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Thanks for that I was mistaken about how the vouch process worked. I thought vouching could work for flagged as well since fagged can lead to removal.

Yea, I have re-read things for goals as well. I also re-read things for the mental approach it may instill for a period of time while and after reading it, to enjoy it (like you said), or to see how the perspective fits to my new mental models a few years later. Three fiction books I constantly go back to at different times are Brave New World, The Alchemist, and Prey.

I'm curious what books others go back to over time.

I would love to see dang weigh in here just out of curiosity AND see how many people or if people are using the vouch mechanism if they can. Because this post doesn't have an insignificant upvote count and has actual conversation happening in the comments.

100% serious statement here, who are you looking at on Bluesky or how? Looking at the Discover (so a general feed) my follow which would be unique to me, and the trending ALL I see is people talking about this being bad OR posts showing how everyone is saying Bluesky is celebrating. I truly do not see this celebration happening that people are saying is happening rampantly. Right now, in a private browser going to https://bsky.app/ there is 0 celebration.

(quick edit) And anyone who doesn't believe me go to Bluesky right now and look.

Here is the actual RSL website [0] and announcement [1]

"RSL is an open, decentralized protocol, based on the widely adopted RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, that scales to millions of websites and can be applied to any digital content, including web pages, books, videos, and datasets."

[0] https://rslcollective.org/ [1] https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-standard

The very study you cited states in their initial summary of findings that "The study provides the first evidence to support a widely held belief: that racially mixed juries do not discriminate against defendants based on the defendant’s ethnic background. While the assumption has been that racially mixed juries will not discriminate against ethnic minority defendants, this study showed that racially mixed juries also did not discriminate against White defendants.[0]"

[0]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-inst... - page iv

It makes sense people are going to LLMs for this but part of the problem is that a therapist isn't just someone for you to talk to. A huge part of their job is the psychoeducation, support and connection to a human, and the responsibility of the relationship. A good therapist isn't someone who will just sit with you through an anxiety attack, they work to build up your skills to minimize the frequency and improve your individual approach to handling it.

I'm not really sure if this is what you are getting at but it is using physical properties associated with QM to create the random numbers. Not just a mathematical model.

"This is the first random number generator service to use quantum nonlocality as a source of its numbers, and the most transparent source of random numbers to date."

Something that is nice with MoS2 and the others are transition metal dichalcogenides and have some beneficial physical properties like a natural electronic bandgap, unlike silicon.

From the way it is written it feels more like "Under Biden enough openings occurred that he selected the entire existing committee," where as under Trump they are being pushed out "“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. ”"

You might want to post this as a Show HN. But interesting stuff!

Absolutely, I was agreeing with you even though my wording was a bit strange.I wanted to try and engage in good faith forum responding to the other commenter but see that might not be productive. There are so many issues with this case and the many others that are popping up and I don't imagine they are going to get better.

He wasn't a citizen, he was granted a work permit and it was directed that he should not be deported to El Salvador back in 2019. That arguably makes him a US resident, legally able to reside and work here.

One source - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-documents-governmen...

I would guess the key here is the "researchers reported that they had developed a drone they're calling the CoulombFly, which is capable of self-powered hovering for as long as the Sun is shining."

It only seems to operate off the solar power, no additional power. So the light keeps shining, the drone keeps flying.

From the article:

"The facets distinguishing successful entrepreneurs include a preference for variety, novelty and starting new things (openness to adventure), like being the center of attention (lower levels of modesty) and being exuberant (high activity levels)."

And a little further down:

'"Our findings clearly show there's not one ideal 'founder-type' personality," says Associate Professor Margaret (Peggy) Kern, senior author of the study from the University of Melbourne. "Instead, the Big Five personality traits of successful start-up founders, which we can break down further across 30 dimensions, reveal six distinct types: fighters, operators, accomplishers, leaders, engineers and developers."'

Yea, I agree. I similarly used it when I was moving I would take 360 photos of my old rooms or for seasonal decorations to see how the room changes over time. It looks like there are some decent 3rd party ones on the market but we'll see. It was a nice partner to cardboard.

Title changed due to length: New 'assembly theory' unifies physics and biology to explain evolution and complexity

Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9

This Quanta piece is from May and is talking about work that came out in October 2022 so if Aaronson was going to write a piece he probably already did (maybe, obviously my assumptions could be completely wrong).

But the abstract of the pre-print (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10255) covers some of what you are asking:

"Despite the well developed mathematical description of non-Abelian anyons and numerous theoretical proposals, the experimental observation of their exchange statistics has remained elusive for decades. Controllable many-body quantum states generated on quantum processors offer another path for exploring these fundamental phenomena. While efforts on conventional solid-state platforms typically involve Hamiltonian dynamics of quasi-particles, superconducting quantum processors allow for directly manipulating the many-body wavefunction via unitary gates."

They created a collection of quasi-particles that has different statistical properties that we don't see in 3D (the Non-abelian anyon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon). So simulated or created becomes a tricky word here, the quantum processor is putting these qubits into a state that acts as a quasi-particle so they can study it directly. So no a classical computer would not be able to do this in the same way it would have to use classical bits to simulate the quasi-particle.

Here is the Kumulipo chant it references (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumulipo). I really enjoy that we are getting a bunch of Hawaiian named space things because of the Astronomy that goes on there.

That is something that I have struggled to convey. Working in a scientific field looks a lot different than just reading things from that scientific community. Sub-fields and up real small and you know what is going on, what the problems are, and who are what kind of players in your field.

Open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x

Here is their OSF page that has a download to the paper (and more).

https://osf.io/npa9x/

Edit: and here is a commentary piece on Nature from the lead author: https://socialsciences.nature.com/posts/why-voters-who-value...

Wired does seem to have a syndication agreement with Ars if you wait a few days for their articles:

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/05/this-is-catfishing-o...

I get your point but I wouldn't call it an academic paper disclaimer, it is giving you the scope/breadth of their research. That is why I took the whole paragraph, they are saying they found a bias in hiring. That is a specific slice of "Academic Science," that the HigherEd article is calling out but only a slice. That is why the

"We did not examine systemic claims of bias, such as the tenure schedule that imposes inflexible time-career paths or structural societal norms that burden women with greater responsibilities outside of their academic jobs or that penalize women for negotiating forcefully for wage increases or seeking outside offers. Other scholars have identified a myriad of such systemic barriers. "

part is important, it specifically is saying there has been a lot of work showing systemic barriers but they are not researching that part. This isn't a critique of their research but of the summary articles headline and what some people seem to be taking away from that headline. Even in the HigherEd piece it says there are concerns and this research is to help identify where there has been progress and where we need to focus.

Man that is not a great headline from Inside Higher Ed. In the discussion section the authors explicitly layout that this is a specific slice they are looking at not all of Academic Science.

"Before we summarize our findings below, we reiterate a caveat noted throughout this article: The failure to support specific claims of bias does not deny the possibility that broader, systemic barriers against women in the academy exist and/or that significant bias existed before 2000. We did not examine systemic claims of bias, such as the tenure schedule that imposes inflexible time-career paths or structural societal norms that burden women with greater responsibilities outside of their academic jobs or that penalize women for negotiating forcefully for wage increases or seeking outside offers. Other scholars have identified a myriad of such systemic barriers. But when it comes to specific claims about biased grant reviewers, search committee members, journal editors, and letter writers, the claims of antifemale bias were not supported, and in one case (tenure-track hiring), the data actually supported the opposite conclusion—that of pro-female hiring bias. This pro-female hiring advantage has continued after the closing of our inclusionary period, 2020 (Henningsen et al, 2021; Solga et al., 2023)."

Here is an older thread from 2021 with the same wiki post [0]. I just read about them today and figured someone else might just learn about them today too.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28246850

NPR responded: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-...

"The word gaslighting (referring to the behavior described in the above amateur psychology section) is occasionally used in clinical literature, but is considered a colloquialism by the American Psychological Association.[0]"

I think APA considering it a colloquialism would count here as a psychological term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Here is the paper they are talking about https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259011332...

This write up of it [0] tries to address that a little but I agree that all the scrutiny is deserved and should continue.

"The previous paper has been resubmitted to Nature with new data that validates the earlier work, Dias says. The new data was collected outside the lab, at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in front of an audience of scientists who saw the superconducting transition live. A similar approach has been taken with the new paper. "

[0] https://phys.org/news/2023-03-viable-superconducting-materia...