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Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
> You have to give people less incentives and more just time to do their basic job.

That was the idea behind tenure, but then tenure became the incentive. Job security at a socially prestigious job with solid benefits is a huge incentive to fraud even to people who don't care about science, and then for people who do care about doing science and have been directing their entire adult lives towards that end, they face a cataclysmic career bifurcation: either they get a tenured academic research position and spend their lives doing science, or they leave science behind altogether and at best end up doing science-adjacent product development which at best best, if they join a pharmaceutical company or something like that, might sometimes closely resemble scientific research despite being fundamentally different in its goals.

Given the dramatic consequences on people's lives, fraud should be expected. Academic research should acknowledge the situation and accept that it needs safeguards against fraud as surely as banks need audits and jewelry stores need burglar alarms.
Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I Left AWS
Hey Hacker News!

I owe so much to this community, it was a great source of learning when I was a teenage hacker myself.

Winning HackNow, a 5k EUR prize for teenage hackers, changed my life at age 15. Just having someone believe in you changes the course of things so much.

There's never been a better time to be a teenage hacker. At the same time, it can be very difficult if living in a place where you aren't understood. During school I got routinely bullied and even told by teachers themselves that I would go nowhere, let alone be able to make software.

Today more than $30bn of cryptoassets are governed by software I built — aragon.org

Now that I can, I want to give back. If you are a teenage hacker, go apply! And if you know some teenage hacker that could benefit from this, please direct them my way :D

Thanks!
You might want to have some sort of simple effort filter for your subculture. Fashion is a simple one.
> never gone wrong

How do you know? Every interview you conduct is for your team? And you’re a manager who participates in their annual review? No one bats 1000%.

> I focus on (a) fundamental understanding and (b) practical problems.

What do you ask? If you want to challenge the status quo you have to offer a replicable alternative. Not hand waive.
Act via Code: Giving Agents a More Expressive Way to Act
I think the lesson to be learned from the parent comment is to put candidates at ease and let them express their interests. I think it doesn't matter if you chose to use "teach me something" specifically. However, it does matter how to try to be accommodating towards the candidate either by asking about their hobbies, some recent news any fond memory/project etc.
Which of course, is the opposite of what just happened - Trump just delayed the Mexican tariff implementation. Sounds like he's more interested in punishing Canada than punishing Mexico.
> The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors.

I chuckled.
I've never heard of Fred Brooks. Sounds like he's where I should start. Thank you for the response.
Have you tried asking LLMs to clean up your code, making it more obvious, adding test harnesses, adding type hints or argument documentation, then reviewing it and finding out what you can learn from what it is suggesting?

Last year I took a piece of code from Ansible that was extremely difficult to understand. It took me the better part of a day to do a simple bug fix in it. So I reimplemented it, using several passes of having it implement it, reviewing it, asking LLMs to make it simpler, more obvious code. For your review: https://github.com/linsomniac/symbolicmode/blob/main/src/sym...
I am not impressed that a computer can beat a human at a computer game. i am more pissed that i may have been playing tetris 99 against unbeatable ai.
Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks
And if you're not famous, now you never will be.
I feel like you can generalise this to any transactional key value system, which can scale better.
> Even for isolated systems where, in principle, we could have zero surprisal and access to all possible information...

This makes no sense. How could you have access to "all possible information" in an isolated system? You obviously can't make any measurements, and if the system is prepared, then it's entangled with the system used to prepare it and again cannot be isolated. The whole notion of "an isolated system" is a theoretical fiction that doesn't actually exist in physical reality, but even in theory one cannot access all of the information in an isolated system because of the no-cloning theorem. So this really feels to me like the old joke about spherical chickens.

Furthermore, this seems like an already-solved problem. Constructing classical reality requires copying classical information, and the only way to make that happen is to discard quantum information [1]. That is the source of the Second Law and the arrow of time [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512022

[2] https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-a...
If it’s not legal, who will enforce the law? The courts more or less can’t do it on their own (I.e. without the DOJ).

And if the law gets enforced, won’t the president just pardon Musk?
Would formalizing Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem be considered deep research? Is it able to formalize it in say metamath's set.mm?

Or is the position of OpenAI that Wiles' proof is incomplete?
I think you're making my point for me. Isn't it "taking crazy pills" if you use it incorrectly, and then stand on that experience as proof that other devs are insane? :-)
The fact that you have to ask that question makes GP's point. There's no way to tell that from looking at a function's interface at present.
Flashing custom firmware on a ~$20 smart ring (with BLE and a display) [video]
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This is an interesting article due to the historical connections it makes. I mention the paper in question on p. 120 of my book about Noether’s Theorem (https://lee-phillips.org/noether) and quote Heisenberg on why violation of energy conservation, and therefore the paper, was unacceptable (something that the article doesn’t really discuss—after all, other conservation laws were abandoned or modified as needed): it’s because Noether’s Theorem shows that energy conservation is equivalent to invariance with regard to time translation, something that no one would be willing to give up. This means that energy must be conserved in every interaction, not just statistically.
Interesting, I never knew (or bothered to look into…) the context, but it did seem like a non sequitur given Mario’s vague Italian heritage. That seems likely.
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'Dorayaki' creators say flavors trump the dessert's murky origins
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We are a software consulting company based in Northern Virginia.

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Current Opportunities:

Senior Java Developer - Remote position, Seeking a Senior Java Engineer with 10+ years of experience.

- Experience with Java / Spring / Kubernetes.

- Knowledge of NoSQL / Cassandra databases.

- Understanding of Microservices Architecture / Event sourcing, CQRS.

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not to mention walls of text as people argue back and fourth
The end of the petrodollar and you're alive to witness it.
I feel like there is likely far more useful answers in overlooked science then there is in "new" science.
While true, it is pretty telling that OpenAI feels like they need to resort to burning piles of cash.
Generating a million output tokens in a month is trivially easy on the Plus plan which would set the company back 40$, per month, PER USER. Even in the whole blitz scaling model that we've apparently decided was only way to grow big bucks this is ludicrously unsustainable in the long run.
I found FSRS is not great for languages because it optimized for the wrong thing, ie. how likely you will recall a word after X days without encountering that word.

There are 2 big problems:

1. If you are studying seriously, you will encounter many words outside your SRS practice, so the FSRS prediction fails flat.

2. More importantly, language learning is not about recalling words.

The algorithm I use for my app has a different set of objectives, it's <30 lines of straightforward code, and it works better (I tested it for months to be sure about it)

I'll open source it soon
I never said hundreds of percent, that's all your imagination. If I were to guess, I would ballpark 25% more efficiency if population were 1% and no growth.

I think we are well into the linear and decreasing scale for most industries.

How many parallel factories do you think there are around the world building tractors. How many independent factories making cars and trucks?

Also, consider how much labor is spent on R&D, investment, and growth.

I think you are drifting back into innovation when you are talking about geniuses.
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The flip demonstration video needs to be redone. Very poor execution by the person flipping.
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Bats too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

- "Tests were used to determine how much napalm an individual bat could carry, determining that a 14 g (0.5 oz) bat could carry a payload of 15–18 g (0.53–0.63 oz)..."

Similar ideas were (perhaps apocryphally) used in the medieval ages,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising ("Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising")

- "Olga then instructed her army to attach a piece of sulphur bound with small pieces of cloth to each bird. At nightfall, Olga told her soldiers to set the pieces aflame and release the birds. They returned to their nests within the city, which subsequently set the city ablaze. As the Primary Chronicle tells it: "There was not a house that was not consumed, and it was impossible to extinguish the flames, because all the houses caught fire at once."[22]"
Varo is one. But even the ones that do support it like "Chime" have online comments like this:

"Chime is great for everything else, but their check features are absolute trash and will cause you frustration. Just don't do it and find another option."

> Do you restrict writing checks that are for an amount greater than the current account balance? Lastly, I’m wondering how you handle deliberate check fraud. Victims will try to sue all associated parties. How does your liability work in those cases?

That is one of our fraud signals. We have systems in place to review payment amounts, address, frequency, etc that can cause additional KYC checks to be preformed via Plaid before we'll send the check.
The first seller of record can simply say 'A customer brought these in, I bought them after getting them cgc rated. The rating agency signed off on them so I had no idea that they could be forgeries' .. repeat back for their seller ad infinitum.
This is good advice. Also have similar conversations with the new director.

"I'm here to support you, and am committed to turning around this project. Long term, I would also like to return to working in X domain, so please keep me in mind when opportunities for that come up."
The problem is that there's no counter-action to a group of dedicated users who want to kill a story killing a story.
After (re)reading the article I've come to the conclusion that with proper provenance tracking through the cast to an integer, the comparison:

(iq == ip)

Should be replaced (at compile time) with the constant 0 (or false, if you like). Since iq and ip have different provenances -- even though they may (or may not) be bitwise equal (which is entirely implementation-dependent in C) -- they can never be considered equal, so falsity can be deduced at compile time.

It should also be considered invalid (and a compile-time error) to cast any old plain integer (one whose provenance is not a pointer) to a pointer, regardless of whether or not the address of said pointer lands on a live object, because an integer created by any means other than a cast from a pointer should have empty provenance.

Edit: Ahhh, this provenance story is way messier than I thought. One serious problem with tracking provenance is that functions like memcpy become a huge headache to deal with.
Reading through this, the main thing I'm seeing is the opportunity for impact. They think you're doing great, they promoted you, and now they are looking for you to lead this new (to you) underperforming team, in order to get them moving in the right direction.

Devil's in the details, but you have full control in your hands; you need to realize that you have full agency in your situation and lead from wherever you are in the org chart.
Turns out that wget is still great for spidering.
husband and wife team in San Francisco raised $60 million on "AI in games" with falsified bank statements and confidence meetings.. meanwhile US career engineers are being forced out with transparently self-serving Improvement Orders because "AI".. plan working as intended?
>> I really don't like being in charge of my own destiny with this kind of thing.

This comment hit the bullseye for how passive this felt to me. Everybody is different, and just being a focused contributor hoping people will assign you to what you like is OK. But it is career limiting.

You are getting a chance to work in a new domain, and it sounds like your company appreciates you enough to probably let you switch to even some other domain, just not what you are doing. My advice is look around for something your company really needs you can provide. Make a big noise that you want to do that thing, and do that thing.

Also, I would really ask around for some frank assessments. They could have moved you off your old project because the manager and senior engineer were close and nothing else. But there could be more going on there and you can't count on people to spell that out for you. You need to ask.
By that argument, they shouldn't override the OS trust store either, but most browsers do. There's a compromise between consistency and user friendliness.
Great little product! Seems like this could actually make good money with the right marketing.

Are you doing anything special to leverage TikTok or Instagram Reels? I notice you had a few sample posts. I'd go hard on that if you're not already: post yourself, hire micro influencers, etc.
No T-spins [1], impressive!

[1] https://harddrop.com/wiki/T-Spin_Guide
Sex is not colour. Colour does exist on a spectrum, sex does not (in humans or other mammals). Humans are also not cutlery. Both of your analogies are misplaced.

Humans, (along with 95%+ animals) are gonochoric, which means they are either male or female and cannot change that.

There is no spectrum because there are only two types of sex cell (gametes, sperm and ova) thus, only two reproductive strategies available.

We also know that the reproductive strategy coincides with gamete size (small and large, again, sperm and ova) and this is helpfully confirmed by non-gonochoric species that are hermaphrodatic, like clownfish. We know that a clownfish has changed from male to female when their reproductive strategy has changed to the point that they can produce the other type of gamete.

> You can’t really argue against this

It seems like your assumptions have been challenged, it would’ve been better if you’d do some of that yourself, and read some biology by actual biologists, not from activists.
the most surprising thing here is that Google Play had more than 2.36M of apps.
We want to integrate reasoning models as next steps because we see a lot of value in understanding better CoTs behaviour (DeepSeek R1 & Co)
That doesn't solve the problem of Plaid granting access to an absurd amount of financial details to their users (i.e. the companies to which I'm "verifying my bank account").

My account number is fine (and the entire point). My balance and last n transactions? That's just absurd and shows both how broken the US retail banking landscape is in many aspects, and the level of Stockholm syndrome exhibited by a large fraction of their depositors.
IMHO, still feels like a superpower in the editor when I type "def validate_session(sess" and it says "Are you wanting to type: `ion_data: dict[str, str]`?" Especially as the type annotations get more convoluted.
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Exactly nr 2 is Switzerland with ETH. Both together with France at a VERY academic level. Next maybe far far away Italy and Germany in very different fields, but at levels comparable (if not worse) with south America, like Chile Argentina Brasil and Uruguay
It's a been a really long time since I read "Foucault's Pendulum" and having never read "The Da Vinci Code" the similarities may have been projected onto them by me at the time.

I probably wasn't as open minded back then either. Well, at least I hope I'm more open minded know.
This was more my understanding. That even with todays population slowdown/shrinking, there is already worry that we wont be able to staff the jobs to keep society functioning. Suddenly you have a factory that makes pumps, it can't meet demand, so the factory that makes tractors doesn't meet demand, so farmers can't plant. We end up back with Oxen pulled plows. It seems that "The Peripheral" kind of skipped how they got to the automated economy that didn't need humans. Especially after the catastrophes that occurred that wiped out the population.
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