skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's essentially the tone I for from the article. I'm not sure where he thinks his "seasoned" data scientists come from but you can either:

- Train them yourself and then pay them a fair market value (that means actually giving them a raise!), or
- you hire them from elsewhere.

Saying that you don't put effort into training tells me there are worse underlying issues, and I certainly don't want to work for you.

I work for a company that puts a lot of effort in training and education into their workforce (they paid for my BS and paid my salary while I got my MS). For gripes that I have about working for them, they take care of their own, mentor their, and make sure they are fairly compensated (to include raises). I have been working for them for the past 8 years, and I intend on working for them for the foreseeable future. That doesn't even mention that they also give me a great work life balance, and want to see me work up the ranks internally.

Seeing articles that only reenforce that I have it pretty good where I work.
NULL is in much more widespread use then Python. C and C++ have implementations where NULL == NULL. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
I'm not really that cynical. But a lot of people do have their jobs to do, may even appreciate that they may not be aware of all the context fo some given decision, and just aren't inclined to fight battles over things that aren't their department at the end of the day.
Within the context of cortesoft's sibling comment:

> I mean, they ARE liable in the sense that they will have to eat the loss (the money they loaned out won't be repaid). The problem is that for them, this is just a cost of doing business, and that cost is already priced into interest rates... the cost to the person who has to prove it wasn't them has no return and is only negative

What would "the status quo [changing] so that the banks are liable" look like?
Your point is well taken about the banks. I think the general principle still applies though. We have a system where all of these entities possess all kinds of information, and the main question is, "Who should pay when they get that information wrong through no fault of the person whose information they're keeping?"

At the end of the day, his problem is exactly that he had to pay a massive cost (in the form of reputational damage and tremendous wastes of his time) because a fraudster did a bunch of stuff using his name. While not technically monetary, it's definitely not impossible to financially quantify people's time and reputation.
There are areas in Texas with moderately tech savvy industries where $50k can cover basic needs for a family of four with good housing (3BR/2BA with reasonable dimensions for all rooms and yard), savings, and an occasional splurge on entertainment.

Now in the SF Bay area, you've got to look at 2.5-4+ to keep that quality of life.

Useful salary, to some extent, is geographical.

The rest of what you're talking about, I've got nothing to add.
It's not just that: Factorio makes it harder to games like Factorio to be profitable.

The way we consume videogames is essentially unique among media, because the time investment is so varied. Making a superhero movie helps saturate the market for superhero movies, but almost no one directly decides "instead of going to the rest of the MCU, I'll just rewatch Iron Man fifteen times". But with videogames, it's unremarkable to someone who loves two games give one 50 hours of playtime and the other 1,000. If you're going to enter the market, competing with that 1,000 hour title is a much tougher challenge.

Factorio is like an an endless filet mignon; since it's not sold on graphics or story, that $20 purchase will endure to challenge all of its successors. (Satisfactory might catch on, but if it does the niche will be one step more exhausted.) Minecraft is a $30 game that's still eating play hours among people who've owned it for years; continuing monetization has depended not on a sequel but on ports (Pocket Edition), peripheral merch, and new generations of players; that's very obviously not a model most games can use. Dwarf Fortress is a niche of its own, near-permanently filled by just two donation-funded developers. (Dominions is less famous, but similar: a two-man team has kept people playing their output for twenty years.) Even AAA products like Civilization struggle; lots of people avoid buying Civ games at release because they compare unfavorably to the patched-and-expanded predecessor.

Nor is it a coincidence that all of those games are immersive strategy or construction titles. On one hand, they're generally modest in terms of graphics and campaign, so there's no obvious need to switch to newer titles. And on the other, they're modest in graphics and server load, so a small team can make a popular title relatively cheaply. The end result is that you can make a solid profit on this sort of cheap, no-loot, no-subscribtion game - if you're one of an inherently small number of winners in a constrained design space.

I don't think there's anything wrong with this. It's a triumph that $20, thousand-hour games exist, and the people making them actually do seem to make solid money. But it's worth remembering just how niche an arrangement this is. It's possible for media to exist that is at once desired and unprofitable to create; the Factorio equivalent for an FPS or CCG might well be such a product.
Um... "just remove the landmines" isn't exactly that simple. It's difficult, slow, dangerous, and expensive work and resources aren't exactly unlimited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demining

>As of 2017, antipersonnel mines are known to contaminate 61 states and suspected in another 10. The most heavily contaminated (with more than 100 square kilometres of minefield each) are Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chad, Iraq, Thailand and Turkey.

>A 2003 RAND Corporation report estimated that there are 45–50 million mines and 100,000 are cleared each year, so at present rates it would take about 500 years to clear them all. Another 1.9 million (19 more years of clearance) are added each year.

>Demining is a dangerous occupation. If a mine is prodded too hard or it is not detected, the deminer can suffer injury or death. The large number of false positives from metal detectors can make deminers tired and careless. According to one report, there is one such incident for every 1000–2000 mines cleared. 35 percent of the accidents occur during mine excavation and 24 percent result from missed mines.
John von Neumann famously said that in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them. I think monads are an example of this, and all the attempts to make them intuitive before you use them are a huge waste of time. Many mathematical concepts are like this. Take compactness. At first, the definition of compactness seems a little random, but it's useful for proving things, so you keep using it, and after you do enough proofs you develop an intuition for it. It feels very clear and fundamental instead of random.

Once you have this feeling of obviousness, how do you transmit it to the next person? Many things can be explained, but in math it was figured out long ago that at any given time there are many things we don't know how to explain, and aren't sure we ever will be able to explain in a way that transmits understanding faster than experience can instill it. The best thing you can do for someone is give them the definitions and some problems to work on. We can't rule out that someone may eventually come up with a brilliant explanation that provides a shortcut to understanding, but we know from experience that some things persistently defy our efforts to explain them. If hundreds of people's earnest attempts to explain something have failed, then perhaps teachers should keep trying, but learners should not waste their time with these experiments; they should skip the explanations and seek active engagement with the idea through problem solving.

That's how I feel about monads. I can't absolutely rule out the possibility that someday an effective way to explain them will be found, but I think we can agree at this point that there is ample evidence that people who want to understand monads should not waste their time waiting for the right analogy to be blogged and posted on HN. They should just start programming, and soon enough they too will feel like a great explanation is on the tip of their tongue.
A better product may be necessary, but it's definitely not sufficient.
I thought they were talking about the jitney buses run by companies like Spanish Transit from Paterson <-> NYC. They're absolutely vital means of transport when the trains are reliably behind schedule (as they currently almost always are) or when the NJTransit buses aren't running on time because of some unknown issue.

I wish they would expand their offerings, because I live and work at two major points of their routes (except that it's different routes) and if they closed the triangle, I'd be able to avoid using Uber or Lyft.
Language vs libraries isn't just about an expressive language to build in when you don't have a library. The likelihood of a library's availability also depends on the barrier to entry. An amazing language that isn't usable by biologists won't have many libraries that solve biologist's problems.

To your original point of being "surprised at how many data scientists and quants are ignoring more mathematically principled languages like F#, OCaml and Haskell," I'd much rather use one of those languages, but I'd have to build the foundations myself. Today, they aren't the right tool for the job. They don't have the libraries I need, which means I don't build further libraries for them, making other people less likely to build on them, so they aren't the right tool for the job tomorrow either. I'd say it's a network effects thing primarily.
I disagree, magic is magic. If there's sometime done by the compiler that is impossible to do yourself in the language-- that's magic. Everything async/await is doing you could do by yourself. There's no magic in the Future trait, or any part of Rust's async solution.

You can't call it magic just because you haven't read what it desugars into. Otherwise anything you don't know could be called "magic".
I read into your comment this notion of humanity: we are "mindless bacteria in a Petri dish". I still believe in a different world.

Also: your point can be applied to any consumption, not only to travel. Everyone of the 4.5 billon owing a car won't work either.

btw: even though you are asking for it not to be, your comment comes across as condescending.
In the other notorious scripting language JavaScript it's also spelled

null

Which makes for a bit of funny because

NULL is not defined
As my other comment points out, this is probably systems talking to systems talking to systems talking to systems to the nth degree. So even if the first system did in fact distinguish the NULL case from the string case, it only takes one system in the chain to be incapable of representing the difference to permanently and unrecoverably wreck it for all downstream systems.

What are the odds at least one system silently filters out apostrophes as invalid characters in license plate fields? Pretty good. These systems are often unattended, unmonitored processes often maintained by people who either can't fix errors upstream, or don't even want to, so these conversions are often written extremely permissively, trying to get through the data with whatever heuristics are necessary for the process to just Keep Working.
>You're using the same metric just backwards.

If I say "X is wrong" it doesn't mean I advocate -X ("the same metric just backwards"). I just say "don't use X". How about that?

Notice also how I didn't say I "Disagree with anything said using what I deem a fad phrase".

As I wrote I just disagree with the fad phrases themselves. One can write something right and clever even while using a fad phrase.

But they would have done better to write their arguments/thinking without resorting to fad phrases (is my point).

There's still the ages old, definition of what you want to say, in simple words (or more nuanced ones), without using pre-made, overplayed so that every source attaches their own irrelevant nuances, played to death, and ill-defined, framings.
I've been thinking for a while now that ‘long, slow, possibly "eco" trips’ would be perfect for airships doing slow routes around continents, landing occasionally for supplies and for tourists to stretch their legs.
If you do start to see anything coherent, begin to doubt your sanity.

Rule #1: we must all stick apart
The person you're replying to is talking about handling mutable state in a "stateless" way. That's a big distinction.
I feel like eBay is like this.

Everything is a new front end on top of a new front end.

Every once in a while, you’ll get directed toward some ancient looking page designed for 800x600 that’s running everything.

Particularly on the account payments side.
Well you should be pissed at yourself then, because I didn't misconstrue anything, yet you completely misconstrued what I wrote, and made ridiculous and untrue assumptions about me. Maybe you should stop projecting and try working on your own issues.
It's pretty cool what they can get away with in this respect too. Coca-Cola recently successfully argued that "no reasonable person could be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a 'healthy drink'".
Kallisti!
Did you read the article? It literally says people at a private citation outfit put NULL in the license plate field when there is no number available.
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Google has also made disappear "harm reduction" drug-related websites, such as Drugs-Forum.com on relevant searches; IMO, a travesty and an affront to "Don't be Evil"
Around here, it's not inaccurate to state that the construction services are the ones who created the red tape. Politicians and construction firms around here concert to keep a steady stream of money flowing to only designated buckets. So not only are they willing to deal with it, but they would very much protest if it weren't there.

I try to keep in mind that it might be for the purposes of creating BS jobs for economic purposes. But here in Wisconsin, and everywhere else too probably, there is definitely a very large element of skimming tax revenue by funneling it to your buddies.
At a supercharger/equivalent. We're getting to the point where EVs have enough range that they can be charged on nearly the same schedule as a gas car is refueled.
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What’s wrong with fstrings? I use JavaScript at my day job and leaning python for Raspberry PI projects. Fstrings looks like it’s better than .format or + concatenating + a bunch is strings. Especially large strings.
To some extent, sure; seriously, you should be okay exposing your laptop to an attacker-controlled hotspot. I'm actually pretty sure my machines would be fine exposed like that. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't minimize that exposure if possible:)

Also, I really do question the premise; it is possible to be selective with what you let on your network. You shouldn't rely on it, of course, but again, better to minimize exposure.
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Do they have an oil well and refinery in their backyard?
True, but work from home is only applicable to a portion of the population and job market and as a rough estimate judging by industry [0] ~50-60% of jobs require you to be in person just by their nature, the only sectors that could approach 100% work from home are Information, Financial activities, and Professional and business services. Some like local, state, and federal government could partially go work from home but there are a lot of security concerns with moving some portions of that work out of a controlled offices into people's homes around PII and other secret information.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
When I lived in West Virginia, recently sold cars did not have temporary tags. It was very common to see hand-scrawled signs "TAF" in the back windows. TAF stood for "Tags Applied For."

I'm not sure if that's still happening.
Although technology has taken huge leaps, particularly in the specific energy of batteries and combustion engines, after the 2000 Honda Insight, the first new model car (in Canada) to match or exceed the Insight's efficiency came in 2017(!) with the Hyundai Ioniq.

From my perspective, energy prices and auto regulations are the biggest reasons it took that long.
My first tattoo was (still is, I guess) of the Sacred Chao!

Hail Eris, all hail Discordia!
Used Nissan Leafs are unusually cheap. Generally around $12-14K from Carmax. Yes the battery is already a bit worn out, but the price cut is very worth it.
Hey - I am not saying not to hire or train junior people, rather hire them as analyst or data-engineer. There is much less of learning gap in these positions, and from there they should have a path forward to a data-scientist position. This rather than hiring them as junior data-scientist and essentially just paying for their education.
I wish there was a reading of Dune by him. He liked to talk about how he wrote it to sound like oral history and to build with a verbal momentum but I don't know how that would sound if read as an audiobook.
I find this concerning. I use examine.com quite a bit. They have references to all the studies for each topic whereas other health sites like webmd do not always have reference links. Examine have saved me a bit of time trying to search through all the studies on nih.gov / PubMed. I still do manual searches to ensure they are not cherry picking, but I have been happy with Examine thus far.
To be attacked.
Interesting take! A couple thoughts:
-Wouldn't a high tax/price on tourism have a drastic negative effect on the local economy? Your example of Venice - if you price out the majority of tourists, I would think the Venice economy would have to do a major pivot, something that would likely take some time and effort.
-High tax/price on tourism is only pricing out the tourists that can't afford the tax. I agree it's one of the easier solutions to implement, but something doesn't feel right about tourist destinations becoming destinations only for those rich enough to afford the tax. In addition, I don't necessarily believe there is a correlation between wealth and environmentally friendly tourist behavior. In other words, are wealthier tourists really that more likely to treat the tourist destination in a more positive way than lower/middle class tourists?
They should continue to feed their horse.
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There is no 90% or 95% neither with TLS nor with DoH. There are still IP addresses, OS-specific data in IP packets, response sizes, traffic patterns, SNI, active probing data, etc. ISPs can get so much stuff on you, you really should use a VPN if you don't trust your ISP.
Yeah that seems to give rise to sites like Medium where folks post because they know they'll get seen. Even people who are fairly high profile for the given topic.

Considering the risk of that data getting locked away behind paywalls that doesn't seem good.
Whole-heartedly agree. I strongly believe that async/await will be acknowledged as a design-mistake a decade from now. Async should be caller and not callee controlled - it also makes the implementation simpler and reduces maintenance.
They aren't completely random, so you'd probably at least want to pick one from the expected prefixes list:

https://www.ssa.gov/employer/stateweb.htm

That leaves you with six digits to choose.
Redis Replication and KeyDB Active Replication: Optimizing System Resources
They're a special vanity style plate in CA. They probably just are ignored/not entered when searching. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/online/elp/elp
Several states have laws that require apartment building and condo managers to allow tenants/owners to install EV chargers (at their own cost). I expect this trend to continue slowly across the US.

If you can't charge at home, public charging is going to continue to expand rapidly (as electricity is everywhere). It'll just take some time, and effort on the part of local citizens and policy makers.

If you own an EV, get involved! Advocate for home, workplace, and public charging stations where you frequent.
That makes perfect sense, and seems like those most likely explanation. Thanks.
You said it's untrue that you can predict a typical coin flip because it's a chaotic system. I laid out the limitations of chaotic systems and argued they don't apply to a typical coin flip. Are you arguing about predicting "essentially perfectly?" I use that to mean predicting with a couple nines of accuracy.

By quantum weirdness scale, I mean that the accuracy (epsilon) of a necessary measurement includes accurate position and momentum measurements. If epsilon is too small, we might not be able to hypothetically measure both to the necessary precision. I'm guessing that the necessary epsilon for essentially perfect prediction is large enough that you can hypothetically measure both to within that precision.
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I don't think a huge carbon tax (as would be needed to change over to renewables quickly enough) is as realistic as it sounds to the technocratically-minded. If you tell people they can't visit their family who live across the country a couple times per year, they will vote you out of office. Look at the huge negative reaction to fuel taxes in France and the UK. Here in the US, we've got a lovely climate-denying party that is already structurally favored to win anyway.

I think you instead need to combine a strategy of making it more expensive in progressive ways with building more infrastructure and finding technology to support low-carbon travel.
> dynamic, with strong BC bias
> it could be more daring with BC

What is BC?
Eliza explores the dangers of on-demand digital therapy
Yet another 1000-word rederivation of a monad, yawn. Wake me up when you've realised you might as well just write Haskell.