part of it is that people not only don't have access to the appropriate information but also that the damage "doesn't feel real". So a lot of these externalities simply disappear from our perception yet they are still very real for the people who suffer through them. That's an ethical problem, that's a structural problem, it's a big problem.

I am not saying "we should force people to adopt what I think is right" which is what happened with prohibition. What I'm saying is "we should really define what we think is right in more democratic ways and then make decisions based on that", which is what the state apparatus is supposed to do. But it doesn't because it is systemically corrupt (if you wanna know a bit more on this I recommend reading the book "systemic corruption" by author Camila Vergara). All in all, I think we have the right ideas but not the right structures and that lets companies that prey on people to flourish at every occasion a new exploit is found.
It's not a closed system, is it? farmers are pumping in huge amounts of nutrients in the form of fertiliser, mostly made using fossil fuels.
That's not why Malthus will eventually have the last (sardonic) laugh.

All of the things you listed can be made renewable on timescales exceeding the natural lifetime of the sun with only engineering (rather than scientific) breakthroughs, including making the sun last longer and moving the earth to a different orbit to suit the light of the engineered sun.

No, Malthus gets the last laugh because the sub-population that reproduces most, regardless of whether that is caused by genes or memes, quickly dominates the overall population; this means that even despite the currently sub-replacement birth rate, it's reasonable to forecast the population to rise to whatever level is necessary to overwhelm food supply, for any level of food supply.

That can be fixed in principle, but the only solutions I can think of requires tech that makes the two forms of social/mind control in Westworld seasons 3 and 4 look like a child's finger painting in comparison to the filmography of the aforementioned show.
> “Before”, one would choose (or even be strongly recommended) a partner, commit, and make it work.

Because divorce was not on the table, so you had to "make it work", even if in the end was just a toxic relationship, where couple in their 60s or 70s plainly hated their spouse.
A lot of people there put it on the walls of their houses, too, for reasons that aren't clear to me.
try embedded development, preferably a company in consumer market that makes a product every two or so years

i worked in audio, hifi streamers, synth keyboards, etc, you get HW to play with and these companies can be so small you get to do different things once in a while
> Dan Price, CEO who contrived scheme to cut his brother out of company and earn social media fame in order to abuse women, quits amid legal woes

Fixed.
“Silicon Valley” is a culture not just a physical location.
No it is not completely wrong.

It is very dependent on geography. The discussion regarding beef/cattle/meat always takes some "global-scale-scope" which is useless since the topology, soil, water etc. is something that almost exclusively determines what is suitable to grow.

You could not, how much you wanted convert the gracing pastures in Sweden to any high-yield farm.
No, we need to demonise them, set different standards between females and males, and ensure they are objectified and then ridiculed if they enjoy themselves.

In case it isn't obvious, //s
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
At Slite, for all outgoing calls we use a sandboxed proxy. It has saved us a few times already.
We detailed the trick in a blog post -> https://slite-tech-blog.ghost.io/anti-ssrf-solution/
That doesn't implement the algorithm nor does it meet the problem because you were able to evaluate all options and not one at a time (whereas you would need to make a irreversible decision on the spot).
Ask HN: Why did The Guardian let go of the gu.com domain?
As many other Guardian readers (I believe), I have used gu.com for a long time to reach the front page. Since some time back this URL started to end up in a 404 error page (with a link to the proper front page). And since just a few days ago, the URL goes to a domain selling page: "Offers invited above $2.5m".

I guess Guardian must be the seller? Why are they doing this? I understand that a two letter com domain is a valuable asset, but $2.5m? By doing this they are breaking millions of links. Are they in such desperate need for cash?
Berkey filters look like a scam to me: https://archive.ph/ixmXD

The fact that they refuse to get certified / conduct any independent rigorous testing (like in NSF/ANSI certification) should have clued you in.

"We also cut open a pair of Black Berkey filters to see how they are constructed and to look for evidence that, as Berkey marketing claims, they contain “at least” six different filtering elements. We found that though the Berkey filters are larger and denser than filters from Brita and 3M Filtrete, they appear to share their filtration mechanisms: activated charcoal impregnated with an ion-exchange resin.
"

I wouldn't count on any of this to filter chemicals, much less PFAS.
> None of the fatalities suffered during the fire were due to smoke inhalation, burns, or any other form of direct contact with the fire itself; all of them were attributed to alcohol poisoning.

As an Irish person myself I've always felt the stereotype was a little overblown.. It seems I'm completely wrong. We will literally drink until we die if there is a literal river of whiskey.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Happy #whyday!

http://wicswac.org/whyday.html
Sounds like a feature request to me: https://bugs.kde.org/
If you are threshold hunting, how do you set n? Or is n set based on resources. Would be interesting to see if there are n setting heuristics. Maybe based on how fast the best is getting better in a small sample?
What something new can be built with the SparkX BlackBoard C?
ASK HN: What something new and magnificent that can be built with the SparkX BlackBoard C?
I'd say a Status Page for hiring. Something like 'Check your hiring status'.

1. Enter your email address, receive 2FA token.

2. Enter the token, show the hiring status.
I hope this means he'll stop posting the 70k story every other day on LinkedIn. Only person I've ever had to block there. I didn't follow him, but too many 2nd+ degree connections liked his posts to make it too much for me.
Spotify is actually fine with librespot existing (funnily enough, one of the main reasons the old API is still around is that librespot uses it, lol). So, I doubt it will ever get DMCA'd.
Wow that sounds absolutely awful. A lot of the work I do is thinking long and hard about what I want my API to look like. It’s an iterative process and I want to be able to throw shit out a lot.
Ceramic enamel coated pans are non stick and non maintenance.
Actually, the odds of renewable farming to support 8 billion people is much higher than current practices because non renewable practices are constantly losing capacity and must let land stay fallow after decades of in intensive farming.
Mainly, this reads like a criticism of the Quiverfull religious following.
We can fix this stuff we know about now, and give future centuries a strong foundation upon which to recognise and solve the problems they know about.

Only, we can't do that by just dismissing any discussion of the current problems — the best way to have a catastrophe is to ignore all the problems.
Apparently not all of them, as some still drank to death
He proved the supplemental oxygen issue moot by climbing K2 without it, in winter.

https://www.climbing.com/people/nirmal-nims-purja-the-man-wh...
Every Linux distribution.
“The one moral CEO in America.” That's up there with Ken Lay's proclamation that Enron set the bar for corporate ethics (I can't find the exact quote, and obviously before the collapse).

'The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Anyhoo, I have no actual idea if the accusations against Price are founded or not. That's for the courts to decide. I'm not into the whole "trial by Twitter" thing.
Three Cups of Fiction
I thought that experiment was something easy to do that required quantum theory to explain and the article proved me wrong. I'm the exact sort of curious, but ignorant and impressionable demographic that videos about that sort of effect target. I think that text really improved my understanding of reality.
Wow man, send that message to the guy that made you mad.
I totally agree with this. In practice, I see much more value in tests that fully utilize your dependencies. The hard part is tying all the shit together and not getting weird stuff on the boundaries between systems. We have to tools to make such testing reproducible but it’s underutilized.

I want my tests to give me confidence. Unit tests don’t do nearly as good of a job as something that fully utilizes infra.
We should still be very worried about population, but the 'cult of endless growth (on a finite planet)' wants us to breed more consumers/workers as fast as possible :(

At least Elon is considering moving beyond that 'finite planet' limitation. But the way things are going, I suspect that modern civilisation will collapse well before we get there on any significant scale.
This is amazing. Could fabric welding be built off of this?
Applied to the problem of picking a toilet at a music festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWib5olGbQ0 .
> better

Do you mean to ask who pays their prisoners more for their labor?