skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is the way they blithely mention some statisticians prefer to use other methods, with a list of examples, that suggests they are blessing them. Surely these other methods ought to be scrutinized, we don't know they wold detect irreplication as significance tests do. The big issue is really all about using frequentist methods with biasing selection effects, multiple testing, cherry-picking, data-dredging, post hoc subgroups, etc. Only problem is that many who espouse the "other methods" declare that these data-dependent moves do not alter their inferences. Some are vs adjustments for multiplicity, & even deny error control matters (This stems from the Likelihood Principle.) If you consider the ASA guide as allowing that (in tension with principle 4 vs data dredging when it comes to frequentist methods) then the danger the authors mention is real. What was, and is, really needed is a discussion about whether error control matters to inference.
Thanks Walt, looks very interesting.
Even as a Christian, I don't think it goes one way or the other particularly, for me at least. To me, the strengths and weaknesses of his argument are in the article itself.

The main strengths I see in it are the observations regarding physics and the limitations of observation.

The weakness I see in it is the author's straw-man assumptions about theism (that a creator must be loving, and that a loving creator cannot allow suffering or evil, for instance) and his failure to dig deeper into potential criticisms against his own model such as:

1. Where did the universe come from? "Always been" or "created itself" or even "emerged from primordial chaos" are all functionally equivalent to the theism answer.

2. By what means does the universe exert agency on the constants of physics? One might ask whether the constants of physics are not actually more fundamental than the universe itself, such that other hypothetical universes would necessarily share the same constants, although the article seems to assume that these constants are only true for this universe (or perhaps some subset of all universes like ours as opposed to all universes).

3. If it does exert control over these constants, would we not expect these constants to have changed over time rather than be, well, constant? If we do expect them to have changed, does this not make things like astronomy fairly dicey since we don't necessarily have guarantees that, e.g. the constant speed of light is/was the same at some distant point we're observing, in the time at which we're observing it?

4. Where did the principles come from that led the universe to achieve whatever degree of consciousness it's ascribed? Again, leaving this question as a "well, it just did" feels very much like theism by another name to me.

So I guess I find it interesting that the author is leaning towards something that seems very deity-like as a result of physics, but am bothered by my sense that he's unwilling to call a spade a spade.
Especially with ExcelDna, it's hard to make an argument for using VSTO. And even with ExcelDna (i.e., an xll written in F#\C#), I find there are still niche areas where vba is effective, particularly when working with the Excel object model. The split I like is to have vba orchestrate interactions with the object model, Sheets, Books, Ranges, Range.Find(), etc. So for example, have your F#\xll code parse "60d" into the last 60 trading days, and then use vba to select those days in Excel's autofilter.
I did notice that the rate at which I have to return unsatisfactory products from Amazon seems to have shot upwards in the last year or so. Obviously a hassle.

I've now gone back to getting what I can locally in most cases.
You need a good startup lawyer.
You're already in extremely risky territory by having co-founders and no formal agreements between you.

You're unlikely to find that the bank makes much difference either way. You may want to try a regional bank with local branches, as you sometimes get more personalized service that way.
I agree with what you're saying on the advantages of Linux. I want it to be awesome. I love all the customization and the fact that I don't need to worry about the bad decisions of some company affecting my desktop experience (e.g. the awful mac touchbar with its persistent Siri button), but right now there are so many quality of life problems that the experience is sort of ruined for me.
l1am0, did you consider abiword for a simpler word processor?
I'm consulting on a micro services back end right now with mostly prior experience with monoliths. What is the selling point that drives companies down this direction? It's insane, and my client keeps trying to hire new developers and bring on more consultants to build this thing, but the amount of knowledge required is more than any one person can handle. I have similar issues with their choice of db (nosql) and its inflexibility.
So this comes down to "After I switched my parents to Linux, they don't want to talk to me any more"...
When you spot the horrible spaghetti code while watching a movie
Thanks Zerr. I downloaded it a few days ago.
Because it is assumed that the lowest white collar wages are in India.
The web is currently the most popular client.
At least they have the real code and terminal on the screens instead of beeping 3D shit.
Amazon's counterfeit problem seems like something they're not taking seriously enough. For a laser printer or a lamp, sure -- I'll buy from Amazon and deal with the return if I ever get screwed. But for climbing gear, of which I've bought quite a bit of, I simply won't touch Amazon. I haven't heard of counterfeit (versus obvious trash, which exists but is different) climbing goods on Amazon, but I simply can't risk it.
I was recommended Stephen from a colleague and now I've also enjoyed Stephen Grider's courses. I also really like them and his style! So far I've only done Vue JS essentials and Complete React Native. If I could be selfish for a moment I wish he would do at least one more Vue course with some more advanced concepts and tackling managing a large project with Vue.
I've always been a little unclear on the barriers between Handbrake and its dependencies. Does Handbrake maintain custom forks/patchsets that get applied to ffmpeg, etc.? I knew Handbrake as a GUI for ffmpeg, and in my research, I have come across one or two things that implied there was something unique about their backend that wasn't yet upstream, but ultimately not much else.

Since you're familiar with the project's development, would you mind clearing some of this ambiguity up for me? Thanks.
No updates for 5 years including security updates?
The fact that the first hundred or so comments here are just talking about problems with Netflix is a perfect illustration of a generational disconnect.

The article is about fortnite becoming a leading entertainment category. This has far more to do with fortnite success than Netflix failure.
The startup I work for, Masse[0], is attempting to solve this issue. More or less a platform for product reviews with a social network component to see exactly who is recommending a product.

I've written a little about it here [1][2].

[0] https://masse.app/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18441347

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/fsharp/comments/9wpw84/introducing_...
I think it is the different set of Interest that sets them apart.

BBC being funded by tax payer's money compared to US for profits company where they have incentive to not cut off their series with many viewers?
The OS.

I love Amigas. I still have two: a 1000 and a 2000HD.

The OS, yes even System 6, was more user-friendly than Workbench. It also looked better. Workbench was made to be compatible with televisions and it shows. Being made with TV output in mind may have helped it find a niche in multimedia but niches are risky sectors to run businesses in.

I don’t think native networking, of any kind whatsoever, was supplied with AmigaOS until version 3. By then Commodore was on its deathbed.

In 1985 you could buy a few Macintoshes, a LaserWriter, some cables, and one large external hard disk drive and someone who had never, ever, touched a computer before could set up multiple desktop publishing workstations, a shared networked printer, and a file server.

This was impossible on the Amiga, and PCs for that matter.
"The problem you describe is mostly because of hardware."

Which does not change the fact that they are still problems - no matter how unfair it is and how little the Linux-Community is to blame for it.

I used Linux on many different machines - and sadly I can confirm lots of problems with hardware.
Standby/Resume, etc.
With more complex project there’s benefits of having purely updatable components, the support of just native JS without quirks and knowing exactly what’s happening and when without black magic.

But if course it always depends on the project which way is better.
That’s a huge case of “six of one, half a dozen of the other.” You could strangle a microbe on the difference between God and Simulators.
Dang. I wish I had my SRE Wiki up and running already, or I'd add a "public postmortems" section.
Gut Bacteria Protects Against Food Allergies
sometimes even double clicking has to be discussed
Obligatory read: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-which-i-fix-my-girlfr...
It might be worth mentioning that unblocking the sites should be setup to be difficult or bothersome. It probably wont help much if you just need to hit a shortcut key to unblock them or even just a command you can pull from history.

An idea to make it more difficult might be to setup a firewall on a separate device (that's linking your computer and your uplink) and maybe setup authentication to that device to require a yubikey or even just a flash drive with an key inside. That way you must do the physical act of pulling out that key if you want to unblock those sites.

Wherever you put that key, try to forbid yourself from reaching for it.
Never log into any of your personal accounts on your work machine.

If your work and personal computers are one and the same, create a different user account for work.
Like the body of water in a puddle that is amazed that the universe produced a depression in the ground that exactly fits its form and size. How unlikely. Surely it is proof the universe was made for its benefit?
I used CDE on Linux for few weeks on laptop (IIRC only weirdness involved in building it was Imake, which makes sense for pre-X.org X11 related stuff).

It works perfectly for the same values of "works" and "perfectly" as on commercial unices. In other words it is in the middle between lightweight WM and full desktop environment, mainly because there aren't any applications that meaningfully integrate with CDE apart from all the dt* stuff (text editor, terminal, calculator...) included with CDE distribution and for the CDE's design to be meaningful you really want CDE applications that integrate with it's object model and not just plain X applications, otherwise it is only somewhat mis-designed window manager.
New Orleans Saints vs. LA Rams FREE: Live Stream
https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039638772--OFFICIAL-STREAMS-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-2019-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL-LIVE
https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039638812--GAME-LIVE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-2019-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL-LIVE

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039345691--NFL-LIVE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039346191--GAME-LIVE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-2019-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039639292--LIVE-GAME-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-2019-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039639852--FOOTBALL-LIVE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-2019-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039639912--SAINTS-VS-RAMS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-CHANNELS-NFC-CHAMPIONSHIP-GAME-LIVE-STREAM-NFL-ON-TV-FOOTBALL

https://opensymbol.zendesk.com/hc/it/community/posts/360039346791--NFL-LIVE-NEW-ORLEANS-SAINTS-VS-LOS-ANGELES-RAMS-L-I-V-E-S-T-R-E-A-M-NFL
Doesn't make sense. Consciousness is a survival trait for self replicating agents. The universe doesn't need to survive, and has no external reality to be conscious of.

Consciousness doesn't exist in a vacuum, or for no reason at all. The reason for its existence is that it protects the agent and helps in self replication. We shouldn't expect to find consciousness outside these settings. Maybe AI could be conscious, but it is just copying the architecture and receiving a purpose from outside.

In the case of biological consciousness, the purpose creates the tool. The only self-reliant purpose I know of is self replication, which doesn't apply to the universe.
>In my experience Linux requires a lot more command-line tweaking and such to get basic things working

I don't think that true if you just need a browser, email and an office suite. One key element could be hardware, I still feel like desktops are a better choice than a laptop, in terms of getting everything working correctly.
I don't want to engage with no one in particular.

And You are right, giving Your opinion does not mean it's FUD.

But if You pay attention, you'll see that for some folks here Linux it's never an option or solution they will take and are pretty vocal about it.
The matrix is a simulation of the past (the late 90s) - which is a great film idea because it means even the presence of deep CRT monitors doesn't date the movie - unlike (say) in "Alien", where they do (imo).
That’s not the case with RE:DOM, since you have a single update function to make pure updates.

I usually create a requestAnimationFrame debounce to have just a single render per animation frame.
I think the arrow of good is like the arrow of time. It points in one direction because it has to. The fundamental constants encode a precise and balanced harmony of physics. The article is saying the choosing of the constants is a balanced process. "Good" is anything that contributes to the harmony. If the arrow of good pointed in the other direction, there is no harmony of forces, the constants would be different, and there would be nothing.
I found the original Mac, or the DR GEM icons (e.g. on Atari ST) even more utilitarian (could one call them 'brutalist' ?) and may I say 'pleasant'.

In that vein, sometimes I wish for a desktop that is grayscale except for exceptional highlights (e.g., photos, warnings, ...). I remember that it was a real pleasure to use the Atari SM124 B&W CRT monitor.
one "electronics-free" day a week
I mentioned in Linkedin Tagline that I'm open only for Freelancing Positions or Part-Time Remotely. So, I suggest you do it too.

On Facebook Groups, you faced competition and sometimes clients don't reply to you because Messanger doesn't show you mails not from your friends. They are hidden. So, I don't like it much.
An event-store for JavaScript and Node.js
Linux has had "oops" for ages, though.
Surgery done on animal remotely over a 5G network
Binary Options Israel
How do you do sales?

What are your thoughts on, higher fidelity communication channels have higher closing rates?

Have you read The Challenger Sale? It hanged my perspective on sales as a technical founder
Just in case anyone else was wondering, because it took me some googling: that stands for Art of the Metaobject Protocol.
Sure, but that hardware advantage is something Apple should be able to take advantage of, they worked hard to get it. And I take advantage of it as well. At the end of the day, I just care about my needing to do support and that a computer generally works.

I run Ubuntu on a 2015 and 2017 Lenovo ThinkPad (T450 and T470s) and a desktop I built myself. Interestingly it runs the best on my custom desktop.

I use Ubuntu due to i3. The advantages a solid tiling window manager give me outweigh the drawbacks. But if OSX had a tiling window manager on par with i3 I'd drop Ubuntu in a heartbeat.

EDIT: and just to add, when I run Windows on these machines I don't have any of these problems: suspend works, USB and wifi work, etc. In my experience Windows's main problem is that it still crashes pretty regularly.
Yeah it’s become way faster that’s true! The thing I have with React (and similar) still is that there’s so much black magic happening. I like to be more in control what’s happening and when.

But usually the bottleneck with React apps are state managing libraries, like Redux etc plus all the other bells and whistles.
And Apple logos and icons look cheesy, too.
I agree that it wasn't due to the hardware. It's just that today's hardware has gotten so fast that even Microsoft products seem to run almost smoothly.
Depends if Wine supports the software.

And an easier solution, don't install WINE!
Cold Turkey app has been a huge game changer for me on this front - https://getcoldturkey.com/

Have Reddit and Twitter perpetually blocked for the next 6 months. Hacker news only accessible on weekends.

It’s well worth getting the pro version for scheduled blocking as well. Plus it’s indie software so you get to support a the fantastic developer who built this!
Not just explicit saving, but the whole concept of documents and especially files is disappearing under our noses. Somewhat disconcertingly nobody seems particularly worried that our whole model of computing is shifting away from file-oriented systems. Remember that DOS stands for Disk Operating System, managing files was arguably one of the main functions of it. Now days our data is locked up inside "services" and "apps", not in user-accessible files.
While I don't agree with the article's notion about icons, I think it's true that 1990s UIs, especially Windows and Mac, were particularly productive OSes because they applied not just common UI idioms but standard interactions: Buttons, menus, windows, drag and drop -- everything was largely consistent between each app.

With the web, we had a lot of consistency for a while simply because browsers didn't allow much customization. Initially, all links were underlined, and form buttons had to look exactly like the browser presented them. But then CSS happened and all bets were off. Underlining is largely gone as a UI idiom. It's no longer evident if something is a link or button, whether you can right click and do "open in new tab" (often not possible if the link is not a URL but a JavaScript function), and so on. A "native" app like Slack is all over the place in terms of UI consistency, compared the strictness of the old IBM CUA standard and others. One may be productive within a single app, but not all of the idioms translate to other apps.

I think we're in a transitional phase where we're halfway between old-style GUIs and something more fluid that approximates real life to a greater degree. Consider the "UI" of a kitchen appliance or the packaging of a new iPhone, or a TV remote control, or just a plain old door. Everyday objects vary wildly in what "idiom" is provided to the user. Some doors have a handle, some have a knob, some have a bar you push. We have the same kind of annoying lack of standards and consistency in the real world, though it's usually evident that you can turn a know and push down on a handle.

One can imagine a future where UIs are gesture-based, for example. Think of the 3D UI from Spielberg's Minority Report. Some of these UIs may need to offer completely new way of interacting with objects (grab and make a fist to copy, open your hand wide to paste, or something) that will be difficult to standardize, much like the real world.
The nightmare, of course, being a highly contagious, very deadly disease which let its victims infect others for weeks or months before falling ill themselves.

That’s a very good description of Variola Major, and one reason (along with lethality and disfiguring effects) that it was so terrifying.
Thanks, this list of tools is great!
Technically competent users also value their time and effort though. I don't like complicated install processes; that's independent of whether I'm able to accomplish them or not.
It's probably fairly unknown. I hadn't heard of it until today, although some poking around shows it got some exposure in 2016.

Also, for what question is it exactly the answer? My first impression is:

"I just want to continue to run my Python2 code": it works for that, but I'd probably go for Python 2 as included in e.g. RedHat or Ubuntu LTS versions for now, which will provide security support for a few years more, over a fairly small project with unclear future. Or Google App Engine (which is the main reasons one of the projects I help maintain still supports Python 2)

"I don't want to upgrade to Python3, but still use new features": Tauthon is probably the only solution, but you're now writing software that only works in it. Are you willing to use a fairly niche interpreter for your project, and hope it gets maintained and supported as you need?

"I want to use it to step-by-step migrate to Python3": I'd have to investigate that more, but I'm not sure it provides much more in the way of compatibility than 2.7 does with __future__ flags. In some places there might be an argument that you could get more benefit from new features during that process using Tauthon, but I think you'd still have that final push to switch over at some point.

And for software you ship to customers, depending on the customer set switching to a "weird" (for whatever their IT thinks that is) interpreter isn't really an option.
> democratic and authoritarian alike

Those aren't opposites, they are entirely different concepts. Any law that mandates behavior is authoritarian, which is not inherently good or bad. Are democracies incapable of producing such laws? Criminalizing murder is authoritarian, for example, but unobjectionably desirable. Freedom of speech is actively anti-authoritarian, as an alternative, as it is a restriction placed on the state.
Might I mention my book (Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Science Wars (Mayo CUP)). https://twitter.com/learnfromerror/status/107197020637171302...
I did not know of Hacker news but was trying to trace why my blog errorstatstics.com got its maximal # of hits in over 7 years as a result of my posting their letter on the ASA Statement Now I'll disappear.
For centuries, IP-based goods have had a significant marginal cost.

With the printing press, this cost went down, but it still took a significant effort to create a copy; giving that copy some independent value.

Digital media has practically zero marginal cost. So long as you are connected to someone with data, it is trivial, and practically free to copy that data.

There are efforts (DRM) to fill the void of marginal cost; but they are hacked together, and fundamentally flawed.
That's what I came here to ask. I'd be pleasantly surprised if MS decide to allow redistribution.
Window Maker achieves what OS X tried and failed to emulate.

http://www.windowmaker.org/themes/
Pharmacists warn of a 'surge' in shortage of common medicines
Linux has had everything for ages, and that's kind of its problem, too. Everything that fits in one bin will have a counterpart somewhere that fits in the opposite bin.
Why can't the universe be self-replicating?
This has actually been one of the big perks of Electron.
Convinced my mom to get an iPad Pro, and a keyboard case. She has never been happier.

My dad is a tech savvy, but now that he travels 80% a year for retirement, he prefers an ipad as well (even gave me his macbook pro).
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the citation!
Similar to having a single drink or two. It dulls the brain just enough to remove internal distracting thoughts, but not enough to dull all higher thought functions.
Do Akamai has Servers right in ISP's DC / Network? I know they are within 1 hoops in lots of places, but never heard they are actually inside ISP's network, which is what Netflix OpenAppliance and Google Edge Node has done.