skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The authors of the letter use “induction” to mean what I call a probabilism. Here probability is used to quantify degrees of belief, confirmation, plausibility support–whether absolute or comparative. This is rooted in the old idea of confirmation by enumerative induction. Conclusions of statistical tests go strictly beyond their premises, and it does not follow that we cannot assess the warrant of the inference without using a probabilism. They are qualified by the error probing capacities of the tools.
A claim is severely tested when it is subjected to and passes a test that probably would have found it flawed if it is. The notion isn’t limited to formal testing, but holds as well for estimation, prediction, exploration and problem solving. You don’t have evidence for a claim if little if anything has been done to probe and rule out how it may be flawed. That is the minimal principle for evidence.

Popper spoke similarly of corroboration only he was unable to cash it out. He wasn’t sufficiently well versed in statistics, and anyway, he wanted to distinguish corroboration from induction, as the latter was being used at the time. The same impetus led Neyman to speak of inference as an act (of inferring).
I explain all this in my recent book, Statistical Inference as Severe Testing: How to Get Beyond the Statistics Wars (Mayo 2018,CUP. As I say there,

“In my view an account of what is warranted and unwarranted to infer – a normative epistemology – is not a matter of using probability to assign rational beliefs, but to control and assess how well probed claims are.” (p. 54)
This isn't the case. I can make two hypotheses that are contradictory. Both aren't going to be statistically significant from the same data, no matter how biased my equipment or the size of the sample.
Very well done piece. I'd just add that students can also learn a lot from a person they don't love, if that person happens to be very good at something the student is internally motivated to learn more about.

Someone driven to know more about something will somehow manage to overlook teacher's humanity.

First principle: It's a lot easier to teach someone something once they understand why it's important to them.
cold turkey was a rather good app for doing this on Windows (7) because it didn't allow you to reset your hosts file back until the timer was done (or at least made it really hard).

Rescuetime is also similar but I think it was more of a reporting app than blocking app.

Anyway my addiction was reddit (facebook, twitter never appealed to me in the first place) and my niravan was an openwrt router that my brother gifted me. It had a hosts blocker and i changed the password to unknown. Only way to get back was to do a hard reset and that meant doing umpteen setting up tasks like ppoe, adguard, hosts, etc which made it quite a friction. The only workaround was browsing on 4g and thankfully 4g here is very slow which made browsing ridiculous. Soon the addiction was cured.
I remember that noise. I blame Microsoft more than the hardware. From 1984 to about 1994, Macintoshes were my main computer, and they didn't make noise just for moving the mouse or opening a menu. Later, I ran Ubuntu on a computer that used to run Windows XP. The noise and latency that Windows had, just for opening a menu or folder, were replaced by silence and instant action. (Just to be clear, of course all three had to spin the hard drive when I did something major, like opening a file or program. But Windows is the only one where all interactions were erratic.)
Hey Oren, (I was a few years ahead of you, in Ruddock), you might be interested in my friend’s product I mention below.
Not following what a "principal of balance" is. There is no physical law of nature that is defined like that. Maybe you mean "conservation of mass/energy". Unfortunately, if you think of things like "good" and "evil" as if it was heat, then you've already made a leap of faith. There is no scientific evidence of Karma, or any such effect for the abstract concept of "morality".

For example, you could just as easily imagine a world where, for every "evil" thing that happened, two good things happened in response. There is no evidence to support that either, but there is also no evidence to deny it. We can't observe the entire universe, so it's vacuously unprovable.
The only people I know that uses Skype are people working for large companies and they only use it because their employers tell them to.

I think it has to do with how your countries telcos developed. If phone calls a cheap, why would you care about Skype? WhatsApp, Telegram and other messaging services seem to be popular around the world, but, perhaps because SMS quickly became basically free here, everyone just use that.
It doesn’t. I don’t recommend it.
Not a side project coder but from the anecdata I've read in HN posts and comments, people seem to find their successful side projects from automating some thing from their daily lives - be it something related to their industry or just universal aspects of daily life like commute or cooking.
IMHO this would be less interesting, some people already run other container runtimes such as containerd with Kubernetes (e.g. Datadog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dsCwp_j0yQ) --- so Docker might stay as some user interface for local development, but I would not know what "Docker failures" would be in the future.
autoplaying next episode is an option you can toggle in your account.
Straight salary, base pay.
AFAIK my own memset_s is the only secure one:
https://github.com/rurban/safeclib/tree/master/src/mem
but nobody cares. It was not mentioned at this years CCC talk about memset. Everybody thinks a simple compiler barrier is enough, it is not.

The strncpy truncating problem is widely known: https://www.google.com/search?q=strncpy+truncating+problem

But conceptually the biggest problem is the inability to deal with strings properly at all. You mentioned the iswalpha problem and the need for external libs, but the standard cannot even search for unicode strings properly (no normalization wcsnorm, no wcsfc, no UTF-8 u8 API), ditto sorting needs an API for the unicode version being used. It's relative and changes every year. And every libc is hopelessly behind. The most basic coreutils still cannot search for foreign strings (grep, sort, wc, cut, expand, ...):
http://perl11.org/blog/foldcase.html
https://crashcourse.housegordon.org/coreutils-multibyte-supp...
How many folks on this thread are procrastinating right now?

I know I am, and it's sad.
No, he did not say that. That's an Elon Musk quote.
Hi there! There is a complicated question. I have been using several ways to find a job.

1)Facebook Groups. It's a little bit tough but I had some success there. Groups like Startups Jobs, Jobs in San Francisco, Remote Jobs in Startups etc.

2) Freelance Marketplaces. Upwork (upwork.com), Freelancer (freelancer.com), and Periodix (https://periodix.net/). It's a new service but helps me a lot already. I found this service in Reddit and didn't expect great results. But I found something reasonable for myself and be hired fast.

3) Linkedin. Recruiters write me every day.

4) Local Websites. I check every day local job boards to find a local project. Because it seems faster to be hired.
While I agree with you, it is also a consequence of not doing proper testing.

I have used a couple of native apps that crash on network problems, and in some cases they just vanish from the screen on crash without any OS dialog coming up.

I rather have to deal with mobile web apps than web widgets, specially if I have to code them.
I used to have same problem and I didn't even realize how often I was doing Ctrl+T and 'fa' until I redirected Facebook url in /etc/hosts to a local page which kept the count of number of visits to that page. It's like Reinforcement learning, everytime you hit the fb url, you are instead being shown "not found" and sooner you start thinking that fb is bad.
Honestly, without a way to search content and not just people/hashtags, there isn't an organic way for me to discover people talking about what I'm interested in, so Mastodon just isn't useful out of the gate. It relies on finding a niche community you're interested in out of the gate, and if I wanted to go that route I'd just use Reddit.
perfect example- i do data vis for carbon emissions on volunteer basis. there are lots of oppotunities like that that you could probably get paid a bit to do. email proffs working on cool projects and see if they need some cheap tech help. i repair and sell used electronics on ebay to make some money
We've gone from "the process has performed an illegal operation" and "file not found" to "Oops!" and "we looked everywhere, but..."
KDE is nice because of its configurability. You can make behave like Gnome or Windows or something else if you like.
I think the suggestion that lengthy arguments in the philosophy of mind are attempting to short-circuit scientific progress is a bit uncharitable.

There is a small minority of individuals on both sides that seem to want to slow scientific progress (whether intentionally or not). Now, the vast majority of the time it is presumed people like Searle fit this description. People like Dennett fit this description as well, though. Anyone truly making definitive claims about having resolved the question of (say) conciousness, is not taking the right tack from a scientific perspective.
Age people just coming around that Amazon is atrocious in all facets? I guess marketing does work huh..
I see the images are still broken...

Use the Internet Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20121020031732/http://blogs.valv... which I've also mirrored at https://www.gwern.net/docs/economics/2012-varoufakis-teamfor...
I agree that open core is not ideal if you do it to the extreme as described in the article, but it can be done with moderation to get much more money, which could be invested in the open source part and have it thrive as well, like for example done by Sidekick.

From my experience the alternative support and donations business models don't really work. I'm the initial author and maintainer of Autospotting, a piece of software that saved the users in the millions dollars aggregated over my entire user base, and as much as I tried so far I couldn't get much money out of it.

I'm currently getting about $100 monthly on Patreon for support plans and a few donations here and there but that's nothing compared to the effort I put in it and the value it creates.
poster indicated 5s, which IIRC can run ios12.
On some level you take what you can get.
I've done this for my parents for close to 10 years now. Been able to give them a stable gui environment over the years going from Gnome2 to MATE. Mozilla Suite to Seamonkey to combo Firefox/Seamonkey email client.

Really, the biggest issue is that websites will complain about seamonkey/firefox, saying things like "your browser not supported", "please upgrade your browser", etc.
“Whoever saves one life has saved the world entire.”

The same basic phrase is found in both the Mishnah and the Quran.

Edit: Not that I’m making a religious point, more a philosophical one.
mca.gov.in for India. You can find things like directors, annual filings, financial statements etc.
Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf]
Oklahoma Sooners vs Alabama Crimson Tide 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
That question cannot possibly be answered in any sensible, let alone definitive, way. And even if it could (hypothetically), what would be the consequence? File under “useless speculation”.
Previously you were risking getting your card stolen by a shady seller.

Now you're risking of getting your payment stolen. Bad product/no product delivered could be seen as equivalent to stole payment.

It's an improvement, isn't it?
Ask HN: How much tech degree costs in UK?
Please tell me the whole expense including living cost. Thank you. It's for a friend who wants to become a tech worker.
Dissent and sharing opinions and experience is not a campaign of ‘FUD’.

There is no cabal ganging up to share misinformation on Linux.

Please give more credit to those you disagree with and assume their intentions are like, I presume yours are: to share your opinion and experiences.
Fair point, in my case we're on exactly the same career track/speciality unfortunately.
Exactly. Why not talk about if the universe is the left over feces of a cosmic being? Pointless exercise.

Though to be a bit pedantic under the Popperian way a statement that is actually true is by definition unfalsifiable.

You probably meant that both statements are untestable.
I think it's nostalgia. CDE and Motif were uniquely ugly. I preferred Openwindow (Sunview) so much.
SPAM is any unwanted email, phone call, SMS, or other form of contact.

SPAM is defined by the recipient, not the sender. Thus, if you're trying to justify something as "not spam" by saying it meets or doesn't meet some criteria, then it's probably SPAM.
Yes, but proper, technically superior ways for "data binding" and templating were around since IE6 era, just back then people were not concerned much with doing things properly with javascript as the universal presumption was "if it uses JS it will be slow invariably of amount of efforts put into it."
SecureZeroMemory() is insecure on hyperthreaded systems, and probably on normal SMT systems also. It only uses a compiler-barrier, ensuring that it is not optimized away. This is not secure, it is just a basic precaution against wrong compiler optimizations.

In reality the compiler should know about the libc memset and memzero and refuse to optimize it away, and memset_s/SecureZeroMemory needs a memory barrier.
> If you ask people what’s the most fondly remembered or impressive OS, computer game, word processor, mobile phone, music player, etc., it often is the first one they really used.

I feel like this is an odd statement to make with no data.

I can only speak for myself and my partner, but our current systems hold much more love than anything that came before.

For me i3 on Linux is mature enough to not be intrusive into my life, mpd as a music player and so on.

For my partner, she uses a Mac/iPhone/Apple Watch, and after coming from windows 7 she finds it “much better”, and “I would never go back”

Games are another example. I played hundreds of computer games in my youth, from donkey king on the Commadore64 to rayman on the PlayStation. And my most fondly remembered game is almost certainly grand theft auto: vice city which is a much later title.

I don’t think it smacks true that people love the first thing they learn on. I’m not keen on MS Windows 3.1 today, or MS operating systems in general, in fact quite the opposite.
I think you can also just use telnet to see star wars:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Podman – A Linux tool for working with containers and pods
This is a circular argument.
what they didn’t say is that amazon also created online shopping as we know it today. perhaps created is too strong but certainly they have set the bar. (focused specialty stores like mcmaster aside)

the online shopping experience was theirs to ruin. which they have. i think it’s almost intentional that buying from the marketplace is a crapshoot, usually to be avoided. it’s a win win for amazon.

it’s not surprising that the experience is poor these days. when you are a virtual monopoly that’s what happens. it is surprising that there’s no real competitor taking advantage.
Like a number of others already said: there's probably some underlying problem and addiction is a symptom of it.

To illustrate my point: two years ago my phone died so I figured it would be a good opportunity to wean myself off it(especially given that I couldn't afford a replacement at the time). I spent 9 months without a smartphone only to discover that pretty much all the symptoms of addiction came back once I finally bought one.

In my case the problem was overwork combined with the inability to gather any savings and a somewhat uninspiring work environment.

I started budgeting and switched jobs, which is helping, but there's a long way ahead of me.

Which brings me to another point: it's usually a long process that requires daily work.
How is either statement more true than the claims made by Scientology? Why is it more worth our time to speculate about these statements then it is to speculate about Scientology?
This idea of creating DOM with some API is not new and never really understood it. Just look at the login class, it's way more complex than plain HTML, hard to read and messes with .this.

If you want DOM in your code, JSX is the way to go.
I am holding on to my SE and has been buying phones in the private market to keep a new SE available. I like the form factor size, but would be very keen to get an update processor .
Or in other words, survivorship bias. Of course god is good, otherwise we’d have been killed along with all those other people (who also believed in god).
When it comes to parents, a 'tech support call' is not just a tech support call, it's a chance for them to talk to their kids.
When It's Time to Do Something
> If the point is to preserve their pixellation

The "point" of pixel art-- what makes it so convenient for graphicians, even amateur ones-- is not the blocky appearance (what you call "pixelated" - but in fact these icons did not appear "blocky" on the CRT screens that were in common use at the time!), but to set a uniform constraint on fine detail (and sometimes color depth) within the image, and then to maximize quality while staying within that constraint. It is perfectly consistent to want a means of rendering these images that preserves whatever level of detail was in the original while not introducing blocky artifacts.
Yes, recruiters write me on LinkedIn also but usually hunting me to the full-time positions.

Facebook groups - good idea, thanks I'll check them but I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to define those groups and to find a good job there. What is your experience there?

Thanks for Periodix, looks like something interesting - I've already signed up and it shows pretty good jobs matches for me. Will see if will land a job there soon.
My experience of formal education was that it was a net negative. In my case my mum taught me to read before I started school and I was an avid reader as a kid. All my positive educational memories involved books, my parents or other adults outside of school and later the Internet.

The teacher I have the most positive memories of is the math teacher who told me I wasn't going to learn anything more in his classes and gave me permission to spend them in the library practicing for the exams instead.

Obviously I learned some things in school simply by virtue of having to spend so much time there as a kid. That doesn't mean I couldn't have had a better educational and life experience not going. The fact that I attended an elite university probably helped me getting some jobs early in my career but it wasn't a positive educational experience for me either.
Tuition is free in Scotland.
Delaware C, Chase Bank, a lawyer. The fees for Delaware are barely noticed, Chase as been OK, the Lawyer will by far be the most expensive part. Do NOT skip the lawyer, they are worth the money / you will regret skipping. You will need a founders agreement and many other documents. Have them review the investment agreements.

Gusto for HR, ScaleFactor for accounting.
Also no sales tax at B&H for a lot of people. Of course, in some states, you're still supposed to pay the state sales tax directly when you do your income tax. I used to do this with amazon before they collected sales tax in my state. They allow you to download your purchase history (csv format) and see which items you didn't pay tax on so it's easy to calculate that line item on state taxes.
They’s sign death warrants, in so doing. But whose?
It’s a bit of a joke, really ;)

As well as ”turboboosted”. Don’t take them too seriously :D
Thanks, will take a look at this
Show HN: Dynamic Wallpaper server written in rust
Who do you think earns more: An actress, or the actress' manager? A basketball player, or the basketball player's coach? A boxer, or the boxer's manager?

Is it easier for the consultant to leave for another company and get a new manager, or for you to hire another person at his/her level to be your "subordinate"?

Market forces are at play here -- the productive members of society rightfully make more than people who go to meetings.
Not just the icons, the entire user interface was excellent. You had:

- Clear indication of whether something was clickable or not, vs. everything flat and featureless

- Good contrast

- Normal-sized widgets which left enough room for content vs. the huge widgets we use today for some reason (it's weird for me to say this, but Linux desktops are the worst offenders here). I get why they're important on touch-enabled systems but that's no reason to use them anywhere else.

- Useable scrollbars, no hamburger menus

- And -- although Windows-specific: the Start menu was something you could actually use.

The state of testing, examination and debates about user interfaces was also light years ahead of what we see today. I was genuinely fascinated about what my colleagues who did UI design were doing, and about the countless models they developed and metrics they used. If it was the same bikeshedding we see today, they sure as hell knew how to make it look like they were having a real debate...

I suspect the reason behind this drop in quality is largely economical. Fifteen years ago, you needed a great deal of understanding about perception, semiotics, about computer graphics, and a remarkable degree of mastery of your tools in order to produce an icon set. This made icons costly to develop, to a point where it was pretty hard to explain it to managers why you need to pay a real designer a heap of money for a real icon because, dude, just look at every other successful app on an OS X desktop!
That's funny, they tried this with a beta of Visual Studio 2013 as well, and rolled it back.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/intr... (the hilarious original annoucement)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ChangeConsideredHarmfulTheNew... (commentary)

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud... (a rollback)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/... (Visual Studio 2017 icon color pallette and guidelines)
Or it's a giant simulation, to me seems far more likely.
It’s a bit of a joke.. ;)