skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that Bob doesn't produce actual results, or that something that is mostly rubbish, but partly "interesting" is an actual result. We know the current incentives are all sorts of broken, across the board. Goodhart's law and all that. To me the question isn't who remains in academia given the current broken model, but who would remain in academia in one that isn't as broken.

To put a point on it, if public distrust of science becomes big enough, it all can go away before you can say "cultural revolution" or "fascist strongman". Then there'd be no more academia, and its shell would be inhabited by party members, so to speak. I'd gladly sacrifice the ability of Alice and others like her to live off producing "mostly rubbish" to at least have a chance to save science itself.
Ah, I knew I would forget something! Let it be a warning to whoever considers asking a British person to make their P&J sandwiches for them ;)
"How do you guarantee that the file is ascii."

I use an HTML reader set to 7-bit ASCII. If necessary I replace or eliminate non-ASCII characters I do not want. I often use flex or tr for this task.

In the situation described in the comment, I'm not sharing these files with anyone else. I'm reading these files myself. As such, other users' preferences are irrelevant.

The submission is about ASCII for "network exchange". But the comment replied to here is not necessarily about ASCII for network exchange. It's about a method used by yours truly for reading large ASCII files.
It's a strong El Nino this year. It will almost certainly be cooler next year.
Do you do cold contact sales for a living or something? It seems like odd behavior to defend someone who clearly doesn’t care about or respect you.
I would put BG3 easily in the top10 of most anticipated games in 2023. Even if one does not know the franchise, the amount of articles and mentions in the last weeks was a good sign. Especially as it was an Early Access-Game, and not something that just drop from a void. So people already knew for a while that it will be pretty good. But I guess, especially because of this, it was also easy to filter out if one is not in the bubble.
At the same time it might feed into the objectification of women which will actively harm the needs of half the population.
The "famous" article for that is from 2000[1].

Smart, well-educated police are how you end up with Frank Serpico[2]. Most police forces don't want men like Serpico on their forces.

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Serpico
News agencies and websites have their content reproduced on Google Search and News. That's massive value for a search portal.
Lucky lady in the main photo with a 2.5kg haul of meat

That was worth a lot of vodka and cigarettes in the lines

We used to stand in line from 6am until 12-4pm. Siblings would take turns on who got to go to school that day and who had to stand in line. Eventually some schools started doing a 12pm start for half the school.

Rarely did we get meat, almost never veg aside from potatoes. Resulted in some very creative but delicious recipes.
https://www.techradar.com/news/nearly-half-of-all-online-tra...
Post doc? In what kind of utopian field did you work? In my former institute virtually all papers were written by PhD candidates, and reviewed by PhD candidates. With the expected effect on quality (due to lack of experience and impostor-syndrome-induced "how can I propose to reject? They are likely better than me"). But the Prof-to-postdoc-to-PhD-ratio was particularly bad (1-2-15).
Thanks for giving it a try and commenting! Please try dragging a block of 2 or more connected tiles (same color) to the border of the gameboard. While dragging a block, all other tiles are static/obstructions so you can't move blocks in all directions.
edit: I've also added some instructions to the main post :)
Such an argument needs to be rejected though, because it's effectively an open ended mandate to ban all unnecessary activities. "You can't skydive, because that has a risk of death, and therefore your kids might end up on welfare". It's a non sequitur.
If he made this point there, then yes, yes he lied. This is a lie.
Would mechanical keyboards be easier targets for this than quieter ones?
That's a really bad bar, beacuse it creates a bootstrapping problem: There's a lot of very difficult math that you have to do to get to that point.

And if you say "don't take it seriously until it explains all those things" then why should anyone bother to do the heavy lifting for all that math?

Let me make a different suggestion: As soon as you have one or two very interesting observations that modern GR can't explain that are apparently gravitational, then you should start encouraging people to take it seriously and start working on the hard math.
> how does

The basic reply would be that while some decisions are taken out of strong political influence, we still do accounting, for example. Politics is not everything. Analysis influences political action (we speak of "advisors").

More substantially, one could remind that some political actors lament a dire lack of time to get properly informed and to *think*. Tools that facilitate information and its processing could be key to representatives and ministers.
> certain loud small segments of society

Rather than vagueposting, would you care to leave a comment that doesn't require guessing what you're talking about?
In the US it's not easy to find a primary care provider also. When we moved couple of years ago and called a local medical center to establish a primary care provider, we were given answers like "we have the nearest appointments in 6-8 months". If you have something urgent, there's telemedicine line where you can talk to advice nurse or if there's something really urgent, get an appointment with an urgent care doctor. But all primary care providers seem to be booked solid for months. And given how many patients they'd have and how often they see each one, establishing any kind of personal care relationship is out of the question. How personal can it be if you can see you doctor twice a year for 20 minutes? I think the only solution is go get rich enough so you can afford personal concierge doctors or however it is called (no idea since I'm not rich enough).
Hackernews as well
I’m not an expert here but it seems to me that this should force every single healthcare org in the US off Zoom, since having patient health data leaked in this way violates HIPPA?
> masks did nothing

What evidence do you have for this claim?
Related:

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203518 - Feb 2021 (25 comments)

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21153555 - Oct 2019 (33 comments)

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8869150 - Jan 2015 (26 comments)

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146306 - Aug 2014 (17 comments)

My History With Forth And Stack Machines - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963896 - May 2012 (11 comments)
Right, but why has it been normalized? This is a disorder according to DSM V, and the word “dysphoria” also suggests profound discomfort and unease. Like “body dysmorphic disorders” like anorexia (another issue for young girls).

Perhaps people are trivializing the actual affliction and are “appropriating” the identity the way it has been done with blackface or wearing drag for the fun of it etc. I actually hope so since the opposite would imply a lot of psychological torment. But regardless, we must once again look at society and upstream issues.

For example, if a girl preferred traditionally male activities, today that is 1 of 2 criteria she needs to be considered as having gender dysphoria, while in the past she’d be called a Tomboy before. That was a normal acceptable category for explaining her tendencies. It didn’t come with an assumption that she is “REALLY” a boy inside and should make a decision on whether to take advantage of the latest technology to physically transition her gender before she hits puberty. And to be fair, the amount of people undergoing hormone blockers or surgeries is still low compared to the number of young kids who identify as trans. But if the capitalist psych and pharma industries have their way, they’ll push it to increase.

Most tomboys eventually changed as they got older, it was a phase, and it was contextualized differently by society. Also they had a mom at home, raising them, etc. Today both parents are away. School administrators cover their butt and say the parents can’t be notified and even if they do, they have no say. A lot of the industry increasingly is pushing ONE interpretation on all cases. An interpretstion that didn’t exist even 10 years ago. This is an experiment in novel interpretations and it’s not working well so far in terms of mental health outcomes.

Many times throughout history we had such interpretations (eg Hysteria for women, or chemical castration for gays) it turned out that the problem was societal.
Criminalising and punishing sex work has more support among women than men.
That's a risk for the driver to assume or not assume
Yep, contracts of adhesion, and construing against the drafter: both favor the user here.
He said his microwave is broken.
I’m not claiming that biological systems “do” linear algebra, I’m claiming that their behaviour can be partially modelled using linear algebra. If I gave the impression that I thought they were actually computing linear algebra I apologise for my unclear writing.

But AFAIK modeling neural network nodes with linear algebra is a foundational principle and has been for quite some time, since I first started messing with neural networks 30 years ago.

But hey, maybe you’re right and computational neural networks aren’t roughly modelled after their biological counterparts and I’ve just misunderstood the field all this time. I guess the good thing about neural networks is you don’t really have to understand them completely to use them lol.

That said, if you’ve got information that refutes the notion that they are roughly modelled after their biological counterparts, or that somehow linear algebra is not the right tool for modelling them, I’d sure be interested to see it.

Just because I’ve ben doing something for decades doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing it -wrong- for decades lol. Wouldn’t be the first thing.
This is not true.

I mean, the wait times sometimes are, but they vary by province. More conservative provinces have worse wait times. That is not surprising given that the provincial conservative government are all actively attempting to sabotage public healthcare so we can move to an American style system. A system where we will all pay more, and still see similar wait times anyway.

MAID is not actively proposed as a way to save resources.
lets be brutally honest with ourselves.

99% of all papers mean nothing. They add nothing to the collective knowledge of humanity. In my field of robotics there are SOOO many papers that are basically taking three or four established algorithms/machine learning models, and applying them to off-the-shelf hardware. The kind of thing any person educated in the field could almost guess the results exactly. Hundreds of such iterations for any reasonably popular problems space (prosthetics, drones for wildfires, museum guide robot) etc every month. Far more than could possibly be useful to anyone.

There should probably be some sort of separate process for things that actually claim to make important discoveries. I don't know what or how that should work. In all honesty maybe there should just be less papers, however that could be achieved.
The title seems wrong. This kernel distribution claims lower frame rate deviations, not higher frame rates. As in "you're getting consistent 50fps rather than jitter between 40-60fps".

If anyone's interested in this area, there's also Xanmod which carries some custom patches. https://xanmod.org/
they dont, and thats a major issue.
First time I'm hearing outside of insular forums that masks did nothing to combat covid spread. Very interested. Do you have any studies that you could point to regarding this?
Think about it this way.

If you as a Red Hat customer redistribute the source code, Red Hat won't sue you. You didn't do anything illegal, you are doing what you are allowed to do.

Nothing in the GPL entitles you to future support from Red Hat, source code of future versions or anything of the sorts.

You're free to do whatever you want with the sources. Red Hat is free to stop business with you at any time. There's nothing contradictory here.
the dentist regularly examined you and doubled down on "leave him as it is" thoughout a decade?

while a dentist should of course make sure to double check if its the permanent teeth and all that, I feel that your dad did not really fulfill his role as a proper parent here
>we (google) give our product away for free and so do our competitors.

Search is not Google’s product, it’s a way to get their product. Their product is eyeballs which they sell to advertisers.

>the cost of switching search engines is literally zero: just type Bing instead of Google.

If this is true, why does Google pay Apple billions/year and Mozilla millions/year to make Google the default search? You could be saving that money!
Like the price of phone calls, mail, and even water. It's all absolutely criminally exploitative and government gets a cut of those private contractor's profits.
Explicit comparisons between two things usually are.
As I got older I cared less about dramatically changing the world, in the day job at least. It became a way to pay the bills and provide for my family.

I can live with that and it no longer bothers me the same way it did when I burned with the need to prove myself and do something awesome.

I'm still a creative person, I invent algorithms and play guitar and write software I care about. The job pays the bills.
I still think it is tangential. The author stated that they wrote this project to learn. The readme says that it is not intended for production use and that there is no networking set up in the containers.

With that context, I doubt that name collisions outside of the containers space are top of mind.
Apple's UI is based on Display PDF since macOS 10 (Mac OS X, using the old branding), this is the royalty-free replacement for Display PostScript of OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP which became the foundation for post-9 macOS after Apple absorbed NeXT.

@DonHopkins is the most knowledgeable person on this topic here since he worked on another PostScript-based graphics system NeWS for the competitor Sun Microsystems.
Meanwhile, the Canadian Liberal Party is still paying Facebook for advertising.
Theoretically, yes, but practically there is a whole lot of nothing in the majority of the Western US.
There's too much random noise, tried to make it to stand still but I think its just impossible
How does kagi do with "corporate blogspam" - things like tutorials, guides, intros, etc created by a company as a funnel for conversions.

You know, things like the fusionauth OAuth guides (not trying to call them out).

I ask because it's a weird area where it can be shit and predatory, or a general good thing.
A bit off topic, bye does anyone know why those monopolistic companies (bell Rogers) stocks are doing relatively poorly compared to even the US index?
The user should have an engineer put a stamp on it if they need a scapegoat for their bad policies. Liability for devs will just entrench Oracle, IBM and whatever.
> There's a big cohort of millennials who have strong nostalgia for Baldur's Gate and who have plenty of money to buy games (if not time to play them).

I don't think that demographic is driving the sales. Anecdotally I hear/read fans of originals mostly complaining about how this is some turn-based reskinned D:OS with Zoomer-oriented Critical Role-themed writing and VO.
I read the story. The fact that the software produced a lineup rather than singling her out is more or less immaterial; what matters is that it was trusted at all (when, as TFA mentions, it appears to be particularly unreliable with pictures of black people).

More than one party can share responsibility in a situation, and in this situation both the police and the software should have blame identified with them.
Mind boggling
Not stored in memory.
Have there been any studies showing, e.g. correlation between having been exposed to programming techniques at an early age and better critical/ logical thinking skills later on in life? I'd be surprised if there were none, but equally I'd wonder how much was really cause and effect, vs kids with inherently more analytical mindsets more likely to opt for and spend time on learning how to code in the first place.
What's the value in publishing something that is never replicated? If no one ever reproduces the experiment and gets the same results then you don't know if any interpretations based on that experiment are valid. It would also mean that whatever practical applications could have come from the experiment are never realized. It makes the entire pursuit seem completely useless.
The police found the person identified by the facial recognition and eyewitness, how would checking her ID help?
His incentives are mostly active between 2020-2026*.
At 60 you are supposed to have a network of acquaintances and former colleagues to rely on. You broadcast that you are looking for a job and they reply with leads. But since you have to deal with recruiters like a junior developer you clearly don't have such a network. That indicates low likability to recruiters and is to them a red flag. They prefer someone in the happy median; stronger than average but not extreme in any regard. You are far from the median.
Looks nice but not like water. It keeps moving forever. A bucket of water would stand still after a few minutes.

Edit: Seems to lack simulation of friction between water particles?
The early-mid 1980s was a tough time, but it is remarkable how rationing had been overcome by the late 1980s. Near the end of the decade, a Polish–Russian relative of mine was delivering food to friends and family in Russia, because some products were now relatively abundant in Poland while Russia dealt with shortages.

My own, purely anecdotal impression from looking at the background of photos and video recordings from Poland circa 1988–1989 is that that country (or at least a few parts of it) was already better off than other Warsaw Pact countries.
Ditto: Open-Source Clipboard Manager for Windows
I read it.

The article gives a perfect description of how it happened. The software picked her because she looked like the criminal, and then they put her in the lineup.

They wouldn’t have had a photo lineup without the software.

That’s the whole point. They use the fig leaf of the victim ID, to cover the fact that it’s just facial recognition at the core. The article points out how likely somebody is to mis-ID somebody who the computer has already found is a likely match.

Sure, blame the police. But for what? For using facial recognition to ID and arrest people!
Half of the problem with these tools is that software companies have oversold their competence to a wild degree, to the point where it is trusted as much as a DNA test. "The AI said it's her". No further thinking is required, such as thinking about what photo the AI used, whether an 8-months pregnant woman really had sex with this guy before the stick up, etc. Trust the fancy computer.

But I also don't think it's too cynical to believe that at this point, almost everybody up and down the chain knows that these tools don't work very well, but what they like is that they are allowed to defer to these tools. It's like how nobody is fired for buying IBM -- nobody is at fault for relying on the algorithm.

This applies to many domains, even consumer tech stuff, hiring practices, etc. Algorithms are just a way to have a color by numbers process where employees have no agency and deserve very little pay, and management has no responsibility and cannot be blamed for mistakes.
These can all be defined in CL and have been.

https://quickref.common-lisp.net/arrows.html
both cigarettes and liquor are tremendously addictive; yet the allocation is written as "essential" .. only decades earlier, massive and cruel killing spread across that region, persistent the minds of so many.

This bit of history is completely foreign to me and I am listening, but there is more going on that what is being discussed. Like a family argument, where the thing said is to hurt the opponent more than the center of the conflict.
Looks like they have a separate offering, Zoom for Healthcare that presumably has different terms and conditions.

https://blog.zoom.us/answering-questions-about-zoom-healthca...
Unfortunately there's a lot of evidence that fraud really is very prevalent and we don't hear about it anywhere near enough. It depends a lot on the field though.

One piece of evidence comes from software like GRIM and SPRITE. GRIM was run over psychology papers and found around 50% had impossible means in them (that could not be arrived at by any combination of allowed inputs) [1]. The authors generally did not cooperate to help uncover the sources of the problems.

Yet another comes from estimates by editors of well known journals. For example Richard Horton at the Lancet is no stranger to fraud, having published and promoted the Surgisphere paper. He estimates that maybe 50% of medical papers are making untrue claims, which is interesting in that this intuition matches the number obtained in a different field by a more rigorous method. The former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine stated that it was "no longer possible to believe much of the medical research that is published".

50%+ is a number that crops up frequently in medicine. The famous Ioannidis paper, "Why most published research findings are false" (2005) has been cited over 12,000 times.

Marc Andreessen has said in an interview that he talked to the head of a very large government grant agency, and asked him whether it could really be true that half of all biomedical research claims were fake? The guy laughed and said no it's not true, it's more like 90%. [2]

Elizabeth Bik uncovers a lot of fraud. Her work is behind the recent resignation of the head of Stanford University for example. Years ago she said, "Science has a huge problem: 100s (1000s?) of science papers with obvious photoshops that have been reported, but that are all swept under the proverbial rug, with no action or only an author-friendly correction … There are dozens of examples where journals rather accept a clean (better photoshopped?) figure redo than asking the authors for a thorough explanation." In reality there seem to be far more than mere thousands, as there are companies that specialize in professionally producing fake scientific papers, and whole markets where they are bought and sold.

So you have people who are running the scientific system saying, on the record, that they think science is overrun with fake results. And there is some quantitive data to support this. And it seems to happen quite often now that presidents of entire universities are being caught having engaged in or having signed off on rule breaking behavior, like image manipulation or plagiarism, implying that this behavior is at least rewarded or possibly just very common.

There are also whole fields in which the underlying premises are known to be false so arguably that's also pretty deceptive (e.g. "bot studies"). If you include those then it's quite likely indeed that most published research is simply untrue.

[1] https://peerj.com/preprints/2064v1/

[2] https://www.richardhanania.com/p/flying-x-wings-into-the-dea...
Having 500+ people on a project is how something takes 3 years to plan.

"At that scale there'll be no interactivity during the meeting anyway."
How does this relate to the practices of other societies?