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What is not being considered here at all is that different sciences are different.

First, you have purely theoretical sciences. "Math" (even though quite a bit of these disciplines are actually not quite in math, but in physics, economics, philosophy or computer science. There's others). Obviously they're not just replicate-able, they would never get published if they weren't. Furthermore replicate-ability is absolute, because it's theoretical.

Then you have positivist sciences. Essentially Physics and Chemistry. These are sciences where you can actually experiment, and therefore you can have bounds (like the 5/6 sigma bound in Physics). Replicate-ability is not absolutely guaranteed like in Maths, but it's going to work.

Then you have statistical sciences, like medicine, climate science, experimental economics where due to practical limitations (need actual people that might die as a result of the study, we don't have many test-planets, ...) the number of examples is extremely limited, and in general, far more limited than the complexity of the system would require according to actual statistics.

So replicate-ability is going to take a further BIG hit.

And then you have the sciences where we are studying the existence of a phenomenon in the first place. Biology, social sciences, psychology, political sciences, language studies, parts of experimental economics. In these sciences something gets studied because it exists. We study Siberian tigers, because they exist. We read Hamlet because it exists. Replication ? What do you even mean ? Replicate-ability is essentially zero, and everything is just based on judgement of famous characters.

Add to that that quite a few of these sciences (social sciences, political sciences, English) are up-front biased. They start from the point that they want to find/push X. This can be a value system, a way of thinking, or even spelling or grammar. Needless to say, these studies can be criticized from a neutral perspective.

But critically, thinking about it, you will realize: it would not make sense for social studies or English studies to be neutral.

The further you move down the line, the less the demands of the field on replication are, and the more problems replicate-ability has.

And yes, by the time you hit social studies, the norm is far past the point where a physicist would be fired for scientific fraud.

That does not make social sciences useless, it just means that people's evaluation of scientific results needs to go deeper than "oh scientist said X" (or even "consensus is Y").
People will no doubt argue over why this is, but to me it seems readily traceable to Trump's implementation of classic Keynsianism:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/john-maynard-trump-preside...

Traditional ideological Republicans hate this, but given a choice between ideological consistency and power Republicans will pick power every time.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/20/donald-trum...

Is this tax cut for the rich accidentally a populist measure? Is that why the labour market is growing but wages aren't rising?
> Anecdotally, I am far from alone among my friends and family in perceiving that Amazon's quality, reliability and customer service have degraded sharply in recent years.

You can add me to that list. I've had an Amazon account since 1998, and I'm at a point where I use it only as a measure of a last resort.

Nevertheless, Amazon revenue from retail business [1] over the past few years is way up, suggesting that our position seems to be a minority one.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/672747/amazons-consolida...
The neutron stars were orbiting each other very fast to make the gravity waves. After they collided the gravity waves stopped and light waves were produced.
> The link to the far-right seams scary too, thanks for sharing.

Point is, the far-right/fascism/nazi ideology always thrives when social safety nets are being dismantled or are no longer existing. The rise of Hitler, for example, was based on him blaming the Jews for Germany's messed up economy (when it was the insane reparation load of WW1 that caused the economy situation), the rise of Trump was and is based mostly on rednecks blaming the loss of their jobs on immigrants (instead of climate change rendering e.g. coal superfluous plus decades of dismantling every social system the US has), and the rise of the AfD in Germany is based on the SPD dismantling the social safety net over a decade ago as well as stagnation in wages over the same time, which of course the AfD blames immigrants for...
Don’t ask me to defend the American healthcare system in any way. I just don’t see how poor customer service should be blamed on the government rather than the company, or seen as a sign that the current model is incurably broken.
Anyone considering a “developer #1” position at a (presumably pre-money, low valuation) company is well-advised to insist on pre-exercising their options to avoid exactly this conundrum. You should even be able to get the cost covered with a signing bonus, since the company will get the cash right back. Then you can quit any time and keep all your vested shares, with no tax consequences. Worked out swell for me. Consult a real tax attorney, of course.
Those two issues were caused by Canonical and AMD.

The wlan driver was when they decided to replace the proprietary one by the FOSS variant, without taking care feature parity was achieved first.

The other one when AMD replaced their drivers, but the new open source one for older cards doesn't provide 1:1 feature parity with their former one, thus preventing the same level of hardware acceleration and OpenGL support.

In both cases the only solution is to dig out old unsupported kernel versions.
You're dismissing supply and demand a little too quickly with a broad stroke.

When it comes to workforce, the supply is directly related to the supply of people able to do a job. Across the entire country, a job that requires little to no training to do will enjoy a much larger supply of workers than a job that requires more skill and experience.

Then there are other factors that essentially cap wages by limiting the cost of a service, such as insurance. Auto insurance, for example, largely dictates the compensation level for repairs and consistently gets tighter and tighter. This means that no matter how effective you are as a mechanic, the business paying you has a limit on how it defines your value because it can't opt to simply charge more for your work.

This applies to other industries as well.

If wages are the "price" in the supply/demand formula, price fixing has to be taken into account.
Kde 1 through 3 were excellent. There's still a fork of Kde 3 kept up to date by the Trinity project:

http://www.trinitydesktop.org/

For me, I've found Xfce to be decent and modest (what Gnome, Unity, and modern Kde Plasma are not.) But I wouldn't mind giving the old Kde 3 / Trinity a new try.
Several key highlights for me here: (de)politicisation of, and power dynamics of finance. Attacking trust in institutions. And this:

Financial crises foment authoritarianism. In 2015, a trio of German economists studied financial panics in 20 advanced economies dating back to 1870, and concluded that they almost always result in major gains for “far right” political parties after a lag of a few years. The most pressing question for policymakers facing a banking meltdown is not, “How do we restore our banks to profitability?” but, “How can we prevent social collapse?”
France tried to reduce working hours to 35 hours, hoping to create jobs : it didn't go well
Google's Chinese Search Prototype Logs Phone Numbers, Hides Pollution Data
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I'm curious, did any company ever contributed overall to a society in your opinion?

"extremely poor pay and conditions for Amazon's workers" Where should Amazon magically create this money from? It can only come at the expense of customers.

"so typically Amazon is unlikely to be a net job-creator."
That's a net positive. Less work, the same job done. Making more work is easy, just let people throw rocks from one pile to the other and back again.

"Tax = vital public and social services for citizens, so that's a big net negative."
They may not contribute by not paying taxes, but 0 contribution is not negative contribution.
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I said nothing about other cultures - I was only speaking for myself
I'm pretty sure someone clever could form a proof which links the solution to the golden ratio somehow, unfortunately that clever person isn't me.
Isn't everything you describe rather demonstrating the point though?

A business that is large enough to generally not care any more. To not care about the fakes, the deliberately poor search that promotes crap every single time, the increasingly hostile policies, the increasingly hostile way things are offered. The promotion of horrible ideas like "global store" that will hold some indeterminate amount in anticipation of customs fees and intl delivery, but not let you exclude it from all search and choose local products only.

No business that felt customer reactions actually mattered would do the things you describe intentionally with the possible exception of pricing (and Amazon should be able to be cheapest most of the time).

These are all styles of doing business prior to a major readjustment. Tesco before the recession and before they lost a chunk of customers to Lidl and Aldi - half of whom will never go back as they discovered that Aldi are better than Tesco as well as cheaper.

Personally I already reached a point where Amazon are way down the list of choices to shop from.

Amazon's time will come, but right now they, or perhaps just Bezos - who knows, don't believe it will.
I wish people would stop spreading this myth and actually follow current science when calling out biological difference between women and men. Testosterone does not cause or create aggression. The link between testosterone has the same root as the link between emotional instability and estrogens, which is deeply seated into gender roles and gender discrimination.

Consistently when people look at aggression the same findings pops up. Men more likely to engage physical aggression, women are more likely to engage low-risk aggression, and women and men show to be equally likely to engage in verbal aggression. Unless Linus goes around and are physical violent with fellow developers then his gender has nothing to do with it.

Take a look at this nice lecture from a professor of biology, neurology and neurological sciences (https://youtu.be/2bnSY4L3V8s?t=30m17s). Recent studies into testosterone levels has shown that it has no relation to initiating aggression in both men and women. What it did find is that different level of testosterone impact how much of an defense behavior is triggered in response to social status threats. An interesting fact is that higher level of testosterone in women actually have a bigger impact compared to men, but men on average showed a larger response.

That might sound like aggression but here is the deal. If you create a social structure which rewards cooperation and social status is maintained through non-aggressive behavior then testosterone is correlated to lower aggression. That mean that it should tell you a lot about the community or company if testosterone correlate to aggression.
Have you been in the position to receive criticism from Linus?
Disclamer: working at OVH.

both right and wrong.

Yes we provide fully automated services and it's out goal.

We have three levels of service support. One that is free (hotline, email, social, ...) and one where you can subscribe VIP support, and one where you can have a dedicated technical account manager. (Maybe we're not good at communicating)

For this example, if there is an issue with a DDoS profile, we are able to adjust it given you're workload. Most common use cases are not causing issues. Keep in mind that a "VPS" is not really something you should use for business because it has shared resources and very small sizing. This is probably why your workload was identified as suspicious on the DDoS side. Instead you should pick a cloud instance : more sizing choices and dedicated resources.
> This seems to be on par with psychology and medicine.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

This Wikipedia article does not state that around 40 % of the experiments in psychology and medicine are not reproducible.

Out of 45 medical studies: "16% were contradicted by subsequent studies, 16% had found stronger effects than did subsequent studies [...]". This not conclusive given the very small sample, but even if we set aside this, the non-replicated would be 16 % (no partial replication) or 32 % (no exact replication). Another factor of incertitude is that some of the 45 studies were not challenged, and we don't know why.

Out of 100 studies in psychology, "studies in the field of cognitive psychology had a higher replication rate (50%) than studies in the field of social psychology (25%)". Again, each of these rates in very uncertain, considering the sample size is around 50.

It seems that replication rate is around 70 % with medicine studies, 50 % in cognitive psychology, and under 30 % for social psychology. Economy, with a replication rate of 60 %, would do much better than psychology overall.
I remember reading an article (which I unfortunately can’t remember the title of) whose thesis was that there are two types of economic crisis, major and minor; that minor crises happen fairly often (every 8 to 15 years or so), while major crises happen every… I think it was 40 to 80 years; and all the major crises are followed by radical political transformation. French Revolution, replacement of the Tsars with communism, fall of the Whigs and the UK’s Liberal party, the end of the Weimar Republic, the fall of the Soviet Union, that sort of thing.

It furthermore claimed that the major political upheaval only became apparent at the next minor economic crisis, because political scenes reacts to a major or a minor crisis by switching between two dominant schools of thought, and once both schools of thought are shown to be incapable of dealing with the situation, society forces them to be replaced with a different dichotomy.

This certainly pattern-matches what’s going on in the UK at the moment. I’m not sure about the USA — although most of the Americans I know think poorly of Dem and Rep alike, that’s a massive sampling bias on my part because my American partner is a volunteer for the Green Party.
He didn't mean to direct it at a person, but he used a language that everybody would understand as statement directed at a person. And he is apologizing for the fact that he didn't realize that.
What people call "salaries" does not include employer cost of benefits. For instance, US health care spending grew 4.3% in 2016 [0]. Since many employers cover health care in the US, a growth in health care expenditures on the employer side can be seen as a increase in salary. And since health care benefits is a disproportionate amount for low or middle income workers, this will hamper their wage growth the most in relative terms.

In other words, if 25% of your "pay" is health care, and health care is growing at 4%, your effective "salary" can be said to be growing at 1% as long as your premiums and coverage stay the same.

[0] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Papers Please doesn't belong with the others you mentioned.
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>This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as "which government decided what" and "which spokesperson of some organisation said what when".

That's only true when the coverage consists of retelling such basic facts, but that's a small part of what journalists do.

Anyone with knowledge of international events and affairs can spot all kinds of errors, omissions, and plain falsehoods when articles cover such topics -- just as well as one does when it comes to say physics or computer science.

>Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies.

Most journalists and press agencies cater to the lowest common denominator. There are press sources that go far deeper [1] but those are not what people usually read for their "news".

For science, for example, you can go directly to the journals and hardcode scientific outlets. For most regular news you can go directly to the wire services, read accounts from people on the ground, and read deeper outlets with more analysis than mass market newspapers like the NYT.

[1] Even if they introduce a certain delay on the news (which in most cases is irrelevant, it's not like anybody will need to act immediately upon some news regarding foreign affairs for example).
For those interested, I cannot recommend enough the Infocom collection on the iPad, if I remember correctly for less than 10 bucks you get 30+ adventures, including manuals, all conveniently packaged and accessible.
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> Of course, but it's a start and a symbolic gesture.

In Germany, they say: "'Gut' ist das Gegenteil von 'gut gemeint'" ("'Good' is the opposite of 'well-intentioned'"; I am aware that the pun does not translate well into English).
Yeah, it’s been weeks since the last design leaked before the great reveal!
LendInvest raises $39.5M to grow its P2P property finance platform
Can we do a better job while saying “Thank you” to those who donate?
The cost of excessive politeness can be that the person doesn't get the message. I've seen people waste hours on the wrong problem because the person giving feedback was overly polite, and also things just reach an impasse with no progress made because everyone's being too polite to point out the elephant in the room.

I think a better word is "respectful." You can be direct and blunt, as long as you're respectful.
Sometimes it’s not the programmer’s fault, but they’ll always be scapegoated
The discussion about how many dimensions "really" exist is pointless because there is no other way to define "real" than to define it as the reality that I experience. And I experience 3 dimensions.

Physics is a collection of models expressed as formulas, plus recipes of how to translate these formulas to the reality that we experience.

If I have a formula with 5 dimensions in it that tells me how to build a teleporter then that's great but it doesn't change the fact that the world that I experience is 3 dimensional in space.
I thought it was influenced by Lord of the Rings. I guess the name just shows up a lot.
Self reflection and redirection are one of the most important traits that lead to personal growth.

Great job Linus
> When you are doing something no one else has done before

Leading people?

Fair enough, he ceated something remarkable, but at the end of the day people have been leading others for literally millennia. So I'm not willing to cut him slack on that account.

(Having said that, I'm deeply impressed by the step he took in that email, and did it publicly)
Kimberly would be another of those names. My forklift supervisor was a burly but friendly fella named Kimberly, or just Kim for short.
A very common name also has its problems. Large chances of being compared to peers with the same name for example.
Who's the guilty party does not really matter, it's crummy either way
Microsoft making progress towards IPv6-only
More and more couples are reportedly divorcing over Fortnite
They are frequently comorbid and have large symptomatic overlaps, and genetic studies hint at a shared cause, but beyond that little is certain about their relationship. The mainstream view does not currently regard them as the same disease, although it has been proposed.

Sensory sensitivity issues in autistic-spectrum disorders are common (and can go either way, i.e. over- and under-sensitive).
I prefer it when Typescript tries to provide static type checking for Javascript rather than providing checking for how they wish Javascript was. `(x: number, y: string) => x == y` is an error because 'this condition will always return false'. In what language? There are linter rules for enforcing === over ==; Typescript having incorrect type definitions to try and make sure you only use == like === seems like a really poor solution to that.
As developers, we should stop creating robotic error messages in software
The reason major media is considered authoritarive is because it has to reach the widest audience possible. The fact that you’re visitig NH probably implies you are already in the top 10% bracket in terms if your earnings; which probably also implies you have access to more information.

If major newspapers wrote in the language like of Foreign Policy - people wouldn’t read it. So what is authoritative? Authoritative for the ingelligencia, or authoritative for the masses?
It’s plus 25%, not 20, since you’d make 5/4 the pay.
>> more choice and competition

What competition?
Purely anecdotal: I feel like it used to mean 9-5, and somewhere in there you'd have lunch. These days I think it's more of a (misnomer) term for 8 hours of on-the-clock work, and most people are expected to go something like 8:30 - 5:30.
Ask HN: Who will need an email text classifier and why?
I wanted to build an AI email text classifier that could tell you the different intents and entities any email has. How useful will such a tool be for you in your day to day business activities? What particular use cases would you want me to prioritize? What are the actionable insights you would want to uncover from the email?
> they go with the option that won't sue them.

Well, if your infrastructure explodes like that bridge in Italy, then the survivors will sue... it's gambling, just with lives at stake.

Governments (worldwide) should be forced to a different accounting model - where maintenance for everything they build (infrastructure) or buy (IT software!) over the lifetime has to be budgeted for. No more expensive nutjobs like Olympic Games which will be unmaintainable after the single use...
Which outlets pass your filter?
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The bigger issue than finding your passion is having a passion that's productive in some way in the first place.

I am extremely passionate about video games. I follow several game developers, personalities, series and commentators, and I, of course, play several of them any given week. I enjoy my time spent playing video games, and don't see myself growing out of them anytime soon.

Nobody would call this passion very productive.

I am lucky enough to be passionate about programming as well. I've been able to turn it into a career, I'm able to find enjoyment in it outside of work, and I find fulfillment in what I do at work. That is the sort of passion people want to find, but I imagine not everyone's lucky enough to have a "productive" passion. It's a small wonder I ended up discovering mine, considering my first encounter with programming. I set out to make a game in Adobe Flash, using ActionScript, and had almost no guidance. It was a pain. Only after deciding to study Computer Science some 7 years later did I find enjoyment in programming, and only after getting proper tutelage. Not only can passions be hard to find, but they're also easy to overlook!
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my favorite MS anecdote: PC Magazine gave a beta 2k install on a CD. I tried it, and it was such an improvement over 98 that I never installed anything else until XP was a ~requirement (mostly a convenience because it embedded more and more recent drivers)
That becomes the decision of the acquiring company. Why would they do that?