skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP's political undertones aside, schools like Stanford and MIT fake a lot of data.

I have zero ability to tell a school that some study they're relying on is faked if the author is at an elite school. This specific rot is in universities and not local to school districts.

The most common scientific method used for most high-impact education research:

1. Pick a story people (teachers, parents, journalists, fellow academics) want to hear.

2. Bake data to support it.

3. Publish it.

4. See people pick up on it.

5. Tenure.

Other domains of research have related, but different, scientific methods. There is rot local to school districts, but it's not the same rot.

This stuff hurts kids. I'm increasingly moving towards the strict liability side of the debate. If a university publishes results like this, and my district wastes a million dollars on pseudoscience in reliance on that research, that ought to come back as damages. Ditto for people harmed by bad medical research and other domains.

All of this would happen just as surely if the universities were staffed by conservatives as by liberals. It's how we've set up incentives.
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> Shouldn’t it attract more attention from prosecution?

It 'should' - but it won't.

Look at how the legal system has treated whistleblowers who go against the MIC and fossil fuels - Assange, Snowden, Donziger, Winner, etc. High profile cases where the whole world was watching.

They're not handing out fines to fossil fuel companies for lying to the planet as they set it alight. Instead, they're handing out harsher and harsher sentences to the activists trying to bring attention to the issue. A lovely 54yo woman was sentenced to 4k in damages, a 3k fine, 60 days in jail and 24 months of supervised release for putting RINSABLE PAINT on the CASE of Degas' Little Dancer. Not even NPR would state that it was rinsable paint - how often do you hear oil companies advertising on them?

Why would you have any faith in that system to protect us from murderous corporations? The trend for these things is dramatically in the wrong direction, and it was bad when companies were allowed to fund and aid literal Nazis without repercussion.
Could have just watched "2001: A Space Odyssey" for inspiration :P
> I'm now confused by the apocalyptic tone of the article

Be not confused. Lunduke's blog is a sensationalist tech tabloid. Every article is like that -- elevating mundane disagreements in open source projects to huge proportions, without doing nearly enough research to be called journalism.
Dropbox Form 8-K
Lazarus Group $200M Crypto Laundering Explained – Crypto DeFinance
They were using SHA1, then they migrated.

68 million accounts dumped:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/31/dropbox-h...

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-dropbox-hack-is-real/

now they first hash the password using SHA512 (with a per-account salt)

then they hash the password with bcrypt (with the default strength)

then they encrypt the password with a key that the application server runs with, but that is not stored in the database.

So yes, hashed and salted.
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The solutions you are talking about are called "code-first", TypeSpec is a "schema-first" solution. Both solutions have their pros and cons:

Code-first:

- No extra steps between code and running application

- No mismatch between schema and code

- Requires tooling for every language used in your stack. This tooling is usually more complex than schema-first codegen, but it is almost always built-into and core of the backend framework you are using so it tends to be better supported.

- Requires teams to know each service's backend language to propose changes

- Harder to build a coherent central API documentation if you have multiple services. Requires complex tooling for merging the different schemas from the different services

Schema first:

- Schema first means contract-first design, scales better to products with multiple separate teams using multiple languages. It is easier to learn the schema DSL than poke around backend language unknown to the developer

- Any change in the contract requires changes in two places (schema and code)

- API consumers can easily suggest changes to the schema that are implemented by the relevant team

- Usually requires some codegen step for each backend and client languages (with the usual codegen problems). Runtime-only schema validation can be done but it is usually a bad idea to rely only on it.

- Easier mocking. Clients can start implementing before backend is ready, tests can be written against mocks.

There are definitely more pros and cons that I am missing, but it is a tradeoff. I would say if you have multiple backend services and supporting multiple backend languages I would definitely go for schema-first.

You can work with OpenAPI in a schema-first way but as many people have pointed out over the years OpenAPI yaml files are, to be polite, not very human-friendly. TypeSpec seems to be a more sensible way to work with HTTP apis in a schema first way while keep interoperability with existing OpenAPI tooling at the cost of extra codegen step (typespec .tps -> openapi .yaml)
I wish people could just read Sāṁkhya and Nyāya philosophy once just to get a better understanding about consciousness and reasoning.

No science course requires you to learn epistemology beforehand, which is why things like these happen. People keep on bringing mental speculation and debating philosophy which has pretty much been discussed to death thousands of years ago.

A good lecture on this topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4FQBs4K8EDo

PS: Not trying to dismiss the blog post, it tries to get close. It's a good read.
The article has a childish tone (comparing head chopping regimes to, er, wealthy people) but past all the bluster there may be some substance here - The intercept killed a story about Jeff Bezos donating 50M to a charity run by Admiral William McRaven. Sadly little detail about what this person would’ve given Bezos in return.
German even has a (very old-fashioned) word for it: Leichenschmaus = the "banquet" you hold in honor of the deceased.
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I'm thinking of this primarily as a Gedankenexperiment, but also as a practical idea for a game that could live outside in the (English) rain!
Hard lesson to learn that employment is basically day to day nowadays.
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It would be super interesting if this man's psychoanalysis' notes are ever published. Did he ever think that he would be re-integrated back to society? Was he planning to steal someone's identity? Was he planning to live like this forever? Was he planning to build "a cabin in the woods" (Walden) and move there at a later age? What was his plan for when he reached the age of 60-70? A robbery of $100k isn't 'enough'. Was he plan to keep robbing once-per-year?

I think the 'I lost focus' is very accurate and describes a lot on his life. At least he didn't kill anyone. I hope he finds the peace he needs.
I got nerdsniped.
That was when i stopped using the cloud for storing personal stuff.

Fast forward a decade and i've more than had my fill of self hosting stuff, so a couple of years ago i went all in on the cloud again, though with a bit of a different approach.

Stuff that is not really sensitive is uploaded "as is". Yes, that includes our photos. While i don't want our photo library to be "public domain", there is nothing there of particular interest to anybody but my family and I.

For sensitive stuff i use Cryptomator to end to end encrypt data before uploading them to the cloud. It has desktop and mobile clients that allows me transparent access to my encrypted files on the go.
It's a tricky one. I'd lean towards no, but there are some chains that push up against it. Often ones that are either small and/or where at least some of their restaurants are not "obviously chain restaurants" and often also employing the "trick" of a small number spread across cities that makes it seem "fancier"

As an example, Aqua has restaurants in New York, Miami, Dubai, London, and Hong Kong. Some of them are branded Aqua, but most are not. So while it's a "chain", it feels fancy, perhaps more so than justified. E.g. their London restaurants are perhaps more flashy / "tourist fancy" w/e.g. two restaurants in the Shard, than "actually" fancy. They're mostly pretty mid-range, maybe upper mid-range for London. I think that's about where you'll get to as a chain. To get above that, you get to the level where you expect the restaurant to at least tell you about their chef by name, whether or not they're actually famous enough for you to recognise it.
What I'd really like is for the encryption to be plugable and orthogonal to file syncing.

Ie: authentication with dropbox/proton/bittorrent concerns only that you pay your storage/ingest/egress bill, but is otherwise unprotected and in the clear. Encryption of the file payload and metadata as a "bring-your-own" — on device — stream cypher (and key derivation, key management). Key exchange and sharing among devices or users might then use yet another service or mechanism.

Pretty sure presenting all that in a slick easy to understand way has significant challenges, but it would be great to alleviate some of the dropbox as a single point of failure.
This is not big enough to put a dent in sales.

If the product is sold by an influencer, it will be sold as "Used", long after the "hype period" is over. This initial period of booming sales is very important for products announced trough influencers.

Paying for the influences to do the work is more expensive than the products themselves, in pretty much every case I know of.

And even for expensive products: if you send something to an influencer with the expectation to get back, it will come back used and has to be sold as B-Stock for a loss anyway. For stuff up to $200, $300 it ends up being much cheaper to just give away.
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Closest thing I can think of is rotating houses / restaurants, but they go very slowly.

It would have to be big enough to avoid people getting dizzy, and even then it would still be a factor I think. That said, size/scale is less of a concern on the moon I would argue.
Thanks for interesting thoughts.
When reading it I get the feeling that the chances for "random" creation of complex life via Mars or directly seems almost infinitely small. To me it seems much more plausible that it was designed and created rather than a stroke of luck. Again, thanks for your thoughts.
I mean, if McDonald's along with every restaurant in SoDoSoPa wanted to join Olive Garden and Applebees on a voyage into the sun, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

The fundamental problem is that all of these businesses are devoid of soul, and the majority of the profits don't go to the people working them.
I only ever met one person who claimed they don't need to shower because they don't sweat. Boy, were they stinking, yet totally oblivious to it. No, we weren't friends - also because of the smell, but mostly because that came packaged with all weird extreme naturist beliefs.
> As Allen approached the dark spot, he saw a makeshift door, painted to blend in with the wall. Inside, he discovered the lair.

This story reminds me of the movie "Inside Man" [1], where a bank robber hides with the loot behind a fake wall in the bank, until the police investigation is done, and he can just walk out.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/
Starlink (v2 sats in particular) alone justifies Starship. Include HLS and potential Mars stuff and the comparison does not make sense. Don't listen to people who hate on SpaceX because of Musk. If you want to hate on him pick any AI-related thing, much easier target.
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Thank you for the feedback!

I agree that completion would be nice to have, and
probably relatively hard to implement for koch.

However, I prefer the cleanliness, dare I say beauty,
of the config file and Ruby.
Thanks for those links, that's superb. Sounds surprisingly like the "Oh long Johnson" cat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c
I used to feel the same, but eventually I came to understand that they have a tremendously important role in the business ecosystem.

Like sharks in the sea or wolves in the wilderness, they identify and remove sick and ailing businesses. Additionally they offer a convenient exit to tired owners and investors, thus incentivizing further business creation. Finally, they identify and exploit regulation-created monopolies, enabling the government to re-allow competition through deregulation - something more and more important in today's populist and regulation-happy climate.
Sorry to be that person but are there any free/OSS alternatives to the ones mentioned here? Mainly for macOS?
> “Blood flow restriction exercise has been shown in studies on Earth to give similar muscle, bone and cardiorespiratory training benefits normally seen during higher intensity exercise, at much lower exercise intensities and durations,” Caplan said.

Interesting, where can I learn more about putting this into practice?

I wonder if it is related to 'voodoo flossing tape', which is latex tape that is tightly wound around an injured joint. After exercising the tape is removed and this somehow seems to aid in healing, though it's not clear how it works.
IMO the fundamental issue is that the goal of private equity isn't to save the company, but to make as much money as quickly as possible off of it. The article hits on the exact pattern. Equity strips down a business, does whatever they can to juke the numbers with no concern for sustainability. As soon as they can make the numbers look appealing [enough], they sell it to the next sucker, and that person is left holding the bag, while the PE gets out with a tidy profit. From the article:

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After the real estate move, Golden Gate sold 25% of the company in 2016 to Thai Union, a Thailand seafood company, for $575 million and unloaded the rest of the company to an investor group called the Seafood Alliance, of which Thai Union was a part, in 2020. Golden Gate likely came out ahead, but the same can't be said for Thai Union, which also controls the Chicken of the Sea brand. It is now looking to get out of its stake in Red Lobster...

---

The bigger question to me is why there are so many entities interested in buying up businesses from private equity, when this exact pattern has been repeated about a million times. I suppose in this game nobody ever thinks they're the sucker. After all if you can casually toss around billions of dollars, you must clearly have had plenty of financial success at some point, and it most certainly was due exclusively to your exceptional financial genius.

It reminds one of NFTs in a way. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a poorly drawn picture of a cartoon ape is either moronic or brilliant dependent exclusively on whether you're the one left holding the cartoon.
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If this was the case, I would be pleasantly surprised that humanity has a better attitude on a whole than originally expected.

Sadly I am sure that most problems that goes on never make it to any corner of the internet that is public.
Given that there is some gravity, putting on a weighted suit to increase their mass would also make sense, although it'd be unwieldy if it's not distributed exactly the same. Plus, getting weight into space is expensive... although probably not as expensive as building a wall of death or spin gravity structure.
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> The objective fact of the matter, as I point out in the first article in the series, is that the scientific method produces vastly more accurate predictions than anything else humans have ever tried.

Which scientific method? As far as i know, there is no such thing as "the scientific method". Though, there are many methods.
Aka the "hungry judge effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect. But it's not like you can only fill your stomach up at a fancy restaurant (neither that you claim that nor that I find it being something bad).
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Wow this is fantastic. Great job!

Question - are you going to make an extension to show some of this information on the youtube site itself?

Looking forward to using this more!
> If you praise te, I think it is unfair to other people who are obsessed with technological innovation.

Lol this is music hardware. It's value is the joy people get from using it. The OP-1 has a huge fanbase that praise the workflow and the interface specifically. If "hardcore technology" is important to you then fine but I don't think that applies to most people buying synthesizers - right before the OP-1 the entire industry was deep in a trend of analog reissues.

FWIW I don't think an OP-1 is worth the asking price but after a short time with one it's clear where the money went.
To be clear this is the club side of pub: the rules here mean registered clubs and societies with a licence can serve cheaper booze and food. So it's the returned soldier league, the surf life Savers clubs and the bowls club, not a whitherspoons type pub. They make a lot of money running poker machines and bingo. The state is happy because they get 40% of the poker machine revenue and maintain traditional values like drinking a lot and gambling and saluting the portrait of the Queen at 5pm.

(I recommend Noosa Surf club: dolphins play along in the waves in the sunset as you eat prawns from a bucket and watch the sun go down)
I know 3 people who switched to folding Android phones from iPhones and love them, anecdotally all were women.
I used to work in Salt Lake, it's a really weird place. Very jarring with all the glass buildings that heat up the place, and horrible connectivity to the main city (in terms of public transport).
My take is if women can control how many children to have fertility drops down to replacement rate. If women have to give up autonomy when they have children they'll go lower than that. That's China, Japan, and Korea.
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> one may make good progress tuning one part of a system only to discover that a larger constraint prevails as the true bottleneck.

In my latest job this was exactly the case. We were modernising a good old big ball of mud. And we made very decent progress on a part that was supposed to read from an API. That was nice but turned out that the API itself is poorly designed, and the vast majority of problems and slowdowns are coming from the other side. And the true bottleneck was that the team responsible for data was not very well prepared, so there was little design, poor coding, etc. And what really turned out to be the bottleneck is that the entire department just has a problem with processes and with hiring and retaining qualified people, and with ups killing the existing ones ...
Definitely no LLM! Espeak dates from at least 10 years before LLMs appeared and was based on the approach used on Acorn computers in the 80s and 90s.
Glyphs are generally defined as pure outlines (the "glyf" table [1]), and the instruction set is an optional system for things like grid fitting. Ligatures, kerning etc. are normal tables.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/...
Another vote for Cloudflare Analytics. Not as powerful as GA, but I think that's why I like it. Cloudflare Analytics is much easier to use on a day to day basis!
To push landowners to use their property for something productive.

Obviously it backfired.
All parts would be spinning at the same angular velocity, so unless it's really far away from its centre of rotation (expensive, inconvenient) you'd experience more acceleration near the centre than at the edges.

Maybe that doesn't matter.
good reminder to enable 2fa on my dropbox account. Whoops.
Well, running on a flat surface is kinda hard in low g, so I guess you'd have to make some adjustments for that. But yeah basketball where players jump to the ceiling and then push of from the ceiling towards the floor could be quite crazy.

I'm kinda thinking handball would be insane, tho I wouldn't wanna be the goalie
Because Java is static and relatively simple, the level of autocompletion is absolutely fantastic. E.g. a simple case, typing:

int a = obj.

Would show first only methods that return integers. But this gets far more sophisticated with completion anticipating your preference, naming variables for you, filling in the parameters with sensible values etc.

Going back to the simple list of options is a bit of a pain. Also, this needs to be written in Java since it needs to read the API classes to make suggestions. But his editor code is probably in Swift.
tried your demo, very cool! as an SMB owner this will save me hours, when’s the earliest i can implement?
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Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't move.

I'd love to hear more about the product though! Without giving too much away, what does the product/company do? :)