skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The editor and publisher were understanding and ultimately opted not to retract the paper but to instead publish a revised version of the article, linked to from the original paper, with the results section updated to reflect the true (opposite) results.

I don't see what the problem is.
fine, but no one suggested injecting bleach to a national audience did they.
When I started using the Internet in 1997, Yahoo had a feature where it let users upload their favorite sites. I would browse through those sites puzzled and delighted by the seemingly endless, random content. That was how I came across Peep Research (http://peepresearch.org/).
I doubt that’s the general experience of high schoolers.

I was in honors and AP programs in high school in the 90s and I’d have described a similar dynamic at my school, until one year my ADHD got the better of me and I failed english and had to go to summer school. It turns out a whole lot of kids in my high school were doing drugs and having parties and having sex. They just aren’t in your classes at your school.

That was the best summer of my high school experience, FWIW.
Board games to play with your quarantined housemates
It is possible to get a PhD in children's writing, don't know how easy, you have to publish a book, but I suspect way easier than most other subjects.
Do you mean it's miserable to develop the seL4 microkernel or do you mean it's miserable to develop applications on top of seL4? If the latter, is it any different from any other microkernel?
For all the folks that can't get into Nix because they find it obtuse: Okay, fine, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to adopt it, and moreover, we don't want an influx of folks who are only embracing the situation reluctantly and cannot respect the Nix way of doing things.

The top complaints I've seen in this comment section so far are about the Nix expression language. It's not appealing, hard to learn, weird, etc. Okay, good. If learning a single simple DSL is completely off-putting, then we should probably keep the DSL for a while, since it seems to be effective at weeding out folks who aren't interested in learning about the theory of package management, while allowing the rest of us to get things done.

The next top complaints I've seen are about how nixpkgs is hacky, lacking, or doesn't well-support traditional UNIX tools. Well, to the extent that we can force traditional UNIX tools to respect package-capability discipline, we're doing quite well. According to Repology [0][1], nixpkgs is amongst the top 5 repositories for number of packages, number of maintainers, number of fresh packages, and percentage of up-to-date packages.

Seriously, before you downvote or reply, stop and look at [1]. Look at how nixpkgs is literally off the charts compared to almost any other distro. The only close contender is AUR, which doesn't have the reproducibility or less-insecure build model of Nix.

[0] https://repology.org/

[1] https://repology.org/graph/map_repo_size_fresh.svg
Coronavirus: How the pandemic is ruining the European economy
I saw movies of places that did this exactly, the belt does not travel across the restaurant first but directly to the table..
A super intuitive multiplayer music experience by dinahmoe
http://labs.dinahmoe.com/plink/

This is a repost - last posted five years ago and posted well before that too. I'm not adding (2015) though as the experience is fresh.

Wonderful it is, pleasantly distracting.
it's hard for me to imagine this ever working in the USA. People will assault the drones both "4 teh lulz" and to steal the contents and or the drone itself. A car/truck/bike usually has a person involved and for whatever reason that's usually somewhat of a deterrent (though obviously not always). But an unmanned machine that is both valuable in and of itself and is almost guaranteed to have stuff inside? I can't imagine them not being stalked in droves.

Yes they can have cameras on them but the snatchers will just drive up in an unmarked van with masks on and dump them in their foil covered interior.
Here is a link to the Monty Python sketch where this post takes its lines from: https://youtu.be/vnciwwsvNcc?t=154
One of the lesson of the physics lab is that unless you have calibrated very carefully all the equipment and experimental setup, you can't mix the measurements of one day with the measurements of another day.

For example one day we have very weird results trying to compare two measurements of the same day about something related with the speed of sound. After a lot of time trying to understand the problem we notice that one measurement was from 9am when the temperature was like 10°C(50°F) and the other was from 1pm when the temperature was like 25°C(77°F). The following days we tried to take all the measurements as close as possible.

The same applies to benchmarks in computers. A few days ago I got an improvement for a program that reduced the runtime from 85s to 59s. Until I noticed that one was with the notebook plugged in an the other with the batteries. I tried again both with the notebook plugged in and the improvement was only from 65s to 59s. Still a nice improvement but not fantastic.

Quoting again part of the original comment I'm repliying

> Learning is not the same as science, and we need randomized trials to actually be sure of anything.
Unfortunately, in the middle of a pandemic, that's not going to happen with enough speed to prevent a lot of people dying. The perfect can be the enemy of the good enough.

Without a randomized control group it is very difficult to be sure if a small improvement of the survival rate is real. So you can't learn if the new method or the old method is better.
Would love it if any client would support grouping all messages per senders unique email and topic, sorted by date.

The result is almost like a conversation.
It makes it easier to see each topic as well.

So far, I've only seen "Unibox" client on MacOS do this. (Not updates since 2018)
Please, explain why
The Godot Engine 2020 showreel
One thing this chart highlights is the unsung success stories among the US states. Some isolated and sparsely populated states are doing quite well: Alaska, Hawaii, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Vermont.
Necessarily, no, but in practice likely:

- The qualifying exams are likely to be easier than at top tier universities;

- The faculty will be more accustomed to weak students with little motivation. Not all students will be weak, and indeed many students, at whatever program, will be strong and motivated. However, weaker programs are more likely to take chances on applicants with ambiguous track records.

- That said, it's certainly possible that individual professors, at whatever institution, decide that they aren't willing to put up with any shit.
A software engineer can easily kill tens of people with a typo. Medical devices have a ton of software and it's only increasing.

Medical staff have the equivalent of code review and test environments. Non-routine operations have always multiple people in the room. They have bodies to practice on.

Do yourself a favour and drop the attitude. Medical and software industries both have some very difficult jobs.
I'm a student and I always scout for books online. I promise myself that, if the book helps me, I'll buy a copy of it in the future.
Not really. I don't remember learning anything and I still got an A just like most of the other students. Teaching is more than just providing a syllabus and then lazing around in the classroom.
Clojure is JVM language and it is straightforward to interact with Clojure libs from Java apps.
To make it even easier it is a first thing on my TODO list to provide a simple Java interface to work with Number Words plus update README with Java use examples.
Don't pickup in 5 mins it just leaves. This is how the Uber model was before they changed to just,"Drivers billable time starts after 2 mins of waiting. Looks like they faired out alright as a company.
Your mind is made up it seems, but there’s no need to accuse the person above of ignorance.

Your example linked “ 5 Big Companies Sued for Racial Discrimination”. An article showing small businesses being sued/settling for discrimination would support your argument much better imo.
Are you aware of Pi-calculus and ProVerif? ProVerif sounds to address at least some of your requirements. Links:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0-calculus
- https://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/proverif/
Malta is also considered part of Europe, south of Italy.
I guess you're not French Canadian if you think that way
Chernobyl Disaster
Of all the unintended/bad consequences of bill 101, I’m not sure about this one. Maybe you witnessed something but I’d be surprised if that was a regular thing. Also, depending on the context this could be a very legitimate request; how is anyone supposed to know the intent of someone asking for a translation?
If was to pirate I'd be doing it because I don't want to be tracked. I don't want Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Google, whoever knowing what I'm watching, when I'm watching, how many times I watched, what parts I reviewed, etc... I don't like the idea that some computer is adding me to categories I have no control over and making judgements I neither want nor can correct nor delete nor prevent and then sharing an selling that data.
April 26 1986
Your data source is compromised. France's confirmed case count is 124k not 161k. You're off by 40k.

Source: https://dashboard.covid19.data.gouv.fr/
When I was at Google, Tim Sneath taught this same workflow to the whole team. It was the only way to handle the Google scale email firehose. Now that I'm in an Outlook shop, been looking for a way to replicate it.
Not true. Consider the following example:

Two players are playing, heads up. Both players always play every hand, and there is always exactly one bet and call per betting round. Under this scenario, the EV for each player is 0, since we could expect them to both win half the hands, and importantly, win exactly the same amount of money each hand.

Now consider a second situation in which player A plays every hand the same way, but player B folds with the lowest EV hand before any additional cards are revealed. (in hold'em this is 2-7 offsuit). What happens is that player B is losing less money with their worst hand than player A. And since this is zero-sum, it means player B will expect a very slight profit.

Now, extrapolate this to player B only playing +EV hands, while player A doesn't even look at their cards and plays every hand. The following betting rounds still proceed the same way. Player B will be losing a small amount - the ante - on poor hands, and willing a much larger amount with their good hands.

This gets to the heart of my argument - that skill in games like poker or backgammon - will inexorably prevail over a long enough timeline. Sure, player A might catch a great string of cards and beat player B sometimes. But play enough and player B will eventually dominate player A even if no other decisions are made.

This is all, of course, just a thought experiment, but it's meant to illustrate that skill in poker is equivalent to making +EV decisions in the face of incomplete information.
...leaves with the food? And enough battery to get back with the weight of the food?

Probably it'd just drop it I guess.
Also common in Canada. And that definitely jives with my late 90s teenage years, although nuanced. The kids who had the most shit in their lives seemed to go either way: either they put on their grown up pants too young, or they just gave up, figured out the bare minimum income necessary to live, and smoked pot and played video games all day. It’s anecdotal of course and not a broad population study, but it’s how my group of misfit friends seemed to go. I was part of the “grew up and got a job and got my shit together at 15” group, but stayed in touch with the other half of my friends for a while and partied with them occasionally (pretty much until cocaine started showing up at the parties, at which point I thought... nope!)
The UI was awful though... and still is, just not as awful as it used to be. Like, come on, what is with the comment UI? Why can't they just, you know, display these comments like every single other site out there and instead they have this weird control panel with partial comments, two(!) sliders, etc. At least now there is a button to load all comments (but you still have to adjust the sliders)... but you have to do it for every single comment, it doesn't remember the setting. And at the past it was even worse, with a floating(!) control panel and many comments were hidden, but you could still see replies to them.

Like WTF? What were they thinking?
I thought initially it was about this https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-maya-blog/introducing-bi...
I agree - the message I wanted to communicate is the same :) I never thought the problem are the scientists ;)
Only seems like 'lying about Trump'. More like, mocking him for saying awkward confused things.
There is no whataboutism. You are creating a strawman, and then complaining about it being fallacious. I am not defending Trump, I am attacking the media. The media are the ones spreading the bleach drinking meme. That is bad. They should not do that. And all I get are these histrionic "omg u luv blumpf fox watcher!1111" responses, nobody actually addresses the issue. If the media did not run insane "don't listen to Trump, drinking bleach is bad!" stories, nobody would think Trump said to drink bleach, because he did not, and because nobody listens to anything he says in the first place, only to what the media says he says.
Why did Slack win out over IRC? (2018)
Why Nations Succeed
Many media outlets have claimed Trump told people to drink bleach. Unless you can provide a quote of Trump saying that, yes they are absolutely lying.
Liero was heavily inspired by MoleZ, not the other way around
You will come around sooner or later...
Multiple different times, different companies, different people and knowing the intent because they either told me point blank or I asked.
You can indicate your destination at the entry turnstile to the platform and it will tell you two things: (a) the car you should board, and (b) the car you should exit from at the destination station. Most times, (a) and (b) are same. Some times, (a) and (b) can be different – say when you have more cars than then length of the platform supports, then some cars will hang off the platform length and hence their doors won't open. If you were assigned to board such a car, you have to make way to another nearby assigned car whose door can open, which is assigned to you so that everyone won't crowd the same last car aligned to the platform.
> Mr. Robot was about Occupy

I'm a Mr. Robot fan, and a real fan of Kor's influence (an ex security guy at Toyota!) on the show but I likely took a very different perspective from it than most as I'm a crypto nerd.

To me the series was like a dramatization of Naomi Campbell's Shock Doctrine [1] with very well portrayed hacks and exploits (I'm not a pen tester but some OPESEC stuff was quite accurate). And their crypto stuff was actually well developed and researched. And some hero vs villeins characters to keep things going.

SPOILER ALLERT

The occupy overtones felt like a distraction, and a tired trope to me; the masks were an obvious nod to the Guy Faux maskes representing Anonymous, but beyond that I think it was rather lacking any real substance--Season 3's riot at E-corp showed how quickly things escalate to violent mob-rule even against the supposed protagonists. The redistribution of wealth via a hack against the 1%'s seemed forced and cobbled together because Sam wanted the ending to fit that narrative and quite frankly it felt forcefully coaxed; whereas the mental health, loneliness and substance abuse plot was very well paced and fleshed out throughout the series.

I wasn't really satisfied with how that last hack drove the series end and how the last 'hack' saved the World was rather ridiculous to me as result--and this is from perhaps one of the most anti-nuclear voices on HN! And he survived to see his plan triumph, because reasons we cannot and will not explain beyond some far fetched off scene make-believe you will just have to accept.

I've never seen Homeland; to be honest I don't really watch TV much as popular shows feel boring to things that happen in the many sub-cultures and communities I'm involved in. That guy from Occupy I mentioned before got me into Mr. Robot at the end of season 1 but I didn't get into it much until the E-Coin vs Bitcoin plot development in S2 and binged most of it until that part.

Even during this lockdown I've been mainly re-watching/listening to old races, concerts and DJ sets while I study and do stuff. I have like 5 audio books I'm waiting to sink my teeth into so I'm afraid I won't get to see Home Coming anytime, either. I'll check out the trailer, but that's rather glib representation I imagine.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmB63TIHLY

Edit: Saw trailer: eh, Black Mirror's Men Against Fire did that plot brilliantly, and this seems like an elongated version of it. And what is Sam's obsession with fish tanks?

PS: I don't think I've clarified my position with the Shock Doctrine; I agree with Campbell's premise, but not her conclusion(s), as Free Market Capitalism is not what is inserted in the 'window of operation' from the disaster/shock to the system, but rather a very parasitic corporate plutocracy emerges in the way Mussolini defined Fascism (the merging of State and Corporate power) is what inserts itself in practice. Even Pricenton has defined the US as an Oligarchy.
> Trump makes these dumb quotes just for free publicity

I wouldn't discard that is clearly a smokescreen to give journalists something to write about. It was in the same day as the embarrassing psychological mark of 50.000 US citizens killed were reached (if I'm not wrong)... and everybody is talking about bleach-yes / bleach-not.

If the real purpose was that, it was clearly effective. Mission acomplished; journalists confused and running in circles; lets move on.

The other possibility is that Trump would not be aware that UV rays cause skin cancer, so would cause lung cancer really fast. Seems unlikely to me. Not to mention that skin has melanin. Human lungs are like a norwegian albino in Torrevieja standing in the middle of the street at 15h. No; Trump most probably knows yet that the sunlight can hurt.

I assume also that trump knows yet that bleach burns human mucous tissues. I would have a hard time thinking the opposite.

In terms of deathcount, Coronavirus is turning quickly in another Vietnam for US, when 58k US soldiers were killed.

And is being much worse for Europe (all should be said). We are not laughing about it. Trust me.
If there was something I could impart to this generation, it would be this. I deeply admire your commitment to entrepreneurialism and to taking a bit of ownership over what you can learn in terms of "return on investment." However, I would caution you to remember still what is the most rewarding in life. Too often I see a never-ending status tournament for those in the elite schools (all of those mentioned), and it can tear apart those involved.

Not too long ago, my company sent out teams to interview students from Stanford. Without fail, all of them mentioned some feeling of alienation from their peers due to the ridiculous status games. One foreign student who was relatively poor talked about dorm-mates who would fly first class back to LA or NY for the weekend and boast about it. It was a kind of revolting illustration.

Helping your fellow human beings and living a life of service to them is what is ultimately important. I think this generation may actually be primed to give us a lot of hope in this regard, but I hope that you can listen to it. And if I may be so bold, I believe that many would be well-served by realizing that out there beyond the cosmos above us is something that deeply loves each of us.
Think what way? That Bill 101 exists to protect the culture or that people actively exploit it?
Many popular "open source" projects are also not free...
Old school RuneScape was also written by a single guy: Andrew Gower. Him and his brothers moderated it. He's since sold it and done very well. Does anyone remember BlueRose?
relevant scott manley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8roW6Cxm0
I upvoted because I think rational disagreement is important. Let's just go through the facts we have. Below is some of the White House transcript, and a link to the rest.

The President did not tell Americans to inject bleach. The President did speculate, at a press briefing, about the possibility of injecting disinfectants into the human body. To me it seemed pretty clear that he was talking about a research idea, not about a home treatment.* The President added the caution that doctors should be involved.

Agreed?

*Personal opinion, I don't believe he was clear about the lethality of this idea if somebody is silly enough to try it at home.

Transcript excerpt:
"THE PRESIDENT: Right. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...
This is all fine and good, but we still need some regulation. Most misinformation can indeed be addressed with an individual education and protection based approach as you describe, but this situation is different. Falling for misinformation and propaganda about coronavirus can lead directly to not just your own death, but that of others. You absolutely have the right to kill yourself through ignorance or paranoia, but you do not have the right to kill me or my family with it too.
When you switch the video off the others usually roll their eyes. When you talk people are only shaking their head from left to right while making thumbs up hand signals.
The examples in different languages are not really comparable, because they do different things.

For example, the Java code has 18 lines. Ha-ha, sure, we all know the popular stereotype. But when you look at the actual code...

Lines 3-6 are just a wrapper that allows you to write 'isFileExists("input.txt")' instead of 'new File("input.txt").exists()'. Note that the latter is the correct answer, and surprisingly also happens to be a one-liner! The entire exercise could have ended right here, why write a wrapper? Look at the Groovy solution, and replace 'println ...' with 'System.out.println(...)'.

The unnecessary wrapper also happens to be unnecessarily long. You don't have to assign the result of a function call into a boolean variable, and then return it in a separate statement. You can return the result of the function call directly. It would even result in a shorter line!

(Also, why would anyone call a function 'isFileExists' instead of shortly and more simply 'fileExists'? Starting function names with "is" is a Java convention for getters, but this is not the case here; this function could not be a getter, because it is static.)

Lines 7-11 print a formatted result on standard output. Examples in many languages simply return the value.

An idiomatic Java solution comparable to solutions in other languages would be something like this, including all the boilerplate code:

package example;
import java.nio.file.*;
class Example {
public static void main(String arguments...) {
Stream.of("input.txt", "/input.txt", "docs", "/docs").forEach(s ->
System.out.println("" + s + Files.exists(Paths.get(s)) ? " exists" : " does not exist"));
}
}