skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Popperian vision of science is good enough for students so that their naive mind can enter the field with idealistic perspectives but it's not how actual professionals practice it in real life. Oftentimes there are multiple theories competing, all with reasonable evidence, suggestions, and subscribers. The reason one theory prevails above another is not that the previous' subscribers were definitely convinced by the others' evidence, but simply that they died of old age. [0] The most egregious example is taxonomy: modern-day biologists have long switched to phylogenetics/cladistics to classify groups of individuals, while old school researchers still cling to traditional classification methods (sometimes using retired terms like "race").

In addition, different fields have different standards and methods for what qualified as evidence: for instance, mathematicians want nothing short of absolute proof - that's a given. But biologists are more from Missouri: they don't care that a theory is 'proven', they want to 'see' it [1]. For this reason they put very little trust in simulations no matter how advanced they are. On the other hand, they don't care that much about the mathematical rigor of the tools they use as long as it works out in the end and can be readily confirmed with something you can 'see'.

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-math-works

[1] Think of it as a 'constructive' view of evidence: everything must be explicit. For instance, if you want to show that trait X is 'genetic' you need to point out an explicit genetic mechanism and show it in action in model organisms. If you want to show that mechanism Y happens in one's cells you ideally need some microscopy to show Y happening live before your eyes, etc.
new account on instagram, click explore, there are people there, nobody ugly.

search for any tag that has mainly people like beach or hiking, all accounts are from very beautiful people with lots of followers.

your algorithm promotes people with more followers and likes, which are bound to be more beautiful people. Unless you avoid any interest in tags related to people and see only beautiful bunnies, not ugly bunnies, your feed will be only beautiful creatures.

I don't know how you can deny that.
A typical JS developer is not building/rebuilding docker containers constantly.
I was wondering if there’s an efficient way to screen a large population with low prevalence with limited tests. I’m thinking of the 1000 prisoner wine riddle with one drop of poison if that rings a bell
Take a notice: it doesn't seem to be any contact pads on the new ipad.

If there is indeed no contact pads, then it's likely they had to develop some custom rf connection just to support the type-c without contact pads (usb 3.0 needs a ton of bandwidth,) and that ain't cheap.
I am really surprised you can't think of one time automation beats manual work. I could sit here all day:

Municipal water service versus hand pumped well

E-ZPass versus tollbooth attendant.

Festool Domino biscuit jointer versus me doing it by hand

Sheetrock versus plaster and lathe
The headline is unfortunately a little ambiguous. We could clarify it by introducing some extra punctuation and modifying it slightly to make it clear the "split" in question is between "/" and "/usr":

"Understanding the split between (/bin, /sbin, /lib) and (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/lib)"

Not perfect but maybe clearer
Yeah, you've got a great point. It's easy to forget a lot of their quirky weird sometimes-dead-end experiments over the years. It could just be a memory bias.

To this end, though: are there any Apple historians, inside or outside of the company?
I don't. If you need/want to talk, we can use email/whatsapp.

While tomorrow you probably won't have to go to work, you can always call CMTV and they will rush there I am sure
This is rare on the Internet nowadays, but I totally agree with everything you say. I often annoy economists by pointing out that due to the diminishing marginal utility of money any transfer of money from the rich to the poor increases overall utility. They don't like that at all. :)
We discussed popper in some classes I took, the main theme for that for like an explanation yes it needs to be falsifiable, but also sometimes science is just "look I made a thing!" Or "look I found a thing!" And it's less relevant there. The unanimous belief accross different classes in the sciences I took was that yes, when we think about science we look at it from the perspective of falsification, but when we actually do science, we usually think of it as exploration until we have something we think falsifies the status quo or needs rigorous data collection to reject the mill. Nobody is really running an RNA sequencing experiment to evaluate the impacts of a drug on the rna transcriptome with falsification in mind (even if in a sense the null of "nothing changes" is what you're trying to falsify"). Psychologically it's just seen as some exploration to see what happens.
Between the models, not compared to previous.
Can the European Union (Politically) Survive the Coronavirus?
Nah Apple takes advantage of their walled off system. They know they have users and changing to an alternative is too difficult.
Recent Debian and Ubuntu systems symlink (by default, possibly with exceptions) /bin, /sbin, and /lib* to their counterparts in /usr. Older systems may be able to perform the merge by installing the "usrmerge" package.

I believe Arch takes it further and combines /bin and /sbin (and /usr/sbin) by symlinking them to /usr/bin.
What has the Android faction planned?

Serious question. I like the idea and Android users are always running around with "we had that years ago". Well, I don't see that in this case, but would be happy to be told otherwise :)
100%

The average dev seems to be looking for a behemoth if a laptop but I’m at the other end. My daily until recently was a 12” MacBook and it’s been my favourite laptop so far

Would love something Linux-friendly in that form factor (incl build quality and weight)
the question is having an algorithm do that (suppresing ugly and therefore unpopular users/photo) is different than having a moderator do it?
Disney has a long history of exploiting their workers financially, conversely the workers have a long history of loving working for Disney. It's a strange symbiotic relationship.
Now that I read almost everything online:
- You can't read Kindle books directly on the reMarkable (DRM not supported)
- It has support for ePub and PDF
- It runs a Linux accessible by SSH and hacker friendly (check awesome remarkable on github)
Without physicality though, it's not hard to restrict automatically the demand. Capital control measures...
Do I missunderstand something or isn't it necessary for the real bad cases to intubate the person needing the ventilator? I think the bottleneck here is a lot more complicated than "moaaar" ventilators. Also if you have 1 Mio. people on ventilation, these probably are not able to move on theirselves, so you need a care person to turn them every hour. Additionally hooking them up to a ventilator and pressing "play" seems to be a recipe for trouble, be it from mechanical damage because of faulty settings or bacterial infections not being treated at all until it's too late...
Show HN: Homepagr.com, an information-dense “new tab” page
Well, you claim it is "definitely lower" so you must know how it is calculated, no?
If you're on GitHub and want to help, you can edit these country-specific pages to add your area nonprofits, organizations, volunteer opportunities, and the like:

https://github.com/nonprofitnetworks/covid

We're launching today with blank pages ready to edit for all countries, and we welcome help. My email is joel@nonprofitnetworks.org if you want to contact me about this.
Just noticed with this release, tmux mouse support is working now! You can scroll back, change tmux windows and panes using the mouse only. Kickass.

This is awesome. :)
I think the later development of mixed triangle/quad subdivision by Warren and Schaefer is even more elegant, besides being more general: http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/schaefer/research/tutorial.pdf
Not true. France is hit, eastern France's hospitals are at full capacity. Doctors are starting to consider letting people over 70 die without access to an ICU.

Also, it's kind of strange that on this forum people do not get the notion of exponential increase. It's twice worst every 72 hours. Time runs out really fast.
Mechanical keyboards can get terrifyingly expensive--but you're right. That's about the cost of a Topre RealForce.
You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with it.
No, its not hugely overvalued. Interest rates are low, where will you get your desired yield?

PE ratios are in the normal range.

How do you justify your position?

What are you comparing it to? RE? RE isn't passive.
>Kinesis is not much like SQS, and new users might be more interested in EventBridge...

As someone who has done a lot of work with AWS, I have at times in the past picked the wrong one of Kinesis vs SQS for different workloads - largely due to my inexperience with Kafka and similar at the time, and misunderstanding the point of some of the "benefits" that I saw for using Kinesis vs SQS. Most of those times, I would have been better suited to a combo SQS/SNS for fanning out (something a helpful HN reader actually suggested to me!).

Anyway, EventBridge steps in perfectly for most of those use cases, my new projects are using it, and I am considering going back to some old services and reworking them to use EventBridge instead. The rules/filtering parts in particular are going to let me decom several lambdas and save money. Definitely worth people investigating.
well, your user name speaks for itself. Oldfashioned but reliable and well thought out.
Shouldn't all() simply throw an exception in case of an empty list?
It behooves one not to make egregious mistakes when talking about the mistakes supposedly made by Windows. cmd.exe is not a terminal emulator at all, and does not make DOS system calls (it being a Win32 program) at all.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/a-command-interpreter-is-not-a-console....

And the fact that CMD and PowerShell provide different interpreted languages is no different to the Korn shell, tclsh, and Perl providing different languages.
In those cases, is something about evolutionary science proven, or is a mathematical concept proven derived from a model of evolutionary systems? We can create proofs and do real math in extending and understanding the implications of the mathematical models we use for the world, but I don't think proving anything about the behavior of the model implies any proof of the behavior of the underlying science - it suggests it's likely but proof?
Well, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery_in_Babylon , but not in the realistic spirit that you probably intended. (There's also HHGttG's https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ruler_of_the_Universe , again in a different spirit.)
We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it.

As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say anything about it being amazing. It simply focuses on the positive features of the keyboard. The two sentences above clearly communicate to mac users that the company has fixed the problems that people wanted fixed. Did you really expect a bunch of public self-flaggelation? They are telling us clearly that they did what we asked for. Perfect.
I wonder if the "floating" display thing is going to wobble a lot. Looks like design over function.
since it has SSH support, it is a linux with command line tools and you can write not just your own applications but use as well an external keyboard... (build your own fantasy from here because no one has solved your exact problem for you yet)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/e8p22h/re...
Have you written about these workflows anywhere? If so, I’d be interested in the links. This sounds like by far the most sophisticated iPad development workflow I’ve ever heard of anyone using.
I don't know where you see ugly people on instagram because I never saw one. it's not mostly, it's never, unless you specifically look for it. and how do you look for it?

by the same standard, you can see ugly people on tiktok, because they don't delete the post, they just supress it from popular feeds.
I loved the form factor of the 2015 MacBooks. It was perfect for college and I took it everywhere. It only lasted ~2 years before the mobo failed and it longer booted up. I think there was a known heating issue with these laptops.
Hi! I created this to scratch my own itch, which was to keep track and organize all of the links that I use on a daily basis. For example, at work, I have a section for a project which has links to our Figmas, requirements documents, JIRA boards, and git repos in one section.

It has a browser extension, and also allows you to share your link list with other users.

Right now it is free (hopefully one day it can pay for itself...)

Would love your feedback!
They’re on the back.
The current 13" Pro is a beast compared to the Air. It's as fast as the older 15" Pro, while the Air is a bit slower than the current 13" Pro.
Imagine a country where a terrible leader comes to power, and the nation regresses for years. Then a new leader arises and reverses course. Does the country celebrate and boast?
While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So currently both macOS and Windows are good for JS dev. It's a matter of taste and price.
What are you talking about? The Mini has 65W desktop processors since the last generation.
Yes Thiel writes how sales is important.

He gives out a mental model to think how much sales is important for your company, and how much you should invest in it. On a scale from tiktok (viral) to Palantir, you have to increase your sales spendings.

He talks how advertising was important for PayPal (by giving some money(sales spending) for referring).

And he talks why small/medium sized businesses don't use softwares for day-to-day tasks. Because they lie (in his words) a dead zone of sales, the 1000$ per product.
What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.
It seems pretty typical for js backend systems to be heavily containerized such that I’d say it’s approaching the default deployment mechanism.
A keyboard, a trackpad, and a display stand. These are not three different devices!
It's hard to get excited about a $1000 iPad when the US is projecting 20% unemployment. A large portion of he population is facing death from a global pandemic, is wondering how they're going to pay their mortgage, utilities or food but yayyyyy an iPad!!!
I work outside of software (or any technology really), so I deal with around 30 people who are the opposite of power users, all using Windows (with one on a Mac laptop). Not a single one of them would even know what a terminal is, and I include powershell and the standard command line in that. The only thing that runs on their machines via Windows cmd are scripts I install so I can use their machines if I have to get something done on it.
Yes, I'm also one of those people who stubbornly refused to switch.to Linux and was a Window's user for almost all my life.

Thankfully I hated Windows 10 so much (cortana, privacy, etc) that I finally pushed myself to try it again (my new laptop was incompatible with Win 7).

Finally installed Linux mint few months back and I'm a super happy user. I didn't have to make that many changes to my workflow either just maybe small things like looking for replacement software. I'm amazed how long it has come in regards to usability and design.
Can you point to a picture?
What’s a mobo?
How the coronavirus impacts our dating lives and what to do about it
Zero interest until I can:

- use a native build of Firefox without webkit

- have low-latency audio

- do network troubleshooting with MAC address access

- use VOIP with proper background operation & notification

Sorry, Apple, but you created the greatest software/hardware ecosystem in history and then screwed the pooch so badly that you lost me as a customer and a developer.
There are a lot of LCDs that don't flicker, or ones that flicker at 40khz or other high frequencies which is imperceptibile to a human. There are databases on the internet if you want to get a flicker-free LCD screen or laptop.
99% of Those Who Died from Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
There are some news about a limited trial on 15 people:

https://www.fondazioneveronesi.it/magazine/articoli/lesperto...

but of course that is old news, 13 th March.
Interesting this use case wasn't covered in the mailing list post, I too experienced this exact reason for them being split in the early 90s. In that era, a lot of university terminals were very low end (small disks) - they mounted shares if they ran as Netware clients as well, not just Unix/Linux/BSD. Some of them only had boot floppies.
Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies
http://www.speedcoder.net/ is a good resource for improving programming type speed. You practice on actual source code for a variety of languages.
It's been that way every day for the past week, presumably due to reporting latency.
They deserve flak and they are getting it. It doesn’t have to be logical. It is emotional. They also created an emotional brand.

Somehow I think Apple can handle it. Anyone wasting energy complaining is only doing so because they are waiting to buy again.

It makes as much sense defending them as it does yelling at them about a keyboard.
Show HN: Violet – open-source framework for Voice Apps
A 3D model of your home in a cartoon/"the sims" style that shows where your smart home devices are. The model could also be used to play various automation scenarios (e.g. morning routine, or someone walks past the front door). It's easy to keep track of a few devices, but if you have many similar devices, you likely think about them by location, not by name or other identifier.
If you actually read the whole discussion to this point, you'll see that the discussion started with being constrained to the models of teleprinters, not text processing.
I've been buying as the market is going down, and will continue as we hit whatever bottom we are headed towards. I'll keep buying until there are obvious signs things are stabilizing. From there, I'll dig deeper and look for specific undervalued equities as we start the long, slow slog out of recession. I still regret not rigorously doing this in 2008-2009.
Ooooh, of course this is .ten after .nine. I saw it and thought "0.10? they're only up to a point one release? they've been working on this for ages!"
There are e-ink tablets that are basically just Android, supporting Android apps. Does remarkable have any advantage over those? I mean having a custom OS (even though with SSH) compared to the vast ecosystem of android apps and dev resources surely sounnds like a huge drawback.
It is not my experience that keyboards are part of their garden wall. I have used bluetooth keyboards with my iPads going back to the first generation of iPad Mini.

What their keyboards do offer is tighter integration. That’s not a wall, it’s more like growing enticing apples in the orchard within the garden.

Not much different than the situation with upgrades for my Volvo. The Volvo stuff is tightly integrated. OEM stuff sometimes involves compromises, like plugging things into the port and fiddling with bluetooth.
People who value the Escape key were never going to make an iPad their primary computer anyways.
Though discussing Sci-Hub and scientific articles, much of this argument applies as well to textbooks and publishing generally:

What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls "research": Why Sci-Hub is so popular

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4p2rwk/what_th...
Bullshit has no bounds in this worid.
Not really but when you try new config/Dockerfiles/docker-compose setups it's nice to have power + bandwidth. Thus, I develop on a remote server.
How are they planning to produce these exactly?
i think most people prefer to not sell their souls for advertising when it comes to their desktop environments.
Their (very) old keyboards are still amazing to type on. They went from high quality mechanical switches to bad rubber domes to okish rubber domes. The current magic keyboard is actually not bad, but I would still prefer the old alps switches.
Attempting to predict stock market prices using machine learning
No, it wasn't. 3M has been making their N95 respirators in the US the whole time. It was cheaper masks (e.g., dust masks, procedure masks) that had their production outsourced.
I personally don’t see the use case, I can close all sensitive tabs or documents. But if that’s a problem then fine, perhaps an edge case though.
Areas involving human interaction may indeed risk a decline in the provided (or at least perceived) quality when automated, compared to its non-automated best case scenario. However, aside from possible technical issues (that may also affect human-involved setups), machines avoid a broad range of problems (some mentioned in sibling posts) that otherwise affect clients' interacting experience, and thus (more often than not) are the better choice.

P.S.: I don't miss nowadays the increase of human-induced Coronavirus infection risk when I experience human-free services.
Keep in mind the MBP 13 with 4 ports has a 28 W chip, while the one with 2 ports has a 15 W chip (IIRC).
LPDDR4X is one of the key features here.
Buy .22LR, some chickens, and a goat. You can use the chickens for egg and meat, the goat for milk and meat, and the .22LR for varmint hunting and trading.

Better hurry up, though; ammo prices are skyrocketing, though .22LR has been fairly stable at a touch over $0.03/round.
"Free for viewing online for now" isn't exactly "making books free". More like "hey you can look at my things for a bit if you'd like but I'll hold it and tomorrow you gotta pay to see it".
Yup, my gut feeling is that follow on effects from rampant unemployment and financial insecurity will have a much larger effect (via stress-induced heart attacks, suicide, etc.) than the 3.4% mortality rate among reported cases (WHO numbers, not all infected, maybe not even most infected.)

I would love to see an actual statistical comparison. spookthesunset is making an excellent point. Unless we know that deaths from the virus are greater than the deaths caused by the second-and-third-order effects of panicking, you can't say for sure that the lockdown is the best thing to do right now.
Japanese anti-flu drug could help in treating Covid-19
There is at least one project listed specifically to enable this.
"all value is subjective"

no, water and tuna have measurable and objective value to your biological system.
yes but the plan sounded like v0.9 to v1.0
The walled-garden iPad is a direct descendent of the “Computer as Appliance” vision that Jef Raskin had for Macintosh, which Jobs took over and continued to dream about.

We can keep complaining about it in 2020, but we certainly shouldn’t suggest that Apple is pulling a U-Turn.
And I’ll bet my Bluetooth trackpad works with this now too.
Very old news
shouldn't we organize globally instead of individually for this ? or will it make no difference