skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I’ve read, they are interchangeable from a longevity perspective, rapid improvement aside.
That's what I mean, what we were doing before was exponential growth and the Industrial Revolution resulting in, specifically, mass international travel and huge numbers of people crammed together into mega-cities. The recent viral outbreaks aren't a one-off: they are the beginning of the new normal. We're victims of our own success.
Trump pressured Georgia governor in call to help overturn Biden's win in state

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/05/politics/trump-georgia-br...
Has Teams actually overtaken Slack? This is anecdotal of course, but all the companies I have worked at and all the companies I know of use Slack and are fairly happy with it. No plans to use Microsoft products at all. But as I said, this is anecdotal and I'd be interested in knowing more.

I don't see actual numbers for comparison anywhere. Slack has published concurrent users count while Teams has published DAU, which are obviously different.
Thanks for the /r/econmonitor recommendation. /r/economics is the worst subreddit for a major discipline I've seen, on first glance that one seems to be of much higher quality.
I will admit the 5 year timeframe is a bit arbitrary and may need to be adjusted.

With that said, the goal is positively not to replicate HN with discussions of cutting-edge technology and science.

Even in those topics, I think there's plenty to cover in those fields as it related to nostalgia, little-known but significant advancements, unsung heroes, etc.
This, along with inferior metaprogramming affordances, is the biggest reason pandas will never be as productive an analyst tool as R's dplyr. In R you can pipe anything into anything. In pandas you're stuck with the methods pandas gives you.

This is also why pandas API is so bloated. A lot of pandas special-case functionality, like dropping duplicate rows, can be replicated in R by chaining together more flexible and orthogonal primitives.
Thanks! Will do.

BTW, I'm fairly certain that the "github submit a pull request" model doesn't work for UI/UX. Consistency and tone matters, as does integrating feedback and cycling it. The idea of hitting issues piecemeal without some kind of overarching strategy feels like a recipe for failure.

Unless you have unified brand guidelines, a UI component library etc, such an effort seems like an exercise in futility.
> I'm sure google had only our best interests in mind when unleashing that on us.

Laughably, DoH is from the same gang of A-record squatters that refused to incorporate SRV into HTTP on the (now very evidently spurious) grounds that it could, in some scenarios, require an extra packet, and they couldn't work out how to make it backwards compatible.

Having been comprehensively hijacked by the interests of advertising companies, my view of the HTTP WG has never been lower. And that's a shame because there are some smart people there, tasked with slowly eroding away the last semblance of end-to-end transparency.
I think the logic of user-moderation is quite cunning though. It lets thousands of different moderators try what works. A strategy of throwing mud at the wall. So the frontpage stuff is pretty janky, but perhaps that's because the lowest common denominator always is. It's true that when a subreddit gets popular it faces new challenges, and many fail. But that might be true for any forum.
Question by someone who is ignorant but interested in functional programming: what is the closest equivalent to these functions in Python? (Or correct me if I'm asking the wrong question).

I used to love using lambdas in Python, along with map/reduce/filter but for whatever reason the Python community has turned against it. Map and filter can now be nicely done with list comprehensions, although I still haven't found a decent one-line equivalent for reduce (other then importing functools).
I agree with the author of this article.

HN is a moderated community, which means that various social mores are enforced through behavioral nudges, through voting and flagging, and through ostracism of those who refuse to comply. These constraints upon speech offer a net positive value for participation that a forum of unconstrained speech cannot match.

I participate in HN because this forum's guidelines refuse the precepts of unconstrained freedom of speech, resulting in a healthy and vibrant community. If HN were an unconstrained speech forum, as many other forums are, then I would not desire to be part of this community — my participation would be of net negative value, and any controversial view I hold would be immediately overrun by abuse, personal attacks, and even doxxing.

The first full page of comments on this post are rejecting the viewpoint that a decentralized web would be harmful. I appreciate the cognitive dissonance of such views being posted here in such stridency and quantity, and each other time I see it occur. The passionate participation by those who believe in unconstrained speech demonstrates, through their own participation, that compromising one's idealism for the sake of social inclusion is considered acceptable — even when their viewpoint as presented indicates otherwise.
For any given P2P system which can be used to share a large amount of files, we can prove the system cannot exist with this question: Is there a way to prevent classified documents of the US stolen by China, or child pornography from being shared using the system?

If the answer is yes: I'm afraid to tell you that the system is not peer-to-peer in the sense that there is a central authority to censor what content is to be shared. Therefore projects like youtube-dl can be easily erased.

If the answer is no: Such a system with no possibility of censorship is too dangerous. What if there is literally no way to prevent information that threatens the security of the US from being shared? Fortunately as of now, no such a system exists on the planet. Maybe you now have a vague idea why such a system does not exist.
> HN as a whole does reflect hacker culture

I don't feel this even a little bit. It represents tech culture pretty decently, and there is a lot of overlap with hacker culture.
Julia: Keno Fischer on Debugging
The core team has plans to add optional static typing to julia..won't be there for a year or two though probably
> I've done a lot of Qt and GTK development, but it was always a pretty miserable experience.

I echo this sentiment, with the exception of Delphi circa version 5-7, though that's probably through rose-tinted glasses since I had just come off trying to make Win32 UIs using MASM. GUI development has always been a crapshoot of learning esoteric bugs masquerading as features. Windows and MacOS UI development is no different, just more locked in. At the very least the web is somewhat consistent between platforms.
> The most convincing argument for job guarantee over UBI I saw was plan jefes in argentina.

The rest of your text seems to be an argument for UBI and against job guarantee. Is that first sentence what you meant?
Take any suggestions with a grain of salt. Philosophy as a discipline has terrible quality control, and there is a great deal of status worship and outright charlatanry.

Often the big interesting questions are unanswerable, so the field is split between those who pretend to give answers (sometimes via bait-and-switch tactics, whereby a trivial or only tangentially relevant question is swapped in for the interesting one; sometimes via obscure, grandiose, ultimately hollow nonsense), those who fiddle around the edges making 'progress' that can never resolve anything important, and those who give boring history lessons about the failures of the past.

On the other hand, philosophy can provide you with a toolset for dissolving confusion, crystallising concepts, and minimising self-deception. In its more poetic forms it can be inspiring and emotionally resonant, if you are that way inclined. Follow your nose, delve deeply into the areas that interest you, and make sure it's an active process: always be thinking, rather than hoping to passively receive knowledge.
One sub category that needs a lot of attention is missing from the side bar:

Controller HUD on mobile games. Often times the software joystick requires thumbs gymnastic, a major improvement is needed here.
I started a subreddit like that.

Shortly there after I made it private and only let myself have posting rights because I didn't feel like dealing with actual Nazis posting news about Jews ruling the world from the 30s, or hysterical liberals posting in every comment how everything that wasn't acceptable in 2018 SF was *ist.

Good luck, you're going to need it.
This is not a bug, it's the author failing to understand Python's syntax for chained comparisons:

a is b is c

is equivalent to

(a is b) and (b is c)

I use this syntax most often with a < b < c to check that all items are in the expected order.
I don't get how you consider $30k "not a big deal". That's just the average, many people owe a lot more than that.

The median entry level salary is $41k. That means the average student is coming out of college owing 75% of their income. That is ridiculous.

According to this [1] the average payment is $393. If you're making $41k, that's $3416 per month gross, maybe $2300 after taxes and 401k contributions. Good luck finding an apartment in a city with any jobs for less than $1k per month. That leaves you $1300, with a $393 monthly payment you're spending about 30% of your monthly disposable income just to service debt. That leaves $800 for food, utilities, transportation, saving, going out with friends and having some semblance of a social life, dating.

It's not impossible, but don't pretend a nearly $400/month payment is not huge burden for someone in that situation. If they're smart and careful, yeah, they can manage it, but if not, or if they have some bad luck, get sick, any sort of financial trouble and they're suddenly in a huge hole, with no savings and an inescapable debt. The forbearance programs are a joke. Fees and interest continue to accrue and people come out of them owing double what they did when they went in.

You can't say "Oh it's just a Camry!" no sane person would recommend that anyone take out a car loan for 75% of their annual income.

And that's assuming they even finish school and get a median level job. It's the median, so 50% of people are earning less and are even worse off.

There are knock-on effects to the rest of the economy. People are delaying buying houses (if they can ever afford to), having kids. They can't afford to move or take risks, start businesses. What is it going to look like in 20 or 30 years when an entire generation has grown up stunted by this burden?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/02/03/student...
A few years ago I was on a tram reading one of these alphabet books on philosophy, made especially for the students like myself who didn't pay attention in class and needed to learn the main concepts and authors quickly before the test. A homeless person sat in front of me, and seeing me reading that book, suggested me a book by a French philosopher named Émile Bréhier [1]. The book in question was Histoire de la Philosophie, translated in English, and covers all the way from the Pre-Socratics to the modern philosophy at the time of the author (circa 1930 IIRC).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier
Since you called out working on a container ship, a lot of these have a nautical bent but that’s an area of my personal interest as well.

Looking for a ship, John McPhee,
Book about a sailor looking for work and eventually catching a ship.

Born A Crime, Trevor Noah, not about another career but Apertheid South Africa, I enjoyed it and wished I would have read it before traveling through S.A. For work.

Don’t Tell mum I work on the rigs, she thinks I’m a piano player in a whorehouse, by Paul Carter, read this one awhile ago but it’s about an oil well driller. The industry has changed quite a bit since this book was written but I remember really enjoying it.

Salvage: a personal odyssey by Ian Tew. I enjoyed this book about a a salvage master out of Singapore

The ride of a lifetime by Robert Iger, book about Iger’s journey to being CEO of Walt Disney Company. A bit of insight to what the company executives are doing/ supposed to be doing?

Quench Your Own Thirst, Jim Koch, the founder of the Boston Beer company. He discusses some of the mistakes he made along the way too.

Good clean fun, Nick offerman
Weekends in Monterey was hyperbole. My point is that younger professionals (which I assume is most of the audience of HN) have more options for leisure than most. They can relax in their luxury apartment, work out at Equinox, socialize in the office break rooms, take a day trip, etc. It's not a big deal if you need to watch the ground for poop occasionally.

If you're a cook who wants to take a break from your 6 flatmates by taking a walk outside, a clean sidewalk is a much bigger deal. When you hear liberals are spending more money every year on the homeless and you see more needles on ground. Of course, you're going to harbor some resentment towards the homeless, even if you rationally know it's not their fault. It's not that they're simply ignorant or lack empathy.

You raise a good point about the cycle of homelessness policy though.
If you think that solves the problem, I don't think you understood the problem...
For some times now the linux foundation has lost its way!

Look at that, forcing people to use zoom:

http://techrights.org/2020/11/10/linux-foundation-zoom/

The LF is like Mozilla: business executives have been hired to manage it and they want to be 'big ceo', but except for marketing, they don't care about the core values that they are supposed to defend
That’s cool and I was reading about it today. But it’s really not what I want. I’d like to have a mostly static site but still be able to ship interactive components where they’re actually interactive. What I want, in order of preference (lowest to highest):

- The ability to specify that a given component is static and should never hydrate (and never bundle in the build as a result). There’s a bunch of proofs of concept of this out there, it’s definitely a better UX, but it’s not a good DX. It’s a fight to set up, entirely manual, and generally opt in (which means you’re more likely to ship broken components if you forget to opt in, whereas opt out is more likely to deoptimize by mistake)

- Static analysis to determine where components are constant at build time and automatically strip them from the build/hydration flow.

- Compile to DOM operations like Svelte.

Basically, I want a Svelte build with a React/JSX interface.

I’m certain it’s possible, given a long enough timeline. I’m not sure how well it would work with real world React code, as hooks and context could deoptimize whole pages in unexpected ways. And that’s frankly where I wish for a much simpler React subset for this use case.
It's interesting and I need to do some more thinking and research. On the one hand I don't think that one should be forced off one's land because others could be using it in a more valuable way. However the whole idea of property rights is founded in improvement or creation of value. Abandonment is a thing, and if you do nothing to improve or derive value from land you can lose your property rights in it.
Centaur Emacs
> and UI elements have little reason to use this extended opportunity space

It's gonna be five minutes before everybody's extra important call-to-action buttons and probably ads are max brightness too
> If you care about what is true,

What is truth?

I go with Nietzsche and think that philosophers seeking the absolute truth are actually influenced by Christianity.
Yeah, but if/when that situation comes about, they're not going to let you do that. They'll brick your TV when you pry it out after forcing you to void your warranty by burying it in some difficult-to-access electronic guts.

I'm waiting on some high quality "dumb" TV. I'll happily pay more for not having to worry about all this nonsense and my sense is that I'm not alone (though most people will happily continue to buy non-privacy respecting brands for a lower price).
How did you find the investment group?
yeah. Pick one, learn it, and you'll be fine, no patter if you chose Python or R.

Personally, I prefer R for my use case which is longitudinal analysis of experimental data.
Wikipedia great for some subjects, but is simply awful for philosophy. I'd stay far, far away from it.
Anthony Sampson's The Seven Sisters about the oil industry was also good although pretty old at this point. It does go into how the powers split things up post-WWI though.
Ask HN: Are there any communities for solution architects?
I'm mostly looking for communities where solution architects can ask/give advice.
Regenerative braking is still braking and requires friction, literally, where the rubber meets the road.

The culprit is rubber itself, not brake pad dust (a concern on its own).
You don’t need a great deal of precision with a land value tax.

You need a ball park figure for land value to work and even that is going to depend on the philosophy used for valuation. If Walmart buys the cheapest land it can find and builds a distribution center on that land, how much is that land worth? What they paid for it? What someone else would pay for it now? How bought all the parcels around it that now would be useful for housing?

Either paradigm is real estate valuation (at which point it become real estate tax) or the paradigm is something else with that something else up for grabs.
Hold up. You are claiming that the fact that DoH prevents DNS requests from being visible in cleartext network traffic is a bad thing?

It is when its my network. If they cared about people sniffing they would use DNSSEC, but still use the network DNS server. DNS over HTTPS is just a way for shady companies to hide what they're doing.
Can you list some of the people you consider charlatans?
Said and done. I made myself an old fashion and watched Citizen Kane tonight, and I have to agree with your review. It's a fine piece of art, certainly well produced for the time, but frankly I just didn't really get into the story. It doesn't feel like a cohesive whole.

The prologue was so long and on the nose that it was pretty clear from the get go that rosebud was (spoiler alert!) the sled, and then I felt the rest of the movie was just an overly pretentious attempt to convey that it doesn't matter how rich you are if you never get to have your childhood, or something.

I quite enjoyed Welles performance though, and in fact I quite enjoyed the performance of most of the characters, especially Bernstein and Leland. The scenes when they arrive at the inquirer we're brilliant.

Well, I'm glad to have finally seen this movie but – fully appreciating that I probably have no clue what I'm talking about – I wouldn't place it in my top 10 favorite movies. Probably not even top 100 to be honest.
Reading Reddit comments will feels like hell if you’re right winging. You described it pretty well, it’s all about displaying a strong sense of moral, which at the end is translated into a false sense of superiority. « Look at me, I am a good person! »
Context for my comment: I am not an academic, my focus here is to share books that helped form my personal philosophy.

I am certainly not an expert on philosophy, but I found Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" (especially with the post-script added in 1984) and Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" to be instrumental to becoming the person I am.

I also gained a lot from Plato’s republic (particularly book 7[0][1] - i.e.: the allegory of the cave - and book 8/onward[2][3] - a discussion of government that feels like it could be had today) and Huxley’s "Brave New World"[4] (if you're okay with spoilers and just want a quick glimpse at a good part of the book, I highly recommend reading chapter 16[5] -- it has some great dialog!).

The way thinkers of the past could frame problems of their day in terms that still apply today has been eye-opening to me. It makes today's problems feel less insurmountable. They are instead challenges we as a collective humanity will overcome and (as Frankl would say) give us an opportunity to transform suffering into human achievement[6].

PS: The myth of Sisyphus really wasn't one of my favorites until I got to the middle (the passage on "living without appeal"), it's a slow build that's worth it in my opinion.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)#Book_VII

[1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm#link2...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_(Plato)#Book_VIII

[3]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm#link2...

[4]: https://www.huxley.net/bnw/one.html

[5]: https://www.huxley.net/bnw/sixteen.html

[6]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6807951-i-speak-of-a-tragic...
I was curious how they obtained both the list of source images and the file names, etc for the source images (and whether that together was a one-step process or a two step process)
EmacsConf 2020 videos are out
Google claims to not associate the data with particular users (it's anonymized), but there's nothing to stop it from using the data to know how popular certain sites or pages are, what region(s) visitors are coming from, and what user agents (browsers) are being used. And so on.

Let me ask you a similar question. Is there any evidence whatsoever that Google built this service out of the goodness of their hearts, and have no intent of using it to gain any sort of competitive advantage?

And if you do believe that, is there any evidence that Google will continue to spend millions of dollars supporting a service that gives them zero benefit? What does their track record say about that?

For the record, I'm not anti-Google, nor ultra privacy focused. I just think it's common sense that Google expects some sort of ROI here. To many, using Google fonts is considered a fair exchange (especially given that their data is anonymized) and I think that's a perfectly reasonable position. But make no mistake, there is a clear benefit to Google here.
The first thing that comes to my mind in this context is that "kaitai" means "want to write" (書いたい) in Japanese. It also has many other meanings: https://jisho.org/search/kaitai . Maybe the authors had disassembly (解体) in mind.
How do you promote the product? Is it organically on etsy only?
Is Wikipedia great for learning philosophy? Of course not, no better than it would be for learning math or physics.

But it's unsurpassed for learning what all the kinds of philosophy are, for getting a sense of all the stuff that's out there.

Simply because any "philosophy" intro text you buy, no matter how broad, will ignore huge swathes of it. Wikipedia really is the best place to get an initial "lay of the land" I'd say.

From there you can move onto survey texts in a particular subfield you've identified, then drill even deeper into Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles, and then make your way to primary texts.
I think https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/ is pretty interesting
Based on my experience of creating MakeMe (https://GitHub.com/OakNinja/MakeMeFish) I would say the only way of creating that graph would be to write a make clone with this feature. While make is an awesome tool, it really lacks good insights.
Yeah, I considered rewriting to try and use colors as percentages and show the idiv x/256 banding problem of hexadecimal colors, but for today's purposes, I will be satisfied if I inspire long-time web programmers to start realizing that sRGB hex is a dead end way to think about color. It was enough to discuss the problem of peak luminosity being greater than 100% sRGB luminosity and I couldn't find any way to do a better job at the one without doing a worse job at both.