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New comment by cb504 in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

cb504 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:52:43 +0000

This would be a great tool for other teams to learn new/different methodologies. I guess the reason is competition.

But reproducing studies could be live-streamed without a problem.

New comment by cb504 in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

cb504 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:50:12 +0000

One of the things that surprised me was that she was identifying manipulated and duplicated images using her own eyes.

This could be done via software, and might catch more papers than the ~6k out of 100k that she did.

In the software world, there are tools for this, "software composition analysis". I worked at a company that got busted for violating GPL, and as part of settling the suit, all software had to be run through BlackDuck and all warning/issues found by the tool had to be resolved before the software could be released. (NOTE: the software that violated GPL was from an acquisition)

New comment by cb504 in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

cb504 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:26:01 +0000

For these scientific papers, at a minimum truth==reproducibility.

For humanities and social sciences, it could mean consensus, but in hard science it is different. You are doing experiments that produce data. If someone else repeats the experiment, they should get the same data.

In this case, no one could reproduce the results of the papers in question.

I wonder how widespread this has become. How many scientists, driven to publish, know that it is too expensive to reproduce their experiment?

New comment by cb504 in "Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records"

cb504 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 10:48:55 +0000

Ya, noticed that too. other interesting observations: * 48 recruiters & 28 "People" stuff * boat load of Project Managers * lots UX and Designer types

New comment by cb504 in "Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says"

cb504 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:37:49 +0000

I had a Professor in college who refused to meet with me behind a a close door, and we were both male. He kindly explained that he picked this up from a former professor of his. He wanted zero possibility of a student accusing him of sexual misconduct. At the time I thought it was a bit strange, but I agreed and left the door open. 20 years later, it doesn't sound so strange anymore.

New comment by cb504 in "My husband was right about DVDs"

cb504 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:06:06 +0000

"Han Solo shot first." ... Sorry, I had to do it.

New comment by cb504 in "The Social Recession: By the Numbers"

cb504 — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:15:07 +0000

How you treat the "other" is the measure of a low trust society. Murder is wrong and not tolerated within the clan, but violence towards the "other" is ignored and in some cases encouraged. Yes, there are hate crimes in America but they make the news and promoted to the FBI. This helps build trust.

New comment by cb504 in "Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract"

cb504 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:55:34 +0000

Don't the Palestinians think the same thing, that only Palestinians should have governing power over all land west of the jordan river?

New comment by cb504 in "Police misconduct settlements"

cb504 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:33:26 +0000

Consider making every criminal complaint against a police officer a federal case to be investigated by the FBI. Take it out of state and local hands.

My State Management Mistake

cb504 — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://epicreact.dev/my-state-management-mistake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541889

Points: 1

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New comment by cb504 in "Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors"

cb504 — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:47:26 +0000

In my limited experience, Germans are more sensitive to personal privacy than other Europeans, even the rest of the world. To non-Germans they might seem paranoid. Maybe we can all learn from their historical mistake.

The problem I see with the DIY-attitude is that security is easy to get wrong and is moving target. The other opinion here is "keep it in the country". If someone really wants your data, the locale won't save you. And yet, if there is a breach, I could see an foreign company like AWS trying to hush it, where a German company would make a bigger fuss (diplomatic issue).

New comment by cb504 in "Data Broker Opt-Out List"

cb504 — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 06:48:50 +0000

Does anyone have info on GDPR's success in getting data removed or fining companies? I am not following closely, but last I saw was GDPR is a law whose enforcement is untested.

New comment by cb504 in "2.5M Medical Records Leaked by AI Company"

cb504 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:03:48 +0000

If I understood correctly, the database was on a publicly accessible network. Wouldn't the problem be averted by putting the database in a separate VLAN, where only specific IP's from the public VLAN could access it, and not IP's from WWW??

New comment by cb504 in "There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore"

cb504 — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:19:16 +0000

I would add that you don't need to understand the implementation details to understand privacy of citizens, tracking of users, and accountability. It doesn't take years of programming experience to understand that the big data companies wield incredible power and are also vulnerable to security breaches. (Maybe you shouldn't collect data that you can't protect.)

New comment by cb504 in "How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study"

cb504 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:17:12 +0000

If there is a medium to high drop out rate, and teachers are constantly looking for new student to fill their schedule (even 30% of their schedule), it could well be worth it.

New comment by cb504 in "Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online"

cb504 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:55:22 +0000

and behind that disorder and anarchy are corporations and totalitarian regimes looking to weaken democracies for their own self-serving ends.

New comment by cb504 in "Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)"

cb504 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:54:45 +0000

@ismejeff, sorry but you are (probably) a business person.

- is an IDE open on your desktop right now?

- how many commits have you done this year?

Talking about code and software isn't anywhere near the same as being a programmer. If I am wrong about you, I apologize; you are the exception.

New comment by cb504 in "A brief and 146% accurate history of programming languages"

cb504 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 11:35:26 +0000

I especially liked 1996: Phrases such as “the container manager provider provider manager service provider template” appear in everyday life.

A brief and 146% accurate history of programming languages

cb504 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:59:13 +0000

Article URL: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fhabr.com%2Fru%2Fpost%2F481822%2F

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934403

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cb504 in "When His SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated, This Pilot Free Fell from Space"

cb504 — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:15:25 +0000

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