skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The survey results show that 76 of the 77 participating scientists said they had not encountered evidence of a secret spraying program, and agree that the alleged evidence cited by the individuals who believe that atmospheric spraying is occurring could be explained through other factors, such as typical airplane contrail formation and poor data sampling.

Whatever so called chemtrails are, pretty much anybody honest would have to admit that this really isn't any kind of new science or information that really proves anything one way or the other.
I was quoting. Did you read everything that I wrote? I thought I did a pretty good job telling the entire story.
It's not outrageous to take the idea seriously. It is outrageous to believe it stridently without doing any research. If one reads about contrails, one finds a simple explanation for them which matches all observation. Reading the history, one will discover that, for example, they were a real problem for Allied bombers attacking Germany, which sort of implies that they aren't voluntary.
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Without it we'd certainly see much more aggressive ad injection from wireless carriers.
What about the 77th guy? I'd love to hear what he had to say...!
Internet > Food?!
When will Microsoft pull the plug on your version of Windows or Office?
He is one of my favorite authors, who does not feed you pop-psychology or some feel good narrative. I understand people here are turned off by his seeming arrogance, but I like one quote (probably by someone else), "Character trumps reputation." and Reputation is fragile. This one quote gives me more courage than any to speak my mind.
Aside:

I often wonder what might happen when someone in one group (the chemtrail people) are recruited into the other group (the rocketeers in this case), to work and help in some way. The other direction might involve a skilled researcher helping the chemtrailers to do actual research.

I realize that it's probably hard to find someone from the first group who could make a contribution to the second group, and be willing to pitch in, but there must be someone.

There was an article in the NYT today about Representative Mike Coffman (R) in Colorado. His district was redistricted from the conservative people who elected him before, to 20% Latino with completely different worldviews. Coffman has since changed his professed views on some issues, he says because he's worked with the new set of people.

Political motivations aside, I think this is generally true. It's hard to demonize someone when you have to (get to?) look them in the eye every day and cooperate on a common goal. And it's easy to demonize a group if you avoid their company.
I never took the conspiracy seriously but I was decently surprised by the number of contrails visible in the sky on a clear day during my visits to the Northeast of USA. I understand it was probably a due to a combination of climate (my visits all happened to be in Winter) and the sheer density of commercial flights in that airspace, however the observation did make me feel a little empathy for those people who buy into conspiracy theories since the trails can appear very much unnatural and menancing.
How about the possibility that these scientists would rather believe such a conspiracy does not exist? After all, we have a lot of people ignoring the severity of global warming for the very reason that it's heavy burden to bear to live with one's eyes opened to the true extent of reality. Scientists are not necessarily self-aware, even though that is our ideal or definition of a true scientist.
Probably just a crank. Scientists can believe in crazy conspiracies too.
So add 30 JavaScript files, a few dozen template files to be rendered by one or more of those JS files, a whole bunch of CSS files and at least 6 fonts. HTTP/2 is almost certainly going to perform even better under those circumstances.

Edit: oh and throw in a few videos, everything has a video or two nowadays.
Reading the rest of this thread reminded me about piping to jq, which I forget as much as I forget to use HTTPie. Usually I'm checking headers and non-body stuff when I'm using these tools, but when I've got someone over my shoulder who's not as used to reading compressed JSON, or they're looking for something specific, it's nice to get a pretty format. I guess that's the biggest hurdle in just changing habits.
Also, Java only provided the lowest common denominator. A piece of software I worked on back then needed to start a long 2hr process, but only if there was more than 2GB of free disk space (which was not a trivial requirement circa 2000). But Java did not have a way to query free disk space at the time because IIRC it was missing on one of the platforms (and then it wouldn't be "run everywhere"). So instead it would run, and if insufficient disk space would just fail.

Java was always "write once, debug everywhere"
They were never debunked because they were never really "bunked" to begin with. It has always been an extreme fringe theory with zero real support. I have no idea why they found it worthwhile to correct.
The most important talk for anybody getting into business for themselves: "Fuck You, Pay Me"[1] by Mike Monterio.

[1] https://vimeo.com/22053820
The extent of NSA surveillance was known to thousands, if not tens of thousands of people before Edward Snowden clued the general public in.
Well to be fair, once you've read one medium article, the resources should all be cached for the next one you read. It's better than everybody posting on their own site with their own set of 2MB+ static resources.
It's used today in France for notably :

- estimating the taxes on salaries eg. before hiring (1)

- estimating one's (as a citizen) social benefits on a centralized web page (2)

- for various economic studies (where the numpy implementation helps working on large inputs)

The core (https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-core) package defines abstract structures used primarily but not specific to the France-specific package (-france), where the law is coded. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to bootstrap a new country (eg. generating templates for different kinds of taxes). -tunisia is the second country implemented, but much less maintained.

"Extensions" enable local specifics to be added (e.g. specific to Paris).
"Reforms" enable the simulation of experiments (e.g. simulating a basic income).

(1) http://sgmap.github.io/cout-embauche/

(2) https://mes-aides.gouv.fr/
The counter argument, of course, is that by 'removing' / silencing said conspiracist it would be proof they were right all along.
The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
I don't think that that's irony.
Git branching work flow
Right, if you look at the contents of the license in the discussion, they are variants of "if you try to fight us with patents, we will deny you a license/patents".

So you can compete with FB without losing a license. The first blog post you quoted shows a misunderstanding of the license (the word "compete" doesn't show up in the license).

So the correct representation is "If you claim patent infringement by FB, you can lose the license.". This is what the linked comments say, but what your summarised statement didn't properly capture (hence my comment).
The documentation has quite a lot of english sections.
http://doc.openfisca.fr/en/index.html
"76 out of 77 scientists had not encountered evidence"? Lol. What's that one guys evidence? I want to hear about that. I bet the researchers were like... REALLY dude!? C'mon! Props to them for still sticking to their data.
I am also for open source, however here are some arguments for closed source:

What are the bad effects to society for software transparency?

One is companies that are less willing to write code or go to market because their code IP wouldn't be competitive given existing players. Smaller new competitors' code would be quickly copied by larger existing players with their larger teams into larger projects that are already used by everyone.

Then there is the case of artistic one-off projects.
Imagine a $50 video game releasing its source code immediately or as it is being made. There would be another company that just copies the code or the textures and distributes quickly before the last level is done.

at least the door for extra benefits is open, whereas for closed software the door is shut

This is true, but some doors that you don't want to be open are also shut. It takes a lot of effort to reverse engineer something. I bet all the openssl bugs would be harder to find if it wasn't open source. Especially, if binaries weren't available either - something like only an API layer existing. Maybe heartbleed wouldn't have been found until openssl was replaced by something else.

Finally, something like GNU parallel is very commonly used. On the other hand, some random utility that is on Github and isn't very popular probably isn't looked at by nearly as many people. Out of 100 people who use some software, about 1% looks at source code. So then if you have 1000 people use your tool, only 10 people look at the tool's source code and 1 of them is a malicious actor looking for exploits. I have personally found several bugs in open source software that could have been security exploits, but haven't reported them because I was lazy at the time.

Having said all this, most non-application-specific software could be open source and it would probably help it more than hurt it.
This is a genuinely fascinating concept, one that I've never considered before. I've always fantasized about running my own business, but thought the only way to do that is to start a company of my own. The idea of "Entreprenruship through Acquisition" sounds like a very practical way for someone to marry the Entrepreneurship concept with a practical, middle-class lifestyle.

Are there any recommended guides/books/MOOCs that one can go through, in order to learn more about this?
"Connecting a separate communication wire between each pair of processors was impractical since a million processors would require $10^{12]$ wires."

Isn't it more like
sum_(n=1)^999999(1000000-n) = 499999500000 ?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=999999+%2B+999998+%2B+...

Since "one" wire connect in theory two processors?:)
It's also popular because it has better performance than all the competition.

Most of the time it doesn't matter. But when it matters, it really matters.
Fascinating article, although probably not for the reasons Taleb would like.

He's signaling something, but I am too much of a plebe to know what:

"a glass of that type of yellow sugared water with citric acid people sometimes call lemonade"

This reverses his majority/minority argument:

"Let us apply the rule to domains where it can get entertaining:

"An honest person will never commit criminal acts but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts."

This argument is pretty nonsensical; if the majority is flexible, then in what sense does it make sense to say "submit"?

"...then the (flexible) majority will have to submit to the minority rule."

Taleb seems to need to work on his cut-n-paste skills:

"Note that these slaughter rules [for halal/kosher meat] are skin-in-the-game driven, inherited from the ancient Eastern Mediterranean [discussed in Chapter] Greek and Semitic practice to only worship the gods if one has skin in the game, sacrifice meat to the divinity, and eat what’s left."

I'll just note this in passing:

"In promoting genetically modified food via all manner of lobbying, purchasing of congressmen, and overt scientific propaganda (with smear campaigns against such persons as yours truly), the big agricultural companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No, you idiots. As I said, your snap “scientific” judgment is too naive in these type of decisions...It is strange, once again, to see Big Ag who spent hundreds of millions of dollars on research cum smear campaigns, with hundreds of these scientists who think of themselves as more intelligent than the rest of the population, miss such an elementary point about asymmetric choices."

Could someone run through this with the math? This is not a use of renormalization I am familiar with.

"The method of analysis employed here is called renormalization group, a powerful apparatus in mathematical physics that allows us to see how things scale up (or down). Let us examine it next –without mathematics."

Signaling again: "flâneur".

Are we talking about the same French language?

"...the prestige of France or the efforts of their civil servants in promoting their more or less beautiful Latinized and logically spelled language over the orthographically confusing one of trans-Channel meat-pie eaters."
It may well be. But one problem is all the references to all the various old ways that a first time deployer has to wade through. It took me quite a while to figure out what's current and what should be ignored, as well as what's old but still needs to be done, on a small project that I did to learn exactly this.
I agree with you 100%. What I don't get is the tradeoff that happens in this case for sites that do not necessarily need to be secure by design (what about a news site that has no login/etc or a blog?). Should all information on the web be encrypted by default?

Should all those sites not benefit from the speed improvements that HTTP/2 offers? It seems unusual to couple HTTP/2 with TLS, again, it's not the spec that does this but the vendors who are doing this.

The bigwigs of the industry will throw tons of developer resources at converting everything to TLS (haven't they already for the most part?) and then deploying HTTP/2. They already throw tons of money at being the fastest out there.

I find it interesting (worrying?) that while a spec does not specifically enforce a requirement, large browser vendors have enforced it and created an imperative for pretty much everyone to comply if they want the benefits of the new protocol.
I'm not from the US so although I'd heard that term before I didn't actually know the details. I'm pretty shocked after reading about it.
Read up on private equity and leveraged buyouts. Small businesses usually aren't massively expensive to acquire. It's something I've been looking at as well. Most countries also have cheap debt available for entrepreneurs interested in acquiring businesses (i.e. some government agency will give you match funding, or something similar).
1. I don't think that's irony.

2. I see ~1.5MB on the linked page, more than half of which are images used in the article, which are of course not simple text.
The Rise of the Platform Economy
This doesn't seem to be a good resource to learn the language as a beginner.

For example Prof Victor Mair is against teaching Chinese characters to beginners:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10554

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11580

pay little or no attention to memorizing characters (I would have been content with actively mastering 25 or so very high frequency characters and passively recognizing at most a hundred or so high frequency characters during the first year)

focus on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, particles, morphology, syntax, idioms, patterns, constructions, sentence structure, rhythm, prosody, and so forth — real language, not the script
You can't really call it "explaining the mechanics" when there's no evidence he actually talked to anyone or did any research to see if his theorizing holds up.
We Are Not a Simulation; or Why Elon Musk Is Wrong
The controversy over autism’s most common therapy
Manhattan project[0]

It may fail your 'for so long test' - could you define how 'so long ' is?

0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
> The U.S. government does not track contractor numbers in war zones.

Because they don't want to.
I agree with you that simplifications should approximate the precise versions. Mine did approximate them. Note that approximate means "not perfectly agreeing with". But my advisor wanted them to agree perfectly, at which point they are no longer approximations.
this is so thorough! I lived in Tokyo for 3 months during the end of 2010 -- so this is a great review!
In this example all they would hypothetically need is access to someone who could see the info, the friends in this case. How? Incentivize the behavior. To be fair I'm a proponent of SOLID and decentralization. Controlling things once they've left you is quite a challenge.
Should J Random Hacker be able to alter your news feed to feed you fake information?

I think one reason they insist on TLS is because the need for privacy and integrity is a lot bigger than most people realize, and historically server folks have not reliably made the right choice.
agreed there's no reason to see this

I guess people try boost their post, kinda stupid
Based on your reaction, I conclude that this article conflicts with your agenda. What is your agenda?
Perhaps it is outrageous believing in a conspiracy where almost all the airlines in the world are part of it without having a single leak
That's a really terrible article. Sure, certain complaints are kind-of legitimate (e.g. mentioning someone is someone's wife - although I'm sure same is also often said of men married to famous women), but most just seem to be petty denials of the fact that (the best) men are almost universally better at a given sport than (the best) women.
If you guys liked vue, you will absolutely love riot.js. It's so simple and minimal that I only had to look at their docs for a couple minutes and I was on my way. In this day and age where client side frameworks are overly obese , riot was afresh air. I like it more than any other frameworks out there.
The other problem is they do it wrong.

One of the ones he linked limited to 20g per day, which is OK, but then increased the amount gradually to be "manageable." Uh, that's not true keto, that's Atkins half-assed keto, which is the exact book they used.

The other one limited to 30g a day, which people over at /r/keto would consider too high, as would most low-carb dieters.

Additionally, they both encourage (or, at best, don't prohibit) consumption of things which can be eaten in small amounts but still have a high GI, such as fruits and other things. It's not just about keeping the carb count below a certain number, it's about avoiding sources of glucose spikes as much as possible, too. They ignored that, and even flew in its face, which, in my opinion, invalidates the testing methodology.
I hope the author gives people the option of turning off syntax highlighting or to set a no colors option. Sometimes I find Vim annoying because it doesn't have a command line option for this; like Emacs does.
There's Canonical (and their software store) and there are Steam machines.

The commercial interest is there.

I don't see what has Redox to do with your point, or if you are simply trying to leverage this thread to promote it, but I guess any downvote comes from that angle.
Well...powering heavier-than-air flying machines by burning dead dinosaurs is about as unnatural as it gets. Civilization and all that ;)

Edit: someone seems to think that unnatural = wrong? On the Internet - a place that is so un-natural that it doesn't even physically exist? What irony.
No, he is not admitting geoengineering or chemtrails being what you think chemtrails are
You say much more about youself and you're implicit excuse-system why you are overweight, than any kind of factual information.
Been there, lost weight, normal now. The brain is the biggest hurdle.
Why Olympians shatter records in swimming but not track
Very interesting. This thing should be translated/applied to every country. Are there any ongoing plans/implementations? Say for Germany.

Is there a list somewhere?
> This is just a rant

It's actually an excerpt from his book.
I have to clarify: them knowing and proliferating the 'truth' is one thing, whereas the idea that they can actually do something about it is what I'm really getting at. They paint a pessimistic picture of the world that's at odds with the idea that somehow they can band together somehow and fix it.
> Six is a third-party library and interferes with migration to Python 3. It requires you to tiptoe around the differences between 2 and 3.

That's a strange thing to say. Six and future were written to ease the migration to Python 3, and both are endorsed by the official Python porting guide (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html). Meanwhile 2to3 is problematic because it complicates debugging and doesn't address issues like string handling, backports and other behavioral differences. Few popular Python libraries use 2to3, and most embrace the idea of single-codebase cross-version support.

I would agree that the Python core developers bungled the migration tools in the standard library, and I wish they were better. But as noted by the OP, library functionality in general is steadily becoming more decentralized, and six and future are the best options for packaging cross-version libraries today.

More generally, a lot of good work has gone into the wheels architecture, and it's a huge improvement on what we had before. If you think you can come up with something better, I would encourage you to try - the opportunity is there.
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567630 Edit: as a pdf with a marginally different title but the same content.
So can nothing be published unless it's cleared by experts in the field? This isn't even in a scientific journal - it's a Medium blog post. I'm not sure why you're attempting to hold it to the rigor of a journal (which he'd have to pay for to apply to, I might add).
And on the accusation of having "no research", his research is all the things he observed happening in the world in the first half of the essay.
The HTTP/2 protocol negotiation happens with ALPN, which is a part of TLS. It's possible to simply not negotiate or find another means, but in practice there are many proxies on the Internet that assume all port 80 traffic is HTTP/1.1 and will break an HTTP/2 connection.
> "is too extreme"

That sounds reasonable and all, but it isn't actually a scientific justification. If the nutritional theories behind a low carb diet are sound, then it would make no sense to introduce high-carb sources to mix in just to "be less extreme." Science shouldn't care about our superficial perceptions.
No, of course not. What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed?

In my experience the times that I've had users complain about "injected" information or weird ads, it's usually come from malware that resides ON their system. There's no MITM required for this. The injection happens client side through a browser plugin or some other resource that gets loaded up along with the page. TLS wouldn't fix this in any way as far as I am aware.
His use of the intolerant-minority principle to address the challenge faced by tolerant societies is very interesting.
Japanese is very different from Chinese, as such the recommendation you are quoting is not making much sense.