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I have zero compassion for ArXiv.

Allow me to share a horror story:

I was the victim of a pretty bizarre super in-your-face academic theft. Someone snooped a half-finished paper draft of mine off GitHub and...actually got it published in ArXiv and a "real" journal: https://forbetterscience.com/2023/10/30/stephensons-alternat...

In spite of having a full commit log (with GitHub verified commits!!!) of both the code AND the paper, both ArXiv and the journal didn't seem to care or bother at all.

I went all the way to contacting Stanford, the institution that the thief falsely pretended to be affiliated with, to get them to help me with this.

Stanford contacted ArXiv, and ArXiv then:
1. Removed the thief's upload: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14810
2. Allowed the thief to copyright strike MY (!!!!) own research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04214

How does this make any sense? You remove somebody's stolen content, and then allow the thief to copyright strike it? what the fuck...
To be frank, the issue is that our society is not more damning of people involved in the low-level actioning of great injustices.
Because that makes Kevin a manufacturer and thus subject to liability for a product that he gives away for free, which is a ludicrous proposition. And would lead anyone rational to ban all UK downloads, because you can't put your personal finances at risk to give someone free software.
I immediately recognised the author’s name from Lifehacker in the early 2000s. Enjoyed countless hours reading that.
I don't really see what that has to do with what I posted, as it completely misses the point.

This is not about eating fast food vs eating healthy. This is about groups of people eating the same food, only that one is labeled 'bio/organic' and the other isn't.

When these people were subjected to tests, and the foods themselves were tested, it was quantifiably proven to be less healthy.
> The people here in this thread talking about getting a PhD to satisfy an interest in a subject

I'm sorry, but you seem to be unaware that in many subjects this is the sole reason anyone does a PhD.

> How do you support yourself if it’s not about the money?

Funding, which is readily available.
Someone in NASA once told me that it was easier to teach a mechanical engineer to program then a software developer mechanical engineering.

From that perspective, the avoidance of recursion is more compelling. Plus, Fortran didn't support it...
Title should indicate that this is a _criticism_ of the rules.
My biggest failure has been not getting an extreme income ( 300k TC a year +) before 30.

I had planned to retire by 40 and be done with this work nonsense. Now I'm in my mid 30s and that doesn't seem possible.

However I will say if you have a highly variable income ( one year you make 100$ an hour, the next year you have no work), you should max out your 401k during the good times. Having 30k in retirement funds that you'll get smacked for drawing on is better than nothing.

Too late now. I'm comfortable, but I think the era of 300k TC is done.
Excited to introduce the Perplexity Deep Research Agent: available for free to all users. Paid users only need to pay $20/mo to access an expert level researcher on any topic for 500 daily queries, and need to wait less than three minutes for getting a full research report.
There's a great children's picture book that illustrates the whole ecosystem around a dead tree using watercolors...

https://www.review-land.com/the-gift-of-the-tree-by-alvin-r-...
how expensive is the bandwidth if you're buying from residential proxies?
But, as he disclaims in the beginning, he wasn’t actively participating anymore. Feels like slamming the door because you were leaving anyways, not because you were angry in the first place.

It rides on the wave of FLOSS contributors leaving because of something dysfunctional, and he was leaving because he wasn’t active, but makes it about something political, since it would get read because of mentioned context.

Had he just posted his opinion and not left, it would not have been noteworthy.
There were many true arguments that were twisted into political narratives: “the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow”. What they left out is “the natural gas does not always flow”…
Why is it every time they do something wildly stupid/crazy/disastrous for every part of America, there’s always somebody who says “yeah but that’s not REALLY what they’re doing”.

Like they’ve done more damage to businesses with the tariff threats to Canada and Mexico than they’ll ever save in these “cuts”. Republicans first budget under “Trump priorities” is 4.5 trillion dollars of DEFICIT spending. None of the proposed tax plans balance anything, 100% in the red. They’ve left our networks open to foreign adversaries and weakened NATO.

…but there’s always somebody who says “yeah, but that’s not what they MEANT”. I don’t get it.
Probably not.

In https://source-robotics.github.io/PAROL-docs/page6/ it tells you it can pinch you.

It's probably relatively safe for humans though (be careful with your pets), the robot is 5kg, it move quite slowly and motors are nema 17 (the same than in a 3d printer) with a max gearbox ratio x20. In case of problem press the e-stop button if you have chosen to have one.

As far as I understand there are no encoder on the joints so it can't be back-driven, it's not a compliant robot.
One of my favorite ridiculous stats. Bruce Bowen had one year where he shot better from 3 than he did on free throws. He was a dreadful shooter, but somehow he taught himself to be passable at this one specific skill, corner 3s.
Much of that concern comes from a place of ignorance. Example: all the fretting about NNSA.

Having worked with that agency, they have a fair number of people who don't directly have much to do with the nuclear weapons enterprise at all. Those include their social media team, recruiters who try to push going into the weapons community, and the like. There are also the normal administrative paper-pushers that flourish in Federal and state agencies.

Getting rid of some of those people seems like a bad idea when NNSA is a black box that says "scary nukes here", but really isn't once you look inside a little bit. The job of recruiting people should be left to the companies that run the Labs. We don't need a social media team to publicize a statutorily-required agency. We could probably prune a bunch of admins and have little impact on the enterprise after a little bit of shakeup. Etc.
The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
I work with energy systems that are still running Windows Server 2003. Even upgrading to a new version of Windows would be a multi-year project; rewriting all of the customized, Windows-specific software to work on Linux would be incomprehensibly expensive.
Do you want to just complain about no accountability or were you actually interested in one? I'm not aware of any more accountability alternatives - feel free to add any you know of.
Yeah that's ugly, but it doesn't really matter. What is worse is inconsistencies when declaring class vars and constants... But you learn to live with it.
Its primary byproduct is heat, as it calculates its bits.
A rich person can then let their money stay in companies they own, and avoid taxation? Control the company by owning most shares, and make the company act on one's own behalf.

Or move the money abroad and hide it, no one knows how much they have.
What strikes me is the empty spaces where we don't recognize what we did, or didn't do anything memorable.

I made an app to try to address this about a decade ago which I called Bucket52, the idea being that every week you put one memorable thing in it. Trying to do this just for a year was surprisingly difficult.
> Electric cars don't have electric car-specific tires.

Maybe they all don't but some do.
I have always assumed it was just due to the uneven distribution of weight by vehicles often being stationary in the same spot, so those points are subject to more compression forces than the surrounding road surface.

If it were acceleration and deceleration I’d have expected the effect to be less localised, as breaking and accelerating happens over a much longer distance.

But, I have no actual idea. It’s just probably not friction…
The comparison IMO is that how baseball is played changed over time as teams optimized, and some of those changes are undesirable from the perspective of an entertainment product. So MLB changed the rules to increase plays at the margin that are on average considered "more exciting."

Every league does this of course, NBA did it just last year with the stealth rule changes around fouls.
the built in one has keyboard shortcuts too: < and >
Exactly. I have thought about it for a while, I think I have to get rid of work or family to be substantially happier. Apparently getting rid of family is morally wrong, so the only option is to get rid of work, somehow, anyhow.

I fully understand why people buy lottery tickets. Hope beats probability on every single instance. I, a Master of Statistics graduates, buy them too.
For people in the UK I strongly recommend the BBC program on carbon capture https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00256gj/panorama-can-... that goes over several approaches, and goes over problems of scaling them.

I personally think we have to investigate this, as we are just not doing a good enough job of reducing fossil fuel use.
I am not supporting the theft, but it will make better sense when you realize that copyright holds little value in the real world outside of the court system. Next time, keep your repo private until you're ready to release everything together.
Indeed Apple did not invent the concept of the smartphone. But by all accounts the first iPhone was absolutely considered a smartphone, based on its superior hardware, advanced operating system, and fully-functional web browser.

You seem to be equating "smartphone" with "has third party apps", but that isn't the defining characteristic of "smartphone" based on any common usage.

Besides, when the iOS App Store was launched ~1 year later, the original iPhone was able to use it.
Trump administration backtracks on firing nuclear arsenal workers
I think you're correct? Those services seem unrelated to what is going on and I thought I was missing something.
I love the modern game. I just think the pendulum has swung a tiny bit too far toward 3s in the past 3-4 years, that's all. Just a nudge in the other direction.

My ideal would be to try changing 2s and 3s to 3s and 4s. But that will never happen.
The same way that pickleball is making the tennis courts inaccessible (the statement I was replying to). Specifically in the case I'm talking about, the park used to have 4 tennis courts, 2 of them were converted into 4 pickleball courts. There's a serious case to be made, from casual observation, that the city should have converted 3 or even 4 of the tennis courts into 6 or 8 pickleball courts, given that there is almost always 100% pickleball court penetration when we're out walking. Not saying we should do away with the tennis courts, I'm just saying there's a case for it.
This has made me wonder if there's a tracert that attempts to geolocate the hops and put them on a map. That would be an interesting tool.
I figured this could get flagged, just like the post on DOGE trademark.

I’m pointing out that a legitimate discussion about the vulnerability of scientific repositories (arXiv) to policy/funding pressures was flagged on HN. This is ironic given HN's own guidelines state they welcome content that "gratifies intellectual curiosity" and represents "interesting new phenomena."

The fact that a discussion about potential threats to open scientific repositories could be flagged/censored on HN effectively proves the very point being discussed - how platforms meant for technical and scientific discourse can be compromised by non-technical factors.

For dang (HN's moderator): This kind of moderation appears to contradict HN's core mission. A discussion about safeguarding scientific repositories like arXiv is exactly the kind of substantive, technically-relevant content that should be welcome on HN. When even discussions about protecting scientific discourse get suppressed, it validates the original concern about vulnerability to censorship and control. It doesn’t matter what rationalization was used for censorship. If the threat exists to technical achievements, it must not be censored. Rules be damned.

The irony is particularly sharp given that HN and arXiv share similar goals of fostering intellectual discourse and technical/scientific advancement.
Open Source Voice Cloning at Its Best
essentially the theory of LOCKSS https://www.lockss.org/ would mean that only controlling something yourself cannot keep it safe from the threat of destruction.

There are just different metrics of safety - there is also safety from revealing, and that is probably most safe if you control it all yourself, even though that increases risk of destruction and loss.
> IMHO, long and difficult educational programs should be designed to guarantee a high chance of a reasonable stable and comfortable outcome.

You've hit the nail on the head. Education is now regarded transactionally. A PhD simply isn't about that; if you ever thought so, you've been lied to.

I'm a PhD student and I'm certainly not being 'taken advantage of' or anything of the sort. Please broaden your perspective and stop basing your entire view of a topic on a few sob stories from people who either couldn't hack it or made terrible, self-sabotaging decisions and now regret it.

There's a huge crowd out there for whom this was not their experience, and hence have no reason to moan about it online.
And don't forget the "SSO Tax" that some SaaS implement. Ideally, your company login should be your one and only login, and should be strongly tied to your device, a hardware token, and a central directory. Often, Saas providers charge far more to integrate with these directories, so, companies will just use a lower cost "LDAP Authentication" and condition users to enter their staff passwords on multiple sites :(
Yup. My advice to young people is -- if you can't figure out what to do in life, make more $$. With enough $$ you will have a world of time to ponder what to do.

I also regret that I gave up a FAANG level opportunity because my faily doesn't want me to go to another city. I would hit well over 200K TC by now -- a very comfortable salary in Canada.
Is morality really the major thing standing between you and “getting rid of your family”?
I don't care about speed running at all. The drama in this community though, absolutely top notch, it's like a technical soap opera and I love it.
Do you have a proxy in front of your site that is changing the protocol version? I have been using that on a dozen sites for years without issue. What browser are you using? Do your access logs show a HTTP/2.0 request? If you have something like Caddy or HAProxy in front of NGinx that is changing the proto version then you can create a similar rule at that outer layer. Or perhaps NGinx in front of NGinx doing a proxy pass?
> Do not isolate code when you test it.

> Only isolate your code from truly external services

That makes tests more trustworthy but also sometimes harder to maintain I think. I have seen cases where small changes on the code base created strong ripple effects with many tests to update.
Arguably, the tests were not very well written or organized and with too many high level tests. Still, this and the very large execution time of the test collection made me realized that for medium to large projects, I will be much more careful in the future before going all in with the no-mock approach.
> trading just doesn’t make sense to me

Skill issue. Let me if I can help. Look up "price discovery" and try to understand how it's a service to the world.

> bad policies of governments... wars...

What's wrong with helping the markets react calmly and accurately to these events? Is a surgeon evil for treating a tumor, or a farmer for addressing your hunger?

> This is no better than crypto trading and gambling

Crypto is subject to much debate, but gambling does nothing to help with efficient markets, liquidity, or capital formation. It's strictly worse than trading actual assets.
I agree. My point was more in terms of surface area. Sending data to a party with a reputation to uphold and resources to do proper data handling is still better than sending data to 10+ parties with little or no reputation and/or resources to implement security measures.
Usually, when we say something doesn't exist in nature, we mean it's fundamentally incompatible with our 3 spatial dimensions as they exist, passes through itself, or is infinite along some dimension, requires infinitely thin surfaces, etc.

But by your definition, even something as simple as a cylinder or sphere doesn't exist in nature, because basic mathematical relationships like radius to circumference won't survive "small deformations".

I don't know what point you're trying to make. Norton's Dome "exists in nature" as much as a sphere or a cube does. If it doesn't exist in nature, then no geometric form does.
I doubt that. Players like DeRozan prove that mid and even long 2s have utility. As defenses optimize to pack the paint while chasing shooters off the line, more opportunities will open up. If it were obvious how, we'd already be doing them!
There are entire neighborhoods in the US where you are advised to keep your doors locked and never to stop at a stop sign or red light.
I really like how you don’t sacrifice complete command-line first shell feel, and escaping into a sane language with real datastructures is literally one character away.

Rather than the tclsh way of saying “we’ll just make the Lisp seem really shelly” which is a dud to anyone who is not a lisper.

Now, it’d be really cool if schemesh had a TUI library at the maturity level of Ratatui.

So... it sacrifices sub-shell syntax with parentheses being hijacked for Scheme. Have you also lost $(...) shell interpolation as the saner alternative to `...`?
Maybe, or maybe not. Now that I think about it, it's difficult to say. But let's say I would rather get rid of work than family, and I don't want to get rid of both.

BTW changing job is still a lot easier than changing family :)
Another good example is the Zelda Ocarina of Time any%, which progressed as new techniques allowed skipping more and more of the game, but which was still pretty broadly popular even when it was a warp to the final boss in under 20 minutes, is now way less popular now that they discovered a arbitrary code execution method that credits-warps in under 5 minutes.

This process had already been going on before, but you have this progressive sequence of the speedrun getting harder to play and harder to watch. You see some spliting out to restricted categories but even those aren't all that popular, but also something else that's recently become really common particularly in the communities for these games that have been optimized to death: randomizers. Shuffle around the positions of the necessary items, or the map itself, and you have something that's fresh for viewers and people who've played the game forever, an extra aspect of chance, usefulness of skills and familiarity with parts of the game that wouldn't otherwise be relevant... but it does split the community even more.
Cheaper alternative:
https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot

Some local people made this with it:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J3BygZpa6Eo
That's possible only if they use the same tokens. Which likely requires they share the same tokenizer. Not sure that's the case here, R1 was built on OpenAI closed model's output.
> The question is, how to make democracy stable against interference

... from other nation states - an even harder question, in that they have even more money and tools like Twitter, TikTok, Facebook.
California is a bit more nuanced to that. There's a whole chunk of Federal land owned by BLM that is poorly managed by the feds. And then there's a fuck-ton of private land as well that makes up forests and brush. And then finally there's state owned land.

Of course california hurts itself with its own environmental regs for burns, but there's alot of legal complexity to pull it off across the various land ownerships.
I am beyond overjoyed that a city somewhere (Austin) did the stupid simple thing and simply added a bunch of housing when prices went up. You can clearly see the graphs, where after 2020, prices shoot up, then housing starts shoot up, then prices drop back down to 2020 levels.

I would say I am progressive politically but the ostensibly progressive mindset that led to denying that housing supply could help with the cost of housing has been crazy harmful. Even with the newfound acknowledgement that housing production is necessary, it's going to be harder and more expensive to catch up - peakier demand for trades labor and materials also drives up prices!!
Note it is not funded by the government, but it is one of many publishing operations at Cornell that is concerned about risks that come from being in the US. They take donations

https://info.arxiv.org/about/donate.html
> I don't remember the date when I started elementary school

Ultimately the date is not important. It's a life event that came after an event (being born) and before another event (going to college/getting a job)
Rare win for not being able to connect to my home printer.
But it isn't just simple math.

Yes, 33% for 3pts equals a 50% 2pt shot, so beat that, and you've got yourself a pretty good scorer. But hitting 33% is not trivial unless you make a lot of other adjustments: multiple blocks for the shooters and not just a simple pick-and-roll or pick-and-pop, staggered blocks for a shooter switching from one sideline to the next. This has actually led to less specialization, as every player on the court needs to shoot 3s and defend faster or bigger players as switches became unavoidable.

And with all that, it only led to a "dynasty" when one player who could create his own shot and shoot from nearly anywhere at 35+% (Curry), paired with another ~40% career 3pt shooter and defensive specialist (Thompson) and completed with a power forward who could defend anyone and coordinate the attack too (Green). Even so, they did need another future hall-of-famer in Durant to win two of their last 3 rings.

That same team still has 2 of those core people in them, but they are unable to replicate anywhere near the success.

So if anyone can do this, why doesn't everyone do it?
From what I understand, Ford did some really significant work on lightening the F150 maybe 5+ years ago, I was surprised at how light they are. Looks like a Tesla Model S for comparison is $4,300-5,000lbs.
It’s the seventh commandment, don’t you know?

7. Thou shalt not use more than two browser plugins.
wow really? Did soccer also go through a statistical revolution? I don't watch soccer at all and am pretty surprised to hear this. Did all the teams converge on a winning solution?
I guess we should be happy that there is now more solar energy produced than energy consumed by Bitcoin mining in the state. Super green! https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/10/texas-bitcoin-mine-n...