skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not a true replication

As you already quoted me as saying, it's not a perfect replication. Which is fine! I'm advocating a position of "replicate findings as much as reasonably possible", not a position of "we need to build redundant copies of every multi-billion-dollar research megaproject". My whole point is that this doesn't need to be an absolutist true-or-false sort of thing.

> and it isn't going to avoid issues like the OPERA experiment measuring neutrinos going faster than the speed of light due to a loose connector

Maybe not. I never claimed this would solve every problem in all of science forever.

> So all currently-running long-running research has to be thrown out?

No. I think it's reasonable to propose more rigorous standards for future studies without throwing out every in-progress study that didn't follow those same standards. After all, there are literally centuries of published science that didn't even follow the contemporary standards of peer review, and we haven't thrown any of that out.

> What if the two studies find very small differences, are you allowed to publish either of them?

That's an extremely broad question. You might as well ask, "what does it mean for a finding to be replicated?".

If you and I each independently go out to measure the length of the Golden Gate Bridge in millimeters, there are likely to be very small differences in the result you get and the result I get. There's an expected margin of error here where we can agree that our results are consistent with each other. Sometimes the differences are reasonable and can be explained, and sometimes they can't be explained.

Regardless, I also think it might even be valuable for the studies to be published in some form even if they don't replicate at all; just not necessarily with the imprimatur of some credible or prestigious journal.

> Are the two teams allowed to collaborate at all?

I would suggest keeping the two teams independent at least until they both have results. Afterwards, it might be valuable for the team to collaborate in terms of trying to reconcile their results.

> You can't "replicate" an observation of a freak astronomical event because you can't trigger a freak astronomical event. At best you can do observations and hope it happens again. We indeed cannot draw any conclusions from it, but that doesn't mean you can't publish papers about it. If replication is mandatory, you would not be allowed to do anything with it at all.

Yeah, I guess I'm fine publishing a paper that just says "here's this anomalous observation we had" if it's an especially interesting anomalous observation like that.

> It cannot be reproduced because it would be unethical to expose people to near-fatal levels of radiation simply for reproduction.

Obviously. I think you know that's not what I'm suggesting at all here.

> Simply reusing data from the original test subjects isn't a reproduction, after all.

At this point, I agree we're mostly stuck with whatever data we managed to get 37 years ago. But if a similar incident happened in the future, you could have independent teams collecting redundant sets of data.
> quite a while (years!)

Katalin Karikó was working on mRNA vaccine technology for decades on a relatively tiny budget, and was turned down by many larger groups based on the supposed impossibility of the concept.

You have to wonder how many future technologies are languishing right now in some basement lab where a couple of frustrated scientists are making do with a shoestring budget and are desperate to get their research published.
There is plenty of hyper partisan vitriol and culture war that comes from the extremist left as well. You just might not see it because you agree with their positions on the issues.

For example, there are some on the left that very seriously want to label all Republican voters as far-right extremists, which is itself a very extreme position to take.
Seems the artwork i did, for my friends research, that got the cover on "Advanced Energy Materials" wasn't quite right?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16146840/2012/2/3

Crazy that it's over 10 years ago he made a material with so huge gains, and nothing has come of it yet. Scaling really is hard!
> Apparently, there were also shortcomings in L4 itself, or at least with respect to what HURD wants to do with its microkernel

Yes, that was the issue as I recall. But seL4 is an excellent, secure high-performance microkernel. If something is painful to do in L4, it will likely not be faster or more secure running under any other microkernel, and so you should arguably question the wisdom of what you're trying to do.
I agree. Algebra based Statistics is one of the things that makes people say "Math is a religion". There is a lot of "just trust me" in statistics when you don't know calculus.

I suppose you could switch Probability & Statistics to "Just Enough Calculus" & Statistics to make it a less religious experience... but that also sort of defeats the "nobody really uses Calculus" mentality.
I suggest instead cutting to the heart of it:

* Ensure that men with guns cannot be paid.

If you do that, every empire falls. It is not necessarily a technically sophisticated problem - it happens naturally through economic constraints. Technology can have a role in how rapidly that develops, though. The "this software shall be used for Good, not Evil" clause may be enough to tip a balance.
If you study medicine, you will spend +10 years trying to get to that position, and after that you are set.

If you study other subjects such as engineering, you may spend +10 years to get the top qualifications (undergrad, masters and PhD is 10 years, many will do postdocs as well) and still will spend your lifetime chasing jobs, constantly reinventing yourself, and most people will never make as much as a medical specialist consistently.

Healthcare in US is lucrative.
PayPal sees the writing on the wall with FedNow. Desperately attempting to remain relevant when the Fed provides instant payment and value movement rails. They'll attempt to skim off their stablecoin transactions and keep value on their platform vs at banks, credit unions, or brokerages:

> Customers will be able to use PYUSD to purchase products, send from person-to-person, transfer to other wallets, and can be converted to or from other cryptocurrencies that PayPal supports.
How’d you get $70K in credits for which Stripe fees wouldn’t be applied?
Nice! Check out Konva and React Konva as well :)
You mean like neglecting centuries of locale/climate appropriate materials and designs, and going for glass and metal boxes dependent on mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning?

Or, just as common (depending on the country), switching to non-reusable, concrete, which cracks under high temperatures, has issues with moisture retention and leakage (from flat cement roofs), gets corroded by carbon dioxide, and heats its surroundings and assissts in unbearable cities?
Not if at least one of the parties is a government institution, because administrative actions have a presumption of legality, similar to presumption of innocence applied to other entities.
Efficiently sync context for your LLM application
Aren't those fines inflated due to the companies having a large revenue/to make an example?
It depends greatly on where you are. I LOVE airplanes and being in the air, and everything at all to do with aviation, so I once entertained the idea of getting a PPL. I called around to the various local airports and clubs to get an idea of what was involved. Although I could technically afford it, the price tag was eye-wateringly expensive for what would realistically amount to an expensive and non-trivially dangerous hobby for me. I expect those who are able to do it on the cheap already have a network in place in order to get steep discounts on their instructor's hours, or something to that effect.

* Also, I eventually decided that I don't have what it takes to be a competent pilot anyway. I'm sure I could handle rural VFR just fine but my brain is not good at holding and computing multiple values. Anything that requires me to juggle a dozen or more numbers in my brain in order to avoid dying is a no-go unfortunately.) I took up an interest in motorcycles instead.
Hmm, interesting...

Are they actually doing some kind of optical shifting of a limited pixel display? Or you just mean they do some kind of low-res rendering mode to populate most of the framebuffer outside a smaller zone where they do full quality rendering?

In other words, are they just allocating rendering compute capacity or actual pixel storage and emission based on foveal tracking?
This is great. I made a few Uncut Gems Furbys last year:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/04/28/arts/22a24-item1/...

But now I watched your video I want a ChatGPT Furby!
On my Subaru (2019), as soon as I shift into reverse, the backup camera supersedes everything, including the silly notice. (The notice will also disappear if I ignore it.)
Oh, and had added a RS-232-C and a Radio Shack Tandy Model ][ (with 8" floppy drive), and fed it into the G/L part of Tandy General Ledger program.

The computer was that selling tippingpoint with this vaunted homemade peripheral part.
> I meant in terms of riders' perceptions of safety

But that is what I am saying. The apples-to-apples comparision is “airplane with questionable/no brakes” vs “train with brakes”. There the “apple” is “as the thing is right now when you want to travel”. The proposed comparision with “train with no break” is not apples-to-apples because there are no breakless trains servicing the route. It is not a hypothetical comparision with some hypothetical train service and hypothetical planes. It is the comparision between the realworld situation on trains and airplanes right now.

The discussion about industrial capacity just illustrates how this difference have happened.
Presuming the data is tabular and has rows and columns...

I look for a manifest or README file that usually explains what the columns are.

I look for columns that could be used as unique identifiers or could be primary/frgn keys in a db table.

I look at the names of all the columns to understand the domain and if I don't know what a column represents then I make a note of it to find out more.

I look for the data type used for each column.

I look for each numerical column what the range of values are, what are some basic stats - min/max/mean/mode/std.dev.

If the data is in a domain I know then I make a note of if each columns numerical values make sense (does a temperature of -9000 degrees make sense or is it a sensor malfunction / no-read value.)

I look for incomplete rows and if anything is blank, why is that?

I suppose if you understand all of those you should be ready to load the data into a db or for further analytics.

Practically you want to understand the magnitude of the data how many columns and rows does an average payload or batch contain?

Can the data fit in memory or not?

Does the data come in chunks or is it streamed somehow?
> By comparison, setting up the environment on Windows or MacOS takes no more than a fem minutes.

My wife is constantly taking her laptop into her IT staff.

The main difference between Windows and Linux is that corporate IT staff are willing to futz with Windows but not Linux.

The main difference between macOS and Linux is that macOS users will spend money to futz with macOS but not Linux.
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
Having a big enough swap partition to get a kernel core dump is handy. If you hibernate to swap, that needs to be big enough too. Sometimes swap partition is better than swap file, but a partition is harder to resize.

Personally, I find utility in having something approaching max(512mb, 2xRAM) swap available. If you've got an older system, 2xRAM is a good rule of thumb, but not for larger ram. IMHO, swap usage falls into two categories: slow leak and fast leak. In a slow leak, size doesn't really matter, just that it's being used, you can set your alert at 10% (or 75% or wherever) and you'll hit it eventually regardless of underlying size, in the mean time everything works fine, no big deal or urgency. In a fast leak, the system tends to get really slow really quick, until you hit the swap limit and then things usually get broken and fast; maybe if you get in early you can kill things before it spirals, but chances are you won't, and you'll just need to wait until you hit the max and then pick up the pieces; having a small swap means the time of max swapping is pretty limited.

TLDR: a small swap partition gives you a clear indication of a slow leak, but doesn't prolong agony during a fast leak.

Also note, measuring used memory is hard, but measuring used swap is easy. If your system typically has 0% swap used (which it should!), and starts swapping, you know something changed to use more memory (or the kernel swap algorithms changed)
Whether a billionaire in the condo or a beggar on the street, both are equally subject to laws of the universe. This is true under both physical and mental platforms. That's the position of every human.

The so-called master and slave both "obey" the dictates of the universe.

For instance, you were given no choice about where/when and in what conditions
you were born. There is no choice on the matter of upbringing either. Upto an extent, no influence over the early education process as well.

You have zero control over most of your bodily and mental processes.

The body ages and disintegrates over time. And there's not much you can do about it.

And let's not get started about the mind.

Quick check: What's going to be your next thought? You have no idea what your next thought is going to be.

Given these indisputable indications at human helplessness (mostly), we still go on about all sorts of narratives about master, slave, freedom, equality, whatnot.

I recommend you read David Bohm's Thought as a System [1] to learn about what I am talking about in more depth. It may free you from some potentially problematic assumptions you make in your answer.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Thought-as-System-Key-Ideas/dp/041511...

PS: It is important to differentiate action from understanding. More and more action doesn't clear up mental fog on its own (that is, more "contribution", will not automatically give more "clarity"). Bohm recommends "dialogue" as a way to cultivate insight (not that it always works, but there's some potential in it).
Indeed, I think the "right way" to use advice like his is to understand the index card version and apply it. Spending a lot of time following everything he writes isn't really consistent with the concept of deep work.

Ruthlessly optimizing life to squeeze every inch of productivity doesn't make for a great life, unless it happens automatically without even thinking about it, because you are already so passionate about what you are doing that you don't have time for much else. If it's just to win the rat race, it will suck, and then suck for everyone once everyone starts doing it.

The flip side of that is that critically evaluating how you spend your time and cutting out things that you don't really need or appreciate can make life a lot more relaxing and fun.

My main criticism of the Deep Work concept is that it ignores peoples internal emotional state, and treats people like robots. Most of peoples work issues come from things like self sabotage due to trauma, imposter syndrome, etc. and can't be fixed with a more optimized schedule or anything like that.
My branches are always focused on a single atomic change†, so if I want the tip of my branch to be up-to-date with main (or the dev branch or whatever), merging from that branch accomplishes the same thing with a lower likelihood of conflicts.

I always squash‡ before pushing a PR, so the end result is identical to a carefully rebased PR.

† occasionally branches will need to be split into separate commits, but that's not my default working style

‡ I know `squash` is a rebase under the hood, but it won't ever result in conflicts, so I'm happy to use it with every PR
I didnt know that, was his "pope mobile" vehicle not allowed in the US then?

The photos of the car being dwarfed by the US security vehicles is funny, but a classic example of virtue signalling.
> it seems a bit odd to complain about this when that's what Rust is for

that's the point of the article - rust gives you a lot of low-level control, but if you don't actually need that control then you're paying the cost in ergonomics for nothing.
This feels like another annoying fluff piece from the world's best tech hype institution. I'm sure MIT is a great school with amazing researches, but it seems like they get a paper out every few months that promises to "Revolutionize the whole world with this one simple trick!" To their credit, they get it right every once and a while and produce something really impressive (the Apollo Guidance Computer comes to mind). But more often than not, they're just really good at fluffing up their research.
More trustworthy than software that may or may not work, may or may not protect secrets, may or may not go for-profit in the future, etc.

Password managers make it so that you are utterly dependent on your password manager or you cannot login to anything. How do you get back online to discuss something if your computer burns in a fire, for example? Backups can alleviate this, but the paper is also a backup. Maybe do the triplicate thing?

I've considered using a password manager but there are too many times where I need to login to something from a machine that isn't mine, on a machine that I don't trust with storing secrets, or other circumstance. I simply don't want to be caught with my pants down and unable to login to something because my password manager isn't installed.
> 1. Linux is too big.

Too big for what exactly? Because it's clearly not too big to run. It's been running very well for decades, and Hurd has not.

I've known for decades that on paper, microkernels and Hurd should be superior, and I've wondered for nearly as long why then they aren't taking off. If they're so good, they should at least be thriving in some niche where that performance matters, shouldn't they?

And now I hear that even after 3 whopping decades, it still doesn't run on real hardware! Entire operating systems have been born and died in that time.

What is the problem that's making Hurd still not work?

> 2. It will take time to write a ton of device drivers, simply because most of them aren't written yet. To that extent, Linux most definitely has an incumbent advantage.

But why is Linux the incumbent when Mach and Hurd were conceived 3 years earlier?

> But that isn't to say that microkernels also have an advantage here.

I would love to believe that, but then why has that advantage not paid off for 30 years?

> With all that being said, I definitely don't think Hurd is the future.
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Why not? And is this why nobody has been writing those drivers?

I don't mean to be shitting on Hurd, but it's been really promising for so long, and not delivering, that it's starting to feel like fusion power: always in the future, nearly there, but never quite here.
I used to agree with this until I thought about the order in which to do it. The issue was that I'd open BitWarden manually to create credentials, rather than doing it during the autofill popup.

Here's how I do it on iOS:

1. Select the password field and open BitWarden through the button above the keyboard.

2. The password list will be empty. Press the + to create new credentials.

3. Enter a username, generate a password and press save.

4. The list will now have a single entry. Press it to autofill.
Oh, Google's AI said that? Yeah. Yes, it's completely wrong. No, I can't bother to care.
Used my local makerspace’s laser cutter to make multi-layered wooden pieces off of vector designs I bought on etsy:

https://www.design-dekor.de/
> without any devaluation, meaning you keep your pre-war purchasing power

That's not how economics works.

The purchasing power of any currency, for example USD, isn't the same everywhere even at a fixed point in time, because we don't have negligible-cost transportation in war zones (amongst other places).
>If you're so outraged by all this then you should give these engineers alternative opportunities of work that don't involve telemetry. Can you do that?

These workers CHOSE to work for FAANG. Nobody puts a gun to your head and makes you choose the $300k a year FAANG job over the $200k a year non-FAANG job. Hell, even IN FAANG, Netflix isn't really doing anything unethical. Sometimes taking the high road means less personal profit.
Where you were going, you didn't need brakes
A Thought on LLMs and Rust
A short explaination what remotes are and how to configure it would be helpfull. Otherwise, the "git push" command would fail and the tutorial gives no hint, why.
I ran a ebay-special 3770k at 4.9ghz for years. Aside from occasionally having to hot boot it, that is, boot, then restart immediately, so my USB3 ports and NIC would work, it was flawless. Had to keep it on a nice AIO to run at reasonable temps (<80c), but, it performed well.

I do miss those days, where you could get lucky and score silicon that'd run happily at 30% higher than its rated speed.
Tracking the NYC subway from my apartment
ohhh that's a fun and subtle thing. Thanks!
The written forms of some Afro-Asiatic languages often did not (and still don't) include vowels, as they didn't provide any information that couldn't be gathered through context. The actual languages did have vowels.

Coptic, the descendant of Ancient Egyptian used by liturgical purpose by Egyptian Christians uses vowels, while very distantly related Arabic and Hebrew (part of the Semitic branch of Afro Asiatic) don't use vowels except in rare cases.
It doesn't seem to work properly on mobile - I can't get notepad.exe to open, and tapping to try clicking a box in 2048 does nothing.

Unfortunate, because this looks nice.

Demo site: https://desktop.leisink.net/
Other than to be funny when replying in this thread, I don't know why anyone would bother.
Yeah, that's the spot I'm in right now... contract rates where I live went through the roof over the pandemic and never came back down.

Aside: I wish I could smack whoever did the wiring in my home. They saved a few dollars on a breaker, but if I run my AVR/TV + Microwave (in adjacent kitchen) and the lights are on in the summer, it blows the breaker. And there's a dozen spaces on the box still available even.
PayPal launches digital token in push to capture crypto payments
He was talking about the cause. I never mentioned the cause.

This is a lie, you insinuated the cause and now are pretending you didn't. This is a common dog whistle by extremists.

I never said what causes that group to do it. It surely isn't wealth or education

Now you are directly saying it and basing it on nothing. Being a poorer country overall has nothing to do with anything. There are many other countries that contradict your narrative.

no one kills for a pair of fancy shoes

This is another racist dog whistle and has nothing to do with reality.

If you aren't doing these things on purpose you should reevaluate what you accept as true and look into these assumptions you hold.
This image helped me a lot:

https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FFjJ62xKXkAYfFjt.jpg
This kind of deal is quite smart - there is a big incentive for TMSC to increase yields quickly, reducing overall costs all around. This really leverages Apple's long-term commitments to purchase high-end chips into huge investments into TMSC's manufacturing processes. The economies of Apple's scale are very apparent here!
They are largely the same between F# and C#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Friedkin
I don't think US Congress intended for a driver to shuffle into the passenger seat to use the legally mandated back up camera.
Not lame at all, I routinely make things that I don't want to buy. Sometimes they even work.