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Is there a monospaced version, or an inspired monospaced version based on this available?

This is basically the side-effect of the rollback, and it really sucks. Now, they have to keep this wasteful design, and less tabs will _nicely_ fit into the bar. I don't think the initial design was great, but I like it more over this!

That’s a surprising good video. Well done and thanks for making it!

Homebrew on macOS supports fonts through ‘cask’. I’m not sure about Linux but since they run on Linux these days, I’d not wonder if they have that covered as well.

This looks really good. It’s much more intuitive than most other gnuplot wrapper I’ve seen and tested.

I just recently started using Lua through the sol2 library. I'm basically providing some flexibility through my input file to my users. I'm very surprised by both library and Lua itself. For my use, I don't feel a lot of performance hit, and gets a lot of flexibility.

YouTube is increasingly loading its ads from its contents server. I’m using a PiHole and it’s quite of a challenge to block the ads. There is quite of a discussion on PiHole discourse about this, and people are adding some obscure domain names to the block list. It’s not always working but sometimes they do, and curiosity, sometimes YouTube only fails to load the sound of the ad!

Now that you mentioned tidyverse, let me discuss the ugly side of R. You are right, R community and ecosystem is being pushed forward by Rstudio, the company and people behind it. Tidyverse is truly great and R without it would have not been where it is now. However, Rstudio is a company and they want to earn money, sure, they are contributing heavily to the open-source R but that might change, or they use their influence to steer the development. I’m not saying that they would but they could. I see it more and more that R codes relies on APIs that Rstudio expose. What if Rstudio decides to keep more of its product locked. You can see a part of this already, Rstudio team (company) sells essential security as a feature. What if this extends to R and Tidyverse. Sure, there is license and what not to protect it but that could change. Looking back at the history, this is how the whole Matlab has started!

Again, I’m not saying that it will happen, but it could. Dependent of R on third party packages and a company to push it forward it’s not necessarily a good thing.

P.S. Python IDEs are crappy too!

I understand that good reason, it’s because scripting languages run on sessions. So, Rstudio couldn’t execute any new command while doing something else. That’s fine. What’s annoying and not ok is the fact that sometimes the entire interface freezes. UI has to be separated from the session and logic of the program. Rstudio doesn’t do this well.

I’m not sure why you brought this up. I didn’t talk about who should do what and whether people are doing things wrong. I said R is strange and hard to read and Rstudio is bad and should be more capable.

Now, if I want to address your comment. I don’t think “this was the way things have been done here, let’s do it like that from now on” is a good approach. If there is a better way, even if it’s more complicated, at least it has to be tried and tested. If a more “sophisticated” tool proves to be useful, let it be. Not everyone in a team has to use the same set of tools, and if they see the benefit in something more “sophisticated”, they might want to try it, even if it was not explored before. People can learn, there is always a better way/tool and one tool cannot do it all.

I’m using R for a while in my current position, alongside some other programming languages, Python and C++. R is bar far the hardest to predict and read. Rstudio is terrible. It’s a wrapper around a “web app” and that simply doesn’t work well for something as complicated as IDE. To give an example, Rstudio does only one thing at the time, you are running a code, you cannot open a data frame even to look at it. Rstudio doesn’t at all behave likes any other IDE that you’ve seen either. Try to increase the font size and the whole idea scales up!

R by itself is a mess, and I don’t think I have to say much about that. R community is big and that’s good and bad. It’s good because amazing people are developing amazing packages for it. It’s bad because there is a lot of bad packages. It’s a lot like JavaScript community. I have a feeling the community has started to reward “having a package”, and everyone has a package.

Besides the quality of R packages and R being a strange programming language, R gets the job done. However, if your job is anything beyond some statistics and data processing, then good luck. I’m not saying that you cannot achieve what you want to achieve using R, however, good luck reading R code. I found it extremely hard to read R codes and so far 90% of codes that I’ve encountered have little to no comments.

While this is great, I like to give a shout out to DeepL Translator [1]. I'm not affiliated with them but I like to recommend them to people who like to step out of Google ecosystem. I am using DeepL for about a year now and I mostly use it for NL<->EN, DE<->EN. So far, I never felt that the translation is off, or terrible, and if not better in some cases, it's as good as Google Translator.

[1]: https://www.deepl.com/translator

I’ve been adopting and promoting DuckDuckGo for more than 2–3 years now. I can say that the transition period was quite long actually. I was invoking !g very frequently at the beginning but I force myself to at least probe a few first items first before trying Google. After these years I rarely use Google, and every time that I actually search something on Google, before even seeing the result, Google welcomes me by the whole TOS/Privacy stuff and I close the tab and try the DDG a few more times. I think the friction of accepting their privacy policy makes me think twice.

If you like DDG, recommend it to friends and coworkers. I usually put a link in newsletter if appropriate.

It's even worst than that. Most of the time the validity of the t-test that they are running is questionable. They are technically running an online t-test and as soon as they find significance they stop. This is fundamentally wrong, and not conclusive at all.

This is a solid project and I’m using it in many different projects for years. The developer team is responsive and care about the quality of the project as well as people’s need. I can not recommend it enough.

One of the biggest problem with these repl for complied languages is that they panic as soon as you rerun a command. `cling` integrates with Jupyter notebook too but as soon as you rerun a declaration of a variable, everything collapse and you have to reset the kernel. Maybe I didn’t dig deep enough and there is a way around this but if not, this is quite painful to deal with and a deal breaker.

There is whole group of people in social sciences who are pushing for abandoning the null hypothesis testing methods. For the reason you mentioned, I cannot believe changing the test (or threshold of the test) would solve this issue. You ask people to find something significant or fit a model to a data — and tell them that's what matters — and they'll do it, either intentionally or unintentionally.

Machine Learning will (have) the same issue if the only thing that matters is hitting a certain level of accuracy given your model and data. This has been observed in Kaggle competitions over and over, you ask a group of people to find the best fit, and they'll, by learning your train, validation and test datasets.

As mentioned, problem is not p-value, or null hypothesis testing, the problem is journals who promoted the wrong incentive, and educators who were not aware of the consequences and propagated the wrong incentive (interpretation) to students.

While this is already terrible, I’m aware of a few project that are trying to do the same with scientific literature. Basically they are trying to train models for scoring literatures based on their quality, novelty and what not. At the current rate and state of AI, I cannot ever imagine this is going to work.

It was a few weeks ago that someone shared “The Dark Age of AI” on HN [1]. I think we are promising way over what Drew McDermott thought we would not going to promise. This is to the extend that we are applying AI on assessing Art, Creativity and even quality and novelty of Science, something that in a way we don’t even understand (or trying to understand) ourselves at the time that we are publishing it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20546503

You seem to be ignoring a very important factor here, energy consumption. RAM usage has a direct effect on battery usage and battery usage is an important factor and selling point these days.

Is there any organization that you could recommend for planting trees?

> Isn’t the whole point of END to END messaging being undecipherable on devices other than these two?

That’s how it should be. WhatsApp’s desktop apps are technically another front-end to your secured database on your phone. I’m searching for the tweet of one of iOS security researcher that confirmed this. That’s also the reason that your WhatsApp desktop client stops working when you are out of range. That’s being said, I’ve noticed that recently this is changing and somehow the desktop app maintains the data a bit longer. It’s still not completely independent but I think it’s in the transition period. If that happened, then their E2E has to be different.

By the way, I think the security code from one of your devices, probably your phone, can be encoded to the QR code and transfer to the client.

I assume WhatsApp implementation is a hybrid between mirroring the information and some sort of secure handshake via the QR code.

EU has the advantage that most of its small and old cities are very dense. I think it makes a lot of sense to start removing cars from their city centers. Cars are not particularly efficient or convenient anyway in narrow streets. That being said I really wonder why Amsterdam still allows cars to drive in its rings.

People are still citing the Marshmallow experiment but there are a lot of controversies [1] around it in the community, I feel I need to share this.

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...

It was always the company name, the logo is lowercase now, but the abbreviation should still be upper case.

Sad autocorrection of "ARM" into "Arm" in the title on the text!

So, is there a way that I can block this tag somehow and drop it during the load time?

I see this more and more recently where a webpage takes ~5 seconds to load if it’s an AMP page if I have some sort of ad blocking (cookie restriction) in place. What’s interesting is that the page content is already loaded but my browser (Safari) is waiting for something to render everything. So, if I have the Reader Mode pre-activated on the same page, I can read the page before the ~5 seconds is over and I can actually see the page!

Is there any guide that you can recommend to set this up?

This is actually worst for your privacy because it gives you an impression that your data is not being used. However, by the time that you remove it Google is already done with your data. I feel this will spread to other type of data that they are collecting too. I cannot convince myself that it’s a good thing and Google has good intentions with it.

Comparison with UK is going for an easy win. Dutch should compare their trains with German or Japanese trains. Then, they suck!

If you use them occasionally you think they are amazing and much better than most other networks but if you rely on them everyday then you quickly realize how bad they are. Lots of random delays and unpredictable behaviors. Smallest change in weather causes disruption. And they are actually expensive even in comparison. (I cannot find the EU report that showed that, I’ll update the comment with it)