skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great article which unfortunately makes it sound like the problems are restricted to social science. That isn't the case, similar problems crop up in many other fields (or perhaps you could argue the scope of social science is wider than appreciated).

A good example of a field with the same problems is epidemiology. I wrote a brief article with many examples a couple of years ago [1]. Unfalsifiable claims, objectively false claims, non-replicable work, citations that were invalid in various ways (e.g. citing a paper in support of a claim which didn't actually support the claim), and most surprisingly, a lot of circular logic. This field seems to routinely lose track of what comes from assumptions vs simulations vs reality. Papers would make claims that sounded like factual statements about observed data, but when the citation was checked the number would turn out to be a simulation output or even an arbitrary assumption used as simulation input. Validation had gone AWOL long ago with the substitutes being unscientific, e.g. claiming a model was validated because it roughly matched the output of other models.

You could argue that epidemiology is actually a social science rather than a hard science. Maybe the distinction isn't interesting though.

[1] https://plan99.net/~mike/epidemiology.pdf
I believe Faker was the first million dollar salary in eSports on 2017, IIRC LoL moved to a franchising system for it's leagues, which brought in a ton of 'naive' capital, the combination caused a gigantic inflation in NA player salaries and a significant one in EU.

This was recognised as a bubble by veterans in the industry and talked about on various talkshows at the time.

I completely agree with your point about salaries and really just want to add that this has been expected for years. ESports is still growing, it's just the rate will seem more sane to those in the know.
Wow… just wow…

(applicable German word of the day: "warmsanieren". Translates to 'renovating by setting fire to it', street slang, occasionally but not always used to imply insurance fraud too.)
Read the overview on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
"Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson (2021) explores how geo-engineering might be adopted. It doesn't explore the long term consequences, though.
> Racing has teams, but nobody really cares about them

Italians and Ferrari would strongly disagree with you
That a hand over fire will burn you is not a subject of dispute. Everyone who attempts it knows it. That dark mode is better for the eyes very much is a subject of dispute, and many have tried it and disagree it is better.

Do you see a difference?
The web browsers are not that bad per se, but the websites they are trying to run are a different story.
The point is that there is a process for laundering ideas. These papers are then used by people who say thing like "follow the science". But its clearly not science. That's the point.
As far as I can tell, two groups are making plenty of money off of esports:

1 - The companies that make the game. Whether it's Riot and Blizzard selling slots in their leagues for eight figures, Valve using their annual tournament to sell in-game cosmetics, or all the companies ultimately owning broadcast rights to their game, this is the biggest difference between esports and traditional sports.

The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers make money because they sell their own tickets and broadcast rights to their games; even though MLB does control the streaming revenue, they share it out to teams and ultimately have to bow to the wishes of a majority of team owners. What you don't see is a single company MLB inc that owns the copyright to the game of baseball, sells broadcast rights to all teams themselves, charges teams to play in the league, and can kick teams out of the league at a whim. That's the situation in esports.

2 - Individual players, with streaming. Players can first make a name for themselves in competitions, then stream on their own Twitch channel for revenue. This is not that different from athletes acting as social media influencers and signing endorsement deals, but the biggest difference is that by streaming on Twitch, they appear side-by-side with tournament broadcasts. It's as if LeBron's instagram account where he streamed his workouts and pickup games were just one change-of-the-channel away from ESPN, and people would consider it normal to flip between the game and individual player streams.

Lots of esports orgs, as part of signing players, get a big cut of the player's streaming revenue. But the revenue for an individual player's twitch stream, while great for an individual, usually isn't going to be significant enough to maintain a whole organization, and when a player brand does get big enough that their stream could sustain an org - that's when the player will be heavily incentivized to go independent, and make more money from streams than they do from competing.

Ultimately, I think esports has a bright future - overall total viewership continues to rise, even though some games like League of Legends - which is more than a decade old now - are starting to fade. It's just the business models of the offline sports world don't carry over, and that's especially apparent with these organized teams.
I think it's a false dichotomy. Supposedly the GP thinks that their smart home devices are already useful, so there is no need to consider whether they would be more useful if more people had them. I think the quote from the article is a bit strange, and the example of clocks is not very good because people still had a way to tell time before clocks were invented (e.g. looking at the sun), it was just not very precise. A clock is still useful for a single person because that person now has a faster and more reliable way of telling the time without having to look out the window.
Those 15 saved minutes you will have to spend to validate that generated message actually makes sense. And if you are not careful, you will have to spend much more time 'rewriting history' later.

Also if an engineer has troubles describe change than maybe you don't want that change to end up in you repo.
I don't know what you'd need a USB stick for anymore, but SD cards (especially microSD cards) are still useful for onboard storage for cameras and portable gaming devices (Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck).

You're probably not using them to transfer files between desktop or laptop computers anymore, but they have their place with more specialized devices.
I have a 60 pound Golden Retriever in a rural area that is completely saturated with coyotes. She has "conversations" with them almost nightly over the fence. I'd bet on her to survive a couple of them, but of course a pack of eleven would be the end of her.

The coyotes haven't crossed the fence as far as I know, but it's barely five feet high, so they could hop it with ease if they wanted to. I want to get her a puppy for a companion, and one who could help in a fight. I've been thinking Labrador, but Great Pyrenees now also sounds like a good choice.
For a friend's page a while ago we wanted one where the snow would accumulate on DOM elements (anything with a top border, or some such heuristic) but couldn't find one. A quick search finds none currently either (many where it accumulates at the bottom of the page/viewport or on/in a particular DOM element, but none that have it build up generically on DOM boxes.

One of the many items in my huge pile of Things To Bother Doing One Day!
My girlfriend had a -similar- issue with Shift. She was their first sale in Washington when they expanded up here, and for whatever reason, titling and registration was screwed up repeatedly.

What was interesting was that when the temporary tabs expired, rather than extending them, they put her -in a rental- for two -months- and paid those two months payments, -and- gave her $300 for her trouble.
Bummed that I can upvote this only once. Excellent work.
A totally new kernel and a totally new systems operating language. Cool!
There is famous bug in Windows XP activation.

Once machine boot and login started Windows want to be activated. There you press Win-U and on popup you can click web link to open default browser.
Then why isn't rampant global inflation feeding into UK wage inflation? Why indeed is 'wage inflation' the horror that the broken austrian school consider it to be? Why was multi-decade house price inflation not considered an equivalent evil and managed by policy?

Maybe, not all inflation is bad, but the wrong kinds have been permitted and the current 'wrong' kinds are now being punished. And if working families are going hungry, its very clear the wrong kind of inflation is being suppressed.
my GET had the first gif right in the center missing as well.. oh well.. i am behind a VPN
You're moving the goalposts.

There is not an argument of superiority - both systems are geared towards making money for corporations, they just go about it in slightly different ways. And there is no question that the Japanese thoroughly explored the merchandise and adaptation space much earlier (and with a more systemic approach) than US publishers; so to criticize the US industry for moving towards that same model, seems pointless.

(As for exploitation of workers, US artists and writers might be poor but are not known to kill themselves because they're overworked... They also tend to get more recognition: most popular mangas are produced by pools of artists in studios, often without their names actually attached to them (beyond the title-creator); whereas the story/pencils/inks tradition in US comics tends to surface contributors in most cases. In economic terms, both categories are typically screwed over by corporations anyway, just in different ways.)
> Unfortunately, energy storage is still an unsolved problem.

Mechanical, lithium based, flow, heat, compressed air, pumped hydro are all types of batteries that are able to store quite large amounts of power today or in the near future. Certainly cheaper than fusion has any hope to be within 20 years.
Maybe I'm missing a button or something, but I'd expect there to be a snow effects demo on the page you linked
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wont change much in their overall reliability.

This is a very, very strange assertion.

Airflight was incredibly dangerous 100 years ago. Yet now you claim it is one of the safest, thereby validating that technological improvements, and design improvements, can change safety.

Then you say, effectively "things won't improve" for "this other tech over here".

Which is it?!

My point in all of this is, while space travel was a monumental achievement 60+ years ago, it's simply not that big of a deal now. Endless commercial corporations now engage in the act, for profit, because there is profit, and because it is so commonplace.

And this trend will only increase, eventually leading to people actually being station in space (eg, the moon, larger commercial structures, mining, etc). This will lead to more trips, and for people visiting said structures for business, and on and on.

Just as with planes, this will become safer, more common, more regulated, more... normal.

What part of this iterative process do you believe will block launches from being more safe? NOTE: don't use today's technology as a blocker, please.
I watched maybe a third of the video. It was truly awful.

I think the overall conclusion is right -- that the Mazars report does not show Binance is sound -- but, wow, what an awful way to deliver it.
> Solar panels are cheap and batteries are easier to build and there are lots of ways of making them.

Right now they are, but they often rely on materials from politically unstable regions (particularly Africa), or potential political rivals (China). Also, many solar panels require polysilicon from China, which is almost certainly produced with forced labor.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/dark-spot-solar-energy-industr...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/12/clean-energy-china-xinj...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/evidence...

And it's not just a China problem.

"On batteries, there were major issues with the mining of between 15% and 30% of the world’s cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Amnesty International found that children, some as young as seven, were working in artisanal cobalt mines, often for less than $2 a day. Mining conditions were reportedly hazardous, and workers often did not have adequate protective equipment and were exposed to toxic dust that contributed to hard metal lung disease."

The US is trying to crack down but Europe is lagging behind on it. However, if the report's claim (which I see no reason to doubt) that China has 82% of the global polysilicon market is true, with most of their polysilicon production being in the Xinjiang region, calling solar panels (or batteries) "cheap" is fairly distasteful considering their sources.
Not Rocket League? The inverse may be true... I became a rocket league player after watching esports. So while I was outside the player base, I'm in it now. :)
In most sports leagues the vast majority of player income is salary from their team. There is something approaching a power law around endorsement money, even in the NBA it’s really only the top 10 earners who make more than 20-30% on their non-basketball revenue streams.
Safety is not just safe "from attack". It's also safe from traffic, safe from breathing in drastically worse air outside compared to inside, safe from the elements, etc. etc.
Developer of the Laser Calls It ‘A Solution Seeking a Problem’ (1964)
From whence the origin of the much-used phrase.
By how much could the event horizon of a black hole with the mass of the universe deviate from the size of the universe before the similarity is no longer remarkable?
If the bill was conceived and introduced before SBF promised to donate, him making a donation should not have any effect on the passing.
You might be able to do an origin filter on the headers for requests to your backend (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-...). Check and make sure the x-forwarded-for header is what you expect and if not, block the request at middleware level.
Putting the mandatory sign up AFTER the user chooses/uploads his picture is insulting.
I had several Palm devices. As I recall there was a fairly long gap between the death of PDAs and the birth of smartphones. I certainly did not replace my Palm with a smartphone; I replaced it with nothing, and then years later I got a smartphone. Most of the things that are amazing about smartphones were not present on my Palm IIIe, FWIW.
I believe the tritium issue is addressed through the inclusion of lithium in the reactor's inner blanket [1]. Something about the neutron interaction with the lithium results in some non-trivial production of tritium which is then freed into the reactor. tl;dr - they've thought of that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding_blanket
This would benefit sequential access, but it'd either be disabled for random-access or pollute the caches with unused lines.

But in cases where sequential memory bandwidth is required, this is pretty cool!
(But I assume Intel only, which would also be a bummer)
Who considers Starcraft II, of all games, the first esport? Was it ever even considered as competitive as the original Starcraft?
I went that route and there's a catch. The composite/s-video adapters/upscalers to HDMI have a chip in them that is factory programmed with some video and color settings that can't be manipulated. You can do some alterations in OBS with filters or in Premiere after saving it to compensate for innacuracies.

For ex. my situation: cheap upscaler bought before covid had really high saturation and turned small areas of similar colours into one color squares no matter the bitrate chosen in OBS(this type of artefact is very obvious in 140p youtube video). After getting into it again in present day the upscaler stopped working and bought another one of the same kind. Guess what, it ships with a different chip and different settings, this time it has almost no colors and presents weird glowing around dark regions when the camera moves around fast. Now I'm in a pickle and I'm really considering going the above route.
Calling it a dead end is like calling biplanes a dead end because now airplanes only have 1 wing on each side.

And not even that analogy is apt, because even the stylus made a comeback briefly.
Agreed. I once tried to get Fabrice on a podcast, a few years ago. He said he doesn't do that kind of thing and "no thank you".
What modern language in use today was influenced by Haskell other than maybe Idris?

(To be clear, I am mot necessarily down on Haskell or what part it has played. It’s just that many languages seem to be stealing ideas from the languages I’ve listed more than Haskell, which was the criteria I had in mind.)
I agree. There is no breakthrough on the horizon that is going to make a fusion plant have the complexity closer to a natural gas plant than a nuclear fission plant. Therefore the costs will remain high.

It could still be a useful technology, especially in space. I could see a moon or mars base powered by fusion.
Yep, this should go to commit metadata or at the very least as an additional part of commit message with proper marking.
I think there's plenty of pressure to run the ESA as a jobs program as well, it's just that they're forced to channel it into a slightly more productive direction due to wanting/needing the commercial launch business.

NASA/Congress could have achieved the same jobs program effect by pushing the same money towards a reusable rocket and an appropriately larger number of missions. Although perhaps that wouldn't have been as good for Alabama etc (it's a massive shame that they didn't take the SLS money to improve Alabama's ability to handle higher tech space stuff).
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Elon is just testing the depth and strength of the @clownworld. If he loses this fight, he can move elsewhere. He has things to do and planets to go, and if China is more welcoming, so be it.
It worked in real life, which is my point: The copyright maximalists are happy taking from the public domain while working to increase the term of copyright law.
Similarly, my only real experience following is Dota - I blame my teenage years in War3 mods with that fascination.

Aside from the payout & incentive structure for players, the game is very much dependent on aligning player skillsets, heroes in the meta, and player attitudes/communication styles -- So much so, that some teams thrive some years, and completely disintegrate the next.

Plenty of examples of teams feeling they're being brought down by 'those one/two players', while they keep the "streaming stars" for the player fan base.
> OpenAi just recently created a Diplomacy player

For any wondering, the paper is Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097
> bank

Choosing your bank according to the provision of acceptable services.

> messengers

You just need an OS somewhere (not necessarily a smartphone)

> travelling

Cannot really help: if some administration requested a smartphone, I would either try to avoid it or buy some provisional, temporary thing.
Depends on the jurisdiction and the crime. Federally, seems like 5 years from when the crime was committed, unless it was a serious crime [https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf].

Other places (California) often base it on when the crime was discovered/known about.

So if someone buried some cash or something, then ignored it, and someone stole it in the meantime, the statute of limitations on prosecuting the theft would be when they went back and discovered it gone, not when it was taken.

I’m sure they are taking it into account.
> Those are some very poor comparisons.

Not at all. I know people who tried homeopathic medicine and felt better afterwards, and swear by it. It is very much analogous.
Solar panels are cheap and batteries are easier to build because they're already taking advantage of economies of scale and aren't in the R&D phase still.

The viability of fusion has been centered for a long time around getting more power out than you put in and once that marker is met it's viewed as the last giant hurdle in the way. There's still plenty more R&D that needs to be done before it can easily / readily scale though.

It's where nuclear was in the 60s basically. Even if it only ever gets to be comparable to nuclear in terms of costing but with none of the hazardous byproduct, it will come out ahead. When you consider the environmental factors involved in battery production it is pretty clear that fusion at least has the potential to be the cleanest sources of energy. Whether it ultimately gets there is another question.
Ask HN: Why is the first command invocation on GitHub Actions Windows image slow
Bug report: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6561

So much time must be wasted globally every day
Regwall / paywall: <https://archive.vn/oPvg8>
It saves time. The most you can actually get from such an announcement is to slightly update your priors. It doesn't affect your actions at all. So you see it, note it, become slightly miffed that the Internet will be full of comments that think it's a bigger deal than it is, and move on with your life.

The cynicism serves as a mental balance to the hype that might otherwise tempt you to spend more time on this than it merits.
I would ask another question: if the "hype" about traditional sports, like football (soccer), basketball, NFL, car racing is worth the money sunk on advertising there?

I have a gut feeling that most of the money spent on investing in sports seems to be wasted - with relatively low returns. "Brand building" is just an empty promise and much better results could be achieved spending this money in a better way.

It feels that companies invest in advertising in a particular sport only because the CEO likes that particular sport; obviously the consulting companies will come with some bullshit slides to defend it.

E-sports never really managed to get this hype - and in e-sports the companies more often try to track return on investment, which is probably low.

In regular sports we have companies like Gasprom spending hundreds of millions on advertisements - why? (I mean less money for tanks at least)

On a side note: for e-sports some companies spent money so much smarter, say some graphic card companies sponsor weekly tournaments (costs them peanuts - say 1 graphic card per week) - which is probably lower cost than spending one time on some big ticket event, or sponsoring a team, about which nobody cares about - because viewers track particular players.

In general most money spend on marketing is poorly tracked and effectively wasted; anyone who actually looked more into it can see how the agencies barely even bother to track real stats. Investment in sport feels especially unprofitable - mostly vanity projects of decision makers. For example Chevrolet sponsored Manchester United - for millions, while not selling their cards in Europe.. Ewanick was fired for that deal.
That's ok. Big pharma still gets paid for every jab, regardless if it actually works.
Bah! Gene Autry made Rudolph [1]. He was a singing cowboy who also made science fiction crossover serials [2], so I suppose that's complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Empire