skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great deal of speculation in that article. Sounds more like psycotherapy ideas than real psychology/neuroscience.

Meanwhile, let's look at the (paraphrased) claims:

"Science is not compatible with religion."

Yet the Big Bang theory was invented by a physicist who went on to become a Catholic priest, George Lemaitre. And the father of modern genetics is not Darwin but a catholic monk, Gregor Mendel. hmmm. Both had google doodles recently.

"Evolution and creationism are not reconcileable."

But Christianity has never had a formal dogma that the Bible is literally true as a historical document (but neither any reason prior to modern science to think otherwise, but that misses the point). 3/4 of Christianity is fine with evolution and the Big Bang, and 14 billion years, and for Catholics even the existence of aliens. It's arguable that the rest are just reacting to Atheist claims, clutching to a dogma that doesn't exist because they are simple and uneducated Christians who don't know better.

"There is no evidence of a god."

But this claim has to discount those who claim to personally know a god as deluded. That's clearly a fallacy. Sure, spiritual 'contact' doesn't give 3rd party verification (the 3rd party being an agnostic who hasn't had such contact), and will not satisfy the determinedly materialistic who will only accept physical evidence, but what evidence of a spiritual God can we expect in the material universe?

More importantly, wouldn't a god be able to give proof of itself? And wouldn't that proof, if it were a personal god as claimed, be person to person communing? The author evidently did not actually personally know the god she eventually rejected and by a Christian standard never had faith.

Faith "Belief without evidence". Thanks for that presumptious redefinition, Bertrand Russell, but that is not a Christian or religious definition and has no etymological roots. Sure makes them look silly, though. The real definition of faith is more to do with direct personal knowledge of a god.

Or let's take Dawkins favourite argument "Who made God?". But this was answered by Thomas Aquinas centuries ago. A thing whose nature/essence is existence, to exist, self-evidently exists. Since it must also self-evidently exist of itself, and is therefore self-referencing, the real question is not "Is there a god" but "Is this self-referencing fundamental thing also self-aware?". Either Dawkins is ignorant or he's lying by ommission (which he already does with evolution).

But here's the kicker: an atheist beleives that there is no god - which is why they quite outrageously call religious persons deluded as no agnostic would - yet there is no proof of the non-existence of a supreme being.

So while atheists are always irrational whether or not there is a god, religious persons are only irrational if there isn't a god.

The irony is wonderful. Faith as "Belief without evidence" applies to atheists more than religious persons.

What's your best atheist argument? I can pretty much defeat any atheist argument.
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I would counter that differentiable programming should perhaps rise to the level of baseline functionality that most languages should offer.

I think the applications for automatic differentiation and gradient optimization well exceed what we think of as ML and data science today.
As others have noted, PowerToys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys) has a long history. I have some fond memories of the TweakUI utility by Raymond Chen as it made the OS much more usable.
A hello from the Samsung SSD developer :)
The new marketplaces connecting school and work
This looks neat. This is a kind of window manager I have wanted for quite a while on OSX
Makes sense given FAA recent history
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London/UK or remote

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Email: opyate@gmail.com

I've been a web developer for over 16 years, and freelancing/contracting for the past 5.

My latest client is an app bank offering invoice financing, and I led a small team, architected the mobile backend, and integrated with various partners (IDV, company search, etc).

Other interests include illustration (I'm authoring/illustrating a children's picture book in my spare time), and making small games.
Wow, now WeWork looks even more overvalued than it did when I wrote this list [1] of things it’s “worth more than”.

My favorite: At $47 billion, We would be more valuable than all the cash raised by every IPO in 2018.

[1] https://betterquestions.blog/what-is-we-worth/
It's also worth mentioning that he did the Crash Course on Astronomy [1] and it's actually brillant.
I highly recommend as I learned a lot watching this podcast.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPAJr1ysd5y...
Is there an alternative to Etsy for actual hand-crafted goods?

For a version 2.0, I'm thinking each seller would be required to post a 5-minute video on their production, showing where they do the work, and showing actual people working in a non-factory, non-assembly line environment.

I'd also require on-site visits by an agent to ensure veracity of that.

Yes, this would be enormously invasive / intrusive and a high burden for sellers. And it doesn't scale well. Maybe the sellers could police each other? Have the person in Wilmington who makes HO-scale vintage sports cars also check in on the Wilmington resident who quilts superhero-themed stuff.

I don't know.
For the frontend use whatever you are familiar with as that will keep your velocity higher and your tech debt lower at first. If you use a new framework, you'll slow yourself down and pile on preventable tech debt because you'll do stuff that isn't quite correct in the new framework until you master it.

As for backend. Firebase is easy to use and quick to get started with. That said, it can get expensive pretty fast and I am not a fan of the lock-in it comes with it. I fully admit I prefer AWS over Google, although we use both today. However, even with AWS I avoid DynamoDB and vendor specific tooling that I couldn't run on a box myself. I'll use RDS for Postgres but that's because I can always move that to my own servers if the need arose. If I was using Dynamo that'd be tough. I'll use their API compliant tooling like MQ or their Mongo compatible document store if I wanted, because again I can move databases without changing code.
Hosting co Rackspace's HQ is a former mall in San Antonio, Texas https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rac...
I was very convinced I'd seen guns in the Lego City sets. Upon further consideration I might have to concede that was, in fact, wrong.
This new book seems quite fitting:

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Weapons-Promise-Peril-Digital/d...
Strike with the band – The meritocratic failures of classical music
I think the reason they failed is that they tried to make a platform for micro services but micro services is an anti pattern, people really just wanted containerisation.
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy
One of the reasons I visit HN so much is precisely because of these "off topic" articles. Very often they're either interesting, thought provoking or just plain odd/unusual. That's a great thing! I have a wide range of interests so anything that tickles my curiosity is cool. Often, I find the comments far more illuminating and interesting than the original article itself.

Long may these random articles continue!
Story sounds like data to me. Data should not be in the repo, just the means to fetch it.
If, due to regulatory capture, the FAA has been wrongly approving Boeing designs, the rest of the world is wise not to blindly accept FAA approval.

Of course, outside of the specific domain of approving Boeing designs, if the FAA says something isn't safe, or produces a report on a crash or suchlike, the world may want to pay heed.
Yeah keyboard shortcuts and tiling are a good way to multitask without having to think about window placement. Just specify which zone you want the window in and let the WM do the resizing work.

Direct link to PowerToys inc Fancy Zones: https://github.com/Microsoft/powertoys/releases

- You probably want to turn on 'On
Override Windows Snap hotkeys (win+arrow) to move windows between zones'.

- Default zone is boring, I like 'Priority grid' which is two thin columns and a thick one.

After a while you don't really think about window management.

PS 'jenmsft' in the thread below is a Software Engineer & Community Manager for Microsoft.
I almost never use Spotify on my phone. The one exception is when I needed to handle the music for my wedding (piped it through some massive bluetooth speakers).
> Big corps actually love regulations for the barriers to entry they create...

When they can get regulations that have that effect, then they are indeed in favor of them, but in this case, Boeing was doing all it could to avoid and subvert regulation in its haste to catch up with its competitor.
Maybe, restaurants and coffee shops will take up the slack and put up charging stalls. Since every business is wired for electricity already I can't imagine that it would require significant investment. Whereas gas stations require giant tanks buried under the ground.
Ask HN: How do you plan to track your personal finances in 2020?
I'm just about done with YNAB due to the lack of multi-currency support. Also, as a digital nomad, fixed-size budgeting just doesn't work for me.

Manual-entry solutions like spreadsheets are too tedious. I find MoneyWiz to be clunky and ugly, and I don't trust it, perhaps because I was spoiled by YNAB's super polished clearing/approval/reconciliation UI.

For 2020, I'm thinking of building myself a Plaid API integration into Airtable or Google Sheets. What about you?

p.s. I'm Canadian, so I must pass on all US-centric software.
I usually don't see climate science being communicated with p-values and poor significance cutoffs. The place where you usually see this used is for communicating single study results (which often enough are things that you probably shouldn't communicate at all).

To get an idea how climate science is trying to communicate look at the summary for policymakers of the SR15 report:
https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

They have different confidence levels they indicate instead of a single cutoff.
How is the App Store any different than the Nintendo eShop, Xbox, or PS stores? I can’t install any app I want or tinker. On my PC I’m free to install apps any way I want.
The five most promising ways to quantize gravity
I think you meant "differential privacy", and no, it's not closely related to differentiable programming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
Self driving cars are going to be driven a lot, so something that’s a 1/10,000 risk that happens every week to 1 million cars is going to happen every day.

Self driving cars need to have a threshold before hard breaking. Hard breaking is risky, it can cause serious accidents. Reducing that threshold thus increases some risks even if it lowers others.

So, now we need to balance a risk of say ~1/10,000,000 per car per year vs what? I don’t know what changing those thresholds would result in, but I do know it’s not free and there would be false positives.
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I personally disagree with Thalia Goldstein's "Kids don't just turn [belief] off,"

I remember specifically that my parents dispelled the Santa myth to me very early, I think in or before 1st grade. One day at my Catholic school, each of us had made little gingerbread houses and left them on a table by the windows. After going out for recess, we came back to a few of them being broken (later found out from the janitor trying to fix the blinds) and they told us it was Santa coming by to check on us. I knew it was BS then and it made me a young skeptic. I was obsessed with when they told us that the Holy Spirit was all around us but couldn't be seen. I couldn't get over that and figured if they would lie about Santa, they would lie about God.

It made for an unpleasant 12 years in Catholic schools. I've since let go of any anger and active Atheism and am happy with a passive Apatheism.
I know that several of my Windows-based co-workers will like this. Looking at the screenshots it does look cumbersome though. The real power of i3 is it's simplicity. You are not overwhelmed by complicated constructs. This appears to be a more static approach to tiling 'I want Layout #3' vs 'Open a new window here'.

I really hope this catches on. It's a fantastic productivity booster that I feel is on-par with having a second monitor.
Actually, it does. It means they're focused on revenue growth, not profitability, at this stage. Sales and marketing is very, very expensive. Have you worked at any SaaS companies with tons of inside sales?
There are a lot of places where parks are nearly unusable for months of a year. I'm not in an extreme climate by any measure, but there are 3 months when socializing in a park is at best uncomfortable.

Why do you specify "out of grade school"? Isn't the fact that the mall is the go-to for grade schoolers just as big a problem? Where are kids and adults supposed to hang out in a group without having to host in their small home?
How about replication?
Everybodies super paranoid about job loss in auto manufacture. If we all move to electric cars, the charging infrastructure is going to need to be massive. In cities, we will need chargers by every parking space and in towns/villages every house will need its own charger. The building, installation, and maintenance will be far from trivial for all these chargers. Also, battery production, car battery refit, and recycling will become industries in themselves. I'm not convinced that people are thinking about all these feeder industries that will benefit from the adoption of electric vehicles. I don't think these jobs will go away, just mutate into something else.
Ask HN: What is the best way to sell a software business in 2019?
Anecdotal comment: I've been a buyer of Etsy sourced things since around 2011 (roughly 160 purchases? hard to tell without manually counting, 16 pages of about 10 per page) - I have watched the features of the site degrade over time around the community aspects, usability features and whatnot - the way making and sharing interest lists was drastically changed, for example, and is now frustrating and non-intuitive. Certain other features were introduced with no way to edit or disable them, such as their Notifications fiasco. I rarely visit the site anymore - even Instagram has better handcrafted makers who are easier to find than Etsy. (contrary to many popular memes, IG has a lot of healthy small communities for collectors and aficionados)

Etsy's movement as a site and company drove me away as a frequent buyer of goods - they don't listen to real user feedback (well, mine :)), they're definitely trying to engage the mass market buyer now with quantity not quality and craftsmanship even in search results. Recently. I wanted a silver ring; it took a _lot_ of work to find actual, real handcrafters who bang out the silver bar, solder it into a ring and polish it (I did find two great ones though, a guy in Greece and a gal in Thailand - beautiful rings, bought one from each). But it took me a lot of time and effort just to locate these two actual crafters buried amongst an overwhelming number of pretend crafters selling pressed rings they probably bought in bulk and are just reselling.
Multiple desktops are pretty useful though.
Perhaps @thockin can comment since this was on his Twitter some time ago, but I believe Google is starting to use it more and more internally. He would know, since he's been involved since the beginning.
Thanks, your way of stating it makes more sense to me. This sort of faculty would be used whenever the ambient temperature is closer to "optimal activity temperature" than the body is. Like you say, typically mid-morning when the environment has warmed up but the body hasn't. I suppose it could also work in the evening after a really hot day when it would be good to cool the body...
China gets the biggest double standard from Western media. The restraint China has used during this time against Hong Kong is unlike anything the US uses against its own people. The yellow vest protest in France didn't last this long and people actually died during it.
Totally.

For me, its like this - where:

>regulatory capture

.. exists for "Entity: X", then

>The world ignoring anything the "X" has to say about anything is a stance that's long overdue.

.. is true.

We need to fight for our democracy, and capture/usurp is one way it is corrupted, time and again. Alas, behind great deals of ignorance, one can hide a lot of intent.
Though it isn't as fancy when creating custom layouts, I'm very happy with Amethyst[0] on macOS.

[0]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
You meant control over the users.
It might be that Russians cooperate very well (I do definitely agree on that), but as the organisation grows bigger, it is definitely very Russian to not be able to do anything.
I have toyed with leaving journal-like blurbs of thought in my regular notes system, sort of like Architectural Decision Records (https://adr.github.io/) for my life, but the habit never stuck. The format never felt free and unconstrained enough to facilitate the sort of raw thinking-on-paper that tends to be useful a year later. I found myself self-censoring much more than I would in a regular journal.

A key benefit of using a date journal is that many tools (incl. Day One and Dabble.me) have a "remember this day" feature that surfaces entries from the past. While the simple act of writing does clarify one's thinking, I find further benefit from the regular review and opportunity for reflection this sort of feature provides. And while I do sometimes deliberately seek out a particular entry, 90%+ of my review comes automatically from this sort of feature.
it's always nice to see someone bring up Everything. it's almost terrifying how fast it can find basically anything.
I have seen an looked at some of these efforts, and its very nice. I don't really have usecase, or time to work on a project like that.

I'm sure if you get into it, you can lots of information but I have observed with multiple people that they start reading are interested and then drop out quickly.
It is an education issue (that will hopefully solve itself) that people still buy hardware (or software) the functionality of which entirely depends on some uncontrollable (and often dubious) entity.
This sounds like a feature for sysadmins and programmers. It's something you need to "configure".

There are three thing I'd like regarding window layout:

1) the WM remembers the last placement of each app (and child window, and second or 3rd instance), and put them there when relaunched.

2) since I use a huge 4k monitor, I almost never want a window to drag beyond any edge of the screen. I dont need snapping, just a large hysteresis (in one direction) at the edge of the screen.

3) an easy way to set which thing launch at login. This may want to be in one of the common menus, not off in a config tool or .login file.

BTW I use gnome (on wayland), so if you know how I can get any of these behaviors I'd like that.
Exactly, the article falls into a common trap, assuming too much automation and job elimination due to tech. Looking at Tesla, they tried and failed to very heavily roboticize their factory, when in reality humans are fairly cheap for some manual tasks, and skilled laborers are becoming less frequent.
I find this one interesting: http://www.ils-international.com/goldmine/webcobol.htm
You started with "no" (ie, it's safe)... then ended with "can still fry your device".

I infer your point: the shape of the connector in theory is decoupled from risks in power delivery... but in reality the prevalence of cheap knockoffs and "moronic implementations" makes me question the wisdom of combining [potentially dangerous levels of] power delivery with data transfer.
It bought them time to figure out the root cause, fix it, and check if restoring backups is a viable option. Smart play.
Why did it not read well?
The thing that surprises people is not that Stallman went to Microsoft but that Microsoft invited him to talk. Back in the day Bill Gates would make signs to ward against evil if Richard "communist cancer" Stallman was anywhere near Redmond.

How times have changed.
I ride a motorcycle to and from work everyday.

In terms of quality of drivers respecting other cars: regular car drivers > taxi drivers > Uber drivers.

Uber drivers are the worst to drive near to. They do all sorts of stupid things like pull over in spots where they SHOULD not, all to pick up or drop off passengers.

I see it time and time again. They prioritise their customer over the road rules and respect for other vehicles.

Taxi drivers also drive faster than Uber drivers, who seem to enjoy sitting well under the speed limit.
I actually like it this way. I moved from i3 to AwesomeWM years ago, which basically has a bunch of pre-defined layouts. It's incredibly convenient, imo. Not sure what's complicated about it. I just hope it has hotkeys that let you switch layouts and it can assign the windows automatically (or remembers previous assignments). Otherwise it would be tedious.

edit: Just checked. It has a hotkey to switch between saved layouts. And you can set it so a newly opened program goes to its last known zone. That's pretty cool. I'll have to try it.
No they are on a collision course with human civilization.
Entirely my point.

One of the two local malls in my area suffered a similar decline and demographic shift for a time. The half not anchored by a Target and a department store became vacant save for a smattering of small local stores, many owned by enterprising foreigners.

The empty areas became frequent copping spots, and suffered a few drug related shootings and other incidents through the years before the City and the owners cleaned up and started getting more big-ticket tenants back into the mall. Nowadays the mall has sports facilities, a maker space,

That foreigners and "gansters" are involved the decline of an area doesn't make pointing out their coming in with the decline of the mall bigoted.

Ascribing intent to writing such as this says as much about the critic as it does the writer.
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I believe he's referring to the fact that many if not most projects hosted on github have no license conditions at all. No license means no one except the original author can use the software, and anyone who even looks at the code runs the risk of being sued for copyright infringement.

RMS is not saying "make everything GPL" (or at least, not in this context). He's just saying if you're going to publish source code, please make clear the condition under which it can be read or used.
That's not different than communicating significance with p < 0.05 , p < 0.01, p < 0.001 etc as is usually done in paper. There is again a cutoff.
Just have a very clear separation of both. Call one Etsy and the other EtsyExpress or something like that.
Russian version of the article states that he expressed his complaint only in 1979 when he was visiting weapons manufacturing in Tula. The development started shortly after.
I doubt VW will be able to compete with Tesla in the near term on EV's. Look at the Taycan for example. It's a nice looking car but unless you had brand loyalty to Porsche it doesn't stack up against the Model S. It's slower in both acceleration and top speed, has less range and for that less good car you pay a lot more money. VWs struggle is going to be producing a car that can compete on specs with Tesla at a similar price point. They just don't have the battery cost advantage that Tesla has spent the last decade building.
the title itself. "his job is not done, even if it's Goodenough".
This should clearly be removed as hate speech per SF 190841