skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is a nice comparison of pros and cons of Pandas and SQL, but the title and ensuing comments are misleading and off the point, akin to favorite arguments like "is Haskell types just C++ objects"? They have similar and differences, in core semantics and in ergonomics.

Pandas has a perlish API designed for abbreviating common tasks, combined with a Pythonic (per common practice, despite being against Putin's stated principles) disregard for informative use of types, instead a simple coherent, principled, layered API. That makes it look like "SQL done wrong" because the semantic differences aren't laid out explicitly.
I've been running a small, low-traffic SQLite3 instance for many years.

Actually, too many... I need to go and upgrade it.
Sounds great. I imagine that must have substantially reduced road traffic and pollution on those days.
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If Git is a blockchain, the. ZFS is a blockchain too.
That's not a very good idea. Most people are terrified of glass floors in other scenarios, like balconies for example, especially combined with some altitude. It may be just as safe as "normal" windows but I doubt most people would be comfortable with it. I'm not even sure I would be and I have no more fear of flying than most people. I'm not sure it's suitable for other reasons as well, such as hull integrity (but I'm not an engineer), or actually getting sunlight into the cabin. I'm fairly sure most people want to watch sunsets and sunrises, not clouds or how insanely high up you're sitting.
I'm not even sure if that is being claimed to be too fast, or too slow.
>Mozilla’s first integration of Pocket was poorly done, and rightfully raised complaints. But since they have purchased it, a lot of those complaints have been resolved.

Off-topic, but I find current integration equally poor. Why do I have to spend extra clicks to login every time I want to add something to Pocket? Why it doesn't use stored credentials just like Sync does?
Is BSV supposedly the new cool altcoin?

Edit: Searching it seems to be a Bitcoin fork made by a fraud claiming to be Satoshi.
Are you shilling against SpaceX, or was that worded slightly weird, or what?

Bug-free is a ridiculous theoretical concept, where there are humans at work, there are bugs.

As for 'perfect development culture', same thing. Ridiculous concept. There is always something to improve on.

But would I personally, with my limited knowledge about Boeing and SpaceX, but with the catastrophic fails at Boeing regarding the 737 MAX in mind, judge SpaceX the more competent company in terms of management engineering skills, efficiency, to get a product as bug-free as they can without putting money before safety concerns? OF COURSE. There is no question.
Its really alot more than that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis_(figure_of_speech)
How often do people maintain it? My experience with internal wikis is they start off good, but a few years latter everything is obsolete: it is a good things nobody reads it because what was true last year isn't anymore.
Matthew Crawford has some good thoughts on this subject. He posits that the agency afforded an individual by working with their hands is something that, by and large, has been lost. He also touches on the liberation of working on things where the result is easily measurable and not open for debate. For reference, he quit his white collar career to open a motorcycle repair shop and he offers the following as an archetypal example.

When you're repairing a motorcycle the end result speaks for itself, it either runs properly or it doesn't. This is often in stark contrast to the white collar world where, not only, long term decisions are made with too little information but most things are outside our outside your control.

Agency contrasted with lack of agency.
<< it also connects to Google's SafeBrowsing servers. >>

As a privacy enthusiast, what's wrong with Google's SafeBrowsing service? It provides protection from low-hanging fruit with anonymized data (hashes of URLs).
The 3D animation software used by TV news weather departments can do all of the above, as far back as 2000, so it should be possible to replicate in a more open way.
It's definitely off-putting. I'm not sure what your mean by not reading it "too literally". Obviously no one thinks the author is speaking literally... It's still reasonable to think the phrasing is gross.
woke/Fox News Cult.

I recommend a little less parochialism, and more historical scholarship.

All populist politics needs to appeal to its clientele with simplistic, easy to grasp utopias that are claimed to be in easy grasp after "we" win power, whether it's
the classless society of Marxism,
notions of paradise in various religions (e.g. 72 seventy-two houri in Sunni-Islam), libertarianism's coercion-free optimal resource allocation,
anarchism's absence of social hierarchy,
Robespierre's "liberté, égalité, fraternité", and many others.
"Woke" culture is clearly a contemporary evolution (rebranding) of the
socialist tradition emerging out of the French revolution, and made politically potent by Lenin, Stalin & comrades, channeled into the modern western world via Gramsci's cultural hegemony, and nowadays spread by powerful branding organisations like Avaaz [1] and Purpose [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Madden_(entrepreneur)
Upvoted for Coase; far more people on HN should read his work, because those questions you mention are extremely critical to explaining a lot of things. All the "gig economy" firms are practical Coasianism.
> EDIT: As expected, anything that's not bashing crypto (preferably with unrelated arguments) rakes in downvotes. Aah the lovely HN hivemind.

I’m guessing you’re getting downvoted because

1) you’re assuming a lot about what this guy intended and giving him a lot of credit when he clearly didn’t understand the topic, and

2) you end with “you might want to look more into crypto yourself if you care to learn” which almost seems like trolling because it’s essentially what this guy told Wales.
Brad Fitzpatrick and others pointed out that in that article they were using Go 1.6, but the garbage collector got way better since then and it would be possible that just upgrading Go would have solved the issue for them.
But it would only decrease traffic and pollution for the duration of the spend. Once it's over, those benefits stop and there is nothing left beyond the lingering effects of the intervention.

The lingering impact of millions of people realising that bus travel is actually a good idea and that cars aren't necessary in a lot of cases. How terrible!
The Fate of Empires and Search for Surival [pdf]
How the CIA read the communications of allies and adversaries for decades
Swedish here, check Swish [1] a mobile app allowing free payments for individuals and between individuals. The only downside is that it is still "a cooperation between six of the largest banks in Sweden."

Invoice shopping became very popular with companies like Klarna (which is also a bank now afaik) and others, you buy, get the product and pay 14 days later using an invoice sent to you.

[1] https://www.swish.nu/about-swish
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In all fairness, the OP seems young -- I remember when I was naive and idealistic too and that the technology I had invested time in learning was so obviously going to be the backbone of everything to come. It's a classic case of starting with technology and trying to shoehorn a use case into it rather than starting from a use case and molding the technology to fit.

Jimmy's reply is basically "you don't understand the use case"; which the OP does not because he's trying to find a use for the cool tech he learned. What I don't understand is why Jimmy is publicly arguing with someone as green as the OP...
Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (2014) [pdf]
Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly?
Only on HN will you find someone seriously arguing that a salary of over 400K USD a year does not make you upper class. Sure, you can't afford to stop working for the rest of your life, but with a salary like that you're only a few years away from being able to if you wanted.
I know Git and Blockchains are said to be examples for (usage of) Merkle trees, but I fail to see how they're actually (using) a merkle tree.

Using the hash of a parent node as input to a nodes hash alongside the nodes data creates a link, but it doesn't create a merkle tree. In a Merkle tree the parent node is the hash of the hashes of its child nodes and only leafes have data. These are entirely different definitions and also serve completely different purposes (linking to a parent node vs efficient lookup of membership of some data in a larger dataset).

Could someone clear up my confusion and explain to me where Git/Blockchain use a Merkle tree in their fundamental functionality? Or is the term Merkle tree simply misreferenced a lot?
Starliner has been in full development for five years and in preliminary development for 9+ years.

>How can that even be "reviewed" in any way but superficially in a time frame less than 5 years?

If it can be written then it can be reviewed, you just need to pay for more engineers to do that.
I'm going to assume this is sarcasm.
There's the Multi-Account Containers add-on.
Any other good nist publications you recommend? IT or tech related?
You're making shit up.

> When it talks about mailing unordered merchandise, it's not talking about stuff done in error but rather mailing of merchandise the sender knows was not ordered.

Since you apparently cannot click through the link I posted, I'll quote for you the entire legal definition of "unordered merchandise":

>(d) For the purposes of this section, “un­ordered merchandise” means merchandise mailed without the prior expressed request or consent of the recipient.

That's it. None of that context you're imagining. Unordered merchandise is anything you get that you did not order. It doesn't matter if somebody else ordered it. It doesn't matter if nobody ordered it. It doesn't matter if you ordered something else. All that matters is whether the recipient ordered what was actually mailed, because that's all that the legal definition stipulates. The extra requirements you are trying to add are not part of the law.
Interesting point.

These days I can visit Imgur and appreciate a joke that someone has made using only 4-5 memes. Also language is still evolving, and the Internet of the era forces changes, such as people becoming used to being limited to 140 letter limits etc.

But even then I'm sure change to the core language must be slower overall.
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For tmux users: put something like this in your .tmux.conf on production servers:

set -g window-style 'fg=red,bg=black'

It will color the text red, hopefully reminding you to be extra careful. Adjust according to your preferences.

One other "defensive scripting" trick I frequently use is starting any `rm` command with `ls`, double checking its output (or triple checking if it's a recursive one), and then replacing `ls` with `rm`. It barely takes any extra time if you're proficient with emacs-style readline hotkeys:

C-a M-d rm C-m
As sister comment points out: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I prefer Chrome due to it's developer tools and because its DataView implementation is a whooping 40x faster than Firefox's. I use DataView a lot.
You'd be interested in Ben Krasnow's DiY attempt. It's still understandable but he tries to explain why it's built the way it is and give you a good basis of the theory of operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKhUizkXxA
ARM unveils two new A.I. computer chip designs
That's the problem with Mozilla's privacy propaganda, their funding depends on violating privacy, so they can only talk and pretend, but not actually do anything about it. Which makes them look bad, dishonest and fake, when they are talking about privacy.
It's not very anonymized. Google already has a list of URLs, so they can just hash them all and see what matches. And if they have URL 1, 2, and 4, odds are they can interpolate to find out what #3 is.
I may be misremembering but if I recall correctly SpaceX hasn't had a failure in a launch abort test. Only in a static firing test (in regards to dragon 2).
Because people will not fly a plane that has no pilot. One of the largest scandals in aviation history was unveiled only recently and it was caused by software issues, not the human factor as mostly is the case. We're not there yet and pretending we are won't make it so.
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There is another place where you can do that, but it is a peaceful place and I won't tell you where it is.

Also, I don't agree with your interpretation. Investing in dates is a lifetime investment. I doubt that this would be the exact reason for their politics in that area. If you plant a date tree today, you can expect to start having positive cash flow in > 15 years from now. I think there are more immediate considerations (or other crops with a quicker turnaround) like maybe nuclear bombs and guns. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_(song)
So, my bad date last Wednesday didn't happen?! Huzzah!
I suppose you have similar concerns about men occupying the overwhelming majority of physically taxing and hazardous jobs, correct? Obviously, we both know there are no intrinsic differences between men and women, so this is a great injustice that women's representation among miners, construction workers, metalworkers, truckers, heavy machinery operators, fishermen, foresters, waster disposal workers, and so on, is virtually nonexistent.

And of course you find it outrageous that in the entirety of Asia, Africa and Middle East, white people constitute nonexistent percentage of the population, and there are virtually no white men in the positions of power there.

Right?
It’s not perfect, but I like it better than the alternatives (selling user data, non profit).

Technically the browser is nice, but there’s something nice about a for profit org whose incentives are aligned with mine. For now, I use a FireFox for similar reasons, but I like Brave’s mode for the web better than the “bad ad” model that google and Facebook push.

I used to like Opera for similar reasons.
When we go to the library (about once a week), the kids haul out at least that many books. They are all voracious readers and can go through 100 books in the blink of an eye.
Most online wallets will convert your balance to USD instantly, but limit the rate at which you can transfer the money to your normal bank.
One of those browsers tracks everything you do if you sign-in, the other does it only to increase retention, not to track your activities. Guess which is which?
Hey HN,

I got frustrated with how long it takes to build a site to get a creative project off the ground, so for the last year I've been working with the whole team at ConvertKit to build a new landing page editor.

It's now totally free and you can start building a page without needing to create an account. I'd love to hear what you think!
Seems like this has been merged:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35112

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/35112-...
They could probably exist without Google funding, like just supporting a Chromium fork with fast native adblocking. But obviously not as a thousand people company.
Um. On long flights, apparently the pilots are mostly asleep. So 'nobody' includes a lot of people, practically.
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That's an interesting straw man. No, I do not believe it is a moral failing to be Christian. Yes, I do believe it is a moral failing to be against gay rights.
Process vs. Outcome in Investing
Good example of second order thinking
How often do you want to do that worldwide travel shutdown? We got through SARS and Ebola without one. At the height of each, without the benefit of hindsight, did you consider them less serious then this one?
As long as they keep donating money to hate groups, yes.
Much of that comment is political in nature. Calling it palestine & colonization is disputable.

Technically the Israelites inhabited the land before the Palestinians. Such land was part of Judea & Samaria, which the romans conquered, kicked out the Israelites. In modern times the Israelites won back much of the land in a war of aggression against them.

It's akin to saying that the Native Americans who lived in their reservations were attacked by the surrounding cities. The native americans won, and in the battles managed to extended their reservations to a greater % of their historical lands before the Americans kicked them out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea#Biblical_period
Are you saying Airbus is equipping planes with ejection seats like Northrup Grumman?
Or rebooting a container. But you’re not in the container anymore but on the host...
My guess: like a date.
Suggesting that soldiers cannot be heroes while on duty?

It's rather common to see our cultures honor fallen soldiers and regard them as the archetypal case of heroes. Being on duty has never been considered a limitation.
Yes? Even a billion dollars? I'm not sure you're actually answering my question.
It was actually pretty easy for Android software to change to support full-screen touch UI. Just add a software keyboard and inertial scrolling and enlarge the button sizes. You can verify this by reading the AOSP sources to see how little code was added/changed.

Android was lucky to have an internal software architecture that was easy to reskin to support iPhone style UI. All the alternatives had more work to do.
How to start using Python type annotations with Mypy
Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business
I don't think many white collar jobs have as much of that stress as you'd think. There are definitely some high stress jobs because of their effects on other people (doctors, lawyers, etc), but there are also some incredibly low stress white collar jobs that nearly put people into catatonic boredom. Getting a job that can be automated, but your boss doesn't realize it can be automated, is a good example. Automating some of these jobs can require as little effort as learning Python for 2-3 months and hacking together some scripts. Blue collar workers likely have a higher attention floor - due to safety reasons around large machines usually. Some white collar jobs can be slept through.
> specific steps to weaken the engineering leadership

What in the world are you talking about? There’s been no reporting of anything like that. The MAX engineers failed all by themselves. No management told them to design MCAS in a brain dead fashion. Nobody “weakened” engineering leadership.
Mostly an internet fad. You can safely ignore it.
That's the difference between assets in general, and investment vehicles, which are a very particular kind of asset regulated by the SEC.
You make that sound like merely an observed behaviour, but isn't that because that's what we're selecting for? We eat banana flesh, not banana seeds, so we're cultivating varieties that are fleshier (among other desirable properties, such as productivity, and taste of the flesh of course).
No, they support a subset of Christianity that uses their faith as an excuse to hate others. No one cares about your faith, until you start wielding it as a club to beat others.
in bitcoin the transactions are the leaves
Why do you dislike Brave’s scheme?
That says retail not renewal. Often during sales of products companies will put full price so you know your savings, not often is it really the full price you'll pay later. One might think "sale for x/yr" would be different than "sale for x/1yr".
Did you miss that those extensions don't work on chrome either?
No citation handy, but I came across a theory that the high levels of anxiety and stress and malaise prevalent in modern urban society is caused in part by the absence of birdsong. Consider our savannah ancestors, for whom the ambient sounds of birds constituted an "all is well" signal; cries of alarm and sudden flight served as an early warning system, and their silence could signal presence of a predator or other threat. It seems plausible to me that city-dwellers, at a primal level, "miss" these sounds in whose presence our systems of perception evolved, resulting in an imbalance and heightened baseline fear and anxiety.

Related tangent: "forest bathing" is a noteworthy remedy.
The History of Git
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Let me know when those bafoons at Mozilla figure out how to add back the functionality, features and customisation of most of the addons that used to exist for Firefox pre Quantum copy chrome garbage direction.. like TabMixPlus for a start..

Until then there whole privacy gambit ploy to sucker in idiots can fall on deaf ears, they literately handed the web over to fucking Goorble.

Mozilla = idiot SJW company

Use Vivaldi, loads better than Firefox now.
Either my memory is much worse, or my level of screwing up must be much more impressive. I feel like many of those wouldn't be notable enough to stick in my memory years later. There's no way I'd remember some random electric shock from decades ago...
A lot of places can't do more than 10k a day. So you either try and sell at the peak and eat the risk of them going under, or you sell continuously and leave a lot of money on the table because price fluctuates week to week.
> without the TSS risks that tampons have

consumer reports disagrees with you

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/women-s-health/menstrual-cup...
Correct, it was a vibe test with superdracos running well beyond expected operating conditions.
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If you haven't taken up bird watching as a hobby, you should absolutely do it.

You know that feeling of playing runescape or minecraft or some other game and finding that one rare item? Birding is like that, except in real life.

I have audibly gasped many times when I've found a bird that I had never seen before.

Get a decent pair of binoculars (nikon aculon $70 is a good cheap starter pair) and take a relaxing stroll. Birds tend to like water and the edges of two habitats (fields and woods, marsh and fields, etc).

Part of the fun is using your ears and trying to track that darn bird down.
Only the sith deal in absolutes. If you don't believe in "social justice" then you must believe in "social injustice"?
Mastery, autonomy and purpose are the big 3 I took away from one of those cool whiteboard videos (rsa animate?)
- Part of the Dead Sea coast was in pre-1967 Israel.

- This comment, imputing a very negative motivation of sheer spitefulness, is offensive.
A dataframe may be a table, but it can also be a matrix by supporting some matrix operations.
Very fragmented all over the corporate network in all kinds of weird tools and applications.

They did make effort to standardize everything, but nobody seems to care.
In my opinion Firefox's dev tools are superior for CSS while Chrome has better JS debugging and better profiling.
> In fact, bare metal deployments without runtime are non-conforming from ISO point of view, if I am not mistaken.

a freestanding implementation is conforming.
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Boeing obviously put profit before human lives on the 737 MAX, their culture is not to be trusted for any aircraft/spacecraft.
Cost is around $150 for those who don't want to click around to find it.

Hardware specs:

SoC: NXP i.MX6ULZ ARM® Cortex™-A7 900 MHz

RAM: 512 MB DDR3

Storage: internal 16 GB eMMC + external microSD

Bluetooth module: u-blox ANNA-B112 BLE

USB-C ports: DRP (Dual Role Power) receptacle + UFP (Upstream Facing Port) plug, USB 2.0 only (no video support)

LEDs: two

Slide switch: for boot mode selection between eMMC and microSD

External security elements: Microchip ATECC608A + NXP A71CH

Physical size: 66 mm x 19 mm x 8 mm (without enclosure, including USB-C connector)