skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does the reading of your multimeter depend on the digits of Arnold Schwarzenegger's phone number? Do you have to repeat the experiment if his phone number changes? Indeed, we assume that this is not an "experimental condition" to take into account. There is no way to determine this a-priori, and one could conceive of a universe with an arbitrary amount of such strange influences. But we do not appear to live in such a universe, which is why we get to apply Occam's Razor.

I think this is not true for every experiment. For example if you measure the polarization of a photon it will have the same polarization in any subsequent experiment, no matter how hard you try to reduce complexity.

Also, my comment was rather directed at the fact that any experiment has a unique outcome. In that sense we we can’t have perfect control over an experiment, since at least time must have passed between subsequent measurements, such that the experimental conditions are different.
It's interesting to see the cognitive dissonance in the article, they give out examples of how the tobacco industry conspired and pushed experts to promote their agenda yet we are supposed to trust the experts now blindly without any skepticism?
Unrelated question - is there any way to have such a background in windows? It's shocking to me that phones have had great animated background for years, but on Windows there doesn't seem to be any way to do it, the last attempt I can think of was the feature in Windows Vista Ultimate, where you could set an .mp4 file as background.
According to the story it's not about jamming the sonar but giving of a warning that the moth is toxic. Sort of the acoustic equivalent of bright colors that some toxic animals have.
Sounds like a cartel. ;-)
Rip lord vader
> Bring your team together in the sheets. (Wait, no, not like that)

This joke looks unprofessional and inappropriate to me. I’m not sure why it’s on the landing page, especially when the product is about communication in a business context.

Edit: ah, it’s a joke product.
Simple Crockpot Recipes for a 3 Course Meal
Interesting! That sounds like a very different conspiracy theory to the one that I had encountered, but I suppose this isn't really the appropriate forum to go into the gritty details of stuff like that.
Here's evidence that such claims are being communicated though:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=5g+does+not+cause+covid&ia=we...

So it seems your claims are false.

That people seeking lies as their information source would somehow listen to statements of scientists and doctors, doesn't seem plausible. The incentives for specialists and experts to become public targets for statements that later could be falsified, also seems dubious and unprofessional. Unfortunately such populist moves could remove one from "good company" in a profession.
Because he said so previously. There's some licensing stuff he's apparently very worried about.
Get fundraising.

Maintain healthy cash flow

Monitor kpis

Manage receivables and expenses

Manage assets and make sure company is structured to be valuable in a potential acquisition scenario
> there is a conspiracy by men to oppress women and make them earn less money, resulting in the Gender Pay Gap: clearly untrue

It is some A class gaslighting to paint this as being considered a conspiracy instead of a systemic problem that is being perpetuated by those (some unwitting) who benefit from it.
That's how mall operates on some countries, you pay rent and 30% of your gross revenue.
I wonder if some of these processes might start out with a kind of genetic anti-resiliency that's selected for. Moths seem to have a wide variety of wing patterns and heavily rely on them for camouflage and mimicry (like when eyes are mimicked). Maybe the genes related to wing surfaces reduced in number over time, making wings more sensitive to mutation and variation. Kind of like increasing the wing learning rate at an evolutionary level.

That could increase the odds that they'd eventually stumble upon things like this anti-sonar texturing, and that more advanced versions of it would start to appear. Maybe it could also have a role in the infamous peppered moth/pollution story.

And by contrast, maybe nature would also select for extreme resiliency of critical genes, like ones related to heart function and efficiency of resource use, so that they'd be less sensitive to generational variation.

I'm sure this could all still be explained even without that, but it's interesting to think about.
They just evolved in multiple steps, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye
The list of company endorsements is a great touch.
I've kind of shifted in the same direction too. I used to build a custom launcher/theme/background widget setup, now I tend to even keep the stock background because I basically never see it anyway. Same with customising apps. I tend to just learn the defaults and then it works wherever I use it.

That said there are certain customisations which do really impact my productivity, and they tend to be ones which are 'off the beaten path', so I'm very much in favour of keeping software configurable. There are also tools which I spend a lot of effort hammering into a usable state using their options and extension support, and I wish they would take a more 'toolkit and framework' approach (as opposed to thousands of ad-hoc options), and/or present a more useful default.
That isn't a contractual split, though.

Edit: Also, equating the rent of a physical space with what amounts to a webpage and checkout seems ludicrous to me. Physical space, especially one suited to a particular business is limited asset, not to mention the taxes and other costs to the owner of the physical space incur which don't exist for an app store.
I can't imagine being this prudish. People have sex. It's okay to make jokes and its okay for them to be about real things that happen.
Right, perhaps so. I gave it some thought previously but I didn't think anyone would be interested. I'll give it some more thought (and I've a Github acct.). Thanks for the suggestion.
Fun with Interactive Unix 3.0 (2010)
> To use CheerpX for Flash, a licence is required for both CheerpX itself, and for distributing the Adobe Flash Player. This is a requirement for both self-hosted and cloud-hosted installations. In many cases, we will be able to offer both licences under the same commercial agreement. In some cases, a separate licence will need to be procured from Harman. Leaning Technologies can make the right introductions and facilitate the conversation with Harman.

https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerpx-for-flash-now-general...
The whole thing is a joke
Please don't flame me. I could just easily flame you and I'm not.

I substantiate this very easily: affirmative action means preferential treatment for job applicants who are black, and affirmative action is very common.
Reminds me of http://chiptune.com
The biggest danger our minds face, and I say this to you with all the kindness, is that our minds cannot be used reliably to measure themselves individually. Seen from the inside, insanity looks sane.

:-(

I have a dear friend who doesn't believe we landed on the Moon. Otherwise he's highly intelligent and successful. I joked with my therapist that his job was to help me debug myself, as nobody can do it alone.

We all are subject to small malfunctions. We just need to be aware of that.
How to Be Successful in Life?
Have you ever wondered how you can be successful in your life? Well, it's simple, but you have to be concentrated as it can be done through the following steps.

A) How to make a choice in life: You have to make a proper choice that matches your interest in life. You have to let go of those things that actually don't work for you and let the things, you really love come in. You don't have to copy anybody else's passion, but follow yours no matter whatever others say. Your life is your choice, not your parents' or teachers'. You have to do the things that are in alignment with your core vibration of energy, only then can you be successful in your life, and this is how the law of attraction works for you. Learn more:http://bit.ly/3mmVESs
Half-OT: Does anyone have an idea how the WASM interface types proposal is coming along in terms of actual implementation?
Endemic in this context is synonomous with systemic.

You ignore the evidence showing unarmed black Americans are 25 times less likely to be shot by police than unarmed white Americans in a given interaction with similar circumstances, because it doesn't fit your victimhood narrative.

You've done nothing but lob ad hominem at me for not agreeing with your completely baseless and unscientific quackery/dogma.
Does Distanced Self-Talk Facilitate Emotion Regulation?
And imagine that the mall has over 1 billion customers. Not so bad.
fyi, Starlark dropped compatibility with Python 2 two years ago (https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/27)

People interested in type annotations can check this discussion: https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/issues/106

For most purposes, Bazel dependency on Java is an implementation detail (users don't need to install a JVM), although you might notice it if you need to bootstrap Bazel.

(I co-designed Starlark and I used to work on Bazel)
I really really wish Flash MX 2004 were made free to download by Adobe. That was one of the greatest piece of software they (well Macromedia) ever released. The format is dead, basically abandonware, they should make it available.

Adobe already released the universal activation keys cause they shutdown the servers but it's still not legal to use if you haven't bought an original copy https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/macromedi...
The joke is that the product is a joke ;)
What irritates me is that he was willing to put so much effort into restoring the video file. Usually you would only do that if the files are important. But if the files are important, then you would definitely have a second copy of it (backup). Always have a backup is the real learning here.

It is also recommended to automate data related tasks as much as possible. If you have a human doing mv per ssh regulary or semi-regulary, then there is always the risk of a typo or some other kind of human error. I would rather expect that such an error would happen over a long enough time period, than not.
Let me guess, you were a child so don't really know what the bureaucracy is like there. Switzerland is actually much more progressive (good luck doingt anything online in Germany!!).
This thread is a great experiment in how seriously HN takes things and how long people think for before they comment.
Are you trolling me?

My claim is that "inability of (some) scientists" - the "some" is in the original.

You then separately say that "It's almost impossible to validate a negative" (in relation to something else).

You then say that some scientists do in fact pour scorn, therefore my original claim is false?
Is That the Right Sequence to Do Things In?
The fact that this happened / happens does not bother or shock me. What really does grind my gears is that my government does not go full HAM on these that participate in these games.

This is not just bad for our image as neutral country, but really puts the current (security related) tech market in a very bad spot light.
Replace “(6) startup ideas” with “(6) noticing problems, making things to solve them, and iterating quickly.” The skill isn’t ideas, it’s identifying a problem you or others have, making a very basic solution, shipping it, listening to user feedback, and deciding what to spend your very limited time on.

If you want to start something, that skill is worth a lot of time. To get experience, make something on the side that gets you talking directly with users/customers. It doesn’t need to be software - as long as you’re identifying the problem and iterating to create something they like/use/buy, that’s what’s important.

For a founder, this might be the most important skill. For an early-stage employee (say, after the first 5 or 10), it’s valuable but a lot less critical.
The amount of terrible advice on here is amazing.

First crucial advice: don’t take financial advice off the internet from a group mostly made up of people who have never had a million dollars or more to invest. Ask people who can show you they’ve got millions more than you and have had them for years through ups and downs..

Second: there are a gazillion factors that goes into making solid investing advice; what’s your current living situation, what’s your 5 year outlook, 10 year outlook, ambitions in life (wanna retire soon or you’re planning to work and just have this as a long term nest egg), what’s your appetite for risk, do you need the money in the next 10 years (at all!), if you invested in something and markets suddenly crashes and your invest was suddenly worth 500k, what would you do, hang on and ride it out or sell? .. and on and on.

What matters is simple long term low cost investments, and then not touching shit no matter what happens. Hell, just buy cheapest sp500 index etf (vanguard or ishares or similar) and hang on for 20 years and you’ll be in extremely good shape.
Nice.

I'm still dreaming of a world where Rust had Nim syntax.
I took it back as it was mine to begin with ...

Myyy preccccccciiiouuuussss
There are many mechanics in commercial agreements; they amount on average to similar outcomes. It’s all rent whether it is a percentage of the till or a fixed cost over a term; where the landlord raised costs upon renewal as the business value rises.
Side Note: Judging from Real World examples, the next stage of this so called payment processing ( or what ever you like to call it, rent, Slotting fees etc ) will be to prolong the receivables / payment terms to 60 or may be even 90 days. ( These long term payment are not unusual in many other industries, in some cases it is in fact the norm )

It wont happen now, but in later stage of the cycle where they fail to find new sources of revenue or profits.

One good thing with the current 45 days terms is that customer can ask for Refund of the past 30 days and Apple generally are pro customers. In the Mobile Gaming, Pay to Win Gaming Industry this gives tremendous power to the players / customers, especially those "whales" ( as they are called, meaning heavy / top spenders ) could threaten for refund. But there are also group of people who abuse this system and Gaming Developers have no way to appeal, it is literally Apple took away their's revenue. ( And it is even worst if those people sold their account before the Refund )

I still see Gaming, being 80% of App Store Revenue should be a separate store with separate set of rules. We cant have one size fit all solution to the App Store. And Apple needs to work better to help both its customers and developers.
All true, but there’s such a massive library of content for Flash that they must have done _something_ right. Maybe it was just luck, maybe timing, but it’s amazing to me that so many games and videos are caught in this particular technical dead end. My understanding is that HTML5 just never offered the same primitives for content creation, but I’m unsure why there was no economic incentive to create them.
Malls can and will police stores for inappropriate merchandise and displays.
Nobody wants to change that, it's a hidden cartel.
A lot of restaurants would probably prefer a contractual split, actually, assuming there is no base fee. If the rent price scaled up and down depending on demand, you’d see more openings and less closings.
I've given it a homepage now, made it publicly accessible and am streaming it on twitch

http://bootstra386.com/~hn/
Did you know that the Linux kernel has a bug that makes CPU limits for containers extra costly?

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/512ac999d2755d2b710...

If I recall correctly you need 4.18+ to get the fix.
That's not true, geoblocking of digital goods is only illegal in the EU if you differentiate between different member states. Blocking all of the EU is fine.

If you want to read the whole regulation, it's here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...
The phone company isn’t market making. They aren’t aggregating and organizing buyers.
Get the current school textbook and start reading...
> You still have to trust both

Yes, you can never 100% get rid of some trust, but it does not mean that you should give up and verify nothing. The more you (are able to) verify, the more secure you are.
Tis gonna be a problem for batman or nah?
Cancel Adobe without paying the cancellation fee
Just to be totally clear this isn’t an article bemoaning Adobe, but a loophole I found which could help folks that feel like they were duped into a situation and they can’t really afford to get out of it.
How do I develop a new store inside Roblox?
Modern public health (which is sanitation essentially) was rolled out across the UK much earlier than anywhere else.

It is perhaps a mark of public health's incredible success that both replies think I was talking about the NHS.

Also, Bismarck invented the modern industrial state long before anyone else had realized this stuff was important.
I wouldn't be surprised if inside individual companies there are people aware of that and of the impact increasing women's salaries would have on their bonuses, so, it could be characterized as a conspiracy.

On the other hand, reading the (secret) minutes of the last (secret) meeting of Men International Organization, which was held on quantum encrypted holochat (a tech we got from the Roswell crash), there was no discussion on this matter.
What C.E.O.s Are Worried About
Users don’t buy APIs. There are a small number of first party apps but iOS and Android provide considerable functionality specifically for developers.
He was rightly proud of his UK road safety TV ads, his catchphrase is permanently etched in my memory:

"I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the green cross code".

For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRUBMBi_lp4
No one sad a Roblox competitor. A Roblox store competitor. That seems the same situation as the ios app store.
> it seems like you’re saying there’s absolutely no correlation whatsoever between availability of tests to the general public and the accuracy of the announced R number for the general public.

Depends what you mean by accuracy, whether that's bias or uncertainty. If you're talking about bias, then I agree with the above statement. My estimate of the mean bias in published R estimates is zero. (Possibly on a logarithmic scale :-)

But if you're talking about uncertainty and not bias, then in general more data is better provided its biases are known, but it's hard to say that focusing tests on a subset of the population reduces certainty. In a mathematical sense, to minimise uncertainty from sampling estimates if you have a fixed number of samples but a choice about which situations to assign them to, you want to focus more testing on the situations which provide the highest information content. That is not necessarily the same as spreading them evenly through the population in an unbiased manner.

I think what you may be misunderstanding, and therefore misrepresenting, is the idea that a combination of statistically sampled tests (ONS) plus biased targeted tests (NHS, key workers, Test & Trace etc) results in "skewed" or more misleading R estimates than just the statistically sampled tests (ONS) by themselves. I think that's unlikely.

I'm assuming the data is combined by competent professional statisticians.

Assuming they are competent, the likelihood of any biases due to NHS sampling that you or I might think of not having already been evaluated by the statisticians is negligible.

So, provided the bias can be estimated, combining data from multiple sources tends to reduce uncertainty rather than introducing bias in a particular direction.

That's why I say my personal "estimate of mean bias" is zero. Published R may by higher or lower than true R, and we can take it for granted it will be off by some amount and constantly (and retroactively) revised with new data, which is fair enough for estimations, but I have no basis on which to assume corrected results are more likely to have bias in one direction or the other.

A nice feature of having two or more kinds of sampling is that intentionally-randomly-sourced data (ONS) acts as an "anchor" on the interpretation of non-ONS data, allowing raw biases from various sources to be estimated and adjusted for, uncertainties to be estimated too, while at the same time trends (such as over time) remain trackable with the higher statistical power that comes from larger numbers of samples.

In other words, a bit of the best of both worlds. And since r and R are trend parameters, that's quite helpful.
One of These Pictures Is the Brain, the Other Is the Universe. Which Is Which?
from nim-lang/nim/nim/scanner.pas

// This scanner is handwritten for efficiency. I used an elegant buffering
// scheme which I have not seen anywhere else:
// We guarantee that a whole line is in the buffer. Thus only when scanning
// the \n or \r character we have to check wether we need to read in the next
// chunk.

Turbo Pascal uses the same buffering scheme, see

https://turbopascal.org/processing-source-line-characters

Turbo Pascal though needs the crlf within the first 128 bytes otherwise the compiler quits with an error „Line too long".
> “you do have it easy”

> “you’re very fortunate”

So it’s lucky to be an entrepreneur in the US particularly if you immigrate. I think GP was more interested in having opportunities like: managing a franchise after going on a course someone else funded, starving your family and working them for no money without retribution, throwing caution to the wind re customer hygiene to save a few cents on coffee stirrers, and being able to buy any business whatsoever with 1 year’s worth of donut-shop-manager money.

The only thing this guy did on his own was fritter away other people’s money to get “high”, and try to kill himself when things looked bad for him personally. He’s a pitiful man who has exploited those around him only to end up back in the dirt where he belonged.

Of course he went into politics.
Our company’s distributor for B2B physical products takes about 50%. For products that we just buy and sell rather make ourselves we have about a 40% margin. This is all quite normal.

Additionally in my industry about 80% of the value chain is taken by the retail outlets. 30% would be pretty awesome for us.

30% is way less than a lot of other industries pay to have their products distributed to a market full of waiting buyers. I’ve read that writers of books only get about 10%.
I'd be interested to hear how this compares with Mastodon[0] -- based on a quick look, they seem very similar.

[0]: https://joinmastodon.org
Adding the "Raspberry Pi" clickbait also sounds like a smear attempt to me. We already have enough of the "let's restrict general purpose computing because bad people" narrative.
That explains why in many gacha games, a refund leads to an immediate ban. Always thought that was too harsh.
> It's okay to make jokes and its okay for them to be about real things that happen.

Yes but not in a business context. Quote from a random law firm:

“Sexual jokes are not merely inappropriate in the workplace — they can constitute sexual harassment.”

Source: https://www.thearmstronglawfirm.com/sexual-harassment/sexual...
Haha, very nice. I half-expected a stream of a camera just pointing at the box, but this is obviously better.
Poisson distribution is a special case of the Binomial
I'm pretty sure anyone that used a computer for a while deleted a file on accident before having made a backup...
We recently performed a large study on fragmentation on the NTFS file system [1]. On NTFS, we found that slightly over a quarter (26.8%) of FLV files were fragmented.

So if EXT4 performs similarly, it would be far more common not to have fragments.

[1] http://www.open.ou.nl/hjo/papers/di20.pdf
(Paper accepted but conference and therefore publication delayed due to corona)