skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I think its best to think about it in terms of high dimensional spaces and manifolds. The manifold of solutions to business problems is currently not well approximated by the way that we decompose business problems. And by this I mean that if you were to look at the manifold of problems solvable using current techniques in amount of time x, you would find that in general that manifold is a long way away from the manifold of useful business applications. I'm not saying that there is a better decomposition - a better decomposition that leads to a manifold that lies closer to the target manifold - it may be that the manifold is complex in a way that makes it impossible to approximate efficiently in terms of time to develop.

And we may be butting up against the fact that most objects in mathematical space do not have effecient ways of representing them. I'm thinking of kolmorogrov complexity and the pigeon hole principle. Most outputs have no short programs to produce them.
I'm confused by the use of ggplot2 as shown in the example: ggplot2 and geom_smooth() already calculates and plots confidence intervals by default. What does this package add to a ggplot?
Where are you reading this? It is seven months each way as per the following: https://www.mars-one.com/faq/mission-to-mars/how-long-does-i...
I worked at the Wikimedia Foundation from 2012 to 2016. The Foundation did fly me across the world several times, either to attend professional conferences like FOSDEM or (more commonly) to participate in events hosted by a local chapter, like a community hackathon. I never flew anything but coach. I can recall one occasion when a colleague was able to get a free upgrade by using his frequent flyer miles. I am not aware of the WMF ever paying for business class for one of its employees.

This sort of comment is really pernicious. If you bring up such an accusation, you should really be prepared to back it up.
> the Australian Constitution is an embarrassment to the Australian people - it is categorically the worst constitution of all modern western democracies...

You really think so? I agree with you that there are many deficiencies in the Australian constitution, plus a national tradition of constitutional conservatism which means most attempts to address these deficiencies are doomed to fail. But in calling it "categorically the worst", I think you go too far.

I think the (unwritten) UK constitution is worse. Similar to the US Supreme Court, the High Court of Australia has the power to overrule the Australian Parliament and nullify unconstitutional legislation, even though it uses that power somewhat sparingly. By contrast, the UK Parliament is "sovereign", which means the courts cannot overrule Parliament. The UK courts effectively have the power to strike down primary legislation contrary to EU law, but with Brexit that power is going away. They also have the power to issue a "declaration of incompatibility" saying that legislation violates human rights, but that does not by itself void the legislation – either Parliament must act to amend or repeal the legislation, or there is also a fast track procedure whereby ministers can amend it without going to Parliament, but until either Parliament or the ministers act the legislation stays in force. (Also, Parliament granted the courts this power, and can take it away at any time by a simple majority vote in each House.)

I think another way the Australian constitution is superior to the UK constitution is that the Australian constitution bans the national government from establishing a religion (the ban doesn't strictly speaking apply to the state governments, but in practice they abide by it), whereas the UK constitution establishes a state church in one of its four constituent countries (England).

Also, the UK Parliament has in theory unlimited power to overrule or even abolish the devolved administrations (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) at any time, by a simple majority vote (even though real world political constraints mean that trying to use that power could easily lead to the violent breakup of the UK). By contrast, the Australian Parliament can't legally abolish the states without a national referendum which would be very unlikely to pass.
I programmed in a DOS tool called 'Magic'. It basically was a screen designer which could work on tables. All code was held in the database, all screens were datadriven (declarative). It ran on the Novell Btrieve database. It was from an Israelian company.

It worked perfectly. Even my brother, who wasn't a programmer at all, was able to write his business software with it. It was reasonably fast. Downsides: theming wasn't possible so all applications looked the same, and Btrieve wasn't as reliable as it needed to be.

But otherwise it was great. I never understood why such a program doesn't exist these days. Tempted to write one myself....

Edit: they still exist: magicsoftware.com.
Rumors of EPA decline are greatly exaggerated. Tier IV emissions standards are here to stay. Fuel economy rules are here to stay. Airborne dust standards haven't been relaxed. Criminal offenses for illegal dumping are still intact. The United States isn't returning the 1970's and claims to the contrary are political propaganda.
Yeah when it's written in Python or C and not Go/Rust.
zsh globs are about a factor of 5 slower (for this example):

> time fd -sIe jpg > /dev/null
1,24s user 0,77s system 758% cpu 0,265 total

> time ls ~/**/*.jpg > /dev/null
0,53s user 0,97s system 98% cpu 1,518 total
> Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC.

You sure it's not 18 months total?
I don't understand what this "cognitive burden" and "refactoring" is, either.

Connecting an existing component simply means: declaring a `mapStateToProps` and `mapDispatchToProps` and exporting a `connect(...)(Component)`. Where's the refactoring?
well VMS still exists .... both as itself and as the underpinnings of WindowsNT (and modern windows)
It's not too easy. I've worked on one such app, React Studio:

https://reactstudio.com

It's maybe 80-90% of the way there, depending on what you need. Closing the gap feels demoralizingly hard with no resources (I'm spending time on it unpaid).

The design environment is quite complete, although it doesn't even try to expose all of CSS -- instead it's more like a "walled garden" of the parts that make sense for mobile-first designs.

I'm most proud of the exported code's quality (no extra junk, no giant library hanging around) and also the component and plugin architecture. You can either design React components visually or import them from code (e.g. an npm package), and both will work the same within a design.

The fundamental problem is that the technological foundation for web apps is so unsuitable, like building a house on quicksand using decayed planks. CSS is a cruel joke with its thousands of properties, their decades of cruft and their unpredictable interactions. HTML was designed for documents, then was semi-accidentally turned into a view layer, but it never adopted any of the learnings from the successful '90s GUI desktop frameworks. Some of that missing structure has been added back by efforts like Angular and React (and the latter is fine to my taste), but it's just really frustrating that web front-end development is still stuck endlessly patching over a rat's nest of <div>s into something that resembles actual UIs. But what can you do? It's not like browsers are going to add a real app framework. So here we are, still trying to decide whether buttons should be <a> or maybe <input> elements. Sigh.
How can you say definitively that things won't change? I'm genuinely asking - I don't know the specifics of what the head of the EPA can and cannot do to change existing laws (nor do I know all the specifics of which laws the president can change).
Yes, you are right. I goofed up.
Because you would get 90% of the way there, and then have to start over without the automation if you wanted to close out that last 10%.
Have you considered that maybe CRUD application building is actually already 90% automated, and the things you discuss are the remaining 10%?
Sure, but going from there to doing simple stuff (e.g., handling a file upload, authorization, client-side validation, client-side form modification [e.g., make a selection on this dropdown and this other dropdown changes], making the app multi-tenant) requires a lot of additional code, which should, IMHO, be part of the framework.
The New Zealand Commerce Commission got grumpy when ISPs started selling gigabit plans as 1000mbit, as it's not realistically possible for consumers to reach those speeds. So, instead of gigabit, we get "up to 900/400Mbps" or more realistically about 800/400, which, you know what, I can live with.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/87071149/spark-wa...

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6671498802.png
Is that faster than just doing it with Django?
I didn't expect much from the abstract, but that's brilliant
In a weird way, this is the same problem that banks face.

Fractional reserve banking is actually in society's best interests: it's fine if the bank takes $100 in deposits, then loans out $80 or $90, rather than just having the money sitting in a vault doing nothing.

In the same way, it's probably better for the overall efficiency of communications for ISPs to oversell capacity and then allow bursting on top, rather than not overselling and wasting bandwidth when there's no congestion.

They face the same problem though: banks have an incentive to lower reserves until the smallest shock will bankrupt them, and ISPs make more money by overselling past what is wise or reasonable.

Same solution: for banks we regulate margin requirements, and for ISPs we should regulate how much they can oversell.
The fish shell is the only one that counts. Fish is life.
KSR's ship AI "Pauline" also figures into "2312".
claims to the contrary are political propaganda

... despite the party in power in all three branches actively trying to defang and rollback EPA regulations?
Irreversible bone mass reduction; heart shrinkage up to the point astronauts couldn't walk upon returning to Earth.
3+Ways+of+Reducing+Small+Business+Costs
regulations are bad for business, make america great again! /s
What do you mean by "a bit cagey"? The Foundation is pretty open with its data. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/ and https://stats.wikimedia.org/ are good starting points.
I've been prototyping a tool to generate most of the implementation whilst still allowing for BI and design changes. Would love feedback on if the premises make sense.

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/geb
This might be a grammatical error, but the USA is not currently a third world country by any stretch of the imagination.
Exactly my thought. It shows that Rails really grew organically from real-life business patterns as a way to automate the mundane. The Rails resource generator generates views, controllers, models, migrations and routes.
And every other rich first world nation.
On a side note... tried to use their beta sign-up page. Form looks very pleasing to the eye, but, sorry to be that guy, it's all sorts of terrible. What annoyed me first was that the tab structure of that form was all broken, instead of going to the next field, it just went to a random field down the road. It also was not responsive, it felt almost as if someone just dragged and dropped it on a visual form designer or something, you see where I'm getting at. I hope that form was not built with Wix Code. *

A quick look at the HTML confirms, all fields and labels seem to be positioned absolute, each. Might be a good workaround for an MVP form builder, dragging on a grid and using absolute positioning is the easiest way to develop a visual form builder I guess... (although I think a tabindex property would have solved the tab issue, and a simple algorithm sorting divs by top / left would have been able to do it automatically, but this is just MVP).

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe nice HTML doesn't matter, maybe they can fix the tab stop problem, maybe responsive forms are not important to most customers. But everything I was taught is wrong in a web form exists in the form that asks me to sign up for a beta to a tool that builds forms without coding.

Maybe this is the way to MVP... maybe that form was built by an intern. Maybe accessibility is not important for a beta (or maybe I'm the only one pressing tab when filling forms) but this just reeks bad web design practice all over it.

*EDIT: Yep, I guess it was, at the bottom it says: "This Website Was Created with Wix Code". Maybe the genius idea was just to build a fixed grid, forget responsiveness, and solve 99% of the problems of a WYSIWYG editor. All in all they built an MVP and I'm just ranting on HN, so perhaps they are onto something...
I have some experience with the Django admin and I think it is actually a good illustration why user interfaces are still complex:

Because the way we abstract our data in the database is often very different to how we think about the date in a specific context.
I've love to see more character cell intefaces. Not everyone wants to run a web/GUI stack for a simple CRUD form. TUIs are often fast, and low requirements. I've considered the same myself, as no modern languages include a real TUI library (no, curses support != a TUI).
Yeah - so instead let us not do anything and spend our time commenting on random threads how bad the idea is. You realize that at every cusp of a major technological breakthrough, there were 100s of people like you saying how terrible the idea was?

You are getting downvoted for your pessimistic and can't do attitude than anything else.
There's usually more to that than those 2 use cases: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-scrap-value-of-a-hac...
100% this - I've spent many years feeling like I'm one abstraction away from having a killer library that would get me the initial crud based app done in a single line of code...

I've never actually managed it - the edge cases mean I end up chasing my tail around instead of "just coding the app".

Now I use small libraries for individual parts (like menus and forms) but even then 50% of the app becomes special edge case forms anyway. Accepting that the job is to just implement the spec and not invent a rube goldberg machine is an important lesson to absorb.
If AI cannot learn and humans can, then this is experimental confirmation that humans are not AI, and the matter is settled. Therefore, the issue is worth debating.

I submit that AI cannot learn, per my previous comment. Furthermore, I submit that humans can learn, evidence being school, science and math. Ergo, humans are not AI.

Matter settled, debate over.
Often they're using these on bridges, which are narrower than the roads that feed into and out of them, and thus can act as bottlenecks. In that case, widening the direction that has more traffic can make a big difference.
What's the alternative? If weight of the metal box is the problem, individual cars beat out buses and trains.
ciTools doesn't add anything to ggplot, it creates tidy dataframes that are easy to plot with ggplot. In the example, we show CIs and PIs on a linear mixed model, which ggplot can't handle.
Who makes the decision on what gets standardized into the distro?
1000% agreed.

I've actually written something (not open source) that largely solves this problem for myself and my company, but, its a very hard problem to solve in general. The largest benefit that I find from it is that it allows you to make some things that would done directly (EG: UPDATE statements) be by a web UI. Figure if you had a particular table that only got updated once or twice a year, is it worth it to write a bunch of CRUD code for that? No. Is it worth it to write 20-ish lines of JSON to describe the table and avoid a bunch of problems that direct DB updates cause (accidentally hit enter before I typed where on that update, no tracking on who makes what change when)? Yes.

Has a lot of benefits. I understand its a hard problem, I don't understand why no one (aside from perhaps django-admin which I find too obtuse) has tackled.

I may rewrite existing code to golang (PHP now) and open source it at some point in the future.
As others have stated, if you don't take a very large diameter, the Coriolis effect starts to be really disorienting. That can be counteracted somewhat by reducing the speed of rotation, but that comes at the cost of lower effective gravity.
Non-profit doesn't mean non-comfortable.

I'm not even a tall person, but economy is tight enough that my whole body hurts 1 hour into a ride. It's impossible for me to find a sleep position and watching last year's mediocre movies isn't a plus to me.

For a rare trip, I can deal with it to save money. But for frequent trips, I could see myself being quite pissed off if I had to take business trips regularly and sit in economy each time.
Show HN: Converter of 360 degree panoramas into cube’s edges written on golang.
The people in charge of the distro. Governance structures vary. And sometimes it's not just about who gets to decide, but also, the technical work required to do it. People need to put in the work to make Rust applications packageable according to the distro's standards. YMMV.
Ask HN: Can you tell me if this is a good way to learn JavaScript?
I have been learning html & css in my web development class (soon we will do some js) and have been reading this book on the side: https://github.com/bpesquet/thejsway
and also have been planning to follow it with Sacha Greif's study plan: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascript-fatigue-8ad3a54f2eb1

I am currently wondering if you all know of any free alternatives to Wes Bo's tutorials on react and es6. Or if you have any other suggestions for learning the language. Does it also make sense to read the book 'the JS way' linked at top of post? Or should i just dive right in with the react tutorials. ( I am interested in front end development & web apps, I might want to dive into nodejs and making apps on electron after)
It's still a daunting prospect for those expecting to return from mars to earth.
The same problem can happen with any mode of transportation in which travelers take up space when traveling. The underlying issue is not single person cars--it is that there is a large net flow in one direction during part of the day, and a large net flow the opposite direction during another part of the day.
entr, too: http://entrproject.org
Not the GP, but some examples are: (1) how do you get a computer to have a human-like train of thought? (2) how do you get a computer to acquire new concepts (e.g. "debt", "global warming", "weed") and then reason about them correctly, without any reprogramming? (3) automated acquisition of common sense through experience (e.g. "if you pour water on the floor you will get a puddle") (4) deep natural language understanding (i.e. how do you make a chatbot that really understands, and isn't just a thin illusion of understanding).
The problem with a tariff on Chinese imports is: who do you think pays the tariff? The Chinese manufacturer? The importer? American distributers? No, it's the American consumers who will have to pay for it. How does that help American manufacturers to compete? They still have much higher costs than their Chinese competitors, so they'll be outmatched on R&D, marketing, variety, etc.

Besides, the American consumers probably can't afford the higher prices anyway, so rather than helping American manufacturers, tariffs will just collapse the market when consumers stop buying the products, or they go to underground sources.

To level the playing field, we can't do it on the market-price side. We have to do it on the manufacturing-cost side. The US has all of these regulations that protect the environment and protect workers, but the costs have been borne by each manufacturer separately. I think that's led to a great deal of redundancy and inefficiency, which has raised the cost of these protections beyond what most manufacturers could bear. We need to move to a system where these costs are shared by all Americans, and by all who buy American products, in a more efficient manner. That should reduce labor costs, hopefully enough so that the benefits of local manufacturing outweight the still-higher labor cost to provide an American-level standard of living.
Being John Manifold.
As one of those living 'in a city' my disbelief stems from:

* Someone that votes against their own interests, seemingly because they're willing to believe sound bites
instead of hard facts. (Voting based on emotion rather than logic.)
* That we refuse to reform political funding.
* That corporations can have more rights/power than individuals.
* That the only real problems the working class has with 'Obamacare' is that they don't understand it and hate the name.
Though I imagine if they were offered a healthcare plan where they could see (nearly) any doctor in the area,
not have to shop for healthcare, keep their healthcare from job to job,
and didn't have to worry about medical bills showing up months later...
Yeah, I think they'd like the /features/ of a single payer system.
* That we aren't willing to have a real talk about tax reform
(based on returning to a tax structure more like in the 1950s
where the lower 90th percentile paid much less,
and those earning the most paid /far/ more
(in line with how many workers worth of income they were hoarding)).
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Allen Steel fits in this vein as well.
Oh shoot.... I just downloaded 10Mb on my data plan :(
I don't recall AI playing a role in those books, can you expand?
Or parallel, which is slightly trickier to implement than xargs/-exec.
Psst, you’re going against the globalist narrative. On HN this is punishable by downvoting. To atone for your sins, write “protectionism is bad” a hundred times on the nearest chalkboard.
Further away places also mean increased chance of hopping through intermediate networks which could introduce their own bottlenecks.
thatfrenchguy didn’t say it is. He said it will be, using makes to indicate the future. There’s no grammatical error here, just a grammatical misunderstanding.
Yup. I tell people all the time, "See that pollution in Beijing. That's why the air in the USA is cleaner." As if their air doesn't become our air.

People are naive. They believe China is all about lower wages. It's mostly about the byproduct of the manufacturing. That is, pollution. At the risk of editorializing, even the pro-green "liberals" don't understand what it takes to make their new iPhone.