skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, the solution to all of this is to get rid of the whitepaper system all together.

From now on, all scientists who want to publish science, they publish their work in the form of a video. They film themselves doing the science and then put that video on YouTube, or maybe some science specific version of youtube. Other people can then watch the video and determine for themselves if the science is valid or not.

Its much harder to fake science if there is a video involved. Its too easy to make fake science if all you have to do you "prove" it is write some words.
Why wait 5 years when you can wait 10?
25 years ago pretty much every program had a GUI to do the configuration. With help texts. On Windows, programs then either saved stuff into an ini file or the windows registry, both you could also edit manually.

Today we have a programming language coming as a 87 MB binary to create config files. And to run that programming language you need to manually crate a ... config file.

So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use.

I am sorry, but very clearly a huge chunk of today's "developers" really are in the business of creating problems.
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Honorable mention for the ITAR regs that prevented Phil Zimmerman from exporting PGP 128 bit encryption until Zimmerman and MIT press printed the source as a book protected by the first amendment, exported it, and this enabled others to OCR it, and recompile it offshore.

Also that ITAR enabled Thawte in South Africa (where I’m from) as a business to completely dominate sales for 128 bit SSL certs outside the US. Thawte was eventually acquired by Verizon for $600 million and the founder Mark Shuttleworth used the cash to become an astronaut and then founded Ubuntu.
Selfhoster here. I use mutual TLS rules with CloudFlare's WAF to filter out everyone but my known-good callers. Works great. Since the only folks with access are my family, it was pretty easy to setup as well (everyone gets a unique cert that I can revoke if need be).
The major issue with research is how only successful results are viewed as worth while, and study results without a "positive" out come is viewed as a failure. So this means researchers are incentized to p-hack or falsifying results since they need more funding.

The reality is these negative results are just as useful and can either help other researchers avoid dead ends or they might have a not great result but with some refinement to methodology might be worthwhile for further study.

Researchers should be judged on the quality of the research they perform, not their outcomes. A well crafted study that shows that further research shouldn't be done should be just a well received as a well crafted study showing more research should be done. The focus should be on the design of the study first, since no matter what the results it adds to the corpus of knowledge in a meaningful way
Um doesn’t balloon assistance become increasingly effective in that case? Use your plentiful surface energy blow up a balloon and float it up past the upper atmosphere.

But they explicitly exclude that from this question:

>For our purposes, let's not explore alternative or hybrid launch systems or boost systems (such as balloons, planes, laser beams, space elevators etc.). Just stick to chemical propellant rockets.
> There's nothing I can do about it, so I can either accept it or be angry all the time.

This here is exactly why telemetry is worth little with general users, and why the whole tech market is supplier-driven: over the past decades, most users have learned to expect software to be broken, devices to suck (except for the vacuum cleaners). They've learned to live with it, only occasionally making futile requests for help to their tech-savvy friends or family members (the well-known "can you fix my computer? it's slow because it got viruses" thing). Telemetry is not observing the frustration, but the coping, so there's very little signal related to quality and usefulness in it.
Elsewhere in this thread people complain that the balance is all left wing.
When you tap on the bar it creates an acoustic wave that will propagate at the speed of sound in the material.

For subatomic particles, the most intuitive way to think about things is to adopt the "fields are real" mindset. Here fields are the underlying reality, and particles are just a pattern of waves excited in the fields. Disturbances in all fundamental fields we've discovered propagate at the speed of light, and we have pretty solid reasons for believing no future discovery will contradict that, as it would break causality in a fundamental way.
Detecting noise, de-noising, and substituting with synthetic noise is fairly common.

Traditionally encoders struggle with other kinds of features. It's hard to find them and know if encoding them separately will be worth it.
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The same reason there is to doubt anything a stranger says on the internet. People have egos and sometimes tell lies to inflate their egos.

I generally distrust anything people say in communities that supports some personal cause (ie positive comments about their employer, or negative comments about their enemy, etc)
There is a market, and it has players.

One way is small, inexpensive standby UPS: Something with fast switchover, but without the capacity to survive anything longer than necessary to avoid some flickering and to conduct an orderly shutdown if the badness persists. This is the cheapest way. (And for small low-voltage loads like Raspberry Pis or consumer routers, there are kits available using things like 18650 cells.)

Another way is a small-ish online UPS. These have no switchover time, but they're more expensive because the parts are bigger, and they're less efficient than a standby UPS.

Another way is a ferroresonant transformer. This isn't cheap, but it is lasting (no moving parts or chemistry to degrade) and can work through some flickering.

And finally: Motor-generators, with a flywheel to pick up the slack. These work fine, but they're big, alarmingly expensive, require maintenance sometimes, and there are good reasons to be scared of spinning flywheels.
Neither, really. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but
a) people seem to have no big problems with upselling in the myriad of other subscription services they use (at least I can’t remember regular ”outrage“), and
b) a few subtle buttons in the UI that offer to buy an extension are hardly as atrocious as some people here act like.

Life does kinda suck and we do need to get used to it, I guess. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for a better world, but until we don’t have a working alternative to advertising, I’d rather have models like JetBrains than Adobe…
Yeah we need to inspect things carefully because we are getting scammed and lied to all the time. Olive oil being cut, fish being sold as the wrong species, supplements containing random other substances, there are a million examples in products in particular.
Barely related, but reminded me that a recent comment here linked to this DEFCON talk from a former darknet vendor. He claimed to use WiFi from a house a mile away using a Yagi antenna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc
Sorry, I don't understand.

Are you saying that gross revenues for food retail are higher, and thus 2% of <a huge number> is bigger than 12% of <a smaller number> ?
In MA, the small claims limit does not apply for damages from an auto accident. That doesn’t make it easy, but makes it easier and more accessible to fight an insurance company who is acting unreasonably.
Do those popular Instagram accounts charge you money to send and receive messages, while explicitly claiming that it's the person whose account it is that's reading your messages and sending those responses?
We also have to consider the thickness of the atmosphere. I presume a planet with 1.5x the radius of Earth and 3x the gravity would have an atmosphere that is far more thick and any rocket would have to contend with a significant amount of drag.

Plus, if it would take something like a Saturn V just to put the mass of a potato into low orbit I could easily envision an extraterrestrial civilization thinking it wasn’t worth the cost to try.
Well the raku community may be small (1300 ish on reddit) but it is very welcoming and there is lots to help out with (RakuAST anyone?). There are 2200 or so modules on www.raku.land (plus Inline::Perl5, Inline::Python, CFFI and so on) - I learn something every day by rubbing shoulders with some amazing experts!
When people ask me what my personal experience of adhd is, I describe it as being the worlds best street magician--except I'm also the mark--and I suck at making things reappear.
I think there’s precedent for fraud if something is sold as “pay $x for y service” and the vendor accepts $x and then delivers something that looks like y but is not.

The Miss Cleo lines clearly said that you would talk to other psychics and not just Miss Cleo. And of course while psychics are BS, good luck proving that they aren’t actually telling the future.
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Also, how many of the unemployed are any good? I know people who are unemployed. I don't know any I would want on my team.

And while on paper a few are theoretically great (20+ years experience as a software engineer), they don't want to learn React or newer versions of Java.
Keeping secrets out of main memory, either with registers, encrypted memory, or use of a secure enclave (which in turn uses encrypted memory) for sensitive operations.
You trust that your spending habits are not shared with malicious actors. You trust that the government does use your data maliciously. You trust there is a fair dispute process, etc.

There are plenty of countries where I would not dare to register certain spends on my card or where the risk of using cards would be considered high.
> Rust would be better off if the language had opted for a proper effect system from the get go

It does sound very appealing, but I'm not sure there's enough prior art to steal from, even now, but especially not when Rust was hatching. It would probably be too big a gamble. I'm checking out Koka in that space, but it's early days.
If you think about it, Social Justice is objectively a good thing. Being "Woke" means to be aware the United States is a white supremacist society. These terms are used as if they were Ad Hominems, but they're kind of the opposite.

The people complaining about these things are literally self-identifying themselves as the bad guy. We're not making you use these words. We're not making you self-identify as the bad guy. We didn't put the rake there, but they're proudly stomping on it anyways.
Link: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/109881?ln=en
PostgreSQL does not use SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE so they're ok
Oh indeed. What a wonderful training set this will make one day when
it's sold. We'll be too sore to sit down in the morning, but right now
at least we're getting a reach-around.
English Wikipedia is just as easy to edit these days as ever.
Thanks I shouldn’t get so angry but I’ve spent most of the past year reading essays & interviews from the 70s to try to get my head around how to respond that specific blog post (which I think makes both good and bad points). Was very offended by the suggestion I wasn’t aware of it.
I had a two year old Audi A4 totaled. I expected that I'd get about $24K for it (this was a couple of years ago). My insurer offered $19K. I asked to look at the comps, and sure enough, most of the comps were between $22K and $27K. Except one, from a shitty little dealer 150 miles away for $12,999. There was obviously something up, salvage title, or some other issue. But they shrugged. "Doesn't say so on the offer, so it's a valid comp".

My two cars now have new car replacement coverage for 5 years that also wraps in gap coverage.
Maybe perhaps.

But the people under discussion here have all made vast fortunes on the sweat of thousands other people's brows. They should be expected to have some tax burden. And income tax is clearly not working as is.
Why not wait until it is useful before purchasing it? I know plenty of people who bought the Apple Silicon Macs too early, and their productivity dropped because too many things didn't work.
So that there's an incentive for people not to hit and run.
I thought this was brilliant when I first learned it, but I've since come to think it's ridiculous. JPEG doesn't have any of these error-detection features, have you ever missed them? It seems to be the same mindset that gave us double-checksummed IDATs.

Perhaps there was a world once where this made sense, but we aren't living in it now.
When Google Fiber comes to town, it usually results in paying less for better service.
I agree that low cost attracts "pathological users", but I was surprised to see this part presented as a negative:

> But if these ideal users encounter the product via an incentive program, you often “pull forward” these users, thus costing you money, when you would have gotten them anyway.

The premise of annual discounts is that having $0.80 today is worth more than $1.00 a year from now.

Doesn't the same logic apply here? That if you can get someone in the door sooner, that's worth some cost?
> If the harm of outlawing a useful product exceeds the harm done by that product then even greater harm is done through the prohibition.

And yet: Funkopops.

And yet: the biggest source of plastic pollution on the planet is apparently the Coca Cola corporation.

Yeah, keep plastic for where it's essential, but banning or regulating plastic use is essential to the our, and the biosphere's, long term survival.
In car crashes, women are more likely to die than men
The post makes a good point, albeit in a long-winded way.

My short summary would be in languages that result in function-coloring due to async/await, using Future/Promise directly avoids the coloring and the ecosystem is better off.

Places where async/await are ok are JS (because both the browser and node/deno) are for the most part in an async context, and Go since everything's a goroutine hence all one color.

Languages such as Java have worked well with Future/CompletionStage and doesn't really need the convenience of writing async/await which translates the rest of the program after await into a hidden 'rest of program' callback. That async/await syntactic convenience is not worth the complexities added to libraries. Rust including async/await was a poor 'cargo cult' choice. I would welcome a Rust fork/ecosystem without it.
When I see people on my team (myself included) shoot themselves in the foot over and over with C++, sometimes causing very costly production bugs, and yet I know of a tool that could have prevented nearly all of that pain at compile time, I am going to risk being disliked in order to help lift everyone up. Most people that I mentor on Rust have become completely sold on it after some initial resistance. I don't like change for change's sake, or rewriting things in a new language unless there is some really big payoff.
I've been puzzled at the economics of it. If it is cheaper for us to watch just 1 kid, where the heck is the money going in the daycare with N kids? Rent?
Variable names as handles or sigils
I think about it regularly (cause swimming is one of the best kind of exercise I know of too) but it's less convenient logistically and also psychologically, you can't swim alone unless you have access to the sea or a clean calm river.
> So the real complaint of these people is that the plugin simply exists by default, which apparently is enough to get the product banned from certain companies.

Yup, because "installed/not installed" is something companies know how to handle - whether by policy, or by restrictions set by IT. "Installed and enabled/not enabled" is something they're not suited to handle - activation can happen due to misguided user action, or even software update. AI space is still very much unclear wrt. risk/liability, so you can understand corporate being uneasy about it.

Or in more general sense: there's a huge jump between "not existing" and "existing", much greater than between "existing but inert" and "existing and active". Think e.g. about security vulnerabilities: there's a difference between one being unexploited (yet), and it just not being there in the first place.
Every industrial power user inherently makes the most cost-effective choices to maximize profitability. Some can't be selective, eg if you run trains or a steel mill you have to keep your power flowing whenever people want to move or prevent your furnace cooling off. But many industries can adjust production to fit power availability.

It's not clear to me that Bitcoin delivers sufficient economic value to justify the vast power demand. What utility do all these hashes provide, except to other people who bought into crypto trading? If there were some positive externality that'd be great, but there's no inherent value to crypto beyond the artificial scarcity.
I/O can be sandboxed via flags.

For example, see these CLI flags: https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/pkl-cli/index.html#common-...

And when using the different language bindings, you can specify sandboxing options directly in that library.
Really, in the long run all it does is make your premiums more expensive.

> insurance companies insisting that shitty used parts were fine

That's not up to the insurance company, because they aren't the ones sourcing the parts or doing the repairs. You go to a body shop that either works directly with the insurance company, or the company cuts you a check in the shops name for the quoted work.

It makes no sense whatsoever to put a brand new body panel on a car that's already lost 70-80% of the MSRP value to depreciation... IF the used parts are not damaged already, and the paint matches. Again, though, that's in the hands of the mechanic, not the insurance company.
You can build your network by doing a great job at your current work even if it is remote. I worked remote for my previous two companies--the last one is Amazon. I left both with great contacts. In fact, I was referred to Amazon by one of my previous coworkers whom, I had only met in person once. He knows the quality of my work because we have sat in meetings, and worked on projects together.

The point is you don't need to be physically present together to create a solid *professional* network. If your aim are more about building personal network (like making friends), then yes you need an in-office job. To me, I draw a very distinct line between professional and personal life, and in my 15+ years of professional life, I never got into sour relationship with my coworkers because of that.
If I understand correctly, what you are describing would often be done with a using scope block in C#.

EX

using (SomeKindOfHandle handle)
{

// handle releases when the scope ends

}
Does Apple have a warranty canary? How do we know that the M series of chips haven't been compromised?
Have you tried the 'animal flow' trend thing ? dynamic poses on ground, using all 4, and partially walking that way ? it seems to hit all biomechanical spots softly.
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In most theoretical/abstract pursuits, from math to comparative literature, "doing the science" means "writing the text of the paper" - and nothing else; shall I film myself doing that?

On second thought, maybe I could make a video of how I manage all of those dirty LaTeX tricks to squeeze my paper into less pages, at least there's some tangible payoff there...
For things to be illegal the laws have to be enforced…

Sadly this is not the case with headlights and most of things in the US… unless youre a minority, then you cant even walk down the street without being worried.
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Because other plugins don't have "sending code to third-party AI service" as their actual, advertised feature. This one does. And the "sending code to third-party AI service" part is something of a hot topic in enterprise these days, across many organizational levels.
Travelers does well with that. I switched after I was in a not at fault accident (other side was a commercial vehicle, fully insured, 100% admitted liability) and got screwed over by my own insurer (low ball offer on the value, stalling on giving me access to the comps until the night before the offer expired, reneging on rental coverage, threatening to not cover something with PIP...)

I have two "new" cars (2019 and 2021 model years) that I've had since they were less than a year old, and have new car replacement on both.

Travelers is relatively unique in that their new car replacement is up to 5 years, not 1 as most are (some go to 2 or 3). NCR also integrates gap coverage.

If my 2021 RS 5 gets totaled two years from now, I get a check for 110% of the MSRP for a 2026 RS 5.
Direct vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be used to provide a lot more detailed localised info (e.g. heading, speed, current position) on a lot shorter timescales (+ end to end data delivery timelines guarantees) for collision avoidance and warning systems. The current intended standard is to broadcast these basic safety messages at 10Hz but that could be higher with 802.11bd and NR-V2X. Additionally there is dedicated spectrum set aside for vehicular communications on an international level, which helps ensure there is less congestion for these safety critical applications.

Using localised peer to peer comms also eliminates some of the privacy concerns with directly sharing this info with a centralised authority as well as removing the need for any global persistent identification for this info. They also eliminate any reliance on the cellular network/internet which cannot be guaranteed to function normally for safety critical communications.

There are also alternate cellular standards for vehicle to vehicle comms called C-V2X and NR-V2X so it's entirely feasible one cellular radio could do general data comms and the P2P safety standards.
You may find the concept of Superhabitabilty interesting.

The hypothesis suggests that larger planets with more mass and gravity than Earth would be more favorable to life. It’s certainly possible that there is a lot more life out there on planets where getting into space is nearly impossible with conventional chemical rockets.

We may be living on a comparatively barren rock, but the tradeoff of that we are actually able to get into orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhabitable_planet
> Most of the python libraries used in finance, like numpy/pandas, call out to C for performance reasons; the libraries are essentially python bindings + syntax to C functions. It would be interesting to think about replacing that backend with rust.

Lots of this going on already - check out projects like Polars and DataFusion.
>It would be a red flag if you were interviewing for react and decided to bring up vue or svelte or angular or whatever else as well.

...why?

Seriously, why on earth? I don't follow this train of thought at all; if they demonstrate proficiency within the scope of the position, why does it matter if they also happen to know other technologies?

"Oh, Alice? Yeah, she was a great candidate, unfortunately she also had experience in Vue, so there's nothing we could do. We decided to hire Bob, who has 3 years less experience with React, but fortunately that's the only stack he's ever heard of."

If anything, it's a sign the person is interested in learning, most great devs I've met were not proficient only with a single technology. This sounds completely alien to me.
Do you have more on the legality aspect? I knew NSA pressured for a weaker key but what aspect could be made illegal? I had to write an undergrad paper on the original DES and I never saw an outright illegality aspect but wouldn’t be surprised. They also put in their own substitution boxes which I surprisingly never found much info on how exactly NSA could use them. So much speculation but why no detailed post mortems in the modern age?