skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together

https://qz.com/978037/china-publishes-more-science-research-...

I respectfully submit that you may be providing an anecdotal experience.

It’s so bad that China’s courts have called for the death penalty for scientific fraud.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/23/china-death-penalty-rese...

Goodness me.
You take it as a given that what they did broke the law just because the government claims it was illegal. However, that is not what the settlement proposal actually says.

There was no trial, there was no conviction, and the telemarketers admit to no wrongdoing.

They also agree to pay the full $13m if they fail to comply with a whole host of reporting and reform, including stopping their part of the calls.
Yes the Chinese owe themselves 900B. They're going to rue the day when they find they can't pay themselves back.
That explains a lot. I have a bottle of 5mg pills and I found out I could still feel the effects when I would take a tiny “nibble” of the pill. So over the course of a bad sleep week I would slowly consume a single pill. This bottle is a lifetime supply, assuming it doesn’t degrade.
> chronic sleep disorders

Wow. It's been a long time but I've definitely taken melatonin and if I felt any effects at all they definitely weren't strong if even noticable.

Here (USA) Ambien is prescribed often for chronic sleep issues and that drug absolutely terrifies me. I've had friends addicted to it who wound up in a lot of criminal trouble for trespassing and wandering around beaches naked and things like that because they'd sleep-walk hallucinate. I had one friend get arrested for sleeping in someones (random) attic on an ambien kick. A pilot, no less.

My mom gave me a bottle of it when I was in high school and it made me hallucinate in an unpleasant way. I do plenty of mycology stuff but the ambien was weird. I think I took it twice or three times and just stopped.
> in this dota case, if the modders wanted to charge for content, they shouldn’t have modded a game that prohibits charging for content.

It's a too easy to use of an argument, reality is more complex, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
Most people in the US live in urban areas and most travel is not that far. It only takes too long to get places by train because the service is poor and public transit is lacking. You’re never going to take a train coast to coast but it’s be nice to take one from San Francisco to Sacramento, the state capital 75 miles away didn’t end up taking a nearly three hours.
Sure:
https://medium.com/the-noösphere/its-2022-why-women-with-hig...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244004/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/108886831989131...

https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

There have been numerous studies…
Understanding Partitioning vs. Sharding in Postgres
This has always been a favorite day dream of mine.

I think all of us have some sort of fantasy in which we invent something which changes the world, makes us famous for generations to come, or something like that.

I always noodle on something like this. some new technology which makes the carbon in the air an asset to humanity.

But, of course, I know nothing about physics, material science, energy, or chemistry… and so it will remain a fantasy for me!
On a youth camping trip, one morning a boy found his (contraband) snacks had been raided. A raccoon (probably) had chewed through the tent, into his backpack, eaten various snacks, and opened his bottle of melatonin and eaten quite a few pills.

I wonder what the effects were of a massive overdose of melatonin on an animal the size of a raccoon...
It's also a problem if the trains are full because of free passengers and you can't travel when you need to even if you paid extra.
Analysis and Workload Characterization of the CERN EOS Storage System [pdf]
> be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too.

This reminds me of a game design technique Blizzard learned to use back in the day when balancing their RTS games. Sometimes they'd make a small change – say increasing damage by 4% – and playtest the result. It seemed, maybe better? So they'd ship it. Some time later, they'd realize they had way undershot, and the ideal increase would have been 25%. They sometimes found themselves buffing or nerfing the same thing over and over, trying to get it right.

The approach that worked better for them was to err on the side of first overcorrecting – say, try increasing damage by 40%. This way, in playtesting they could clearly see the effects of having gone too far, then back off the change as appropriate.
This is why I went back to the office, but it took me a very long time to realize it.

Try to exercise a lot during the day, it helps.
Nah, there are drugs that already exist in the body (such as the extremely strong psychedelic DMT, which naturally occurs in tiny amounts within human brains and within many other animals and plants).

There isn't a hard scientific boundary of what substances count as a "drug", and if a hormone is being taken as a pill to affect a human then it is being used as a drug.
> Oh. Nothing to do with that. Weather, accidents, no staff were the most common causes.

Actually, all three can be blamed on Deutsche Bahn. The Swiss for example have a ridiculously strong tree management program [1], which means they can keep operating even in storms because there is no danger of trees falling onto tracks which is a fairly common occurrence in Germany.

Accidents as well... a lot of tracks, everything up to 160km/h, has level crossings with roads. Only above 160 km/h you need dedicated, crossing free infrastructure. We could get rid of a lot of these level crossings if we wanted to.

And no staff? DB pays shit, that's the reason why no one wants to work for them, and the "private competitors" pay even less. And if the railroad workers go to strike, the entire fucking country shits on them for daring to fight for their rights.

[1] https://www.waldwissen.net/de/technik-und-planung/naturgefah...
Yes, I would trust people to generally be competent enough.

Writing your own self driving software, go ahead, as long as your driving on private land I have no issue.
If the mod game is compelling, I would think that if someone came to Valve to license for profit sharing that they'd consider it. AFAIK quite a few games have done this for the parent game... also allowed the bundling as an independent game not requiring the original.
Run on more than two screens?

Support modern networking?

Support Unicode in all applications?
See also this sci-fi horror short story, named after the famous test image.

https://qntm.org/lena

But in the story, the overused test image is a digital copy of a human brain...
Being an independent developer is much more fulfilling than any other personal accomplishment
>the exact kind of behavior/mentality that most scientists hate due to how it warps things like funding

I'd be more sympathetic to this had scientists not done such a terrible job of distributing the funding my taxes pay for
Hi, thanks! STT/TTS latencies are a bit bottleneck here unfortunately, so it's not as fast as I'd want to

I'm about to launch poss market on production! Feel free to drop a mail at jed@maczan.pl
It started on Japanese Beech (but only causing mild symptoms). It affects a lot of beech
That's the imperative programming case. Declarative programming is about defining each part of the final result.

What's a peanut butter and jelly and sandwich (the result)? It's a slice of bread atop a layer of peanut butter atop a layer of jelly atop a slice of bread. Recursively define each part, for instance defining a layer of jelly in terms of manipulated blobs of jelly. Reverse the order of the definitions if using an early-binding language.

(setq p&j-sandwich '(bread-slice peanut-butter-layer jelly-layer bread-slice))
;; TODO work out why jelly layer isn't transferred to sandwich in one piece
(setq bread-slice (with-tool bread-knife (slice bread-loaf)))
(setq jelly-layer (with-tool table-knife (spread jelly-blob)))
...

Disclaimer: I've never eaten nor made a P&J sandwich; please consider this code experimental...
Thank you for taking the time to respond and expand. I totally agree with the context you provided as you also see these same types of systems gobbling up many minority groups for profit or puritanical religious reasons.

In my personal experience, my current behavior health provider (which is not a psych) has been very interested in trying to find whatever works to help me get along in this world, be it medication or not. Maybe I got lucky there.

I've always been gotten the impression that ADHD is just another hurdle in my life and that I just have to work harder than more neurotypical people to achieve the same results.

I am curious to know about what age range you are in as I wonder if this is also a generational / parenting difference? I am almost 40 myself and see many hurdles and issues that my kids are facing nowadays which I can't even imagine sometimes.
I mean, i think most people's definition of attractiveness is different from the societal orthodox view of what is attractive (e.g. your average movie star). That doesn't mean i dont know what people are talking about when they say these sorts of things.

Objective is probably a bad choice of words because in addition to not matching individual likes, the societal "orthodox" view varries by culture a lot.
> RedHat cannot choose to stop doing business with someone belonging to a protected class

RedHat cannot choose to stop doing business with someone because they belong to a protected class

Everyone belongs to a protected class.
I find chatgpt quite good for this. Often purely the exercise of trying to phrase the question leads to clearer thinking, and chatgpt makes pretty good suggestions too
I've done every one of those things. Were you under the impression that other language development is less messy, as opposed to just less public?
(Note: I am engaging in good faith. I'm not arguing against utility tokens, I'm just not sure I get how they're applicable) I read your sibling comment and I'm still not sure I get this:

> they could use utility tokens as a way to monetize open source software

First, who is "they" in this context? RedHat?

> use a strong network effect to lock in their audience and make it more costly to fork the whole ecosystem than just keep paying for the utility

> Maybe -- like in the case of RHEL - it's licensing fees.

I'm trying to parse this and I'm just not following. What's the "monetize open source" business model here with utility tokens? RedHat's current business model is:

"Set up a contract where businesses pay money every month, in exchange for access to RHEL builds and technical support, whether or not they use that tech support in a given month."

I think I conceptually get what a "utility token" is from having a skim through the QBUX site, but... I don't really get how it would change things in this case, other than likely making it more difficult for people to pay for RHEL subscriptions?

> What is the alternative? Everyone who is silently downvoting — I would LOVE to hear a viable alternative.

I think the trick is that the viable alternative is the status quo. You haven't really explained how this would lead to RedHat making more money every month than how they're doing business currently.
So you're just ranting, no data and looks like no experience.
OK

In person is worse. I've done both. It's noisier, you're crammed into a cube taking notes, etc.
If you're going to use remote tools, what's the benefit of in person?
Oak wilt is pretty bad around here too, though fortunately not so bad as dutch elm disease yet.
The Google Inbox email successor is finally ready for Android
Cats are obligate carnivores, we are not. We're already getting 82% of calories and 63% of proteins from plants.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes." - American Dietetic Association

"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." - NHS UK

"[I]t is possible to follow a well-planned, plant-based, vegan friendly diet that supports healthy living in people of all ages, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding." - British Dietetic Association.

"For adults, protein from two or more plant groups daily is like to be adequate. " - World Health Organisation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35719615/

Plant-based diets were protective against cancers of the digestive system, with no significant differences between different types of cancer, a meta-analysis based on 3,059,009 subjects

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/04/meat-tax-would-boost-health...

Meat tax would boost health and cut healthcare spending: research

https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/over-17000-doctors...

Over 17,000 doctors call on White House to shape nutrition policy on plant-based diets
Windows 95 and 7 may be exceptions. I recall both being refreshing and met with enthusiastism and praise. Early versions of Microsoft Office as well were (at least at one time) considered a step up.
If you mean “the wide range in which the extremely unstable value of gold varies doesn't move very much over time, so that the value it had a 300 years ago today is likely to be repeated sometime within a 100 year window centered on today, whereas fiat currencies have a more consistent downward value trend”, that’s true, but its not value stability, or a good thing in a currency.

Its not a particularly great thing in an investment asset either.
Curated Transformers: LLMs from reusable building blocks
Minecraft is reaching that 15+ year mark
If you go out of your way to look for uncharitable ways of interpreting what others are saying, you will find them.

Instead of going on the offensive and taking such an uncharitable interpretation as a given, if you truly can find no charitable interpretation[1], maybe ask for a clarification rather than jumping to conclusions about unspoken implications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Gitpod, just use Gitpod. You can even run docker inside there.
The GPL is very clear that the software does not come with a warranty or any guarantees of fitness for any purpose. The customer has the code, they are free to fix any bugs or security holes that affect them, but they are not entitled to have other people do that work for them for free.
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch
> If you use DHCP, then I think you can configure that. What I have in mind is to assign static IPs to all of my fixed machines anyway, and use DHCP to assign IPs to transient machines. Not sure if that's reasonable, but it's my current thinking.

You probably can, but as it's often said, most security breaches are caused by misconfiguration.

>There may be broken ones, but it doesn't matter so much because your ISP won't route such addresses regardless.

Yeah fair enough, I can trust my ISP to do that at least.
My girlfriend has the same problem. She wasn’t able to get through on the hotline and no answer on the email. She went into a ticket office here in Berlin and they told her they can’t do anything about the payment problems and to call the hotline. Total shit show.

The 9€ ticket was amazing and could be purchased without a subscription. Why are they forcing you to have a subscription for the Deutschland ticket?
I've always called this the "green-path prototype", which is building what you thought you knew, without implementing edge cases. The edge cases will get discovered and noted along the way and they should be documented (with a comment or other method that doesn't get lost). Pretty much any time you only handle a subset and don't handle the 'else's.

The real implementation should consider the green-path and edge case notes, decide the desired structure/decomposition and pick and choose from the green-path rather than try to start with it as v1 of a final form.
I don't know how the US retirement system works, but I think Germany is pretty unique in that the current working population is directly paying for the pensions of the retired population. There is no investment of those funds of any kind or something like that. The state is already taking up huge loans to finance this, as we don't have enough payers. We have about two payers to one pensioner at the moment, but when I will be 67 with the current population development it will be one payer to two pensioners. Even with more massive debt one payer will not be able to pay the pensions of two other people. It might just be a huge cut, but if it's not enough to live off of, large parts of the older generation might end up on the street. A large part of the younger generation is aware of this, but 23% of Germans are over 65 and the median age is 45 so older people generally have a lot of voting power and the issue is largely ignored. Very recently there were proposals to switch to a system in which the pension payments are invested into index funds, but it was decried as "gambling away our pensions" and the proposal was shot down.
https://archive.ph/Bi9qY
Ya I'd probably consider switching careers before returning to the tyranny of my manager just being able to pop up behind me. Fuck that.
Smaller attention spans, information overload, and consequent lack of attention to detail, are some of the reasons, IMO.

And the first two of those are largely due to the uncontrolled effects of the Internet, i.e. the web and social media, on people,
of course.

Edit: wording
Credit unions are regional but they have networks you can interact with. I've lived all over the country with a credit union based out of Ohio with I think less than ten branches. I have no problem finding fee free ATMs, have deposited paper checks both through their app and in network credit unions. The credit union network also offers financial advisors. I've got a mortgage and auto loan through them as well.
The whole reason soda tastes better outside the US is because bottlers in most other countries still use real sugar. HFCS is cheaper in the US because we heavily subsidize corn production for some reason.

So it seems weird to me that people would complain that the EU made it harder for Coca-Cola to make their product taste shittier. There is a reason there is a huge market for "Mexican Coke" throughout the US.
they'll find a way to rapidly catch up and surpass the west

It's called available cash (roughly 3 trillion in reserves) and a self-supporting market that's 4 times the size of the US. And a government that has the impetus to 'get it done, and quickly'.

The West seems to delight in always shooting itself in the foot. (Though it's more like 'shooting yourself in the head' in this case.)
This is only sort of true. There are lots of population dense areas of North America that wouldn't look that different than much of Europe. E.g. NYC to Boston is shorter than Paris to Frankfurt.

The main problem is that the train infrastructure where exists is old and very slow, and typically passenger trains have lower priority than freight. The end result are slow, often grubby, expensive (e.g. more than flights), trains with inconvenient sparse schedules and poor services. Not exactly compelling.
The black line is the current year, the orange line is the last year, in my opinion you can see very clearly the difference between the two. There are also three dotted lines: a mean (1982-2011) and a +-2sigma interval from the mean.
I had the same thought as the parent poster. It may not be the most meaningful metric scientifically, but it would be great for showing average people that climate change won't necessarily be a smooth, linear, predictable climb.
Btw, isn't the difference that price is before a transaction and value is after? You're perfectly capable of guessing wrong at how much value you're going to get out of something.
Yes, there’s a new high speed train from Miami to Orlando, but you would have to rent a car when you get to either end anyway because there’s no realistic public transit in all of Florida. By the time you rent a car, you might as well drive around instead of taking the train.
> The goal is to support the needs of the population. If people have kids and kids aren't dying because of modern medicine, the population explodes

It actually doesn't, though; when modern medicine lowers childhood mortality, people voluntarily choose to have fewer children. This is part of the "demographic transition" which has been happening around the world over the last 200 years. There's no need to stop people from having kids; you just stop the kids from dying, then parental investment skyrockets, and next thing you know your population's fertility level is below replacement.
> The only mistake Sentry made was caving to peer pressure. OSI does not own the term "open source".

I agree. After the last HN thread, and also zeeg's Twitter, I was disappointed to see him cave. There needs to be some real discussion here around the term, especially concerning the fact that OSI does not own the term. Caving to the mob^W^W"market pressure" with an apology for opinions on terms won't help kick off that hard discussion.

BUSL, SSPL, and ELv2 can be as-permissive, or even more permissive, than GPL in the majority use case.

Not all OSS is FOSS. And that's okay.
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge said the Department of Justice’s landmark case alleging Google’s dominance over the online search business is anti-competitive can go ahead, throwing out some of the government’s claims but ruling that a trial is still necessary.

Google had asked for the judge to make a ruling before the trial, which is scheduled for September. Some of the government’s claims, including those put together by a consortium of state attorneys general that argued the way Google designed its search engine page was unfairly harming competitors like Yelp, were dismissed.

But the allegations that Google’s overall business practices constitute a monopoly that violates the 1890 Sherman Act still deserve a trial, the judge said.

The trial will be a major test for Google and the massive business empire it has assembled over the past two decades. The company is still the dominant portal to the internet, exercising immense power over what people see online. The case is the culmination of one of many antitrust investigations launched against Google and other Big Tech companies over the last several years.

“People have more ways than ever to access information, and they choose to use Google because it’s helpful. We look forward to showing at trial that promoting and distributing our services is both legal and pro-competitive,” said Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer.

The DOJ didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The trial will begin in the midst of a boom in generative AI — a wave of new technology that has been pushed by Google’s competitors and has thrown the company onto its back foot. Google executives have already begun arguing that the rise of AI companies like OpenAI shows that the tech world is still competitive and that the company doesn’t have an unfair grip on who wins and who loses, as some antitrust experts and the company’s competitors have argued.
Good clarification, thank you.
And what to think of this book, where the author literally persuades people to megadose on the hormone:

https://www.amazon.com/Melatonin-Transform-Melatonin-resilie...

It's mindboggling that this is freely available.