skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Look, I have no horse in this race, but this is clearly a personal attack in the reply above.

in what way is it personal? In that he's attacking his conclusion for all of Kierkegaards' work? Or that he's trying to characterize your actions into a specific motivations?

Being called wrong , even in the softest ways, is now a personal attack?

I think it's fair to say that a 3-5 word sentence is a bit too shallow to characterize Kierkegaards' entire body of work. 'Sickness Unto Death' totally changed my outlook as a teenager reading it at the right time.

Here's the thing that's missing : life is as deep as we give it credit for, and many philosophies seek to enrichen and deepen the experience of life.

In my opinion, someone with the stance 'life isn't very deep' is in the perfect position to try to honestly absorb some of the pasts' philosophers and step away from the mammalian life of eat-sleep-breed.

In other words : our biological life is shallow in reason, philosophy and human thinking itself is what fills the world with reason, objective, and depth.

Anyone with the take-away that 'life isn't very deep' receives my greatest sympathy and sorrow. I remember how I felt when I came to the same conclusions, and i'm glad I have shifted away from that perspective with the help of philosophy and dialogue with others.

Re-imagining the world with the tools that philosophy gives you through practice is a fantastic experience, and I hope that the parent who believes that life isn't as deep as people give it credit for has the chance to undergo that epiphany themselves one day.
When I was younger, I implemented the 8 queens problem on my 386, and micro optimized the hell out of it. Assembler, cycle counting, disable interrupts, etc... Didn't switch to protected mode, but it came close.

Then I found a smarter algorithm, and my qbasic proof of concept was magnitudes faster. Ouch!

This kid learned something about the nature of optimization that day. Now Im an old fart but even older farts than me stumble into this.
I teach a data science graduate course to non-tech majors, and it's mostly on R. I welcome these changes.

I teach base R first for a few weeks, then I teach the TidyVerse as I introduce data science concepts, like text mining. I convey the TidyVerse as like an overlay on R, improving shortcomings and adding great functionality, syntactic sugar, etc.

This context switch is jarring to some students. It's great to see some of the TidyVerse's strengths--part of the tibble--be moved back into base R.

Now pardon me: I need to go. I start teaching dplyr in 51 minutes!
Consider contributing to the RFC process. This has been proposed a number of times, and I don't think anyone's against it. It's just not been considered priority.

I would advise that TCE will probably be more acceptable to the Rust community with an explicit opt-in syntax. And that `become` is a reserved keyword in Rust that is semi-earmarked for this purpose.
I don’t recall where, but I know I’ve seen this idea talked about before. I had a mobile robotics company years ago. Seems like a valid idea, even more so now. However, the real world is not very forgiving. Set expectations low, and have a long timeline in mind. Just sayin’.
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True, although for example:

n-body Rust #7 program
16.37s to complete and log all make actions

n-body C++ g++ #2 program
6.22s to complete and log all make actions

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dont-immune-colds.htm...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532754-600-can-you-...
This is not meant to be hateful, but what an awfully long and needlessly complicated process just to prove that you didn't learn anything from being fired.

Having hired hundreds of people over my career, being fired is not an automatic exclusion, but we would be 100% looking for growth in the person sitting across the table from us. Your process shows no growth.
Not currently, but it's been discussed a few times. Nobody has tried to write a patch yet, that I'm aware of.
Ask HN: How to use stimulus cash if job stability isn't assured?
I'm still employed and have a decent level of emergency savings, so right now the stimulus cash is not necessary to get by. But my industry and job could definitely be affected down the line, at which point it would be nice to have that money.

If I knew that I absolutely would not lose my job, I would love to donate the money to help those who have lost their jobs. But because of the uncertainty, I'm not sure if that's the best move.

I'm assuming there is no charity out there that will give you the money back if you lose your job within a given timeframe.

But is there any other creative way to help others with this money, but still maintain some protection for yourself?
That's a complicated question because the answer is both location-dependent and requires a comparative analysis. In places like SF, big tech salaries have grown substantially (along with the cost of living) since 2010, while in other locations they haven't grown all that much and in not-big tech the increases haven't been that large. For example, a new hire at Google today can expect a comp package of at least $160K, while in 2010 I seem to remember it being around $120K.

The bigger issue more broadly is that generally speaking, tech salaries have been growing steadily over the last decade while non-tech salaries have been mostly stagnant, so it often seems like tech workers make a huge amount now when effectively a lot of other people just aren't making as much as they should.
>Meanwhile, by the 1970s, the phrase entitlement programs is being used in its modern sense (defined benefits paid by the federal government)

Right, but that's not the modern sense for the 1.2 billion English speakers who are not in the US
Moderation is not necessarily censorship. It is only censorship if the content is removed based on the content itself.

For example, shutting down a flamewar for simply being aggressive is not censorship, as long as the same discussion would have been permitted if held in good spirit.

Censoring "wrong" content likely has bad outcomes, the worst being that with only "good" content, critical thinking may get even sloppier.
Lupus Vulgaris is primarily a skin disease.

I think your comment here is disingenuous at best.
I feel you didn’t read the entire article. They study single gender and asexual species for exactly that assumption you made
These comments make me sad. I thought the HN community was better than this.
Every person who is infected that we don't know about lowers the estimated hospitalization and mortality rates and reduces the ability of the virus to spread (for as long as immunity lasts in the individual).
I've written an image processing tool in Rust, where running a large image downscaling test with a release build takes 2.0 seconds, and with a debug build it takes 18.7 seconds. So most of the time during development I compiled in release mode, because it was actually faster overall.

For many applications debug builds are fast enough, but their runtime performance is already so slow, that I hope they don't get even slower.
For the daily "HN teaches you to" segment: HN teaches Neapolitan pizza master how to make pizza.
> If you want to add some new attributes to the flat files, they can't be backported to the older articles if the number of articles is quite large.

This isn’t a reasonable claim. In SQL databases if you want to do this, you have two options:

1. Go through and update every row to add a value for the new column—which you can do in flat files just as effectively, though almost certainly more slowly because files are comparatively slow.

2. Define a default value—which you can also do in flat files just as effectively and just as quickly.

In this vein, I tend to find the problem to exist in precisely the opposite direction: you need to apply some sort of transformation to all the database entries, for example to update a markup pattern or links to a certain domain. If it’s flat files, you can use standard text-processing tools and easily do anything (presuming you’re a developer). But if it’s in a database, you probably need to go through some database driver which will probably be a pain to deal with for anything involved, and there’s a fair chance with this style of app that you won’t even have access to that and will just be completely stuck.

For the likes of blogs, I hate having to deal with database-driven apps. Give me a set of files that I can work with every time.

Notwithstanding all that: 30,000 posts is quite a bit as most flat-file systems go, and a well-architected SQL database certainly should perform somewhat better than a well-architected flat file system, simply because the overhead per record in a database is fundamentally lower.

Things like migrations and batch operation and revision management just tend to be way more flexible on flat file systems.
The bad luck is thinking a company is having a good luck and then realize it isn't. Running into people able to manipulate you is also bad luck.

Companies are selling you during the interview. Sometimes good businesses hire bad people who are good at interviews (maliciously or not), sometimes bad businesses who are good at interviews hire good people (maliciously or not).
I disagree with his opening statement:
"Formula 1 teams have been able to design, prototype and manufacture essential health equipment incredibly quickly"

As far as I can see they have done none of these things and are only helping in providing manufacturing capability [1]. The ventilator they are helping to manufacture is an iteration on a previous design made by a medical specialist Penlon [2].

Not that there is anything bad with that strategy: experts in a given field are the experts so best to use the medical expertise of one company and the rapid batch production capabilities of companies like Formula 1 teams. Racing teams often have to turn components around for an update at the next grand prix e.g. 1 - 2 weeks. This means having processes and suppliers that can operate at that fast pace.

[1] https://www.inceptivemind.com/penlon-prima-eso2-newly-adapte...
[2] https://www.penlon.com/
The Rust compiler was far different in 2016, across a number of fronts. It's gotten significantly faster, as well as added a number of features to tweak compile times in various scenarios, like incremental compilation.
> For the sake of the parent, there are studies on the loss of population and if we lose 1-2% of the population in the span of a few months then indeed that will recess the economy quite sharply.

First of all, even if the true mortality rate of covid-19 were 1-2% (it isn't, it's likely much lower), it wouldn't infect 100% of the population.

You can't just do [total confirmed deaths] / [total confirmed cases] to arrive at a mortality % and then multiply by the total population to get a death count. That's horribly biased and not grounded in reality. The current estimated fatality rate is biased in my opinion as it mainly selects for people already in hospitals. Research is indicating that [total confirmed cases] may be much, MUCH smaller than [total cases] [0]. People are getting it and recovering without every being tested. Some people (a lot of people?) have mild-to-no-symptoms.

Look, it's reasonable to want to prevent excessive loss of life. But it's a double edged sword. Mortality rate for people aged 20-30 is estimated at .2% (though it'll like turn out to be lower for healthy adults). Prolonged stay-at-home orders have driven up suicide rate though (not to mention the devestating damage to people's livlihoods). 2 graduating seniors recently committed suicide at the Air Force Academy presumably related to covid-19 lockdown orders, and with a class of ~800, that's already more deadly than covid-19.

You're right we shouldn't "sit on our hands", but we also shouldn't fall victim to the politician's fallacy [1]

[0] https://news.usc.edu/168987/antibody-testing-results-covid-1...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
Tipo 00 is not special but very common flour n. 405 (german system).
Many tutorials refer to this flour like there is something special inside that will make the pizza better...but there isn't.
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As ever, the face mask issue is more complicated than it appears at first glance.

Yes, if everyone in the world had a sufficient supply of face masks and wore them correctly all of the time then the R0 would drop significantly.

The two keys parts of that statement are _sufficient supply_ and _wear them correctly_.

There is not a sufficient supply of face masks for everyone on the planet. Anyone purchasing face masks for themselves (without showing symptoms) are taking stock away from, for example, healthcare workers. Who definitely need the supplies.

I've seen people who have bought facemasks touching their face and fiddling with the masks. They don't know how to wear them correctly, making their purchase a complete waste. They've wasted stock that could have been made available to healthcare workers.

If the world was perfect and every human was perfect then yes I would agree with your statement.

But it isn't and they aren't.

WHO seems to understand this and so it seems to be a factor in their advice.

I believe they may have even made a statement to this effect at some point?
Yes, factors absolutely can be a pain in the ass when they're instituted too early in an analysis. It's better to keep them as strings for as long as possible and only convert to factor when you've cleaned up your data. Otherwise, you have to deal with annoying and confusing factor manipulation.

The drawback is that character takes up so much space, but these days memory is so bountiful it usually doesn't matter.
In the US at least, "values" has come to mean ethical positions, like those brands and politicians claim. For example, "treating all life as sacred" or "helping the neediest" or "maintaining our traditions." A person might say that politicians and brands "share my values."

Different from interests, hobbies, or shared experiences that provide the basis for most friendships.
A good place to source the cheeses in the US is Caputo Brothers in Pennsylvania. They are one of the few places in the US doing cultured mozzarella and also have a lower moisture version for pizza.

https://caputobrotherscreamery.com/collections/cheeses
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Depends what you're trying to build. Customers have good things to say about https://buttercms.com/
Most things that involve flour are messy until you learn the technique. Launching a pizza into the oven can be very messy as well
You may like the Japanese phrase 一期一会 (ichi-go-ichi-e). To me it means that you should cherish each relationship and encounter, regardless of whether you know it will last a long time or not. You may never get the chance to experience that particular relationship again. I actually learnt this word firsthand from a man that it applies to, an middle-aged Japanese guy who was volunteering with kids near where I live. We got along well, laughed and ate, but he went back home and I will never see him again. But that doesn't diminish the worthiness of experiencing of getting to know him and enjoying time together, because all things have their place. I'm writing this as much for me as for you or anyone else here. Good night
Alright, that changes things. Back when I tried it (a while a go) I didn't get one, but if it's there now, I take back my complaint.
Thanks! Would love to hear any feedback you have.
I just took delivery of my Roccbox and am firing it up this weekend.
This isn’t about sex chromosomes, we have 1000’s of genes that are sex-biased this means that their expression is dependent on sex.

The level of bias isn’t even solely dependent on the gene in question but on much more complex mechanisms that are frankly not well understood for example in humans testicles and mammary glands have some of the highest levels of sex biased expression in of all tissues. Other tissues like brain, heart and muscles also have variance but to overall lower levels (higher brain tissue expression variance in males for example has been linked to higher likelihood of schizophrenia and other mental conditions).

Overall males it seems that there is a higher variances of sex biased gene expression in various tissues compared to females.

This means that it goes beyond we have a backup X chromosome and gene deactivation escape mechanisms.

Gene expression variance can explain why males might a higher overall variance in traits.
Tail recursion is a trivial subset of recursion. If you are in that case, you are better off writing a loop and avoiding to rely on the optimizer.

As for Scheme, that is a detail of Scheme, not general mutability vs. immutability.
How so? I can't think of any drawbacks of tibbles vs data.frames?
Ask HN: What is your advice for students graduating during the Covid-19 crisis?
Currently I am taking part in a software engineering dual study undergraduate programme, which combines both academic education and practical job experience. Although I have some practical experience in SWE, it still feels like this isn't the right timing to enter the job market. Do you agree? Would you rather recommend pursing a masters degree after graduating? What is your advice for students who are entering the job market right now during a global recession?
> We have given MATE Optimus an update. MATE Optimus adds support for NVIDIA On-Demand and will now prompt users to log out when switching the GPU’s profile.

I wonder if this will actually work. It seems like, in version 18.04 of *buntu, there was a pretty major regression which required a reboot in order to turn on or off the dGPU and save power in Optimus laptops, when previously it only required a logout. Kind of a pain in the ass for my Dell XPS 15 9570 which seems to take a long time to reboot.
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You are perfectly describing entropy or the fight against entropy more specifically.
probably depends alot on the technology/language.
I also checked the encryption status and the graphical installer option does not enable encryption on the created ZFS pools.

All created pools have lz4 compression enabled, however.
Well, they are not a chip giant, so they actually have make money off of it. Intel could drop this project anytime, and not see any difference in revenue, and many have questioned the backstory of this distro.
Thanks for the answer :)

> If you have been fired from multiple resume-relevant jobs, then don't use the "I learned and won't repeat it" part. In a perfect world, the interviewer should know. Not because you're an immoral worker, but because it's a risk you and your employer would share.

Thankfully, although I think I've had depression for several years, I've left all other employers on good terms. For some reason things just spiraled heavily this last year, but long story short I don't have a pattern of termination.

> Finally, you "messed up" in the way that a dropped glass hits the floor: no point shaming the glass. Be proud of seeking treatment, but remember there was also luck in that decision. Our ideas of choice and responsibility are more complicated than usual when psychological disorders get mixed in.

There definitely was. If it hadn't been for my family and friends I would have avoided treatment much longer than I did, in addition to probably getting deep into substances. We're all products of circumstance and luck to varying degrees, and I've - all things considered - been very, very lucky.
Or any URL more generally. I'd use this.
Your mistake is thinking it’s stupidity: what you’re seeing is due to conflicting priorities. Smart, motivated people like to hit their goals and will bend whatever rules they need to so – and if you’re busy it’s easy to think you don’t have time to do it the proper way if that takes a while.

That’s why investing in tools makes sense: when those people think it’s harder to do things the wrong way then your incentives are aligned. SRE culture around error budgets can help, too: having issues reschedule your project team is a much better schedule than chucking it over the wall to be ops’ problem because people learn that they’re not saving time by cutting corners.
I feel that learning the classics on cooking is a good way to see how engineering mindset is close to cooking and food preparation mindset.

Talking about Italian food in specific, they're very opinionated about what's the best way to work each ingredient, how to work dough, how long to leave pasta resting, and what's the best blend of herbs and the best species for each recipe. On engineering we call it standardization not fetishism. That's what DOP, DOC and DOCG is about, and that's what the Neapolitan on Neapolitan pizza is about, you know that if you eat a Neapolitan pizza that follow the official process you will have a predicted flavor on your pizza, like it or not.

By reading the classics and asking yourself why they cook that way you will start to understand that you can use shortcuts where the output could be the same or close enough. For instance stone is a very bad heat conductor, that's why you need a very hot oven to deliver the right amount of heat to cook your pizza. But if you use a better conductor you could deliver the same amount of energy on a much lower temperature. On the "Modernist Cuisine at Home"[0] book they research this topic and arrive on the conclusion that a thick baking steel sheet arrives on much better results, they even sell their official baking steel [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Home-Nathan-Myhrvol...
[1] https://modernistcuisine.com/shop/baking-steel/
At least we appear to be trending in the right direction.
I see. Thanks for the info. PM is competitively priced for the VPN/Email market, so I can’t quite make the leap you mentioned. If your concerns are based on price it would mean the whole market is corrupt. Maybe it is, heh, I’m open to that.

I use PM because fuck Google(Gmail), and fuck my ISP for profiting off my private data. I’ve always figured the 3 letter agencies can get access when they want. I’m not doing anything nefarious so I’m happy just to battle against corporate greed.

Stay suspicious though!
I think you are confusing dev and prod. Who cares how I got local kafka running?
You are copying and pasting the same responses throughout this entire thread challenging everyone...

You are just accepting that what Chinese Authorities told the WHO was true, yet you can't cite any actual written report or data supporting their "preliminary investigation" of the virus and human to human transmission.

>Li Wenliang had no expertise in the field, was going off very little information,

He was a Dr. in the hospital where the first covid-19 patients were identified and he obtained the information from the treating physician.

>Imagine an American eye doctor posting on Facebook that Ebola was going around in NYC. They would definitely face immediate professional consequences — probably more than Li Wenliang did. My impression is that the full extent of the consequences he experienced was a stern talking to by the police, which is what you get here when pulled over for speeding.

The US has freedom of speech, no police are going to force a US Doctor to take down a social media post and sign a confession/agreement not to post about a disease again. That is nothing like getting pulled over for speeding, and such a comparison is ridiculous, one is legitimate enforcement of traffic laws and the other is a violation of civil liberties.
Well, sometimes it happens that the people you work with really are duller than those in other parts of tour life. Jobs are jobs.