skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an odd coincidence, I did the same experiment on a shoestring budget with substandard equipment also. I too used a fancy computer algorithm to get a best fit. Except that I managed to get four significant decimal places in the result — an improvement over the (also outdated) textbook.

The author of the angry rant had a life-defining experience of overwhelming frustration.

The same scenario resulted in a positive life-defining experience for me

It’s funny how unpredictably things pan out even in identical circumstances…
Yeah, I dropped a word by rewriting it, but you can only edit it for so long

So, does that mean that all the sketchy USB cable VULNERABILITIES apply to DP ports too?
BuT tHeRe'S nO mArKeT fOr SiNgLe PlAyEr GaMeS

My only complaints about the game are the rough edges it's inherited from 5e and the general horniness of all the main characters. Otherwise having a really great time with it, fantastic game that deserves all the accolades it's getting
I haven't read your link yet, but fair point, I am aware there are definitely some issues with DNA testing as practiced by the justice system, but my prior was that when comparing facial recognition to DNA testing, using ideal conditions for both, DNA testing is on far surer footing than facial recognition -- and the ideal conditions for DNA testing are far more attainable than those for facial recognition. For example, I believe the people acquitted based on DNA testing are usually acquitted for good reason, and not just because it makes me feel good, but I'll read your article.
What are those concerns exactly?
I think you may be seeing the purpose of these papers differently to me, which may be the cause of this confusion.

The way you're describing a scientific publication is as if it were the end result of the scientific act. To use the software analogy, you're describing publication like a software release: all tests have been performed, all CI workflows have passed, QA have checked everything, and the result is about to be shipped to customers.

But talking to researchers, they see publishing more like making a new branch in a repository. There is no expectation that the code in that branch already be perfect (hence why it might only run on one machine, or not even run at all, because sometimes even something that doesn't work is still worth committing and exploring later).

And just like in software, where you might eventually merge those branches and create a release out of it, in the scientific world you have metastudies or other forms of analysis and literature reviews that attempt to glean a consensus out of what has been published so far. And typically in the scientific world, this is what happens. However, in journalism, this isn't usually what happens, and one person's experimental, "I've only tested this on my machine" research is often treated as equivalent to another person's "release branch" paper evaluating the state of a field and identifying which findings are likely to represent real, universal truths.

Which isn't to say that journalists are the only ones at fault here - universities that evaluate researchers primarily on getting papers into journals, and prestige systems that make it hard to go against conventional wisdom in the field both cause similar problems by conflating different levels of research or adding competing incentives to researchers' work. But I don't think that invalidates the basic idea of published research: to present a found result (or non-really), provide as much information as possible about how to replicate the result again, and then let other people use that information to inform their work. It just requires us to be mindful of how we let that research inform us.
Original publication: Kovar, L. “Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass.” Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 7, no. 3, May/June 2001, p. 4, https://web.archive.org/web/20010620051228/http://www.improb...
I was reviewing papers starting second semester of grad school with my advisor just signing off on it, so not even PhD candidates, and it was the same for my lab mates too.

Initially we spent probably a few hours on a paper for peer review because we were relatively unfamiliar with the field but eventually I spent maybe a couple of hours doing the review. Wouldn't say peer review is a joke but it's definitely overrated by the public.
So the issue isn't all managers but rather how few good managers there actually are.

I think companies don't know how to optimize for good management because, as the other person mentioned, good management can be invisible. The impact of good management often won't show up in one quarter of performance. And sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

Also there are way too many incentives to promote ICs to managers who shouldn't be managers just because they need someone to manage a team and they don't have clear IC promotion tracks.
Amazon: Walmart (goods), Netflix (media)

Walmart and Amazon are both huge but it seems just wrong to say a brick-and-mortar store as equivalent to an online market place. The direct competitors to Amazon are Ebay, Baidu, Etsy, Temu and others, all of which are much smaller in the US (but some are huge elsewhere). You say that Facebook is a Google competitor because it offers eyeballs and because people sometimes go there to get stuff and it uses it's info for ads providing.

The actual situation imo is that online enterprises compete via monopolistic competition [1]. No large high tech company wants to offer exactly the same thing as it's because at best neither will make a lot of money - instead, any company entering a crowded marketplace will come up with something guaranteeing them more engagement, higher profits and so-forth (thus something even worse from the consumer's view). See Meta's Threads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopolistic_competition
What is the underlying isolation technology that would be used in windows?
This is blocked for me, presumably because of my geographical location. Must get a lot of hackers from Scotland!
Let's get people to publish their data and code first, shall we? That's sooo much easier than demanding whole studies to be replicated... and people still don't do it!
Islam bans stock markets and interest (though not all current so-called muslim countries) and every person who is rich (who have more than 87 grams of gold worth of things) is obliged to donate %2.5 of their total wealth to the poor every year. In Muslim countries, the state collects and distributes this, so it's effectively a tax. Necessities of life (shelter etc.) are excluded from total value calculation. Muslim countries traditionally took away land of people who didn't utilize it for 3 consecutive years, though idk whether this is rooted in the religion itself.
Somatic mutations in facial skin from countries of contrasting skin cancer risk
Facebook posts their content, and in return the agencies can run ads and beg for subscriptions from the traffic that Facebook drives to them. They both benefit.

Now nobody benefits.
> a new $40K car for 10 years is $4K/yr

Well no, because the new 40K car doesn't evaporate after 10 years. You can sell it for some money or just keep using it longer to bring your yearly average down.

Also nobody needs a new 40K car. If you can afford it want to enjoy that, have fun. But if you're trying to bring transportation costs down, buy a used 10K car and drive that one for ten years.
Phoenix suburbs have pretty great weather (in my opinion) for about 6 months of the year and wouldn’t really consider it worse than having to walk around Chicago suburbs in winter. My biggest concern would be: is the grocery store, restaurants, etc that they advertise as onsite guaranteed? Could these businesses go out of business and then not be replaced for a year? That would really kill the appeal of living somewhere like this.
The way that immigration is handled by many countries is just as bad, if not way worse. So when pointing the finger, many need to also look at the immigration policies of their own countries, to get a balanced perspective.
This is tautologically true -- "Is X secure? Yes, assuming the technology X uses is secure."

The more nuanced answer is that containers have several layers of protections (seccomp, LSMs, user namespaces, namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, and standard process permissions by running as an unprivileged user) which all act together to help protect against container attacks. It's not perfect, but most container breakout attacks we've had so far are related to when container runtimes have to operate on a container during process setup (IMHO because the process for creating a container process is far from atomic) -- some of these attacks were enabled by kernel bugs which we went and fixed as well. It is very difficult to break out of a container once it has been configured and left alone.
Also at a very big BigCo using Citrix Workspaces; experience is decent. Got an 8 core/64 GB RAM VM and it’s pretty snappy for most dev work. The portability is nice compared to lugging a work laptop, and connection doesn’t need a janky VPN client. Using Zoom for VDI with the VDI plugin on my home machine is even smoother than same thing on the thin client in the office.
I don't think it helps all that much as frost still occurs which is .. problematic.
It still has value if we assume the experiment was done by competent honest people who are unlikely to try to fool us on purpose and unlikely do have made errors.

It would be even better if it was replicated of course.

Depending on what certainty you need you might have to wait for the result of one or several replications, but that is application dependent.
>A national policy by fiat

There is no such thing. This regulation is the consequence of a regularly passed law (Bill C-18), that passed with about 210 to 110 majority. If I remember public poling on the issue correctly, on the bill itself popular opinion was pretty evenly split, but the underlying principle of tech companies paying domestic news, had wide majority support.

Framing this as something being imposed on citizens is disingenuous and effectively the Facebook PR line. Just with related media laws anywhere else it has little basis in reality.
Hm... leftists tales.
'As much as you want' - As much as you can afford. And this is completely different story.
Or down rounds.

I got an unsolicited email from a broker looking for buy shares of a company I used to work for. The offer price was below the price in 2018, but still up from the round before that. This company is a real business with real customers, is at least theoretically profitable, and I assume there's a little room to negotiate the offer price up. At the same time, the company is in a competitive space, it benefited from the crypto boom (it isn't a crypto company), and a competitor had a very disappointing IPO.
Why shouldn't we hold science more accountable?

"Science needs accounting" is a search I had saved for months which really resonates with the idea of "peer replication."

In accounting, you always have checks and balances, you never are counting money alone. In many cases, accountants duplicate their work to make sure that it is accurate.

Auditors are the corollary to the peer review process. They're not there to redo your work, but to verify that your methods and processes are sound.
A lot of prescription glasses get offered with blue light filters, does that mean they actually work?
Does it actually work in practice? I often see 'theoretical' support, you can export data but if you re-import it, it's all fucked.

Like Zigbee, in theory like every company supports it but in practice moat imlementations is not compatiable with each-other
Basic video calls? Absolutely, I've done it in a weekend with webRTC. All the other features that enterprise customers require? That's years of work.
Yeah I don't quite understand how the physics curriculum is set. There is more and more physics discovered over time and yet the time you get to study remains the same. 4 years is not enough time to learn the math and physics you need to do anything real, not counting the other important stuff you need to do (like English comp and partying and getting your heart broken).
No, it would not.
I genuinely find it strange that after the mortgage is paid off...that you have to abide by zoning and pay property taxes for your shelter that you and your family need to survive or the government will take your house away.
This was my experience when doing some of measurements back while getting higher ed.

Sometimes you just get random results that has no relation to what you expected to get based on theory (and not just theory, but common sense). They're not zero and not over the top, they're just useless.
The Grits, Tories, and media companies in Toronto are all lizard people, but they’re much easier for Canadians like me to bully via ballot box than the lizard people running Meta.

(edit: as an aside, I just want to clarify that when I write “lizard people”, I mean to suggest politicians and corporate leadership acting out of self-interest rather than implying a bigoted conspiracy theory. I realized this could come off as anti-semetic in 2023; sorry if that landed poorly for anyone)
Not OP, but if you have nothing to contribute but vitriol, maybe do not comment, and move on.
Funny, for once I find myself on the side of Bell, Roger ands Shaw (the CBC was in my good book anyway). That normally wouldn't happen but if FB news feeds are exchanged by those of Bell, Rogers, Shaw and the CBC that could well be a net positive.
Yes, but the parent commenter noticed that and wondered about the other part, the "agree to grant" part. Simply "hereby grant" should suffice.
This would be really great. I could see if pairing well with a tool like pipx for quickly sharing utility scripts.
There’s a 2nd, later case where the DoJ is suing Google over their ad network:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...
Meh, I've seen better.
1 and 2. Google as the overwhelmingly dominant player should not be allowed to pay to further monopolize the space, and since Microsoft is the alternative, I would support banning paid defaults in general.
Are people "obsessed" with this? As the OP, I'm not. I agree with you that static vs dynamic typing and the other issues you mentioned are more important than this, but that doesn't make smaller details not worth discussing. The little details matter in language design, for code readability, cohesiveness, and so on.
That's just... all of medical care. The procedures are almost all done by residents and, yes, med students under supervision of a full doctor. How do you think we get new doctors? Nobody wants to be the person who is used for teaching new doctors but that's how it is.
A function that doesn't allocate doesn't mean it's safe. (Indeed if anything the opposite is more likely - copying is safe, if slow, writing to something that was passed in tends to be what breaks).
Not really related of the article, but a question I just realized I don’t know the answer to: where does the temperature of an atom “live”? Is it entirely in the electrons? Does the nucleus have any temperature?
I'm not sure about others but I'd prefer my extended brain not live on other people's servers. The Memex always seemed to me to be a personal archive and notebook. You would pull in material from outside and store it locally along with your links and annotations and then only publish the work that you wanted to make public.
Sounds like free money to me. You just press Ctrl+D, and you're out.
WASM grew out of the earlier asm.js, which was explicitly designed as a subset of javascript: http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/ The core idea there was to identify a subset of JS that was high performance on browsers and could be used as a compile target. WASM appeared because once asm.js got some momentum, people naturally asked "hey if browsers could implement just a couple extra things how much better could we make this?"
> I write these policies for my day job

My regrets :-p
This gets you cartels, where the top players collude.
When an alcoholic tells me that they are "deprived of essentials" I say to them.. go to a clinic and get sober. Zero people are born smoking cigarettes.. Tobacco is from the new world, and definitely, deeply addictive. The word "essential" is related to the core, the most core needs.

Let's be honest. It is some combination of "aspiration", luxury goods, being cool, Who is in Charge, and economics.. Yes waiting in lines is real. I hear you! but that is not the whole story.

Every American newspaper had the pictures of Lech Wałęsa with Solidarność at that time. Later, I heard that the reason the Soviet Union fell was because people wanted Beatles records!

my friend -- I do not believe that liquor and cigarettes are "essential" .. there is more to this story.
It's not free, but you aren't paying money for it.
Rogers, Bell and Telus run Canada. It's why Canadians have the highest mobile rates in the world. Trudeau offered to protect them for ever during NAFTA II and let them become Canadian Media Companies protecting them from any competition insuring Canadians will have less choice and higher rates for everything and basically letting Telco's control over all media, etc.
> Literally all of this stuff is not anyone’s business outside of their company and their stakeholders.

Hard disagree - capitalism is great up to a point, but a functioning market and vibrant tech sector doesn't require that we allow individuals to become this obscenely wealthy. Answering the question of how extreme we want income/wealth inequality to be allowed to become is a valid economic question to be answered societally.
Fighters need adequate time to train, and Zuck has been at it for a couple years now. Trying to rush Elon into a bout without giving him reasonable time to prepare is a weak move. It's clear he isn't as confident as he should be.

I expected this fight to take place by year end. That's more than enough time for Musk to whip himself into shape even at his age.
The 23rd is when South Korea will be texting 51 million people to get into the bunker nearest them as a test. A couple other countries will be doing other nuclear preparedness drills on that day. Maybe Elon and Mark are counting on that going sideways and derailing their plans. "Sorry folks called off fight due to the end of the cease fire"
In northern Cape York (Australia) I have several friends who cannot be successfully photographed because their skin is so dark that cameras are unable to resolve their facial features.
I don't expect facial recognition to be much use on Cape York.
At least when an instance is gone, their contents are still exist in the federated instances. The problem is those contents are now detached from the fediverse at large. Would be nice if there is a way to mark one of the federated instance as the new home for those contents to restart federation again.
> We need proactive laws that break up companies if they grow beyond a certain size criteria.

Even assuming that this is a good idea, this have an unnecessary risk of being unconstitutional and getting scrapped by the justices. If you want to limit property rights in this fundamental way, that has to be based on a very strong judicial basis. That's why almost all reasonable antitrust regulation happens in a reactive way, because it has to prove that those regulated entities are actually doing something harmful.
That was my first thought too - they were trying to synchronise the CPU and FPU.

The mention of not using the wait instruction reminded me of this other post on the same site:
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-p...
I don't agree. A published article should not be taken for Gods Truth no matter if it's replicated or peer reviewed.

Lots of "replicated" "peer-reviewed" research have been found to be wrong. That's fine, it's part of the process of discovery.

A paper should be taken for what it is: a piece of scientific work, a part of a puzzle.
That definitely wouldn't be the first time.
> probably too good, lol

Lol, this is too true. I use Beekeeper Studio every day. Every once in a while I think to myself, "I should see if the full version is worth paying for yet". Then I check out the features and, while they look great, the free version has absolutely everything I need.

Thanks for such a great product. I'll stop freeloading eventually!
Religion can effectively make people go against their desires, especially those for more. This is the one unthinkable option for the average HN user. See Islam.
My aunt owns a bunch of paid off homes she rents.

She says her profit is about 20%.

Which is kind of insane considering how high rent is and that these are paid off properties and she puts a fair amount of work into the management of them.
Try to call in. I am an avid reader, but I also know that lots of people really struggle with long-form reading, can feel insecure about this even though they are likely in the majority, and react with defensiveness and pride to rhetoric like this.

Emphasizing the beauty and value of reading imo is much more important if the goal is to encourage longer form reading, which can be a learned skill.
Legally enforced ballot with random default if users click through without reading. Same for browsers themselves.
Yes; Epic participates in the CareEverywhere network which has a gateway to the CareQuality network, thus supporting decent interoperability with other hospitals and clinics using a variety of EHRs.

Now, how much they share is potentially open to debate.
Great tool. Good reminder I should update the apps on it.
This is something very sensible in ML since, you likely want to use that algorithm for something else (or to extend / modify it), so you need to get it working in your pipeline and verify it works by comparing with the published result.

In something like psychology that is likely harder, since the experiment you want to do might be related to but differ significantly from the prior work. I am no psychologist, but I’d like to think that they don’t take one study as ground truth for that reason but try to understand causal mechanisms with multiple studies as data points. If the hypothesis is correct, it will likely present in multiple ways.
Risk free rate sucked all the money out of the casino.
Monogamy as a norm is about stability.

Without it, what would tend to happen is that many more men would have no wives and families. Which means they have relatively little to lose. Which could tend to make your society unstable, since these men have little reason not to flip alliances, revolt, defect, etc.

Hence laws and consequences for adultery, prohibition of an open market for non-monogamous sex, etc.

The traditions and superstitions are just the implementation of the idea.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/716282/43345 discovered by me some time ago. Long story short, nucleus cannot absorb low temperature thermal energy so it's virtually zero.
> On that note, I will never understand why they chose .toml instead of just json or yaml..

https://peps.python.org/pep-0518/#other-file-formats
The "temperature of an atom" is something very different from the temperature of a material with billions of atoms. For the material, what matters most is usually vibrations of atoms, where the nucleus contributes the most to kinetic energy, because it is heavy, and the electronic configuration contributes to potential energy.

For an atom, you basically have to do quantum physics and talk about von Neuman entropy of it's quantum state. This kind of temperature is very removed from the everyday concepts of "heat" and "heat transfer".
Read title: sounds interesting. See it's Google blog: lol.
Right, which why the transmission lines have to go from the empty place to population centers. Eventually they go through populated areas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/04/15/p...

This news article says bread was extremely scarce even if available for purchase

https://polishhistory.pl/a-ration-card-for-survival-rationin...

It seems that wheat and wheat products were at times rationed