skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common misunderstanding. The main mechanism for self-correction in science isn't about replicating or refuting findings. It's about which science survives to become the basis of other science. If a finding does not bear out, it simply will not become the basis for subsequent science. It's similar to natural selection.

The so-called "replication crisis" is overblown.

If LK-99 fails to be a useful material, it's interesting life will be over very shortly. If it is useful (and even if it's not the promised room-temperature superconductor, but useful in some other aspect), it will continue on in science, in technology - everywhere it might be useful for further investigation.
Check out John D. Cook's blog https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

He has a math consulting business which seems very interesting a cool way to make a living. Maybe you can contact him and get some advice.
Let's be honest about double standards here. People are absolutely losing their minds because they feel personally attacked because they are promiscuous.

I'm a woman who married her husband, and was extremely picky about marrying someone who wasn't promiscuous (low number of sexual partners).

I have two sons, and a daughter. As a mother you absolutely see the double standards in a couple ways.
Women on tiktok, instagram, and other social media constantly shame men for being under 6 feet. I'm Korean, and I see Asian men being shamed from being under 5'7 in Asian!

Any male preferences get demonized, while female preferences get revered.
It makes me worried for my kids. I don't want my daughter to grow up without a grasp on reality, and I don't want my sons being doormats.
Is it going to be efficient taxpayers pay via increased Medicare and health insurance costs to market/lobby and pay for profits a private company needs to gamble that much on developing a medicine, that may not even be that effective?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/10/politics/aduhelm-alzheimers-d...

Drug companies have the second or third highest profits and profit margins after tech companies. Sounds like a lot of “efficiency” could be gained by taxpayers taking the risk of R&D themselves.
> It's less visible, but at this scale there's a high cost in everyone pausing their research to replicate LK-99.

Less visible? More like invisible if you ask me. There's all sorts of seemingly frivolous research going on at any given moment. A red herring in this case would be no different.

The instant strange behavior becomes apparent it becomes worth researching. I don't see how keeping it silent is anything other than a tragic waste.

If it's bogus, we discover that sooner.

If it's legitimate, we discover that sooner, AND the benefits to humanity can begin 24 years earlier. Think of how much we've accomplished in the last 24 years. Now think of how many benefits could have been reaped during that time by building on this new knowledge (assuming it has practical applications).

If it's truly useful and they knew this 24 years ago: what a waste.
There are many more planetary limits than just climate change, and many of them are governed by how much natural resources we consume and, incidentally, how much waste we produce.

Cheap unlimited energy will just make us push these boundaries even further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries
> except that the 0.01% case is precisely what causes the damage (bots, fraud, piracy and so on).

Thankyou, that's precisly my point. All this trouble is worth only for fighting fraud and bots and not for making sure that that 0.1% can't use a adblocker like anyone is crying about.
Even just shittification feels better.
Exactly, that's what leads to partner hopping until these multiple digits are reached most likely.
There are people here using their Steam Deck to post on HN in its Desktop Mode. It comes with Python and you can install VS Code. It plays PC games, which has long been a hallmark of the desktop experience. What's missing? The stuck-in-one-place tower?
So because I didn't list out my argument with completeness, my argument is defective and thus it is laden with "huge" irony.

You're imagining this irony to suit your personal requirement that I am wrong or foolish.

But if you look at what I am talking about elsewhere in my comments on this topic, it is human bias that concerns me.

One of the things automated colourisation cannot get right is historical depictions of human skin. In a way that really matters.

Human biases will creep into automatic colourisation because they can't _not_ creep in: the test data cannot fully describe the subject matter so contemporary bias will take over.

One of the areas where this really matters is historical depictions of Black people. Automatically colourising a black and white photo of a Black person's skin will almost certainly get their skin tone wrong in a way that might well very significantly misrepresent their history.

The same is true in mixed cultures all around the world; colourism is as much an issue as racism.

People had different lives based on how their skin tone was perceived. Automatic colourisation will not (cannot!) automatically produce a colour image that fits that experience. Because dark skin can appear light (and light appear dark) depending on complexities of reproduction.

This stuff matters. Hence my position: if you wish to ethically colourise an image, first consider not doing it at all. Second, consider doing it by hand based on real knowledge of the subject (their lived history etc.).

I am fully cognisant of the bias issues here (well, as fully cognisant as a white amateur student of photographic history can be)
Who gets the money from fines like these?
Has anyone tried to unlock them to put your own software there?
You wouldn't say "model T" you'd say car.

You wouldn't say "Boeing 737" you'd say flight.

They're saying iPhone because it's attention grabbing. No other reason.
> I don't remotely understand why people with no experience in a given subject matter like to speak so authoritatively on it.

This line seems really out of place because this is a topic nearly everyone has first-hand experience with.
Interesting article with some good points. Unfortunately some factual mistakes ruin it a bit. Stark and Pepper Potts did have sexual chemistry shown in their dance and balcony scene in the very first movie. The fact that BMI standards changed does not at all change the fact that average waistlines and weight have been steadily climbing for over 50 years and show no signs of stopping.
I am the same way. My watch is firstly a watch, secondly needs to do minimal things (HR, step counter, sleep analysis, notifications). For that the Withings Steel HR [1] was perfect.

I bought it at the start of the pandemic after seeing it on my local news, and wore it every day/night for 5-6 months before needing to take it off to charge, and when I did that, I realized I lost the charger.

It was an amazing watch though. Simple and elegant.

1: https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr
> alcohol at home is extremely cheap

Even on the street its cheap! it's funny when you are choosing a drink its like "Well I'll save some money and get a beer" because Coke is more expensive at your typical Doner spot.

Another interesting effect of this is you see far, far more public drunkenness, especially on the U/Sbahn. But for the most part there are fewer gross-out incidents than on NY subways. Not none, but fewer. You still get the occasional screaming/urinating lunatic. But not as often as you'd expect given the price of beer.
"The writing is on the wall" because cloud providers charge a few dollars a month for IPv4?
She has been alluding to old Soviet scientists having a theoretical foundation for the type of conductivity shown. She posted a link to this comment that explains some of the background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36996337

Check out her twitter for some real fun rants @iris_IGB
Well, would this hologram be smuggled cross-country and delivered by a robot?

I mean, I thank the GP for choosing the most interesting example possible, because Fisher is literally famous for being a hologram.
it would be cool if indie / open source game development would make linux more attractive to a wider population of gamers. with the cloudification of everything they are one of the few remaining demographics that values serious "local" hardware. but the nature of compute intensive modern game development seems so extremely large budget that such a grassroots efforts stand little chance. the linux desktop definitely feels like waiting for godot [1] :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
Exactly. And big-budget movies are trying to maximize their audience, that's all that's happening.

If you want something adult and horny, there's plenty for you on HBO and so forth. Euphoria, Game of Thrones, The Idol...
Teach a man to phish and he’s set for life
not an article, but there's a tweet (yeah oftentimes Twitter can be useful :) ): https://nitter.net/sanxiyn/status/1686782919178911744
Everything in life is a tradeoff. There are no "solutions" to problems, because every solution must be accomplished using scarce resources that have alternative uses, and may carry unintended consequences.

> Banning DDT resulted in recovery.

It also caused more people to die of malaria[0,1].

> Same for the Endangered Species Act

And adds to worsening homelessness in the Bay Area[2], so much so that a recent infrastructure bill signed by the governor weakens many environmental protections[3].

Banning things is easy. We can just ban every modern convenience and go back to pre-Industrial Revolution living standards and drop our carbon emissions by 99%. But the hidden side of every success story that comes from a ban of whatever material or practice you can think of is the human toll at the other end.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173321/

[1]: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/woodside-blocks-ne...

[3]: https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2023/06/29/building-ca...
True though there is a risk that before we get to the end of the 2nd step on your flow, that loads of methane is released from across the currently frozen plains of Asia/Russia - along with more CO2 released from more regular wild fires. The earth could go on releasing greenhouse gases even when (if) we stop releasing, if it gets too warm.
How social media can help spread conspiracy theories
Thanks for that. I like how you not only give us this particular fish but show how to catch other fish.

Edit: for those whose first language is not English, I’m referring to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_a_man_a_fish_and_you_fee...
Germany slashes digitisation budget by 99 percent
I really hope so. And I hope I don't pass this middle-aged-man-defeatism on to my children, and can get over it, myself.

It's hard to watch all of this.
Not energy in and of itself. Cheap unlimited energy will just make us push planetary boundaries even further.

We need a reduction of human impact on our planet, not an increase of it.
Oh no big difference there. The lawyer's intervention is short lived, and principally serves the living. The lawyer won't spend their next decades at your service waking up in the morning to check if your precious little flesh isn't rotting yet.
> only begins sometime in the 1980s is very poor

The observation that "we only have N years of data so we don't know anything!" creeps up frequently in climate denial arguments.

But I am sincerely curious, do you earnestly believe that, ignoring the other methods of estimating these values we have, that if we had satellite measurements going back 100s of years they would reveal that this level of heating is in fact quite common?

Of course we do have data that suggests, at least as far back as 1880 [0] that we are in an era of record sea surface temperatures [0]. But even if we didn't, we have countless other observations that strongly suggest the planet is heating up in multiple ways. We also have a fairly good hypothesis as well that nicely explains all of these observations (CO2 released by human industrialization is capturing more solar heat, causing the planet to warm). Yes, when we try to get too granular with our predictions the models aren't as great, but overall we have a nice hypothesis that seems to explain a wide range of observed phenomena over a large range of time scales for different data sets.

When you take into account all of this information, while it is important to always remain open to skepticism, it seems remarkably unlikely that what we're observing is in fact common in recent human history and therefore not particularly worth of note.

0. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
No, that used to be the case a few years ago. Proton runs practically any game on Linux these days. No good reason to pick windows these days
> x86 binaries are no longer usable

What do you mean by this? Rosetta 2 is very fast and it runs a lot of x86 apps well.
Thalassotherapy
do you still process for onlyfans?
Well, you’re wrong. Level 60 is incredibly fast to reach with how exponential experience scaling works. I can tell you’re not that knowledgeable about what’s going on with D4.
To me, enshittification seems like privatization of human attention. It's true it wasn't considered public good, because it wasn't considered to be an economic good at all, but is that relevant?

It seems to me that capitalism reinvented itself over past 100 years by privatizing things that were either previously public or nobody could imagine them to be private goods. Aside from the military, utilities, copyrights (and fair use), attention and personal data, there are also various forms of consumer debt (mortgages). So I think it's important to put all these things into same context.
Blaming “powerful people” is just a shorthand for the system itself.

One can do what anyone who is serious about things like politics does: research power. Who has it, how is it wielded. Who influences the discourses? Or who dictates it? Who plans societies? Who decides that America shall be dominated by four-line highways? That it shall have terrible mass transportation? That the megalopolis from Philadelphia to Boston shall have a terrible and slow railway? That its urban/suburban planning shall be such that people will have to commute to work by way of cars?

Why are consumer products produced and imported from across the Pacific Ocean (in the case of the US)?

One could research who planned the consumer capitalist economy. Who invented modern marketing. Why the economy needs “consumers”.

... one could research whether the “little people” actually have power. The Princeton study that concluded that 90% of the population have no influence on policy (no correlation between policy preference and actual policy) would say no.

Alternatively one could stuff all that. Say that it's about an all-encompassing "mentality". That we're all equally to blame. That it's about Game Theory.

I think your mentality is exactly what the system needs to perpetuate itself. You should feel good about that.

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Really I should know better than to vent my frustration by simply saying that I think about the world ending every day... How selfish of me.
> I'd love a society where, say, 50 million humans would all live in abundance and luxury.

That would be a society where you tell people "you're not allowed to have kids", and you enforce it through law. Do you think it's reasonable to forbid people from having kids if they want to?

Think through your suggestion: You have 50 million very happy people living in abundance and luxury. They are not struggling to make ends meet, and can very easily afford to have kids. So they do. They have a bunch of kids because there's so much abundance and no reason not to. Give it several generations and you're back to billions of people.

> But apparently the goal seems to be to pack tens of billions of people living in high-rises "because efficiency".

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; there is no "because efficiency" conspiracy.

We do have a lot of work to do in terms of resource management, but stopping humans from having kids is a sure-fire way to end up with mass revolt.
I think what you are wanting exists https://www.formswim.com/

FWIW I tried them out, I liked the screen, but the shape of the goggles really takes out your already limited peripheral vision which I couldn't get used to and returned them.
I'm at about 2 calls a day.

But it ebbs and flows and there are days I get 6+ calls.

it's horrible.
They missed one thing that's mostly irrelevant to their point, so I can't trust anything they say, even when they back it up with expert commentary!
No, why? You have two choices so. Either you try to be a better person, try to build that confidence. Or continue pretending to be a victim and whine about your lot in life.

And no, a stelar career, shit ton of money, fame and drop dead looks are not what I meam by that.
> I have no knowledge of what is required in the job market

Read the news, its that simple, you can see problems that need solving all the time. Its harder to find out what needs solving in business because they are by nature private. Thats not to say, you cant find problems in business which need solving when you are a customer of theirs.

Define a big programming project? Do you want to work in a big team or on a project as the sole coder for something that is the biggest in whatever domain/field its in. Global business, national business, small business?

Lots of ways you could approach this, not being sarcastic, but wouldnt your combinatorial optimization be the perfect foundation to plan your future life?

In the mean time, I'll be reading the comments, to see if problems in industry are being made public which could be monetarised and solved with code.
British statistician named George Box wrote the famous line, “All models are wrong, some are useful.”
500°C/min cool. This is the cooling rate. It should be written 500K/min. He explains that he had no data about the cooling rate from the original paper and as such is going to test several rates.
A war is required but discussion of it is forbidden.
It’s an excuse allowing these people to pursue their hobbies and ignore the increasingly burning reality while offering a fig leaf of untestable and unaccountable narratives about future preservation
And this propagates the problem. Getting an answer without understanding. Sometimes the history is necessary in order to not repeat botched attempts at "fixing" something that people have already tried.
> batteries charge instantly

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't there still be a bottleneck on the battery chemistry itself?
https://archive.is/EfGAD
Aren't new Linux users even better than pre-existing ones?
Are you saying Europeans dont have any national pride?
Is the AWS Certified Cloud Tech job market really that hot? I could probably get that cert but I figured no one would care.
I'll be curious what the replacement for R-134a is that's safe for inhalers

Every new refrigerant we use now is basically extremely flammable or volatile
Repression and self-shame for our primitive desires is at the core of civilized society. Use your brain for a moment to think about how our world would look like if everyone blindly followed their instincts, including violent outbursts, sexual desires, and what have you.

You discard our achieved Christian stability at your own peril. You sure you want to go back to jungle rules? That's what will happen when all women mate with a select few men - what do you think the rest of the men are going to do? Be content dying alone, invisible, and unloved?
I presume that would go to a toaster manufacturer with an obscene amount of models, or a toaster reviewer.

I'm actually surprised Amazon isn't the largest "toaster exhibition"?
A very small but incredibly vocal contingent of HN leans towards climate "skepticism", and I also think some of the denialist accounts are organized brigaders who swoop into these stories from other sites. The goal is to make it look like these weird denialist opinions are mainstream, so HN readers vulnerable to influence will feel social pressure to accept them.

You also see lots of organized flagging and downvoting of climate stories.
This was also done by Furrtek for the Neo Geo FPGA core for the MiSTer project.
I agree with the thesis of the article but it sure is using a lot of dodgy language to get around making statements of fact to back it up.

36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant.

Orphan statistic. How does this compare to two years ago before the slate of bigoted lawmaking?

“State University System of Florida has not received any concerns from our member institutions indicating turnover this year has been any higher than previous years."

Andrew Gothard predicts a loss of between 20 and 30% of faculty members at some universities

Is the first statement a lie? If so, why is the second statement just a vague prediction of a 20-30% turnover without any explanation of evidence?

It should not be difficult to do better than just a list of anecdotal stories from people who say they're leaving.
> Neither the users not the developers really know what the application is.

While I do agree with the general point about not judging experimental devices too harshly you're making an assumption there that there is an application for general purpose, wearable smart glasses.

I'm really skeptical. I did some work with Google Glass back in the day and irrespective of the way it looked it was really socially jarring. You could be in a conversation with someone and see their eye drift upwards to read whatever notification arrived on their device. It felt rude. At the same time who can blame them for looking at the flickering message an inch from their eye? Snapchat sunglasses felt socially jarring in a different way: whenever you were wearing them you were constantly pointing a camera at someone.

There's something very fundamental to the nature of these things that makes me feel like they just don't work. I can see them being incredibly useful in professional contexts (IIRC there were trials with giving Google Glass to surgeons, makes a ton of sense) but as a general thing we're all going to be wandering around with strapped to our faces? I dunno.
Everyone will be resurrected at the end of the world when Christ returns. I think I'll just wait for that. But it would still be cool if CRYO preservation could work. Medical technology exists today that would have been science fiction 100 years ago. It's definitely possible it could work in the future.
It's a small (but admittedly growing) minority that find this to be a problem.

So even then, why begrudge anyone for offering a product or service that someone wanted at a price both parties considered fair? Users saw value in the service otherwise they wouldn't use them. Is there some sort of mandate that this type of service be used? (If Overdrive is breaking the law or defrauding customers then that's a separate issue.)
the DEA wouldn't care. tirzepatide isn't scheduled, nor is it a drug of abuse.
Interesting, thanks. Seems like the firewall would have to be specifically configured to block, say "WebRTC through DNS tunneling" in this case, though.