skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have fleshed out my comment for sure, was in a bit of a rush!

first off I found it interesting to frame R as being presented as an improvement over python. should be the other way around. python for DS came second, and was supposed to improve over R

anyway I'm not sure i can even begin to discuss your use cases, not having that much relevant experience there. I use R (and python) for general analytics tasks and for building production models. in these more traditional DS environments I strongly believe R is far superior to python for data munging and visualization. When I say this I am comparing data.table (and to a lesser extent, tidyverse) to pandas. I don't even want to get started on everything I hate about pandas. So while we are both "cleaning data" you seem to be talking about a stage before someone like me would even be looking.
Hydra: A framework for elegantly configuring complex applications
National treasures those two.
Environmental and human rights standards.
“A bunch of liberal democracies which compete with us economically have converged on an overall framework” is a pretty compelling reason to me.
Yes, and remember that Iraq was already bombed from the richest third world country to the middle ages by the US army in 1990, which then blockaded the country, resulting in an estimated death of half a million children in the following 5-6 years...
Since that time period internet has gotten cheaper and faster. So no, there's been no effect.
> I agree. We shouldn't blame the engineer but the managers asking for this in the first place and knowing they can get away with any sort of "small pressures" they put on their employees.

If we blame anyone, it should be the CEOs, board members, and large shareholders.
but why not? It sounds like your personal opinion.
I'm relating perspective to facts.

Palestine has a UN seat, Taiwan doesn't. Taiwan has control of their territory, Palestine doesn't.

Which one is more 'a country'?
This couldn't happen to any/all software vendors/clients using Apple's notarization service and various app store models, surely!?

Heavens to Murgatroyd.
Checkmate Macri: Is Argentina’s Market-Friendly Experiment Over?
Buses (probably electric) are likely to remain surface traffic. Also, you need interconnects around the core where vehicles aren't permitted where people can transfer to private vehicles for travel outside the core.
I used to think that, but after long searching I have found that there are actually companies (often non-profits, but not always) that do hold reasonable morals.

If this act didn't stand to hurt anyone, why did China care in the first place so much? Let's look at the converse, what does having a flag in a phone do that hurts China?
I had nearly 9 months of very slow response times in Mojave but I suspected I needed to reinstall from scratch. I resisted doing so because I'd developed many dozens of dependencies that I didn't want to chase down (e.g. custom-compiled ImageMagick).

Doing the dreaded "clean install" fixed my issues (primarily a Finder that would routinely spend up to 30 seconds or more displaying the contents of any folder).

Up until Mojave, I'd never done a "clean install" on a Mac for performance reasons. Once doing so worked for my laptop, I followed suit on my desktop.
Replication configuration changes in PostgreSQL 12
This article is about hardware for training neural networks, not the inference chips that are in most phones today.
Keynote is amazing, in my experience. I mostly present from my computer, so I don't need to worry about PPT compatibility. I find PPT to be unusable/prehistoric by comparison (when I try to help my wife with it on her computer, which is running a current version).

Glad to know that Pages does a good job as a Word replacement. I do track changes pretty frequently and have wondered how solid the support/translation is for that feature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#TrueCrypt_release...

https://www.wired.com/story/mastermind-excerpt/

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

It's pretty likely that Paul Le Roux was behind TrueCrypt.
Does WeWork Work? Don't Write Off the Innovative Shared Office Concept Yet
Was interesting but a bit over my head honestly. However, I just wanted to make sure no one missed the demo that was linked, because I almost missed it: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf

It's a terrain + trees and other stuff written in about 1000 lines as a shader, using the algorithm described in the article.
I'm graciously assuming ignorance here. They say "Republic of China," which is the legal name of Taiwan. That is different from "People's Republic of China," which we in the west just call China.
The heart of their effort is lowering the amount of time for certain appeals. It's not about addressing the real concern (the onerous regulation and red tape that allows everybody to slow down building unless it satisfies their particular social justice issue, whether that's environmental, aesthetic, cost, etc).

Cities and state governments want this regulation. They crave it and create it endlessly because it forces developers to come to them for permission.
Sadly I believe that the job offers will be limited as moat companies like obidient employers more, than independent ones who cause discomfort. You would have to have good skills to compensate. (or the willingness to move to taiwan)
>"The growing number of complex components made it difficult to retain an open source version stripped of our internal specifications. This complexity is the main reason that we archived the open source Scribe project. The current version of Scribe’s architecture is detailed below, with a focus on the components that comprise the data plane. ". Quoted from the article.
For truly high-resolution grids (or big ones I guess), would be nice if it could be generated via GPU.
"Time limited offer expires on Sep 31 2019, " does that mean it never expires?
Man, this kind of thing is why I first got into programming.
> pissing it all away
This is a great passive income type of business.

Here's a nearly identical version that a number of folks use: https://hostifi.net/
TikTok banned political advertising[1]! Definitely the right move given their targeted audience and shows the company's focus on keeping in that way.

1) https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/tiktok-explains-its-ban-on...
HN isn’t a single person. There’s always a variety of opinions. It’s too easy to find contradictions between two different threads for this to be a helpful critique.

Nor does everyone here feel the need to take strong political stands on a hacker forum. So it’s a tough thing to gauge.
It's frustrating that employer-provided healthcare is treated as the standard alternative to single-payer, with very limited time spent on why even private insurance is specifically coming from employers. (When historically, as you point out, the answer is "tax reasons".)

The current system drives all kinds of awful distortions independent of actual cost, and it wouldn't take much to improve. Swapping the tax exemption for a write-off would be a significant start to stop penalizing freelancers and part-time workers who have to buy their own insurance, and indirectly promote competitive not-employer-sponsored plans.

I'm not sure if this just gets ignored because the issue is so contentious that small changes aren't worth the political price, or if there's something darker there, but it sure seems like it could be a bipartisan move.
So you were lucky. Not everyone will have the same luck.
I'm all for this, but this is a lovely example of the American tendency to blame everything on individuals when it is clearly powerful entities to blame (Apple, the CCP, etc). If one cat refuses, who's to tell you they won't retaliate against them and get another person to do it?
I think Numbers is a great spreadsheet application. It just doesn't even try to be the kind of spreadsheet application that can be abused as a poor man's DBMS.

For simpler tasks where a spreadsheet program is obviously the right tool for the job, Numbers tends to be plenty capable and give a nicer user experience than Excel and clones. For example, a few weeks ago I discovered that Numbers is vastly better at doing time-related calculations than Excel.

Numbers fails completely when you start moving into the problem domains where a SQL database and/or scripting language are good tools to consider.
I'm glad this finally happened.

When I upgraded my iOS devices to 13, my shared To Do lists stopped working in macOS. Each item in the list has a warning triangle next to it that explains I have to upgrade my desktop OS to use the lists again.

It turns out that I underestimated the importance of the grocery list shared among my family members. I now have five gallons of milk and no kitty litter in the house.
WA still has a libertarian bent that despises red tape. We have no state income tax due to that.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of "upgrading" the Reminders app on my new iPhone, and now I can't access my reminders on my Mac until I upgrade to Catalina. That's really lousy. Apparently there's a web interface I can use, but yeah no thanks.

> Upgraded reminders aren't compatible with earlier versions of iOS and macOS. If you upgrade your reminders on your iPhone with iOS 13, your iPad and Mac using the same iCloud account can’t access your reminders until iPadOS and macOS 10.15 Catalina are available. from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210220
I guess I hadn't considered it from that perspective. I wasn't privy to anything happening above my pay-grade, outside of office chatter. I thought we had a pretty good shot of success, but you're right, there was no guarantee of success.
That perpetual license would mean bunk if you're suddenly prohibited from accessing that content (or more specifically: a provider is prohibited from allowing you to access that content) by an Executive Order.
Great list! I'm bookmarking this.
Not the keycap thing, but I can give a +1 to the WASD company. Just bought a CODE model and very happy with their customer attention.
I guess I was referring to earlier Meteor where it used its own package manager (Atmosphere?) and front-end/templating (Blaze?) solutions. And actually that MySQL/Postgres might have been preferable to Mongo.
> (c) The prohibitions in subsections (a)–(b) of this section apply [...] notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order.

Page 1 of https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...

Kinda seems like there's no excuse for going about it this way.
As a Pakistani living in Pakistan, I second this. Navigation butchers road names. What's worse is that I have to butcher the names myself, just so that Google Assistant would understand my voice, and start navigation when I'm driving.
For many audio hardware drivers, it's not simply a matter of recompiling to 64-bit.

Apple has deprecated a lot of things and seems to be trying to move everything over to AudioServerPlugins, which essentially requires a full rewrite of the drivers. The architecture isn't similar at all (AudioServerPlugins actually follow a Microsoft-style COM interface, among other things). I don't even think Apple makes any sample code for updating old Firewire drivers to run on Catalina, so it's a tough slog, and low-level CoreAudio expertise to update old drivers is getting scarce. Traffic on the CoreAudio developer mailing list is down to less than a dozen posts most months. There hasn't been a single post to the mailing list yet in October.

I strongly suspect that some interface vendors are not going to update their 32 bit drivers for Catalina. (MOTU in particular is one, which kind of marks the end of an era because they used to be champions of some of the best CoreAudio features, like Firewire clock syncing.)
You might be a gay immigrant from a country that oppresses gay people. You might have a partner here, or friends, or family, or community.

Bring forced to move to a different community is always bad. The fact that states often force you to do it is a big reason I am an anarchist.
Working and100 hours on a side hustle just to shut it down
I was also thinking that if I had to start from scratch, Forth would be a great way to do it. I'm not familiar with Fig Forth, but I just ran across these assembly sources for various early CPU architectures: http://www.forth.org/fig-forth/contents.html but they look really long. I wonder if that booklet you had was simpler than these. (Any idea if it's available online?) I was thinking something like jones forth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187248 which has a minimal assembly part (which is mostly comments explaining how it all works) and then quickly moves to implementing Forth in Forth itself.
For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

So all those political ads are now finally true. I guess that's something.
True as far as it goes, but a couple comments:

* I was referring to the energy supply chain, not just electricity. Energy as a whole is very much a global supply chain. (And even more than that, it's very globally interconnected in terms of pricing, etc.)

* As a thought experiment, consider completely shutting down the computer manufacturing supply for two weeks. Then consider the same for the energy supply chain. Which of those has more immediate and profound impact?

Keep in mind that I'm not saying that either of these domains is unimportant. Just that society would and has felt the importance of one a lot more acutely and a lot more suddenly.
How to Disable All of Windows 10’s Built-In Advertising (2017)
Man I’d love to just throw a tesla engine into like a Corolla. I’m sure there’s good reasons it’s not like that but this is some stupid bullshit to have to wade through.
New ES10 (ES2019) Features by Example
I recently updated my app to be macOS 10.15 compatible. Most of the changes were just annoying and difficult to debug, but some were glaring bugs related to Safari App Extensions which were show-stoppers. I really hope they fixed them before the release...

1) Although everything is "notorized," the Safari extensions aren't installed on app start up like it's supposed to in most cases.

2) The following API call works, UNTIL macOS wakes from sleep mode, in which case it always returns 'false.' SFSafariExtensionManager.getStateOfSafariExtension(...)
Its definitely a n00b criticism; R is absolutely the shizznits for cleaning and transforming data. You have to use data.tables for larger data sets, but (God Bless Wes) it can't really be beat for this; it does an amazeballs job and has every doodad you can imagine for making your life easier.

Cleaning a broken csv or whatever: no, it is crap for that. You use awk/sed/tr and all that for such problems.

If you're the type who don't want to deal with R, I guess you can use it from the CLI. A couple of the R deploys I've done work like this.

The real problems with R are .... oh man .... so many. R inferno covers a lot of them as a language/environment. Weak database connectivity is another one. The thing which makes me batshit is the nodejsbro-ification of the package management system. Aka people chaining together things like node works; R's package manager isn't designed for this. But also the way code, packaged and otherwise simply rots between the many, many upgrades.

You could probably run and deploy scikit learn/pandas based code from 5 years ago without much problem. In R, you have to make a build with the salted package dependencies ... and for all I know stuff it in docker.

Anyway unlike python, it basically has every data transformation and statistical tool under the sun. I guess this is the price we pay.
Well, that's sort of true. I'm about as pro-building as they come, but it's important to keep in mind that housing is a segmented market and that due to preference and affordability, people are only engaging on the demand side across a few segments. A glut of housing at the highest price tier will indeed allow people in the next tier to upgrade, but in the short run the affordability only ends up trickling down a few tiers. However, as housing ages it will filter down to lower segments if there is newer supply.

So it's probably correct to say "All housing construction eventually helps affordability."
> if the confederacy won and banned the stars and bars in this case.

I think you meant the flag of (what would be) the preceding national government against which the Confederacy would have won, the Stars and Stripes.

The Stars and Bars is a different flag [0] that it would be odder (and not parallel to any construction of the PRC/ROC issue that I can see) for the Confederacy to ban.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_Sta...
Absolutely astounding to me, petabytes an hour? That's in the region of a meg to several megs per user per hour looking at their monthly active user figures.
Hmm. How good are they with the "grunt work" stuff for professional print design? Color profiles, PDF export, scripts for text formatting, files loading a gigabyte worth of photos, etc? I'm desperately waiting for a proper Adobe replacement but they're sitting on that segment, not with flashy, new features but with a solid-as-hell base of tried and tested background functionality.
Is this really "unlike most databases"? I remember MySQL posting profiling data years ago showing that for looking up by primary-key, 3/4 of the time was spent parsing SQL. (They went on to introduce support for querying with the Memcached protocol to address this)
There's a new website that visualizes NYC water quality in Real-Time
As a former resident, I hope you can see the tides are shifting rapidly. How long can you keep things that way? Didn’t Seattle elect a socialist? Their policies are the opposite of libertarian.
Even if it doesn't, it will have paved the way for dozens of similar companies operating with variations on its co-working model

Correct me if I'm off the mark here but no it hasn't? I feel that the path was already paved via locally owned/operated (and sometimes locally franchised) coworking spaces who have existed and fared well before the likes of WeWork and even Regus.
No, those are designed for inference.
What would you say Adobe should do differently in this situation? If nothing then I think the person you are replying is right when they say Adobe doesn't really have a choice here.
I've looked at the FiiO lineup and they do seem like some really sweet hardware, though more geared for the audiophile.

But like you said, they're geared towards either the high end like FiiO or the very very lowend (i.e. third world countries where smartphones are only beginning to become ubiquitous in the last few years).
If only Hadley hadn't picked snake-case, which doesn't work so well out of the box with ESS. Yah, I know there is a way of fixing this with a setq in ESS, but I shouldn't have to.
I see the whatfreewords web api is down, I was wondering if their re-implementation actually manages to map the same words to coordinates - I assume not, which seems... problematic. Then w3w one.nice.spot would be in one place on the globe, but the same three words would map to a different place with whatfreewords. I could imagine some users being confused.
i've seen the 1500/1300$ figure thrown around a couple of times by tesla owners: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/door-handle-replacem...

As, for the drive unit, I thought it used to be 10K maybe it's a bit lower now
Does it do the same for people visiting the US? I can imagine tons of butchering especially with placenames which have Native American derivation. Arkansas, Puyallup, Potowomut, or even idiosyncratic places like Peabody \’pee’bdee\
> Now on the other hand... they're screwed.

No, it just means adobe created a whole new fleet of pirates.
That sounds like a fairly expensive solution. I can see eliminating most/all private car traffic in urban centers, but I think it's not likely that everything else goes underground.
I think this is the wrong question; who cares what options Reddit has - what other options do the users have?

Reddit seems to be overplaying its hand, if they do then they'll get hit by the same obliviating exodus that others have been destroyed by in the past.

Ideally the next incarnation will be more decentralised in it's structure.
Time to upgrade to Mojave then :)
Without building and running your own full-blown PC at home, I think the best option is a consumer NAS. Which are great; I love mine.

But they don't seem to advertise and very few people know it's a really good option (with phone apps to replace the cloud ones, even).
Thanks. I didn't know about DaVinci yet. It looks impressive (including their website).
I’ve mentioned the idea of using the Phonetic alphabet for proper names to people around me. I think having an alphabet where human beings can communicate sounds in an exact form irrespective of any underlying associated meaning is valuable.
I believe the majority of CC licenses are held by companies in most place regardless, so the minimum wage isn't as important to factor that in. The majority of transactions in day-to-day life in VE at this point is done using USD or bartering, so the local currency isn't quite as important either. Everything is under the table.

A lot of Venezuelans make money by doing freelance jobs, and I know many very skilled web devs that make really good money by doing foreign freelance jobs. These jobs may require CC licenses, so it screws them over.
That's really surprising if true, considering the SQL should only need to be parsed once.

SELECT foo FROM Table WHERE key = @mykey;

Then you bind the parameter to whatever you're interested in.
Ah take examples from liberal democracies only if it fits your agenda. How about single payer healthcare system? Do you like that as well? It is very well established that it works well.
Fair point..."free" often means "without regard for time" however. Even though I don't have a use for this one, I pay for various services which I could do/run myself, because I only have 24 hours a day.
My favorite feature of Keynote / Pages is that the equation editor is simply a native LaTeX editor. You have to wonder why Word didn't simply do this in the first place
Profit > rights
That's a pretty reasonable price
You can safely use XSLT to subset SVG, and (for example) limit complexity. Scripts in SVGs do not load in img tags either.
You might be interested to know that Linux just merged a patch that fallbacks to jitter entropy when nothing else is available.

See 50ee7529ec4500c88f8664560770a7a1b65db72b.
I absolutely agree, Apple needs to take a stand and end its relationship with China immediately. We need to organize boycotts until they do this.
> This is a docker based build environment that produces a modern version of Firefox (tested with latest stable 66.0.3) built and packaged in a way suitable to running in AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 AMI or to be used as a layer for AWS Lambda, to run serverless testing for example.

I literally said "What?" with a giggle when reading this. I'm amazed about what have happened, but more intrigued by why it happened. Is the use case here being able to use it for testing or something similar?