skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the wealth of info (really interesting), but really, if a delay of 10 minutes within a span of half an hour makes national news, it's head and shoulders above the rest.

BTW, the bus picture: I went to Switzerland in 2015; even though it was only a week-long visit, my wife and I encountered a train cancelation because of some kind of an issue with the tracks; everyone was shepherded to the buses in not a very orderly fashion, which looked like your picture. To our question whether it was an extraordinary event, the other commuters smiled and said, nah, happens once in a while.

Don't get me wrong - I think it's a good thing, but IMO you guys have very high standards.
While speaking either German, French or Italian certainly helps english is more than enough in most jobs. In IT most stuff we read / discuss online is in english anyway.
I think the technical term for the correct response to this is "let's roll". Boycott the related companies and people into the ground.
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Okay, then really the comment should be renamed to why is critical infrastructure allow to be tampered with. Say this infection was brought in via hardware or bluetooth exploitation or wifi exploitation. None of those attack vectors should ever be accessible. No human working there should ever be able to "by accident" infect the system.
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It may be phrased infelicitously, but I think thinking more-or-less any other good is worth more counts as anti-environmental, given that politics is an endless series of tradeoffs.

I mean, in the same sense that socialists are often seen as anti-business. It's not so much that they dislike businesses per se (most of us in the social democratic tradition see markets and those who operate in them as an important source of wealth and innovation) but that, given a choice, they would direct government spending to more-or-less anything other than making business owners richer.
A hypothesis was presented: using higher numbers will give 5-15 more resource cards over the course of a game. Then, conclusions were drawn that standard statistical techniques are deficient for not being able to detect the bias.

Where are the results of the actual experiment, say of 10 games played using the biased strategy, against a control opponent? Perhaps, standard statistical techniques are correct.

Without empirical tests of the hypothesis, where is the science? Perhaps, the dice are only loaded for a short time, in which time all the skew occurred. Without testing of the hypothesis, it is impossible to know.
1) no. From Inception of the Internet until 2005 they were regulated under Title II, from 2005 until 2010 there were loose rules on a case by case basis, from 2010 to 2015 there was the Original Open Internet Order as a direct result of Comcast Bad Actions, which were struck down by the Courts so in 2015 the ISP;s were moved back to Title II in order for the Open Internet Order to be Enforceable

2) Good for you, Are those options all wireless... Wireless is not a replacement for wired service. Further How about you think of Americans other than your self. As of 2015 under the current definition of broadband (25mpbs or higher) there are no ISPs at all in 30 percent of developed census blocks options for Fixed Broadband, 48% had 1 Option, only 3% had 3 or more choices...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...

3) There is not IF, ISP have abused their power, and will do so again

https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...

And that is only a Small part of the NN Violations, many of which are suspected but can not be proven
>"It's crazy that by using a p-value of 0.05, it means that 5% of all scientific results might be false."

How so? I don't see any connection between significance level and % of false scientific results at all.

If you assume the "null hypothesis" is always true, then 5% of the results should falsely say otherwise. Of course, this is if all the assumptions behind the math hold, no p-hacking, etc.

However, that is like saying it is extremely rare for there to be a correlation between any two phenomena. We don't live in that universe. In our universe, correlations are extremely common:

>"These armchair considerations are borne out by the finding that in psychological
and sociological investigations involving very large numbers of subjects, it is regularly
found that almost all correlations or differences between means are statistically
significant. See, for example, the papers by Bakan [1] and Nunnally [8].
Data currently being analyzed by Dr. David Lykken and myself, derived from a
huge sample of over 55,000 Minnesota high school seniors, reveal statistically significant
relationships in 91% of pairwise associations among a congeries of 45 miscellaneous
variables such as sex, birth order, religious preference, number of siblings,
vocational choice, club membership, college choice, mother's education, dancing,
interest in woodworking, liking for school, and the like. The 9% of non-significant
associations are heavily concentrated among a small minority of variables having
dubious reliability, or involving arbitrary groupings of non-homogeneous or nonmonotonic
sub-categories. The majority of variables exhibited significant relationships
with all but three of the others, often at a very high confidence level"

-Theory testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox.
http://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/staff/christianb/downloads/me...
* YAML is pretty much inherently insecure, custom tags are part of the YAML spec and are interpreted by default by most implementations, the YAML 1.2 spec only recommends defaulting to the "core" schemaor a lesser one and (AFAIK) at no point even suggests disabling explicit tags.

* XML is most definitely inherently insecure if you don't disable or strictly limit standard features (entity definition/expansion, external entity definition, DTD retrieval).

I don't know about the others, I do know that ASN.1 has a long and storied history of vulnerable implementations (and it's unclear whether there's ever been a secure one) which tells me that even if the format is not inherently insecure, in practical terms it is.
Working on a database-driven application. I'm pretty ok with how SQL treats NULL, except for one thing: the empty sum being NULL instead of 0.
No single voter has control, so they check each other.

In principle, anyway. Democracy obviously isn't a perfect system.
How many of those 20k operators are useful though?
Steven Colbert – RIP the Internet [video]
If it had been called "Google/YouTube Advertising Profit Protection" instead of Net Neutrality, maybe the public would have been able to look at the whole drama with a little more detachment.

Is it really that important to us which oligopolies will capture what fraction of ad profits? Between them, they'll get all of it.
Or social!
Hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, in which our ancestors colonized the planet, suggests so.

Do we want to temporarily overshoot the carrying capacity by poisoning our environment at the risk of collapse if we lower that capacity in the process?
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Us as in the people? Trump was elected

didn't the last governments hollowed out public schools and other educational institutions to curb education and thus be elected by more steerable people?
It's a shame they couldn't open source the original client and server software, would be interesting to preserve.
Cool, but I'm curious: how does this compare with other solutions out there like Wistia and Video Cloud? I've only had experience with Wistia before, but this offering does sound somewhat similar.
Because it usually only kicks in after childbearing years, until relatively recently there's not been a test for it, so no way to know if you'd pass it onto your children, and in the last 200 years life expectancy has gone past the age at which is kicks in, highlighting it more.
If I might be so bold as to put forth one slight addendum to that analogy:

The rule about No Bears in the Maternity Ward only came to be after a number of cases where someone had brought a bear into a maternity ward, following a long history of bear-free maternity wards, in which time the rule had not yet been needed.
While I understand why HSTS makes sense I hate it and I think it comes from poorly tooling around it. Two examples:

1. HSTS Preload: I am not 100% sure but, AFAIK your browser gets the list once during installation and then sticks with it until he receives another software update. I think the list should be dynamic (e.g. like adblock lists). That way even older browsers would have an up-to-date HSTS Preload list.

2. Like everything else HSTS records have a lifetime, but when you use your dev-tools to delete your browser cache it doesn't delete the HSTS information. So every time you want to delete them you have to go to some net-internals... browser configuration to explicitly delete a HSTS record for a specific domain. It's even easier to delete serviceworkers...

For a long time I also didn't like that you could not easily remove your own domain from a preload list, but that fortunately changed and now there is a website where you can easily request to be deleted from the preload lists. The only hitch here is that as it takes a few month until every browser on this planet got a software update the new list will also have to wait for a while: https://hstspreload.org/removal/
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no, you don't. When I activate a light switch and consume more power from the grid I am not directly adding more coal/fuel to the fire/generator. This is where the warehousing analogy breaks.

Those numbers are looked at on aggregate to determine how much electricity needs to be produced to supply the population. They are directly tied into finance departments to generate your bill, sure, but that is an independent system from the production of electricity.

In the case of water supply, same thing. Just because I turn on my tap doesn't mean I am directly affecting the water treatment plant to treat exactly 1 more cup of water today.
Stephen O Regan – "They are made out of meat"
Based on the github api and github topics, look up and compare popular repos for any framework or technology.

Original motivation: As a react developer I find it quite inspiring to look from time to time what is going on the angular or vue world.

Comparisons/explorations can also be shared like so: https://ecosystem-explorer.github.io/?topics=react,vue,angul...
A goldmine of information on Ethereum and ETH-like protocols
Suboptimal smart contracts directly incur unnecessary transaction costs for users, and it's hard to imagine that Haskell as a source language would translate to efficient EVM bytecode.

For one, do you really want to have a lazy evaluation runtime compiled into your multisig? Now do you want to prove the correctness of that runtime? ...

I don't think Haskell is anywhere near a good source language for Ethereum smart contracts, if you think of it as "compiling Haskell".

There was a master's thesis about compiling Idris to EVM, and it also shows that the performance problems are difficult indeed even without laziness.

https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939...

But I do think it's very interesting to think of Haskell as a powerful metalanguage for defining smart contracts that then get compiled to EVM.

Other examples of Haskell as a DSL environment for generating more restricted programs:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

http://ku-fpg.github.io/software/kansas-lava/

http://www.clash-lang.org/

Quote from the Kansas Lava site:

Kansas Lava is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for expressing hardware-oriented descriptions of computations, and is hosted inside the language Haskell. Kansas Lava programs are descriptions of specific hardware entities, the connections between them, and other computational abstractions that can compile down to these entities. Large circuits have be successfully expressed using Kansas Lava, and Haskell’s powerful abstraction mechanisms, as well as generic generative techniques, can be applied to good effect to provide descriptions of highly efficient circuits.

That's an approach I think is much more appropriate for the strengths and weaknesses of Haskell!

As it happens, we've started very modestly at using Haskell like this. At the moment we only have a simple monadic assembler that lets you write EVM code. See this example:

https://github.com/dapphub/ds-weth/blob/master/src/weth4.hs

Of course we want to take this further and find some more abstractions for cleanly expressing actual smart contract patterns...
3D scatterplot of an image
Einstein: "God does not play dice."

Hawking: "God definitely plays dice, but He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen"

Izbicki: "And if the dice are loaded, we can't prove it."

There is some plain & profound truth in this article underlying some pretty cool math.
It works! Replaced my battery now after this post and my score went from 810 to 1455, with a huge noticeable performance improvement and lower app loading time.
This is one of my problems with Copyright law.

If we as a society are going to grant someone a monopoly over an idea. Then they should have to allow distribution via multiple channels and not restrict the content to just approved or exclusively owned distributions channels

I should be able to watch the shows I want on what ever streaming services I choose to use, be it netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc.

One should not have to subscribe to all of them just to get access to a single show, or single movie they want that is "exclusive" to that platform.

It seems Streaming services are going the exact way Cable Channels did, only more costly...

We are quickly coming to the point where you have to have 6 or 7 $10-$15 per month subscriptions to several different providers to get Sports, Movies, and TV Shows you want...

At that price point you might as well just subscribe to cable again...

This will lead to a HUGE uptick in piracy
I agree with your points in broad strokes, so please don't think I'm being argumentative when I point out one quibble I have with your post:

The lack of Net Neutrality is not an example of "market-based regulation."

Although government regulation can, for better or worse, hamper the operation of a free market, that isn't the case here. The point of Net Neutrality is to keep Internet infrastructure free from being feudalized. A feudal government where massive policy changes impacting people's everyday lives are decided by power players and their arcane web of alliances is still a government, and it is definitely not one conducive to a free market.

Anyone who favors free markets cannot oppose Net Neutrality. It would be like opposing antitrust laws and claiming to be free market.
I mean, obviously that's not impossible. It just strikes me as a lot less plausible than "a social media manager thought it might get a lot of retweets".

Personally, if Joe Netflix Employee really can browse viewing data (and I don't know why everyone is assuming that's the case), I'd think stories like this probably wouldn't get shared at the water cooler, just because there'd be so much bizarre behavior that nothing would surprise anyone.
Avast opens and shares the code of a powerful decompiler for malware analysis
What "political correctness nonsense"?
You also have the problem (at least in public schools,) that teachers are obliged to “stick to the curriculum” and much of a teacher’s time is spent catering to the lowest common denominator lest the test scores fall to an unacceptable level.

I might argue that kids should get a double period for math, especially earlier in their school careers — one class to teach the fundamentals, another class to simply explore. The benefit being that critical thinking is enhanced in all academic areas and not just the obvious in mathematics.
I'm also curious as to why this is the case [?]. A quick search yielded a discussion on StackOverflow [1], where people were similarly surprised, but at least pointed out that this is spelled out in the SQL 92 spec [2] (page 126). The relevant part:

b) If AVG, MAX, MIN, or SUM is specified, then
Case:
i) If TXA is empty, then the result is the null value.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12730457/why-does-sum-on...

[2] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

[?] As in, the design decision behind it. By comparison, the NULL + 10 = NULL concept seems obvious.
Sex differences in academic strengths:gender segregation in education/occupation
People will see what they want to see. They will not believe that anything under such a consumer friendly term would have negative affects for their internet usage. They will believe all the scare stories promoted using the same tactics politicians use everyday. We did not have this rule in place for more than a decade of internet growth and we certainly don't need government regulation now. We need government oversight which is a wholly different method of preventing abuse.

the simple fact is, the big money players didn't want upstarts to enter their markets and by blocking out a large segment of the industry from competing or offering others products they don't want to pay for they were more than happy.

a government which dictates what can be offered to you or companies using the internet is the same government that will restrict your and the companies use of the same.

I cannot count the number of people who think NN means they will get better and faster internet service, nothing could be farther from the truth. what stopped rollouts is there was not enough demand for higher speeds. widespead adoption of 4k streaming may push it forward again, who knows. yet where is the incentive under a NN style system to offer higher speeds to anyone?
Americans who enjoy "rolling coal" come to mind.
Lagrange multiplier
True but adding Uber to the title enhances the clickability of the story.
Most all of the registrars and DNS mgt services support TOTP now for 2FA. If yours does not, move to one that does.
But if you're already changing the syntax, why do you worry about JSON interop at all? Just invent your own language.

If you do worry about JSON interop, then JSON-with-parsing-directives-disguised-as-comments would be valid JSON as well - just treat the directives as comments and ignore them.

The resulting tree would probably not reflect the data that the author ment to encode (because you ignored the directives) - but neither would the tree from the example above.
There's also the excellent dtsgenerator which converts json schemas to typescript type definitions.
As someone who uses Windows at home, iOS to "run my life", and Linux at work, I'm very interested in things that can run across multiple platforms. And as someone who regularly uses Workflowy, what are some things that FoldingText brings to the table that WF doesn't? (aka: why might I want to switch if I were able to use it across the platforms I need to have available?)
Possibly querystorm, in case anyone is looking for it. It did look interesting last time I looked at it, but I've never tried it.
IEEE 1164, used for VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) has 9 distinct logic levels:

'U'	uninitialized

'X'	strong drive, unknown logic value

'0'	strong drive, logic zero

'1'	strong drive, logic one

'Z'	high impedance

'W'	weak drive, unknown logic value

'L'	weak drive, logic zero

'H'	weak drive, logic one

'-'	don't care
Obligatory xkcd:
https://www.xkcd.com/882/
> In 2015 in Alabama, DMVs in predominantly black (and therefore democrat)

In 2017 in Alabama black people had an amazing ~30% turnout for the senate elections. More than for President Obama.

I don't think requiring ID is a real issue in Alabama.
I’m curious; what’s wrong with that? Do you disagree, have an example of a large org who has never been compromised?
How many time have we, for example, introduced a "counter acting species" to some "problem species" only to have our "solution" go sideways?

Or look at diets: more carbs, less fats. Look what that got us?

I'm not a Luddite. But how many times do we have to run full speed ahead into the darkness before we realize a flashlight and some reasonable caution might be a good idea? When will we learn?
Tidal may only have enough cash left to last six months
There might be literally millions of insects in a field, how many lasers would you need for that? Also, you would need much more precise sensors as detecting an insect is way harder than a bird. Such system would be way too expensive, unless you'd like to pay 100 euros for a loaf of bread.
It needs to be presentable and easy to understand. Whilst those things may not be required for someone with a basic understanding of parallel computing, they probably make it easier to explain the concepts to someone going in with zero knowledge.

Considering it's sat in front of a Titan super computer, it was probably easy to get the thousand dollar budget considering how much went into the box behind it :P
> In what bizarro world would anyone actually want ISPs competing for the last mile

You can easily have up to 1 gbit symmetric internet connection in Russia for $10 because of that competition.

It's not rocket science, guys, US ISPs suck because your regulation killed all the competitors, and your solution is what, more regulation?
Start travelling from West Europe towards East Europe. Until you reach Romania/Slovakia/Serbia/Ukraine, your car is clean.

Over these borders, after 10km of night ( or even day) drive your car will be splatted with insects. No idea why, but the vegetation is incredibly varied/wild compared with West Europe.
What does it mean by "drive", if you don't mind?
> Because it usually only kicks in after childbearing years

Orphans are not a very good evolutionary tactics. But you definitely have a point otherwise. Had it earlier onset age, it would have no way to propagate.
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> I've learned to not give a rat's ass about downvoters.

Well. I wouldn't care that much too.

BUT HN comment rely on an invisible karma value and if it is below a certain threshold, the accounts "suffers" aka, certain functions have no visible effect. Then suddenly upvoting other comments/stories doesn't do anything (looks fine to you, but doesn't increase the value for everyone but you) and your comments start with an (invisible) negative score, so you will find your comments instantly on the bottom, almost no matter how many upvotes. It's an intransparent system, and it used to be more transparent, when HN was still open source software. Correct me if I am wrong, but that's how I experienced it and put together the puzzle. I certainly would prefer if there would be only upvotes (like Facebook) and no downvotes/flagging - it doesn't work anymore, the community got too big and changed.
Why not a gene drive on the disease itself?
Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real Which Means Science Is Broken
Seems to be a far less capable version of org mode, and it's in Markdown.