skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it has to be done at some point. I still have vcpkg on my Windows machine, because I needed to install it and a few GB of other things, just to use PostgreSQL in Rust a few years ago (I think Diesel).

If someone hadn't implemented the libpq protocol in Rust, I likely wouldn't have written in binary copy support on the dataframe in one afternoon.

This reduces the barrier for people to productively use their favourite languages. It might be unproductive at first, but we see the benefits as time goes on.
I like formalism! My favorite was Shklovsky. The falling stone.

Sorry, but "pre-Pomo Marxist literary criticism" counts as name-calling on an internet forum, unless you do something to make it clear you don't intend it that way—and you did just the opposite. Also, while I don't know anything about cstross really, I strongly doubt that he's a Marxist. The odds of an internet commenter spuriously spouting "Marxist!" are much higher. At a minimum, you'd have to make a serious case, which you didn't, hence the epithet "unsubstantive".

Look at it this way: if you reduce someone's post to a theory you regard as stupid, as a reductio ad absurdum, you're narrowing the discussion rather than expanding it. We want curious conversation here. That's a different mentality. We all have it in us to do both—close down or open further—but unfortunately the default is closing down. On this forum, the idea is to go against the default for great good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then why are people using it? (I do not)
Sounds like everything is a scam then.
The Quintessential Remote Developer
They also have a Windows app to do it
Do they claim to promote you? Honest question, I don't know.

I'd expect Apple to provide three things in exchange for the 30%:

Access to a huge audience, payment processing, and the administrative/technical stuff like download servers and bandwidth.
He does that check once, when he's deciding on what to name it, not every time he runs the command.
It would be nice to have app stores that are not run by Apple or Google. It feels like they have a monopoly to publish apps for their os-es.

I kind of like the PC model where you can get the app straight from developer.
If your possessions all have practical utility, you are already a hardcore minimalist.

No one should begrudge you a well-stocked and well-used workshop. That’s not what the minimalist message is supposed to be about. It’s the stuff accumulated carelessly, just because you could. Decorative doo-dads, outfits worn once, toys from kids long since grown, furniture retained out of a sense of duty. The suburban middle-class lifestyle I grew up in has a tendency to accumulate a monotonically increasing volume of possessions without much thought. My grandparents have more square footage than my entire apartment dedicated to the storage of useless, meaningless crap. It is, in fact, a necessary and useful message for many people to be more deliberate about what you choose to buy and retain. If the only things you can think to cut are tools, you are not one of those people.
You've been on HN for (at least) six years and never noticed the guidelines?
likewise I used mine daily up until a couple months ago without issue. my leather cups are TOAST. Where did you get your replacement cups from?
This website is so bad. I scrolled too much and the address has been changed. Now when I'm trying to share it to others I get the wrong URL . Then I refreshed and I found myself in a different article without a way to get back to the one I read.
Interactive Maps with GeoDataframes
A year or so ago I had an issue with my one year old pair of headphones (QC35 II). They wouldn't turn properly on anymore (light goes on, but no sound).
Reached out to the support. They asked to do basic troubleshooting. After everything failed, they sent a free replacement. They did ask to send the faulty pair back, however. Can't complain about that.
Shouldn't you just cancel his cards and solve all the problems at once? What's the point of calling Netflix?
I hope it doesn't, it's fundamentally at odds with solving climate change, which is potentially a battle for our survival. For moving hotels.
Apache Spark has a great 'lazy' story, and I recommend it as a compute supplement for pandas and numpy. I'm always fascinated by the lengths the authors go through to optimise queries, from the cluster to one's machine.
Also, the integration with Apache Arrow over the years has bore much fruit, to the extent that a pyspark user can cross over to Pandas with little serde cost.

Fun story, about 18 months ago I was consulting for a telco. One of my tasks was to run a segmentation model on their subscriber base. They wanted me to use SAS in their cluster, but because I had 'brought my infra/laptop', I told them that I could do it with Python instead.
I got the gist of it working on Pandas, but it was 'slow'. So they asked me if I was going to run it on a sample, but I said I'll port it to Spark in the evening.

The following morning I presented them with results, and the porting to Spark took about 2 hours (I hadn't used SparkML before), and the thing took an hour to run on the whole population.
BTW I've long wanted to do sth like this:

Assume I have commands my_cat, my_grep, my_sort, my_send, and I want to use them in a pipe

with_prefix my_ | cat file | grep phrase | sort | send | end_with | cat

The last cat would be the system one.

I don't think it's possible with bash?
How? I was in the city for a week and saw more needles on the street than the slums of China.

Even the townsfolk would complain about some mental hospital closing down forcing mentally ill people to live on the streets and you could see them everywhere.

That said, I didn't have a guide, I'd just walk with friends for an hour or two aimlessly starting from the pier. On the other hand, this is how I'm used to do it and I've been to 20+ countries.
CDC launches studies to get more precise count of undetected Covid-19 cases
I'm fulltime Clojure since 2014, and I can't say enough how happy I am. I find a lot of joy, every day, in my work as working with a LISP really fits with how my brain think.

The community is great and the language leaks through the people: you'll often find very pragmatic (even conservative) approaches.

If you are looking for some more testimonials, look no further than Uncle Bob [0] and Gene Kim [1], but there's several more results online.

Lately, I tried to "modernize" a little bit the Clojure course that I used, many years ago, to start, and you can find it at [2]:

- [0]: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure....

- [1]: https://itrevolution.com/love-letter-to-clojure-part-1/

- [2]: https://heliosmaster.github.io/academy/
I've had a great experience with Bose. The only premium product I bought were the QC35s, but they replaced mined even after 2 years (in EU) due to a sound issue.

I'm impressed with this reach out, something Apple are unlikely to do (even though I use their prem products)
We Are “Extragalactic Immigrants” from Faraway Galaxies
Anytime an argument relies on assuming "companies that lend money to PE for leveraged buy outs are unsophisticated dummies" sets off my BS detector. And the rest of his links and article confirm this guy has no idea what he's talking about.
Death toll in Wuhan estimated to be around 42,000
Doesn't that mean that Remdesivir would essentially defeat _all_ RNA viruses? Or is the effectiveness dependent on the exact RNA cloning mechanism used by the virus?
> the newer Bose 700's have me extremely worried for the future of their devices

As another negative anecdote I was gifted one, and simply had to return it.

The acoustic performance was really just underwhelming.

I went back to my Beterdynamic DT-770 headset at a third of the price, and it sounds immensely better. It’s a night and day difference.
Learning business and marketing skills improves your odds, it offers no guarantee. But avoiding learning and applying those skills makes your odds very remote.
Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking that Update 2 would be in the form of examples of what can currently be done. I'll also add that to the README
https://kurthaeusler.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/learning-the-m...
Yeah I've had no battery issues. I use mine daily for a couple of hours and change them about one every two weeks. They're about 2/3 years old now?
What I found particularly noteworthy:

> pneumonia and influenza deaths, which would normally be falling at this time of year as flu season starts to abate, are increasing. Pneumonia deaths have been rising sharply since the end of February — because of Covid-19.

Weeks ago I heard the same about Russia... They allegedly had covid under control, but there was a "mysterious" rise in pneumonia deaths...
> There were happy go lucky chemists that fell into projects that were smooth as butter

If it makes you feel any better (I 'quit' at the start of my bioinformatics PhD), there's a high chance that their projects went smooth as butter because they were also happy-go-lucky about double-checking their results. See for example that 75% yield paper you mentioned.
Having a hard time choosing between Svelte and Elm. For a lone in house dev, any recommendations?
I am still employed luckily. But I am keen to try help out any developers. I was going to start a new project in nodejs Adonisjs and Vuejs but I might see about hiring someone to do it for me instead. Only problem is I won’t be able to afford a full time developer at normal rates. Maybe $5,000 AUD and I think it will take about 3 - 4 months works. Would anyone be interested? I understand if not as it’s not a great deal of money for the time.
The Mill architecture uses install time specialization to go from not quite machine code to machine code to maintain the 1:1 mapping with different implementations.
What Is Supplemental Life Insurance
It's hipocritic to dissmiss OP's concerns/questions as worthless compared with your own personal concerns disguised as a great care about "large populations". It would not be totally irrational to stay on topic without derailing the conversation.
In point 3: did you try to contact the authors of the paper you were trying to reproduce?

I don't know organic chemistry, but in my field the authors are often willing to discuss their results, especially if it might mean more citations for them.
Performance Best Practices in Hyperledger Fabric III: Protocol and Chaincodes
I‘m from Germany. Thanks for having ingredients in grams and making it switchable. But how much is 425°F in Celsius? :)
I've recently been making very low effort bread, which takes less then 10 minutes overall, and is (in my novice eyes) exactly the same as bread that has been kneaded with the "proper" schedule. Perhaps one of the experts here can shine a light on why something simple like below creates (almost) the same quality as a mixture that has been processed with much more effort?

- Put everything in a bowl, and mix it until it's consistent. Usually takes 2-ish minutes. I find a simple, non-sharp knife to work best.
- Cover it with cloth and let it sit for 12-20 hours depending on the mixture and temperature.
- Get the mixture out, en cover with flower on all sides. Don't knead or overly touch (it will lose volume).
- Preheat the oven with an iron cast over pot, once it's hot (250C), take out the pot, put in the mixture, and put on the lid. Halfway into the baking time, take off the lid.
Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (1991)
One of the problems in UK retail (before CV) is PE buyers, acquiring retailers and then loading them with debt

Debenhams (about to go bust this week) is a classic example - until 20yrs ago it owned it's premises, PE bought it, loaded it with debt and then split off the property into a separate company and signed the stores to ever increasing rents

Debenhams can't service the debt and the ever increasing rents (and they've lost their way as a business)

PE debt killed Toys r Us, and many other retailers in the UK too

PE leveraged buyouts are generally bad for everyone except the PE firm, and in some cases lenders
Eliminate all loading times from your workflow using incremental and background builds. The computer will constantly do work for you, but the computer is a work horse, not your baby. Get the fastest CPU you can afford, with silent cooling.
I'm not a lawyer, I live in Europe. I remember having read somewhere that it is related to clear consentement principles (in the same spirit that the cookie laws and GDPR). At least in Europe, I believe you must be presented to a ToS and a clear, explicit, "I accept" button for the ToS to be valid. I could be wrong, and/or it may only be valid in Europe
It's been around for quite some time and is not internally coherent, but it is optimized for search.

I always have Title and formatted date (2020-04-04) and then some text for the note. I make effort to include keywords as part of my notes, not formal hashtags. Sometimes I just add new notes to the end, sometimes I make the effort to put a new note in the middle of the file next to related note. Bit of a mess, but works with search.
> Why lenders keep lending? Who knows.

The US Federal Reserve has an official policy of tilting the field in favour of those making very risky loans that are unlikely to pay off. That is what 'zero interest rate policy' and regular bailouts entails. If markets were left alone rates would be higher and lenders would need to think a lot harder before lending money.

Other governments around the world have tended to adopt similar policies.

Although I see the Fed made it to the lofty heights of 2% this cycle before giving up and lowering the rate.
Would love to know more details about how you manage this. It's something I've thought about a lot over the years but have never felt like I'd be able to get the money together to buy something.
>> If this was true, you could easily check to see how well lenders have done

If the lenders are banks, they will do well no matter what because the money which they loan is printed out of thin air and they have 0% reserve requirement so it doesn't affect their business if the PE borrower doesn't pay back. The banks' liabilities just keep going up with no consequence; just like government debt keeps increasing without consequence.

Banks would like it if they could just constantly keep making direct loans to themselves to pay off their own old debt, that would be a simplified version of what is happening now. Unfortunately for banks, they need intermediaries to funnel the money back to them; any make-believe business such as PE firms will do. Bigger PE firms provide more throughput.

Moreover, even if the Fed decides to increase the reserve requirement % some day and the bank is suddenly forced out of business, the managers/executives of the bank still walk away with the huge salaries and bonuses from the time they were making the loans and collecting free interest - There is 0 risk for them... They will probably get even better paid jobs at some of the PE firms that they helped.

The reality of the current system is that everyone who holds or earns cash ends up paying through inflation; most inflation these days does not show up in the CPI; because rich people can only buy so many bags of potatoes; there are other factors beyond price which limit demand for consumer products (this is what CPI ignores)... Inflation among the rich will not show up in CPI; instead it goes straight to the stock market and speculative investments.
I don't know about Dubai but here in Norway we really are not making as much effort to diversify from oil as we should. A lot of companies are still heavily, in many cases totally, dependent on the oil business.

Norway does have one advantage over some other producer countries though in that a lot of the oil business here is on the service side and has customers all over the world so it is less dependent on Norway's own oil producers.

Of course this comes with its own risks, oil demand, currency fluctuations, embargoes, etc.

Another difference is that Norway was already a sophisticated mixed economy before the oil came along and the state had the foresight to keep the bulk of the oil revenue out of the internal economy so that while it contributed, and still contributes, a substantial fraction of GDP it has relatively little effect on inflation in the country.

On the subject of agriculture, that is also quite different from Canada. Norway has relatively little arable land, most of the country is granite upland so farms tend to be small, at least in comparison to prairie what producers, very often family run. We can't grow much wheat because the climate is not congenial so most of the local corn production is rye and barley. The state supports farmers here partly to maintain a degree of self sufficiency in food but also to prevent depopulation of the inner and northern areas; farmers and their families create a demand for schools, mechanics, doctors, dentists, shops, etc. I doubt that any of that will translate into Canadian conditions. And the current right wing government has been reducing the degree of self sufficiency in recent years.
hope they print those recycled record out!
This article is an interesting book report on Longing for Less. The majority of the article is “Chayka says...”

Lacking any original insight, the author wedges in an unsupported claim about minimalism requiring privilege. Now, I’m not saying it does or doesn’t. There are several good responses here to support the idea. But the article itself does a really poor job of supporting the thesis.

Indeed, it seems more like neo-liberal buffet. It pokes at everything from the phallic shape of light-bulb (which couldn’t the just as easily be uterine) to the affluent readers of Dwell. I’m surprised a swipe at Goop didn’t get shoe-horned in.

I am as ready to damn the man as anyone, but this article is a cash grab. Bleh.
A rational person can make mistakes.
This needs crowdsourced data with extremely short shelf life (if you pardon the pun).

I don’t understand how this will ever work unless you find a more automatic way to get the data. Some ideas:

- Cooperate with the grocery store, and integrate with their existing inventory systems.

- Build the app around a smart shopping list. Automatically suggest the nearest store that is most likely to have everything on my list in stock. For any items I’ve added but didn’t check off after I left the store, report it automatically as not available, to build up the database.

- Something something AR?
I hope this is the final nail in the coffin of Silicon Valley: this place has been, very well deservedly until 2010-2015 but completely undeservedly after that, at the top of VC's investment list. But nothing innovative is coming out of that place anymore: the magical days of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are over. What was my 'aman' (enough) moment? That startup with the juices and the juice squeezers (I forgot their name): to me that was the sign that the place is running out of steam. Hopefully this economic crisis will do enough damage and the investment focus will shift to more promising industries and locations. Awaiting the downvotes : I btw realise the irony of the fact that I write this comment on a website owned by ycombinator, but I am here because sometimes interesting things are shared :)
I mean that you don't have access to all the information that factored into the decision regarding her eligibility for benefits. You've said that she's "lucked out", implying that she would in fact be able to work, but you don't really know that.

Also, you should not be revealing such private information about your tennant, given that your HN account is linked to your real identity.
I agree. I'm just noting a certain pre-emptive antsiness there that is consistent with the allegedly defensive tone of his general approach to engagement with his peers.

Of course, it could be coincidental, and he could also have been unfairly represented in his willingness to engage.
> And, best of all, thanks to the magic of tab-completion, it became very easy to browse my entire collection of commands.

This. I always forget the names of all these useful tools that I only use now and then.
Ask HN: What Would You Do If You Didn't Have to Work?
One of the articles he linked to is #7. It describes a PE firm that buys a hospitals and immediately makes a profit selling the land in a sale-leaseback.

Then the article goes into how the hospital is failing because of this.

No what you had a failing hospital and a successful real estate company masquerading as a mildly profitable hospital.
If the TLDR is long enough to include that it's in a journal the author was associated with then it's long enough to also mention that this isn't an abnormal thing in mathematics. Otherwise both details should be excluded.
Plug Elm compiler into Svelte to create a monster, ensure your name will be cursed by those who follow you.
Sure! But a day only has 24h and you need to work, rest&relax, eat and shop somewhere in there. If a repair job costs me 1h of time or 2h's worth of labour in money, it's not clear that I can afford the 1h of literal time.

Not to mention that a job that it might take a service 1h's worth of labour to do may take me 2-3h, amortized with the learning curve (say, 4-5h first time I try, and eventually down to 1.5-2h after I've done it a few times).
I hope this works for somebody, but I'm going to have to critique the whole concept of "timing' when baking sourdough bread.

After years of baking sourdough I find that I cannot predict precisely the timing. I have to judge the dough at each step and not proceed until it is ready. This is especially true in that I like trying new things, making tweaks, fermenting at different temperatures, and this alters the timing. The timing depends highly on temperature, where in the refresh cycle the starter is at (still rising? fallen and foamy?), but also very much on your particular starter. Some starters run slow (especially newly created ones). Others are fast. Using someone else's timing just never seemed to work for me. Early on when I started baking sourdough I made some absolute bricks because I followed the timing that the recipe specified, even though their descriptions of the dough seemed very different to what I was seeing. And if they said two hours, then eight hours must certainly be enough... but it wasn't enough. Yes, it really can be off by that far (especially with a new weak sourdough starter that wasn't refreshed properly).

Nonetheless, you have to have some sort of plan. Turns out that I can always make it work within a certain set of bounds if I am home all day on some given day. And that has driven me into the following pattern:

1. Remove sourdough starter from refrigerator the night before, and refresh.

2. Build dough in the mid morning with active starter

3. Bulk ferment (with stretches and folds) in a proofer until it is ready

4. Pre shape. Then shape. Then refrigerate in bags.

5. Bake the loaves (I always do two boules) early the next morning.

This is by no means the only pattern that can be made to work, but it's robust and flexible enough for anything I've ever thrown at it.
For me Windows 10 + WSL does the trick. I have access to the largest library of desktop apps while being able to run *nix tools if needed.

I can use whatever hardware I need, I can upgrade the hardware with ease, I can connect almost any periferals with ease.

The downside would be if you prefer OS X way of doing things. For me software I use matters more than the underlying OS, as long as the OS doesn't stay in my way.
That's a great idea! I will definitely consider that as I expand the coverage of the extension.

Thanks for checking it out :)
Because one of those lies carries massive legal and financial penalties, and the other one doesn't?
This makes the biological chemistry so awe-inspiring. Everything is done at about the same body temperature and at the same pressure, just with right catalysts.
I think this guide is great! If we want people to use clojure we can’t impose emacs on them too. This guide introduces clojure from where most developers are at.