skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Retraction Watch website does a good job of reporting on various cases of retractions and scientific misconduct [1].

Like many others, I hope that a greater focus on reproducibility in academic journals and conferences will help reduce the spread of scientific misconduct and inaccuracy.

[1]: https://retractionwatch.com/
I agree it seems wildly optimistic.
> This _shared_ filesystem is mounted on all Worker and Login nodes and contains another root directory, possibly of a different Linux distribution.

Is it possible to mount this shared filesystem on the root directory of the container? Then this slurm plugin isn’t needed.
Not OP, but there are some fairly complex/decent use cases with Microsoft Excel.

Overall not much.

Some could argue that there is value in "bash like" vbscript automations via cscript, but that became legacy after Powershell came along.
I'm the furthest thing from a scientist unless you count 3,000 hours of PBS spacetime, but I love science and so science/academia fraud to me, feels kinda like the worst kinda fraud you can commit. Financial fraud can cause suicides and ruin in lives, sure, but I feel like academic fraud just sets the whole of humanity back? I also feel that through my life I've (maybe wrongly) placed a great deal of respect and trust in scientists, mostly that they understand that their work is of the upmost importance and so the downstream consequences of mucking around are just too grave. Stuff like this seems to bother me more than it rationally should. Are people who commit this type of science fraud just really evil humans? Am I over thinking this? Do scientists go to jail for academic fraud?
"You can't fix stupid" doesn't entail that you shouldn't regulate activities with potentially catastrophic consequences for families. It entails the opposite.

We can, and should mitigate the harm to individuals and families that stems from said "stupidity" through... precisely... regulation.

Go to a GA meeting some time. People who develop crippling gambling addictions are exposed to gambling precisely through going to a casino "as a gag to throw away expendable income," the same way most alcoholics are exposed to alcohol through casual, healthy drinking. No one walks into a casino thinking "let's throw my life and the financial security of my family away," and the proclivity for such is not readily predictable with any meaningful precision at present.

The inference to draw from this is that we should reduce harm through regulation, not double down on the damage we're causing and writing off the resulting, predictable damage as immaterial because the "people were stupid."

Like... what is your actual goal? Increasing human misery? Creating a society in which people predictably suffer from the predictable, catastrophic consequences of unregulated enterprise?

(This isn't even touching the blanket categorization of everyone who develops a crippling addiction as "stupid," which doesn't withstand even superficial scrutiny. What's the point of that blanket demonization?)

The medicalization of the underlying problem should push you towards an epidemiological perspective on the problem, not a thin, incoherent moralizing knee-jerk.

Like... "you can't fix stupid" - sure, my grandmother was scammed while declining into (heretofore undiagnosed) dementia. Is the inference to draw "she's stupid, let's permit unfettered exploitation of people?" No, it's let's keep financial fraud illegal, prosecute the scammers, take some steps to help grandma prevent a repeat, and behave like sane, compassionate individuals.
You do not need to request any sort of OS permission or Drive API access to read or write Drive files that are selected using the system document picker. You do need to specify that you want a writable file when you open the picker. The system will grant your app write permission for that file URI only.
IBM opens its quantum-computing stack to third parties
> The case I was making, is that weakhash(stronghash(m)) has the security of weakhash, no matter how strong stronghash is.

I'll have to disagree. There are no known collision attacks against SHA-1(SHA-3(M)), so in the applied case, a combination can be more secure for some properties, even if it isn't in the theoretical case.
> It did not reduce student drug use. In face, it backfired and taught kids about interesting drugs that they probably wouldn't have found learned about otherwise.

I will never forget the day in fifth grade when a DARE representative came to our class with a briefcase full of samples of esoteric (to me at least) drugs. The way they were presented made them extremely appealing to me, similar to perusing the choices at a high-end candy store. I don't know for sure if this had any effect on me but I strongly suspect that it did.
Pilots aren't there to fly the plane when everything is going well. They're there to be the qualified professionals who bring everyone home when everything is going wrong.
In the future those who commit fraud are not likely leave trace in Western blot and photomicrograph audit.

When the experiments are significant, double blind is not enough. You need external auditors when conducting experiments. Preferably separate team making experiments from those who design them.
For all the complaints about AI generated content showing up in scientific journals, I'm exited for the flip side, where an LLM can review massive quantities of scientific publications for inaccuracies/fraud.

Ex: Finding when the exact same image appears in multiple publications, but with different captions/conclusions.

The evidence in this case came from one individual willing to volunteer hundreds of hours producing a side by side of all the reports. But clearly that doesn't scale.
I am absolutely shocked to read the replies from everyone thinking "journalistic integrity" was a thing practiced by American Media. Clearly, everyone runs the same stories, same soundbites, same focuses. How could one think "the news" nationwide across 1000s of different outlets just happened to hone in on the same dozen-or-so topics on a daily basis.
What about physical game disks? I own the disk and can play the game as long as I have the disk. I can also resell or share the disk. Sony once demonstrated this on stage during the PS4 launch.

Digital licenses take away all of this and add the possibility that your licence can disappear at any time.
I find the power asymmetry is in my favour. I give money to the bookmaker or I don't.

If I don't, then the bookmaker is powerless as regards my money.

If I do, then I also gain some power over the bookmaker's money.

I don't expect many to see it the same way. Most people are more concerned than I am with the problems suffered by those whose decision making does not interact well with the existence of the gambling industry. Given their concerns, it is understandable that they wouldn't share my perspective.
The thesis does describe doing this fwiw while the paper does not.
Cool story I guess, but that’s not related to anything I said.
How far are we from memory-based computing going from research into competitive products? I get the impression that we are already well passed the point where it makes sense to invest very aggressively to scale up experiments with things like memristors. Because they are talking about how many new nuclear reactors they are going to need just for the AI datacenters.
Oil ads? I hardly recall seeing ads for oil. Maybe ban ads for ICE vehicles would be more in line with their goals. Not that I necessarily support that.
This doesn't explain why surveillance is required on the buyer's side. Why can't you go to a retail store, buy an anonymous prepaid debit card for cash and then use it to make purchases over the internet without giving anyone your social security number? The cash you're using has already been taxed.
Worst case execution times are generally unknowable, even at codegen. It depends on things like the specific microarchitectural details, what other instructions are currently executing, the memory hierarchy, what instructions have been executed before, how the power supply is responding, what the thermal environment is like, etc.

HAL/S dealt with these problems by a combination of programmer/validation discipline, custom hardware designed for hard real-time usecases, and generous support from the underlying RTOS (FCOS). Cryptography code doesn't deal with it, it just avoids data dependent nondeterminism, which is good enough for those use cases.
>Here viable means getting there with comparable travel time and cost but fewer CO2 emissions.

That's the rub. It's rarely comparable travel time except some point to points. Even in Europe. I travel by train within Europe (mostly) whenever I can. But it usually takes longer, costs more, and may involve sleepers on longer routes.
It's about time to start thinking relocating from certain areas...
No I haven't. For instance the nation of Myanmar is in the list. OFAC as far as I know would permit transmission to most people there

The black list is nominally about weak AML and other factors. It's an example I used because it's a list of places on the shit list in part because they may have weak controls on KYC.

FATF is a big driver if imposing KYC everywhere that wants to interact with a US bank or USD. I'm trying to show you if you actually try to wire somewhere with bad KYC I think you're going to have issues.
yea it seems that microled is good at either being really big (110" TVs) or really small (VR headsets), but nothing in between yet.
Randomized algorithms strike again!
Whoever is using it as digital gold certainly sees economic value, e.g. preserving wealth to invest elsewhere.
Interestingly this and other cases like it suggest that one of the most valuable skill some scientists have is photoshop.
A marvellous achievement from DeepMind as usual, I am quite surprised that Google acquired them for a significant discount of $400M, when I would have expected it to be in the range of $20BN, but then again Deepmind wasn’t making any money back then.
Why worry about fraud, deception and misleadings using AI when we have the old kind of fraud?

Or, in the other hand, now you don't have to manipulate images, you can just generate the ones you need.
Everyone knows you'll get banned for counting cards at Blackjack, but they don't have to catch you red handed. They just have to catch you winning too much. Fixing sporting events is very lucrative and there are criminals doing it. Probably not in the NFL, but it definitely happens still in individual sports like boxing. A blanket policy of banning people who win a statistically impossible amount seems reasonable.
TIL Danny Trejo has been in over 353 movies, and IMDB tested his knowledge
Sigh.

> The desirable quantity is the result not the mechanics specifically that one can simply open windows on any display and move them between monitors without worrying about scaling.

Then next time don't bring up compatibility when you talk about the benefits of staying on X11. :) You are breaking the legacy programs anyway by forcing LoDPI programs to remain un-upscaled and therefore unusable on HiDPI displays.

> Well only with xwayland do you ever need to do so.

I am sorry, but the problem I mentioned exists as well on a pure X11 setup.

And the "solution" for this problem, on this setup, is to scale up the entire desktop (blurriness everywhere) which is decidedly worse than XWayland where only a single window is affected, assuming your other HiDPI-aware programs run natively on Wayland (which, from my experience, is pretty much true -- after all, HiDPI programs most likely are still actively developed).

The only other viable choice on a pure-X11 setup is a non-solution: just live with the tiny UI whenever you are using HiDPI-unaware programs.

Either you bring up documentation showing people that X11 has something akin to Wayland's buffer_scale event, or consider this discussion finished. It is tiring to talk to a brick wall.
This sort of content feels good in the immediacy but ultimately lessens the quality of hn.

I'm not concerned about this post specifically, but I feel that we should be more critical of things like this making it onto hn. I come to hn to mostly hear about tech, tech advances, startups, etc. I don't come here to read feel good (and admittedly, very cute) stories. They have their place, but I feel that place is not hn.
CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall
Tennis can certainly be viewed that way.

It's done recreationally, costs money, costs time, can cause injuries and joint problems, and is not productive. There are health benefits, but nothing that can't be had by much safer and less costly means of exercise.
I think that's just it. Politicians are just going to play both sides whenever they can so we can't expect them to be different.

But blaming oil companies for providing for consumer demand while they also propping up modern Western economies is kind of pointless. Oil companies have even signaled a willingness to divest from their products. Investment in new exploration was at an all time low until the current administration actively encouraged the industry to expand.
Indian Creek Village, Island Fortress of America's Mega-Billionaires
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And speaking of high-brightness LED panels, I can swear I got a tan from one during a conference where the panel was sitting with the back towards the panel.

Those things are hot and very bright.
https://archive.ph/6XCFq
> note the obvious "not redeemable for cash" that every single one has

Sure. They don't want to do KYC. There is nothing preventing them from issuing a currency untied to U.S. dollars.

Again, look at the community currency example.

> Eutherum's ICO and the subsequent secondary shovel-selling scams saddled the SEC with the need for more stringent guidance

The fact that a civil agency enforcing securities laws is the enforcer in your model should be the hint.

What may be confusing you is the difference between issuing a currency de novo, which is pretty much unregulated, and issuing something that's linked to U.S. dollars, which is highly regulated.
>belief that it'll lead us closer to where we want to go.

That just sounds like a hypothesis (ie unfounded conjecture). Meanwhile, the counterclaim at least has a basis in empirical results. We should craft policy based on how people actually behave, not in how we wish they did.

I get that HN skews towards libertarian. My issue is that that the libertarian idea of how people operate is an idealist’s fantasy and not rooted in the real world.
The top comment in this hn post from a few years ago really stuck with me. I'll paste here.

"Seems an appropriate time to post my favourite piece on news addiction by Charles Simic in the NYRB.
"I’m having trouble deciding whether I understand the world better now that I’m in my seventies than I did when I was younger, or whether I’m becoming more and more clueless every day. The truth is somewhere in between, I suspect, but that doesn’t make me rest any easier at night. Like others growing old, I had expected that after everything I had lived through and learned in my life, I would attain a state of Olympian calm and would regard the news of the day with amusement, like a clip from a bad old movie I had seen far too many times. It hasn’t happened to me yet. My late father, in the final year of his life, claimed that he finally found that long-sought serenity by no longer reading the papers and watching television. Even then, and I was thirty years younger than he, I knew what he meant. What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day."

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/

Edit: Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet who lived through WWII and saw some really grisly things, some described briefly in the article, hence "after everything I had lived through and learned in my life...""

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938007
If you are familiar with academia you'll realize the academic dishonesty policy is essentially the playbook by which academics behave. The author is surprised that Eliezer Masliah purportedly had instances of fraud spanning 25 years. I bet the author would be even more surprised to find out that most academics are like that for the entire duration of their career. My favorite instance is Shing-Tung Yau, who is still a Harvard professor, who attempted to steal Grigori Perelman's proof of Poincare's conjecture (a millenium prize problem <https://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/> that comes with a $1MM prize and $10k/mo for the rest of one's life; Perelman rejected all of it.)

I mean, get this: an extremely gifted Mathematician living on a measly salary in Russia had had his millenium prize almost stolen by a Harvard professor. What more evidence do you need?
The movement was characterized by nonviolent mass protests and civil disobedience following highly publicized events such as the lynching of Emmett Till. These included boycotts such as the Montgomery bus boycott, "sit-ins" in Greensboro and Nashville, a series of protests during the Birmingham campaign, and a march from Selma to Montgomery.

Eh, none of that seems to fall into either of the buckets you describe, other than maybe sit-ins "targeting" racist owners of restaurants. Plus, I know this is annoying but... source? Any data backing that claim?

Re:JustStopOil, they also regularly target banks and private jets. It's just that those protests get much less attention in the press, and draw harsher criminal punishments. How else do you make progress on changing laws other than convincing voters that it's a problem?

Assuming we can't just do what the US did for civil rights and rely on an unusually powerful judiciary to save the day via anti-democratic fiat ;)
Has anyone ever used NixOS as daily-drive distro?
Let me fix that for you. You actually meant: United States and Europe, by far the world's largest polluters since the industrial revolution (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-...).

Climate change didn't start today, so it makes no sense to blame whoever happens to be today's top polluter as the culprits. China emitted half the CO2 as the US, and India around 10%. Calling out those two countries is absurd.
When I worked in tech, we reported the vulnerabilities internally and pass them off to legal. Taking that to the government was legal's job.

I am not gonna go out of my way to "whistleblow on vulnerabilities to the EU" after I have done my job and reported everything to legal.
That is not true; you can hang on to the content URI and metadata to present a Recent Files UI. You need to ask for a persisted write permission for the content URI. You can even use the ContentResolver to check the file's existence and update the metadata (including thumbnail).
> If you win a lot, they'll effectively kick you off the platform

Insurance companies work the same way.
> ...AIUI the EU doesn't have a problem

We're talking about a US transit agency. Even thinking about whether the EU has a problem with the agency's website is sort of absurd to begin with.
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The right approach would’ve looked something like what the author of this article did. None of it was that technically complicated.
> But even if they were actually destroying art, their point is that many extractive industries are actually destroying the environment and killing off whole species...

How does trashing art actually solve the problem? It just makes people with normal level of concern who are actually trying to do something look as if they are in cahoots with people who are bonkers.
can someone share the data?
One example is criminal pays a heroin addict for their real ID and then basically uses them as pass through nominee on the account.
I mean, that would be fine if specified except it's a perpetual license that can be revoked at any time. Whether it's one hour or 10 years I'm not sure how it is good-faith to sell such a license without explicitly specifying the license duration and terms. Of course in practice, it is more like "perpetual provided that the entity you are licensing from elects to re-license from the rights-holder every X years" but I really don't see how such an arrangement should even be legal. You shouldn't be allowed to sell those kinds of licenses where the duration is dependent on third-party negotiations that have nothing to do with the initial license sale.
Interesting product. We would use that as a backoffice that would be self hosted, fetching from and pushing to backend APIs. Is that use case on your roadmap?

Basically an alternative to Google sheet with JS macros in it. Gsheet is no good for us because we have data protection requirements.
> ten years later and not that much has changed, I know you can take a robotaxi in some cities but

Uhh, that's a pretty big change.
They mean oil-industry-beneficial ads. The source article[0] words it better:

> The Hague became the first city in the world to ban advertisements promoting fossil fuel products and carbon-intensive services including cruise ships and air travel.

[0] https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/2024/09/13/the-hague-i...
The issue is not the metrics. The boundaries are meaningless because the issue was that there was a fire from the start.

The correct analogy would be "Fire in the house boundary on the brink of being breached. We can confirm that 49% has already burned and the threshold of 50% will have burned in the next minute. This is the second catastrophic boundary to be crossed: the fume in the house boundary was breached five minutes ago." which is indeed a completely pointless way of looking at the issue.
Yes, I was thinking of stuff like BeyondATC or SayIntentions. As another comment pointed out, MS of all companies seems particularly well positioned to pull this out if they wanted to and it could be a very strong selling point for hardcore simmers, or even as a learning tool for more casual players.
Well yeah, of course it will... eventually

What we're going to extract value from in the meantime would be the question or, rather, problem
You announce a set of boundaries, imply that crossing them shifts the system to some new, disastrous attractor state, and get a lot of media and donor attention. For a couple years you get lots of mileage out of it, until you need to come up with a new set, except this time it's For Real. Repeat.

It's counterproductive: once people see small violations of the boundaries result in only small changes, they start to tune them out. And, with global warming, the accumulated small changes will ultimately result in significant harm, so there's no need to invent fake boundaries.
Since our species' collective life comprises the last 400,000 years, and we are 420ppm now, do you think it's also fair to say that we are historic highs?