skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
99% of science being published today has no political motivations.

The public perception of science, though, is not dictated by scholarly journals. It's what's discussed on the nightly news or seen in the Facebook news feed, and that often comes with a helping of politics.

We're also seeing a recent uptick in criticism (and also suspicion) of "elites", and academics are generally lumped into that bucket.

And then COVID happened, making everybody an armchair epidemilogist overnight. You could see this play out on Twitter, where accounts with large followings with no previous professed statistical experience started sharing non-peer-reviewed study after study, often drawing inaccurate conclusions.

Scientists continue on, but there's absolutely no putting the genie back in the bottle. Science is political, and we need (a hopefully small number of) scientists to get some decent media training and start explaining their work to the general public.
To be fair, it’s posted to hundreds of people that read a headline expecting one thing, didn’t get it, and don’t understand the humor part of this random blog they just went to. It’s a risky post — almost setup for those kind of comments.
I wish phones had radiation detectors(Aside from camera based ones that aren't accurate and use battery). If 100M people had radiation detection, I'm sure we'd get a few hits every once in a while.

Plus it can probably be done in roughly a headphone jack sized spot.
This is false, "vacant homes" has no relation to "vacant homes you'd want to live in". Half could be condemned shacks in Detroit and the other half could be homes people have signed leases for but aren't moving in till next week.

And it's impossible to make squatting on a vacant home worthwhile, when you could be earning rent from it.

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/vacant-nuance-in-the-vac...
> Even if they're at the "elite grand master SRE" level. Still a fraction of some MBA.

Most MBAs didn’t graduate from Harvard or Wharton or equivalent schools. They’re people who believed that there were high returns to the valuable skills they were going to learn instead of realising it’s a finishing school where you network. Graduates of the University of Northeastern Illinois’s business school are not going to do much better than FAANG software engineers. This holds more, not less for the members of the professions. The super rich people with JDs aren’t practicing lawyers.
IMO this is a low quality article that sets up many straw man arguments to push its own agenda to coin a term.

It suggest IaS is better than IaC and dismisses AWS CDK because “it’s not software”.

Meanwhile I’m treating it entirely like software by writing unit tests, snapshot tests, integration tests. It’s composeable. It’s packageable. It’s open source. It’s shareable. You can enforce policies and coding styles. You can put it thru CI.

How’s that not software?
If it's expired for less than one year, you can transfer the balance using a Metrocard machine or by asking any station agent. If it's less than two years expired, you can ask a station agent for an envelope so you don't pay anything and they'll mail you a new card with the balance. Have done this a few times with old cards– they'll even combine the balances onto one if you ask.
So what you're saying is I exaggerated for effect? Undeniable.

Do you think a modern 2020s student experience is like mine, or yours? I think it's both harder (higher expectations, more course width) and potentially lower value (increased competition) and arguably less fun.

Aside from pointing out my hyperbole, what do you think to the primary question?
No issues with gallstones. It was 230 lb to 185 lbs also at the start of the pandemic (May-July 2020). I have managed to mostly keep it off (currently 190, but have yo-yo’d back up to 200 once), despite resuming drinking and being a semi heavy drinker. Mostly due to diligence around keeping an OMAD style diet.
Stubhub disagrees.

And venues would love scalper if they got a cut.
How Stephen Elop destroyed Nokia

https://seekingalpha.com/article/916271-how-stephen-elop-des...
I think you're making a different point than the original article. Yes, retail banks operate in an economically profitable way. But that's not to say that branches are required. There are retail banks without any branches. They can still do all the lending you mention. The author is attempting to answer the question of why those haven't put the ones that spend money on branches out of business. He also alludes at a followup around "semi-public infrastructure deployed as commercial real estate projects which are funded by private capital."

However: "Instead they are required to keep at most 3% of depositor funds on—hand while they loan out the other 97% at a very profitable spread between interest charged on loans and interest paid to depositors."

So if you bring in $1000 a 3% requirement means $30, and you can lend $970. Where do you get $97,000? Say the bank wants to loan money to home purchasers. "Numbers added in a bank computer" aren't gonna pay the bills for the people on the other side of those home purchases who are going to want cash or money in their own bank, not just yours.

Are you assuming a recursive process? Lend $970, have it redeposited by the person the borrower pays, lend out another $940, etc? But that only works if the money keeps getting redeposited at which point it's not entirely fair to characterize that as the "original" deposit only, and my understanding is that that's the (somewhat hypothetical) "money multiplier" which I've always seen as 1/r which would be 33x for 3% not 97x anyway. And in practice, that doesn't get reached.
You know it's going to be a bad memo when it starts with a LinkedIn story. Very sad they chose to jump instead of innovating their way out.
"What makes the AGPL unattractive?"

I won't pretend to be a lawyer, but I do know that when we were acquired we had to list ever piece of software we used and which licence it was under. They were very concerned about copy left. We didn't have any, so I don't know how that would have changed things. MIT was what they were hoping to see.
> A bad actor with a few seconds in front of your screen could take this hell upon you.

This has already been the case for quite some time. AI doesn't really add anything new to that part of the equation.
Sounds perfectly compliant to me.
I downloaded the latest Stable Diffusion model yesterday evening, and I've been playing with it all day.

The current model isn't very good at portraying any specific sexual act - but I imagine that will change soon enough.

It's already great at producing "tasteful nudes", which fortunately aligns well with my personal tastes.

Here are some of the highlights from my tinkering (NSFW, obviously)

https://imgur.com/a/S81Vom6

(some images have received minor touch-ups, such as cropping or hiding mangled hands - it's not very good at those)
As an EE I can assure you that’s not true. Also, many jobs at a fab don’t require a bachelors. Often they will want a relevant associate degree though.

Here’s an example: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/HRL-Laboratories/Job/Wafer-Pr...
If you use iOS with Apple Pay you should definitely turn on Express Mode. You’ll then hopefully be able to pay for a fare even when out of battery.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/express-cards-with-...
yah my thoughts wandered into that territory a bit wondering about economies of scale etc by leaving it up to the professional farmers. It's definitely something to think about.

I think the freshness/quality is a real draw. All our multiplying strawberry plants give such a punchy berry--store bought just can't compete. There's an independence aspect too to contemplate in light of food security and rising food prices and shortages and that sort of thing. One other thing that's popped up is the garden created all this food for bugs too. I see a bunch of lady bugs, praying mantises, and just today this white butterfly was hopping around laying single eggs beneath a broccoli leaf. I think I'm going to let those lil caterpillars grow to maturity.
Yes, since the pandemic started with a stock market crash, it's not hard to make it look like everyone made money "during" it.

Gates and Bezos did lose half their net worth in divorces recently though.
I'm just saying there are some legislative solutions that would be effective at reducing major harms without banning the thing altogether.

I'm very against knee-jerk bans without any real thought. However, the idea that legislative solutions are always bad is equally stupid. Legislation has fixed many very real problems, and used properly, is a good tool for fixing future issues too.
I just have an Apple TV hooked up to a Sony TV that's not connected to the internet.
Alcohol makes you crave calories in general and specifically carbs, which is in my experience a double whammy. I might never even want a pizza for weeks, but put three beers in me and I want to eat half or more of a large pizza.
That’s not actually how real banks work though - “fractional reserve” is only an economic textbook model.

Most countries don’t, and have never had reserve requirements. The limits to lending are firstly capital (share capital, retained earnings etc.), which banking regulations allow banks to lever up to a certain level, and secondarily liquidity, which they need to be able to pay out withdrawals, transfers etc. Deposits don’t come into it apart from that they are a certain kind of cheap liquidity for inter-bank transfers.

Deposits themselves are a liability of the bank, and since lending creates new deposits on the balance sheet, “lending from deposits” would create more liabilities from existing liabilities, which doesn’t really work with the accounting.
Photoshops of adult bodies with non-adult heads.
His prediction was that Manhattan would be under water, before the year 2026.

> When co-anchor Katie Couric asked Al Gore on the May 24, 2006 Today show “What do you see happening in 15 to 20 years if nothing changes?…Even Manhattan would be in deep water”, he replied: “Yes, in fact the World Trade Center Memorial site would be underwater.”
I wonder why solar phones don't exist? Even weak indoor light would eventually charge it.

Maybe it would make people put phones in the sun all the time and wear out batteries with heat.
As with all things that scalpers re-sell which are not necessary for survival and health I find myself unable to come to a reasonable answer for why the first sale shouldn't be at market price.
I’ll guess because those are popular porn categories. What would you prefer they be?
how is it not kind of stupid to prioritize getting something asap over being genuine?
Do they actually want easy, transparent, not Grey market digital ticket secondary markets? Sounds like a heaven for scalpers and speed purchase botting.
If you are all in AWS then strong vote for AWS CDK.

If you need other cloud providers, then perhaps check CDKTF as well.

But also nothing wrong with using both. Just not on the same stack or sub system.

TF also has other than cloud types of providers, which is interesting. Such as GitHub provider. Or Google Workplace.
Spanner on a modern columnar storage engine
Boy, did Nokia elope after this with M$ft phone which was supposed to right Nokia's collective "ship". Elop joined the hallowed hall of fame of abysmal CEO's who ran their firms into the ground. Remember Lumia, Windows Phone 7,8 & 10 blehh.

Was it Balmer that hired Elop?
In grad school (07-13) at a top 10 engineering school world wide some of the fanciest equipment in the department (microscopes?) ran connected to windows 3.1 machine. The facilities manager kept spare parts in the closet.

The manufacturer had long abandoned the equipment and no alternative software was available.

The equipment would cost millions to replace and what they had apparently worked great. So the 386 chugged along.
It's well-known that ACLU has changed its freedom of speech stance recently, which greatly disappointed many long-standing members, and definitely had a negative effect on its reputation.

However, that was a very specific and rather recent change. ACLU before that change can still be seen as a model organization that threw its weight behind causes regardless of whether they were "left wing" or "right wing", so long as one of its principles were affected.
Exactly. There is objective proof of collusion to falsify climate data.

Look no further than the 2008 Hadley CRU "climategate" leak.

Edit: The leak actually happened in November 2009. The file you're looking for is "FOI2009.zip".
I did this same thing at one point.

> But I scheduled so many interviews I didn't have time to dwell

If you are sensitive to failure, a trick to overcoming it is to overwhelm your ability to dwell through sheer volume of experiences. Usually the anticipation of the next experience makes dwelling on the last one difficult to impossible. This works for dating, interviewing, presenting, and probably myriad other things that I haven't had to get better at.

Does this make it so your body thrums with cortisol nearly 24/7? Yes! But do you improve quickly? Also yes! How long do you want to spend getting better? There's both a time cost and emotional cost to improving slowly. Conversely, improving quickly is exciting and motivating.

I went through period where I was not only bad at interviewing, but so nervous that I couldn't control my palms sweating so profusely that it was embarrassing to shake hands with my interviewer (and probably gross for them!). Once I realized I had to go for volume to get over my nerves, things changed dramatically for the better.

Try it!
Leadership principles means Amazon? Humility is not exactly in great supply at any of the FAANGs
Git is extremely new-user hostile, meant for people serious enough to want to learn a small language just to be able to manage their Vice history. Most people will never need the advanced features, and those who will can learn in a more visual environment if they choose to.
Because they can't negotiate a price higher than what was listed on the posting.
And New Yorkers can't afford to live in New York City anymore. Or people in San Francisco.
People that create the factory flow, maybe. But I’d argue it’s a pretty different set of skills. People that run the flow, definitely not.
The nice thing about the trick used in this comment is that it basically allows the person making it to just decide to believe whatever they want—and you hardly even notice it doesn't contain anything substantive about the real topic at hand or that it carries a personal attack as its payload, right there in the open but under the radar.
How about the OEM who abandoned their million dollar equipment so you cant replace the XT even if you wanted?
Who said anything about laws or regulations? We're discussing whether they are a credible source on the matter of civil rights or not.
cat food is up 30%
Witnesses, drone expert react to mysterious lights captured in Texas sky
I just got stable diffusion working on a 2011 era desktop.

The GPU and boot SSD are a month old though. I somehow bought one of the cheapest currently-working GPUs: a ~$300 Radeon RX6600XT w 8GB RAM.

I'd like to claim foresight, but I explicitly decided not to spring for a beefy ML card.

I got it because my old NVIDIA <spit on floor> GTX570 can't run xscreensaver any more and is missing a video codec I wanted.

It takes the radeon under 2 minutes to generate a batch of images.
The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. Mastodon is a platform where a server of your choosing hosts your account, like an e-mail provider hosting your inbox. From that account, you follow any other account on the network, regardless of which server hosts that account. Everyone you follow appears in your home feed, and everyone who follows you receives your posts in their home feed.

It is unfortunately a common misunderstanding, and I must admit we didn't help the situation by leaning into calling servers "communities" on joinmastodon.org in the past (not anymore). There do exist plenty of "themed" Mastodon servers, aimed at specific communities, e.g. phpc.social which describes itself as a server for the PHP community, because some secondary discovery features of Mastodon lend themselves to what kind of feels like a slack/irc/subreddit, but ultimately, in their primary purpose, servers are service providers just like GMail/Outlook/Fastmail are for e-mail.
Here's a contemporaneous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2195520

I'm surprised how positive HN was about this. I don't remember reading any positive coverage at the time. I personally thought the guy was an idiot. He wound up performing worse than my expectations.
Just reading this article made me nervous.

More microservices than programming pairs.

Deploying straight to production.

Maybe I just like the old school simplicity, but this seems like a terribly convoluted process, to justify some sense of development momentum that people seem to be addicted to.
As a scientist, I think this piece completely misses the point. "Science is political" because most scientists aspire to answer questions that will have value for society. If you read the cited articles, the point is to remind scientists to consider how their poorly posed questions (limited as always by fundamental limits in how confounding factors can be controlled and/or resource limits on things like group sizes) will be interpreted by non-scientists in formulating policy (or attempting to, in the cases of crazies).

Said another way, while it is possible for science to be less political, it explicitly requires that the questions being posed are as far removed from policy decisions as possible (i.e., useless). I would challenge the author to articulate an alternative in which [(a) scientists desire to have a positive impact on society (beyond simply increasing knowledge) and (b) they recognize the limitations of their capabilities] but do not need to think carefully about how the results of a resource or technical limitation of their work might lead it to be misapplied to bad policy. Saying "remember science is political" is no different than saying "remember that if you decide to always check PSA levels you'll mess up more people's urinogenital loves with unnecessary tests than you'll save from cancer.

Note: many scientists (like me!) gravitate to "basic" science so they won't have to worry. But I don't think that makes us better.
Yeah, and then they jumped from this (allegedly) burning platform to a sinking platform - lot of good it did them...
Please name the airline. Did you book the ticket directly on their website or through an agent?
Could be one of those ~stress interviews~ to ~see if you'll break or harden~ under adversity, I love arguing, so i got the job after one of those, and had the owner explain it to me exactly like that. It was the worst job I have ever held, you dodged a bullet on that one, as bad as it was.
I recently learned that there’s a name for this phenomenon, “ schismogenesis”. It seems immediate neighbors adopt opposite stance just to be different.
I wish it would have worked and people had been scared into taking action. Now we're looking at serious ecological devastation and hundreds of millions of climate refugees (look at the recent heat wave in India and flooding in Pakistan).
I had a Nokia N9 as my daily driver for years (2011-2015 if I recall right) and still have it.

That phone was absolutely top tier at the time. It lacked some apps but overall it was an amazing phone. Everyone always wanted to know what it was I was using.

I wish they had continued pushing it forward.
Nokia had a chance, but their developer experience was terrible. They should have invested in it. And also open source. They could have open sourced their platform and compete with Android.

What did they do instead? They made an extremely stupid bet on Microsoft, which by that time was even further behind in mobile world than Nokia itself.
Good question. I figured that many people who come to the site will just press generate right away without realizing you can choose tags. When 0 tags are selected, you get weird results. So I wanted to make a good default selection. But maybe a better option is to force users to select some tags first, and start empty?
Do you have any sort of website or social media I can follow? img2img sounds awesome.
Fine with me. Evidence is better when people collect it themselves. If someone isn't willing to have their own air-gapped system, ask how they could bring about the same results that I found and carry experiments accepting the risks, they aren't properly looking for scientific knowledge and I am fine with them ignoring my claims.

People with willingness and means can find me anyways.
Yeah, but anything still running and important these days (and not already virtualized) likely has one or more custom ISA cards doing undocumented things.

You could get it to work, probably, but do you want to explain to the boss why the mass spectrometer is dead because you didn’t like using the floppy?
The only thing SMS is used in Europe for is 2FA and spam. I don't remember the last time a real person messaged me via SMS.
I’ve been meeting with the same group of men for 36 years
Can’t wait to see this on dankpods.
Looks like that discussion was before Windows Phone was announced as the replacement. E.g. " The idea of a Nokia device running Android is pretty appealing. They've always had good hardware, but Symbian has become a develpment dead-end, and Meego isn't yet here. "

Symbian definitely wasn't the way forward. MeeGo wasn't looking like it was gonna be an iOS or Android killer.

Elop was right about needing to change horses. Terribly wrong about which one to pick, in retrospect. One could argue that MS fucked that up as much as Nokia, though - this was before MS continually screwed up their WP strategy for several subsequent years, like with the WP8 hard reset. Even best case, though, it was a high-risk/high-reward gamble to try to be "the" WP7 phone instead of one of many Android contenders. Would've been interesting to see them take on Samsung instead of just HTC and zombie Motorola, though.
USB is no good, and HDMI is no good. UEFI is also no good, and Unicode also is no good.

I should quote Steven J. Searle:

> The sad fact of the matter is that people play politics with standards to gain commercial advantage, and the result is that end users suffer the consequences. This is the case with character encoding for computer systems, and it is even more the case with HDTV.
Methinks you need to read more papers from the 1980s. I keep Susan Bordo's The Cartesian Masculinization of Thought in my back pocket when people try this argument. It was published in 1986. Try again.
A bright spot is, god damn this technology is evolving fast.
Sure the naming sucks, but isn’t it such a great time to be alive?
Take a look at former2 and cdk-dasm.
No, Bitcoin. Google GHash.io
People pick on nokia for making the wrong choice, but i dont think they were wrong. Apps are important and they are a bit of a winner takes all market (or at least half). Nokia was screwed and i think the memo correctly identifies that.

Unfortunately identifying the problem is only half the battle. Figuring out what to do next is the other half, and that is where nokia failed.
The benefit to the environment is nonexistent. 99% of the benefit is an increased appreciation of how food is grown and the work it takes to do it right and how easily it all goes wrong.
Maybe it's just anecdotal but I remember having very vivid dreams almost every day when I used to leave my Nintendo 3DS in sleep mode (really bright pulsing blue LED) on the nightstand.

I've always wanted to try to replicate this effect by using an Arduino or something like that and playing with the various LED colors, brightness, etc.
I can’t do much with my native email app without connectivity.