skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thanks for the reply! Actually, apologies for throwing your name next to tableau like that. I think your product does a great job incorporating things like R/python scripting to allow more flexibility in how data can be manipulated within the product. In this sense I prefer periscope to tableau (an in many other senses actually).

A problem I encountered (granted over a year ago) was creating grouped bar charts with confidence intervals. Bars were grouped on some discrete x axis labels. The suggested solution for confidence intervals on grouped bars was to use a scatter plot to draw the confidence intervals, but this clumped them all on the xlabel position, not in the center of each bar. matplotlib for example treats the visualization as an object, in which case it makes a lot of sense that to add confidence intervals just query the bar objects for their positions and place line segments of desired widths in the center of the tops of the bars (or wherever, you have full control over this). So in general, a marriage of these two paradigms, quick development of a visualization based on data, but then the ability to switch to viewing and manipulating the visualization as a collection of instantiated objects with full control over their attributes.

I am open to revisiting over any development periscope has made to this end.
We’d very much like to find something! If we do we could partner with the local university to create a study area.

This island was formerly called Isla Del Tesoro and it’s sister was Isla Del Piratas. Literally Treasure Island and Pirate Island.

During the 1500-1600s they were a base for pirates to attack Spanish Treasure ships.

One of my friends parents bought about 100 acres in Belize in the 80s for about $30k. They built a small farm and resort. 5 years ago they discovered a massive Mayan City complete with pyramids and all — it was a secret city that was used as a meeting place for all the leaders. Currently they have an archeological dig - very exciting!
Slight correction here. According to the Report on the Economic (2015), only 31% of the people responded stated that they could not cover the expense. It should also be noted that 46% of the total respondents said that they would have a hard time paying the $400.

Page 22:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/2015-report-economic-well-bei...
Power-projection is about using our resources to most effectively influence others. Its not about defense, but about offense.

IIRC, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were supported by two Super-Carrier strike-groups stationed in the Indian ocean. Super-carriers, by themselves, can take on multiple foreign army bases.

Super-carriers however, are very weak defensively. If any war were to seriously start vs the US, the super-carriers would almost instantly fall to a series of cruise missiles (aka: suicide drones from the 1970s). I mean, we've got some anti-missile protection ships around them, but its cheaper to build 2000 cruise missiles than 1 super-carrier + its fleet of aircraft.

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Anyway, the point of power-projection is that these bases are mobile. As we finish up our job in Afghanistan / Iraq, we can move these super-carriers elsewhere for support. Puerto Rico was serviced by a super-carrier Abraham Lincoln for instance (hospitals on board, + Helicopters delivered supplies), while the Super-Carrier Ronald Regan helped Japan clean-up the Fukashima Nuclear disaster.

Power-projection is more than just killing people. Its about building mobile bases around the world which can help people during disasters.

In fact, I'd argue that these super-carriers primarily deal with diplomatic details and are near useless in a conventional war.

Anyway, the F35 air superiority is an important piece of a super-carrier. Winning any dogfight by destroying approaching aircraft before they're even on the horizon is an important piece of the puzzle... keeping the Super-carriers well defended.

Furthermore, the F35's stealth capabilities project power many miles away. Remember that an F35 looks like a baseball to radar installations, its stealth capabilities are incredibly advanced, and only a few nations can even detect the thing. So the radius that these aircraft project beyond the mobile Super-Carrier Strike Force is huge, and a huge benefit to the USA.

Obviously, no sane person wants to actually use these weapons to kill people. But they can be used to get an edge on diplomacy. In the worst case, if we are forced to use military might to solve a problem, the F35 will be useful.
Cost of entry is too high for new players
They are pretty much equivalent. The kernel will only schedule your program when an event happens. The difference is that by using a blocking syscall you will need more threads which indirectly decreases energy efficiency through increased context switching and RAM usage. If you only have a single thread then blocking or non-blocking is going to consume the same amount of energy.
I mean it's not like the money just went into a hole. These things were built by U.S. factories. Not the best use of taxpayer money by any means, and we are right to be angry, I just want to point that out.
That page completely freezes my browser for about 30 seconds. Safari 12.0 on macOS 10.14.
That may realign it, but it doesn't mean you're good at it. Maybe Joe-Z fails in the other direction, writes off tons of people as untrustworthy (incorrectly) for no reason, and hasn't realized it.
Out of curiosity, does the 250 million taxpayers include tax paying businesses?
How about good old fashion RSS for subs? and Password protected sites? The argument you're making is exactly the problem, it is easy, so they capture you and your info.
This is a false analogy. Economists bill themselves on being able to guide policy and large-scale decision-making given the tools and research at their disposal. If said tools and research are bunk, then the appropriate action is not to press on with guidance, but to stop with the guidance and predictions altogether. We're in the mess we're in now partly because of risk management techniques that don't work.
> This is a complete brain damage of those who decide to implement such behaviour.

I'd love to read what Linus Torvalds would say about it.

There are programs that have bugs before the first line of code is written. This is one such case.
Does anybody in the industry know why there was a push to move away from specific role planes that excel in one area to ones that can do any area decently?

It's the same disease that McNamara caught, resulting in the F-111. The F-111 was supposed to be the super plane for the Navy and the air superiority platform for the Air Force. Synergistic with this is that idea that there would be no more dogfighting and it would all be done with missiles.

Tactical data sharing, complex systems like missiles, and the infrastructure which supports them all involve a lot of planning. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
Sure, some of the money has gone to a small number of rich people, but there's quite a large number of working class people designing and assembling these planes. To say that the money has been set on fire or that no value has been provided seems a bit harsh, much of the money is employing a large number of skilled people in the USA and in other countries. And it's not just the USA taxpayers who are paying for this, these planes are sold to a few different customer countries.
At the same time, how many Facebook users would pay even $1/month to use the platform? I bet less than half.
Trust is like a rainforest: a resource that takes years to build up and provides benefit to the world, but can be looted for profit - once.

Ultimately the question is "why don't I just wire the contents of the treasury to my bank account, bribing my cronies in the ruling party along the way?" People routinely get away with massive theft from the state in less developed countries, but they rely on being able to move the wealth to somewhere more stable so they can keep it.

Most immediately is the question "why don't I just de-register all the opposition voters?" ...
The Premium Value of Freshly-Mined Virgin Bitcoin – NEWCONOMY
Which assumes that you know the locale. I imagine that there is one in Ashburn, Virginia, maybe an hour's drive from here. But what pizza delivery operation would I ask? I guess I could hail a cab at Dulles and ask to be taken there.
Soft and hard links are only supported on NTFS formatted disks.
Thanks for posting that. I used to work for Bobby Creech (@4:19) on A Series (follow on to the B6700's), so that was a blast from the past.

If you look at this image <img src="http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...

its a 2 CPU system, in the lower left is the "B Meatball" idle pattern.
Thanks for pointing this out - never realized before.

So much for the right to be forgotten...
This assumes that the F-35 is essential for maintaining air superiority, which is unsupported.
Taxes mostly and fairness towards people who are actually employed.
> If the UN didn't establish air superiority during the Korean War, an entire country would have lost its freedom and would now be under a dictatorship.

This is a little bit silly. South Korea was ruled by various dictatorships for decades after the war. North Korea still is.
Videos for "Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous"
MOUSes? I don't think those exist.
Similarly there is lots of source code that we'll never see, some of it Lisp even. What beauties might they contain, especially if someone wrote a Fabien-style black book to bring forth the interesting bits?

The solution is to be sad, in the same way we can be sad about the loss of the library of Alexandria, and move on, creating new works of beauty. As brought up above though, it's very hard to do this in your spare time... Few are lucky enough to hack with CL professionally, and I would wager even fewer still of those are any less free than other companies' employees of business needs coming first and forcing some terrible choices in the development cycle. Still, there can be beauty in the system, and CL is very much a systems-oriented language... (https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Incommensurability.pdf describes it as more of a programming system than a programming language, even.)
> E.g. can you quickly spin up a REST-like HTTP interface for your goods?

With R? Why would you want to do that with R? R is not suitable as a web server. May be you can write a package for that using C. There are 13170 packages for R. ın fact 99% of R consists of packages. You don't sit and write web server with R.

R is used for statistical data analyses. I was using R to get the most occurring error in Apache/PHP error logs, only with 2 lines of R code. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ApacheLogProcessor/i...
I see the internet as different levels of hell. At the bottom is 4chan. In the middle somewhere is Reddit and Twitter. In a free and open platform, you have to take the good with the bad. It can never be fully contained, and I think the dream of a harmonious, engaged, happy social community is a pipe dream. Reddit’s main problem are the mods, and their uneven, disparate treatment of groups and individuals, and management, for not have the courage to set a standard and stick to it. Nothing will ever be perfect.
As per Europe: if you have a monetary union, you need a redistributive fiscal union, because otherwise the money will concentrate in the net-exporter states.

What's the trade deficit of, say, Arkansas?
The Wikipedia definition of air supremacy [1] does not restrict the role to air-to-air fighter aircraft. Also, air supremacy is a stated mission of the F-35 [2].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_supremacy

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightni...
Artificial intelligence can save the world?
Who is hiring remote project managers
Am looking for remote work in project management, account management, administrative or something similar. 100% remote
All of those skilled workers could have been building something useful, however. The waste of their time and skill is indeed burning resources, in an even more concrete sense than setting money on fire.
"Save/Read X to/from the user documents folder" should be an OS-level function (on Windows, where you expect a desktop user to have a documents folder).

Every time a program calls a deprecated API, the developer who signed the code should get an e-mail.
Most of SRE/sysadmin/operations leave the field after a few years, not just the company. It's not a rewarding job to be on call and have to fix issues from other people.
> NASA crewed spaceflight

Fixating on the troubles of NASA's crewed programs might make sense if NASA were doing well with their uncrewed programs. Except they're not[1].

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-james-webb...
Because of the theoretical cost savings, as you mention. The JSF was aggressively fashioned toward futuristic notions of distance warfare. Missiles today have phenomenal performance, versus Vietnam era seekers that would fly into the sun. This might have been premature with the unexpected turn into asymmetric warfare. Also, any internet discussion on the A-10 (or SR-71, or Concorde) devolves into uninformed fanboyism, so I won't even go there.
That is correct, this is fairly typical compensation for the OP's level.
Maybe for some people it's a game? I have no idea. The pay isn't as progressive as their recruiters claim. A high-performing Senior SWE makes money pretty close to what a newly-promoted Staff SWE makes.
Just to compare the two a bit more: NASA’s requirements for the Commercial Crew program (where Boeing and SpaceX are building capsules to visit ISS) is for a loss of crew probability of 1 in 270. Note that this isn’t an abort probability, it’s the probability that everyone dies despite the abort system’s best efforts.

The probability for commercial airliners is something around 1 in 100 million.
There's no one class of economists who all share the same opinion and make the same predictions.

The idea that cheap money leads to bubbles (which can lead to recessions) was well-established, it just doesn't harmonize well with the kind of naive Keynesian feel-good economics that politicians want to apply and universities want to teach.

Few people who correctly predicted that outcome at the time got the timing exactly right, but that's to be expected.
A human drove into a Waymo car. I would not classify that as Waymo having some injuries. The driving safety statistics should only cover decisions made by the auto-pilot. If not simply because the same auto-pilot will be used in the future but not the same vehicles / vehicle seating arrangements and related safety measures.
You don't need to punish yourself like this. Most PCs on sale support Linux or ChromeOS (which is, after all, Linux).
> "No value has been provided..."

There is value provided. These planes support the US world hegemony and are amazing centerpieces of the US military. If you argue that we could have done it for cheaper, that is fair. But there is value in them.
Considering the salary offered by FAANG and other big tech companies, saving 200k$ is very doable. Yes some people are in credit card debts, and that proportion is higher than it should, but saving that amount of money is not unheard of. Most people just spend all they have (and a little more), which leads to not having that kind of savings.

Doing so in just 4 years may be harder (again, depends on your spending), but if you have a little nest before then I don't see what's so strange about it.
A well-known German comedian has lines in his performance that are along the lines of "Doesn't anyone think of the jobs in the dynamite stick industry?" (in relation to suicide bomber prevention, which at the time was more of a topic than right now) as a response to German government worries that higher environmental standards for cars could cause job loss in the German car industry.

Or another point of view: You think those people can either build overpriced planes or nothing at all (paying them to do community service or work on open source projects might even be preferable)?

The US (and all countries) actually do have quite a large sector of state-planned economy. Discussions about whether a country really needs to have a military more capable than the next ten (or whatever number it currently is) countries combined aside, the actual main purpose from the point of view of most politicians is to be able to have government handouts for their constituents, military results are secondary because given the huge amount of resources spent overall they'll win anyway. But instead of calling for everything to be a "free market" (whatever that means), maybe admitting that maybe a large state sector is useful might help find other places to spend such huge sums. Right now the by far most convenient way is the emotions-laden "defense". Part of the problem is that we give politicians no other choice to use money, military is the only sector where they can get away with it. Oh yes, social spending, but that does not lead to production or research or at least not nearly on a similar enough scale, besides, it is much more under attack than military spending.
That film pretty much sense the lens through which I view all government spending. It's a fantastic watch, and I highly recommend it.
If the DoJ couldn't sue them, I wish the poor person who lost all their family photos good luck.
But then they would have time to be politically active enough to demand better living conditions and social safety.
Sometimes it can take 12 or more hours to run the code on the millions of observations. There's also competition from other researchers who use computational resources, which can mean I have to leave something running for hours due to the server being heavily queried. My workflow also doesn't allow easy interruption of the execution, sometimes it has to execute fully incorrectly before I can change an error or parameter.
I'd take some of it with a grain of salt. He brought up one point about peeling paint and requiring special hangars. But outside of the RT article he linked to, I can't find mention of that elsewhere. I didn't look into all of his points, but that one struck as me a little ridiculous even for this flying bucket of crap... which makes me question some of his other tweets in that stream.
They could be, but if the program didn't exist, our economic system would not have allocated their labour to productive ends.
If I were to guess, don't kill me for this.

Working for Google creates a much bigger cognitive dissonance compared to other FAANGM.

Google disproportionately promotes culture as number 1 reason to work there, where as the rest of the companies are just that: companies that make money.

Imagine the surprise when a person joined Google and realize it's nothing but another large company.

I have heard that FB has similar issues, but those are just that: rumors or things I read online.
What if those skilled workers' productivity had been applied toward something that people actually wanted? Even if 900 billion of that went back into the economy, then those skilled laborers have been spending this time outputting far less than their value.
After some personal research, cloning usually uses somatic cells (aka non-reproductive cells) to make the same genetic copy of one animal, this is using reproductive cells and combining DNA from two animals, hence the difference. If we're talking about embryo-splitting "cloning", embryo splitting is creating an artificial twin by splitting the embryo into two, they're different from this procedure. All in all, I wouldn't call it cloning, this is more another form of artificial reproduction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_reproduction) of which cloning is a category of.

Sources:

https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(18)3... (the actual journal entry)

https://www.genome.gov/25020028/cloning-fact-sheet/

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/whatisclonin...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111056901...
> I wonder if nocturnal creatures start coming out like bats

My guess would be no, because nocturnal creatures would be asleep when it happens and so probably not even notice it.
Ex SWE at AWS (2013-2014) – I enjoyed working with the team I was on and I learned a lot. It was a great experience, but I've always wanted to work on some ideas I'd written down. I resigned as soon as my student loans were paid off and I'd saved enough money to pursue those ideas for a couple years.

One of the most memorable days of my life was the day after I resigned from Amazon.

For most people, their decisions, stressors, happiness, etc. are largely defined by external forces – whether by school, work, finances, family, etc. For me, this was much more true than I realized. I had always thought of myself as someone who was highly independent. But, that following morning (and most mornings since) I woke up with a feeling of nearly complete autonomy. That feeling was much stronger than I expected. It has been incredibly freeing and has significantly affected how I approach life.

Since, I moved back to Minnesota and am currently working on my second project – https://mutambo.net. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to play recreational sports. We raised a small seed round and our remaining runway is a little over 1 year.

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My first project was put on pause after teaming up a with co-founder (Ex Google) and choosing another idea. I would like to finish the first project some day.
Makes you wonder if light pollution is wrecking this process.
Isn't Documents actually a library and the single default folder (and default default save location) in that library since Win 7?
I think I could live with the 2018 iteration of the keyboard, although I‘d want to wait another 6M at least to see about reliability. But the dongles man, they‘d just give me headaches. Using a Thinkpad just reminds me of how great it is to have all the ports built-in.
> No value has been provided

Well... The US, and every country that's paying attention learned how not to build a military plane.
this was the most interesting thing for us, but it is broken in Chrome/Linux. https://www.charts.com/muze/examples/view/microcharts-in-tab...

Also what is the Reactjs story here ? We went down the "tabular views" journey a while back and eventually settled on react-virtualized which i think is the best of breed.
one bubble in the making is fracking, it's built on debt and has no chance of making profits anytime soon https://www.truthdig.com/articles/death-by-fracking/
People forget that gunboat diplomacy is literally a violence deterrent. There is no better solution to geopolitcal mass-murder than to be so god-damn scary we can resolve things without death.

Sure, you can do a lot of bad shit with gunboat diplomacy - but giving up dominance doesn't eliminate bad shit, it just creates a power vacuum - which will be filled either by another geopolitical entity with the capability to do that bad shit or geopolitical violence on a massive scale.

Getting rid of our army does not lead to peace. I can't understand how any adult thinks it will, or is willing to act like it will.
Ask HN: How to ommit downvoted comments in HN?
As most people here know, HN discussions are often a great source of knowledge and insight on various subjects, and I usually dump the large ones (100+ comments) on the Voice Dream Reader app in my phone (I have no affiliation with them) and listen to them while commuting, etc.

I'm searching for ways to hide/remove the downvoted comments (grayed out) and their children before sending to VDR.

At first I thought about creating a scriptlet, but looking at the html the nesting is done via styling instead of structured in the html, complicating the hiding of children messages.

When I tried the API it doesn't expose the "grayness" of comments.

Anyone here knows/has a solution to this?