skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff just ENRAGES me.

With that off my moobs ... for those interested in the broader topic, I highly recommend Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie. The audiobook is also excellent.

I'm not a working scientist, and I found it completely engaging. Worth it just for the explanation of p-hacking.
This is a really good point. Unless there is some tech angle these things don't usually make HN.

I wonder how much of it has to do with the overlap between tech nerds and Harry Potter nerds.
I would say it is too buggy at this point for regular users
Microsoft's more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users
I personally have no interest in “buying” anymore, either.

The games I care about are the ones that I can play with my friends, online. Nearly all of these have transitioned to driving revenue from other means than an upfront purchase.

I’m arguably paying less now, than I did when I was younger. I used to have dozens of games that I played just a few times. $60 to sit on the shelf.

Now, I “subscribe” to one or two flavors of the month. I pay perpetually, but my overall cost is lower since I’m only paying for what I actually use.
> So long as humans can create valuable output machines can't

Not all humans are going to be capable of this as time goes on. Those humans will be subjected to abject poverty.

The reality is not everyone can possess a highly skilled knowledge job. Not everyone can go to college. What of them?
Thanks for the writeup. There are indeed use cases, especially in the MS multiverse. Proof of the none->basic->complex “can do everything” (soap,xml,rpc)->radically simpler “do what really matters” (rest, json, markdown) path. I’m not really sure if dbt semantic layer is the final open “standard” for the future analytical models and metrics, it has own questionmarks, it is literally just a transformer with metrics as addon and there are just initial implementations, but today I’d rather give that thing a try. Simpler is so much better
IMO “evil” is a misconception. People have different beliefs and psychological needs, and placed in certain incentive structures that has the outcomes that we see. You can call certain behaviors “evil”, but that doesn’t explain anything about why the behaviors occur.
Cockroach Labs CEO: Diverse database models are essential as app demands surge
Not if you have security compliance rules you need to comply with in order to get customers, and those rules stipulate a password rotation schedule!
"We're the silver lining."

"We'll keep you on the edge of your seat."

"Nice parade you got there. It sure would be a shame if somebody were to rain on it."
Contrails Map
There is Binance US and Binance the global version. I expect Binance US to be tailored to US laws and regulations, but are you implying the global version is also under tight US govt control?
Go NVIDIA
> I figure you might as well branch 2 off of main while you wait for the go-ahead to merge 1 into main.

Ah, so sure, if you're talking about two separate pull requests, then that makes sense. But the equivalent with stacked diffs just simply wouldn't be stacked. These discussions are inherently on work that is dependent on previous work.

> so those pings aren't a big deal.

Yeah I wasn't sure if my specific suggestion would be too specific. Examples are hard.

> Maybe my brain isn't compatible, heh.

It's all good, I felt the same way for a long time. Maybe if you are bored and play around with Gerrit, (which is admittedly a bit janky) it'll make more sense. Or maybe not :)
Then no harm done in requiring that disclosure before people make an account!

Of course the entire business is built on creating the belief that a user can make a ton of money. Due to this mechanic, this is an actual lie.
You can write the high level structure yourself and let it complete the boilerplate code within the functions, where it's less critical/complicated. Can save you time.
It is well studied. I am pro-science more than I am pro-drug.

> D.A.R.E.’s original curriculum was not shaped by prevention specialists but by police officers and teachers in Los Angeles. They started D.A.R.E. in 1983 to curb the use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco among teens and to improve community–police relations. Fueled by word of mouth, the program quickly spread to 75 percent of U.S. schools.

> But for over a decade research cast doubt on the program’s benefits. The Department of Justice funded the first national study of D.A.R.E. and the results, made public in 1994, showed only small short-term reductions in participants’ use of tobacco—but not alcohol or marijuana. A 2009 report by Justice referred to 30 subsequent evaluations that also found no significant long-term improvement in teen substance abuse.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-d-a-r-e-p...

> Launched in 1983, D.A.R.E. was taught by police officers in classrooms nationwide. Their presentations warned students about the dangers of substance use and told kids to say no to drugs. It was a message that was repeated in PSAs and cheesy songs. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan even made it one of her major causes.

> Teaching drug abstinence remains popular among some groups, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's messaging to teenagers still focuses on the goal that they should be "drug-free." But numerous studies published in the 1990s and early 2000s concluded programs like D.A.R.E. had no significant impact on drug use. And one study actually found a slight uptick in drug use among suburban students after participation in D.A.R.E.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211217460/fentanyl-drug-educ...
€40 to receive it in 3 days or €0 to have it in 3 hours.
> ... as academics become more desperate.

Yes and ... we're already there.
Why fly at all? Why not hold meetings over the internet like other working people? Or organize the conference in Bradford or Blackpool, instead of some tropical paradise, and see how many people are still motivated to fly in?
Are you at least open to the idea that the major reason why many other nations like Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Panama, St Kitts came off the black list and into AML and KYC compliance is so they would have low friction wire transfers and banking in USD?

I think you're missing connecting the dots here. Countries with large USD transaction dependence comply with KYC precisely because otherwise they'd not be able to easily accept your wire transfer. They were pressured into it, this KYC requirement that is largely invisible to you. And the threat is well if they don't they end up like Myanmar which I promise your bank will be getting to know what the purpose and identity of any transaction you have with them is.

KYC dominates because of a worldwide regulatory effort, do this or you'll be cut off and it will be a nightmare to trade USD. Almost all large transactions go through KYC or reporting because it's been made difficult and usually illegal not to. Were this not the case you WOULD likely see lots of large transactions to Myanmar as various rich people use it as a haven for stashing funds anonymously ( although I think Panama etc would quickly steal the competitive edge).
it was very early. probably one of their all time best acquisitions in addition to YouTube.

Re:using RL and other types AI assistance for chip design, Nvidia and others are doing this too
What an asinine comparison. The criminal maintains full criminal liability even if the it’s an easy crime.
> keep flying, pumping CO2 and sleepwalking into disaster we all know is happening?

Focus on solveable problems. If you plot on the vertical axis amount of CO2 emitted and on horizontal public enthusiasm, flying is in the bottom right. It's a stupid thing to lobby against because for each unit of effort expended you're removing comparatively little CO2.
What if I've played for more than two hours and I'd like to finish the game?
What if Valve changes its refund policy?
What if the publisher forces me to go through another online shop (EPIC game)?

Valve is certainly a consumer-friendly company, but that's not the whole story and it doesn't change the fact that they're hiding vital information from consumers.
"Lease" perhaps?

> lease - a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.
There was a recent thread about the 2001 post that afaik eventually lead to this paper (diamond types is the rust implementation):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372833
>United States and Europe, by far the world's largest polluters since the industrial revolution

Not just that. US and Europe got into the position of prosperity and hegemony we are enjoying right now thanks to industrial revolution which emitted all that CO2 in the first place.
Note that they have a GitHub but they are not open source.
> "Such talk is verboten on HN"

That’s not my comment.

I was telling redwoolf why their comment was downvoted.
> There was a period of time when science was advanced by the aristocrats who were self funded and self motivated.

From a distance the practice of science in early modern and Enlightenment times might look like the disinterested pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. If you read the detailed history of the times you'll see that the reality was much more messy.
These sort of pay-to-play review marketing didn't originate on the internet. These are copies of arrangements that print media invented. My hometown newspaper had this kind of stuff too.
Most dopamine producing activities are in some way beneficial in moderation to outweigh the negatives (sex, eating, exercise, even many recreational drugs). I don't know whether pointlessly bleeding money away to some greasy corporation counts there. That said I don't like telling people how they should waste their money but it seems there needs to be some form of a plan for problem gambling.
I am mildly impressed that the floppy drive is not a supply chain liability nowadays.
Restaurants don't tell me that I'm buying a table in the restaurant; they tell me I'm getting a meal. Movie theaters don't tell me I'm buying a seat in the theater; they tell me I'm seeing a movie.

Paying to play a game for some time is fine, but they shouldn't lie about what terms you're getting.
And occasionally a grad student who discovers academic dishonesty, and complains internally (naively trusting administrators to have humility and integrity), has their career ended.

I suppose a silver lining to all the academic fraud exposés of the last few years is that more grad students and faculty now know that this is a thing, and one that many will try to cover up, so trust no one.

Another silver lining might be that fellow faculty are more likely to believe an accusation, and (if they are one of the awful people) less likely to think they can save funding/embarrassment/friend by neutralizing the witness.

(ProTip: If the success of your dishonesty-reporting approach is predicated on an internal administrator having humility and integrity, realize that those qualities are the opposite of what has advanced a lot of academic careers.)
Don't hate the player hate the game. Governments made scientist only survive if they show results and specifically the results they want to see. Otherwise no anymore grants and you are done. Whether the results are fake or true does not matter

"Science" nowadays is mostly BS, while the scientific method (hardly ever used in "science" nowadays) is still gold.
To reinforce this point, it is around 375 atmospheres at the titanic. The deep sea is a crazy place.
This work from Google (original Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03544-w) has been credibly criticized by several researchers in the EDA CAD discipline. These papers are of interest:

- A rebuttal by a researcher within Google who wrote this at the same time as the "AlphaChip" work was going on ("Stronger Baselines for Evaluating Deep Reinforcement Learning in Chip Placement"): http://47.190.89.225/pub/education/MLcontra.pdf

- The 2023 ISPD paper from a group at UCSD ("Assessment of Reinforcement Learning for Macro Placement"): https://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Publications/Conferences/396/c396.p...

- A paper from Igor Markov which critically evaluates the "AlphaChip" algorithm ("The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for Chip Macro Placement"): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.09633

In short, the Google authors did not fairly evaluate their RL macro placement algorithm against other SOTA algorithms: rather they claim to perform better than a human at macro placement, which is far short of what mixed-placement algorithms are capable of today. The RL technique also requires significantly more compute than other algorithms and ultimately is learning a surrogate function for placement iteration rather than learning any novel representation of the placement problem itself.

In full disclosure, I am quite skeptical of their work and wrote a detailed post on my website: https://vighneshiyer.com/misc/ml-for-placement/
> Given the development model of Lisp is modifying a live image of a running program

I would say it is modifying the running program itself. An image is the saved version of the heap. Saving/loading images is optional.

But with Lisp one can also compile source files to compiled files. In rare occasions it is also possible to compile whole programs.
> We use EM radiation for illnesses and doctors apply them.

Do you have examples of usage as a treatment? I can only think of rTMS (whose effectiveness is contentious).
If you solution involves getting the general population to do something or "be better" somehow, it's not a practical solution.
> That's impossible to achieve in practice as you probably knew before spending time to write this ...

True. Well, not impossible, but no guarantees. But the stipulation is that civilians lose their protection if they are close or inside military targets ...

> And it's also not a valid defense for any attacker since being next to the wrong person on the street ...

True. But civilians lose protection if they are close to or inside military targets.

The onus is on the militaries ... and terrorists ... to distance themselves and their infrastructure from civilians. Western militaries do this, and not doing it, even when there are no victims, is a warcrime. Terrorists, as a matter of policy, don't do this. That's one of the things that makes them so problematic.

The rules are documented here:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

You will find stuff like:

Article 19

The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded.

(this matters because a lot of stuff, like humanitarian flights/convoys/red cross personnel/... are given "the same protection as hospitals")

Article 28

The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

Article 29

The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual responsibility which may be incurred.

...

In other words: human shields may be attacked if they are near a valid military target. If anything happens to them, the responsibility for this rests solely with the government they live under. (and thus NOT the attacking party)
> Unsure about the effectiveness of banning air travel ads. If you have a compelling reason to go somewhere (...)

I'm not sure you realize this, but travel ads are used to create demand among those who do not have a compelling reason to go to the advertised travel destination. That's the point, and the whole reason they are posted. I mean, if you already have a compelling reason to go somewhere, how would an advertisement affect you?
For safety, rapid charging, or other reasons, some batteries include a thermal probe and a contact for that.

So it wouldn't be hard for the replacement batteries to have yet another contact and this one wired to a part of the circuit board perhaps intended to be used only for testing during manufacturing but going hot thanks to modded firmware that matches a certain phone number or something. It only takes a few bytes of extra instructions to match a string and set a pin high/low on a micro-controller.

Alternatively using a microcontroller inside that battery that is signaled through existing contacts would take even less wiring. The signaling code to activate the microcontroller would be a bit more complex, but since you don't care what happens afterwards you can still keep it small.
> Why fly at all? Why not hold meetings over the internet like other working people?

Speaking as someone who flies for high-value meetings, I will beat the guy literally phoning it in about three times out of four solely because I expended the effort to meet in person. Partly because it's a social gesture, showing I'm willing to expend time and resources for the person [1]. Partly because we're human beings who connect better in person than virtually.

When the stakes are international relations, the CO2 impact of the flights is peanuts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_exchange_theory
>The problem with cumulative data is that you can't justify your wrongdoing just because someone else did it too.

It's a classic tragedy of commons problem.
Show us on the chart where they hurt you

https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/januar...
I have the same (and ran into this trying to wrap my head around why Maven didn't work... I don't want a tutorial explaining how to get started, I need to understand the fundamentals to understand what's happening!).

I think, however, that starting from the examples might help with good API design: if you design your API to be "core concept first", this will likely lead to an API that _can only be used after you understand the core concepts_, which is not great when people are only occasional users.
> The article is written for normal people

You think “normal people” can’t understand “go for a walk” as a rule? Non-programmers aren’t dunces. You don’t need to be overly literal to understand click bait.

> it is not as well known

I didn’t mean it in the sense of “everyone knows this” but as “the body of evidence for the claim is strong”.
BTRFS
That's not how grants work, they don't come with a "you can't report on us specifically" clause.
Dame Judi Dench and John Cena to Voice Meta AI Chatbot
They wrote that these things can be found in paid sources.
It's a matter of truth and not optics.
Imagine a bit level systolic array. Just a sea of LUTs, with latches to allow the magic of graph coloring to remove all timing concerns by clocking everything in 2 phases.

GPUs still treat memory as separate from compute, they just have wider bottlenecks than CPUs.
I built a similar device some years ago only to realise that all my servomotors where cheap knockoffs that broke after 5 minutes l.

Has anyone managed to get those $2 servos on Ali to work reliably?
> There's a false dichotomy between prohibition and laissez-faire, which the US seems particularly prone to.

You are raising an interesting question there. I always wondered why in US many things have to be either Yes or Now, Good or Bad, Black or White, Left or Right, Up or Down and so on.

No (or very few) things, opinions or anything in between.
Well that's why anyone who is anyone at OpenAI has left already
unfortunately this is because I cant afford to digitally sing mac apps, there is a trick to make it work in the USAGE.md but it is up to you. 200 euros per year for a pro bono project is ridiculous, you can also easily build your own dmg file from the sources as it is an open source project in the end.
Smile variation leaks personality and increases accuracy interpersonal judgments
> What if alternatives are worse? Slower? More expensive?

Just like the sacrifices they expect the rest of us to make? They want me to give up my car for one with worse range or no car at all, while they still get to own cars and fly on jets because "there aren't many rich people, it's only logical that we are given a pass for everything we want you to stop doing."
What LLM do you use? I've not gotten a lot of use out of Copilot, except for filling in generic algorithms or setting up boilerplate. Sometimes I use it for documentation but it often overlooks important details, or provides a description so generic as to be pointless. I've heard about Cursor but haven't tried it yet.
What a user-friendly interface.
We can solve this at the grant level. Stipulate that for every new paper a group publishes from a grant, that group must also publish a replication of an existing finding. Publication would happen in pairs, so that every novel thing would be matched with a replication.

Replications could be matched with grants: if you receive $100,000 grant, you'd get the $100,000 you need, plus another $100,000 which you could use to publish a replication of a previous $100,000 grant. Researchers can choose which findings they replicate, but with restrictions, e.g. you can't just choose your group's previous thing.

I think if we did this, researchers would naturally be incentivized to publish experiments that are easier to replicate and of course fraud like this would be caught eventually.

I bet we could throw away half of publications tomorrow and see no effect on the actual pace of progress in science.
> There is no compelling reason to fly to Bali from the Hague each year.

I know the feeling, but you do not need to travel to the opposite side of the planet to enjoy nice weather.
Show HN: ITPG – Platform where students can rate their professors
ITPG or Is This Professor Good ?, is a platform where students can rate their professors. This foss application can easily be self hosted with docker. Useful links: simple docker compose: https://github.com/vanillaiice/itpg-docker-compose, demo: https://demo.itpg.cc, main website: https://itpg.cc
Take a person with a full head of hair and remove one hair, are they bald? Remove another one, bald? Clearly not, but if you keep removing hairs at some point you have a head we consider bald. Deregulation has been working like that. It's hard to point to one discrete event.

In any case, the process really got going under Jimmy Carter. If we're talking about airlines, I guess you could point to the Airline Deregulation Act. The airline industry had been built in the first place by what people in this thread would call "protectionist" policies.

Stock buybacks are a big part of the story as well. These were illegal market manipulation I think from the Great Depression until the 80's under Reagan.
Then don't travel further than 500 km until we have a sustainable bio fuel. That's the only right answer.
> Expecting the intersection of these to be literally zero is an unreasonable standard.

Nobody expects the intersection to be zero - not the banks, not the regulators. The rule is that banks must take prudent measures, and the definition of that has evolved over time (as financial crime has evolved over time).

Google "risk-based anti-money laundering approach" or if you'd like a more thorough introduction, listen to the Dark Money Files podcast.

I have libertarian sympathies too, especially since most AML rules were originally established to fight the war on drugs (my sympathies lie with the dealers, sorry). But I'm pretty happy to make life hard for terrorists, bad governments, and kleptocrats - who, unlike the characters in Reefer Madness, are not just bogeymen.
The most boring example is x-rays. Slightly less boring are the radiation therapies for cancer.

What is maybe the most applicable that is widely accepted is electric therapy for people recovering from ACL surgeries.