skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there's lots of beginners to programming but most of the time when I find myself asking basic questions like "how to duplicate array Python" isn't because I couldn't spend 2 minutes writing a function to do it but because there already exists a generally accepted best way to perform this operation that leverages the standard library and there is seemingly no other way to discover what that is.

Like for this specific example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2612802/how-to-clone-or-...

Knowing the right thing to do requires you be informed about the history of Python language design. Like you could just read the documentation and see that lists have a copy method but it doesn't give you a good grasp of what the alternatives are and why you might choose them. And prior to Python 3.3 you're expected to know that the best practice way to do this is to leverage an edge case in the slicing syntax or the list function. Doesn't matter if you're the best computer scientist in the world, sifting through the massive corpous of documentation and historical knowledge required to write good Python is nigh impossible unless you're willing to dedicate yourself Python.

This is something that languages need to tackle because the gap between doing a thing and doing that same thing in a way that follows language conventions and best practices is too damn high.
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Yeah me too, he was also very active in the Elixir forum. RIP
Nobody is really talking about building codes. Building a skyscraper without fire sprinklers is a bad idea, but requiring fire sprinklers is not a thing that prevents you from building skyscrapers. On the other hand, a rule restricting building height or imposing minimum parking requirements or the like does exactly that, and has no benefit other than to enrich the existing landlords when it prevents housing supply from responding to increased demand.
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This entire branch of the discussion is being buried in downvotes, but that is actually a very good analogy. Except in the case of Alexa, it's like you are holding the onion and someone else is slicing it. With a very sharp knife.
The recent kerfuffles with elastic, redis, and mongo will be interesting to follow and may provide examples where a strong copyleft, e.g. agpl3, would have been better than the Apache or mit/bad style licenses initially chosen.
> "The tiger which is chewing on my leg today will be dead in 20 years, so why should I worry about it"

what does this expression mean?
"...I'm interested in what the little girl has to say" OMG that line made me laugh out loud. thanks for sharing the link.
Stick all your IoT stuff in a private VLAN and use a MITM proxy to decrypt / recrypt everything. I have yet to find a consumer device of any sort that lets you easily swap out SSL certs. Even the devices where it’s possible to set up LetsEncrypt will usually get overwritten by firmware updates.
>That there are no randomized control studies is hardly surprising: nobody would ethically assign a person into the "no dental care" control group.

They're not saying "no dental care". They are saying "no dental floss", or "no fluoride toothpaste", or "no fluoride in water", or "brush once a day". The reality is that a significant percentage of the population falls into one of these three categories (I was surprised you could by toothpaste without fluoride, but you can - there's a market for it).

And yes, while you can't do true randomization, you can compare dental outcomes between these groups.

And finally, saying it's "unethical" is a stretch. It's not unethical if there is no good reason to believe these measures are good for health. Until there's a clear study, these all fall into the same category as other traditional/folk medicine. When I first went to my current dentist years ago, he said "Your insurance covers two cleanings a year, and we'll give that to you. However, I'll have you know that there's no evidence that twice a year is better than once" and he proceeded to tell me a bunch of other common dental practices, their origins, and the lack of studies on them.

It reminds me of the whole 8 glasses of water a day belief, which until about 10 years ago was commonly promoted by doctors. Then in about 2005-2007, someone published a literature survey showing no studies had ever recommended 8 glasses with good reason. All my doctor friends knew of this survey and promptly stopped recommending it.
That’s the point, people are supposed to not get treatment. If you wanted people to get the treatment they need, then it would be free.
That's perfect feedback! Straight from the heart of Google :D
ha ha. I think you are referring to bundles? That is most certainly a must as so many people have requested it today.

Thank you for your comment. It made me smile! :)
Never saw this, love it!
The article suggests these towers are being built in blocks of lower buildings. Each block has a "allowable total square footage of building" limit. The developers are buying lower buildings, or unused area rights for lower buildings, and conglomerating it into towers.

It seems this is an improvement for sunlight and space at street level. Rather than the sidewalk being against a massive wall of 10 story buildings looming over the streets you can have more human scale buildings and open space and a single spire reaching up out of sight. The narrow shadow of the spire will swing around like a sundial during they day, but its shade will move on.
That's insane, because height limits are the only reason there's a shortage of housing in the first place.
Doesn't work for apps which check for more than the certificate validity, for instance public key or the signer as well.
Glad I’m not the only one who wants to know
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Analogously, the purpose of an Echo is to listen.

A sheath is an off-switch for a blade.
Do you find this to be true of many health related things as you get older? I know 80 year olds who do literally everything doctors say not to (red meat makes up most of their diet, they drink tons,they smoke or smoked for most of their lives, breakfast of 3 eggs and bacon almost every day) and then I've known people who didn't make it to 50 that looked like bruce lee and lived ultra healthy lives that managed to get lung cancer or pancreatic cancer.

It sometimes seems like life is just a game where you can min-max your stats if you want but RNG rules in the end.
Thank you for taking the time to answer thoroughly !

> If it is only used by data science team then you can rip apart the solution and work towards a more logical infrastructure where all you are doing is cleansing, normalizing and deriving features and these become your central feature repository which your team can pull and build models.

It is only used by data scientists. What do you mean by a feature repository? How would you organize it so people can push new features? This sounds very interesting.

> you are talking about denormalization as something you are planning to do, that should have been the starting point of any HDFS/SPARK/Parquet based solution.

It is something that we have to do, but the table have been dumped as is in S3 and every project rebuilds the whole derived dataset regularly. Since these operations are very brittle (a lot of manual work and even transformations performed in notebooks), this is something people dread doing. I am trying to secure this at the moment by writing Makefiles that remove human intervention, but at the end of the day I would like to avoid people spend hours waiting for new data when they need it.

> I can suggest tools for explorations, data quality check etc.

I would appreciate it. Put simply, we get data about the evolution of the stock of clients, transactions with their clients, product descriptions, etc. that is dumped into S3 (I scheduled a chat with people upstream to see what happens). We have 3,4 projects for each client. What currently happens is every team writes the same code to build features in their separate repositories, this code is re-executed every time new data arrives (weekly). These features are then used in prediction models.

Besides the brittleness of the process, I found that people are reluctant to analyse the data because it takes an unreasonable amount of time.
Seem to me that Python has won. What I mean by that is that it is used almost everywhere and there is almost no compelling reason to use anything else. You want web? Django, plus a million other frameworks, all well tested and documented. Machine learning? Tensorflow, Keras or PyTorch. Scientific computing? Numpy.

For the last two decades people have complained about (C)Python not being multi-threaded, not jitted, not having tco, being to simplistic and so on. In practice it seem to have mattered very little. For the applications where it do matter, like if you are writing your own language vm, compiler (but see PyPy) or garbage collector, you have to ask "Yes, ok, but how often do you do that?"
You can also buy REITs on the stock market. More diversification, obligations for them to pay you dividend of 90% of net income, and 0 maintenance cost for you.
I really like text-only dense interfaces such as what Sourcehut.org is doing with Git repos.

I would love to see this type of minimal interface for email - while others may like background images and such, I prefer text-only sense UI with minimal bloat for speed!

Seriously though, DarwinMail is impressive! Could you tell us if custom domains are supported?
There is a limit to the supporting infrastructure: water, gas, public transit, hospitals, schools, trash pickup... Residence entitles one to a host of public benefits and access to natural resources that have finite density that can be supported.
The default theme adds a link to it for you in the header and footer. I'm not sure why some other themes don't.
And there is evidence there were significantly more black people in slavic countries before that? Taking the example of Yugoslavia, this doesn't seem to be the case [1]. We're just assuming diversity, while demanding proof of homogeneity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia#Demograp...
Instacart was straight up stealing tips until they were caught: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/2/6/18214335/inst...

I wouldn't listen to anything they have to say on the matter of pay. They have zero credibility.
I’m shocked by this.

Thank you for saving me from OOP, Joe. (via Elixir)

May your hypothetical soul have as much uptime as your systems did.
Still, the discrimination is illegal and violates human rights (also, modern societies do not have a notion of collective responsibility).
> 30% is fairly low, and your suggestion that schizophrenics refuse treatment a lot is pointless. Some of them refuse it, other do not refuse it, and you help those who do not refuse it.

Those who don't refuse treatment tend to not be homeless. Maybe you should have a conversation with a social worker or a medical professional about homelessness if you still believe homelessness has an "obvious solution".

> You could e.g. start by helping the 70% of those homeless who, according to your own statistics, do not suffer from severe mental illness. That's already the vast majority.

Yes, we can have another conversation about how helping drug addicts is really difficult. We can talk about how hard alcoholics can't hold jobs or maintain a household. We can talk about all kinds of issues that are not solved by simple having more social programs than we already have.

> Right now, to me you merely come across as someone who doesn't really have anything to say about the topic.

You come across to me as someone who doesn't really have a good understanding of the actual problem. All you have to say is "the solution is obvious, more welfare programs! Throw money at the problem, it'll disappear!". It's just not true. No country in the world has "solved" homelessness while maintaining the level of personal freedom that you yourself seem to be vigilant of.

My point is not that we should institutionalize all these people, or that there shouldn't be more programs available. In fact I would argue that drugs in particular need to liberalized to keep addicts in the programs.
I don't measure infrastructure by speed alone. So what they increased broadband speed. The Spaniards brought guns to the native Americans, then shot them. Doesn't make sense as a "thus it is good" argument.

https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...

Comcast blocked peer to peer. ATT blocked Skype and Google Voice. MetroPCS tried to block everyone but YouTube.

Great, you found a time a local government did a stupid. One local government, one instance. I can provide for you a storied history of big Telecom's attempts to wrestle control over a consumer's choices. Again, and again, and again, they try to take from us. We have no say in any of their decisions - we can't even vote with our wallets because they have functional monopolies. At least we can elect our government representatives. At least portions of the government support net neutrality (when literally no Telecom company actually does in practice).
Just to clarify, you don't need to provide changes to GPL software if you're not distributing said software and only using it internally.

However, in case something ends up being distributed and because I don't believe that's been tested in the courts, many companies have blanket policies against the inclusion of copyleft licenses.
But we won’t. We’ll sit here talking about how important it is to feel the full scale of the problem and how egregious it would be to deny these people any public space, and then we’ll go build maybe 12 supportive housing units.
Hold up, I thought Atlas referred to the rich people that made their money by building up industries, and that their shrugging was them "dropping the mantle" because they were getting taxed to death?

I haven't read that book in a while, but it really feels like you're misconstruing this.
Shade matters, especially in the cooler months. But this particular loophole is about waste. Creating fake or needlessly large “mechanical voids” that do not count toward your overall height so that you can make the building taller is just extraordinarily wasteful.

Every piece of space is at a premium in Manhattan because density is so critical. Wasting that space should be disincentivized in every possible way.
Height limits are definitely not the "only reason" there's a shortage of housing in the first place. Housing shortages often have many causes and contributing factors, especially in NYC. Building height limits are not the reason for housing shortages in NYC! From the wiki on the topic,

> [NYC's housing shortage] is caused by the erosion of the New Yorkers' purchasing power due to stagnant wages and the increase in average rent in the city despite robust tenant protection.[1][2]

The article lists a half dozen other contributing factors, none of which are building height restrictions. Yes the wiki article is incomplete, but I think my point is demonstrated.
Seems to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJ9UK08rZA
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I’d guess from the 4.5%, you are in the USA? Just asking to check we share the same context here, no need to answer..

My subjetive experience in the USA (Seattle and NYC) is that you can get 4-5% with a steady job and 20% down for primary residence. Anything out of ordinary, like 2nd mortgage (since we are talking about real state as investment), the interest rate goes up (6-7% last time I applied for one).

Also, while the margin rates can be higher, there is more liquidity, smaller transaction costs, and much smaller fees.
Obligatory: https://medium.com/@addictiondocMD/a-new-corollary-to-the-ge...

It's concerning to me how prevalent this seems to be in a number of Very Important news memes we've been listening to for the last several years.
If given the choice I think most of the ultra rich would prefer to fill useless space with living space to rent out. It would mean lots of money with little drawback. But they aren't given that choice. If they want their high towers building codes force them to leave that space empty.

If having a building that high isn't the main problem then the fault is clearly with the building code, but with the developers or the customers.
Excellent point. I find it notable that in spite of the trend you cite those who are empowered by the faltering institutions seem to feel no urgency to regain (or re-earn) trust.

Maybe this is the result of years of such institutions attracting those who simply wish to wield authority and gradually replacing the culture of earned authority with one of opportunistic, or “sold” authority.
Wouldn't that opportunist mindset go against the oath you pledge when you become a doctor?
I am pretty sure that low dose aspirin has some benefits for some people/conditions. At least I remember reading studies that suggest as much.

So naturally I was curious about it being “nonsense” for heart disease.

A quick skim of the article + a quick search shows it’s not as clear cut and conclusive as you suggest.

Interestingly, neither is the increased risk of cancer discussed in the article. Aspirin has been shown to have the opposite effect too.

I found it hard to glean what dosages where used in the studies mentioned in the article but the couple I saw were 100mgs per day. I didn’t see mention of if they were enteric coated or taken with meals.

In the US baby aspirin is 81mg and in the UK there are 75mg available. Both are enteric coated. In Australia it seems 100mg might be considered low dose and widely available.

It would be interesting to see more studies on this topic using lower dose, coated, aspirin taken with a meal. The US/UK low dose aspirin are 19-25% lower than at least a couple of dosages the studies mentioned. Those lower dosages may help mitigate bleeding risk.

Seeing as some of aspirins effects are longer lasting, perhaps alternative dosing schedules could also be looked at (every other day etc.) - this may further help mitigate the bleeding risk whilst still providing benefit.
The feeling is quite the same when switching from C to D. You don't have to use the advanced features of the language, but they're there if you want them.
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When I first discovered Waterpiks a year ago, I was extremely frustrated at the fact that all dentists hate it, and that there were very few studies on it. The universal belief, found all over the Internet, is that Waterpik is good for removing food particles, but is ineffective at removing the film, which regular floss does.

This really should not be hard to validate.

The only study I could find showing this was done in the late 70's. Waterpiks have changed a lot since then. And you'll find plenty of studies showing how effective Waterpiks are at removing that film. All these papers were funded by Waterpik.

Why are dentists insisting Waterpiks are bad when there is no independent study comparing modern Waterpiks with regular floss? And why doesn't anyone do the damn study?
Could a recurrent neural network predict what the redacted text looked like similar to how it can predict sentences from starts by training over newspapers and Wikipedia? Probably not useful like the above work, but it would be entertaining like Google Dream was.
Congratulations and thanks to the GStreamer team.
So we shouldn't build anything at all to spite the rich while the poor don't have anywhere to live?
> the only reason

This is an extraordinary claim.
If every building were twice as tall, there would be twice as much housing. If there were twice as much housing, there wouldn't be a shortage. Height limits are the main reason they aren't twice as tall.

It's really quite straightforward. Which part of the argument do you think is incorrect, and why?
I don’t think the Mueller team would break the law in the publishing of their own report.
I'm in that camp that doesn't enforce consistent styling in code or even particularly believe in the value of linting at all! ^_^

I'm pretty much just echoing what others have said, but when I look back at the things that have caused problems / mattered in a codebase, things like formatting are generally ranked an order of magnitude below everything else.

If people care, I'm happy to oblige, but it always seems like a missing the forest for the trees kind of thing.
I would argue that failure to presume good faith does more to harm civil society than a lack of empathy. Perhaps presumption of good faith is a form of empathy - but I don't need to empathize with someones point of view to presume they have their own very good reasons, and are trying to advance the argument fairly.
I hate my HDHP but as far as I can tell it’s ultimately driven by the massive increases in medical care costs. My total premium cost (counting employer contribution) is a little more than 20k and I have a 7k deductible. How much higher would the premium be with a more reasonable deductible? You pay one way or another.

I agree it’s a huge nightmare dealing with the bills and claims processes, but I’m not sure that goes away with high deductible plans.

At the end of the day we have to get medical costs under control and I don’t think there are any great ideas for that right now. Public single payer will help, and it could at least end the billing nightmare, but I don’t see it actually solving the underlying problem of skyrocketing health care costs because the problem is too big and people are too politically invested in the way things are now.

The insurance company is coming out ahead on me, even when I had a kid I still paid them more money than they paid out, but a coworker’s wife had a heart attack and had some extraordinary care that the insurance was ultimately paid more than a million dollars for. These major health events and chronic illnesses are completely through the roof in terms of costs.
A vendor who doesn't like it could just make it very inconvenient to use the on/off switch, for example by making it take a very long time until the device becomes available after it has been turned off using a switch.
Thus users would be strongly discouraged to use the switch.
> I wonder if one can readily track toothbrush [handle] and jaw movements tightly enough to produce a "brushing map" indicating areas that are getting less attention.

They invented this decades ago.

I remember in the 80s when I was a kid going to the dentist.

They would get you to chew some type of pill that temporarily stained your teeth. Then you would brush your teeth while your dentist watched.

In the end you were able to see exactly what you missed because of the stain. It was really a genius product.

Back then it was something you did at the dentist's office but it looks like Amazon has them for sale at: https://www.amazon.com/Butler-Red-cote-Dental-Disclosing-Tab...

I'm not a dentist, so I would ask your dentist before trying them.

Like programming, being able to see the output of what's happening really helps debugging!
That's obviously not what I said, you are clearly reading my post incorrectly. Here is my opinion to make it clear: We should be building 10x more than we currently are - it should be done efficiently and with affordable housing attached as well.

> spite

> anything at all

> shouldn't

Please don't fake-quote me like this. I said nothing of the sort and it's offensive that you would reframe my words with an obviously false-attribution like that.
From the article: "Many of these towers stay vacant most of the year, so their owners are not subject to local and state income taxes because they are not city residents."

So while they may pay property tax, they don't contribute as much as a local would.
"Do not track" is kind of fundamentally misguided because it's physically impossible to verify and amounts to just another bit of tracking information.

Physical switches are physical and auditable and if the switch is audited to work, it works.