skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, here's the spreadsheet with the screenshotted link [0], I've copy-pasted the climate change deniers and corresponding sources below.

Anastasios Tsonis https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-who-deny-climate-...

Elliot D. Bloom https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=403...

Patrick J. Michaels https://climateinvestigations.org/patrick-michaels-climate-d...

S. Stanley Young https://errorstatistics.com/2014/12/13/s-stanley-young-are-t...

David Randall https://undark.org/2018/04/18/national-association-of-schola...

David Theroux https://blog.independent.org/2012/10/27/its-official-no-glob...

Peter Wood https://undark.org/2018/04/18/national-association-of-schola...

Overall, I'm mostly underwhelmed by the evidence he presents. Anastasios probably falls into the climate change denier camp, though I know him from my time in UWM's math department and I believe he's a genuine skeptic acting in good faith. On the other hand, I turned up an awful lot of unscientific nonsense peddled by Elliot Bloom in my short time looking into him [1].

I haven't looked into the rest other than by following links above, which again are off-putting but not completely damning. I will add that the National Association of Scholars does appear to publish a lot of articles on climate change by clear climate change deniers and authors with significant links to the oil and gas industry [2], including:

- Leo Goldstein, whose website makes such claims as "CO2 in a greenhouse does NOT warm it. 'Greenhouse gas' is a misnomer.", "Higher CO2 concentrations in atmosphere do warm the surface, but only insignificantly.", and "Of all potential global dangers conceivably related to human activity, nothing has been studied better and found more harmless than anthropogenic CO2 release." [3]

- Edward Reid, who has at least 26 years of experience in the natural gas industry [4] and "fifty years of experience in the energy industry".

- David Legates, who according to Wikipedia "is a senior scientist of the Marshall Institute, a research fellow with the Independent Institute, and an adjunct scholar of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of which have received funding from ExxonMobil." [5]

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/136FNLtJzACc6_JbbOxjy...

[1] For example, the graphic at 1:17:08 of https://youtu.be/1zrejG-WI3U?t=4628 is based on the same data as the graphic in http://archive.is/qlqA8, which is debunked here https://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-dece... and in the follow-up linked at the top of that page

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20180921133012/https://www.nas.or...

[3] https://defyccc.com/summary-of-science/

[4] https://www.therightinsight.org/Ed-Reid

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Legates
coverage.py is quite popular - it was the 55th most downloaded python package last year. For reference, virtualenv was 57th.

Source: https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/
I think you have that backwards. Brooklyn is cheap and low-rise because the land is not as desirable. Considering only first order effects, Manhattan would be even more expensive if it was low-rise.

However there are important second order effects to consider too. The density is a big part of the appeal of Manhattan. If it was lower then it might push economic activity away and make people not want to live there as much. Maybe finance sector might move to say Chicago. This would push prices down.
Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition
> still less loud than any restaurant in the US

Sounds like you might need to try some restaurants in the US. It's more than McDonald's and TGI Fridays.
I think you're a silly goose
> "Even simple heuristics such as sudden keyboard depression and subsequent inquiry dialogs that are missed could help."

As if the sticky-keys dialog didn't cause people enough hassle already? I don't want EMTs dispatched to my house because my cat sat on my keyboard and didn't have the presence of mind to click the "Don't worry, I'm okay" dialog.

There is tape over my webcam. But shit, what if I just fell asleep on the thing? Would firefighters knock down my front door because I used my keyboard as a pillow?
There was quite a lot wrong with this paper, and it wasn't about the "orthodoxy." The study makes claims about children, but the study was actually a survey of how parents felt about their children's transition. There was significant bias in how parents were selected to participate in this survey; it was predominantly advertised on anti-trans websites. The survey itself was biased. By all accounts, the statistical analysis of this data is not in dispute. The methodology, however, leaves much to be desired.

I read both the Federalist and the Huffington Post, because it's interesting to contrast how issues are being presented in mass media (and I get a certain pleasure in exercising my bullshit detector). But I certainly don't link to them in pursuit of a reasoned argument, because they're both quite biased.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-biased-is-your-news-so...
Interesting. But in iphone we do not have arrow keys sadly. Possibly can hack ... but not forth.
Not much though I’m sure there’s some cultural contribution. Cricket is really only played seriously in former British colonies whereas you can run a marathon with over a 1,000 competitors at least once a year in almost every city in OECD countries. For middle income countries the Mexico City Marathon was founded in 1983 and there appears to be at least 10 marathons annually in South Africa. I’ve run in the Shanghai Marathon and there must have been 10,000 competitors.

Long distance running is a good candidate for second least culture bound sport, after sprinting.

East African also overstates the relevant population group. Among East Africans the Kalenjin, an ethnolinguistic group are themselves dominant.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9b58/9a401e65cb8bbd1f3cacb6...

The dominance of Kenyans in distance running

Kenyan runners, and especially those originating from the Kalenjin tribe, have dominated international middle- and long-distance running for over 40 years, prompting significant interest in the factors contributing to their success. Proposed explanations have included environmental factors, psychological advantage and favourable physiological characteristics, which may be genetically conferred or environmentally determined. Running is inherent within local Kenyan tradition and culture, and the Kenyan way of life, which involves many outdoor activities and pastimes in addition to mostly unfavourable living conditions, is conducive to enhanced distance running performance. Despite economic deprivation, Kenya has produced world and international running cham- pions repeatedly over the past few decades; these champions have become role models for the younger gener- ations, who take up running in the hope of a better future for themselves. Favourable environmental conditions such as altitude, diet and anthropometry, in addition to the motivational and socio-economic factors mentioned above, have all been proposed as possible reasons for the unsurpassed achievements of Kenyan dis- tance runners. However, the fact that the majority of internationally successful runners originate from a small tribe that accounts for approximately 3% of the total Kenyan population also points to a possible genetic component. Whether this is subject to influence from other co-factors, such as altitude or training effects acquired during childhood, remains as yet unresolved.
Already happening. My Apple Watch can detect atrial fibrillation, and it'll call 911 if it detects a hard fall and I don't tell it I'm OK after a minute.
I'm guessing the latter, there's two on the front page right now; there must rarely not be at least one.
Wages are growing, mainly at the low end. We are seeing efforts to stop this via many different types of immigration.
It's been tried using 23andMe genetic data for over a million people.[1] No one gene seems to have a large effect, “Yet when we analyze the combined effects of many genetic variants, taken together they can predict the length of a person’s formal education as well as demographic factors.”

[1] https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/massive-study-on-t...
If you send SameSite=None, Chrome 51 through 66 ignore the Set-Cookie header. Chrome 80 requires SameSite=None for cross domain POSTs (e.g. authentication). Google is recommending removing the User-Agent header while Google websites use User Agent detection to workaround bugs in Google User Agents. See https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/incompatible-clie... for details of other incompatible User Agents.
I think the main issue is impressions vs clicks.

As I understand it today, I can view an ad on a random site and have a cookie with my unique ID in it saved. If I view other network ads, they know it's me and update my profile. Then when I check out, the site I'm buying from reads this cookie and reports back that it worked based on impressions.

AFAIK this won't be easy to replace if a random eCommerce store is blocked from reading Facebook et al cookies, it won't be able to report back reliably. You could do something like submit their email address or other data to Facebook and see if you get a hit, but that's probably illegal in many places without permission. And in most cases, the cookie from the ads will be blocked as it's third party (but would be able to be written for ads shown on-platform, which doesn't really matter since they can track server side anyway).

But clicks are very easy, you just tie a unique ID to the ad URL and have the landing page and checkout page track that. No cookies needed. It can report back in real time or later to update stats.
Walked into a Chase branch with a $43,000 Wells Fargo insurance claim check. Informed there’d be a 10-day hold. I exploded. (I didn’t need the $ immediately. It was the principal of the thing.) Went back to the car and drove 1000 feet over to the WF branch. Same crap. 10 days. Even if I opened a WF account with a WF CHECK! Went back to Chase, giving up. Silver lining. I manage all my cash better today. It’s hand to hand combat, so you get good at it.
Suggesting email address using string similarity algorithm
There are bots via streaming Elasticsearch clusters that auto downvote HackerNews comments. I have the data so not really arguable.

Probably discovered by tons of people before me FYI. I’m a mediocre engineer who happens to occasionally uses Shodan / BinaryEdge. The fact that you get treated like absolute garbage if you’re wrong (even if there is nothing to be gained financially) I think suggests why others haven’t spoken up. That and Elasticsearch isn’t the easiest.
> shouldn't be constant and is heavily dependent on time/date.

A priori it is assumed that sales are independent of time. That's part of what Poisson distribution means -- a constant rate of rolls of a fixed weighted die. The assumption could be wrong.

> justification for why sales mean should equal sales variance

https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Variance_of_Poisson_Distribution
I hope so! Please drop by our Team Hephy Slack if there are any gaps or if you need help.
Aws spot instances have saved me so much money... it’s such a great service.
The really interesting thing about Forth is just how minimalistic a bare-metal Forth implementation can be - not even an interpreter, but literally a few words handcoded in machine code, and the rest built from there (and then possibly optimized with more machine code, if you need that).

Given the ease with which Forth can be ported to other platforms and architectures, I often wonder why there's no C-to-Forth translator - it seems like it would be just about the easiest way to bootstrap things.
I also wonder about whether there is a quality criterion there or is quantity all that's needed. For example if most dinners consist primarily of yelling at kids to sit down, eat vegetables, quit playing with food, just hurry up and swallow it, small bites, not that small, no poop talk at the table, inside voice, quit dropping your spoon, feet off the table, no kicking, don't annoy your sister, STOP SHOUTING.... Does that count?
US economy: the Federal Reserve’s reality check
I don’t think the intention was to never solve anything though.
When the "other side" is arguing in bad faith, you're damned if you let them speak and damned if you don't. Someone like that isn't going to play by the rules of logical, rational discourse - such as sticking to the facts - so there isn't much to be gained by letting them speak versus not giving them a platform. I point you to Holocaust denialism, which has a long, rich tradition of ignoring, obfuscating, or concocting elaborate alternative explanations for any truths that run counter to their dogma. Or for something more benign, the flat earth movement or the Apollo landing conspiracy theorists.

It's easy for a bullshitter to make up more bullshit, and people love to believe "contrarian" bullshit so they can appear smarter than the next guy. Refuting bullshit takes time, energy, and effort that could be spent on more productive activities.

It's absolutely a worry that legitimate contrarian speech (I get that that's an oxymoron to some people) might be suppressed. But that's not what's currently happening.
Right, excuses carry no weight. Got it. Agreed! But fuck football coaches and sports analogies for business. Sports is a zero-sum game. Business sometimes is,sometimes isn’t. Depends on agility, creativity, and the market you’re in. If your boss quotes football coaches just quit on the spot (unless of course you are in sales).
I don't believe so
Probably and that’s kind of my point. Not meant as an insult or anything but just thought it was funny since it seemed like the main purpose of HN back in the day
It's not even that: the AlgorithmIdentifier structure in the SubjectPublicKeyInfo is allowed to contain parameters, the one in the Signature should not. This is arguably a spec bug.
Congrats!!!

HN is a place I check all the time. There’s so many smart people here and the conversations are often very civil and super informative.
It is insane that an entire state is actually happy to be a save haven for this trash instead of cracking down on it. It isn't like they don't know either, there are more than enough stories out there on the dangers and negative effects of MLMs (both financial but also health-wise since the MLM paddlers will often make bogus health claims related to the scams they're hawking) for anyone in power to know these are bad and should be regulated out of existence.
Ancient Egypt may have given cats the personality to conquer the world (2017)
Also, a11y support isn't just for "blind" or "disabled" users; it tends to make the page better for all users.

Yes! Although I'm not "officially" disabled, I'm "blind" to my screen when I'm driving (you'll be happy to know), I'm half-blind to a message that pops on my screen when I'm drying off from a shower (no glasses in the shower is my motto), I'm "mute" when surrounded by strangers on a train, my fingers can't operate a mouse or keyboard when I'm doing dishes, etc., etc.

We're ALL disabled, and our circumstances change over very-short to very-long term as well. Having things designed with flexible interface options was one of the original goals of the web. Some of us remember before CSS, the publisher was supposed to specify semantics, and the user was supposed to specify presentation. I don't think we should go to that extreme, but I'd like to see our browsers, tools, and frameworks designed to make multi-UI flexibility easier and more common.
there is also this blackhat 2018 talk 'Reversing a Japanese Wireless SD Card - From Zero to Code Execution' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7GW9XkXBU
Hmm seems like the bad neural nets from reddit are coming here now?
Well, this is refreshing. Congrats and keep your attitude of gratitude, it will serve you well.
>Make the common case fast. There is no reason to expose all possible complexity to every transaction.

Hint: addressing that is exactly what HL7 has been doing for over 30 years.

The easy parts are easily solved because they're easy, and the easy parts are 90%+ of any given integration.

Those remaining hard parts are where the time and effort goes, and a lot of them are very fundamental things that seem easy until you try to actually do them.

"Simple" things like ensuring that you properly match a patient to their preexisting medical record are incredibly fraught with unexpected complexity that you can't handwave away with an interchange format.
Once I wrote a bingo card in PostScript which would randomize its cells every time you printed it. That's almost useful.
That Noah Carl one is interesting, hadn't heard about that. The Cambridge college actually conducted a formal investigation with a panel led by a Professor, and published a statement [0] explaining their decision to retract the fellowship. The reasons cited were lack of research ethics and integrity in Carl's work, poor scholarship, and the risk of the college being used as a platform to promote racist views.

Frankly, this seems like a measured response to a fairly standard complaint. Perhaps the only part of it that grates me is the public and "outraged" nature of the complaint. Without knowing much more about Carl's actual work, I suppose the outstanding question is, if the reasons above are true then how did he get the offer in the first place?

[0] https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.st-edmunds.cam.ac...
Obviously a response to yesterdays post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027459
Reminds me of a famous prayer... I think it's basically the same idea.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference."
PUBG mobile is (or was? haven't played in a while) a work of art - especially compared to it's PC older brother. Runs at a solid FPS, amazing gunplay for a mobile game while still capturing the essence of the PC game. Slightly embarrassing for PUBG PC to be frank.

But... both technically and culturally it's not the same as a PC shooter. Similar to comparing HALO with a game like Counter Strike I guess - one summer I was bored and shot 2500-3000ish heads (Aim Botz) in one sitting but I can't imagine "practicing" PUBG mobile in a similar way.
Awwh thank you! Just finished it today as a side project. Excited to see where it goes :)
Trader Seeks $1.5B for Climate-Change Hedge Fund
For better performance and more flexibility I'd recommend an ESPRESSObin v7 over a Pi. 3xGbE ports and a dedicated topaz switch offer something much more akin to a true router than the Pi.

http://espressobin.net/
It's tough due to platform limitations -- e.g. I think that macOS codesigning will only sign binaries, and your JS/ASAR files are not binaries.
Ah, ok thanks for clearing that up. That is exactly what I was thinking.
Cut-and-paste from the bottom of the OneSearch website: Powered by Bing™
He never actually sold it [0]; a billionaire just paid him some cash instead and Watson got to keep his prize.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/09/russian-bill...
They aren't equally true and false... the truth value is just unknown
It would be cool to have a regression testsuite showing "insecure" code for each class of security problem, and showing that the problem is fixed by the template.
Not to mention the dependencies. Most of the "dependencies" of bash scripts are widely used unix tools or other scripts which are generally fairly stable. The python I've been exposed to (I don't know how typical this is) uses random pip modules that are already deprecated and will never be upgraded to python 3, if pip itself even exists and is compatible with packages made today.

To know if something will work in 50 years you have to look at the weakest links and that's not necessarily the language.
I have an DEC VT320 terminal hooked to one of my Linux machines, and when I need to heads down, no distractions, pound out text, I pull it into a room without a computer (or TV) and close the door. It's a great way to block out distractions. George RR Martin famously writes his books in Wordstar on a DOS PC not connected to the Internet for similar reasons.

The big limiting factor with using a vintage computer for a daily driver is that very few of them have a browser that supports modern web standards, have relatively low resolution screens and are painfully slow doing modern crypto (TLS & SSH), so much of the modern internet is inaccessible or unusable.
No, just Europe. See https://hetzner.com. No, I don't work for them or receive any commission :)
I always liked computers even when I was a child. So when I decided to go to college for the second time to study software engineering I was very eager to understand how things work inside a computer. I remember not knowing how numbers can represent an image. So I took digital image processing. I like to get to the basics so I can try stuff later on. I also especially like to solve problems. Even if a problem is well solved by a genius of the past, I think: how would I solve this if I didn't have Google to provide me with the algorithm? Many projects came from this two things. The third thing o really like is games. So I'm always trying to come up with interesting mechanics, concepts, ways of making the computer plays against humans... I also watch a lot of good people on YouTube, read a lot of what people post here... all those things poke my curiosity one way or another and I end up writing code.
Reliable and extremely fast quantum calculations with germanium transistors
If that's the extent of your knowledge about server security, then, yes, this is not for you.

You need to understand firewalls and routing first.
Wow, this looks really interesting. Was there any particular reason you decided on this approach?
I remember Arma 3 (A pretty serious MilSim game) having 100ms+ input lag at one point so there is definitely room to play with but I don't think it's ever going to be good enough for stereotype PC games - equally, I don't think they're the target market.
What's a tired trope?

Back in 2014, Nature did an entire series of articles that attempted to explain the "global warming pause".[1]

And now, recent articles claim there never was a pause.[2]

So it's apparent there is disagreement even among those scientists who are firm believers in global warming.

[1]https://www.nature.com/collections/sthnxgntvp
[2]https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18122018/global-warming-h...
Also, you always eventually reach the end of a book. In which case you have to take a break to find a new one, which you may or may not like as much.

This applies to basically every form of media prior to the internet—movies, TV shows, music albums, etc.

I personally prefer games that are one-and-done too, and this is partly why. I want to immerse myself in a virtual world for a little while and then move on with my life and/or find a brand new virtual world; I'm not looking for an endless rabbit hole.
General question - Do companies look at candidate's github? I have never had any company even care to ask what I have on github. Isn't it all about whiteboard coding interview? If I don't do well on coding interview, it doesn't matter what I have on github. At least that's been my experience. I am curious to know others' experience in this regard.