skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a general cultural phenomenon not specific to the sciences- people are told they need to be aggressively confident to be taken seriously. Even as a kid parents and teachers will suggest to kids to edit words expressing uncertainty out of their writing. They are coached to talk like that when public speaking, at job interviews, and even dating.

As a scientist- I also think papers and grant applications are more likely to be accepted if they use an irrationally overconfident tone, at least in the abstract and introduction.
always done in response to the previous team not being able to run it, which means it is a goddamn mess.

:

This is your relative tax dollars hard at work.

I think you are underestimating the gross lack of realistic investment and corresponding demoralization and qualitative decline in some public services; which latter is then used by the decision-makers who've created the situation as justification for swashbuckling "transformation" projects - advised by and given to overpriced consultants - they can put on their CVs before hopping to the next gig.

That's your tax dollars at work.
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It's legitimate to create alternatives to anything, and to re-think what has been done already.

One thing that would be on my personal wish list for any Wikipedia alternative is ease of machine processing: the MediaWiki format/mark-up and the templates are horribly inconsistent and a nightmare to parse. This should be done better by any serious successor. Wikipedia has got the excuse "historically grown", any successor doesn't.
I imagine flood mitigation for population centers, hydroelectric dams, renewable energy, electricity grids, rail lines and public transportation, etc
Wut? Was your comment a joke or satire? This entire thread is about how the food pyramid of that era was an unscientific disaster, so linking to a picture of it is not evidence.
I think they just read it backwards. Near the beginning in the bulleted list is:

>Sadiq Khan’s office and the Greater London Authority outsourced their IT services to TfL this summer, meaning they were also badly impacted, paralysing services at the top of the capital’s devolved government.

Which means TfL is the one doing other people's IT in addition to its own, not the reverse.
> easier to just tax wealth a bit more and let everyone get on the bloody train

I mean its not. If it was, they would have done it.

Wealth taxes are really fucking hard to do equitably, at least at first.

For example OAPs tend to live in very expensive hosues. take rotherhithe for example one could have bought a house in the 90s for shit all, and now its worth the best part of 1.4 million.

so now you're levying a 5% tax on a pensioner, or worse still a young couple mortgaged to the fucker.

Now, but what about the super asset rich I hear you say?

Well, they'll transfer all they own into a corporation. They can't tax assets like that on business because it'll crash the economy super quick.
Chess has seen rating inflation because of youtube, stockfish and leelazero, and chess.com. basketball is seeing a boom in 3 point accuracy. More people than ever know about squats and deadlifts. I would learn to program much faster today with chatgpt than I did without it. Legalese and flowery prose and even rhymes were really unnecessary for pure communication and thought. we know thought, search, computation is infinite, so there will be no end to progress.
Wikipedia generally avoids resolving disputes democratically, instead opting to establish consensus based on sources where possible.

With voting systems you end up walking the tightrope between making your system susceptible to Sybil attacks and sockpuppetry on one end, and giving well-established users undue voting rights on another.
That's actually a super interesting idea that I've never considered.

It's interesting to think of humans as being like a premium service where AI's are a sort of knock-off/budget human service.
Exactly, votes + who you trust-follow (ie. "MIT" with high degree, "Flat Earth Society" with high negative degree) – recursively; creates your own landscape of truth-weighted information.
Surely, here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786266
The advertising on the linked site is pure cancer if loaded with ublock origin turned off. Looks like some kind of content farm.
I applaud their goals but I think they fundamentally went about it the wrong way. They adopted the VC model - hire up, start down the runway, and hope to hit takeoff before the money runs out. Not having actual VCs doesn't change the process, just the budgets and timelines.

Something like this is a "mission", not a venture. If you care first about the mission, then make business/technology/lifestyle choices that support the mission:

* Don't quit your day job. Work after hours on the mission.

* Use inexpensive technologies that you can afford to pay out of pocket for.

* Have a viable plan for revenue so that incremental users are at minimum cost-neutral.

Don't get into the position where a clock is ticking down on you. As long as the product is running, the mission continues.

Is this a good way to build a business? Almost certainly not. But the goal here isn't to find a mission so we can build a business, it's find a business so we can achieve this mission. Pivoting to some other mission is a failure.

(As someone with a "side-mission", I've been thinking a lot about this subject)
Looking at the hype cycle, I am beginning to think that what you eat doesn't really matter, with a few caveats.

And it makes sense. We are omnivores, the entire point of being omnivores is to be able to fuel our body with whatever food is available, and it probably played an important role in the development of the human species. It means our body is very tolerant regarding what we eat, and while some types of food may be healthier than others, the effect will be small compared to other factors like generics, lifestyle, exposure to harm, etc...

What I think is important though is that we should have a diet as varied as possible. It is not necessary, but the less varied your diet is (it includes veganism), the more you need to pay attention. With a varied diet, you are very unlikely to miss something, and if you eat too much of the same thing, you may exceed the ability for your body to deal with a particular substance, making it toxic.
Another problem is the psychological aspect. Essentially, the abundance of food that we have now messes with our brain, causing addictive behavior. And I think this is the focus of most serious nutrition science today, and that's also what Ozempic is all about.
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And how does it apply to open source software if commercial activity is done with it. You install a PBX at a customer site? You install LibreOffice at a government site? The way I read this it's the first person that uses this for a commercial application that becomes liable.
Versioning has many downsides.

Let’s assume we create a new version of JavaScript that is not backward compatible and fixes all of its flaws. As a result, we’d encounter the following problems:

• JavaScript engines become bloated: they need to support both the old and the new version. The same is true for tools such as IDEs and build tools.

• Programmers need to know, and be continually conscious of, the differences between the versions.

• We can either migrate all of an existing code base to the new version (which can be a lot of work). Or we can mix versions and refactoring becomes harder because we can’t move code between versions without changing it.

• We somehow have to specify per piece of code – be it a file or code embedded in a web page – what version it is written in. Every conceivable solution has pros and cons. For example, _strict mode_ is a slightly cleaner version of ES5. One of the reasons why it wasn’t as popular as it should have been: it was a hassle to opt in via a directive at the beginning of a file or a function.

More information: https://exploringjs.com/js/book/ch_history.html#backward-com...
Sounds, based on other responders, like high latency high bandwidth, which is a problem many of us have trouble wrapping our heads around. Maybe complicated by packet loss.

After COVID I had to set up a compressing proxy for Artifactory and file a bug with JFrog about it because some of my coworkers with packet loss were getting request timeouts that npm didn’t handle well at all. Npm of that era didn’t bother to check bytes received versus content-length and then would cache the wrong answer. One of my many, many complaints about what total garbage npm was prior to ~8 when the refactoring work first started paying dividends.
Butterick is a sharp guy. I absolutely love one of the books he made with Pollen: Practical Typography http://practicaltypography.com/

Pollen seems like a power tool; my needs are largely met by Scribble, but I’d like to get more comfortable with Pollen.
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I'm very skeptical. Just because one can imagine something on the cover of a sci-fi novel doesn't mean it's also practical--where's the math?

I'm thinking of how we've already been through this song and dance with hyperloop, which got way too much attention for something that was always doomed because of safe following-distances versus total throughput.

Taxis--even shrunken automated ones--won't solve rush-hour traffic problems, because you still have the same number of people trying to get to most of the same places at the same time. The author keeps comparing them against trains, but taxi-pods can't even begin to solve the same problem.
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Not interested in the conversation partner with the track record displayed here.
When it comes to non-profits and NGOs, it's the thought that counts.
Processing and LÖVE are also similar.
To pay World Bank consultants, of course!
The fact that characters are made up of radicals does make them easier to learn, though. There are ~2000 characters in the core vocabulary, sure - but it's not like you have to learn to write every one of them individually, just like you don't have to learn the spelling of every English word from scratch. There's common patterns.
Agree. At least in my western country, it has become almost expected that everyone is fully confident all the time.

I’m someone who likes to deliberate on thoughts, take my time, listen to opinions and assess them, then provide my opinion (which may also change over time with more information or changing circumstances). I am humble, a listener, and don’t believe I know everything. I feel a little out of place in current society.
I play Cities Skylines for that reason I have to debug the traffic but mostly have fun building the city the way I want. Like once I feel like building a lot of tram lines, other time building train lines.

I also build side projects - but from the game I get instant gratification as I can build decent city with goal I have in one evening whereas side project to have anything I can say is pleasing takes much more time than one evening.

Games don't have annoying blockers like trying to use some new library, cities I build also did not work first times I was playing because I was noob - but even libraries frameworks I use on daily basis always have some kinks I have to figure out so it takes multiple evening anyway.
With a competent tutor, material and emotional support you don't need to cultivate talents, you simply create complex skills. You typically don't search so much for a hidden talent in a child as leverage their neuroplasticity and accelerated learning to lay a life-long foundation.

But this doesn't come cheap, and tutoring is also going a bit out of style, regrettably.
Obligatory - Wikipedia is not a democracy - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_...

(Or the related / more in depth "Polling is not a substitute for discussion" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Polling_is_not_a_s...)
Didn't the government recently screw everyone in regards to affordability by declaring that there was no longer a shortage? And therefore compounding was not allowed, only the original drugs?

Yet I still see the compounded injections (which are 75% cheaper) advertised all over the place.

Does anyone know what's going on with this? Is the compounding banned and has it stopped, or not?

Has there been a substantive investigation into the officials involved to see if they have been bribed by the manufacturer?
My understanding is that when writing for an orchestra, a composer needs to adjust to the orchestra's skill level and likely err a bit on the easy side for good measure.
I disagree firmly. The phrase embodies a sense of superiority and "knowing better" than those it's directed at which is directly contrary to the Guidelines of HN.
Applies to government organizations too.
So in order to use any open-source software you must commit to fix security bugs and accept liability? And software users will actually do this?

It would raise the cost of open source software a lot if you do this, and the cost of all other software. This seems very unlikely to actually happen. By which I mean, government and commercial users seem to me very, very unlikely to be willing to pay for this when they could just as well just use software from outside the EU, and this will just really suck for EU software developers and companies.
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I figured somebody might try to make this argument.

The problem with your comparison is that you're already starting from too much.

> You always start with a context

And where does that context come from? The true starting point is nothing. The context needs to arise from something. In order to even form a thought about apples and not any of the other thousands of concepts that you're aware of in the first place, you need a prompt.

In the case of an existing object, the prompt is seeing it. In the case of a non-existing object, the prompt is the combination of social and memory factors that I mentioned before. The former is simple, the latter is complex.

Another thing to consider: humans invented the number zero long after the natural numbers. Children learn to understand it after the natural numbers. The brain processes it differently, as mentioned by the article. There is overwhelming evidence that yes, zero is more complicated than the natural numbers for humans to think about.

If your reasoning ends with the conclusion that it's not actually more complicated, then that is in direct conflict with the evidence and it shows that you must be missing something.
Good article but some points I think it misses:

> "Case, the hapless protagonist, stumbles between crises, barely knowing what’s going on, at risk from a femme fatale and being made offers he cannot refuse from mysterious Mr. Bigs.” Again, you don’t read William Gibson for the plot.

I think this misses one of the most striking aspects of the novel, that Gibson was talking about the singularity and the possibility, or inevitability, of AI. The glossy cool and limited character arcs were in service of a broader statement about society and culture. Gibson was making statements about class difference and what kind of effect the rapid change of technology had on society.

It's like saying the "The Wire"'s characters are two dimensional because they get buffeted by a system that's deeply flawed. The point is that the system is effectively a character in it's own right.

The article notably also doesn't mention Borges, who I believe is a very strong influence to Gibson (though maybe not for Neuromancer?) [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140902-the-20th-centur...
> See the saga about Google and 3rd-party cookies

This is a pet peeve of mine. I haven't seen a sane take on this anywhere. Getting rid of 3rd party cookies to prevent tracking has been a priority for Google for many years. Everyone thinks they haven't done it because they hate privacy or something; nothing could be further from the truth. They have been blocked on disabling 3rd party cookies because of antitrust concerns coming from other ad companies who object to being blocked from tracking users.
> At this point, an x86 Android image will be better and more reliable. Somewhat just as fast.

You mean a full VM?
Sybil and sockpuppetry is solvable by "following" (possibly truth-weighted, can nicely express negative weights). The downside is that there is no global truth view, only individual ones based on who you grant trustworthiness and how it recursively expands – but arguably this reflects reality better.
> Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe.

Not in the part of Europe I'm in. I can't recall the last time I've seen an American car here in the streets of Vienna. Also: Don't large American SUVs consume a lot of petrol? Considering the gas prices I'd assume not many people can/want to afford them.
Some context, Oxfam isn't a perfect organization. They struggle with fraud and graft. This is a part of their ongoing effort to reduce it, and sometimes yes that does mean pointing the finger past themselves too.
YEs, but in london a large part of it's budget come from ticket sales.
Are you counting fuel duties here, or only road tax?
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If the top "scandals" in the article are considered reasons to change, just wait until the alt-crew get a hold of wikipedia. Medical, political, science, education, religion discussions would all be even more crazy when people can point to some wiki gospel as proof. We'd find the list of scandals grows a thousandfold.

Wikipedia is amazing, if imperfect. Make it better, don't try to break it by splintering it into some weird "whatever you think is right" solution. That's already what we have in social media. Truth is already federated enough.

Edit: what would convince me more is some demonstration article/cluster of articles and maybe some math proof that shows how this is better, through faster convergence on truth, defence against rando's etc. I think even getting a definition of "better" would be a bit of a battle!
Don’t know where you’re seeing that. Combined cardiovascular events has an RR of 0.83 and the GRADE quality is moderate, not very low.
Sure, I can imagine. But this isn't what's happening.
The official Raspberry Pi site [0] seems to be a much better resource than this article. It also says that the AI kit was surpassed by the AI hat+ [1] (which is a bit cheaper, too).

[0]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-kit/
[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat/
Regarding your lix project, have you looked at Fossil? It seems like it could maybe do what you're trying to do with some small changes.
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The reduction in that study is 17%, not 21%. And it is 17% of an 8% risk: so, if the study is correct, your risk of CVDs should go from ~9.6% to ~8%. However, this is not associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality. So even if the effect is real, it seems to be quite small.
Exactly. And we can’t blame nutrition science for that.
Great to get a SRE perspective. The de-duplication uses a SQLite table using a primary key that is the SHA256 of the file contents. There is not much code on top of that. The one complexity is knowing when it is safe to actually delete a file, since it could be referenced in multiple apps.

Clace is built for use cases where teams want to be able to easily deploy Streamlit/Gradio/FastAPI type internal apps (python is supported out of the box, other languages work if they have a Dockerfile present). Clace adds the image building, GitOps, OAuth access control, blue-green staged deployment, secrets management etc on top. So use cases where Kubernetes and an IDP would be overkill for.
I agree. This website is just affiliate marketing spam with little technical information. In addition, every second post of OPs submission history is for this website.
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> it should be obvious

It should be, but a lot of developers don’t have formal security training, nor especially management which may end up selecting the contractors/developers and deciding on the technical approach.

If it’s explicitly not production ready, it should probably say so up front, not advertise itself as “strong encryption”. However painful that may be.
What do you want a citation for? Which claim?
I do a lot of high performance scientific computing and find the most flexible and high performance way to access data- especially in parallel- is often a read only sqlite database on a ramdisk. It feels super hacky, but it is easier to setup and faster than anything else I’ve found.
Not relevant, then.
That would only be likely to happen when communities identify by their bias (see: "conservapedia.") Existing wiki communities tend to divide based on topic, without a lot of overlap. (See: fandom). A federated alternative to fandom.com is what I would imagine when someone says "federated wiki."
The example report is too small to be useful.
Don't use this.

It's missing a basic building block: authentication.

Unfortunately, the author hasn't spent long enough researching cryptography. (Even the briefest of research would have made this mistake obvious.)