skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like demanding that Rand McNally pay a fee to each city they print onto their maps. Or demanding that World Book Encyclopedia pay a royalty fee to every entity they write an article about.

Noting that something exists and including it in reference material should by no means incur royalties.
Fraud isn't exceedingly rare :( It only seems that way because academia doesn't pay anyone to find it, reacts to volunteer reports by ignoring it, and the media generally isn't interested.

Fraud is so frequent and easy to find that there are volunteers who in their spare time manage to routinely uncover not just individual instances of fraud but entire companies whose sole purpose is to generate and sell fake papers on an industrial scale.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01780-w

Fraud is so easy and common that there are a steady stream of journals which publish entire editions consisting of nothing but AI generated articles!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03035-y

Despite being written as a joke over a decade ago, you can page through an endless stream of papers that were generated by SciGen - a Perl script - and yet they are getting published:

https://pubpeer.com/search?q=scigen

The problem is so prevalent that some people created the Problematic Paper Screener, a tool that automatically locates articles that contain text indicative of auto-generation.

https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:1::::::

This is all pre-ChatGPT, and is just the researchers who can't be bothered writing a paper at all. The more serious problem is all the human written fraudulent papers with bad data and bad methodologies that are never detected, or only detected by randos with blogs or Twitter accounts that you never hear around.
> companies make the same thing at the same place on the same equipment after sometimes years of process optimisation of well understood technology. This is essentially a best case scenario and still results fail to reproduce.

We're not talking about 1 of 10 reproduction attempts failing, we're talking about 100%. And no, companies don't time and time again try to reproduce something that has never been reproduced and fail, to then try again, endlessly. That's just not a thing.

> it is impossible to easily reproduce other people's results

We're also not talking about "easily" reproducing something, but at all. And in principle doesn't cut it, it needs to be reproduced in practice.
I live in Washington state and all motorcycle riders are required to wear a helmet, just like all motorcycle riders in California, DC and 16 other US states, as well as motorcycle riders in Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, all of Europe, etc.

Like I said: Most jurisdictions require motorcycle riders to wear pretty through safety gear, such as a helmet and protective clothing.
And Larry Ellison’s Oracle now owns Cerner.
I remember I was getting into a debate with a friend for rent X buy option, and when I told him besides all the taxes you are going to pay that is sometimes plus maintenance fees is equal to a rent, you actually never own your house the same way you own other things, he didn’t believe it first. Not to mention you are also restricted to “neighborhood laws” that even prevent you from changing your replica looking house into something unique or authentic, not even your lawn! Good thing in Europe and probably most of the world these nonsense laws aren’t there, and you still see good looking authentic houses too.
You need to have the $500 million "spare money" lying around if you want to invest it.
If you were one of many passengers and not wearing your seatbelt then you become a projectile inside the cabin. Wearing your seatbelt is important to the safety of others.

If you are on your own in your own car, I suppose you don’t have to wear the seatbelt. Same as not wearing a mask when you’re alone
I, personally, am very, _very_ glad my country doesn't oblige me to use a state-sponsored search engine.

Baidu "六四事件"[0] to find out more!

[0] "June Fourth incident", the Chinese name for the Tiananmen square massacre. Other banned search terms include "candle", "never forget", and the numbers 25 and 64.
> iMessage has always worked with any device that supports SMS

youtube has always worked in a web browser.

Meanwhile I'm laughing about how fast Apple would come down on Google if they made their own Android chat that tapped into iMessage and internet commentators tried to justify it by "even when Google paid to write an iMessage app themselves, Apple blocked it"
Interesting for me to reflect on this because I'm in that age group and most of my environment is too and they are absolutely my target of this comment. While I have skin in the game holding this position I wonder if those downvoting do too. How many friends did you lose to social media dividing you harder than I ever could, and who do you direct that anger to. :)

never mind fake internet points or moron writers that optimizes content for likes or whatever their audience wants to hear. Schopenhauer and Taleb have already written plenty on the subject.
I value adults using words that aren't attempts at being edgy while masquerading as a refined lexicon

I would say its a very niche group thats out of touch, but actually maybe Cory is on to something modern, he needed to become relevant to everyone that wasn't still reporting capital loss carryovers from 1999

mission accomplished
That was fun to discover and I am pleased with the result!

Oh, and the M3 wafer heads fit almost perfectly into the recess at the end of a LEGO Technic hole. The imperfection is the head is about 0.1mm too thick so it does not fit flush. https://dotat.at/graphics/lego-screws.jpeg
I lived through that. The famous socialist ideas in practice - we even had a saying for this in Poland: equal shit for everyone.
Personally, I'm more a fan of the Game Dungeon on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oS9XBxlwM
My mind automatically swapped out the words "peer" for "code". It took my brain to interesting places. When I came back to the actual topic, I had accidentally built a great way to contrast some of the discussion offered in this thread.
Well these ration tickets are the ultimate stage of a planned economy; the purest communist dream.
I've seen that but it was quite speculative, did you see something that showed experimental results?
You are arguing with a straw man. Nothing in my post suggested support for any of those things. That's why I included the terms skepticism and data.
...reproducable? Doesn't GPT change all the time?
Seeing them is one thing. The real question is: What is anyone going to do about it?

Do you really think some large consistent emitter is going to stop just because they show up on a satellite image?
I thought those emails were a form of protest, like complying in the most annoying way possible just to make a point.
Thank you. I hoped some one would say it as to not waste time.
Mega fires can cause a lot of refugees and destruction of habitat, as well as the death of old growth trees that in theory are fire resistant.

I do think at some point you have to let something burn, but you can set up fire breaks earlier for sensitive habitat areas... Or population centers.
You value self-actualization above food and shelter?

Like, have you ever been stuck out at night in the cold and rain without eating all day and thought, "I need to focus on pursuing my passions"?
To paraphrase, even after AGI, many livelihoods will somehow still depend on men employing bad judgement.
It’s very fitting that whether to pirate or pay for the game is its own dilemma with healthy shades of gray. It’s like a meta aspect of the game.

Either way, it sounds like neither party is particularly Disco, baby!
1. It doesn't proclaim to be a solution. It just points out the counterintuitive outcome of unfiltered tolerance leads to authoritarianism and intolerance.

And as you point out, the "solutions" are themselves intolerant, and if abused or do not match the expectations of the rest of the populace, also create something that feels like authoritarianism and intolerance to some of the population.

When confronted with this conclusion, you have two options:

A) Decide that authoritarianism and intolerance is inevitable, and simply aim to be on the right side of repression, aligning yourself with whoever is the most powerful and violent.

B) Try to understand what level of intolerance is the relevant acceptable one for the majority of your culture/population, and strive to find a balance, even if it's not the balance a different culture/people's/nation on the other side of the planet would take.

I choose Not A.

2. I responded to this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015214
I only missed the "doderez". What does it stand for?
Here: Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others.
That's what I don't get about the tone policing garbage.

A lot of people here don't like to actually face the hard truths. And instead of actual hard fact, it's just "too callous".

What about these heat deaths https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deat... ? Are they just a 'economic deviation' from 'climate change'? Who wants to tell their families that they died so we can keep living a climate-destroying lifestyle?

There's only so much that fake positivism does. No sense in being actually mean towards people, but I'm not going to use terrible euphemisms to avoid sounding 'callous'.

This is a climate emergency, and these deaths are going to get a whole lot worse.
OpenSPARC/POWER is the reason why I am not too excited about RiscV. We have had open GPL designs for close to 20 years and they just sort of went nowhere. RiscV seems to be something neat for those that design processors or work with them low level but for the general person I do not think it will result in anything amazingly different.
To be clear, the US has something like 140 GW[0] of wind farms—it's just all inland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_State...
Only some items were rationed, you could buy other stuff like eggs, fruits, vegetables. The picture of a woman with rationed goods does not include for example bread - it was freely available at that time.
Possibly they've done something illegal here. Let's wait and see (or, if you're in the EU, take action and report it to your data protection authority and NOYB).
Is this for free account? Or also for paid corporate accounts?
We're talking about names, terminology here. What deep conversations are you expecting to find, and can't they be intermingled with lighter remarks?
I don't think that letting you put a room or apartment number is the same thing as advertising that they will deliver to the door. By that same logic it would be false advertising to allow you to list a person's name, but not individually hand out packages to the correct people.
Are you using the same browser on both...?
Your post goes from well thought out to annoying the minute you pivot to historical figures.
Months. Haha.

I previously worked in agricultural research (in the private sector), and we spent YEARS trying to replicate some published research from overseas. And that was research that had previously been successfully replicated, and we even flew in the original scientists and borrowed a number of their PhD students for several months, year after year, to help us try to make it work.

We never did get it to fully replicate in our country. We ended up having to make some pretty extreme changes to the research to get similar (albeit less reliable) results here.

We never did figure out why it worked in one part of the world but not another, since we controlled for every other factor we could think of (including literally importing the original team's lab supplies at great expense, just in case there was some trace contaminant on locally sourced materials).
The government could make antitrust claims regarding google’s behavior vis a vis advertisers. (I’m sympathetic to some claims that could be made there!)

Monopolization of the ad market is not the issue here, because the specific claim is that google has monopolized the search market. You can read that right in the linked article.

Google’s payments to be the default are (as I already said) not obviously pro-competitive to me. I don’t know if you and I disagree there.

But again… in Google’s defense they are going to say (accurately!) “everyone gives search away for free so consumers are free to switch.”

It’s going to be impossible (IMO) to argue that consumers are harmed in the search market. It just won’t be credible.

The department of justice is likely wasting its time, which is similar to the recent behavior of the FTC under Lina Khan which is (if you are American) wasting taxpayers’ time taking on losing cases, while letting mergers which really deserve critical scrutiny through. Microsoft Activision is a prominent recent example.

And if the Justice Department actually does show up in court with a filing that says: “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition” (this is a direct quote from Stoller’s article) they are going to be laughed out of town and they will richly deserve it.

So again… I like the attention Stoller pays to antitrust issues but his analysis of the economics (especially in the case of some tech firms) is just bad.
You have no idea how my app works and are just assuming. You have no idea what you're taking about.
Most database systems are canonically-online: the state lives on the instances, and you make backups of it, but these are never more canonical than what’s on the local online storage of the cluster (and usually less-so, because it’s offset back in time by at least a few seconds, if not hours.)

When a cluster-node permanent-faults (say, its DC burns down), you lose at least a few seconds of what you — and your customers — thought of as committed data.

In a canonically-at-rest DBMS, the only state that matters is the state in the object store (or other external, highly-replicated durable-storage abstraction.) The reads are an ephemeral caches in front of the canonical at-rest data; and all writes must be pushed down to the at-rest representation before any other nodes in the cluster can see them, and before the write returns as successful to the client.
Can’t upvote this enough. The doublespeak out of corporations like Google is outrageous.
Oh, believe me - they most certainly are. :-)
I left my device still and eventually I ended up with a wormhole of not-water spinning.
I'm almost speechless to the accurate adherence of the content of this blog post with my current feelings, stemming from my latest work experience.

The hardest part of my job has become the soul crushing endeavour of having to keep up with dysfunctional business organisms filled with every kind of clueless engineers and their day to day crap.

I have to attend "api architecture" meetings where people have zero clue of what domain modeling is, and only ever ask "what should backend/frontend do?" or "array or object for this field?", and push layers of spaghetti over what is a super intricate mess of a codebase, despite the company being super young and giving engineers actually a lot of freedom.

Damn, during our latest "tech team meetup" event a "senior" backend dev just gave a talk about how he used ChatGpt4 to help him write code to parse xml in Scala, "since regex is suboptimal for this case". Nobody except for a jr dev asked him if he ever heard about external deps and their magical ability of helping people avoid reinventing the wheel.

This is not to bash on unskilled people in the industry, it's just that they're the product of a capitalistic machine that works so well, and so much on a plane that's completely detached from reality, that work doesn't even matter anymore. It just feel like we're all forced to turn into NPCs at some point.
> Cigarettes were essential to keep the masses happy

this is so completely not-real -- it leaves no doubt that this story is still a mystery
Rockstar has grand theft auto and grand theft horse.

I hope some day to play grand theft spaceship, grand theft dragon, and maybe grand theft dinosaur.
Chrome on Android allows it by default. You have to got to Site Settings to disable it. Safari on iOS prompts the user before allowing it.
You would be very surprised how many 60+ year olds that lived through soviet occupation would agree with that statement.

It's bizarre..
Well for what it’s worth this certainly isn’t new
Passwords aren't the only at-risk category. "This presentation is a tire fire" is a vector, too.
The DoJ is welcome to make a claim on monopolizing the ad market. The case here is about monopolizing the search market.
The phrase "warp drive" is based on the idea of warping the structure of space-time around the ship such that it is now there when it was here. But in some sense it did not move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive shows that this is, in principle, not a violation of general relativity. But that drive depends on finding something with negative mass. Most physicists don't think that that can be done. (But the phenomena of extracting zero point energy with the Casimir effect holds out a slender ray of hope for cranks who think that they have done it.)

So it isn't that I didn't notice that something was moving fast. It is that I know that the idea is to get from here to there by doing something other than moving.
well building the webpage is easy, but paying hosting and keeping it updated is a side jobby i dont need once I've reached 30 and have kids
It's a mistake to think that people who don't socialise with work colleagues a lot have a bad social life.

I'm glad you like the social aspect of work. My friends are mainly not work related.

We are all different and one size does not fit all.
When seeing this on the news, I thought it was some sort of practical joke, but I've been seeing this story pop up everywhere.

Can't wait to see the match, though
rich enough so you can afford personal concierge

A few minutes research suggests it's not that expensive. (As little as ~2000/year).
This could be used as a criticism of literally any law of any kind.
Guidelines for keeping pace with innovation and tech adoption
The logical continuation of Apollo would've been to build a base near the lunar south pole (what Artemis is trying to do now). The presence of water and other resources there makes it a good staging ground for future deep space missions, including asteroid mining. Not to mention there are now political/strategic factors such as China's recent accomplishments in lunar exploration reinvigorating the 'need' for us to get back there.
In the sense of replicating the results, we do have CI servers and even fuzzers running for our "code replication".
You could stop working in SEO and just design shit to be responsive to typical boolean search like Tim intended. But dear God, people might be able to find things then, and where would you fork in the distracting cruft?

The problem never was or will be Search. The problem is advertisers hijacking the verb of "Search" to weight it for those willing to pay.

Librarians and archivists have had search solved for the last century. The only people who have a problem with that implementation are the ones who want to convince you the answer you're looking for is them.
It's wild to me that although we know that it was Ghislaine Maxwell's daddy who started this incredibly corrupt system, people hardly mention this fact.

The US system, and others, even attack people who dare to try and make science more open. RIP Aaron Swartz, and long live Alexandra Elbakyan.
DNA testing is also significantly less reliable than the police would have you and I believe[1].

HN applies ample and eager skepticism to all kinds of scientific and science-adjacent fields; I eagerly await the day that we do the same for forensic "science."

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...
The same way that North Korean people may not want to be freed.

They are used to some system, where others are responsible and deciding of their life.

And this brings a lot of psychological comfort, and simplicity (no choice = it's easy to choose).

It's psychologically much easier to have others deciding, and to complain about the result, than having to take ownership and responsibility for your life and your choices.

If you don't have a choice, you can't do a wrong choice.
I feel like it’d definitely help to know what the rules are. Might make it better to editorialize slightly and avoid having it happen automatically
> Otherwise you're making a claim that one of the poorest demographics in the US with the least amount of home ownership is somehow responsible for a massive price spike in housing over the last few years.

If there are 10 houses and 12 people. The houses will go to the 10 highest paying people and so the 2 poorest immigrants will be left in the rain.

The problem is not that we now have 10 houses and 15 people (3 from immigration) it's that there's 8 houses now [1].

[1]: https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...
That's a brave argument I'd rarely make of "We could do this thing with major tangible benefits but our Devs might find it a bit hard"
Uniformity Measure: Entropy without the logarithms
Furthermore, as far as I know, the "to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law" part is just a reminder. Laws always have priority over contracts, and any part of a contract that goes against the law can simply be ignored.