skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah.

That being said, I got more sympathy when I learned how absolutely absurd Gavin Newsom's reopening conditions were - halt reopening of a county until "No more than one new COVID-19 case per 10,000 residents in the past 14 days" and "No COVID-19 deaths in the past 14 days".

It seems much more logical to base it on the R-number (number of people infected on average by each infected person), like we do here in Norway. The more the R-number goes down, the more things can be reopened.
I remember he was supposed to be the AntiChrist, well he doesn't seem like one. Not a good guy either!
True, it has to be used as encryption cracking software! :D
> It's that simple! Why didn't we think of that!?

Many did.

I fail to see what's difficult here. You can simultaneously achieve the following:

- Provide aforementioned filtering switch.

- Sort in-stock results first, or split the results into two groups (in/out stock).

- Mark the out-of-stock results clearly on the search result page, e.g. by overlaying a big "OUT OF STOCK" label on top of the item picture.

At the risk of sounding smug, I think all this requires is thinking about what your users need to make a decision that's in their best interest. The "clicked the product page and then found out it was out of stock" should never, ever happen; that information needs to be available on the search results page.

EDIT:

From your edit I understand that the problem boiled down to these items being shown by default, which was unexpected by the audience. That's truly the kind of issue that may become apparent only after deploying and getting feedback from people. That said, were the out-of-stock items clearly marked on the results page? Personally, I'd be super-pissed if they weren't.
> I think that not telling students about different versions of tests is better for deterrence.

No. Deterrence is not putting up a hidden camera. Deterrence is when you tell people the area is monitored by cameras. People will slow down their car when they know the police is around, not when they don't know.

If you want to catch cheaters, you set up anti cheating. If you want deter cheaters, you warn them about anti cheating measures.
‘Starts up faster than Clojure’ and ‘doesn't need the setup+compilation voodoo of ClojureScript’ are pretty good value propositions for lightweight runtimes.
Sorry that this happened. We still have a long way to go to improve our billing system. We have allocated more people to it since a few months and are making much faster progress. But it isn’t we’re it should be at the moment.
Feel free to do so. You can buy eg train company stocks.
BeamVM is much worse than the JVM in the raw computing performances department.
Wait, why is ancient Greek a justifiable basis for evaluating the language evolution of modern English?
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Clojure is an inspirational language that has some insightful opinions about how things should be done. A month spent learning Clojure is a great investment. A lifetime programming in Clojure would be a joy.

But as I recall the original Rich Hickey talks on "Why Clojure?" he was explicit that dependency/project management were very hard problems that Clojure didn't really attempt to solve.

I'm not aware of any Clojure tools that are best-of-breed for project management. Java has a better model for locking everything down (or maybe how the Linux Distros manage their repositories) and Python has a better model for just keeping up with the current state of things. I'm not aware of any half-and-half model that gives satisfying results.

Clojure is inferior to Java in that aspect because the number of things to keep track of roughly doubles (for every concept there seems to be a Clojure version and a Java version) and library management is bizarre and warty - see also the horrible import/require/use/some other one I can't even remember mess. And then there is unpicking the syntax differences between using things in the (ns) macro vs calling direct. I dunno; maybe something changed but that part of the experience is a mess. Unusually poorly done in Clojure too, everything else was so lovely.

I never got on top of it and I tried for months; as evidenced I can't even remember how to load a library after putting it down for a little while. Even assuming the classpath is correctly set. What would have to happen for a C programmer to forget #include "name.h" ?
Affiliate marketers usually get 30%.
Gemini needs a sacc like client:

- written in C

- Dumb simple

- Fast

Bombadillo is a bit sluggish for my taste.
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I agree. I find it utterly disrespectful for all the engineers who are working their asses off to save the free internet when someone tells me to stay off the internet if I don't want to use a Google service. It's that bad.
That's a very strong statement, especially since it's a mathematical fact that you can't describe how you can solve it…I'm skeptical. :-)
I have a feeling OP submitted this after my comment mentioned him yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151914

I think everyone knows that story :) and we all wish it'd been us.
Well, how about doing just the work and working less hours a day, because of fewer distractions and see your friends after or before work?

Sounds more sane that forcing an office environment, where I understand that everyone wants to socialise, but why spent more hours for work than necessary?
That will depend a lot on one thing: why do you want push?
>Not science. Their stylistic goals are blatant in the work they produce, this article in particular.

That's a pretty loose and fundamentally unsupported statement.

>the absence of any reference to the metric system in an allegedly scientific article is notable.

The metric system isn't magic. It's normal to use the system most familiar to the audience being addressed.

It is definitely weird that you're so hung up on this. My assumption, based on your strange snark regarding TNY, is that you just dislike the magazine for some reason you probably haven't really examined.

Fortunately, no one at the New Yorker is listening to you.

Put simply, there is no better source of carefully researched and well written long-form nonfiction in the US. They cover history, politics, entertainment, culture, and (yes!) science, and they do it at an award-winning level. Their coverage of issues around medicine and health care has been and remains especially relevant and fascinating -- folks like Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande (who is, by the way, a MacArthur fellow) produce tremendous pieces in this area, all of which are well worth your time unless you're just too invested in hating on the magazine because they said "foot" instead of "meter."

> Every non-animated photo in this article is BW

But every photo in the New Yorker is not in this article.

>this article still pretends to be a print publication.

That's pretty deliberate, and is also completely unrelated to your complaints about what subject matter is appropriate for the magazine.
Indeed. As I understand it, *BSD users are currently left out of wildcard certs from Let's Encrypt. HN runs behind an nginx proxy because the forum software doesn't support HTTPS.
America is falling victim to the same thing that brought down all dynasties
>If this field goes primarily remote, I will leav

See you later! I will never miss commuting, uncomfortable chairs, loud offices, the filth of public transport in USA, office politics, and high cost of living areas!
>Wouldn’t direct investment in these areas more efficient?

Often not, because you don't know what areas to choose. Having a big, hard goal to solve usually requires building pieces to solve the problem, and these pieces end up being useful in themselves. Plus the big goal is often achieved.

Mankind could have done a lot of the stuff discovered along the way to big goals, but didn't, until the big goals were attempted.

Plus, it's often easier to get funding as a nation-state for big goals. Little side projects are often not individually worth chasing. The internet is a good example - it could have been done by industry before the govt decided to chase it as a piece of a big goal.
Ha, "post Brexit". Despite all the celebrations by idiots there are still months and most likely years more Brexit to go.

For now nothing actually changes, British citizens are still EU citizens, a London bank is still an EU bank.

In principle the country is "rapidly" negotiating a long term arrangement on everything for completing by the end of the year. This hypothetical "deal" would set up the relationship from 2021 onwards.

In practice there are two schools of thought. Maybe the intent is to get to the end of the year and accuse the EU of having somehow failed to achieve a deal (even though the EU was always clear that would take much more than a year) then break off with no relationship and suffer a huge economic down turn as a result. Maybe somehow that works politically? It's hard to see how, but it's not as though Brexit made sense anyway.

Or maybe the idea is to build up the tension and then announce we've belatedly discovered that it isn't possible to finish the deal immediately and so we'd like an extra say, two years to finish making a deal, kicking the can down the road. Who knows.
I feel like there are lots of mathematical / programming concepts that could be explained through animation. Anyone got any good examples?
I don't think there is a short term alternative that isn't simply "Stop travelling, even for work". It takes energy to fly, and we currently only know how to make it work commercially and at the scale we need it with fossil fuels.

It's a hard pill to swallow, and I think we're going to be seeing more of those situations popping up. We're very much used to "Progressing" our problems away and never compromising, making our lives better by making the problems disappear with technology. But we're starting to see some hard barriers in our planets ecology, and we're going to need to sacrifice instead. At least for now.

Plastic is a good example. Coke won't stop making plastic bottles because it's not what consumers want, but of course it's not what consumers want. Consumers, myself included, want the continued march of progress to make our lives better without compromise.
Some old sites are valuable for archeology, some because they contain information that’s still true and not replicated anywhere else, some simply because they are interesting culturally.

To say it’s ok to bail on all old sites is to say that it’s ok to bail on all old books.

Someone put time and effort in to freely sharing these things for a reason, and it’s a loss for us all to throw it out in the name of “new”.
> Flour? Like.....white or wholemeal? That's about it. There are different brands of course but the variety is exactly zero.

That's a slight exaggeration. My local large supermarket in London would have in normal times (i.e. a few months ago) in the baking aisle: several brands of white and wholemeal flour as mentioned, 00-grade pizza flour, self-raising and strong bread flour, malted and cake flour, rye flour, and a gluten-free flour-like substance. Elsewhere in the shop you'll likely find rice flour, chickpea flour etc.

There is also a healthfood shop where it's actively hard to find the (Shipton Mill and Doves Farm organic) wheat flours among the profusion of Spelt, Barley, Kamut, etc flours)
Open this in new tab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zvVGJrTP8
Bayes rule makes me prefer TFA's interpretation.
Yes you could definitely make the argument that holding your own bitcoin wallet is less safe than having it on an exchange for 99% of users. I'd even count myself in that group.
Oh, thanks for the heads up! Fixed it.
Also, I noticed that there are 8 steps (I had two step 3, but no one noticed haha)
The "weird reason" is that it's an analogy. You want to name things in a way that people will be able to guess what they are from the name.
>> That aside, I think the act of cheating is a call for help, even if the callee doesn’t realise it. The pressure to do well coupled with a persons lack of self confidence or self belief come together to make cheating a reasonable route.

That's fine for the SATs. The logic holds in a system where people are competing against large groups of others. There you can treat it as a call for help and understand it as a reaction to pressure due to lack of confidence. But what about more competitive situations, times when say 10 people are fighting for one job in an all-or-nothing competition?

Think astronaut training. Only one person is going on the rocket. Second place, staying on the ground, is meaningless. Confidence doesn't matter. Everyone is confident. Trying hard is irrelevant as everyone is trying 100%. Work meaningfully harder than everyone else might cause you to collapse into injury or breakdown. In such situations "cheating" may be the only way to differentiate one's self from others.

I think that is why when professional athletes cheat they demonstrate little remorse. At their level it isn't a failure of confidence or morality, instead it is a reasoned choice made of necessity. That's why we need to closely watch people in such competitions. Morality, right and wrong, isn't enough.
I do wonder if we will end up with R converging towards 1 in that case. Every time it falls people get gun-ho and start going out, then it rises until we see the figures get alarming again.
Woops the original installer didn't do it to plan.
I ignored kids because that should not be typical of a long-term WFH situation. All of my WFH coworkers still use day cares, etc...
Thank you for being so kind, it means a lot.
Also the amount of skilled professionals needed to write a song and to write a game is slightly put - different.

A song surely requires a skilled professional. But a game required dozens of those, with years of experience and lots fo time.

Creative industries get way lower pay because the skill level needed is low compared to many others, like law, medicine etc.

If you are talented you can paint great pictures or be a great guitar player in 1-2 years.

To be a good doctor you need what? like 10? 20 years?
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Running a company itself is deeply unhealthy. To me, his cult of personality around his companies looks like his way of coping with that extremely high stress.
The mljar-supervised is an AutoML tool that works with tabular data. It can handle binary classification, multiclass classification, and regression problems.
What's good in it:

- it can produce markdown reports which you can commit to repository, example: https://github.com/mljar/mljar-examples/tree/master/House_pr....

- it computes the Baseline, so you can check if you need ML or not

- this package is training simple Decision Trees with max_depth <= 5, so you can easily visualize them with amazing dtreeviz to better understand your data.

- it is using simple linear regression and include its coefficients in the summary report,

- it has a vast set of algorithms: Random Forest, Extra Trees, LightGBM, Xgboost, CatBoost (Neural Networks will be added soon).

- it can do features preprocessing, like: missing values imputation and converting categoricals. What is more, it can also handle target values preprocessing (You won't believe how often it is needed!). For example, converting categorical target into numeric.

- it tunes hyper-parameters with not-so-random-search algorithm (random-search over a defined set of values) and hill-climbing to fine-tune final models.

- it cares about the explainability of models: for every algorithm, the feature importance is computed based on permutation. Additionally, for every algorithm, the SHAP explanations are computed: feature importance, dependence plots, and decision plots (explanations can be switched off with explain_level parameter).
Yep - but that is not true for most high energy physics. The incredibly short lifetimes and low coupling of most new particles make them mostly unusable for anything we can forsee being useful.

Electrons were useful, because they have long lifetimes, are easy to make, and interact well. Higgs bosons are unlikely to be useful as technology ever since they are so ephermeral. And they're certainly not giving immediate benefits.
Colonisation and industrialization changed preferences: tea with sugar became trendy, and people ate white bread and butter with it, replacing more nutritious foods people before, like pease porridge (a legume stew).

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Taste_of_Empire/QMu...

And similarly, settlers who were living in placed like North America and Australia, with completely different growing conditions that what they were used to, ended up growing cash crops. But all they could buy with the money was flour and sugar and oil and other industrialized foods.
W98 had a simple HTTP home server available for install, as did BeOS I think. Nothing comparable to Apache/IIS, but it was a thing.

Obviously forget about any security.
VS is all good until it slows to a crawl on big projects. Anecdotal evidence I know, but I've seen people on hn switch to code for c# and like it. Also, nowadays at least testing and source control are pretty good in vscode.
> people doing that usually want to be compensated for their efforts.

Non profit does not mean free. People can be paid salary, but the business does not need a 30% Profit margin.
> Name one other Network, be it payment or otherise, that has had less downtime than Bitcoin's in the last 10 years

Is payment network downtime a real pain point of merchants? I can't remember being inconvenienced by a full payment network outage in the last decade. I've encountered issues where the connection between the merchant and payment service was unavailable, but paying with Bitcoin wouldn't alleviate those issues.

> It's almost like many of you want to be survailed with this kind of thinking, it almost makes me not want to blame the NSA for doing what they have.

Or, I think that the NSA are nearly as able to trace a US-based Bitcoin transaction if so motivated.
I'm no authority at all, but I suspect the hooves of cattle are much more destructive than kangaroo hind paws. I've seen rural land in a regional area revegetate after cows were removed and the changes were very noticeable. Often kangaroo tracks are less obvious and areas without new growth are the small areas they tend to lie down in habitually.
We'll just call the repo MM, and let people figure it out themselves.
For what it's worth, the win x64 installer died on me at "creating desktop icons", not exactly the most confidence-inspiring start, but lets see again.
1) Thank you.

2) It's certainly a combination I never anticipated.

3) I look forward to the book.
My debit and credit cards have worked flawlessly for my entire adult life. That’s what you’re competing against. The fees are still cheaper than handling cash for merchants.
When it relies on the resources of others, certainly. His data gathering also circumvents established government health agencies. He has no citizen right to do so
> but in my fantasy world I would like to develop some program and would be very happy to skim 0.00001% of their income.

Which is exactly what SFDC, NetSuite, etc have done. There's definitely room here.
Detective RPG 'Disco Elysium' will now run on decade-old PCs
There's a red tesla right behind the shuttle.
It is XML, but it is compressed into a zip file.
Not really. Vaccines help you prevent an outbreak from reoccuring; it's unlikely one would be created in time to stop an ongoing one. ICUs help minimize causalties. Neither one is a qualitative change in terms of handling a sudden outbreak. We got better at handling pandemics, but the playbook is mostly still the same - identify and isolate infected, and wait it out.
> Most people have an intuition about particles

That intuition is also most likely completely wrong.
> "Let there be light" is a highly abstract instruction.

The more I think about this, the more I realise it might be the most abstract instruction. It's actually kind of beautiful.
I know of a callsign causing trouble with most log programs - RAEM, which Russian amateurs dust off every now and then to commemorate polar pioneer Ernst Krenkel.

Took a while to get ARRL Logbook of the World credit for that one.
Janet's purported focus is that it's easy to embed in a larger C program. I haven't really seen that in practice, but I have used the C api to write some language extensions, and it is a joy. In comparison with Clojure, I much prefer using either C or janet to using Java and lisp side by side; with Clojure running on multiple hosts now the differences in language semantics between clj and cljs are just annoying.

As far as language features, I miss a lot from clojure: immutable/persistent data structures, protocols, not to mention concurrency primitives. But Janet's approach to performance and design is "do less". With the C api you can easily add bindings to some C library that provides a desired feature. But even without that stuff, Janet is for me a python-killer, if not a clojure killer.

Edit: at any rate, I think it's not meant to be a competitor to Clojure, its similar syntax just often invites the comparison. It's much more fair to compare it to Lua.
I don't have it either. I wish we could "check" things off.
I also wish I had more ability to do settings "by group", rather than by project.
This article talks a lot about the superfans corrupting Elons point of view... but Elon is so much like his superfans. Any criticism is met with attacks. Don't want to use his plan to rescue kids in a cave? You're a pedophile.

Elon was like this before the superfans. They reflect his behavior, not the other way around.
Thanks for your replies. Glad to hear it's working well for you. I want to learn it myself. Was hesitant to ask questions here because this is not Stackoverflow :-) I will check out the discord.

Just to follow up what I meant i created a quick gist. Not working code but maybe can explain it a bit better.

What I mean as an example is this. I create a function that uses styled-components. I have no idea what the return type should be at first. I must dig into internals of styled-components and eventually find something like "AnyStyledComponent" which is basically the same as "Any" but for styled-components.

https://gist.github.com/slackday/7142251cf2bb3660f8c24492aa1...

This is just one example. Just curious. Not to pick at either Typescript or styled-components which are both great!
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A Dutch researcher on Sunday revealed a novel way to crack into a personal computer through a Thunderbolt port.
Cloud Scripting Automation: Desktop-as-a-Service in Container
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There are probably 100 web devs for every iOS / Android dev.
Gigantic and for dev jobs it pays extremely well for easy work.
A million people are pretending to be ants on Facebook
I really don't get why they did not award an agency with a proven track record of delivering apps. If you choose one of the big ones, you still have high rates, but at least there is a chance of actually getting it done.

SAP is known for incredibly long ongoing projects and Deutsche Telekom has a track record of destroying acquired online businesses. I would bet 10:1, that this project will fail.
A docking speedrun contest might be the only thing I'd put on my calendar to tune into on Twitch.
How to analyze your dreams and why is it crucial for self-development
There's nothing particularly special about the constants. They needed a set of n constants to work with and the "cube root of first n primes, truncated" scheme is a "nothing up my sleeve"[0] construction. If they'd used magic numbers with no obvious generation scheme, you'd be left wondering if that was done as a way to put a back door in place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
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