skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. But the economies are going to recover right? I don't think a few more months of pay slips for 1000 people is going to make any dent in MS bank account. But it sure makes a dent in the life of people who were let go in the middle of a pandemic.

If they were not needed in the first place, then the management who hired them in the first place should be also fired for incompetence and letting them all go in middle of a pandemic.
> glib
1) One of pythons design philosophies is "explicit is better than implicit".

2) This is not a hurdle to hello world.

print("Hello World")

is a complete program that does exactly what you want. Needing to wrap it in a function would be an additional hurdle.

For complex programs; that is a hurdle well worth jumping. But for simple scripts (python is a scripting language), or teaching purposes, it is not always needed.
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Better yet, why not explore why other languages insist on having a function, or a class with methods, before being able to print hello world?

C# literally got the ability to System.out.writeLine("hello world") (probably wrong, I'm not a C# programmer) in 2020.

I suspect the answer is "we care about existing programmers more than people who are learning to program".
I've never understood why people like this paper. Over the years I've evolved a bite-sized rebuttal, if anybody wants to fight me:

The authors' "ideal world" is one where computation has no cost, but social structures remain unchanged, with "users" having "requirements". But the users are all mathematical enough to want formal requirements. The authors don’t seem to notice that the arrow in "Informal requirements -> Formal requirements" (pg 23) may indicate that formal requirements are themselves accidental complexity. All this seems to illuminate the biases of the authors more than the problem.

Link to the paper, for convenience: http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf. I think it's a siren and takes away attention that could be spent on better papers.
Your summary of his comment is misleading because you omit his explanation of how both are true.

> “Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003″.

> It is correct that the total global area burned has OVERALL declined over the last decades, BUT this is incorrectly used to argue that climate change is not affecting wildfires. The overall decrease is largely due a substantial reduction in flammable vegetation in African grasslands arising from human land use changes.
> A thing that does not occur very often, statistically, can get blown completely out of proportion.

9/11 only happened once, and killed far fewer Americans than American police have since then. Therefore terrorism isn't a problem.

(This argument isn't false, but it's highly misleading!)
I have to care about what's inside it (to know whether the performance is up to what I need) rather than just the interface. To me, that's leaking.

For example, if I have to care whether the "collection" is implemented as a linked list or as a vector, the the "collection" abstraction has leaked.
Domain Name Selling vs. Online Business Selling
Spam tool for low quality "recruiters" is my experience.
Open source champion Microsoft brings Procmon to Linux
The router vs link one drives me crazy. I usually browse via tabs, reading breadth first rather than depth first (finish a page then read its interesting links, rather than reading links as I encounter them). Single page apps that don't let you open links/buttons in new tabs make that impossible. It frustrates the hell out of me.
I misread it as Dev Reels first also, and was imagining developers using drones to make hype videos of them on their laptops to submit to companies along with their resumes.
I can see that being the cause.
This is flatly false. Read the specs, attributes are not required to have quotes. (If a bit more familiar with the spec you might then say “yeah, but it defines how all inputs should be parsed, including incorrect input”. If still more familiar with the spec you would then realise that attributes without quotes are a conforming feature.)
New tech promises faster Internet no matter where you live
So maybe this means I'll be getting less spam from LinkedIn? Unfortunately it will probably mean the opposite.
So you lied to a bunch of people? While enticing them to participate in bad behaviour?
I don't get the joke
Great recommendation. Just a good book all around. The illustrations make subject matter accessible to many.
You do not have a time problem. You have an energy problem
I live in Seattle and I don't see anyone trying to burn down our communities. Someone threw a candle at a cop. That's not a riot and you're being fed crap by whatever media you're watching.
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Developer Advocate here (who works in Developer Relations). I think "DevRel" is a big bucket, but what the author is calling "Developer Relations" is just the most visible subset of the bucket.

The impression is that a "DevRel" spends all their time writing talks, traveling to conferences, pitching products and speaking. This makes sense, because the "DevRels" you probably see the most are the ones that are doing these things, and you don't see them doing anything else. A lot of people are surprised to discover that traveling and speaking is actually a very small part of my job, given the number of talks I give, and how often they see me at events.

I think part of this perception comes from the conflation between an advocate and an evangelist. There is endless debate about what these terms mean in the context of developer relations, but for me, the difference is this:

* Evangelists want users to know that a product exists: They're speaking to developers, about the product. They probably report to & work with Sales/Marketing.

* Advocates want products to know that their users exist. They're speaking to product owners, about the developers. They probably report to & work with Engineering/Product.

Both roles are equally important (and sometimes done by the same person), and the "publicly-validated credibility" the author talks about is just as valuable to the product team as it is to the sales team.
The source you cited is https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ which isn't reporting excess mortality, that site reports data from PHE and other regional bodies. As you know, those values are wrong, which is why they're now labelled as "COVID associated deaths", a label which speaks to the meaninglessness of the values.

Excess deaths is an entirely different statistic. We can assume total mortality is correct, but that says nothing about what causes it. For example, many excess deaths are clearly not caused by COVID because COVID isn't mentioned on the death certificate, but rather some other problem, even with the ultra-lax reporting and suddenly changed death certificate standards that the UK has introduced.

In reality lock down has caused some deaths. The virus has caused some - or slightly accelerated some, it's not really clear how much life-years reduction has really taken place given the absolutely on-average mortality profile.

I'm very sorry to hear about your friends, but bear in mind "epic shits" aren't even a recognised symptom of COVID. It's a respiratory disease. There's a lot of conflation going on where people are reporting things that aren't COVID as if it was some new but hitherto unknown side effect of the virus. In reality, other kinds of illness didn't stop because a new virus turned up and people can still get sick with the flu or many other diseases - as they do every year - even though COVID is more well known by this point.
Maybe Loki [1] meets your needs? It lacks the analytics abilities of Elastic (e.g. what's the average response time [2]) but is much simpler to setup and use for jog aggregations, and has a pretty powerful query language for digging through and graphing log statistics (e.g. how many errors have been logged per hour). It's mainly being developed by Grafana Labs, so there's great integration in Grafana.

[1] https://grafana.com/oss/loki/

[2] I'd argue this sort of thing should be published as a metric anyways so you don't have to pull it out of the logs
Selling the premium subscriptions for recruiters I assume. But I agree that the platform is becoming a typical social-media cesspool which is a shame because it could be really great if they toned down the "social media" aspect of it and focused more on recruitment, better job ads (most of it is garbage) and essentially be a corporate rolodex (right now it's a pain to use because all of the noise, and the UI is terrible and slow).
I tried to customize an X13 on their website and it wouldn't give me an option for 32GB. Did you have to do something else to get that configuration?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901448
Tech Sales is focused on closing accounts, whereas Dev Rels do things like teaching developers how to use a company's APIs at hackathons. It's like the difference between conversion marketing and brand advertising.
A lot of these methods here utilize the universal differential equation framework described here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04385 . Specifically, the last example in this preprint describes how high dimensional parabolic PDEs can be solving using neural networks inside of a specific SDE (derivation in the supplemental). Discrete physics-informed neural networks also are a subset of this methodology.

The other subset of methods, continuous physics-informed neural networks, are described in https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002199911... .

For a very basic introduction, I wrote some lecture notes on how this is done for a simple ODE with code examples: https://mitmath.github.io/18S096SciML/lecture2/ml
Thanks for the info!

...I always wondered if the Eicon company that produced good ISDN cards, was somehow affiliated. Maybe they produced them to provide good uplinks for the Eicon platform.

Edit: Nope. No connection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicon
I’m very much interested in building a low power home server with one of these chips, but I’m wondering how I support a large disk array?

I’m not interested in an existing NAS setup. I’d like to do it myself.
not really the same thing and you know it. They are not passing them selves off as a democracy!
not sure i understand you correctly, but keeping all state external just clutters up the store i feel. if the state is not used anywhere else and you also don't need to change it externally i would not move state out of the component. also if your state is always outside of your component they will only be reusable if you hook up the store in all your projects the same way
Can confirm this. I taught for a bit (coding bootcamp, 1 year). I was super excited my first 3 months (it normalized after that) and during the whole year I had a lot of empathy in the sense that I felt their pain. It’s easy to feel someone’s pain when you yourself felt it a great deal as well back then.

I was at my best during those first months. Experience and empathy all help but I could notice how being only slightly enthusiastic was hindering my performance.
Feel like I have been hearing those rumors for years.
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I'm not working on any specific problem yet, but for my master's thesis I'm hoping to do something related to the use of neural networks in numerical solutions to differential equations. Along the lines of this sort of stuff [2].

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.04385.pdf
I don't mind you giving a small sales pitch...and maybe your product is indeed what I'm searching for. But your pricing model is instantly putting me off. Same as with Splunk, you end up with not being able to predict your cost and paying way too much.
Tell me when you fix that and I might be interested ;)

Edit: Sorry, I was misreading your comment. Premium is unlimited...I will look into it, thanks. :)
>I don't think a few more months of pay slips

I suspect they think it is more than that.

Also depending on their situation, they might already be getting a few months of pay anyhow.
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> If it hadn't been noticed, the English death toll would eventually have matched the case count.

In about 60 years or so.

>> In the UK, we were loosing 1100 people a day entirely through covid

> which is not true and has never been true.

Excess death stats (all cause deaths over and above the average for the time of year) are available[1] and peak at 12000 in a week or about 1700 a day. I'd say you deserve your downvotes in this case.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/htgq14/oc_...
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Pollution is not just CO2. Burning wood releases a lot of particulates. Having said that, standing next to a radiant wood stove is a lovely feeling.
The analysis is, ironically, guilty of the same cherry-picking it accuses the original article of. The checkers identify two false claims and two misleading ones out of Shellenberger's bulleted list of twelve "facts few people know". But the summary never engages with the article's core claim, that climate change won't be the end of the world or of human society even though many in the general public think it will. The first checker explicitly agrees with that claim!

There's also a larger question here. If claims which dispute scientific consensus are fact-checkably false, what does that mean for scientific debate? If Facebook had been created in the 60s, would Freudianism have been forever locked in as an effective form of psychiatry?
In this context, an apt metaphor would involve one commenter believing that the people were not struck by a car, or that the building still stands...
Hilarious might be a stretch, but Starting Forth by Leo Brodie is definitely amusing and prompted a chuckle or two. You can read it for free online. I was lucky enough to track down a second hand copy. It is out of print sadly.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
"I remember being very concerned that the fact checkers wouldn't be operating in a vacuum and we'd have a bunch of facebook execs being arbiters of truth."

This isn't the hurdle - the reality of nuance is the hurdle.

Any one of us would have tremendous difficulty in parsing through the reams of various ways people can comment on the world around them.

It's an impossible problem. Not even a team of people watching your every post would produced consistent results.

"The earth increases in temperature by 0.1 degrees last year" - says John. Well ... there are a handful of different ways of indicating the 'Earths Temperature' so we're already dead in the water.

"The winters are colder where I am so looks like 'global cooling to me'" - says Judy. Well, if it is getting cooler where this person is, it would look like the Earth is cooling to a person with that narrow frame of reference.

If it was a war of 'scientific voices' with references to specific articles etc. this would be one thing, but we're talking about FB: casual discussion and propagation of 'water cooler banter'.

I don't think anyone has a solution.
There may be some extra install steps with Timescale, but that is balanced by having data in a platform accessible by a very well known API.

There are always tradeoffs, but in cases like mine, I find the basis of the platform - PostgreSQL - to provide a very useful set of features.
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I doesn't seem like a joke to me. It seems like a sincere way to filter out bad actors.
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Has anybody else ever noticed that mazes are easier to solve if you start at the end and work backwards?
These are good points, but the examples are an oversimplification and can present problems if overlooked.

In the examples, if a function is only ever called within one hook callback, it should just be defined in that hook callback. Doing so would expose what you're missing in your dependency array.
A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world
You say "the" like it's uniquely business friendly. If so, what makes it more business friendly than any other state?

Even if that isn't what you meant, could you expand a bit on what makes it "business friendly"?
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The competition is specifically constrained to a specific version of ubuntu and provides the following reference:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/
"Most people never ever think about suicide"

That was such a huge insight to me that I still struggle with it almost 15 years later.

It's like a Fish out of the fishbowl moment, discovering that other peoples inner dialogue can be so much more positive.
Their enterprise recruiting tool costs $9000/year.
What's the point of teachin newcomers something they need to give up later anyway though? (once their programs get big enough to be split over several files)
Supermicro's H12 range was launched a year ago.
Bags aren’t managed in the same way as other ancillaries, because the prices are not linear. Indeed they allowed some special bags , but agents would have to manually check the aircraft was not over subscribed and organise handovers...

Regarding foreign currency, it’s a strategy choice on their behalf, they don’t want to own sales offices outside the USA

Trust me, I know a lot about this particular topic :)
Different languages have different goals. It's fine if not all languages have simplicity and beginner-friendliness as a core concern.
Quick search gives me an HN comment from 2014, without any sources either... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440811
You and me both. I can't tell if you're jibing, but I do think twice before clicking on links that come from certain places, which I guess is "avoiding harder". :)
My problem is what these scripts do. When working with timeseries you want to be able to filter on dimensions/tags/labels.

TimescaleDB doesn't support this out of the box, the reason being Postgres' limitations on multi column indexes when you have data types like jsonb.
What they have to do to work around this is to have a mapping table from dimensions/tags/labels which are stored in a jsonb field to integers which they then use to look the data up in the metrics table.

I would expect that a timeseries database is optimized for this type of lookup without hacks involving two tables.
LinkedIn would be investing in other parts of the business which would result in some job creation and the firm would "work with employees impacted by today's announcement to explore these opportunities"

Good to know that they will first consider rehiring/interviewing the laid off employees and they are public about it.

Curious question: does the employee get to keep the severance package if rehired after being laid off?
> Not using quotes relies on browsers that have always made a best-effort attempt to parse even the most badly broken HTML.

Not using quotes is actually fully permitted by the HTML5 spec, although use of quotes is recommended. The HTML5 spec formalises this.

The HTML5 spec is somewhat noteworthy in that it was actually put together and agreed upon by the browser vendors/developers, and then became a W3C spec (previously, this has occurred the other way around). HTML5 parsing formalises much of the previous leniency / workarounds.
International is actually really important. It's not just that you are currently international, it's do you have any plans to go international ever? Because if so, you might have to rewrite your entire payment stack at that point.
Not only that, but banks would no longer have to get BBG accounts for their middle office to be able to communicate with clients (cutting out a huge cost - basically a 25k/person cost for a chat app).
I was on a commercial film shoot a few years ago for a production company from the east coast (New York area, I believe). They wanted to shoot on the salt flats but many had no knowledge of the flats or the challenges associated with them. They had all the proper permits, gear, clearances, and even a handful of local salt flat production veterans. But the shear lack of knowledge about the salt flats lead to four vehicles getting stuck in the salt, more than half of the day lost (it was a two day shoot), and what I was told was a very expensive bill from the towing company (who had to use an old snowcat) and the BLM who manages the land and is responsible for cleaning up the divits. Lesson learned: never take the salt flats for granted.
Wouldn't the issue with client libraries be tight-coupling and having to maintain n libraries instead of one generic server API endpoint?
(TimescaleDB engineer here). This is a really unfair critique.

The project you cite is super-optimized for the Prometheus use-case and data model. TimescaleDB beats InfluxDB on performance even without these optimization. It's also not possible to optimize in this way in most other time-series databases.

These scripts also work hard to give users a UIUX experience that mimicks PromQL in a lot of ways. This isn't necessary for most projects and is a very specialized use-case. That takes up a lot of the 2000 lines you are talking about.
They need that many to keep up with the sheer volume of emails they are sending out each day /s
Tanks for the tip. But I would still need some storage and Data Shipper, right? Or is Loki also taking care of storage?
This is a big point. And we ensure our payouts to nonprofits happen on a regular basis.

We consider the innovation of our venture to be 50% compliance tech, for this very reason. Our system automates a bunch of the charitable compliance steps and allows us to issue payouts to nonprofits on a regular, predictable monthly cycle. And it's scaleable.

We consider charities to be an important stakeholder and the payment getting to the charity in a timely manner to be a meaningful piece of the donor experience.

This is one example of historic workplace giving platforms being built only for buyers, not other stakeholders.
> Doctors in the U.K. are considering whether to strike over proposed changes in their contracts, and they are marching in London as part of the protest.

> But when doctors strike, the scientific research shows that patients stop dying.

My wife is a junior doctor in London and she was part of the strike. As a matter of fact, I've launched juniordoctorsstrike.co.uk as part of that movement in 2015 to support the cause. In the specific case of the UK, a junior doctor is anyone who is not a consultant, so the contract changes were applicable to not just new doctors (which is what most people would think when they hear junior) but really any doctor who didn't bother to become a consultant, even very very experienced doctors with many years of practice.

In the UK senior doctors (consultants) were doing crazy overtime to cover for the (junior) doctors who were on strike, so effectively patients were being seen by the most senior staff for a period of time. In that regard I'm not surprised that if you throw an army of consultants for a very short and limited time at all your patients that patient outcomes might actually improve. It's needless to say that this crazy work amount for consultants is unsustainable though. Take every "statistic" which you haven't forged yourself with a grain of salt!
I think this is useful in zero sum/life and death situation. Otherwise you might go on a path which leads away from your core values and intentions.