skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'd fall in the category of being minimalist[1].

A good part of the few things I own, are actually tools to fix the other things with or build them in the first place. Also buying fewer things, means I can optimize more easily for quality and longevity, and that there are just fewer things that can break.

Arguably, taken minimalism to the extreme, the basic tools is what you should be left with.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with minimalism is, that it should be highly individualistic, whereas most societies have a big group-think component to it about how you should behave, what you should own, etc.

E.g. I don't have any specific tools or spare parts related to fixing a car, because I don't have a car, because it wouldn't add more value than cost to my life. But just because that is true for myself, doesn't make it so for someone else. And on the other hand, I own things that I value highly, but that would just gather dust in another household.

[1] I identify more with the Swedish term "Lagom", which roughly translates to "just the right amount", and is more about appreciation of what you have, not about pushing for reduction.
Remote work solutions should be doing just for now. Logistics would be another field, e-commerce as well.
Do you include storage costs? Keeping stuff in your home is the most expensive option most of the time given how expensive homes are.
§ is an ugly but very useful delimiter in csv-like files too. Almost never present as a regular character.
So it says. But: no address, no official contact, no link to any official EU offices and so on. If this is an EU official effort they are doing a piss-poor job of making their credentials public. Note the "official website of the EU" at the top of every official EU website notice and that that one does not have that banner.

"All official European Union website addresses are in the europa.eu domain."

I could set up a website within the .eu domain easily enough and link it to all kinds of EU official sites to give it a semblance of officialdom. Add a couple of flag banners and before you know it you're in business.

Interesting reading on that site here: https://euobserver.com/opinion/141458

The lack of transparency is rather interesting.

I also note you side stepped the other part of my comment.
Where exactly did he make that point? Exactly how is organic search being “demoted”?
i use pure functions wherever i can, but is this always the right approach when dealing with large dataframes? i imagine when you're chaining a few methods, it'd generate a large number of intermediate results that immediately get discarded/transformed again:

frame.foo_columns().bar_rows().baz()

the result of .foo_columns() is basically linear – it gets passed to .bar_rows() immediately, with no other references to it. maybe this'd be a good place for rust's safe mutability magic?
Pretty soon many of those WFH pros in the big multinationals will also be furloughed or laid off. It hit mine because all forecasts show this will outlive June. Factories are closing, supply chains are drying up, and business to business sales have all buy stopped for a huge part of the economy. Given share prices also ranked, what do we all think is going to happen for all but the cash rich enterprises that can gobble everything up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS
Wikipedia: "However, z/OS also supports 64-bit Java, C, C++..."
Managers: "Why do we need budget spendings for that Java, everything works fine..."
I’ve just released a short film (free) about the UK’s surveillance state and the live facial recognition deployments by UK police forces, where thousands have been scanned without consent, and many have been racially profiled.

During 2019 and 2020 I witnessed several live facial recognition deployments by the Metropolitan police and South Wales police. And I was able to capture first hand the behind the scenes of what the police do during these deployments.

The first thing I noticed in these deployment is how the UK police forces target certain people—especially racial minorities. Which is extremely worrying. But after you deeply analyze their modus operandi, the threat of their surveillance goes much further than the already grave threat of racial profiling: it is the beginning of a state of surveillance and a roll-back on human rights and fundamental freedoms.

In this short film I show you the behind the scenes of what the police do during live facial recognition operational deployments. And I give you a sneak a peak of where the UK is heading with its surveillance state. And maybe this video will serve as an example of other countries that are also walking down this road.

You can watch the full short film here: bmstudios.org/uk-surveillance-state/
I'm curious, what happens next for you? What is the treatment for the parasites?
Interesting read. I’m already familiar with these concepts, so I’m not really the target audience. I think mentioning (and showing) some antenna radiation patterns would help the viewer. The transceivers are not point sources. Their 3D orientation matters quite a lot, especially when multipath is a dominant factor (ie inside).

Also don’t be fooled by the last sentence. There is no way to cheat Shannon’s limit. These are all just tricks to try to get closer to Shannon’s limit. TANSTAAFL. You need lots of transistors to implement these complicated tricks and you are always limited by the channel (the signal from transmitter to receiver, including all antenna, multipath, noise, and circuitry effects).
Because the entire point of the App Store is the review process. But you do realize even physical games you buy for consoles have to be reviewed and approved by the console makers and they still get a cut?
If i don't have to impress I love Balsamiq with comic sans font. Makes it clear this is UX, not design and exported as clickable PDF it works quite nicely.
Your comment is insightful - enough that I shared it with my biz partner but yeah I’d tone it down and keep posting, important to avoid herd opinions.
Unfortunately I think the problem we need to solve is not technical, and it doesn’t reduce to “source A can be trusted, source B cannot”. Feels like the answer is to increase the critical thinking abilities of the population at large, and it feels we’re about 10,000 years into that project.
Also these three books are interesting:

Lippmann - Public Opinion

Bernays - The Engineering of Consent

Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Dear fellow HN'ers, please don't downvote a comment as a reflex if you disagree with it and consider engaging a point on its merits. Hiding viewpoints you disagree with creates an echo chamber.
It's funny that you accuse mainstream media of bending the truth while linking to Wikipedia, a website actually known for its top editors having an political agenda.
(Quantum) Many body problem is indeed at the very heart of chemistry. If it was solved creation of new materials and chemicals would be less of trial and error.

In principle it comes down to the fact that problem space explodes tensorially with number of electrons e.g. in principle you need grid size of 3N dimensions per every electron so for helium a^6 where a is number of points in the grid (and you probably need at least thousands of tens of thousands to accurately solve differential equations). This can’t be done in practice so other methods (expansion of problem in basis usually) are used.

Unfortunately solving Schrödinger precisely requires incredible amounts of both computing power and theoretical expertise. Qualitative results are up there for most systems thanks to developments in theoretical chemistry but it is still quite manual process that requires expert computational scientist to make sure results are reliable.
Right because Google - the number one most visited page on the internet has a lesser ability to market than Apple.

What do you think made Chrome so popular?

People have been saying that marketing is the only reason that Apple is successful since the iPod. Are other companies that incompetent that they could figure marketing out in almost 20 years?
Where do we sign up?
Why would one downvote for disagreeing?
Random Infected Walkers
Ignore the rtPCR test result data because SARS-CoV-2 still isn't a mandatory report condition (which is ridiculous) and so private labs don't report positive (or negative) results to any government regulators. The majority of tests are currently being conducted by private labs for people with insurance and only mostly critical cases are being tested, so basically no one infected is included in the statistics. The only ones being tested by the county are typically homeless, undocumented or other people who show up critically-ill to county hospitals.

Santa Clara county is about 2-3 weeks behind NY, which means the peak there will be roughly in 4-6 weeks. It's going to be a major disaster and emergency healthcare will be essentially unusable until mid June.
Yes, that's the approach that I'm taking with the library, but with a simple execution flow.
One of the things that used to bite me a lot with Pandas was having to manually free memory from intermediate dataframes that I would create. I'm expecting Rust to work better in this case, because when executing a 3-step pipeline, step 2 consumes the output from step 1, and the dataframe is freed from memory.

I'll write an experiment on this in the coming weeks/months, to see if my assumption would work.
>If your possessions all have practical utility, you are already a hardcore minimalist.

The problem is that "practical utility" isn't always obvious. I have boxes and boxes of components and other oddments that collectively form a useful library, but I have no way of predicting which specific oddments will be useful in future. Any given item is currently useless, but might become extremely useful at some indeterminable point in the future. There's a very fine line between a prepper and a hoarder.
Several factors:

- control: you are in control, when you do the payment. You can plan your cash flow.

- additional advantages: You also have payment terms, some vendors offer discounts for earlier payments; if your cash flow can handle that, why would you giving up of that?

- liability: with CC, you are getting credit that is drawn at other party leisure. It's you, who is liable for this credit line, even if the other party made a mistake. You are always liable to the bank, never towards the vendors. With bank transfers, every single payment was authorized by you (where by 'you' I mean authorized person at your company) and the liability is towards the vendor, who is not likely to have such a strong position (see Porter's five forces).

- leverage: if another party makes a mistake, they have motivation to correct it. Every company in existence has already received invoices, that are incorrect. Withholding payment until they are corrected is a strong motivator. Without that, you could be left without invoices that can be put into accounting AND without money that you have to account for.

- setting up processes: when you grow beyond certain size, you are going to want to formalize both the procurement, accounts payable and treasury. Having purchasing and payment discipline that are compatible with that already in place will mean less pain from the growth, less things to change.

When we need people in the field purchasing small supplies, we don't want them to handle cash, so they get debit (not credit) cards, with relatively small limits. It is enough for them to get by, but not enough to make any damage of significance. (The exception is fuel and that's what fuel cards are for - basically it has a form factor of a credit or debit card, but works only for fuel, is paired to a license plate and the vendor sends invoice at the end of the month).

Another scenario, where CCs are useful, if you need to pay something right now; you don't or can't want to wait for the order->delivery+invoice->payment cycle. That's fine for consumer impulse purchases, but that should not be a normal way for company purchases.

Of course, if you start a new business relation, some companies would not trust you, that you are going to pay the invoice; sending advance invoice and paying it is fine. In practice, it is quite rare occurrence.
> every time (conspiracy) comes up I ponder on the means by which it might be true

Wrong. [1]

Try to falsify.

"Conspiracy theories resist falsification and are reinforced by circular reasoning: both evidence against the conspiracy and an absence of evidence for it are re-interpreted as evidence of its truth, whereby the conspiracy becomes a matter of faith rather than something that can be proved or disproved." [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
I couldn't find a Chrome extension named "blogthis" or "blog this". Can you give me a link to that extension? Thanks
Its funny, I needed to clean my old nintendo GBA with the same method.
So looking at the wiki page image of Remdesivir [1] I can see that this looks a lot like the sugar-phosphate backbone that is integral to DNA and RNA. If you imagine DNA as a curling ladder, the nucleoside (adenosine) is the steps, and the sugar-phosphate pairs make up the rails on either side of the steps.

The adenosine bit is attached to a five carbon sugar (pentagon with O at top) which is identical to the sugar it would be attached to in RNA. The next thing along is a phosphate with some oxygens double bonded to it, which is part of the "backbone" of DNA. The stuff attached to that phosphate is nothing like DNA or RNA.

Hope this makes sense and provides a little insight for you :)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir
Simply because it's easy and anonymous.
> no address, no official contact, no link to any official EU offices and so on

Maybe you should read more carefully and not just skim in hurry. All the above is false.

>I also note you side stepped the other part of my comment.

Because I largely agree with it. No need to comment.
Out of interest, what are the common tasks that you'd be looking to achieve? We can't replace Pandas and its ecosystem in the short-term, so for me a Rust-backed backend to a dataframe that is compatible with Pandas would be a win.
Good point about Force Majeure, definitely have to add this my contacts going forward.
Hammond wasn’t a cynical profiteer. He didn’t care about the money, it was a pleasant after effect. The only thing he cared about was creation. Like a blind god he wanted genesis at all costs.

He ends up terrified of his own creation, startled by a tyrannosaurus roar over a loud speaker. Had he kept his nerve he would have died of old age chasing creation on his secondary projects. That roar pushes him down a hill that puts him in danger of an eternal sleep from compy venom as he tries to climb a hill with a broken ankle. The book ends well killing Hammond and implying the death of Malcolm. It wraps up with nature and science above human control and mathematical chaos, which makes way more sense as a closing piece than letting it go on forever like the films.
I wonder what the Russians are hoping to achieve apart from annoying everyone?
Are these temps and FTEs even doing the same role? It’s probably going to depend more on the role they are doing than work status.
In a vacuum yes. In the world of academia and its perverse incentives, no.

Publishing something that goes against the grain means a lot more scrutiny on your work and bigger humiliation for any mistakes made. If you're publishing against the grain, you have to double triple check every single detail to make sure it's all iron-clad. This costs a lot of additional time and money. When publishing research that preaches to the choir, no such considerations are required.

In an ideal world, publishing against the grain should be encouraged and there should be no extra reputational penalty for getting caught with errors in that type of research (heaps of errors go unnoticed in mainstream papers, even popular ones). But that's not how it works sadly.
I think we're actually going in the other direction, and that we were only maybe 300 years or so into that project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
> Just because it’s trending, doesn’t mean it’s true

Precisely. We simply shouldn't be too gullible to believe everything we see and here on the internet just because it is simply trending especially on social media which most of the time a tweet, video or article can also be taken out of context purposefully to create confusion, hype and obviously disinformation.

But on the other hand, I'm not sure if this article is also talking about the BBC here, since the dreadful Newsbeat and entertainment sections has lots of this clickbait and fake-news level nonsense which look as if it were imported from Buzzfeed.
Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
Brrrr, such an ugly solution. If you want proof against future then you should use longer naming, maybe something that ends in <First name initial, Last name initial, Middle name initial, Underscore, my>. Allows to get better implementations of existing ones and having a fixed schema can help you in the future as your personal tools library grows.

Examples:

cat -> cat_uni_my (personal implementation of standard cat)

grep -> grep_uni_my (personal implementation of standard grep)
Minimalism is about maintaining useful purpose behind the things you own and not retaining unnecessary objects. If you're a DIY person, and you have a good reason for a backyard of junk cars, that's explainable. If you buy a new iPhone every year but you don't actually use the majority of the new features (if ever at all), that's frivolity.

Minimalism isn't the ideology that (less is more)==(less things). That comes from people appropriating philosophies to compete for attention on social media, where everything is at best one-dimensional because the point is to entertain not educate. No, minimalism as a philosophy means (less is more)==(object-essentialism). You initialize solutions among what you have, and factor the time, resource, and opportunity cost into the cost-benefit of acquiring a new object. So, as I mentioned, if acquiring a backyard of junk cars is more cost-benefit savvy than having to acquire a new junk car every time you need a resource from one, it's minimalist. However, if you acquire a junk car that adds what you already have a sufficient amount of, it's frivolity.
Am not sure this 'Jesus Christ' you invoke in your answer would like your words and your logic...
The Killer App for Learning and Career Growth
I use vscode and I personally love it (I mostly use it for PHP and Go).
I read a lot of strong opinions and I'm curious to know how many have actually given Theia a try before complaining about it. :)
This is day zero. Let’s see what happens on day 1.
> The people who loan money to private equity are very smart individuals who have backgrounds in finance business and economics

Oh you mean like the guys that ran Enron? Like the guys that "invested" with Bernie Madoff?

The author's main argument is not in relation to lenders, but the bankrupting of viable business by offloading debt to them.
It's too much. This comment is right on the money and graying out by the second. I think it's because both sets of morons think it goes against them.

A job well done, too bad at this rate nobody will see it.
On the contrary, great software is free. This is true now more than it ever has been in the past. Real thinking they can charge for something that is done just as well as them for free just shows that they are willfully ignoring the market.
I'm surprised there's enough flammable material on a mast to set it on fire. Antenna radomes and wire insulation maybe?
BBC TV licence fee could be replaced by monthly levy on broadband connections
Show HN: IDNT – Batch Software Removal
The irony for me is that SQL is the language that stood up the test of time the most. All other are/were gamble.

Obviously it's not fit for all domains, since it's a DSL for data management, but I'm often tempted to push as much business logic into the DB with PL as I'm allowed to instead of having to do things in the application code itself, and it paid off many times, as I have rarely seen a project moving from a database to another, while application code is often rewritten in many different languages for no other reason than management's whims. I probably saved some businesses millions of dollars in code porting/rewriting/migration.

> The risk these organisations face is finding people capable of maintaining their particular decades old COBOL spaghetti. Which is really just an ordinary key person risk.

In my experience, the biggest issue is the complete lack of code documentation, as organisations relies on a handful of developers to maintain their codebases and when these developers retire, suddenly, nobody can understand an architecture.
According to the FAQs, articles that not everyone can read are banned from HN.

However, that doesn't include articles on NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, Economist etc, because those sites' paywalls can be bypassed easily using something like https://archive.md.
I read very carefully. I'm sure that the site is legit, I am just pointing out that they do a piss poor job of documenting that, are not transparent about their methods, criteria, associates and so on and do not have an official location or any oversight body or review process associated with them (as they ought to have). This makes them part of the problem, not part of the solution, it is essentially a blacklist without a transparent process for adding or removing entries which makes it very useful to achieve the opposite of what it purports to stand for.

If the EU is going to do something like this it should be done properly, not in a half-assed and shady way like this because they are lowering the bar for what an official approach to a problem like this should be.
https://archive.is/qG0hS
Heroes of the Covid Pandumbic – The Daily Show [video]
> I was sort of tempted to pursue this.

For me the exact opposite. 15 years ago I removed any and all reverence to my history of COBOL because I was suddenly actively being contacted for COBOL coding jobs.

Although I had a great time, as a starting coder, with COBOL jobs (transcoding COBOL to C at the time), I know one thing: ever ever again will I utter one like of COBOL code.

There are still people making very decent money doing it, but the lockin to one particular source of work just does not sound like what I could bare.
Have a look at newsapi.org ;)
It does not matter. Propaganda is a nice way to get money from the state. It is easy to show immediate results and blaming external factors is always possible when asked about long-term effects.
No, 1/3 are not expected to survive.

If you read the article, they're expecting 90% to either die or have organ damage.

So out of 50 patients, they's expecting 2 patients to walk out of the hospital with some kind of normal life.

Ventlators don't appear to tbe the answer beyond, "Well, we tried to do something. Too bad they don't work."

The additional problem is that using ineffective ventilators kills your hospital staff for little gain. In SARs-1 (2002) in Toronto, more hospital staff got infected or died than in the general population. Hospital ventilation systems circulate airborne diseases.

Now that we have data that ventilators don't work, we need to look at what the next steps are. There's no point in destroying the economy waiting for ventilators when they're not a treatment for corona virus.