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> To chain science to objectivity or to any kind of formulaic process may help everyone to agree on results, but it impedes the evolution of the scientific process (or better, processes) itself. There's nothing wrong with methods that in different places drift into different directions, because overall this makes for a more competitive field of methodologies. in fact something even as stupid as Lysenkoism serves a purpose, it's in itself part of the scientific map of ideas that need to be discovered before they could be disregarded.

Not chaining the scientific process to objectivity might improve the evolution of scientific processes, but it won’t really bring the world any good as of now. Objectivity, as nebulous as it can be sometimes, is reliable enough at aligning what we think the world is and what it actually is. Plus, having competitive methodologies would just create silos of scientists all working on their own “science is X” methods, with nothing binding them all together. And how would you get someone who believes ‘science should be X’ to listen to someone who believes ‘science should be Y’?

Maybe if we’re on a new planet, an ‘epistemic anarchy’ is worth trying, but not on Earth, where the objectivity train is full speed ahead on an Ouroboros track.
Daily life has no non-sexual nudity either.

What little non sexual nudity is left (sharing showers at health clubs, for example) is becoming rarer and rarer.

And co-Ed nonsexual nudity is virtually non-existent.

When I was in secondary school in the 90s, we were expected to shower together, but refused to without consequence.

We all signed up for gym class at the last hour so we could shower at home.
Maybe I didn't read the whole article as carefully as I could have (3 G&Ts will do that to you) but I think it made a valid point. The scientific method should definitely be above politics and the moment that scientists make significant changes in how they report their results based on political inclinations then we should absolutely be concerned. But I still believe that the scientific process (falsifiable hypotheses, peer review etc. etc.) is the best method we have of determining truth about reality regardless of personal political inclinations.
The Hong Kong airline? If so when/where was this wall?
Same story here: We work with a custom build machine that is controlled by an C64 mainboard... it works perfectly since forever and C64 parts will be available for the foreseeable future, so why change?
> Here maps

HERE was spun off, and is a great platform today. HERE WeGo is available for Android and iOS, plus web.
> Politics should be informed by science.

Informed by science, absolutely. I think the point here though is that science is inherently amoral (meaning without judgement). For a mundane non-political example, Science may say: If we ban skiing the outcome will be fewer people dying in accidents. It takes a politician to assess the effects of making that decision in the context of societal values (freedom, privacy etc).

Science should not be prescriptive, only descriptive. It cannot weigh its descriptions against the values of a society or people.
Science itself isn’t political, but what the science means for society is political.

And because of that, science is political. Or at least, how we talk about science is.

But science itself (in its aspirational form) isn’t political. Back when I was in the lab, one of the most accomplished things you could do is prove an existing theory wrong - that was the very definition of scientific progress.
> I think it’s simple enough to see why Nokia thought Windows would be the right choice. It was far more polished than Android at the time

Everyone knew at the time Elop had made a terrible choice crafted to sell Nokia to Microsoft. Here's a nice HN comment I saved that was written a few days after the memo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206437

And then the Nokia transition was supposed to take two years! Posting a memo like this and then taking two years to transition while expecting customers to buy inventory on the old platform? That's just a way to kill a company.
> "Some people are saying the world will end and humanity will be wiped away."

I personally believe there may be more truth to that statement than many wish to believe, but not as a direct result of climate change itself. Rather, it's much more likely that the growing stupidity and political polarization surrounding climate change (and many other "hot-button" topics) will drive humanity to the ultimate stupidity of another World War, which these days can absolutely be a life-ending (on a planetary scale) path to go down, considering the types of "mass destruction" weapons the mad-men in power these days have access to.
As an interviewee I've always been flattered when the interviewer shows up with a copy of my resume covered in notes and we have a good conversation about my background.

The most offended I've been in an interview was a senior manager who, despite having had the interview rescheduled for his schedule - pushed up by a week - still had apparently never glanced at my resume until he was sitting across from me, and repeatedly misread details, which made things even more awkward.

I had spent probably 8 hours reading up about the company, the CEO, and this senior manager.

I really wish I hadn't needed the job as badly as I did, because otherwise I would have stood up and asked to be shown out the second it was obvious he was reading my resume for the first time. It was deeply insulting.
> Has any Nokia B9 user also tried Sailfish OS? Is it a proper successor to the Harmattan Meego distro the N9 had?

Yes I have it installed on a Sony Xperia. It's not my main phone (I have a work phone that I mainly use), but I would say it works very similar to the N9 so yes a proper successor. The major downside is a relatively small selection of native apps and that the platform did not progress as much as it could have. I would recommend that anyone who has a phone that can run it should try it out.
That’s just not the case in the Australian market. Contractors generally receive a higher rate of pay in exchange for an ongoing risk that they won’t be renewed, and are generally used to fill temporary skills gaps for projects and such. Permanent roles are expected to be for ongoing work, but that still leaves a risk of a bad hire as our labour laws are quite strict in terms of how you can terminate a permanent employee, which is what our probation laws cover, as it encourages employers to take risks with potentially under qualified candidates or be less prone to these sorts of 20 hour long 10 stage interviews to eliminate the possibility of a bad hire at the expense of wasting countless hours for even a good hire.

On the balance, I prefer the probation approach as it makes life easier for everyone.
Signal integrity first, then maybe cost or power usage. Commercial state of the art is around 100Gbit/s per pair using a gearbox chip, as seen in 100G single lambda transceivers. For ASIC/FPGA i think 58GHz PAM4 is available giving 116Gbps per pair. Actual data rate will be a few percent lower due to line coding and forward error correction.

Normal circuit boards start interacting with the signal from about a few gigahertz. At really fast rates you need some black magic like Teflon or ceramic substrates for the signal to even get through.
> nd they require many of the same skills as modern programming interviews.

I don't know, I have seen numerous PHDs who can't competently write any piece of code, I'm beginning to think it's a feature, not a coincidence.
I work in cyber security. Threat analysis. So far, AI has offered a moderate boost to defenders, and absolutely nothing to attackers.

I suspect this trend will continue - moderate defensive advantage, and no offensive advantages.
I think a better title would have been 'science funding is political, and that's a bad thing'.

Perhaps it should be political, to some extent, assuming a well-educated public that understands why studying infectious disease outbreaks, earthquake seismology and patterns, historical drought/flood patterns, etc. is important.

However, if control of funding of scientific research is taken over by specific sectors - fossil fuel interests, established depression treatment interests, mortgage security interests, etc. - then one can expect low-quality science resulting in an academic system where the willingness to fudge data to please one's corporate owners on their next-quarter stock profile becomes more important than scientific rigor, in terms of career advancement.

That's how Soviet biological academics worked under the control of Lysenko for about three decades... just replace Lysenko with Wall Street and you have the current American research program.
Exactly that. Compiles down to it rather than shipping the full compiled BEAM and runtimes.

Firefly is the new name, Lumen the old. Lumen lost momentum for a bit, DockYard seems recommitted to finishing it up.

I think it has fantastic promise.

Source: was helping publish news back when
I made a calculator app in Electron once...
The closest thing to a credible explanation I’ve seen is that at least one of the sightings (and photos) appears to be of a Jack Skellington balloon

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/pictures-jet-pa...
Were they? I had a Lumia with WP7 and it had nearly zero apps, zero multitasking (accidentally click on the Bing button and your app state is lost) and near zero things to do. I remember a very visible metaphor for the whole device was the calendar's month view: it literally showed "Lorem ipsum" for the days you had some events. Supposedly due to performance concerns, and this lasted to WP8 as well.

The only cool thing was the grid but that only goes skin deep. Otherwise I hated the phone. Maybe WP8+ devices were better but WP7 was a piece of crap. I didn't want to try WP8 and got myself a Jolla instead.
uh, I did, and I think you might wanna take another look at "climategate", cause it sounds like a bunch of nutjobs flailing about snippets of text taken wildly out of context.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email...
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I don't think the Fed dispersing money had anything to do with it. If anything more money with low interest rates would increase the crypto market.

Oppositely I think the global fiat currency inflation and the Fed increasing interest rates sunk the Crypto market. Now you could argue that the Fed keeping interest rate so low for so long created more "money", which it absolutely did, but not directly. Banks created more inflation than the Fed printing money because loans became so lucrative at these interest rates and put more money in everyone's pockets. That allowed the stock and crypto market to grow though not crash. You increase interest rates the first thing to get squeezed is always going to be high yield high volatility investments like crypto followed by the stock market as banks and wealthy people divest to the stable now higher yielding bonds market, which should out pace inflation with a fraction of the risk.
The N900 was my favorite phone by far. Most of the reason come as a programmer, not all users might value them.

First of all ot was a true Linux phone. Running a derivative of Debian, complete with apt etc. Most of the apps on it, even the app to make a phone call where preexisting open source Linux applications with a nice mobile UI. An UI that was clean and consistent without the need off branding that other platforms suffer from.

I could simply write bash script for it to extend its functionality. For example I remember writing a script that would record and sent recordings of phone calls to my server.

I installed Pidgin the chat client and used it to chat with my friends when MSN was still popular in my county. It truly felt like having a PC in your pocket.

The keyboard was the best keyboard ever made in my opinion. I could actually type blind on it sensing a message without looking at the phone at all. I still own 3 N900's with the hope of every managing the find the enthusiasm to rig in the another phone or a pi.
Calling this[1] "an article about racist dog names" is a complete misrepresentation. It's a critique of a study published in Social Psychology Quarterly, which is an official journal of the American Sociological Association.

[1] - https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/dog-name-racism
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> In one browser my mic works, but I cannot see screens shared by other people. In another browser it is the reverse.

perhaps joining calls from a convex combination of browsers might give you the least-worst results
> When those guys hit their late 60s it wasn't pretty.

When anyone is hitting late 60s, it's not pretty. In many countries, late 60's is the life expectancy. A lot of things in your body are worn out by that point. Teeth, eyes, joints. Your heart could be in decent shape, if you were in good health all your life.
eslint config is great, you can use json or js or other formats, works well.
This. But it really depends where you live and when (or if) you bought a house. I live in a city that has very expensive housing but bought in 2011 just before the prices corrected after the 2007/2008 crash. That single choice was the biggest we made. But aside from that, for ethical and lifestyle reasons, we are frugal. We use old phones and laptops, a 10 year old TV, don't fly, don't own a car and don't have kids. Result is that the house is paid off and we have enough in the bank to walk out on any job and remain funemployed for months (or more). You might think our lifestyle sounds boring, but when you remove stress and worry, you realise that a simple life can be a very happy one. A job you like, gardening, board games, long walks, DIY, cooking... None of it needs to cost much. I think that people who live with worry and stress desperately need to escape on holidays and reward themselves with expensive purchases (new cars/tech/fashion) to keep their spirits up and make it seem like the huge effort is worthwhile.
I covered quite a few Nokia reviews back in the day and Nokia was by far the most arrogant company to deal with.

Every company has it's rules and regulations regarding review devices but with Nokia you had to sign up to three forms just to do your work. Partly with ridiculous rules like a missing charger or cable was up to 50 Euros or so.

And they let you very much know where in the pecking order you were regarding your publication and who would get the devices first and last. This was in Germany.

Everybody at Nokia strived for not just being difficult but outright jerks to deal with... so when Apple came around and the disaster started to unfold it was quite the show to watch...

"ah Nokia would like to invite you to this and that shebang..." ah no thanks I think I'm good.

I'm not the guy who carries a grudge but Nokia really made it personal with their whole behavior.

Apple and Samsung aren't perfect but their marketing people are always nice and super helpful.
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Saving this comment for later. Excellent game plan.
Where do you think human well-being comes from?
The confs I've seen tend to release videos later.

Virtual tickets probably make decent money and I think most confa want to clean up the long-lived video before putting it out. Low incentives to stream for free it seems.
totally normal. not a day without googling the fundamental stuff. what matters for me is overtime your skill you find the answers you are looking for is now more accurate and precise.
It is crazy how things are different around the world. I can't imagine buying something online what I can just walk 6 mins and buy in a shop.
This technology isn’t bound by the availability of actors, real life societal issues etc, so I understand the disappointment when it follows exactly all the same lines as the current industry.

It will follow the same lines as current industry because is the almost literal (if very complex and sophisticated) average of current industry input.

An unfortunate quality of AI simulation output is it "freezes" the structure of it's training set, maintaining societal preferences exactly as-is.
Operation Elop is also a fascinating read.

https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52...
He wants to shift more costs onto the rest of society
I highly recommend reading "Four Thousand Weeks".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-w...
I'm very active in Elixir but the forum just hasn't been my vibe.
I once blanked in the middle of n interview because in the back of my mind I was thinking “do I really want to work for these guys?” And my brain started to wonder.
And then what? Let’s consider the following.

1. There is a limit of complexity that a given person or a given team can deal with happily. Below the threshold work satisfaction is great: “I am solving more and more complicated tasks”, after the threshold a stress eats job satisfaction: “I do not want to open my emails in the morning - what if I will not be able to solve some new problem”.

2. Complexity of each successful product grows until this threshold is reached. The successful product is used by more and more people. The successful product is put as a building stone in more and more complicated projects.

3. Because of 1 and 2 a successful SE is an unhappy person running under a lot of stress.

Now let’s see how decreasing the complexity of tools changes the situation. Bad tools: 50% of the complexity of the situation is caused by the tools, 50% - by the complexity of the product. Let’s improve tools twice. Now the tools create only 25% of the original complexity, and since the product causes 50% of the original complexity overall situation improved to 75% total of the original one. The engineer can have a happy life? No so fast. Since the product is successful, the is a great demand for new features. The complexity of the product increases to 75% and the programmer lives under stress again.

So, better tools allow to create more complicated, more useful products. But they do not improve - in the long run - the quality of programmers’ lifes. So if a person is not happy with current tools, she will not be happy to be a programmer. Or so it seems to me.
I gave Ubuntu 22.04 a try in my Dell Vostro 5402 and I like it so far. I had to use it instead of 20.04 because the driver for nvidia did not work well (the bottom of the laptop was so hot). I also installed tlp to improve battery life (it worked!).

One of the things that I could not fix yet is the touchpad. I do not use gestures (eg touchegg). I use one finger for moving the cursor and two fingers for scrolling. That's it. However, sometimes the touchpad gets somewhat blocked after scrolling: After normally scrolling using two fingers, sometimes the touchpad does not register my movements correctly, and let me scroll using one finger only.
It is like one of the two fingers is not properly released, so the touchpad interprets it as a scroll gesture.

A second issue is the modal dialogs used for snap apps. They just do not work in i3wm. If you try to save a file in Firefox or Chromium, the "Save as" dialog does not register the keystrokes correctly. Instead of displaying the filename in the input box as you type, it shows the autocompletion pane, like you were trying to find a filename in the current directory. Very annoying. It was reported, but there is no fix yet [1].

Besides these little issues, I think this version of Ubuntu is really stable. I miss apt repositories rather than snap apps, though.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1404941/no-file-save-dialog-...
I imagine $1.4 billion is a rounding error on a rounding error to UBS.
> "Science is political" because most scientists aspire to answer questions that will have value for society.

There are other ways for science to be political than that:

Source: https://libguides.umn.edu/antiracismlens

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Learn the racist history of statistics

Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and Ronald Fisher are three of the statisticians who established the fundamental basis and techniques of modern statistics, and they were all eugenicists. There is a modern discourse on the racist history of statistics and data collection methodology, and a number of books published:

Thicker than blood: how racial statistics lie (sociology)
Weapons of math destruction (mathematics)
White logic, white methods: racism and methodology (sociology)
Yes, I could imagine a very locked down opinionated distro built on top of Nix that completely abstracts away all of it and makes it work somewhat like Ubuntu with some prepared nix templates/metaprogramming to automatically generate config. Over time more of the Nix functionality could be exposed through UI or more friendly cli tools as best practices and nix itself evolve, allowing the distro to remain friendly to non-technical users while opening up it's true powers to them.

It wouldn't be able to handle arbitrary manual changes to config at the beginning, so either there would always be a protected generated config region of the whole config and the distro would remain relatively standardized, or an alternative evolution would be a low-code user friendly UI that could map to any possible nix config.
I don’t think the idea that all sexual preferences are innate, really holds much water.

There’s no genetic or development-while-in-womb explanation for why some people are specifically sexually into the idea of someone taking on the properties of a giant blueberry.

What is a fetish? It is the scar that guides the knife.
Can't you see the problem with protecting at least the cops against things such as public scrutiny? They wield enormous power already, they should be held accountable.
I don’t think we’re in disagreement. I’m responding to the article which mostly advocated for banning sports betting
People have shipped the BEAM VM as part of iOS apps recently though. I think Thinking Elixir covered it in an episode.
> But, providing a nice facade over the Nix language doesn't help with cases of where Nix can be difficult to work with.

This is true. If you reach the point where you need to write your own Nix expression you currently can become stuck.

But I think these are problems that are waiting to be solved. There are folks are already working on a new language tutorial at nix.dev for example and other tools that can abstract some of the problems we have now can be built. I believe we are still in an early stage when it come to reproducibility and we just have to keep working at it.
It was heavily encouraged at the time to refrain from any kind of gatherings.

I actively supported the 2020 protests and still think that it was the right choice for people to make. But the way press coverage skirted the issue of COVID was despicable to watch, especially after they (rightly) devastated similar pro-Trump gatherings.

I don't want my news to not tell me that it's unsafe to go because they have a political agenda. I want them to tell me that it's unsafe, and then I will decide based on my politics.
I miss floppy disks. They were fun.
Because the code is written in pairs, there’s two pairs of eyes on all code. I’m not familiar with SOC 2 specifically, but that’s sufficient for other security controls I’ve seen.

The purpose of this review is to create consistency across their large number of services. It’s really just a convoluted way of using GitHub’s PR system rather than doing a diff and talking it over.

Personally, I think it’s overly complicated, but I think the root cause of that complexity is having over 40 microservices owned by a single team, each in its own repo. It’s resulted in a lot of boilerplate, aka duplication, that they might be able to factor out if they used a monorepo. (Or a modular monolith.)
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We can speculate all we want. The fact is: its impossible to apply any real restrictionsn ML model. Just like any DRM this one gonna be easy to bypass and will only degrade experience of legit users and gonna slow down technology advancement.

We dont require image editors to have CSAM filters and requiring filter for ML model is madness.