skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you remember the Iran-Contra scandal?

I know of the scandal. I don't think it compares to the pardon of 1500+ people - that feels unprecedented. Or maybe it isn't. That's what I'm trying to understand.

George W Bush was flawed and caused a lot of damage, but he publicly supported Muslims and wouldn't say a fraction of the puerile statements (that are more often than not just rants) coming from the current POTUS. Maybe that demand for decency and decorum from the highest office of the land never existed (I think it did .. until 2016). These are the shifts I am trying to understand.
So Trump belongs in jail then? Or do you have a special carve out for the president that oversaw this?
There is a huge cost in executions. Especially in places where they have not been super common place and super public.
"This guy is running around giving everyone pardons. The funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn’t give himself a pardon. And if you look at it, it all had to do with him."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

I fully expect Trump to ruin Biden's final years with investigations and court cases. Maybe that's not out right execution, but Trump definitely wants revenge.
Have you read this post about p-value suspiciousness as a means of testing for widespread non-replicable results? https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/ranking-fields-by-p-value-suspici...

And that's not to speak of things like biotech which is full of photoshopped images of fluorescence and whatnot.
I've been working with Apache Iceberg for 18 months now. Everyone in the community seems to be going toward Iceberg, not Hudi.

https://iceberg.apache.org/
What is your solution to prevent continued fraud and abuse in our research process, other than random people going through published papers?
Totally agree, we haven't really had capitalism for most of my life. It is possible though, and most of US history included at least mostly free markets.

I was a software consultant for many years. I'd put that on the list of truly competitive marketplaces. People were either willing to pay me to do a job or they weren't, and I would have to adjust my prices and terms to try to increase or decrease my workload.
What makes you think that is the actual goal rather than just what you are being told the goal is?
This notepad comes with a whole react framework, so take that as you will.
I agree and from experience of keeping relatively the same weight 4kg+/- for over a decade. If I need to lose weight I need to undereat consistently and as another commenter mentioned, its also using techniques to remove as much satiety as possible.

I need to eat foods that are nutrient and fiber dense to keep me from feeling hungry or snacking, drinking lots of water etc. And importantly, its understanding that sometimes between meals I might go hungry and that's okay, I don't need to eat straight away to fix that hunger craving.

One of the challenges I faced and I'd say most people face as well, is that eating is a source of joy and comfort and when losing weight you sometimes need to delay that joy or comfort.
In ml basically every paper from a Western university is either useless to industry or not replicable.

It is very much a crisis and one that academia has no interest to solve.

In a sane world we'd start with figuring out what the mystery meat in the version of pytorch used for training is and work up from there. There is zero funding for building up the required infrastructure for doing actual science instead of whatever the fuck you call the current mess.

Basically anything on a more complex dataset than cifar is probably a statistical fluke because of hyper parameter tuning. To find this out you will need to spend three months building up all the bit rotten code that doesn't work from the paper. To draw the conclusion that everyone is full of shit you'll need to waste years of your life.
OF is about as decentralized as a "sex service" as you can get, so I'd wager you'd be very wrong there.

But yes, it can and does happen. Any system offering freedom can offer just as much freedom to those who coerce others.
Based on some interesting quotes, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Meyer.

An excerpt: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

> "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?"
Haha, that's like saying a Military Boarding School for Troubled Teens will solve its Baseball Team Player shortage with a newspaper ad.

Who wants to move to China? China has less than .01% of its population comprised of immigrants. They do not treat immigrants all that well. Mandarin is hard and very little English is spoken outside of the Entertainment and Academic circles.

Immigrating to China versus immigrating to the US...

Especially considering China is recruiting you to hopefully help them stave off economic and societal ruin...
If you prefer the policies of the Democratic Party and have no special attachment here, then Canada or any European country is probably a level up for you.
I guess fast dividing cells is a kind of ability ?
This is the one I was thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule#:~:text=The%20....
> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

This quote does not apply in a place where the actor has specifically promised to be malicious.

Now, you may not see their promises as malicious and that is your prerogative. But that quote isn’t applicable for a ton of people when it comes to Trump.
It's a good point. There is a target on the back of scientists who do research that is perceived as social science but is infact biology. Seems like they then construct myths of waste/corruption (just read this thread) and punish everyone.
right. because he did so much to reduce the deficit last time.
Have you tried applying to AWS Activate? I'm not sure whether they support non-profits, but if you can swing it, they'll subsidise your compute and some model costs.

In terms of a budget friendly alternatives, definitely look into fly.io. We have a AWS setup, but run some compute for ephemeral use cases in fly.io.

> Also, if anyone has experience with applying spaced repetition or other memorization techniques to chatbot interfaces and long-form text retention, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Have some experience with conversational experiences and LLMs. It all depends on what the modality of the interaction is. Is it something that users can have a long chat conversation with? Or is it more like the anki experience where "flashcards" get presented to you?
I believe people (who are not deemed guilty of murder or something and imprisoned for life) have the right to start over, and so people have the right to lie. Having a lifelong number assigned to you is evil. This isn't solving any problems. I'm sorry you had bad roommates, but stop.
AI Agent Builder by Postman
> Nobody needs to hand-edit HTML any more

Doesn't that prove it absolutely failed? I mean, you have to abstract it so much that, like you said, it's a compiler target at this point! That's precisely my reasoning when I said about needing a second system in the article. And, mind you, not only a second system, most of the time also a third or more! Might as well write a game engine with the budget needed for an HTML WYSIWYG editor.

> I'm curious. Are you saying the boxes are helping you author/publish (in which case, please say more!), or am I wildly misunderstanding?

Not the boxes, per se. I'm refering to the general approach of having independent elements that can be composed with no rigour or planning. This UI came out this way cause I ported the code for the data structure editor, which, for accessibility reasons, had a full-blown cursor around each element, that's why it retained the borders. It's obious that there should be a read mode with less clutter. But honestly, It does not worry me too much, for a proof of concept it was not worth to sweat every detail.

> And just having a pre-defined structure doesn't give meaning in general. You'll need to conform to it

Beautifully said. It's for precisely this fact (if you accept Peirce semiotics) that it becomes a cultural factor. You are compelled to think the way the medium demands you to think. And this is completely dystopian but also absolutely real, and serious! That's why design decisions in authoring interfaces are undeniably political. The abysm indeed looks back. One of the main reasons I started this research was to find a way to express myself in a more forgiving way, that better reflected my thought structure: loose. I can't bear the typewriter model, it drains all my energy and creativity, it smells of formalism and grandeur. Now, when I chat with people, my mind is free, I type at the speed of thought. So that influenced the whole design. I trust you can see it.
Wait until you learn about the first unscientific politicized traitor to Freedom in the USA. General George Washington, having survived smallpox himself, ordered the mass variolation (via inoculation, much more dangerous than a vaccine) of the Continental Army to protect troops from the disease, marking one of the first large-scale public health initiatives in American history.
> one of the government's primary missions should be to set in motion whatever things will end human cancer.

Have you seen the "Stargate" announcement?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYUoANr3cMo&t=646s

Thanks to "AI" and mRNA vaccines, it's gonna be fine. Probably best to cut all other funding and just funnel it into the data centers that will solve everything very beautifully, lives are at stake after all.
If you still believe the republican have principles that they actually believe in, I have a bridge to sell you
It may in fact be the case that more HHS-funded public health work is downstream of NIH than of CDC, but NIH is obviously not primarily a public health organization; here's the most recent RePORT data:

https://tinyurl.com/nih-grant-report
A Christmas Protestation
This is how the scam works. Show off the potential of AI with the excuse that you just need tons of GPUs that cost billions to train to get to the so-called “AGI” whilst promising “efficiency” to VCs but paint an AI utopia to end users whilst you build your bunker for the incoming societal collapse.

No AI company has any sensible answer to what happens when the gradual displacement of knowledge workers accelerates and what exactly these “new jobs” are.

Without them specifying, then the goal of “AGI” was always to raise more money until they get there with the hard deadline of 2030. That is Anthropic’s plan and especially OpenAI’s plan.

Otherwise, why do you think OpenAI is going to release an agentic AI called “Operator” and who do you think they are trying to displace? Why are they (Sam, Zuck, etc) building their bunkers ahead of 2030?

I’m giving you 5 years ahead of their hard deadline of this displacement to prepare for their plan. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563239
The optimal amount of fraud in any large system is almost never "zero".
GitLab isn't profitable yet, at least on a GAAP basis. They're definitely moving in that direction, and I hope they'll get there, but IMO it's a bit early to put them on a pedestal.
Back in my day, I thought spending $50 in wood shop was rough.
Now you just need 4095 more /60s and you'll have that /48
Out of touch? How so? And according to you what would be a more proper definition?

The difference I see with the example you give is that “Dirty laundry” is a metaphor, not a definition of a phenomenon.
> Or are you suggesting that this is to get back at NIH because of Fauci?

Yes, I believe thats a main driver for why this administration does not like the NIH
I'd argue the problem lies less with democracy, more with the media. Democracy requires an informed populace. The success of populist politicians shows you don't have that
I've been on a messageboard for more than a couple years, I am familiar with the concept of p-hacking, and it has nothing to do with what I just wrote.
Americans also voted for their US Senators and Representatives.

It's funny how these discussions forget about that, which is part of the problem.

It's also worth remembering how the Trump campaign consistently denied Project 2025, and ridiculed those who suggested it was their agenda. Maybe it won't go there but so far it seems to be headed in that direction, and if so actively lying about your agenda raises questions about exactly what the American electorate was voting for.
Apparently Hudi hit 1.0 last month.
Fundamental Theory of Ada: Type Model (2007)
Doctors can be arrested for malpractice. I sure do wish we could arrest some of these car makers for telling staff to skimp on details and taking "recalls" as a cost of doing business, but that's an issue for another time.

> unable to comprehend the concept of illegal activity.

There's illegal activity on popular forums all the time. How much should Facebook/X/Reddit be accountable for those?
Stargate is just a joint venture between a bunch of investors and big tech companies. If Biden had won, Biden would be the one announcing it. The amount of "Stargate" I factor into anything going on right now is zero.
Yes I will stick by my opinion we should have scientific fraudsters go on a televised panel to be shamed publicly and mercilessly
Cancer, infectious diseases, brain disorders, HIV and the RECOVER programme for Long Covid. All have significant NIH funding and will be halted by this.

Lots of smaller funded conditions as well, the NIH does a lot both from a clinical research and a public health perspective.
What's really cool is seeing the giant drop-off in flu rates during the lockdowns. Flu infections fell 64% and at least one strain went extinct. I'd link to the NIH publication but I'm not sure it'll stay up, lol. [1]

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/a-sharp-drop-in-flu-cases-duri...
So you don't have them. That's ok. And thank you, but I did read a lot of books. History, politically, .. I just apparently came to different conclusions, but it is ok for me to not take this deeper here.
COVID was not a scientific crisis. It was an amazing success. We built and rolled out a vaccine in record time.

Science works. Amazingly well. We're making progress on cancer, on many disorders that used to kill or limit many people's lives.

Instead of actually looking at what science does for you constantly, every day, you prefer to attack people.

The result will be tragic. Realistically, your loved ones will die of heart disease or cancer. Sounds like a really smart move to not fund science that will save their lives. Much better to support Trump and save up for their funerals!
Sounds awesome, maybe MrBeast can host.
Not directly tied to GP's complaints but another thing that often comes up are people complaining about the frivolity of the research without understanding how basic science works. "Can you believe we're paying money to understand fruit fly mating behavior!?!", well yes, because fruit flies are model organisms and developing an understanding of these very mundane sounding things are important before being able to make broader hypotheses
whaaaa this is too good!
Who would have thought that tomatoes are creatures that can be herded by a shepherd.

Fraud is on the rise everywhere it seems. Not sure what can be done to stop it
>I (ruthlessly) don't care, and am not going to allocate attention to it

For someone not allocating attention to it, you’ve been commenting a lot of this thread and others of similar nature.
Most interesting post here. A good indicator of the real change in HN readership over the years. For the worse IMO.
Why does this feel more like an advertisement for Webrecorder[0] than an actual guide?

Why add that privacy and big tech section at the end?

Thanks for the list of features and buzzwords, but I couldn't figure out what all this tooling exactly does. Also, none of the links work. And Webrecorder doesn't have a Firefox extension, so don't even bother listing any of the "privacy" stuff.

[0]: https://github.com/webrecorder/
>Selling drugs vs. selling alcohol, this is beyond morality matter but a matter regulated by law, sorry.

There's nothing beyond morality. Laws are an application based on morality.

And as we know with the 18th and 21st amendments, even the law can have shakey morality based on more factors than "what is good for the populace". That's more or less why I'm against most drug laws. They were not made with "the good health of the people in mind", they were a scapegoat to oppress minorities. It's all publicly declassified, so no one can call me a conspirator anymore.
> they are assistants. They aren’t inventors or prognosticators. They cannot predict how the market will react to a product or idea.

Can you?
I was looking for such 'tortured phrases' on Google scholar recently and also found an article from MDPI:

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/4/1792

> There is a requirement to assist various types of solar radiation and wind speed measurement and predictions, such as the iterative approach, counterfeit consciousness method, and so on.
Sure. But that is, for better or worse, perfectly legal. (No, I'm not saying it's great, but I'm saying this is still within non-dictatorship realms)

Whereas executions have a small issue in that area.
I’m confused by this sentiment. How was science at fault for the collective government response to a global pandemic when the hospitals were full, millions died, and countries closed their borders in attempts to slow the spread? With hindsight you may find some poor choices but at the time, what could a scientist have done differently in your opinion?
I would love to see more phones with PureOS, and distros based on PureOS. A non-Android FOSS OS that I can fully customize.

What's great about Linux distros is they are designed for different purposes, and they can decide what apps they ship by curating the list of ones in their repository. App delivery is secure, there's no random malware, there aren't a billion different nearly-identical apps with [probably] nefarious purposes, no barrage of capitalist free services designed to addict you. Just basic apps that let you be productive, without bloat, without malware, without BS.

I don't know why we aren't all using that right now. The PC is definitive proof that an open hardware platform can support any number of OSes. Let the user choose.
In medical research there is an awful lot of tissue, blood and other samples that go into the NIH's work. They run numerous labs and biobanks and a part of what they do is transit samples and the personal and sometimes equipment to various labs across the country.
I agree with you about this. I think it's worth calling out where the shoulder of the highway ends and the cliff begins, now that the guardrails have been (if temporarily) removed, but I'm optimistic that nobody is crazy enough to totally jam up the NIH given its importance to our economy and national security.
Another global comparison point - in Japan, 1 Gbps fiber is available pretty much nationwide (I just checked the address of my in-laws' rural ancestral home in the middle of the rice fields)

10 Gbps is available in increasingly smaller cities (e.g. it was recently made available in a city of 100,000 near me).

Both priced at about $30/mo
Technically reddit and xdotcom are competitors, so this makes financial sense.
Considering we had over a hundred million Americans fall ill to a global pandemic that ended barely two years ago, one might conclude that the only reason to hobble the groups that are intended to fight such outbreaks (among many other tasks) would be a poor decision. In fact, one could conclude based on the literal rhetoric from the President and members of his staff, that it’s out of sheer spite.

Which itself is amazing, considering that he was in charge while it happened.
what? I cannot even parse this argument.
Given the binary choice, much if the American people simply didn't vote. You can't present a false dichitomoty, and then act as if any downstream choice is full approval.
Roughly. But always read between the lines and follow the money. We didn't selectively ban Tiktok because government finally woke up to the dangers of social media.
Right off the bat I'd already say its challenging to get people to calorie count and journal their food intake, unless they're nutritionists or dietitians.

I've never gone down the calorie counting route because it seems so fraught with error, plus it would also get exhausting. Particularly when you're eating food you didn't prepare.
The link on the TabBoo logo is invalid FYI.
I reject the premise of your entire comment. Of course they can hide actual scientific data and replace it with their own version. They will tell anyone and everyone over and over that their version is the truth and people will believe it as such. They will also believe that anyone trying to dispute it is wrong and vilify them.

This has already happened in 1.0, and plenty of other examples of it from history. But one would have to crack open a history book to know about that, and the populace is trending to banning books rather than opening them.
My concerns about the future are based on what President Trump did in 2017 with the NIH budget (attempting to cut it 22%)¹ thus preventing important scientific research funding, as well as removal of covid-19 health statistics from the CDC in 2020² in the middle of a major pandemic.

Unfortunately, given that he is now holding the highest office in the US, it's a well known fact that Donald Trump lies constantly both when in office³ and when campaigning⁴, and I lack all faith in his administration's supposed transparency.

1.https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-plan-reduce-over...
2.https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/16/coronavirus...
3. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-...
4. https://www.salon.com/2024/11/09/six-big-lies-that-won-the-e...
NIH also played a big role in the creation of biotech industry (funding much of the basic research that set the foundation for amazing medical treatments). I guess we'll have to depend more on the largesse of billionaires.
HOF HN post.
I hope the deep irony of someone whose named after and advertises a cryptocoin talking about fraudsters being shamed publicly on televised panels isn't lost on you.
always felt like grpc was unnecessarily inaccessible to the rest of us outside google land. the grpc js client unnecessarily heavy and kinda opaque. good idea but poorly executed compared to people who are familiar with the "simplicity" of REST
Probably. But this political movement won't stop with this term. 2016 Trump was more moderate than today's Trump. The next time the movement is stopped it will come back even more ferociously, especially since the movement is fed constant propaganda about being aggrieved and revenge fantasies.
I'm an AI/ML researcher. If this was true, then we would never have made progress in the first place.

Instead, we're making astounding progress at a rate that no one really would have expected.

Learning to replicate papers is a skill. It's just a matter of practice. You'll get it if you try.