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Interesting questions. I don't think most of them have a definitive answer, so this is my opinion.

> I'm quite confident that there are cliques within "science" which are admitted without as much as a glance at the body of the papers.

It's possible. I don't know every single area, but I guess it's not common in most serious branches od science.

> Some people simply cannot be bothered to get past the paywalls, others accept on grounds outside the content of the paper, like local reputation or tenure.

My friends says they can ask Alexandra for a copy. A few years ago it was also common to ask a friend in another site that has a copy.

> Others are asked to review without the needed expertise, qualification, or time to properly understand the content. Even the most honorable reviewers make mistakes and overlook critical details. Then there are the set of papers which are (rightfully so) largely about style, consistency, and honestly, fashion.

That's why you RTFP instead of thrusting the journal or the reviewer or just the abstract. I've seen "dubious" papers published in good journal.

> How can we yield results from an industry being lead by automated derivatives of the past?

It's running now in natural intelligence. Every time there is a interesting paper, other groups run to publish variants or combinations with other result to reach the anual quota, or get enough point for the graduate student. Once the GAI can read all papers and combine them, there will be very few low hanging fruits to pick.

> Is an AI-generated result any less valid than one created by a human with equally poor methods?

For now, AI is to stupid to get the details right. That's why it's important to read the full paper instead of only the abstract. One AI is intelligent enough, the result may be as bad as a cheating human. Let's hope the AI has a good PRNG to create credible noise, because that's a part humans do badly.

> Will this issue bring new focus on the larger problems of the bloated academic research community?

Nah.

> Finally, how does this impact the primary functions of our academic institutions... teaching.

I don't understand the question. You fear that professor in some areas will just send fake papers written by ChatGPT4.0 and the journal and the community will not notice? There are a lot of predatory journals, open-peer-review journals and other bad journals that are publishing a lot of crap. Usually by professor in bad universities or just as a fancy achievement for the c.v.. A good AI will increase the amount of crap, but it will be just ignored.
> is it that space expands faster than light moves?

Yes. Picture an ant walking on the surface of a balloon. You could conceivably blow up the balloon faster than the ant could walk across it. If you were blowing up an infinitely stretchy balloon with an ant at the far end, you could conceivably blow it up fast enough that the ant could never reach you.
As far as I know , MOND is not compatible with some observations. So dark matter and MOND have to be tweaked to agree with what we see.
Besides this article, what gives you that impression?
I think about all the time, and wish I did quit sooner.

My issue is that I'm kind of in a Catch-22, or at least what I perceive to be one, with my career.

I just keep making excuses as to why I cannot quit, and I have succumbed to my own insecurities too much to make an actionable changes in my life including my career.

I sometimes wish I would just get fired or laid-off, so I have no choice but to be forced to find something new.
fwiw, the OP is:

> Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security and Engineering at GitHub
Yes, lower barriers to entry than general software development. Get to program, stand up and configure cloud systems, and might get to do some data visualization if that's your thing.

It's a good alternative to data science. The market for data scientists is flooded (especially at the lower levels) and more and more companies realize their data pipelines are a mess.
you mean the cases where a layman thinks he knows more than a trained professional ?
I think the huge gap between the parent and grandparent shows that async vs. sync optimality is heavily dependent on the work being done, the people doing it, and the team/company where it's being done.

An example on the async side... I worked with a couple of fantastic engineers who would come back with amazing solutions if you let them go away and think about it in depth. That worked particularly well for problems which one person could get their head around with deep focus. If you asked those two for a solution in a meeting or at a whiteboard they'd literally say "I won't answer you in real time." I've seen a lot of solid foundational infrastructure created this way.

On the sync side, I worked on a team that needed relatively senior software engineering knowledge (e.g., stream processing of many MBs/second of data before their were decent open source solutions) and PhD+ level math knowledge. The most valuable tradeoffs tended to be across the software engineering / math boundary (e.g., we could use much simpler math if we could process the data faster or process much less data if the math were a little more sophisticated). But it's very rare to find people who are experts at both. Put experts from each side who are good at interactive communication at a whiteboard and tons of value pours out in an hour or two as they leverage each other's knowledge. I saw one such discussion lead directly to 3,500 LOC in one subsystem being replaced with 500 lines of much simpler code and the math being reduced from graduate level to undergraduate level at the same time.
I agree with that. For example, Jepsen has analyzed non-replicated PostgreSQL: https://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3

There are plenty of mistakes you can make in single-process code while implementing transactions.
I think you misunderstood: I said it dates to 1997 because that's when it was first approved for use in America.

It's not that new in cancer therapy, with R-CHOP (the CHOP protocol plus Rituxan) apparently being introduced in the early 2000s:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036549/
Could it be that people started living long enough to develop these problems, or that the problems were just previously undercounted? There are a lot of fairly boring theories that are more likely than anything extravagant.
Whatever JWST can see should be trivial to convincingly mock compared to the complexity of simulation of the scenes here on Earth.
Maybe some examples in the OP would be useful too. e.g. An example of the offsite planning using GH Issues, Projects, screenshots.
You could turn it on by sending the correct Hayes command before connecting. It's really annoying! And it can't be turned back off again until you disconnect.
Or you could ensure your language supports and defaults to yaml 1.2, so you don't have worry so much.

Every language has warts and pitfalls and things that are recommended against. Suggesting that one should abandon such languages, whether full-featured or data-description DSLs, when they're otherwise more productive than the alternatives, is disingenuous.

Suggesting that yaml offers no genuine advantages? JSON is annoying. It requires good editor syntax checking support to avoid mismatched and trailing punctuation. It lacks comments. I could live without the nice syntactic sugar of yaml, and even its lack of references and line-folding, if it weren't for those other things.

Which leaves something like cfg or json5, both of which have less support than yaml 1.2. So wth are we talking about? Don't use perhaps the best available (human-editable, inline-nested) data DSL because it might not be supported in some language, and because it has a few potential footguns just like json does? toml may be clean, but it's not as easy to deal with because of how it represents nested structures (which aren't fully inlined like they are in json or yaml), as so many people on this thread have pointed out.

There's a reason so many modern tools use yaml. It's not that their authors weren't aware of json. Plenty of people are simply more sick of json's problems, and consider yaml a superior, not perfect, alternative.
> (as if that would even matter, as I've discovered that no one actually ever seems to look at open-source code)

I _really_ wish our company would open-source the code just as a way to make the team feel better and hold ourselves to a higher standard. I know no one will actually read it unless they're trying to find a vulnerability - and that would only improve the product! But even with a restrictive license the company is concerned about "trade secret"/"intellectual property" stuff.

Personally I feel like if we figured out some tricky problem other people have then we have an ethical duty to share it with the community
MOND is not compatible with some observations. It and dark will probably be tweaked until both agree with observations. At that point they will be the same.
I’m so bummed that I can’t understand this paper, coming from the lisp camp. Do I need to go to conferences or something to understand this? I read “learn you a Haskell” but this seems to be a bit beyond that. I can’t tell if the concept of “derivative of a type” is an overload of calculus operators (totally fine) and there’s no actual relationship or if this is a serious suggestion of a “derivative”. Huge fan of ADTs, though, great way to write composable code, so if anyone has some insight on how to get some insight, I’d love to hear it!
While we're at it, when are we going to ban the words white and black from everyday use? They are obviously racist.
Inaccurate article.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25965-7-rogue-wave-di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rogue_waves
Again, there I go making crazy assumptions like "You don't have a constant barrage of bullets outside so you can go outside most of the time, just not right after hearing gunshots, regardless of what a crowd sourced app tells you" and "it's not every day you see 20 cops milling outside your door" (pro tip: lock your doors if either is true)

> It seems like you providing contradictory advice:

There's nothing contradictory: I'm advocating for common sense telling you when to be fearful, rather than relying on an app to tell you when to not be fearful.

Because when said app is literally a police scanner, your default is fearful and you'll essentially be asking for an app to tell you when everything is ok. That's no way to live.
I feel there is critical insight when difficult to understand and the difficult becomes intuitive and from others perspective looks easy.

It's amazing what people were capable of building with web technologies that handled the hard parts for us. Most people don't need to worry about the scalability of their PHP applications since Nginx handled that problem for them.

People don't need to worry about multitasking since the operating system preempts your code.

Or JavaScript event loops for efficient IO. Can write a simple nodejs application and use a JIT compiler.
There's an open source effort to build one with a Pi Pico: https://github.com/kbeckmann/PicoCart64/tree/develop

I have no clue how tested it is, and README mentions only up to 2MB ROMs, but it is a start.
The whole debate gives work to people who don’t want to work on the actual product or service.
Wow, if this situation finally creates an incentive for replicating results of papers rather than publishing some marginal new result, ChatGPT is going to be a huge win for the practice of science (vs the politics of science).
I've taken a few physics classes that covered such topics.

Just today I was winding some copper wire into a coil and then winding another wire into coils around every couple of loops of the original wire.

I don't know enough physics to predict what kind of magnet field running a current through the two coils would produce.

Probably create a black hole or something /s.

Seriously though, are there tools to stimulate magnetic induction fields in coils of wire?
I’m aware, but my point was simply that people are prone to overstating the extent of those problems. If it was as bad as lore would have it, it’d be far less popular.
Not sure if anyone doesn't get this but just in case this isn't clear, the entire point of the quote isn't that people can be neatly separated into A/B/C classes, but that lowering the hiring bar can lead to a slippery slope effect that continuously lowers the bar, hence the short-term benefit of hiring someone good enough has to be measured against the long-term cost of this slippery slope effect.
It can definitely find and fix bugs. Of course it's not great at it and cannot be relied upon.
The M31 [OIII] emission arc
Like if you calculated the speed not in meters per second but fraction-of-the-universe per second?
I fail to see how that’s a useful signal.

The IRS does this on their site to get an EIN[0]. I don’t know why, but it’s bad UX and restricts the usefulness of the site.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
> actually find it quite interesting that people are jumping to the conclusion that the comment is demeaning. Ambiguous and lacking a particular effort to be explicitly positive, sure.

Maybe most of us had worse experience with people than you, and have developed a more cynical model of human behaviour.

> But where is the "criticizing and demeaning" the author part?

This is just my quick analysis of what is probably more intuitive in my head than well fleshed out. I didn't think about this very hard, but I wanted to indulge you since you put effort into your comment of the situation.

It was written very tersely, it was disguised as a question, and it was directly aimed at the author of the comment, not the content of their comment. Also the way they clung onto a narrow definition of impressive seems like a petty attempt to reconstruct the narrative around the original comment's content to show how they're smart and the original poster isn't for "giving kudos" (ie being impressed) to a geographical area.

Like I said earlier though, maybe I read too much into it.

Also, I have higher standards for comment etiquette on HN than I would on other platforms. Why? I don't really know. Maybe that's a mistake too, clearly.
Same thing happened to my country. In the 90's, the US was a lot more welcoming. But because a lot of tourists stayed, it is a lot harder now to get a tourist visa.
And aren’t written in Java (That’s Apache…)
The thing is that some of those options (especially building more storage) might actually be more expensive and less practical than just building even more wind and letting a lot of the power from it be "wasted".
It's really not 1/4 of the resolution. That's the beauty of the demosaicing process.
Impressive. Any chance there will be an API version of this product for real-time apps?
How far is servo from a useable browser? What is it missing?
Not a physicist at all either; but on a per particle basis, I know gravity is by far the weakest of the fundamental forces. However, unlike the others, it doesn't have spin/charge/polarity that results in their vectors repelling each other. As such, black holes form when the large scale weak gravitational forces combine into a greater force than the strong short scale repelling forces exerted by the others (and especially so when nuclear fusion is involved). In a hot primordial plasma, the particles are by definition extremely energetic; pushing each other in all directions with far more vigor than the extent to which gravity attracts them. Hence being a big bang rather than a big crunch, I suppose.
It would also be "easier" to seize incandescent light bulbs, but no one has done that either, despite the Gestapo fantasies some people get off on peddling...
What we know about the deadliest U.S. bird flu outbreak in history
The UK conservative party is peak neoliberal. The cabinet is/was largely made up of people that have openly written proposals on how to dismantle national services.

Our shortest serving prime minister was one of these people. At a time of national crisis she supported a budget that overwhelmingly cut taxes on the income of the most wealthy while providing effectively zero support for those unable to afford the massive cost of living increase. Causing financial panic, increasing inflation, and requiring massive public spending to keep pension funds from collapse.

Government investment during a decade of near zero percent interest rates was non-existent.
When you close a window the active application doesn’t change so the menubar attached to the top of the screen is still there to close the app if desired (and keyboard shortcuts will still target that application).
This is shady as hell. A simple "thanks" message might sound innocent enough but you have no idea what else they are saying on your behalf. They have zero reason to pretend to be you in front of coworkers, period. I have no idea why everyone here is defending the company's actions so hard.

As for the legal part, I'm not a lawyer but I'm fairly confident in saying that you don't have a case for anything. They haven't caused you any real harm. Just forget about it and move on with your life.
I assume no such thing. Quite the opposite, actually. I'm pointing out that the author makes this assumption, implicitly, by suggesting that vision quests and other traditional shamanic interpretations of psychosis are a better, more holistic way of dealing with "mad" people than modern medicine.

Yes, going out into the desert without supplies to perform a vision quest is certainly more romantic than a stint in a mental hospital. But it's certainly not safer.
https://ceoworld.biz/2021/04/27/revealed-countries-with-the-...
Ironically, in a Hacker News article clickbait title.

The clickbait title is more precious than its contents.

Foundational knowledge allows you to tie different facts together in your field. This rope vastly, vastly, aids comprehension.

Pushing and pulling on the rope shows cause and effect, brilliantly. Cause and effect, understanding allows you to do make effective things.

"Just read George Pólya's How To Solve It and William Zissiner's On Writing Well."

It all fits together after that.
No. Magnetic fields are conservative and are not a source of energy.
Ada has the best modularity of all the programming languages I have used.

It was designed for building large real-world applications and separates specification from implementation by using separately compilable specification and body files:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/modu...

This allows the interface between modules to be defined concretely without relying on the implementations.
1. Using fiverr for code and expecting something secure/competent

2. ChatGPT just used the most common security pattern, which is to check the input to a program. You could have found the same thing with a security linter

3. What are you going back & forth with the fiverr developer on? Just add in a sanitizer and move on. Presumably you used fiverr to sacrifice on quality in order to save time
How to Select the Appropriate API Gateway for Your Platform
From a chemist's standpoint, pointing out the level of inefficiency is straightforward: it sucks compared to X at blowing stuff up! But from a safety engineering PoV ... robots. More robots.
I have a 14” QHD laptop (framework) and it’s really awkward without fractional scaling. I don’t know that 20-25% more screen space would really fix that.
This is a major sticking point for us. Many of our repos are 3rd party, made available to us under different licenses. Some require individuals to be licensed, and so we use ACLs for both read and write access. Some of our source is export-controlled and this also is enforced via ACLs at the repo level.
YouTube video: https://youtu.be/TEMXss1Qo4E

Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acaf7e
MHz wars all over again.

This marketing "optimization" usually leads to cycle inefficiency and excessively deep pipelines, causing expensive pipeline stalls should a branch not be predicted correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth
i'm a shopify partner and i agree with this sentiment. changing the cli is one thing, but making it require a full app restructure is so risky that i'm holding off on doing it until the very last minute. besides, it looks like they are pushing more towards embedded apps. that is fine, but you need to also cater to app developers with standalone applications.

finally, i do think it will change again because the structure for theme app extensions have changed and now i'm not even sure if my project will work if i update that section.

the migration documents are very bad and they remove old documents. for example, it used to be that you need to add a folder called `theme-app-extensions` and it's very different, and there is no migration docs for that. they just want you to use cli 3 out of the blue.
The asthma issue is with gas stoves. It is irrelevant with respect to a proper gas furnace. None of the exhaust from a modern furnace enters the home air supply.

By the way, if you are going to consider environmental costs for gas you should also consider those costs for electric.
Just go to a place where they sell iphones and compare the 60 Hz to the 120 Hz model. Open the settings menu and just scroll up and down. The difference is so very noticeable. I don't know why people try to claim that it's imperceptible, or that you can't tell the difference between a 1080p and 4K display.
Yes! Problem being that if we launched the mirror a light-year away, it would take more than a year to get there, and once we got the telescope set up, it would only show us a year in the (relatively speaking) past. Send it a million light years away, it would take more than a million years to get there, and our million-year-distant descendents would only see a million years in their past. So we wouldn't see into our past... it would be cheaper to just launch a camera into space with a long buffer of tape.

However, black holes are known to curve space-time and I've often wondered if we could find a sequence of black holes in a configuration that would bend the earth's light back on itself... theory being that if we had good enough resolution we might actually be able to see our deep past. I have no optimism that we could resolve organisms though -- just finding the sun, and seeing what it looked like in the past would be an incredible feat.
Nit: the steam is not released to atmosphere, it is sent directly to the condensers. Treated water to use in boilers and turbines without leaving deposits and damaging them is precious, so it is a closed cycle and not vented to atmosphere whenever possible
Because Tim Cook invented the iPhone? The iPod? Mac OS X?

The supply chain is irrelevant unless you have consumer demand for your products.

Apple brought back Jobs because they needed his operating system NeXTSTEP. How many operating systems has Tim Cook ever developed?

Cook literally never led a software or hardware product team until he became CEO, after which he "technically" led every team at Apple.

Jobs was behind Apple II, Lisa, Macintosh, NeXT, Mac OS X, iMac, MacBook, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. It's absurd to compare Cook with Jobs. Cook started as CEO gifted with some of the greatest tech products in history. Halfway between 3rd base and home plate, to use a baseball metaphor. Of course he's going to score.

Honestly, other than spec bumps such as speed and battery life, I don't think my Apple products are any better than they were 15 years ago. I think the design is actually worse now in many ways.
It's easy to reduce gas usage if you simply don't provide power arbitrarily.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/national-gri...
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