skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been my experience that all definitions of net neutrality explicitly allow prioritization for technical reasons (e.g. streaming). Is this fuzzier than I thought?
I am in no way defending Pai, but I generally disagree with the idea that a regulator working in the industry before or after they are done serving publicly is definitive proof of corruption (which you seem to be implying).

That isn't to say that the revolving door nature of these regulators and private industry can't or even doesn't lead to corruption, but what are the alternatives? The regulators should obviously be experts in the industry they regulate. If you forbid anyone high up at the FCC from ever working in the communications industry, what experts are left? You would basically limiting these jobs so they can only be done by academics, which would introduce its own set of problems.
Making Privacy Practical – Hacker Noon
You should identify yourself if you're going to act in the role of a moderator. I think my comment still stands tho: why do you choose to moderate my comment with a swipe but not the original parent comment?
who said anything about skin color? what is in place to stop foreign nationals from directly influencing our elections?

They should check everyones ID especially white people, we cant have Russians voting in our elections!
Unboxing Chrome: Redesigning the omnibox
It's clear to you and I, but I can see how it would not be clear to others.

They could have stated up front in the response that they represent DDG, but they did not.
I absolutely love how Mojolicious::Lite let me develop in an afternoon a simple website for a little idea of mine in a single file.

And the “deployment” was suprisingly painles. Thanks for that and congratulations for the new release!
Considering I want to use this as it is meant to be used, distributed, how do I pin all of say https://ipfs-sec.stackexchange.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ham/ (including the search) to my local IPFS node so I can use it offline?
> If you take DDG out it reads like "Why should I use <specific product>?", to which the creator/CEO/Owner of <specific product> can now answer with the complete marketing blurb he/she has ready, without guilt.

From what I have seen, this is what Quora is all about related on technology, basically a marketing platform for companies to spit their boilerplate marketing material.
> something gets studied because it exists

That's an interesting way to look at it

> Replicate-ability is essentially zero, and everything is just based on judgement of famous characters.

That doesn't fit what we see even in the linked article and the older story about psychology replication: All these experiments had methods that could be repeated (that's what the replication project people did), the effects of almost all the experiments were replicated, and for about half the research the effects were as strong as before. That's a long way from methods that are "just ... judgement of famous character" and "essentially zero" replication.

> quite a few of these sciences (social sciences, political sciences, English) are up-front biased. They start from the point that they want to find/push X

What is that based on? Is there someone in those fields that has written about it? Have you done any work in them?

Having some minor, intimate familiarity with these fields, though from an outside perspective, I don't agree. Political science, for example, aims to identify political phenomena and how they function. Every experiment in any science starts with a hypothesis, the theory the experimenter sets out to prove, and generally experimenters have a career based on promoting a certain model or idea. That is true of mathematicians and chemists too.

Also, I wouldn't group English, one of the humanities, with the social sciences.
I didn't see that so I probably am completely wrong here
Check out my explanation of Simpson's Paradox. Please comment with suggestions
cold fusion is psuedo-science hogwash.

For starters do you really think that after 50 years of nuclear weapons program and military spending on a scale never before imagined even by industrial civilization we REALLY missed some way to make better (smaller, lighter, etc.) nuclear weapons? Because when you believe cold fusion exists this is fundamentally what are stating.

Fenymann path integration, and its QCD and QED evolution have been some of the most successful mathematical theories ever developed. We can model fusion interactions incredibly well, this math lets up predict things like the Higgs Boson.

You can't even get papers published as "Cold Fusion" any more (in a respectable journal) because the scientific community gave up on. The math doesn't check out. Now those truly dedicated pants on head tenured professors who continue to feed this non-scientific pursuit publish under the title of "low-energy nuclear reactions" and "condensed matter nuclear science" since some trash-tier journals still accept that.

The problem is nothing cold/low energy to fusion. Over coming the EM "barrier" to hit the nucili to _maybe_ trigger fusion requires MeV of energy. That doesn't come from "cold" objects.

The closest man kind has gotten is Muon-Catalyzed Fusion which required cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere as a source of high-energy particles. And it was already considered nonviable by 1957 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
Why is the no photographs policy a problem when you can get reproductions online? That piques my interest as a photographer. Off the top of my head, the layout and design of War Photos Limited in Dubrovnik (http://www.warphotoltd.com/) offered many more interesting opportunities for an interesting shot.
I tried DDG for a while and had the opposite experience. Worked fine for trivial stuff (looks like Bing), but I whenever it was tricky to come up with a solid query, DDG failed and Google worked. Can't use it.
> What people are upset over is the fact that so many of Wal-Mart's employees need to go on public assistance because the company refuses to pay them enough to live on.

If that's the case then I fail to see how a particular employer is responsible for that problem. I mean, if the economy is so depressed in a region that the absolute best some job seekers are able to get is a job that requires them to remain on public assistance then obviously the employer isn't to blame for the region's economy. In fact, that employer is already offering the very best jobs available in that region. Where does it make any sense to go after them instead of doing something to fix the economy and improve the lives and conditions available to those workers?
Ironically, you are the sole result for "spc58c72" Nexus Datasheet
The idea of employees receiving food stamps seems like a clear case of manipulating the system. But I think there is more nuance than the 20%/$14B numbers describe.

Imagine a single mom who wants to be home when her kids get home from school. She's working part time, and not making enough to feed her family. Who is responsible for her shortfall?

In a community where Walmart is a big employer, many people may work part time and one consequence of that is that more people have jobs. Walmart benefits from that but so do those employees, even when they don't make enough to eat well.

Sure, the system can obviously be manipulated. Yes, people (and company leaders) make bad choices. Who decides who pays?
Many flagships get one major update or so.
Regarding tabs, macOS has native tab support more or less built-in to the windowing system—you can see this in action if you create a document-based app in Xcode—but your app has to be structured in such as a way as to opt into it. Have you considered opting into this or would you consider it contrary to the project goals?
Wikipedia’s in-built search has historically been poorer than third-party search like Google. That is why people prefer to use a bang on DDG to show all relevant content on Wikipedia’s domain.
There's two things being mentioned here, going low-to-no-carb, and going to a time-restricted eating schedule.

My understanding is that ketosis is a function of low/no carb eating; I think further that in time-restricted eating, if you're losing weight, it's primarily from simply taking in fewer calories overall.

Have I misunderstood?
To me the advantage is that it works in any browser. So I don’t have to set up anything. It evens works on mobile.
I actually use startpage.com now. Searx seems curious, thanks - the idea of a self-hosted meta search engine seems curious, I hope it is going to get more steam, perhaps it also could leverage strong personalization and access to my browsing history and bookmarks (which I certainly don't want 3-rd parties like Google or any to have).
> You quite clearly never lived in Europe.

Can you please edit personal provocations like that out of your posts to HN? They add no information and are often wrong. The comment would be fine with just the second sentence.
I can usually do a solid 4-hour block of real work. Then, after a short break, I can do another 2-hour block of real work. Then my brain is just toasted for any serious stuff until after a good sleep. For an 8-hour workday, that means I'm spending 2 hours on fluff tasks and clock-watching.

The current job I'm in doesn't even use up my entire 6 daily hours of real-work capacity, but they still need my butt in my seat for 8 hours for contract billing purposes.

A 10-hour workday, 4 days per week, would be a 20% cut in my real work capacity, unless that extra 4 hours in the day were filled with mindless menial labor or some other form of brain-on-autopilot work.

The model is broken. The company divides my revenue generated by the number of hours my butt was in my seat to get some value-generated-per-hour metric. But it's not constant over time. In a work block, my productivity ramps up until I'm in "the zone", plateaus, and then rapidly tapers off at the mental fatigue limit. So my productivity in a day looks like this:

| .::::::. . | 100%
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0h 1h 2h 3h 4h 5h 6h 7h 8h 9h 10h11h12h
Detangling DNA replication
I experienced this first hand once when I was interviewed by the Washington Post on quantified self. The reporter ignored a lot of information I provided to make the article about whether quantified self was worth a damn.

In my statistics undergrad, we were told to find a science article, find the study the article was about, and reinterpret the results to see how well the article did. The article always overgeneralized study conclusions. Every time.

I have no great hatred for the press, and I don’t call anything I dislike Fake News, but I do wish I felt like I could trust reporting more than I do.
Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of being a jerk
Show HN: Micro-caching using zeta-distributions (now with explanation)
>I understand the sentiment, but I dont think entertainment should be any kind of factor in this decision.

Note that the above poster was talking about Ontario. Canada has a different relationship with election results. It is illegal for Canadian results, including entrance/exit polls, to be announced prior to closing. In the US this would be seen as a radical freedom of speech issue. In Canada it is normal. In the US it is normal for people to see initial results and perhaps rush in to vote, or stay home if their candidate is leading. US politicians also regularly concede defeat based on preliminary results. So someone fiddling with the display of preliminary electronic results can, in the US, directly impact the final tally.

That isn't a thing in Canada. We don't expect to know anything until after polls close. So we have no need of "instant" tallies. Counting happens during the day but results are not published. Electronic voting might speed it up a little bit, but never would we get close to the instant feedback possible in the US.
The problem being we have people on minimum wage + government support. It's taxpayer subsidized work. That seems the wrong way to do capitalism.

But, also, talking it through does illuminate the question "Would we be better off with them unemployed and not, at least, gaining work experience?" ... Unsure of the answer.
> getting through the amount of fraud out there with a margin less than the ~3% that credit card companies charge, is really hard

It is hard. Wonder if they're doing anything about that...
For low value, high volume merchants, Square's rate is extremely competitive.
Thanks for the feedback. I think the next step for me is to actually try it out live and see how it performs. If the results are positive, I will have an easier time selling my idea
I don't think most conservatives who understand NN actually support it. It's just the entrenched political class who stands to benefit from it that support it.
A high-level representative of any industry is going to have personal connections in that industry and personal reasons for not wanting to regulate the industry as it should be regulated in the best interest of the people.

I don't see any benefit to someone in charge of regulating the communications industry having ever worked in communications. An intelligent person - and not necessarily an academic - a lawyer would be capable, for instance - with no personal connections to people high up in the industry is immensely preferable and has much less potential for corruption.
Giving f-strings to python 2
Right - a certain segment of the population is incredibly valuable for exactly this service.

I include myself in your description - love seeing relevant ads. There's a sweet spot there between those with high disposable incomes, high open mindedness and high affinity for novelty.

This population is by far the most attractive consumer for advertisers.
"Bernie Sanders" and "is right" shouldn't be in the same sentence.
The logic works like this: We had put programs in place to deal with a recession. Now that the recession is over the programs are just wasted spending that needs to be put into things like paying down debt so we have some leeway when the next recession comes around.
I think a significant portion of that precision came from synchronizing with network time, did it not? Or did it run unusually precise even when disconnected from the network?
Tish B' Av is another 25 hour fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisha_B%27Av
> Snowden taught a generation to have a moral compass.

And then hid with the government that definitely wasn't adhering to the law.

I'd say it's not a good example of a moral compass.
Cherry pick? No. Anecdote? Sure. In my experience women have dressed at or below the level of professionalism (for lack of a better word) than the men. Women have a lot more variance in what they can wear, and very few people will choose to dress higher than the cultural expectation of them. I see far more women wearing yoga pants in a professional environment then men in athletic shirts or even just T-shirts. It's similar for my GF who is a teacher. She's always rolling her eyes about how often teachers wear yoga pants to work.

>Woman wearing shirt+chinos will incur a minor penalty for gender non conforming dress

We just live in different worlds I guess. I've seen women dress like that all the time, and no one is looking askance at them, not even minorly.
Doing the 16:8 restricted eating time thing has nothing to do with ketosis.
Yes - I, like many, never actually finished GTD. But I still use the general approach. The sticky things tend to be the non critical more than 7 minutes but less than 20 minute tasks. But I will credit GTD with helping me get over the, "this thing is going to take so long" mindset and more often than not the, "this will only take a minute or two" mindset.
> without getting eaten alive by fraud.

Because fraudulent use of cards is charged back to the merchant, the card companies are less exposed to it than you might imagine.

Where they are exposed is if a merchant goes bankrupt without delivering, and the purchase was on credit card. The merchant account holder would then be liable
I guess you're right - my impression comes from dang at one point saying they only shadow ban as a total last resort, and it's not usually for bad behavior but rather for actual spam.
I am working with a company that has small physical stores processing hundreds of payments every day... and having to rely on all the existing crappy hardware for taking payments is a pain in the a$$.. this looks like it could change the game - I'm applying for invite and see what happens next
Phones usually just use network time, because the GPS is an expensive component to spin up.
Yes, I was surprised to see a delivery estimate of 8 days on the Prime order I placed last night. I'm not in an area directly affected by Florence, but I assumed the longer than usual delivery time was somehow related to the storm.
Of course it's possible. And it probably happens. But can it realistically affect the outcome of an election?

As I've said, about 1.5M people vote in Minnesota alone. Altering the outcome by 1% would require 15,000 additional votes. And this would need to be completely one-sided, so the "anyone can do it" threat you bring up should cluster around the mean - about the same number of "extra" votes are cast for each side.

Don't get caught up in scope issues. The problem we are trying to solve here is the legitimacy of elections. Does a little noise around the edges actually undermine the legitimacy of the outcome? Can it do so?

Also, remember there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Any mechanism that detects multiple votes by the same individual will produce a number of false positives - thus denying people who are not cheating of their vote. This is actually the pernicious, immoral logic of Voter ID laws in the US. They're marketed as ways to prevent fraud, but the actual intent is to reduce turnout in certain (mostly poor) communities. This is why support for these laws is so deeply partisan - one party is pushing for them, and one is fighting them, and the party pushing for them isn't actually that interested in fraud. Their political interest is partisan advantage, and their mechanism is misleading citizens about their intent, so people will tolerate what should be intolerable.
FWIW, most proponets of hand counting advocate "sort & stack". For elections in the USA, that means a count per race / issue. Some jurisdictions can have over 30 per ballot.

Further, each precinct has to be tabulated separately. The poll site I ran for years had 5 precincts, roughly average. We'd have 400-800 ballots per election, depending.

One change that would make manual counting more feasible would be to split our ballots into federal, state, local.

Every election administrator I've ever met opposed manual counting. Mostly because it's a lot of work.

A group of intended to run experiments to determine the effort, cost, accuracy of manual counts. Simulate a real election, eg print up marked ballots where the totals are predetermined but not known to the counters. Alas, we never got our act together before every one burned out.

PS- Any tabulation method has to accommodate marking errors, aka adjudicating voter intent.
So you were convinced she was going to lose. I'm curious what sources you were curating for yourself that led you to believe that. I recall the probability was definitely in her favor, but the most reliable analysis still put it around 2/3 or so, which leaves a pretty big opening for a miss. It sounds like you had access to your own analysis that put the odds against her? Aside from drinking the kool-aid on the other side of the aisle, I'd be interested to know how you made that conclusion.
UK: 15 reactors, ~10300 gross MWe. They analyzed and now think that decommissioning will cost £234 billion (309 billion USD).

USA: 98 reactors, 100350 gross MWe. 46 billion USD (Nuclear Waste Fund) are in provision. One order of magnitude more power produced by the stuff to decommission, and nearly 7 times less money to do so. Decommissioning small and old reactors costs more, and ENTOMBing may, at least apparently (short-term), reduce the cost. In theory. Let's check a real and ongoing case: Oyster Creek. According to the EIA its construction costs were $488 million (2007 USD) ( https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/state/archive/2010/newjersey/ ). As soon as the decommission project started the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it will cost "about $1.4 billion to shut down the plant". Not for an immediate and complete decommission, because the plant will stay in a “safe store” condition until 2075, with dismantling ((...)) set for a period between 2075 and 2078 ( https://www.powermag.com/oldest-u-s-nuclear-plant-shuts-down... ). Then new problems (costs!) may arise. Let's bet that, as usual, the taxpayer will pay.
Who reads an actual newspaper these days?
> measurably worse in terms of features

I suppose that depends on whether you think of privacy as a feature or not.
but muh state's rights
We were also usually listed by last name in my grade school. I remember that, because I have a last name starting with a "W". Every once in a while for things like waiting in line or taking turns in an activity, the teacher would flip it to reverse alphabetical. I remember that always feeling pretty great.
>So I think it can scale all the way to the bed and breakfast market

> But I am not sure they can take on the hotel market

Not an inaccurate assessment.
love that this is done using a garbage scope (rigol). even the garbage of today is quite capable enough to debug the start of the art of yesteryear.
Wow. Domestic abuse survivors stay because they don’t have any other options?

No.

Abusers create an environment of fear where abused believe they have no choices. They separate people from their friends so they think no one cares about them. They convince their victim that no one else will want them.

They create an artificial sense that there is no way out. It’s absolutely not the case that abused people are abused because they have no other option.

Promoting the idea these people have no choices plays right into the abusers plans.
100+ Coolest New iOS 12 Features You Didn't Know About
:) we might have to learn Chinese soon
The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted
EdgeRouter X vs. EdgeRouter Lite Google Fiber Speed Tests (2017)
On my case it is an AMD Brazos APU E450.

The new open source driver for older cards does not have the same OpenGL support level, nor video acceleration. I had to force enable HW acceleration on Firefox, and sometimes it does bring X down when watching videos.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-1...
"technical reasons" is an awesome weasel word in the hands of the right c-level or legal representative.
The cut-off for part-time (legally) is 30 hours. 30 hours or more and they have to provide you with health insurance (assuming company is big enough): https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/identifyin...
It seems highly unlikely that Google developed a technology that allows you to stop them tracking you.