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I worked with R and Python during the last 3 years but learning and dabbling with Julia since 0.6. Since the availability of [PyCall.jl] and [RCall.jl], the transition to Julia can already be easier for Python/R users.

I agree that most of the time data wrangling is super confortable in R due to the syntax flexibility exploited by the big packages (tidyverse/data.table/etc). At the same time, Julia and R share a bigger heritage from Lisp influence that with Python, because R is also a Lisp-ish language (see [Advanced R, Metaprogramming]). My main grip from the R ecosystem is not that most of the perfomance sensitive packages are written in C/C++/Fortran but are written so deeply interconnect with the R environment that porting them to Julia that provide also an easy and good interface to C/C++/Fortran (and more see [Julia Interop] repo) seems impossible for some of them.

I also think that Julia reach to broader scientific programming public than R, where it overlaps with Python sometimes but provides the Matlab/Octave public with an better alternative. I don't expected to see all the habits from those communities merge into Julia ecosystem. On the other side, I think that Julia bigger reach will avoid to fall into the "base" vs "tidyverse" vs "something else in-between" that R is now.

[PyCall.jl]: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

[RCall.jl]: https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl

[Julia Interop]: https://github.com/JuliaInterop

[Advanced R, Metaprogramming] by Hadley Wickham: https://adv-r.hadley.nz/metaprogramming.html
I have seen a fair number of submissions regarding information theory on Hacker News.

Here are my personal favorite resources:
1. "A Diary on Information Theory" by Alfred Renyi: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4962977-a-diary-on-infor... . Written in a very charming manner (dialog between teacher and student) and is accessible to a wide audience.
2. Some lecture notes on information theory: http://people.lids.mit.edu/yp/homepage/data/itlectures_v5.pd... . Much more mathematically demanding, but is quite comprehensive, and a modern account of the subject.
>Big fan of techno-solutionist critique in general, but the one critique that frustrates me is "Solution X is bad because we could do Solution Y instead." Don't yell at people doing something to help (as it happens, probably the _only_ way they know to help) because some other people, with some other expertise, could theoretically do it differently/better/more human.

not exactly sure what you mean by this... do you really think Zoom is just 'trying to help'? They're a corporation trying to make money you can't seriously think they actually give a shit about 'helping' or whatever.
I recently finished Merlin Sheldrake's "Entangled Life" which I highly recomend to anyone interested in finding out more about these fascinating organisms. Really changed the way I see the world. My family are getting pretty bored of the fungus facts that I trot out as we go on our daily socially distanced walks through our local woods.
They had me interested up until the crypto bit kicked in, I can't quite work out the value add realised by the crypto mashup.
It takes a lot of energy to break a strong bond - ie that's the definition of a strong bond.

So when you go the other direction, when the strong bond is formed, that energy is released.
> There was this giant thing called healthcare right, and its main purpose is improving health

My reaction to this was:

laughing: Oh, how adorably naive.

followed shortly by:

crying: Ugh, we're so fucked.
Fish also has selenium which can apparently counteract the effect of mercury by forming complexes.
Gatekeeping is the entire point of professional bodies, and certifications. It is suppose to show that people with those qualifications have sufficient skill and experience to do the role.

This is one of the many problems with IT. I've interviewed many people with IT Security certifications who cannot explain the difference between encryption and hashing.

On the flip side, it is one of the great things about IT, that you don't need to go to university to get a job.
An even worse question:

"Can you get this jumble of things to fit into the refrigerator (spec)? All you need to do is make it fit, we can fix any problems later. It shouldn't take you more than an hour."
> How large are these datasets that have attracted so many research papers?

> The NASA dataset contains 93 rows (that is not a typo, there is no power-of-ten missing), COCOMO 63 rows, Desharnais 81 rows, and ISBSG is licensed by the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (academics can apply for a limited time use for research purposes, i.e., not pay the $3,000 annual subscription). The China dataset contains 499 rows, and is sometimes used (there is no mention of a supercomputer being required for this amount of data ;-).

> Why are researchers involved in software effort estimation feeding tiny datasets from the 1980s-1990s into machine learning algorithms?

> Grant money. Research projects are more likely to be funded if they use a trendy technique, and for the last decade machine learning has been the trendiest technique in software engineering research. What data is available to learn from? Those estimation datasets that were flogged to death in the 1990s using non-machine learning techniques, e.g., regression.

Is this telling me that most theories about "sw estimation best practices" are cargo cults o-O ?
Retrofitting USB-C to an iPod Nano
Given that the large majority of hospitalized people are old or have preexisting conditions, it would be more useful to compare this with people from the same age and with the same medical history who have not been infected.
I don't understand why, as an entrenched user of LilyPond, you'd want to use MuseScore either direction. LilyPond has been such a perfect tool for me that I can create better-looking scores with it faster than anything else; a GUI would just get in the way.
> If it contained phone numbers and Covid status, that’s a HIPAA concern no matter the intent or source of data.

IIRC, it technically would not, as the public health authorities to which HIPAA allows disclosure for public health purposes are not themselves HIPAA covered entities, so any improper disclosures of data they hold are not HIPAA concerns (for state public health authorities, they would generally be covered by state privacy laws, though.)
I listen to In Our Time as a podcast :-) It's actually better than the radio-broadcast version because it includes 10-15 minutes of extra time with the guests where they have a bit more discussion.

(rss feed: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006qykl.rss)
I would like to see a new class of “social libel” laws - whereby knowing telling lies as truth in a public forum were punishable. Is this a civil or criminal offense?
If the population is truly zero, I wonder how many other infrastructure concerns will come first? Primarily road connections, but also electric grid and potable water. There are alternatives to the latter 2 but it is a significant impact
> There are degrees of democracy

No, it's not a thermometer. There are many, complex shapes and dimensions.
Indeed. Which what 100k per month comes to, give or take :)
What's your point? "Mocking" is literally mimicking to make fun of. So, yes, of course it's not right-wingers mocking themselves with that phrase; it's people mocking the cries right-wingers are making.
I like this analogy. But I was picturing myself asking my sales manager "How long would it take you to learn to play a song on piano?", and I'm pretty sure he would reply "but you touched a piano before, you are supposed to be a professional piano player ! A professional piano player surely knows how long it would take him to learn how to play a song". So I guess he would miss the point totally :/
The #1 problem with all these scripts is that they make the scrolling wonky when you use the trackpad on macOS. There's supposed to be a 1:1 relationship between how far you move your fingers and how far it scrolls, and these make it either fly off the screen at the speed of light or feel like you're scrolling through molasses. Either way, it clashes with your muscle memory.
Only for one time fees, most TV Licenses style taxes are recurring. If you try to base it off an 'expected lifetime' you're just guessing how often people will replace the TV and either get under or over charged based on how long they keep devices.
Don't do an estimate, build a prototype.

Don't do an estimate, build a prototype.

Don't do an estimate... seriously... build a prototype.

And then throw it out.

And THEN do an estimate. It will probably be pretty accurate.

Not always easy to do this in a tech company but as an eng director I was able to get it done and it changed a seriously broken process based on multi-week scoping and estimation futility.
Digital Ocean, VMware,..
Totally agree there. It is not a replacement and it is trying to solve a different problem. I dont believe Julia contributers are lying awake at night upset that other languages exist and feel they need to put a stop to that. My point (put across clumsily I see) is that IF that was their goal then they are going about it the wrong way as most R/Python users have different priorities. But it is a moot point as that would be an absurd motivation to create a whole new language
Yes that could be. Most recessed lights I've seen recently are spotlights, although that could be a function of where I am looking.

IMO, interior designers and light manufacturers need to work together to make attractive energy-efficient lighting solutions. For example, recessed halogen-based spotlights are a nightmare for LEDs - there's nowhere for the heat to go. Even if you get an LED bulb from aliexpress, it won't last long because of the lack of proper heatsinking. Meanwhile there's plenty of surface area that could be utilized for heatsinking if the fixture is designed for LEDs from the ground up.
I would have absolutely used this -- as a consumer tool. I _would_ even pay a (small) subscription for the service, as I'm an avid user of WebMD who is more often than not overwhelmed by potential treatments for any given symptom, but I admit that most likely would not scale.

I do, however, think it makes much more sense as a consumer tool rather than a doctor tool: if I've already gone through the trouble of making an appointment at a doctor, who I trust, I've either given up on trying to resolve the issue myself and will trust their prescription, or I have no idea how to approach the issue or symptoms I'm feeling as communicated by WebMD. Your value proposition is saving the consumer time and effort of booking an appointment to find out how to best fix a minor-medical issue they (or, say, their child) may have. Is that a sustainable proposition? I don't know, but it makes much more sense to me than as a tool to tell doctors how to do their job "better".

I'd imagine if you went the WebMD consumer route, too, once you reach a certain user-size, you'd have no problem partnering with pharmacies (or even pharmaceutical companies) to offer coupons for some OTC medicines in exchange for a referral fee, as is standard in the industry (a. la. GoodRx). Then you're providing value to the consumer in the form of recommending useful medicines, providing the consumer a way to get that medicine for a lower cost, saving them time and money spent at the doctor's office, and providing the pharmacy/pharmaceutical company a new customer.
Really interesting to read. We can all now be captain Hindsight, but no point in stating the obvious, as long as you and others reading it have learned from the story.

Although, I have to mention, reading the article and seeing mentions of MVP and no testing or concrete business plan, I remembered the book "Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup"[1] and I loved how Bill Aulet in the book mentioned the MVP model and gave his own thought:

Instead of everyone rushing MVPs, he recommends to people to rather chase an MVBI, a minimum viable business idea, since as he says, the purpose of a business is to create value and capture it, since you are not running a charity.

I must say he convinced me, and changed my line of thinking, it does make sense when you think about it, you cannot build the product for the sake of the product.

I also like the quote "Real entrepreneurs fall in love not with their product, but with their business plan."

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18652777-disciplined-ent...
Why not begin on web though? I mean I get it for clubhouse, instagram and snapchat because they're making use of phone functions like easily being able to record audio or take pictures... still it's interesting how much web gets belittled compared to apps these days.
Hacker news really has gone down hill of late..
Wouldn’t these plants generate credits under cap-and-trade? That’s a strong economic incentive under the right system.

I’m not sure why the article focuses on morality and “dangerous habits” when we understand exactly how to encourage limiting carbon emissions with an amoral free market approach.
Right but that's still paid for by the 'TV licence' and it's made by the same people.
stars, forks are the metrics that first hit you when you browse a project, so it is part of what THE platform hosting most OSS projects tries to convince us matter.
There are other ways to check real people involvement in the project (such as issues, PR) but even these can be single company employees. I'd say we are missing open financial metrics that are missing.?
No, but randomized controlled trials provide much more evidence than correlational studies. I'll admit I don't fully understand the methods these researchers use, so it's possible that they address the common problems, but historically conclusions from trying to establish causal relationships through data mining have not had a great track record. The bits I did understand seem solid enough (vitamin D and obesity levels 10-15 years ago, when the participants were enrolled, and now should be pretty highly correlated, and the sample size is pretty large) but there are a lot of non-obvious pitfalls when trying to establish causality with purely observational methods.
Although when working like this there can be a "Good enough" inertia
Improved support for using the keyboard, including keyboard shortcuts.
Yesterday HN had a discussion about the Fermi Paradox¹. Personally, I think there is no single Great Filter, just a product of many modest filters — and one of them is that, if early life doesn't have an oxygen catastrophe², any eventual intelligent life will have a tough time not being able to burn things.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810078

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Catastrophe
I thought Deng's principles were the foundation for modern China's economic policy? Is this not true?

"After Chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms, which earned him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China"." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping
I don’t think that was the point. The point was better healthcare doesn’t necessarily translate to more revenue. Healthcare is weird like that - you get paid a flat fee for visits. There might be an argument to be made that better prescriptions = happier patients = more retention, but it’s a stretch. If your practice is already booked full what’s the point?

This biz was clearly made for consumers but yea ads are tough - need a lot of eyeballs.
Indie dev postmortem: Lenna’s Inception
What is vendor lock-in (and how to break free)?
It uses a neural network for sentiment analysis, so it can be classified as "using AI".
yeah if it was something like "we can recommend a cheaper drug" then there might be an incentive... but also that's not how drugs are even priced. The healthcare world is such a mess. Charging doctor's offices for SaaS is very very tricky.
I submitted a PR to make a tiny improvement to the libuv documentation... [0] and the stale bot wants to close it on me.

I think closing PRs as stale is particularly annoying.

[0] https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/3076
$40K is not much to put into a business. You'd likely be putting down more than that just to open a convenience store.

Sure you need to spend a lot of money to grow a $1B+ business, but the same is true for a $100M business or a $10M business and even most $1M businesses.
Respectfully, you're not just wrong, you're wrongly wrong.

The nature coverage on BBC is an order of magnitude better than anything else on TV.

The science coverage on BBC is better than anyone else on TV.

The news coverage on BBC is better than anything else on TV.

And that's just the starters.

The podcast revolution were in right now? Brits have had that since the 70s with radio 4 producing great audio programs. Everything from science to history to drama to comedy. Their programming makes up a big chunk of the best podcasts and another chunk are ripoffs of BBC shows.

Streaming? BBC iPlayer was the trailblazer in that space.

And we're still not done.

The UK has a similar problem to US media: its mostly owned by crazy right wingers and what isn't spends a lot of time navel gazing and sharing cat in tree stories. Not the BBC, they keep breaking big stories. They don't care or have to care about the editorial line or commercial interests of their advertisers or even their viewers prejudices. And educated, informed voters are one reason we have maintained (just) decent healthcare and a semi working benefit system. They actually force other media to be better. That's why we don't have Foxx news and our antivaxx movement is smaller than the US or Frances.

I'm not saying they're perfect. I'm not saying they're always right or they couldn't do better.

I'm just saying, we need more than just the commercial model, be it ads or subscription based. There are 1001 things it doesn't do well. It does other things great. But it can't give you everything. Why not keep both?

Thanks for reading my rant.
I think in that case the maintainer needs a different view of the bug tracker; for example, in GitHub that would be their projects view, or if you don't like that, label the issues as stale (without closing) and using a search that excludes those results. I believe the important thing is to make the default search return the issues that the maintainers are not working on, so that known issues are still tracked (but possibly out of the maintainer's hair).

The important thing is that new users would be able to find them, so that non-maintainers can still collaborate.
Analysing studies and providing summary on various topics is what examine.com does. I am a happy customer, so there is definitely a way of monetising meta-analysis.
not sure if this genuine or sarcasm.
Exactly. Halogen and incandescent bulbs are allowed to be sold in Germany for decorative use, and what happens is that some people who can't imagine progress get their architects to put in multiple energy-sucking halogen lamps throughout their home. To hell with efficiency.
|The rooms I did listen in on seemed to be full of people promoting themselves to each other.

This is the image I have from people in SV, every time that I talk with someone from SF/SV tech/startup world I can expect to hear:
- Their romanticized accomplishments
- Name dropping some SF/SV pop star

It must be very tiring to have social interactions like that all the time...
My knee jerk reaction was to comment that modern life also requires other things like healthcare; but then I thought twice in that maybe some of the lifestyle diseases that drive in some measure the important placed on healthcare availability, maybe those core maladies and deleterious choices are encouraged by living in close proximity to large numbers of folks.
Highly likely. I do wonder what impact this will have on mail ordering. Currently rural deliveries are subsidized by the more densely populated areas. Because the ratio of subsidized rural dwellers to densely populated area dwellers is so lopsided in favor of density, the subsidy doesn't matter much. If that ratio changes, so might the economics of companies like Amazon being able to deliver anywhere, usually by piggybacking on the USPS's rural delivery infrastructure. That said, I've seen Amazon's own delivery vans in some pretty low density rural areas so maybe it works out somehow.
Its too bad (in a way...) they couldn't get private video IDs to leak. It would have made an impressive combination with their bug posted earlier this month (Stealing Your Private Youtube Videos, One Frame at a Time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728175)

Speaking of... do security researchers sometimes just sit on their discoveries in hopes that they will eventually lead to a bigger payout? I would be kicking myself if I had reported a bug for a relatively small reward that I could have leveraged in combination with another discovery
You do often win the game by being pedantic and pointing out small issues that didn't have anything to do with the original main testimony, so maybe parent is on to something after all :)
I was asking a similar question for numerous use cases (e.g. code snippets, book reviews, notes). Gists are so broadly useful, but relatively few developers actually use them. Personally, I found that incorporating gists into my daily workflow just wasn’t very convenient, and so I ended up creating a VS Code extension that allowed me to create, edit, and comment on gists within the editor: https://aka.ms/gistpad.

I’m not sure if ease-of-use is a reason for others to not use gists more frequently, but I’ve definitely become a bit of a gists “advocate”, after appreciating just how useful/flexible it is as a “developer cloud storage” solution.
I am sure that by mining data from people's phones he could have sold users data to the lowest bidder...
No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted:

* Dan Snow's History Hits

* Triggernometry

* Lex Fridman Podcast

* Atomic Hobo

* Jason Scott Talks his way out of it

* Darknet Diaries

* Omega Tau

* Rob Reid After On

* Anatomy of Next

* page 94 - Private Eye Podcast

* Command line heroes

* Full Fact

* Guido Talks

* Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

* The Bellingcat Podcast

* On The Metal

Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingcat, Page94). My point being that given the shear number of high-quality content out there, I felt it wasn't worth paying £120 to the BBC every year.
It may help clarify (and potentially reduce fear mongering): this is for people that had severe covid and recovered, not just ‘oh I lost my taste while working from home’.

This implies all the statistics behind the likelihood of being in the severe covid group in the first place.
> Out of over six thousand who have had the virus, there have been about 42 re-infections. Comparing that to the cohort of people who were never infected, that comes out to 83% efficacy. So there’s your comparison number – which means that being vaccinated with either of the mRNA agents provides better protection than being infected with the real coronavirus can.

The vaccine comes in two doses spaced by a month or two, and the second boosts immune response. Being exposed to the real thing twice should have a similar effect, but it would be hard to precisely dose and schedule another weak exposure.

However, `42/6000 = 0.007` sounds pretty low-risk to me, unless you are elderly and/or in poor health.