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> I respect Andrew Gelman, but in this case I think he jumped to fit this into a pattern where it doesn't belong.

What you wrote: "Like, this kind of exchange is exactly why academics try to avoid randos from the internet. They tend to seize on one point, declare victory, and refuse to change their minds. And when the academic doesn't grovel in compliance, they declare academia to be a failure."

So here you are, a "rando", attacking/dismissing a well respected academic with decades of experience from an well respect university over one point. You are exactly what you claimed to despise.

> Literally the worst criticism is that one bar of a bar graph is removed in a way that doesn't even change the point of the single sentence referring to it.

If that was the case, don't remove that bar and data point. But it was removed for a reason right?

Good god, you still don't get it. Our authors ( even silly popsci authors ) and especially our universities are held to high standards. This isn't china where you have little to no standards and can make up anything at universities and everything is okay. Authors and academics are expected to meet standards, this is why we have so much trust in our institutions.

Following your logic, why should I or anywhere here trust a "rando" like you over a well respect academic from columbia university? Using your own logic, we should dismiss you outright.
Note: the article is a premium members-only post preview and cuts off just after getting into a competitor's valuation.

You can't read the whole thing and I regret starting to read it, only to be left mid-thought.
No apologies?
> Ability to use multiple aliases. I want to have site_name@rolisz.ro, besides the main address I will give out, but still have everything come in to my main inbox.

It's not an alias, but you can effectively get this for free with any mail provider by using a plus sign (+). For a really extreme (and awesome) example, see:

http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/08/24/email...

He suggests using emails like: aorth+news.ycombinator.com+2020-04-12@example.com. The benefits are that you get a lightweight alias that you can filter on, but you also get a canary that tells you which site sold your email address when you start getting spam to it! :)
Some weeks ago I decided to be brave and build my own mail server. With a great tutorial [1] I was able to do this in a few hours and learned a ton about email along the way.
Because today it is possible to setup a lot of features via DNS I got no problems with email being marked as spam.

But I can understand this is not for everyone. Personally I got some problems with DNS misconfigurations and file access rights at first but got it working perfectly after a day or two.

[1] https://workaround.org/ispmail/buster/
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Everyone is biased, and it's not just American being out of touch with European History. I'm Dutch, I do like history especially parts where changes of borders/nations have impact now.

I was born in 1986, so I don't have memories of the Cold War and such. In school we learn a lot about WWII, that 6 million jews died and such.

But halfway trough Germany started the wasteland. Our Reformed churches sends/sended/smuggled Bible translation to Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia. We donated money to help Hungarian Baptists, Ukrainian Jews and so on.. But that's it.

I've visited quite some 'Eastern European' countries, and when I do I always have to dive into the history. When visiting Krakow for a week I learned about Galicia (I thought it was weird to have a Jewish museum named after a Spanish region ;)).

So, in 2010 I decided to first visit all European countries, before flying somewhere else. I have rules, I have to have visited a bordering country before I'm allowed to visit a country. (E.g. can't go to Portugal I have to visit Spain first). And I have to stay in a country , so a train stop our toilet visit doesn't count for visiting Slovenia..

To know history to some extend, you have to be there. But, it's also around us. When being overwhelmed by the empty mspaces
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Actually, the hello world doesn't seem that bad to me. And I program mostly in Python nowadays.

class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello world");
}
}

And then

javac Test.java
java Test

The class acts as a kind of namespace here, you don't need to go into OOP concepts for hello world at all. The beginner will have to understand

* Class is in file with the same name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and contains functions (maybe it'll help me later in organizing code?).

* Command line arguments (not strictly necessary concept but not too problematic either)

* Types - why is there String[] in the definition? (A must have in a statically typed language anyway)

* void - the function doesn't return anything (OK)

* public (not OK, some magic here)

* static (not OK, some magic here)

* Compilation vs. run step (a must have in a compiled language)

So IMHO there are just two concepts that could be thrown away. Or three, if you accessed CLI args from a library. But the meaning of public and static will come naturally when the students will learn about OOP.
You might be interested in what dang, a mod, says here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336417
Seems like a cool idea but I don’t know about that pricing. Many podcasts I listen/watch to are just over the hour mark per episode. Since this is geared towards people getting started, I doubt many are even making enough to cover the subscription cost alone.

I think charging by the hour is a bit weird in general since I would assume you’re just grabbing the audio track with youtube-dl and not actually processing anything.
If TrueType hinting is turing complete - are outputs observable from a Web Font context? Is it possible to write a WASM polyfill based on TrueType hinting?

From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/tt... looks to have 32-bit words, a dynamic heap, unrestricted JMP targets, a generous number of math functions, ...
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Actually if it’s simply a put the profits on the hedge stand independently of what they actually produce. They could lift the hedge at any moment or take the opposite bet to offset it regardless of their actual production. It seems to me it would be more advantageous to lift part of the hedge at a profit and then produce less since the price is way under the cost of production.
I guess they could separate security and bug fixes from other changes (features).
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Every single router I ever had, including ISP provided ones had the option to port forward.
Could you include the github repo? I'm curious how it works and if it's customizable.
> If it's truly unprofitable then separating it from the mothership means it goes bankrupt so no more YouTube

You have to look back at Microsoft's Antitrust case around Internet Explorer, the were bundling the software into the operating system for free to kill any competition.

It maybe a loss leader but it plays into an overall corporate strategy.

Splitting YouTube off would not trigger it to go bankrupt, market forces would come into play, they'd have to seek revenue and others players would come into the market to offer a competitive offering.
Your reaction makes me sad. Do you really believe that sleeping equals time wasted? :|

It's a natural process of healing and rest, like.. huh?
Or you use Amazon|DigitalOcean|anyproviderwithanapi with low TTL and set up your own dynamic DNS.
Everyone is biased, and it's not just American being out of touch with European History. I'm Dutch, I do like history especially parts where changes of borders/nations have impact now.

I was born in 1986, so I don't have memories of the Cold War and such. In school we learn a lot about WWII, that 6 million jews died and such.

But halfway trough Germany started the wasteland. Our Reformed churches sends/sended/smuggled Bible translation to Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia. We donated money to help Hungarian Baptists, Ukrainian Jews and so on.. But that's it.

I've visited quite some 'Eastern European' countries, and when I do I always have to dive into the history. When visiting Krakow for a week I learned about Galicia (I thought it was weird to have a Jewish museum named after a Spanish region ;)).

So, in 2010 I decided to first visit all European countries, before flying somewhere else. I have rules, I have to have visited a bordering country before I'm allowed to visit a country. (E.g. can't go to Portugal I have to visit Spain first). And I have to stay in a country , so a train stop our toilet visit doesn't count for visiting Slovenia..

To know history to some extend, you have to be there. But, it's also around us. When being overwhelmed by the empty mezuzah spaces, I realized that my hometown only had a 'Synagoguestreet' without a synagogue. That we have Jewish cemeteries, but no burials, and that there almost no Jewish community in the Netherlands, while my late grandmother talked about Jewish shop owners ..
I, too, want to switch from using Google services.

I find it hard. I have hundreds of website accounts, all registered through Gmail. I don't even know all the websites I have accounts on. Switching all to use another mail address, would be at least very tedious and would take a very long time.

Also I have many contacts mailing me on my Gmail address. Making all those people use another address would be hard.

I can redirect Gmail probably, but that would mean still using Gmail.

Also, using Google's services is very convenient. And the only other provider which the same level of integration and which has e-mail, online docs, calendar, storage is Microsoft. And you have to pay if you want to use docs.

Maybe I'll use different providers for different services, but I 'll lose the integration.

And Google tries to make your life harder if you are not using Chrome and you are not logged in into Google account. You' ll see lots of recaptchas triggered if you use Firefox or Edge and you'll get the bot treatment if you try to access next pages in Google search.
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Yes and because they have a bug with egpu they introduced in August, I had to go in Group policy to disable updates until they finally release a fix or my eGPU won't work (it's in beta apparently and will come out after 11 months)... And I was complaining about Apple but this is even worse...
Simple and fair. The above idea is what happens when you stick a reasonable, smart person without an agenda into a room and ask them to simply solve a problem without politics.
I do try to answer questions on HN. It's a little hard to keep track of threads over time, though. (Am I missing something?)

Anyway, good luck getting away from gmail!
Wow I didn't know that! Do you know if there are more detailed tutorials for this?
You are absolutely right to correct me, I re-read my comment, and it does look hypocritical, which wasn't my intent. Paradoxically, in the spotlight of what you've said, it looks a bit like "bees against the honey" movement. After all, I myself one of those "Python people." My lame excuse is that English is not my first, second, or even third language. Choosing proper words and nicely phrasing things in it ain't my forte, but I'm trying my best.
Indeed. The problem was 10.15.4 to start with. One reason to roll out the supplemental update was because 10.15.4 broke Facetime compatibility with older iOS and macOS versions (which is particularly bad in the current crisis).

Maybe they shouldn't have released 10.15.4 right now, but instead only the security fixes in this release. But they had to push out that release to support the new MacBook Air.

Another problem with such reports is that it is hard to get an idea of how widespread this problem is. And whether the problem (perhaps) already occurred with previous Catalina updates, but is now picked up more.
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And that's the whole problem with Scala. When you work with it, you are having a battle with types and compiler more often than you should. Funny but it is not the first typed language I had to write code in. Never did I have to do so much unnecessary dancing around and asking senior colleagues for help. I guess not all of us are capable of grasping such expressiveness at the cost of such complexity. The majority just need simpler tools to be productive.
Ask HN: Is Data Visualization a well-paid career path for remote working?
Hi, I'm exploring changing career paths.

From your experience, can someone earn a meaningful income (USD 8K or more) doing data visualizations and working remotely?

Has anyone here successfully done this?

In the past I have been a pretty good software engineer. I'm proficient in JavaScript and Golang, my Ruby and Python skills are rusty at best.

By Data Visualizations, I'm referring to works similar to these stunning pieces -> https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/ by Nadieh Bremer.

Presently, I can do most of these.

Is there are market for remote workers that does this king of work that pays well? What have your experiences been like?
On windows you can choose to get feature updates with a 4 month delay if you have windows pro (set updates to "Semi-Annual Channel" instead of "Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)", and yes microsoft are indeed terrible with naming things). I never had issues with windows updates on that branch. There is also windows enterprise long term servicing branch (LTSB), which gets feature updates every 3 years (but is meant more for things like point of sale systems, not for regular PC's).

On macOS you can stay one major release behind. So, stay on mojave until the successor to catalina is released, then upgrade to catalina. You still get security fixes and full software ecosystem support, but far fewer issues with buggy updates.

On android and iOS you don't really have good options to my knowledge.
Brown M&Ms (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420). How am I supposed to assume your content is of any quality if you cannot get the details right?
It indeed isn't a particularly difficult algorithm. It's just modulo 7 arithmetic and some divisions combined with a table lookup. Martin Gardner of course covered it. I first encountered it in Shakuntala Devi's book Figuring: The Joy of Numbers, which has a slightly different lookup table. With practice, one can run it as the date is being given, a common lightning calculator trick for making things faster, and the lookup table becomes directly memorized. In practice, the algorithm is rarely applied outwith the past 400 years or even the past 100, for obvious reasons. Tweaking for the century is an afterthought in several accounts that I've read over the years.
I guess it depends on how detailed you want it, but maybe Google's own help page already helps?

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370
Intel SGX is really a big gift to security researchers, second only to speculative execution and friends. Intel is selling it as a way to keep secrets safe inside the processor against attackers with root/hypervisor software access or even physical access. Of course, a bevy of attacks in the recent months have demonstrated that this isn’t really achievable given the extremely large attack surface.

SGX has opened Intel up to physical attacks on the chip in a way that really hasn’t been interesting in the past. Previously attacking a CPU physically wouldn’t give you any more capabilities than you already had (with unlimited ability to tamper I/O and memory). Now, physically attacking the CPU can be used to reveal SGX secrets or mess with SGX computations. Expect a lot more attacks like this to come out in the future!
And there is the damn meta discussion about the nitpicks!
I think it is time we realize that Google in its current form is broken in many ways.

This is just one example. Others include:

- insisting on captchas,and not just one, even when I'm logged in with my >10 year old, paid for account with two-factor enabled

- not being able to detect flag attacks against legitimate accounts (as seen on the front page today)

- killing reader, trying to force everyone to use a single identify, then at the same time name their otherwise brilliant social network the same thing as the hated identity solition

- then killing said social network

- not being able to even keep the quality on their flagship user facing product (for us who knew it 10 and 15 years ago what we see today is a mockery.)

I hope someone here can submit applications for next batch of YC:

- like Google search in 2008. I'll happily turn off your adblocker for you and be glad to see simple, relevant text ads. Or pay up to USD5 monthly if thats better (more if necessary and if the quality is good enough, although at some point I'd probably need to expense it.)

- like Google+ but not owned by Google

- like Google Reader but not owned by Google

And, probably also (unrelated to Google):

- like stackoverflow but focused on answering questions, not playing political and nitpicking games

- like WhatsApp before they were acquired (and with a strong guarantee that this new company will stay independent)
Thanks. I suppose I should take another look at mutt. When I have in the past it's seemed a bit overwhelming with features & config. Does that command remove dupes in a single folder or a hierarchy?
Sure. I'll add that in to the company policy documentation I'm going to draw up. (Or put it in the TOS itself?)
There are many interesting uses for enclaves, most of which have nothing to do with DRM. A good example is Signal’s secure value recovery mechanism: https://signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/
The BBC has filmed several programmes where a group of historians relive life from different periods. One of these series was filmed there: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv5nc
> It could be that increasing NOS at the wrong time might make it harder to get oxygen

Then FFS STOP TALKING! Useful advice is only useful if it's useful. If it's not useful (AKA 'just talking') it's useless. Unless it has another purpose, which I am starting to suspect is to make you feel good.

I don't mind informed speculation but this is not how you are presenting it.

If you admit you don't know if it could be beneficial or harmful, why are you spouting it here?
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Oh, that’s interesting. I’ve recently had to switch to using the HDMI instead of the Mini DisplayPort to connect a 4K monitor to my mid-2014 MBP, since it wasn’t being recognised (which also means dropping from 60fps to 30). Wasn’t sure if this was related to an update. Are your symptoms similar?
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What's that Upton Sinclair quote everyone here loves? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." It's hard to admit there's a problem when you're part of the problem.
I use Gmail for personal mail and Yandex mail for my domains. I tried SendGrid but when I tested with Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo, most mails got into spam folder.

It's best to test when you set up email, whether you use your own server or use a provider.

Most of the times, sending mail from your own server will guarantee your mail gets into spam folder.

I can highly recommend Yandex as a mail provider.
I explicitly predicated my answer on the assumption that the reader needs seven hours of sleep and not eight. Unless you mean "all else being equal, would you not rather spend another hour of your life per day unconscious?" - in which case no, I would not.
Did you need a full book to tell you that though? The fundamental problem with pop sci books is that very often the most important facts (and probably the only generally communicable facts) about the topic should not need more than a few dense pages in a long-form article. But you can't sell an article for twenty bucks so the professors who would love a million or two (do they make that much?) Just expand it into drivel and cut corners to "simplify" the prose and take creative license.

Even the greatest popsci book of all time, a brief history of time, is famously a tome almost no one ever reads fully[1]. Every popsci book I've taken up I can never finish because half of it would be repetitive BS and I'll come out of it not taking anymore takeaway points than what was in the article in Forbes promoting the book. The motivations for publishing popular science books by professors are probably to blame here, on top of the fundamental research ethics problems that plague academia nowadays.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/1...
Gets complicated because rocket thrust is measured in Newtons but often converted to Pounds, 1 Newton = 0.22 Pounds of thrust
Life, .. uh .., finds a way.
That's the only resource I could find too, but few linked repos of complete or modern projects, or am I missing something?

Github has some repos but mostly dumps of old Delphi projects, not really a great resource.
You can't even imagine how. Reading a code base written by 1 person in the span of 5 years is a quest. Now, imagine the person goes on a vacation.
Look at all his lady fans, lol.
This is due to Steam adding a new checkbox that requires the game's developer to specifically click an extra checkbox to signify compatibility with Catalina (and optionally, specify if the binary is notarized and/or signed [don't recall which, or is possibly both]).

Steam almost always already knows if the game has a '64-bit macOS depot' configured -- ie ships 64-bit binary for macOS -- though in some cases the 'depot' may be configured as "macOS - All" in which case Steam may not know for sure.

When Catalina released, they defaulted the checkbox to "No" regardless of the game depot configuration. Any remotely recent game that supports macOS almost certainly is shipping a 64-bit binary (been quite a while since OSX was 32-bit only) -- so odds are very good that games supporting macOS will work with macOS Catalina, at least likely for anything in the last 5 years if not longer.

In our case, it took several weeks to find the checkbox to update our store page. In all fairness, Valve sent out an email alerting of the concern ahead of time; we just didn't read it thoroughly enough to realize that the default setting would be "No" even when explicitly having a 64-bit macOS binary configured.
Ok actually I do like your second rephrasing of that question, but if that's your point I think you are overstating it with the car analogy. I did recently miss a job I thought I wanted, possibly by being too honest - who knows but if that was indeed the reason maybe I dodged a bullet there.

Also though I agree with quietbritishjim's take, from the other side of the table I would actually read the question as confident. I'm British as well. Cultural thing maybe.
ICUs are still under pressure in Italy, but not at the levels of a couple of weeks ago.
> Many organisms have a stable superstructure within which controlled change is accommodated--the seasonal timing of reproduction, the outer protein coat of a virus, the plasticity of the brain.

Ok for the seasonal change, but I don't think all change is controlled the way you say. Individuals grow and adapt to their changing environment, and for this process to be optimal, entropy is necessary.

This contradict the idea that "Individuals maximally propagate information from their past to their future." which suggests that the optimal individual is fully deterministic.

So maximizing the propagation of information cannot be their only objective function. At least, this is what puzzles me.

edit: actually answer your comment
If we had the sketch to how toilet paper was first developed would we hold it this level of reverence?

What is the fascination with such trivial technologies grabbing a mindshare?
Thanks for linking, I'll check it out! I'm occasionally running Beaker Browser to publish my https-first website also over dat, but I'd gladly switch to a better dat-capable browser.
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