skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few groups using Julia for power systems simulations, both in industry and US national labs. They have quite a lot of funding too.
Science has been hijacked from the inside for a long time now. While it's better than trusting straight up corporate releases, there are thumbs on the scales that push studies to get the results those giving the funding want.

Social science is particularly bad at this, to the point I doubt any research done since the 1950s isn't ideologically tainted, at that time due to the cold war and the need to discredit anything "communist".
The paper seems to have some egregious and basic errors.

Take a look at the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184.pdf

On page 2, it says (in discussing Special Case 1): "If sex A is relatively selective and will mate only with the top most desirable quarter of sex B, then all of the next generation will be offspring of the more variable subpopulation B1"

However, if you look at the histogram in Figure 1, it's clear that if sex A mates with the top most desirable quarter of sex B, then sex A is choosing most desirable mates who happened to be part of the subpopulation B1.

That is, as diagrammed in the histogram, variability is not a function of the population any more, since the red rectangle noting 'B1' with desirability 3 to 4 is no longer variable. It would be absolutely incorrect to say that "all of the next generation will be offspring of the more variable subpopulation B1".

In other words, it's like saying:

"In Sack 1, I have a mix of of blueberries and watermelons. Sack 1 is varied in fruit size, and has a high variability.
I've sorted them by size, and taken the most largest fruit and put them in Sack 2. Now Sack 2 is full of variable sizes of fruit, since it came from Sack 1, which had high variability."

(EDIT: to be clear, I think the above sack example is incorrect; I'm illustrating the logic in which the paper seems to be incorrect, according to my understanding.)
PureText does exactly that. Been using it for years and swear by it.

https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
I've done it at the scale of a few hundred and I still feel I've seen more than enough to 100% agree with you.

I've seen customers max out gigabit links with outbound spam from a compromised desktop. Contacting the customer leads to ignored emails and unanswered voicemails at best, angry Facebook rants about "getting in my face" at worst.
There are plenty of counterexamples to that. People making small games they want to give away for free, utilities that are too small to be able to charge for, free apps that have additional features behind an IAP or subscription.

Just because an app it’s free doesn’t mean it has to be something incredibly scummy.
To everyone who reads this on the Peninsula, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (877) 723-7245.

That is the number for Caltrain Transit Police.

To everyone who reads this in the City, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (415) 553-8090.

That is the number for SFPD Dispatch.

To everyone who reads this in the City, or the East Bay, this number should be in your phone's address book: +1 (877) 679-7000.

That is the number for BART Police.

If you see anyone go on to the track—who (for Caltrain) is not crossing and going on their way—you need to call the above number—or 911—immediately. Be sure to provide a location relative to a station (such as "100 feet North of Redwood City station"), or the city name and nearby street. Transit Police in particular, I believe, have a direct link to Caltrain Dispatch, who can make certain signals (normally those near switches/crossovers) fall to red, or at least warn nearby trains.

Similarly, when you're standing on a platform, you should not be looking down at your phone. Listening to music, fine, but you should always be looking around. If for no other reason, than so that you can make sure you don't accidentally get bumped by someone else.
Testing distributed systems for linearizability
Without any human assessment or blind testing, claiming one method outperforms another using an ex post facto unsupervised metric is not scientific.
He was shadowbanned here. So maybe the black bar is shadow banned.

Towards the end he said some racist nazi shit. Hard for people to accept that was a symptom of his mental decline. Hard to be tollerant about that.

I first discovered him circa 2006 when the OS was called LoseThos.

I prefer to remember him from those days when he provided this community with such a breath of fresh air- rather than during his end days.

Remove the shadow ban. Give him a black bar.
Ask HN: Which is the best platform for selling Windows desktop software?
Dear all, I would like to make a living by selling software.

I have made some Android apps several years ago. And I can only get 10 dollars from them each month.

I now have a full-time programmer job. But I would like to consider the possibility of being totally self-employed later on.

So I think writing and selling Windows software might be a possible path for me.

However, compared with the Android platform/Google Play Store, it is not obvious to me which selling platform I should put my software programs on.

Which are your suggestions? Have you ever sold Windows software programs? Would you mind sharing your experience?

Should I use

1. Windows App Store?

2. Steam?

3. My own website?

Thanks for your attention.
My Subaru is not electric. Its range is significantly higher than the Model 3. It has much lower acceleration, but it's plenty to meet my needs (and indeed, I did not get the version with higher engine power because I do not need high acceleration). It also cost me half as much as a Model 3 would.

On the other hand, none of the features on my Subaru are in beta. Most importantly, it has fully functioning adaptive cruise control, which is a crucial feature for making highway drives more pleasant (particularly when driving in traffic), and in this day and age, I wouldn't buy a commuter vehicle which lacks a fully functioning adaptive cruise control system.
It can make static libraries. There are some old blog posts on how it can be done. No one has packaged it up though, and it will always be limited to chosen specializations of course.
with the technical exception of a new breed of `index funds' that happen to follow their own proprietary indices!
Anecdotal evidence I’ve heard from developers is that there are a HUGE number of people who think that Apple makes all the software for the iPhone. It’s an Apple phone, you go to Apple’s App Store, so whatever you buy is Apple software.

It’s blatantly false, but it’s out there. Just like people thinking of Google as “the Internet“ because it’s the thing they see when they open their web browser. Someone recently said to me “did you know you they added image search to the Internet?“ because they noticed the tab in Google.

The other side of course would be the lawyers. If someone came to you and wanted to sue and you thought you had any chance in hell… would you sue the little one man operation that doesn’t have a lot of money? Or would you try and wrangle $1.07 trillion Apple into it? “They should have protected me.” Chances are Apple giving you $10,000 to go away would be far more than you could ever get out of the individual developer even with a full trial.
Absolutely and I wouldn't want it any other way! Repeated exposure is a great way to learn!

Besides, I haven't learned quaternions so maybe one of the explanations I read tomorrow will click!
What really lies behind a productive workplace
Discussion about neutrinos
After a number of experiments with Panopticlick, the single biggest fingerprint was ... screen depth and resolution. Even after disabling most of the other main fingerprinting mechanisms, my maximized browser window on a 30" display was a very small subset of the last 45 days test results. This was surprising to me.
That is an entirely different functionality from what I am suggesting. The select would select based on some other internal state to the cpu than a register.
Building Your First Angular App
I think you misunderstood what they were saying... That it's possible the domestic customers that make up the majority of Alibaba revenue may decrease their spending on the platform if their own incomes rely on exports.
> You should always be looking around. If for no other reason, than so that you can make sure you don't accidentally get bumped by someone else.

You're going to have to explain this one a bit more. (I also take it you've never been on a subway in China.)
On the other end, paying no longer seems to ensure that the app/service won't be scummy anyways.
Curious to hear from someone who may know more about HVAC than me:

Why don’t subway stations simply install giant industrial mini-spit-style air conditioners in these stations? It doesn’t seem particularly hard to rout a few dozen tubes of coolant down to a station while keeping the compressor and expelling heat outside.
Becoming homeless is one of the greatest fears of my life.
I'm not sure about entropy arguments for explaining the direction of time. On Earth, the entropy doesn't change much over time, thanks to a constant stream of low-entropy in the form of radiation from the Sun. Overall, the system is increasing in entropy. But why do we, on Earth, need to care what happens in the Sun? We could just as well go backwards in time as forwards, but influencing the past seems to be extremely difficult (just try kicking a football backwards in time).
BA site breach through XSS flaw, says tech firm chief
Agree. Black bar.

His mental illness clearly impacted how he thought, wrote and spoke but we can't deny this guy is a historically important to CS and software engineering.

RIP.
Sometimes you have to spend money on security. You can decide whether you use daily your 50 years old oldtimer BMW or you buy the latest Volvo (or whatever) with the best security package available. At least you have to option to choose.
You misunderstand the argument.

It's like having a bag 1 filled with equal quantities of capsicums, cherries, and apples, then selecting the top reddest 25% of bag 1 and moving them to bag 2.

You will have much less variability of fruit type in bag 2 because you used color selection to fill it (apples and capsicums come in three colors at will be selected 1/3rd the rate of cherries).

That's the whole point of sexual vs natural selection.
I don't think it's really fair to characterize his death as a suicide. Given the nature of Terry's illness, he may have been unaware of what was going on at the time of his death. The police report just sounds strange.

We'll never know what he was feeling that night. It's so sad that he's gone.
Researcher says BA changed site JavaScript code a day before hack
It might not be clear from the last chapter, but the book doesn't claim that time doesn't exist.

To paraphrase (but use the same example because it is funny): time doesn't appear at the fundamental concepts in physics. Cats also don't appear at the fundamental level of physics. But cats exist. Time (and our perception of it) must appear somewhere as a emergent feature.
You've identified the mechanism by which sexual selection operates. It's clearly a powerful force.

This paper is arguing that in addition to sexual selection's first order directional effect, there's an overlaid second order effect on variability, and the argument makes sense. Male reproductive success is already highly variable, because male gametes are cheap. Some males end up being disproportionately successful, e.g., Genghis Khan. From a gene's point of view, being hosted in Khan was winning the jackpot.

If you have a number of male offspring, some of them will be evolutionary "duds" no matter what. If you increase the variability in reproductive success of your male children, then some of them will be less reproductively successful and others will be more successful. But there's an asymmetry: "duds" are already duds and can't be made less successful, but on the other side of the curve, by increasing variability, you increase the likelihood of a jackpot.

The effect doesn't apply to female children, since a female mammal cannot have 200 offspring in her lifetime, but a male mammal certainly can.

(Your fruit analogy is inapt, since fruit in a bag don't reproduce among themselves and regress toward the population mean.)
Ttk enables modern widget rendering in Tk for those who can't appreciate the benefits of drawing without pixmaps everywhere. Been available for 10+ years.
Thankfully, that page also links to their 'transparency report', which provides some of the raw numbers.

The 96% you state is 237/247. Numerator is grads who accepted employment within 120 days. Denominator is grads who were unemployed and working with the bootcamp's career programme.

But only 76 of those 237 were regular full-time positions. Another 78 were apprenticeships which led to full time employment.

The total number of grads was 388 (i.e. much higher than the 247 denominator).

The least generous ratio you can come up with from the supplied figures is 76 (# full-time jobs) * 97% (% technical) / 388 (# grads), which gives 19%.
Breviare – Minimalist URL Shortener
Running EOL hardware means you're likely open to a bunch more things than just an old wireless security standard..
I'm not really sure how to interpret your 'Awesome!'. If it was meant snarky and if you're willing to, please have a look at the HN guidelines for comments [1]. We can then improve the quality of the discussion.

You're right. I'm sorry about that. Sometimes I forget which web site I'm posting on.
One that became unaffordable due to contracted supply and then became more affordable due to expanded housing supply? Can't think offhand of any examples that have pulled off this turnaround, which, sadly, bodes poorly for the future of the SF Bay Area.

Your point about central urban real estate is true, but that doesn't mean the entire urban metropolitan area has to be unaffordable. E.g., my friends in NYC tell me it is reasonably affordable in that although Manhattan itself is expensive, the surrounding boroughs and suburbs have plenty of affordable housing within reasonable commuting distance.

Of course, a lot of this is just generational - after WW2, there was a lot of investment in building in general, be it building up all the cities or the interstate highway system. This seemed to turn around in the 70s (at around the same time median wages became flat with inflation, and general inequality started rising).
and bless-ed were they
If you’re not at a safe following distance behind the car in front of you, regardless of why they’re stopping, your driving skills are deficient. Following distances don’t change because it’s a Tesla; you shouldn’t follow closely as a tire blowout or a piece of debris falling into the path of travel of the vehicle in front of you is just as possible. Im sure there are states with more strict statues; they aren’t the majority of states.

Anyone can sue anyone in the US. Take it up with their general counsel.
There are other folks who never said nasty things and deserved a black bar but never got one. HN has its preferences.
(You forgot to link your citation, FYI)
That’s the problem, I feel their exclusions from bounty are too wide. This vulnerability if confirmed should be eligible for some bounty imho. That said, they published the exclusions publicly, so getting butt hurt over not getting paid when they said you wouldn’t feels a bit petty to me.
No, India is a country with a low enough income that drug companies weren’t going to make much money anyways.
They will still support X as an independent server application no different than running Xorg in Windows or MacOS. That can never be obsoleted.
I'm aware of reasons for using a custom engine over Unity or Unreal, my question is what is this firms specific reason for not going that route. Also, Ready at Dawn has been developing that engine for years, and has world class engine programmers that know how to implement headtracking correctly, so the comparison isn't fair in this case.
Uh, yes?

I give a higher percentage of my income to charitable causes than any of these "philanthropists" and I manage to not waste an insane amount of money on a disgustingly wasteful life of luxury at the same time, but for some reason I don't have an army of sycophants defending my every action on the internet.
There have been times when I've been at Palo Alto station, where I'm right next to the yellow bump strip, and had someone rush past me walking on the bump strip. I'm fairly big (wide, not tall), and so that couldn't have been much room. In cases like that, it's good to know someone is coming close past you, so that (if there's room) you can get out of the way.

Similarly, looking around will make sure you don't accidentally get in someone else's way. Again, taking Palo Alto as an example, I've seen people step back to make way for someone moving in front of them, only to be walked into by someone walking behind them.

>(I also take it you've never been on a subway in China.)

I've not, no, so I'd appreciate additional information! I should also clarify, I'm talking about the Bay Area in California, so the behavior of people here will be different.
And unpleasant as Starbucks espresso is wildly inconsistent as far as taste goes.
What about FreeBSD is dying?
>racist nazi

Just an fyi, there is a large conspiracy basically stating that he was "made" this way by internet trolling. Similar to the outcome of "Chris Chan".

Terry in many cases showed great fondness over several popular internet/youtube girls to which end he would live stream himself trying to email and make contact with them. And to this, trolls would spoof a response email somewhere along the line of "I only date black men with huge s".

You can see a similar situation involving Dianna "physics girl" here: http://ia800600.us.archive.org/31/items/TerryADavis_TempleOS...

It is very possible that through this trolling is what lead him to get kicked out of his parent's house and subsequently dying on a set of train tracks.
Just to be sure, have you emailed hn@ycombinator.com? That's the best way to make sure that your message gets across to the mods.
BTW: it is CO2 not C02... (sorry)
All of the newer “NTT” cars have regenerative braking[1]. NTT cars make up, as far as I can tell, the majority of current revenue-service rolling stock[2] (but there’s still a lot of older cars in-service).

[1] http://web.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffenvironment.htm

[2] http://www.thejoekorner.com/carassignments/index.html
Four thousand.

What’s even more interesting is the hypothesis that fermented milk products like yoghurt and cheese made it possible to: 1, farm further north as it provided a way to store energy for later consumption and 2, non-human milk also allowed women to ween children earlier which in turn made it possible to reduce the reproduction cycle and grow the pop. faster, which given disease back then, meant they could successfully colonize new lands.
> It doesn’t seem particularly hard to rout a few dozen tubes of coolant down to a station while keeping the compressor and expelling heat outside.

It's hard when you're spending $90.4M to install 3 elevators.

That said, while mostly it's just an annoyance, the heat really is a hazard at a handful of stations; people are regularly blacking out at union square while waiting for the L.
> X11 has a huge number of issues when it comes to network transparency. tl;dr is: it's not designed for this

X is very much designed for network transparency. The modern extensions that sling around pixmaps for every little graphical operation are what isn't. I can still remotely run X11R5 clients thanks to X and its network support.
>Apparently we are to hold every rich person to some esoteric standard because every wealthy person made their money by exploiting others; none of them were positive-sum contributors to society.

Yes, that's correct. What, you think Bezos and Ma are genius visionaries for coming up with the idea of buying things on the internet? A democratically managed worker's co-op could have accomplished the same things as Amazon and Alibaba with almost none of the disgusting exploitative labor practices and wide scale human suffering.
> Fire bullies and underperformers.

Bullies, yes. Underperformers, not immediately without communicating before, trying to understand the reasons, and trying to fix them.
The fact that you have to even do that shows that the m. pattern is bad. The same url should be shareable without having to worry about such things. It should show as mobile on mobile and desktop on desktop, unless you specifically tell it not to.
> Half his board, he explained unhappily, had told him that unless he pulled the article, they would all resign and “harass the journal” he had founded 25 years earlier “until it died.”

Half a board of academics skulking to avoid controversy, ok. But becoming a hive of killer bees threatening to attacking their own hive? That doesn't pass the smell test.
Not too sure about an independent agency or a GSE, but the courts have allowed third parties to trademark certain designs and transfer them to the fed govt.
Many wireless networks have multiple segments to them, for example a company has a "guest" network and a company network. Make the WPA2 network like a guest network, i.e. it's basically like being outside the company at a coffee shop.

This isn't advanced, it's pretty common.
I'm glad the OP posted his comment, since it presents a window into the kind of thinking that will go on to form the narrative scar tissue surrounding this affair.

By now, the response pattern from the activist camp to inconvenient manuscripts should be clear to anyone who has been paying attention. If attempts to silence authors pre-publication don't work, and if post-publication censorship ends up being ineffective, the activist rhetorical tactic of last resort is blatant misrepresentation of a manuscript's contents. They're loathe to use this tactic, since it costs them massive credibility every time they plainly lie about something everyone can read, but it's still better (from their POV) than cognitive dissonance.
Developers could specify that their extensions work on certain domains only, but apparently the user can't
Subpopulations B1 and B2 are supposed to be genetically distinct, in ways that change their variability. If it helps, imagine that subpopulation B1 has a gene that, at birth, flips a coin and will make the child either ugly or beautiful, and that subpopulation B2 has no such gene and they're all of average beauty. Based on this interpretation, in Special Case 1 as an example, if sex A is relatively selective and mates with only the top most desirable quarter of sex B, then all of the next generation will indeed be offspring of subpopulation B1, and they will presumably inherit the coin-flipping gene. It is thus that selectivity favors variability.
> Are the 128 lanes per system a feature that actually draws in users with real world demands or is this the wrong thing to focus on?

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest (based on my own experience[1]) that most users are too ignorant to know that this might be something that they want or would benefit from.

Some of us have always demanded more I/O bandwidth (even if it meant 4S servers), but typically with a price limit.

I do, however, suspect that additional demand could materialize in the form of NVMe slot count.

[1] particularly with so many potential employers being categorically cloud-only, they don't even want to know about the underlying hardware or what it's capable of.
PSP. The memories. I gotta buy a used one.