skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloom Filters are awesome.
This is clearly a case of insurance fraud, but it's very hard to prove the case legally. The hedge fund that bought the CDS on the corporate bonds went to court, and successfully argued that the company issuing the bonds was in default. The company went bankrupt, and the hedge fund was refunded 100% by the insurer. How could you prove that the hedge fund acted fraudulently? They won a case in court.

Evil, yes, but hard to prove.

But to answer your question directly, I think insurance works because most policy holders don't cheat. If this kind of cheating becomes more frequent, CDS premiums will definitely go up.
There are also other examples like China and the Uyghurs. Perhaps “much more controversial” is going to far, as there is a lot of shitty behaviour.
You can use CMU-INFIX: https://github.com/rigetti/cmu-infix
Unexplained downvotes are antithetical to rational discourse.

Either downvotes should be abolished or they should require an explanatory comment.
VIRUS/MALWARE ALERRT! It quickly prompts to to download malware disguised as a Firefox update. It's in a zipped folder
Doing Crystal #1: A Ruby Comparison
"No more fears about bills, no more worrying about being broke or stressing over the monetary concerns"

Sounds like heaven!
For what it's worth, I get downvotes for political posts too, and I'm the sort of person who thinks Nazis should thank people for the punches they get.

The notion that you're somehow victim of a political bias is not well supported. You're essentially shouting, "Debate me you cowards" and that's why you're going to get downvoted more.

As a courtesy to you, I will explain that it's extremely likely you're being downloaded because your argument is essentially (although perhaps unwittingly? who can say!) an argument to censor all tech companies as publishers. This is an argument to use the government to compel conservative speech on private industry, while at the same time not once asking questions like, "Should we then force 20 minutes of Marxist/Leninist or Anarchist (or even just a scientist calmly explaining the reality of climate change) content onto Alex Jones's or Rush Limbaugh's show?

Indeed, throughout the course of this argument you're simultaneously arguing that Alex Jones should have unlimited speech but if Google does the same thing (highlighting what they consider to be reputable 3rd parties) they should be treated as a "publisher" and subject to fairness doctrine and stripped of safe harbor.

That's an awful idea. But what's more, it's patently obvious that you're arguing a double standard to anyone who is not eagerly to use the State's authority as a literal-and-figurative club even as the State itself skirts freedom of speech laws. And as such, it's likely folks are reading your argument, assuming it's offered disingenuously, and hitting downvote.
You forgot Amazon, but it sounds like we've moved the goalposts from free speech to fairness for advertisers now. That's an antitrust problem, not a free speech problem.
For sure, but at least overt discrimination is much more easily remedied by social ostracism or legal means.
Volkswagen Board releases €1Bn for battery cell factory
My impression is that nuclear works right now and that the risk is overblown, relative to all the other risks we incur.

The peer reviewed study I posted right here said the risks are underestimated.
I own this wonderful book, some of the chapters are available as publicly available papers. Like

Compiler Construction - The Art of Niklaus Wirth [1]

FFF97 - Oberon in the Real World. [2]

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/036f/c4effda4bbbe9f6a9ee762...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221349845_FFF97_-_O...
They're a government that the US recognizes, and that's widely recognized by other governments that the US recognizes. That makes them legitimate. Terrorists by definition do not include legitimate governments. Anyone that doesn't agree is a "terrorist sympathizer".

I don't necessarily agree, but that's just how it is.
amazon is on a downhill decline for me. their scale and automation of both humans and machine yields a disconnected service. a large percentage of books i receive from them, which is substantial, are damaged upon arrival. but what do they care? they just initiate a replacement with no questions asked, but now i have to repack the material and go to ups or an amazon locker. i am now working for them for free! my time and effort is explicitly being used as quality control, and this is undoubtedly factored into their statistics.
Seneff’s credibility in this matter is questionable.
For me, the website link is literally the first link on Google.
It definitely prevents some headaches! I admit to losing myself for hours at a time trying to see all the different generations this thing makes.
I'm not 100% sure about this. A counterexample is the popularity of RPN. HP's RPN calculators with postfix notation are well-loved among some engineers, scientists, and accountants, precisely because of the benefits of RPN over infix notation. I have a HP-48SX calculator, and I regularly use the `dc` command on Unix machines and in WSL whenever I need access to a calculator while I'm on a computer. Of course, I am proficient in prefix, infix, and postfix notation, but I like postfix notation the most.

Of course, though, the marketshare of TI's infix calculators is much higher than HP's RPN calculators, and I haven't heard of much recent developments regarding HP's calculator line (the last I heard was HP had a limited-edition re-release of the famous HP 15c model sometime back in 2011, and also earlier this decade HP released a graphing calculator with a color display). But nevertheless there are people who prefer RPN to infix.
Jury returns $2B verdict against Monsanto for couple with cancer
This is an uncharitable interpretation of the comment about sexism & racism. I’m African American, yet the last time I took an implicit association test it showed I’m biased against African Americans. Yeah there’s a lot of conscious bias in the U.S., but we live in a culture with deep seated misogyny and racism that can effect even well meaning people.
Please don't take threads further into flamewar, let alone nationalistic flamewar.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19904445 and marked it off-topic.
From the article:

>Tesla appeared to mostly fix this problem with its "cabin overheat protection" feature (which it sold as being to protect dogs and children, despite the fact that it held the temperature at +40C which is about the temperature where a child's organs will start shutting down)

But as the linked explanation says, +40C is the internal temperature which becomes dangerous. This is not the same as the dangerous air temperature. Humans both produce heat by metabolism, and remove heat by sweating. Danger is a function of temperature, humidity, duration of exposure, hydration, clothing, general health, etc. and although I don't know exactly what is safe for children, I point out that a great many people live in climates where air temperature routinely exceeds 40C for several hours at a time.
Interesting. I remember doing experiments with this on my Nokia C7 (one of their last Symbian 3 phones) back in 2011. The vision of tapping nfc stickers / POS systems hasn’t really materialized since, but hopefully this helps. From my discussions with various store owners, the adoption has been difficult because changing your POS system is really painful. Hopefully this introduces an option where the problem is sidestepped entirely.
Most popular folder on Windows is "My documents", it has a space at least in some Windows versions. Make doesn't support such paths: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712

VBScript works better on Windows, IMO. Also works out of the box on all Windows versions since at least 2000 (on Win9x it was shipped with IE).
I don't. I've been using the exact same tech stack for the past 4+ years. Granted, that's not _that_ long but it's long enough to feel like it's table.
Because cameras are cheap, ubiquitous, and pretty much just as fast.

If you rely on NFC, then on Apple devices you need Apple's blessing - and for financial transactions that means Apple Pay only, you don't get access to install applications in the secure element of the NFC chip in the phone.

eg my bank installed a virtual contactless Visa/Mastercard on my Android device that worked with everything long before Google/Android Pay was a thing, and without Google getting a slice of the transaction.
Transit systems can install their own virtual transit card on Android too.
I'd like to see a list of valid reasons for downvoting, an appeal process, and removal of voting rights from those who downvote without valid reason. That's probably asking too much, though.
Another way in which rigid, patriarchal gender roles hurt men as well as women. Straight men should be far more critical of sexism and misogyny than they are. This attitude is directly tied to oppression against women in the workforce.
I didn't mean to make the case that we should forget about the whole thing because we're all going to die anyways.

It's just that in this whole debate it seems we never have the honest discussion about how to deploy limited resources - i.e. how to ration care under a socialized system, or how to subsidize care under a free market system.

I believe that if we discussed it from this perspective perhaps the two sides of this debate could find some common ground.
And the US government's blessing. Along with the UK, this is how the US indirectly spies on its own citizens.
I love this guy on Roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

... says it's so safe he'll drink a pint of it.

Then the interviewer says "ok, well we have a pint, would you like to drink it? "
Hi. Thanks for your feedback, it's not a framework, just a toolbox that uses a common script library. The home page is just an interactive demo. :)
Oh, were you referring to the fact that Workona is free which is what you love about it? If so, Workona and Tabtation are two different things anyway, so IMHO it's just a matter of taste and how you like to go about your workflow in Chrome.
Asian economies look to dominate 7% growth club
I like how stories like this always leave out corruption and mismanagement of the mines themselves. Mines are a hot spot for upper management and owner corruption.
Machine Learning algorithms simply explained
I doubt it is anywhere near just as likely to flow in the opposite direction. It's not like masculine white males are favored just because of their voice pitch. That ideal as the ideal of power is deeply ingrained in our society.

More generally, humans will basically always show bias towards those in more dominant groups, because currying favor with such people is a far better winning strategy than being nice to low-status individuals. Whether the Hutus and Tutsis, white and black, masculine male vs effeminate, etc, it always is the same.

This is just an unfortunate thing about the human brain, but we can use our reasoning ability to correct it. But first, we have to accept hat it exists.
Maybe. Depends on how modal they are.

The primary issue with touch is the difficulty many people have using it by feel, and or "muscle memory" alone. Typically, one needs to identify the UX element desired, then touch, and then often verify the thing happened or select after that.

Where it is modal, another whole layer of that interaction is needed, and or driver needs to retain more state info. "Which screen is it on, and is it currently available for me to use?"

Steering wheel controls can be better, but many of those do toggle through various modes and the driver needs to glance at a small screen in the dash cluster.

Doing that is generally superior to a touch only UX though.

On many cars, low importance functions are clumped into these kinds of UX. Higher order things get their own control.

I drive a lot of different cars. New, old, and Tesla.

I thought the Tesla was spiffy, but did not think much of the big touch panel for reasons I have given here.

My very favorite drives are on cars with great controls, and all of it working with dim interior lighting. Just enough to see what needs to be seen, the rest easily operated in a tactile way, night vision intact.

This is not to say touch is not useful in cars.

I think it can be and is.

This is to say touch has a very long way to go before it begins to seriously challenge well designed buttons, levers and switches.
There’s exceptions. It’s how JBL keeps its stuff secret even though it’s funded by NASA
Okay thank you. I used these sites for the first time, not too well understood, I will improve
Huawei's equipment will almost assuredly run anyone's spyware. Huawei uses a medley of ancient, highly vulnerable OpenSSL libraries sprinkled through their basestation code, and apparently they've forgone any kind of version control to ensure an optimally confusing work environment for their development teams: https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...

Frankly, these products are likely unmaintainable long term without a total refactoring of the codebase, nevermind the abject lack of security.

The trick with these vendors is the codebase will never see serious improvement, as these basestations aren't going to be sold for the next decade, so Huawei will do the bare minimum and shelve support in short order.
GDPR for Engineers – What You Need to Know
It's getting a little tedious. Please show me a concrete citation of a serious textbook (not a tutorial/handout by a grad student or a paper by a random researcher) that puts the three words "conditional random variable" next to each other (consistently, not simply as a one-off potential mistake). Google doesn't show serious sources for it.

While I agree with isolated points of your comment I think it doesn't add up to a useful/coherent concept of conditional random variable.
Would you please not get sucked into flamewars on HN? By the time comments get this far, curiosity is dead and ideological battle is off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not low tech enough. Hopefully they’ll consider pigeon based DNS for those cases when you don’t have cel tower reception: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
This might be a clue:

https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/watson-iot-with-...
Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle and flamewar? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that do this. We have to, because it has the effect on curiosity that salt has on a slug, and curiosity is what this site exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe, but China makes up a very tiny fraction of msft revenue. The only reason they would give in to threats from China would be if they believe that in the future the piracy problem in China will go away for them.
TL;DR - Malicious apps are malicious.
I wasn't refuting the data. I was saying that my anecdote is an exception, and I have a theory about why.

The article's data was far from closing the book on this topic.
I try to release it only during major upgrades. Maybe next time, it will take a long time. I will continue to improve. I will use this community for the first time. Thank you for your guidance. ：） Thanks for everyone.
Sounds like we need to produce kids that are more bully-resistant. This comment is likely to make some people upset, so let me elaborate: Being able to resist bullying in any format is an extremely useful life skill. I was lucky enough to be taught by the Marine Corps in how to resist it, and it's been instrumental in life, almost every day. People who are easily diverted through bully tactics are easily distracted from their life goals by anyone who is loud enough and mildly persuasive enough. Their opinions end up mirroring the loudest person in the room, quashing their self image and their creativity. This article is about video games, but as video games are, for many kids, a daily form of social interaction, it makes them a prime candidate for learning early on how to resist negative and cynical attitudes being thrown at them.
This is a really good point. Women also show tend to show bias towards men, and gay men often show bias towards straight men. It's kind of an instinctual thing to suck up to the powerful.
The manufacturer suggested a load factor of 4x. Most industries probably don't subject their hunks of stainless steel to temperatures of -300°F. Cast parts also have a tendency to be more brittle when exposed to certain types of forces.
"47k feet"? Metric prefixes on American units, interesting. There's hope! :)
It isn't, there is an enormous body of evidence demonstrating that the gender pay gap is driven by overt sexism and institutional barriers. This evidence is far more compelling than speculation about height.
Very neat! Was this also tested to see if it works on the Camera Module V2, by any chance?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar or introduce generic flamewar tangents. The odds that anyone has anything new or interesting to say about this are very low, and the odds of people bashing each other very high. That makes it off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Funny, I just bought a collection of Ginsberg's poetry after seeing a reference to 'Howl' in the "Academe's Extinction" article posted here the other night.
Arcade games do fit some definition of pay2win, but also rarely gives advantages to the one putting the more coins in the machine.

Not that I would defend arcade games, as they are a dying breed, but competitive arcade games were somehow fair.
The International Nuclear Event Scale[1] is probably more useful than "meltdown".

Anything at level 5 ("3 Mile Island") and above is pretty serious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...
It’d be a stupid move to ban crypto. I’m very pro crypto, but we do need some regulation. It’s too easy to lose your account with no recourse currently. So just introduce ways for companies and consumers to be good actors.
I don't agree about the 70's, in that assesment; even the 60's are dubious (eg "trouble coming every day" by Frank Zappa, misc protest songs, the Doors).

According to "Please Kill Me" part of what led to the creation of punk was a sense that everything was going to hell and there might not be a tomorrow. On the metal side of things you get the same sense if you listen to early Black Sabbath (eg "Wicked World", "Hand of Doom",). There's probably other examples to be had, but I can't think of them offhand.

I grew up in the 80's and I can relate to half of what you're saying about aggressive music and moshing. What I find interesting, though, is when you say "Mosh pits are the only place I can think of where this is an acceptable form of self expression". That definately wasn't the case for me, just the opposite. The messages and sentiments I picked up on were that repression was unhealthy -better to get it all out, EST style if need be.

I find it interesting that it's somehow become more taboo to express negative emotions, anger, confrontation, etc than when I was a teenager. I might be off the mark, but from what I've noticed it seems like we're collectively becoming more repressed (emotionally and otherwise) than we were 20 or 30 years ago.
The Influence of Organizational Structure on Software Quality [pdf]
No I'm claiming that the NYT is less credible than they used to be, and not more credible than many other, smaller news outlets. Perhaps "establishment narrative| is more accurate than, "government narrative". If you are interested in understanding what this narrative is, go read Manufacturing Consent again or any of the dozens of books that have been written on the bias of US corporate media.
Apple Pay is invoked automatically whenever the phone is near a point of sale.

And since the nfc tags will have a predetermined, set payment amount associated with them, even biometrics shouldn’t be necessary.
I recently found this list of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents. There are some truly harrowing experiences, including an astronaut whose helmet began to fill with water during an EVA. He was having difficulty speaking by the time he was removed from the suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Clean Code: Intro and Ch. 1 (Detailed Summary)
How long is long term? I have a friend that had problems with GERD until he started taking Adderall. It seems that he is not alone. Something about stimulants seem to help digestive problems for some people.
Anything by Rode. Love their stuff and am usually very critical.
I hate these kinds of posts. It's all useless to talk about unless you talk about what you're trying to build. Not everything that runs in a browser is cut from the same cloth. My job would be miserable without a UI framework, it's a trade-off I've consciously made. I've lived through PHP and Ruby and jQuery/Backbone/Knockout/Closure and my current stack (React + TypeScript) is the only thing that makes my job actually enjoyable. The most important skill is to be able to identify when and where building an SPA is a good idea (hint: it's not your blog or your company's home page). If you really do need an SPA, great, pick a UI framework and a few preprocessors/transpilers and get hacking. If not, also great, just use server-side templates and jQuery. Whatever way you go just remember to leave the zealotry at home.
Mariana Trench submarine dive finds manmade rubbish at sea's deepest point
My comment has nothing to do with Palestine.
The 777 and 787 are full fly by wire. The control system has all the sensor inputs, all the actuator outputs, and a model of how the aircraft is supposed to behave. If the aircraft isn't doing what's expected, the flight control system will fault and drop to a dumber control mode, giving the pilot more control rather than driving control surfaces to their limits trying to correct the wrong problem. Those systems are managing trim, like MCAS, plus a lot more.[1]

MCAS is dumb. It has few inputs and one output. It has no overall model of aircraft behavior. It just detects a bad angle of attack and cranks the trim to bring the nose down.

The 777 is supposed to handle like a 737. The cockpit controls are reasonably similar, although different enough that transition training is required. Unfortunately, there's no "small 777", a gap in Boeing's product line the 737 Max was supposed to fill. (Or small 757, 767, or 787 variants. How did they go half a century without a new sub-200 seat aircraft?)

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/analysis-boeing-777-fly-by-wi...
Hey, we tried. This is the closest we’ll get. It’s an inter-unit handshake.
Israelis grow up with almost no notion of personal space. It’s just not a thing over there.
In the specific context of evaluating whether or not juries do a good job of making decisions in medical-malpractices cases (which is different from this article about glyphosate I think??), I'm confused about your interpretation of these two findings:

> The insurers had medical doctors closely examine the medical records in cases involving claims of medical negligence to determine if medical negligence had occurred. Tarragin et al. [31] compared these judgments with verdicts rendered by juries if the case went to trial. The jury verdicts tended to be consistent with the medical judgments.

> Those authors found that the jury verdicts favored the hospital in all cases that the hospital had rated as not-negligent.

Would those articles' findings also be consistent with the following hypotheses?

(1) Physicians tend to give their colleagues the benefit of the doubt, applying empathy and excusing neglect in borderline cases of negligence.

(2) Hospitals tend to issue findings of negligence which protect their employees, preferring to retain staff with otherwise positive job performance in borderline cases of negligence.

(3) Juries tend to trust the opinions of hospitals and doctors who say that other doctors were not negligent, more than they tend to trust experts who say the opposite.