skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The university will almost certainly not sue. When does that ever happen? I've been reading about research fraud for years and am struggling to think of an example of that. It's more common that academics sue the people who reveal their fraud than universities sue academics. The US does have the ORI which mounts a handful of legal cases per year.

No, universities are a reputation economy and do their best to avoid reacting to or calling attention to fraud. They benefit from the perception that their professors are all competent and honest. This particular incident has got some press pickup due to the irony of an ethics professor who wrote a book about breaking the rules at work being caught cheating, but academic fraud is common and people who report it say that almost invariably nothing ever happens. Even in the rare cases when there's an investigation, it all gets swept under the rug. Note that:

• Harvard took over a year to request retractions, even after outsiders did the heavy lifting for them.

• This prof has silently been put on leave.

• Harvard won't comment.

• She has many coauthors on the bad papers. Nothing has happened to them. They were all blissfully ignorant.

> most research that is wrong is not wrong to intentional acts of deception, but just that people make mistakes

In reality the line is blurry to the point of being meaningless. Many glaring problems in research papers get claimed to be "mistakes" even when there's no plausible way they could be so. You have to be willing to penalize mistakes too, otherwise you can never penalize fraud.

As an example, check out the story at the top of this essay I wrote a couple of years ago:

https://blog.plan99.net/fake-science-part-i-7e9764571422

The before-surgery and after-surgery photos are clearly pixelwise identical except for the skin lesions, which were airbrushed out. Despite the sheer visual obviousness of this fraud the journal didn't notice, and when outsiders did the authors simply claimed “The photograph was taken in the same room with a similar environment; unfortunately the patient wore the same shirt” and the journal accepted this explanation! A ten year old could do better than that.

BTW don't conflate the unknown nature of answers to research questions, with the known nature of how to scientifically answer questions. The rules aren't hard, especially when you start from a base as low as "don't fake your data".
I think consent has proven to be a flawed mechanism on its own. GDPR’s requirements around legitimate/required processing show a way forward.

1. A site can’t require me to consent to unnecessary permissions just to use the site.

2. I can always revoke/delete my data grants and that must be transitive (the site has to delete all downstream data it shared with subprocessors, and have contractual guarantees that they can honor that before sharing any data with them).
Before Unicode, 'μ' was typically entered as an 'm' in a Greek font. This can go wrong in several ways, like if you converted the document to plain text, or if your laser printer didn't have the font and it substituted a regular font, you're suddenly off by a factor of 1000. 'mc' is ugly but safe.
I also try to close things out each evening - and any tabs that I "need" I at least jot down in a notepad for later.

My main motivation is keeping the performance on my computer strong but there is something really nice about getting to start fresh each day.
Well... note that this is a critique but the conclusion encourages using Nix anyway. The whole "Nix sucks but everything else sucks worse" idea.
How AI is changing the way scientists make drugs
Then it seems like gravity isn't one field, but a conglomeration of fields yet to be discovered.
Your org avoided OOP...by using the quintessential OOP language? That is, ah, certainly a perfect way to fail at functional programming.
unclear how that matters? it's the culture, not the presence of relics, or the education about them
Yep, I know where you're coming from.

There's a general undercurrent of narcissism across our whole society, even if people aren't formally diagnosable.
But that's not how that works. KVM is as "bare-metal" in access to the system as ESXi is. The hypervisor code runs in ring 0 in both cases.
Yes, absolutely, and what a different world it would be.

OTOH, the GNU project nearly adopted the BSD4.4-Lite kernel. Then Linux would never have happened.

Or, if DR hadn't been screwed over by Intel...

Or, if Apple aimed the Lisa lower, or the Mac higher...

Or, if Xerox knew what it had and successfully sold it...

So many "what ifs"...
"We hope to find a big piece of this object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or technological gadget."

He's just leaving the door open. It's a bit intentional, as opposed to collecting evidence and seeing what it says. There's an assumption that a technological gadget was created by aliens and not humans. Or some god.
What were they supposed to learn? They got bailed out and noone went to jail or anything
Another thing I noticed lately is a lot of iPhone games that were built in the early days like 2008 to 2014 and beyond even, get removed from the app store once the developer cannot maintain enough resources to update the code to the latest iOS version.

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Scroll indicators are fine if they stay visible. The default on mobiles and macOS is that the scroll indicator disappears once you stop scrolling. There was a webpage where I couldn't tell that an area was scrollable until I found out by accident, at which point I enabled the scrollbars to always show on macOS as I didn't want to get tripped up by that again
Oh come on. In other news, Bank Of America is still using IBM OS/390.
If you want to see someone go from zero to building out a small plywood boat using FREE!Ship to design the plans, see https://www.armylakeboatco.com/ and their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@armylakeboatco.

If you're looking for community, see the boatdesign.net forums: https://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/ or r/boatbuilding.

DELFTship is the commercial successor, but it's daunting: https://www.delftship.net/
Where are we taking anti-individual stances? I'm pretty sure you are misreading the world here. Nobody mentioned individuals at all - the question is just how much you blame businesses vs lawmakers.

I claim that the blame here really rests on big government for creating this fucked up system, not the businesses that work within it. By the way, I blame the government for the PPP fiasco too.

None of this is particularly pro-business, but a lot of people are apologists for big government and need to be disabused of that notion.
It looks like the best shot at actually unifying if it is going to be in a separate repo
Then it could be smart about recommending the next best thing.

For example -> Don't have a barbell but have adjustable DB's?

Replace Bench for DB bench

Replace Squat for goblet squat or split squat.

Replace OHP for DB OHP

Replace Deadlift for DB RDL

Replace Row for DB Row

Almost anybody can find something to hang off of for pull-ups so I'd say suck it up and find something.

Personally I would tell any new lifter that sure DB's and calisthenics work. But if you are one for optimizing/want the most gains in the least time, you NEED to find a barbell/squat rack at the very least.

A new lifter can literally put 200+ pounds on their squat/deadlift in 6 months or less. You will outgrow DB's pretty fast if you're really serious.

Note: I am an avid lifter and have been for 10+ years. You will rarely see somebody who is both natural and relatively big who does not focus on the big lifts, or at LEAST has a strength base built from the big lifts.
Alt D (from IE) also works. Ctrl L is Netscape legacy.
Well if you're a credit union that operates in Shithole Town, USA... then in theory if you lend money to people who improve the community, you'll reap the benefits everyone else does by living in a more desirable place (more valuable property, more customers for businesses, etc).

Almost impossible to imagine given the current state of the economy where every possible thing you can imagine has been commodified.
My GIF making site https://gifmemes.io made over 1k, totally maybe >5k at this point from watermark removals and donations. What was crucial for growth was a few reddit frontpage memes with the link in the comments. Then just slow and steady google traffic increase and now it's stable for the past few months.
There is zero evidence that space is quantized, and this would contradict the Standard Model, as well as General Relativity. The Planck constant gives the relation between the energy of a photon (or more generally a harmonic oscillator) and its frequency. It has nothing to do with the structure of space.
I've always wondered if the plant/animal shapes and sizes were represented literally in a 3D mapping of the DNA. Like we could already have a picture of what it will become, if we could just decode the DNA sequences properly.

Like we have the sequence of numbers for a jpg, but we've never seen the picture.
True, but this seems more like stopgap owed to the dearth of software rather than a long term strategy. If this thing never becomes more than a fancy monitor then it will be a disappointment for most users as well as Apple itself.
Education is an investment, period, end of story.

If you don't do a modicum of Research before you take on tens or hundreds of thousands in debt to invest in something, that's on you and you alone.

If people were not bailed out and subsidized we would not have these issues of this magnitude.
Why music producers quit (3 min video)
It brings me peace to close tabs. I try to aim for having 4 or 5 open. Then I look at my girlfriend's screen and the favicon doesn't even fit it in the tab anymore and it kills me.
All I can say is try it yourself if you think donations is a good model. Unless you are huge like Coffezilla, you'll have a very hard time getting donations (or paid subscribers). People tend to fall into the content creator casino trap, since for every person who gets rich or manages to have a sustainable income for their work, there's 1000 who wastes a ton of effort without ever getting anywhere - even when the content is brilliant. It's kind of like Hollywood, a machine that eats dreams to make a few people stars and platform owners filthy rich on free labour.

> If we lock everything behind a paywall, going to the library or downloading information won't do jack.

Go to a library. You can find a whole bunch of paywalled newspapers and magazines to read for free there. Not to mention... books.

> As for if #2 gets implemented, I guarantee you that this will not work. Paid content will not be cheap. Never has been and never will. In your other comments you bring up that you foresee services being a mere 10$ a year.

You can get some excellent content for $10 per year, but a more normal price is around $50 per year - which is still dirt cheap. I chose $10 per year as an example, because that's the price point where people start complaining about how broke they are and can't they just have it for free.

> I am talking about information. Not physical goods. You are applying the logic of limited physical goods to online services that are virtually unlimited. Bandwidth is cheap.

This is the problem right here. The false assumption. People need to spend a whole lot of time and effort and usually also money to create content and information. They need to get paid, they need to sustain themselves. Or you'll just have some hobby bloggers writing about their Raspberry Pi.

Why don't you apply this argument to a restaurant? The ingredients in your meal are cheap, so why should you pay for your meal? Since the labour of the people making and serving apparently has no value. Why aren't Ubers just the cost of gas? Etc.

If small time content creators can't get paid, they'll do something else. That content will not exist to pirate. You will only have ad- and scam-fueled mainstream content. I suspect your answer is probably "Good, fuck them!", but I think that's an unnecessary loss for the world and human knowledge.
Nope, they want the opposite – for you to stay in the Threads app and get tracked/watch ads. The fact that you can pull content from all over the Fediverse in the app to stay busy is just a bonus. They are now able to monetize all that content for free.
I work at truckstop.com and I came up with a way of managing feature flags that isn't madness. First I used the feature flags in conjunction with module federation. Then I create 3 flags per product, alpha, beta, rc. They looks something like this: mfe-load-search-alpha. The flags are managed by split.io and then tied to a federated endpoint deployment. Which flag gets loaded is determined by a router factory that selects the route with the correct federated endpoint based on the splits. That effectively allows me to decouple a deployment from a release.
Multipass is fantastic, very easy to use, great for local k8s playgrounds and cases where docker doesn't fit (ie. tests that change system clock etc) or simply to have linux box at hand.
I see that lima has an option to choose between qemu and vz. What are the pros/cons to each? Is vz performance better?

Update:
I edited the YAML file for the Lima VM and changed from qemu to vz, also made sure the mount was using virtiofs.

Observations - on the surface, no performance difference but I haven't really done much yet. I noticed that there is no longer a qemu process running (obviously), and I see that /System/Library/Frameworks/Virtualization.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.Virtualization.VirtualMachine.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.Virtualization.VirtualMachine is now running.

Having a look at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization?lan... for the documentation. It definitely looks like an interesting and well built framework.
I've seen that easy enough to address with a frequent review (quarterly, per PI, monthly, etc). If you're operating in some methodology that has a consistent cadence, it should be manageable but you do have to be deliberate about it.

Doesn't take long.
Agreed re: "large enough to offer so many good options and departments." This is definitely a big pro in our opinion. It is definitely true that smaller schools are more limited in offerings than big schools. During visits, smaller schools seem to carefully point out some flexibility in putting together a more personal course-of-study to offset this . . .
Should name it Pear Vision (read with an accent to sound like poor vision).
It is getting expensive to live.
You have to do those spammy things and probably do 100x more of them you expect to do and I'm not kidding. See for instance what Pincecone has done for "posting to Hacker News"

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pinecone.io

When I was in college I was a DJ at our college radio station and I wanted a set of keys so I ran for public relations officer and won. My mission was to get people to turn up for our dances which had a bad reputation and little turnout.

On a small campus of maybe 1600 students I would print a ream of paper worth of posters (500 sheets) with maybe 20 different designs. Everyone on campus would see the posters and see we were going all out. Fortunately I had friends who were much better DJs than I was and would make sure everyone had a great time.

After two years of doing this several times a year, KTEK dances had a reputation for being really banging.

I loathe the thought of delegating this kind of task to people, particularly people who dream of great riches and influence through marketing, because many people think 1 poster design and putting up 5 posters is enough because "the people who want to go to the dance will seek them out" which is unfortunate.

If you're Facebook you can get 100 million signups for Threads easily, if you've got special connections you can be featured on the biggest podcasts. For the rest of us it a lot of work, maybe more work than you can imagine.
That's one of the things I appreciate about BazQux as an RSS service. I get a reminder that my year "subscription" is coming up and if I'd like to continue I need to purchase another year. Perhaps it's because of their billing platform but I'm happy its a pattern.
LI is an interesting data source for the pulse of economy (at least in my echo chamber :). I don't even need to log in, just a quick glance in my LI email folder would tell a lot.
It’s fine that society should benefit, but why should the publishers who pay the author nothing benefit the most?

(Edit: Not just republishers of the original work, but also those making derivatives like translations, sequels, or movie/TV adaptations.)
You're entirely right, but if I have $200K in debt for my useless undergrad degree, and I can only find a job at Starbucks, garnishment or not the bank is not getting their money back. The court will order some kind of payment, sure, but they'll prioritize me paying for rent and food.
"There really are, though"

- Me
Compton scattering with a space-like separation for the absorption and emission points are a well known phenomenon in quantum field theory. Classically these events would be causally disconnected, but in a QFT the propagator is non-zero and instead has an exponential suppression in the space-like interval.

This is a phenomenon with experimental consequences and uses:https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3819 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0774-3
I ported your jsfiddle to run on val town!

Main function: https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.sparklineSVG

Rendered example: https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse.sparklineEx2
I'm not sure loan companies want to get into the business of rating specific programs at specific universities and their ability to produce students who can get good jobs.

And also if they did do that, we get back to other problem which is that schools will only offer programs that lead to high paychecks making them just job training and not places of overall learning.
Thanks! The Alto restore was great, I ended up binge-watching the entire thing in one go.
100%, I'm the same way. The Firefox address bar is truly a work of art. I used to worry that I was just crazy whenever I tried Chrome and found the experience so inferior, because how much variation could there be in fuzzy search? tons, apparently.
The battery 100% scenario is not a pipe dream; it's a common occurrence. Source: I live on top of a hill.
> lenders

AFAIK virtually every financial institution has been pulled from student loans.

The U.S. government is now the only major lender.
Also wondering this.
Well, no legal rights, obviously. But that doesn't mean that's not what ought to be the case. Laws aren't infallible, especially copyright law. If you have to break them to do something, that's hardly a reason not to do it, it's a reason to think about what you're doing.

As for the emulation of old games, this article talkes about a pretty commonly understood point, many old games simply can't be played outside emulation. This is importent to the argument as a whole because it changes how we should view these games, as they literally have no value. Art is worthless while it's isolated, it has no meaning to anyone, nothing to provide to anyone. The work of those that made it has essentially been forgotton about, and if it hasn't been forgotten, it will be. Same is true for video games, a video game does not have value until someone knows what it is. Currently these games exist in this state, they have literally no value. You couldn't find people to buy these games outside of speculative reasons because no one gives a flying fuck about these things. So when someone argues that emulation is theft, it's moot in these cases, because there's no value there, nothing to steal.

There's also less altruistic arguments for emulation that are valid too, arguments for emulating games that do still have some value. One may do it as a form of protest, they want to edit the game, they want to play it more easily, or they want to put together a comprehensive list of emulated games that everyone can have access to. There are good arguments for all of these, despite the fact that they're often illegal and sometimes may even harm the original creators. Each argument should be considered on its own merits before the action is judged as something that ought not to happen.
They want a good tab manager... so they changed because the one they tried for Firefox did not work.
Fabricated data and fraudulent results are not unknown to the hard sciences either. See f.e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64 A professor manipulating data for an amusing pop-psychology result is small potatoes in comparison to what has rocked the physics world.
linux is m:n today and always has been, so I guess I don't know what you're talking about.
Feels like my decision to not get into social media seems like a better and better choice as time goes on.

I mean OK you can argue that this is social media, but I mean Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. with personal profiles and all the photos and videos and such.

I really only just used sites like Slashdot, Reddit, and HN.
Over 3.6M speed tests happen every day. Here's what they look like.
Administration.

There’s a growth in admin [0] that I think is the proliferation of the most bullshit of bullshit jobs. It’s weird that I think the issue is much worse by basically funding all these admin positions that pay more than actual instructors and researchers yet I’m not sure what they really do.

I’d like to see universities advertise low admin:student and admin:instructor as measured of quality.

[0] https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-...
Cost disease can't be the primary cause here. Cost disease happens when wages need to rise for people who have jobs that cannot become more efficient. But the wages of people teaching college courses have not gone up 710%. In fact, more and more of the teaching work is being done for lower pay and with more ruthless efficiency through the use of adjuncts or teaching faculty who teach 5/5s or worse.
> In particular the many worlds interpretation makes no testable predictions, it's just a story.

Yes, that's what "interpretation" means. If it made predictions that distinguished it from other interpretations, it would be a competing theory to quantum mechanics - and so far all such attempts have failed.
> Copyright, as originally envisioned, should be a temporary privilege instead of a de facto ghost racket for perpetual extortion.

Copyright as originally envisioned was a way of preventing books from being published if the crown didn't approve of them.
We're actually planning on migrating to LangChain very soon (primarily to allow for memory / tool usage + automatic integrations with llamacpp / other open source model serving frameworks). We didn't start with it initially since we didn't want to restrict our usage patterns too much while we were (even more) unsure of what exactly we were going to build.

As far as using other data connector frameworks, we found that we either (1) didn't think they were very good or/and (2) they didn't support automatic syncing effectively. For larger enterprises, it's not feasible to do a complete sync every X minutes. We need to be able to get a time-bounded subset (or have them push updates to us), which is something LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc. don't support natively.
If you don't want to be poor, don't go to university.

Academia should be a place for people who run away from money, because it's the last thing upon the list of interests for them. Academia should be a place for joy in learning concepts, and in some circumstances, which strive to be useless. Mathematics is one of the most exemplary fields for this, which is summed up quite nicely with the following quote:

"The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful. He studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

Never go to a university expecting to improve your wealth status, because it very likely won't happen. Turn elsewhere to find wealth.