skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been said that "Publish or Perish" would make a good tomb stone epitaph for a lot of modern sciences.

I speak to a lot of people in various science fields and generally they are some of the heaviest drinkers I know simply because of the system they have been forced into. They want to do good but are railroaded into this nonsense for dear of losing their livelihood.

Like those that are trying to progress our treatment of mental health but have ended up almost exclusively in the biochemicals space because that is where the money is even though that is not the only path. It is a real shame.

Also other heavy drinkers are the ecologists and climatologists, for good reason. They can see the road ahead and it is bleak. They hope they are wrong.
Private property sure, but intellectual property is not universal to all capitalist markets. And the protections vary and change. Even in American, often-times accused of strong IP protections, the protection is limited, as we're seeing here.
This seems like a rhetorical question, because it's as simple as a buyer going to something like Zillow and clicking through houses. Realtors are on their way out.
"He could have done better" is a very different thing to say than "it feels like a bad faith argument instead of a genuine concern".

People are people and people can often "do better" in many ways on account of being people. That doesn't mean they're acting in bad faith.
I follow a bunch of longtime lawyers who have a lot to say about how prosecutions work in practice and it's pretty interesting. Here's what I've learned:

1. The Federal conviction rate is ~99%. Federal prosecutors don't bring charges when they aren't going to win;

2. Most prosecutions end in plea deals before they get to trial. In fact, the threat of a heavy sentence at trial is used to extract a plea deal because trials are expensive. If every defendant went to trial the entire justice system would collapse;

4. You can never predict what a jury will do or what they will focus on. It's a huge gamble but it favors the prosecution. Juries want to convict, generally;

5. In Federal court, you want to get past the trial phase and into the sentencing phase. That's where the defendant can do a lot to get a lesser sentence. In state court, it's the opposite;

6. Judges and prosecturos are aligned on their goals. Not for prosecution, necessarily. Both don't want to be overturned on appeal;

7. Appeals are a deeply unfair and drawn out process. This can be abused. If you followed the YSL trial at all, you saw the judge essentially coerce testimony and refuse to disclose the details to the defense saying there was a record that would be preserved for an appeal. That judge ultimately got removed from the case but you should know that an appeal is a much higher burden to meet than anything at trial;

8. Prosecutors want a slam dunk case. The best way is to a cooperating witness. The first person to flip, gets the best deal.

So Ellison got a sweetheart deal because she immediately flipped besides arguably being the main person responsible for losing billions of dollars. Yes, SBF allowed her access to custodial funds and for that alone he deserves to go to prison.

Judges have a lot of discretion with sentencing despite their being sentencing guidelines. It's one area where a judge's biases can really show up when similar defendants can get wildly different sentences for the same crime.

2 years does seem pretty light given the gravity of the fraud, even with being a cooperating witness. Her lawyer is alrgely responsible for that, I would guess by gaming the sentencing process. Still, I imagine there was some belief that she was simply naive or she got caught up in the fraud and wasn't really responsible.
This is super cool!

One of the most important lessons I've learned in all my time building things, is that it's very often the mechanical and physical construction that makes or breaks a project.

Electronics and software are pretty forgiving, but bad mechanical design directly translated to a bad product and a bad experience building it. I love to see progress in that aspect of DIY!
Nuclear needs for more specialist disciplines than turbine maintenance. The systems are more complex. And you have to deal with a wider range of hazards. All whilst having the worlds most onerous rules.
Private browsing doesn't work because Twitter basically requires users to be logged in to see anything. So it really requires having a separate burner Twitter account you'd use to follow people who've blocked you on your main. It's a decent bit of extra effort that also requires a second phone number at this point.
> and their usage translates to higher quality development -- much higher quality than is usually ever found on GitHub or Discord

There are plenty of great software projects with development run using both discord and GitHub. The advantages are that it allows one to run both development and a grow a community, and more importantly it brings in massive numbers of young developers who will one day become important figures in a long term project. Simply ignoring where young developers are today is not a good idea imo.

The tradeoffs you said are real, but the benefits I argue are real as well. And it's easy to make a discord bot to have all messages be duplicated in another application, such as irc, or record them.
Highlights from Matt Mullenweg's Spiciest Word Camp Presentation, WordCamp US 24
The "rapid" in development of web technologies is a lie.
It literally doesn't work. You need to be logged into Twitter to see basically anything. Twitter logged out experience is basically just a login page.
Red Hat Trademark Guidelines (from Model Trademark Guidelines)
After decades upon decades of teaching Western society to “Trust The Science”—where “Science” means “published academic research papers”—you can't unteach society from thinking this way with a simple four-word appeal to logic.

The damage has already long since been done. It's great that people are starting to realize the mistake, but it's going to take a lot more work than just saying “stop hyping single studies” in this comments thread to radically alter the status quo.

I once knew a guy who ended his friendship of many years with me over an argument about “safe drug use sites”, or whatever they're called—those places where drug addicts can go to “safely” do drugs with medical staff nearby in case they inadvertently overdose. Dude was of the belief that these initiatives were unequivocally good, and that any common-sense thinking along the lines of, “hey, isn't that only going to encourage further self-destructive behavior in vulnerable members of the populace?” could be countered by pointing to a handful of studies that supposedly showed that these “safe shoot-up sites” had been Proven To Be Unequivocally Good, Actually.

I took a look at one of these published academic research “studies”—said research was conducted by finding local drug dealers and asking them, before and after a “safe shoot-up site” was constructed, how their business was doing. The answer they got was, “more or less the same”—so the paper concluded (by means of a rather remarkable extrapolation, if I do say so myself) that these “safe shoot-up sites” were Provably Objectively Good For Society.

After pointing this out to my friend of many years, he informed me that I had apparently become some flavor of far-right Nazi or whatever, and blocked me on all social media platforms, never speaking to me again.

You're not going to get people like him to see reason by just saying “stop hyping single studies” and calling it a day. Our entire culture revolves around placing a rather unreasonable amount of completely blind faith in the veracity of published academic research findings.
Discord in my experience is almost too good at off-the-cuff chatting.
There is a department store in Berlin called KaDeWe that is definitely worth a visit if it is doomed. It is probably the coolest department store I've ever seen.
There is no one hovering over scientists all the time ready to stick a hot poker in them when they make a mistake or get careless. I was in academia and my impression is there is a reluctance to double and triple check results to make sure they are right as long as the results match your instincts, whether it's time pressure, laziness, bias, or just being human.
Agreed. I think this is basically like phishing but for LLMs.
> so they've signed a contract with the government to guarantee price and demand

Matt Levine writes about a gas contract where the gas supplier was obliged to deliver gas at a fixed price. However the contract required that the plant be completed. The spot price has been above the fixed price so the plant owners have been selling gas on the open market and the owners have not technically "completed" the plant on purpose (perhaps by not painting one last rivet).
The ancient design of the page is very topical.
Interesting! I'll definitely check out Wikimedia.

My project is for planning hiking trips so the areas I'm searching typically are places in the wilderness that don't have many photos. Right now I'm not doing any ranking. I just semi-randomly take ten photos for the search area.
Related

Why most published research findings are false (2015) (157 points, 2 years ago, 80 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33265439

2015: Why most published research findings are false (70 points, 1 hour ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641274
If I were running fastly, I'd donate bandwidth so that you would implement turn-key, bring-your-api-key fastly support to your open source setup!

As for other cdns - I remember https://neocities.org/ built their own cdn - but I couldn't immediately find a blog post about the cdn, or something related in their GitHub (unless every node runs part of it, which would make sense, I guess).
Oh okay, thanks for the response. I see more where you're coming from.

I don't think I'd describe what you're talking about as "scientism", it's more just a confusion about what science is.

There are a lot of critiques of so-called "scientism" but they focus on the assertion that there are ways of "knowing" things that are inaccessible to the scientific process. This more or less directly implies the supernatural (since we have to leave naturalism to understand it) or trolling (which is basically what postmodernism is).

Part of what you're running into in this site is that there is a political dislike of education, knowledge, and science in some coding circles. Your original comment brought out a few of them.
You want NIMBY/NIMBY, let Manhattan into the chat!

You have Elizabeth Street garden getting bulldozed for affordable housing, Chinatown bulldozed for a megajail (yes, in Manhattan), and who knows what'll happen with casinos in Hudson Yards. Then rezoning stopped in Soho, Noho, UWS, even Gowanus.
same in US with SSN everything is difficult.
Duocon 2024 [video]
Why is the security hygiene of the healthcare industry a problem of the Federal government as opposed to a problem of the players?
https://lwn.net/Articles/986480/
Most banks just receive, not send via fednow so not possible to use right now.
No, because when prosecutors offer a light sentence to a secondary criminal in a conspiracy, it's usually a strategic decision to secure cooperation in prosecuting the main target. It wouldn't make sense that a lighter sentence for an accomplice/secondary sets a precedent for a principal actor and Diddy is the principal actor in his case, AFAIK.

(I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with any of this, just saying this is the internally consistent approach.)
Can a Drug Extend Your Fertility by Five Years?
On many platforms this can depend on the size and timing of the allocation. As soon as a new PAGE has to be allocated (either because the allocation is large, or because the rest of the heap became full), it is zero initialized (pretty sure all OSes do this, to prevent cross-process spying), but if it's just a malloc inside an existing page, it does not clear previous cruft.
> Vance will be meeting with Trump regularly

This varies from administration to administration. On the economic portfolio, there is zero indication Vance has remit. (From what I can tell, zero involvement in cabinet decisions, for example.)
At this point I can only hope that all these LLM products get exploited so massively and damning-ly that all credibility in them evaporates, before that misplaced trust causes too much insidious damage to everybody else.

I don't want to live in a world where some attacker can craft juuuust the right thing somewhere on the internet in white-on-white text that primes the big word-association-machine to do stuff like:

(A) Helpfully" display links/images where the URL is exfiltrating data from the current user's conversation.

(B) Confidently slandering a target individual (or group) as convicted of murder, suggesting that police ought to shoot first in order to protect their own lives.

(C) Responding that the attacker is a very respected person with an amazing reputation for one billion percent investment returns etc., complete with fictitious citations.
There is a distinct and appreciable difference between having a lower credit limit and not having the actual money in my bank account.

One of those involves me not having money. One does not.
Any particular models you can recommend for someone trying out local models for the first time?
This is a common failure mode when people outside academic CS read CS papers. They take the papers too literally.

Computer science studies computation as an abstract concept. The work may be motivated by what happens in the industry, but it's not supposed to produce anything immediately applicable. Papers may include fake justifications and fake applications, because populist politicians decided long ago that all publicly funded research must have practical real-world applications. But you should not take them at face value.

Academic CS values abstract results over concrete results, because real-world systems change too rapidly. Real-world results tend to become obsolete too quickly to be relevant in the time scales the academia is supposed to operate.

If you are not in academic CS, you should be careful when reading the papers that you understand the context. Most of the time, you are not in the target audience. Even when there is something relevant in the paper, it's probably not the main result, but an idea related to it. And if you start investigating where that idea came from, it probably builds on many earlier results that seemed obscure and practically irrelevant on their own.

Peer reviewers usually spend a few hours on a single review (though there is a lot of variation between fields). A week would be so expensive that most established academics would have to stop teaching and doing research and become full-time reviewers.
One of the dumber features on the internet. It permanently degrades the user experience and with no recourse.
Doesn’t it affect citizens and the economy? Saying that you have to be minimally competent to handle medical data seems pretty similar to saying that you have to follow basic hygiene rules to run a hotdog cart. We have centuries of experience showing that things like this aren’t effectively controlled by individual lawsuits, both because they’re expensive to fight and because people are very creative at coming up with ways to shelter the proceeds.
> When you spent an entire week working on a test or experiment that you know should work

I thought the whole point of doing experiments was to challenge what we "know" so we can refine our understanding?
> Being a monopoly isn’t illegal. You have to also behave anti-competitively.

Which is why it's reasonable to some that someone getting in trouble for "being a monopoly" is actually getting in trouble for some specific actions they took.
You should also understand that there are external forces here, like state sponsorships that monetarily rewards for scientists to simply file enough research findings.

The startling rise in the publication of sham science papers has its roots in China, where young doctors and scientists seeking promotion were required to have published scientific papers. Shadow organisations – known as “paper mills” – began to supply fabricated work for publication in journals there.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio...

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two decades, a Nature analysis has found. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8

That's why a recent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41607430, where the measurement of China leads world in 57 of 64 critical technologies was based on number of journal citations, was laughable.
A portion of “product-market fit” failures are actually software quality failures. I think it’s easy to blame the ensh*ttification of software on corporate incompetence, but I think “minimally viable” is part of the story as well.

The world we have now where everything is built to be thrown away, including software, has had the side-effect of destroying craftsmanship. And I'm becoming more convinced as I age that the world is poorer for it.
Look up welfare trap. Many benefit programs are implemented such that they go away the second you start working. This means if I am getting $X per week in welfare but I get an employment offer of $Y per week where Y<X, then I am incentivized to stay on welfare. Even if Y>X, it often makes sense to stay on welfare because you might have to start paying for child care, or buy a second car to get to work, etc...

> You have to get out of that borrow, hunt and forage to survive.

Modern society has put significant constraints on how I can pursue survival. I can't just go and fish in the ocean, because there are regulations on how and what I can catch. I can't just go and farm a little piece of land because almost all land is owned by someone or something. Of the many reasons I think UBI is a good idea, a major reason is that I consider it payment for the loss of "natural rights" that we give up in order to live in a modern society. I think fishing regulations are good thing, but they also curtail my ability to subsist, so I think UBI is a good compensation for that.
The Gigafactory Nevada site was selected back in 2014. Tesla is just a leader in this space. They are still doing grid level storage in left leaning California.

In fact, a project more than 10 times this big was just announced in California.

https://www.intersectpower.com/tesla-provides-intersect-powe...
Retweeted posts also seems too far. That person could be agreeing or criticizing them, but you can't comment on it? That means any dissenters can just not comment on your posts.
I think it's probably more likely that he became a right wing warrior because he was always that thing, but finally felt that he was untouchable.
Unless there were some sort of government-provided zero fee digital system for money transfer. Oh well, surely such a thing will never exist.
Idiocracy is a rare example of something that is aging like cheese instead of milk.
Cool concept and it seems weirdly effective. It would certainly help us lazy people to have the web version hosted somewhere, I'm assuming it could be a static site, since the meat of it is in WASM, right?

Would this be amenable to "morphing between presets", or even manually combining a selection from one network into another network? Lots of things to try out here!
You can create a new account. It's a poorly designed feature that degrades the user experience semi-permanently and with no recourse.
You think she stole a few?
Sure. I chose mechanical engineering because I liked car movies. Heck, I thought fast and furious was cool and I wanted to go to college to learn to design and make car tuning parts.

Don't underestimate how foolishly 17 year olds fill out their college applications based on random crazy thoughts occuring to them that month.
>Unfortunately the author John Ioannidis turned out to be a Covid conspiracy theorist, which has significantly affected his reputation as an impartial seeker of truth in publication.

Ad hominem attacks against ideas can safely be ignored.
This is pure speculation. It's not implemented yet and there is no detailed explanation of how it will work. It could easily still prevent your posts from being algorithmically recommended.
What if you could get instant feedback on your code?
They went a whole article without describing the reaction under test.
The US payments market is a symphony of abusive practices that gouge everyone. Besides Visa and Mastercard, you have the chargeback cards that basically make things cheaper for the rich. Merchants have even figured out how to get in on the action by creating non-fungible money called "gift-cards". And all that on top of random people telling stories of how their merchant account was shut down suddenly and without appeal.

But, God forbid that the government build any infrastructure for the economy's main highway, and crypto is the only alternative possible.
Ask HN: Fresh CS grad – are you struggling to get a tech job?
5 days ago, HN had a long thread on a WSJ article [1] that stated tech jobs for fresh CS grads had dried up. I'm hearing the same from my nephew at Berkeley who's a talented programmer yet is struggling to get internships even after aceing coding assessments online. I'm confused as funding for startups remains similar to 2 years ago [2] and I suspect even large tech companies know that future tech leads must be built by nurturing CS grads. What am I missing?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41591765
[2] https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/state-of-startups-q2-2024-charts/
Nope, Twitter blocking is a poorly designed feature that permanently degrades the user experience.
> Almost as easy as writing a docker file.

It's easier because you get a sane shell instead of a poor reimplementation of a tiny subset of one.

I maintain many aur packages, and wrote the first one in half an hour, knowing nothing about Arch packaging at the time. Now it takes me maybe 5-10 minutes to package a small application that adheres to the standard conventions.

I spent maybe two days on my first Debian package. It was also the last one (not really, but almost so).
Sure you do. ASML has a famous 100% monopoly on advanced photolithography machines, but I've never heard anyone accuse them of anticompetitive behavior - there's just nobody else who knows how to make them so well. I guess it's not how Visa works though.
You could design Twitter in a way where handles in quoted tweets aren't clickable if the quoter is blocked by the quotee, but the quotee can still be notified that they've been quoted by somebody they blocked, and optionally choose to see the post. Same for deletion, you could make quotes literally include the original post and preserve it forever, but notify viewers when the original is deleted.
But a lighter sentence could, for example, range from no jail time to rates of less than 100 percent of the expected sentence in the case of non-cooperation. The prosecutor's recommendation of no jail time is frankly disappointing. She may not have been the main offender, but she committed the crimes.
What would her sentence have been if she did not cooperate (and suppose other did or there was enough evidence anyway)? Fifteen+ years? Two years is not a picnic, but given the alternative, it looks like it is.
Thanks! Very useful advice.