skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> org-babel capabilities blows Jupyter out of the water ... Besides all this, it's just a plain text format

This feels like the argument against Slack in favor of IRC. I don't doubt it's true for you that org-babel is better, but there isn't really even that much comparison between Jupyter and org-babel, they are very different things.

One of the more compelling reasons to use Jupyter is inline images and plots. Another one of the more compelling reasons to use it is it basically comes bundled with everything you need, python with it's own virtual environment that doesn't modify your system python, and a bunch of amazing libraries, numpy, scipy, matplotlib. Not needing to know emacs helps too, but that's really low on the list.

> Jupyter uses a rather obtuse js on format which is not practical to work on directly.

This is a wierd thing to say. Jupyter has download as .py right in the file menu. Not to mention download as Markdown, HTML, LaTeX or PDF, if you want to present or share instead of export the python.
>They may be uninteresting but much of a student’s college experience is reading uninteresting things.

Wow. What a revelatory statement.

Some reflecting observations.
1. Since when is an institution designed to increase your knowledge uninteresting?? That signals a broken institutional approach.

2. The number one real world skill is being able to filter for signal against noise.

If you're inserting a bunch of noise into the test, the most highly-adapted minds are going to be filtered out with low results.
For those who are interested in roots and origin of mindfulness, should take a look at original Anapanasati Sutta (https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.118.than.html). Anapanasati Sutta is the main source from which all the modern literature related to mindfulness has been derived. For more detailed explanation of sutta, listen to talk on mindfulness of breathing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NR3nn4nfM).
Sitting devices were definitely not capable of being used for extended periods.

If only someone had invented the cushion.
I played with Ruby like 15 years ago and loved it, but surely speed wasn't exactly a selling point, so I welcome this project.
One question though for the gurus out there: they say the compiler is written in Crystal; is it good practice to do it that soon? To me it could slow down development, if a subtle error occurs it could make harder to nail it to a bug in the compiler or in the language.
I have written a few small apps in it and so far I like it. I hope it gets traction and we see broad support for it dev tools. Would be cool to have debugger support in rubymine or idea for example.
I do this all the time when meeting new people. my memory for facial recognition is much better than an unaided association to a name alone, so shortly after meeting a new person, I try to mention some aspect of their appearance in a sentence. e.g. "Hey Steve - you've got a cool hairstyle."

It can come off weird to some people, but their name would be forgotten in seconds otherwise, so I've decided it's a worthwhile method.
So how do you actually do this? Can you just open up Google Maps with OSM side-by-side and copy addresses? Or you need to source it from somewhere else?
I believe that Beam implements copy-on-write so unless you create a copy with modifications it should minimize copies. values are immutable so this eliminates a lot of the need for copying during the message passing.
Where’d you track that info down?
I see a lot of complaints about tracking but has anyone proposed an alternative? These products have to be paid for somehow so how about a subscription fee to not be tracked by them?

For example, I'm sure my search data is less to Google than Google is to me. How much would you consider reasonable for their service? $50-100 per year would seem reasonable to me - I'd pay that for an ad-free non-tracked experience. This might actually be good for them, because I'd finally become an Android user - my main concern is my privacy as I use the Android platform.

They could hire an independent company to regularly audit this and make a report to prove that they are not tracking people who subscribe to the service.

I'm sure there are flaws with this idea but is anyone actually discussing an alternative to tracking? We simply cannot expect a company to offer any product for free.
TurboTax is the worst and they'll squeeze you any way they can.
Second Reality Code Review Part 1
> All countries in the world was pre-industrial monarchies just 150 years ago.

Hardly.

I can't speak for your country as you haven't mentioned it but mine was certainly not pre-industrial in 1868.

Brunel was already dead by then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel) and Boulton and Watt were but a distant memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt).
Here is the actual paper, for your reference. I'm appalled that ScienceDaily did not link this in their article.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
There’s senior in title and “truly” senior. Senior titles are tossed around pretty loosely, but everyone knows who the truly senior people are, when you work with them. They know where the bug is without even reading the code, they drive on features and projects with only the necessay guidance, their code is simple and works. They lead when they need to, and follow when they don’t.
Creating serverless applications with ClojureScript and Firebase
using a bit more arcane (but not crazy) method for determining sorted-ness - https://godbolt.org/g/MKN9HP - clang, and icc seem to have no problem vectorising the inner loop.

gcc manages it too, but emits a huge amount of code, though. and setting -Os seems to stop it from vectorising the code. shame.

edit: replaced with more correct version..
The NRA makes money from 4 primary sources:

1. Memberships
2. Contributions
3. Programs they run
4. Income from investments

Of these, #1 and #2 constitute the bulk, with contributions roughly 50% more than memberships.
Also https://medium.com/ember-ish is incredibly useful.
Note that in the paper, they mentioned controlling for age. Also mentioned is that this data is preliminary, hence the low sample size.
Wow! This thread (not the article) has got me questioning if I am in fact bipolar. Up until recently my diagnosis has been depression, but after reading the highs and lows others here experience, it looks more and more like what I in fact go through - and it makes sense, as I usually only see a therapist while depressed, and usually stop when I "feel better", which usually only lasts a few weeks or months. That might explain why it's never been caught.

Up until reading the comments here, I didn't realize that when I feel "normal"/not depressed, it might actually be a mania swing. I feel great, like happy for no reason, I work extended hours without noticing (14-16 hour days). I'm crazy hyper, and during these times are when I express my opinions (usually at work) and piss a lot of people off. These phases are also usually when I actually go out to meet people and/or hookup with women. When I feel like this is usually when I quit a job without considering I have no savings, or how hard it might be to get a new job quick. I day dream about a life outside of software, living in the wild and by myself. I never put 2 and 2 together, but following these super productive weeks is usually a hard swing into depression - the kind where I can barely work at all, and really struggle to get out of bed, take care of my kids, eat, or shower. The downswing into depression usually lasts much longer than the upswing where I feel wonderful, or at least it feels that way. And the entire time I'm wishing I could feel good again like I did the week before when I had no problems working or taking care of myself.

Someone here mentioned a daily mood diary - that's a brilliant idea! I'm going to start tracking my moods and see if I can graph a pattern out of them, or at least be able to tell when swings are coming so I can be prepared for them. I have really bad anxiety, and the constant back and forth really takes its toll on me, which deepens my depression to the point where I've thought about ending it all, but haven't because I have children that need me - but every now and then for 1/4 of a second a quick fantasy of dying will fly through my mind when I'm at a location where it's actually possible to do so - for example hiking to the top of a mountain not but a few weeks ago, taking in the view, and for a brief moment had the urge to just jump off the side onto the rocks below. It scared the shit out of me!
Just generally stop with the personality cult bullshit, both positive and negative.

As much as I think the best thing that could happen to FB is to just vanish, I can't "hate" this guy I never met who never ever seemed happy and now just looks tired. I doubt the author does, either. So why lie about it? That's both kinda pathetic and predictably unhelpful. It's not like the article doesn't contain information, but that framing sucks.

There's a lot to be said about the actions and words of Facebook as a whole, and of Mark Zuckerberg, but it does more harm than good if it's with the intent to make it about Facebook and Zuckerberg, instead of those things no matter who happens to do or say them, and our responsibilities not just in response, but in action rather than just reaction.
Kubernetes is based on borg which as far as I know wasn't really inspired by erlang necessarily. However I suspect the problem space lends itself to idenpendent discovery of very similar solutions.
Same here. But if I have forgotten a name or failed to recognize somebody who obviously recognizes me, I'll do the first step and hopefully the second step, and then pause. From there, people self-introduce (something they do all the time if there's nobody to introduce them).
> It's not an unreasonable hypothesis to explain quantum effects as numerical errors in the Matrix.

Have you studied quantum mechanics? Numerical errors in a simulation do not produce similar effects.

For example, consider Shor's algorithm. If QM is just classical mechanics + error, why can't we use a bad physics simulation to factor numbers? Where would the work needed to do the factoring even be happening?
That’s one of the easier problems. I just bought a split wireless keyboard. It actually feels alright just laying it in my thighs to typ.
I’m no expert on meditation, but I read/listened to several teachers until I found a few that would explain it without the “woo woo”.

A conclusion I came to about how it is taught is that besides some teachers being brought up on woo woo, many seem hesitant to teach it in direct, clear terms because understanding what it is creates goals in your mind and goal-directed thinking is counterproductive to the process.

So, the teacher being vague and woo-woo works out great for many students. But, for me, and I expect many people here, it prevented me from even getting started. Now that I have what I think is an understanding of the goals, I’m happy to meditate with a limp rather than not at all.
one pretty clearly inspired by Julia's approach, from what I can understand.
Yes. And television is bad for your eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCpYgd338U
> As a result a fireman who made a base of $100K per year (just a guess)

I know that was a guess, but sounds crazy high for a fireman. In my rather well-off Western European country a fireman makes about $45k per year before European taxes and deductions.
Not only can that monstrous crab eat birds; it can crack coconuts open with its claws.

That's why it's called the "coconut" crab.

I wonder if it's ever attacked human beings -- you know, like people napping at the beach.

Nature never ceases to amaze me.

PS. If you enjoy reading about "odd" creatures, check out "WTF, evolution?" at https://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/
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I was suggesting that, given enough tries (over thousands of years), a few might swim around the world and survive enough to grow. Possibly with some animal assistance.
Panic was also good. :)
Because you twisted the whole history of the world into a narrative of a glorious liberating revolution for you and your allies .
And you got it all wrong from the start.
Because you dont got any allies.
You have slave-holders, who use a caste of bred drug addicted males to bark at you- so you can be forced to labour in social institutions like the church, or the new office for gender equalizing ressource redistribution- and support a rather stress free life-style. The good thing about beeing a slave is having a master with a whip, a sugar-cane and a gun- he keeps those evel dogs at bay- all for a little cotton picking.

The only allie you ever got was science and the industrial revolution- which generated enough surplus, to make your slaveholders no longer vital dependent on your serfdom.

You can parade on rainbow street all you want, but it doesent help a bit - and half the crowd there is just taking your cause for a free-ride.
I know I'm a day late, but thought I would provide my perspective.

I think there's two aspects to this, is journalism sustainable and is journalism worthwhile. I think publishers are having a hard time with the former, but I think undeniably it is valuable in the latter. As the world becomes more complex and bad actors are becoming more sophisticated, I think the world needs more journalists to uncover truth and reality, especially since there is profit to be made from writing fake news. I think the fact that it's not sustainable now means that we should move to a model where we subsidize news with public funding; not sure what the best structure is, but there is so much good public externalities to journalism that it's worthwhile to fund it with public money.
Not OP, but I actually went to a physiotherapist. Well worth the investment if they know what they're doing.
It’s a remnant from the time when we paid by the bundle for longform content and trusted the issuing brand not to waste our time.
The NRA (I’m a member, and my wife) has at > 4M members. It’s $30/year, so that is $120M/year just in membership fees. You are only counting donations, which are separate.

Suggest you read John Lott to see how the media and manipulates gun statistics.
You need to source it from somewhere else, usually your own knowledge – go to places, photograph them, add them in OSM.
People with prosopagnosia tend to develop compensation strategies that rely on attributes other than face. Hairstyle, body proportions, style of dress, posture, gait, mannerisms, voice, etc.. Under favorable conditions they (we? I scored 2) can be very good at recognizing people. That's why the test removes everything other than the face itself.

> There's the bizarre phenomenon, which people other than me have reported, how some people seem to consistently resemble photos of themselves, while others don't so much: they're almost a different person in photos.

I'm also just speculating wildly, but this might have something to do with (monoscopic) photography removing depth cues, which is also a factor in the phenomenon of "the camera adds ten pounds". Different lighting and some approaches to makeup and clothing can exaggerate or diminish this effect.
Article 1, section 2 of the US Constitution prohibits direct taxation. If the IRS sends you a bill, that's becoming a little more 'directy' because they are just assuming that every single head had a W2 with no deductions outside of the narrow info that they know and now you have to proove them wrong. Whereas asking you what you think you should owe and giving you an opportunity to present all facts is more of a levy, and much more just. What this person is asking for on Stackexchange is just pure laziness and super narrow thinking about what activities one could potentially get involved with in one's life. Those who point toward H&R block as being at fault: well yes they would certainly want to maintain a horrible IRS UX, but that is completely separate from how taxes are levyed, which is constitutional. Also I love Sweden but just because Sweden does it does not mean automatically the best solution.
Agreed about the gold. That came to mind also.

I also agree that the I-beams would rust away, as would rebar embedded in concrete. Would they remain as identifiable shapes or would the material migrate?
you must be referring to Rails. sure they can be pretty big, as they are what you call a monolithic framework.

thats why i recommend Sinatra for performance conscious devs, as its a fast and minimal framework. and you get to load only what you need. check the github.com/jaequery/jasis github project and peek at the Gemfile / boot.rb to see all that it loads for a full fledged mvc app. its pretty explicit and lean if you ask me.

if are talking about server resource then you probably referring to the web server. for which we have ‘puma’ and it is also incredibly light and fast. much lighter than a php stack running Apache and mod_php for sure.

but i see you compared to Go to which we have no comparison Go will run circles around Ruby. but Go is not really a well suited environment for web applications yet so ill just leave it at that.
The cited figure is for individual (e.g., Form 1040) income taxes. Payroll taxes are in separate categories.
That's wonderful. I hope it continues.
Just because you're paying someone, it doesn't mean you can trust them with your data. If you put it online, expect someone to use it in a way you don't approve/know about. Even with auditing you can't be sure, it's only prudent.

Also, me and many others would never pay for online services like search and social media. I'd rather give up my data and use it for free. These services just aren't worth it to me. Probably not a popular opinion but it is true.
I have no problem with using notation in a more 'intuitive' way than the technical definitions allow. However I won't ever acknowledge such notation as correct. If you want to be precise you'll need to use precise notation, and insisting that abusing the '=' sign is precise will do more harm than good. Unless you consider 1+1=3 to be good notation.

If you seriously think you're not missing out by removing the distinction between ⊆ and =, consider that O and subset relations are enough to denote all relations that you'd normally use the different big Os for that nobody ever bothers to remember.

So f being of order o(g) is equivalent to O(f) being a proper subset of O(g) (O(f)⊊O(g)), f being of order Theta(g) is simply equivalent to O(f)=O(g), and f being of order Omega(g) is simply O(f)⊋(g). You might need to restrict yourself to nonnegative monotonically increasing functions, but that's pretty much done in practice anyway. And this might differ from some of the existing definitions that are being used, but those do vary a bit across sources, and these definitions are as sensible as any, and are compatible with the natural partial order on sets of the form O(f) given by inclusion.

Seriously though there's nothing you'll gain from throwing away a nice inequality relation just because it saves you from writing ⊆.

I'm also not sure what you have against thinking of something as sets, but you can't be precise in mathematics and insist you're not using sets, at least not without going through a lot more trouble then you'd ever avoid that way. In particular it's fine to think of:

>“when you take n and add a quantity that is at most a constant times log n, and square it, you get n^2 plus at most a constant times n log n”

and

>“the set of functions obtainable by adding the function n ↦ n to a member of the set of functions that map n to at most a constant times log n, and squaring the sum, is a subset of the set of functions obtainable by adding the function n ↦ n^2 to a member of the set of the functions that map n to at most a constant times n log n”,

as being the same thing. One is just written in slightly more obnoxious math speak. However if you insist that the meanings are different then something is wrong, because that would imply that the most straightforward mathematical interpretation is apparently different from what you meant.
Stop using these services.
Programming languages and empiricism
How is it optimized well when there is still lots of copying going on? Anything in the same process space should just be a matter of passing a pointer or a pointer with very little information wrapping it up.

> Those generally tend to be frowned upon, and incur the usual headaches/perf issues of a ref-counted structure as well.

Why would reference counting be worse than copying?
Mobile friendly link https://github.com/deobald/vipassana-for-hackers/raw/master/...
Brilliant analogy. Especially when you consider how heavily nature conserves and multi-utilizes molecules and structures, it's not much of a stretch to see how what starts as a side effect can quickly become an essential machination.
In answer to a code-review critique I once posted a Venn diagram of two completely non-overlapping circles labeled "What you're asking about" and "Scope of this feature". It got the point across, albeit with a little snark.
The stronger your password the more of the pixelated photo is revealed
>Western Allies, which is also at war with Germany, provided continuous aid to that "superpower" in addition to their own soldiers at war.

On D-day the nazis were on the run, pushed back to Poland. The USSR did more than 90% of the winning and much of it before anyone else invaded. This thinking that the UK, US, etc. did anything near the winning that the USSR did is getting old. Of course we helped but it was a tiny drop in a big sea. The biggest help was by far the supplies to USSR, not the soldiers.

Look at how people saw things back before the US spread its culture everywhere:

https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/poll-fr...

It says a lot.
A fundamental problem is that there are no, or at least vanishingly few, unbiased parties left to report the reality of the situation to lay people. Journalism is near-universally funded by the same privacy invading advertising systems that they would be criticizing Facebook for building- and that’s putting aside the direct dependence companies have on Facebook itself.

Journalists aren’t stupid, they know what hand feeds them, and they are strongly dis-incentivized to call too much attention to the fiasco of advertising driven monetization models.
Meh, with an eventual VR/AR headset with eye tracking these patients will be able to look at letters they want to type and then blink to type them out that way.
That's why I'm laying down.
Copying from Google Maps would violate copyright. Ideally you visit the place in question and correct them in OSM based on your observations. There are also some satellite maps that are licensed for use as OSM source (and that are often integrated in OSM editors)
Despite what others might tell you, Google does not own addresses and associated information (opening hours, phone number etc.), so you’re free to copy them side-by-side. Uploaded photos are a no-go though.

Edit: for all people blindly ramming that downvote button, see my explanation below.
I usually recommend Q for Mortals. Vhttp://code.kx.com/q4m3/

The thing I love is that the SQL and regular programming syntax can be mixed. For instance, if I wish to apply a lambda function for each group I can do, eg:

select result: {lambda code here...} column by category from table

Since a table is implicitly a list of dictionaries under the hood, you can iterate over a table where each column will be a dictionary. Tables and dictionaries are first class objects in q, so it is a lot easier to reason about certain manipulations as they are essentially the same as if you had used regular code. One issue I've always had with SQL itself is that I learned KSQL first, and the way many things are done in regular sql just seem strange.
Thanks for posting. I'm sure bugs like this show up in any and all software. I do wish they had a public bug tracker though.
Understanding the odds lets you play with them
Physicist Carlo Rovelli on changing how we think about time
no. lobbying, per se, is a problem.