skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I have 2 questions for you.

First: what if the fix really took 2 months?

Second: I'm not well versed in this kind of software; is this on-prem stuff that clients have to manage (update) themselves, or is this SaaS cloud stuff that MS can immediately update without clients in the loop?
There's a bunch of ways that Mito and Visidata are different. The two largest probably being:

1) Mito is an extension to JupyterLab whereas Visidata is a CLI tool. As a result, Mito is a react frontend that is more of a traditional Excel-styled spreadsheet interface. You can use your mouse to perform point-and-click transformations, like writing configuring pivot tables or writing spreadsheet formulas.

2) Mito generates Python/pandas code for every edit the the user makes. So users are generating a script to manipulate their dataframes, running that script, and then continuing to use their dataframes throughout the analysis. People use Mito in a Jupyter notebook the way that they use pandas code, multiple times throughout their analysis, interspersed with graphing, ML, etc.
I wouldn't say millenia, but hundreds of years seems appropriate[1][2][3][4] ....

The "resistance" didn't start with the PLO. They are only the latest manifestation of a conflict going back centuries. It didn't start in 1948, or 1964, etc. It started long before that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hebron

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I love it. I will definitely use it in the compiler class I will be teaching in Fall. Please improve the README file.
Cryptocurrency solves for the issue of two people that don't trust each other transacting. How do I know the $100 bill you're handing me isn't fake?
There is certain need for people to be able to simplify problems in terms that they can understand an manage.

This is necessary, because humans have very limited capacity to understand world around them and otherwise it would not be possible to make informed decisions, as gathering all relevant information would necessarily take practically infinite amount of time.

From that point of view I understand people like your professor is mostly result of bias also called Dunning Kruger effect. This is basically lack of education in a given area. You need at least some knowledge in an area to be able to appreciate complexity and unknown unknowns.

If you don't want to be that guy, the best medicine is first to learn to be self aware, second to be aware of various biases (including Dunning Kruger effect) that you are subject to and third to get some knowledge/experience in an area you are trying to make decisions in.
I think this discussion is missing important facts:
1. The current ruling government forced these elections
2. the same prime minister was elected in all of these and he could not compile a government due to lack of mandate
I'm basing my opinion on reading the article. The claims that were made are consistent with what I've experienced working with folk with relatively limited software engineering skill. I don't think that's an unfair or mean thing to say. The whole premise of the article is to try and convince me that not following best practices can be a good thing. To me, the article seemingly reads as defensive, as if the author is actually trying to convince themselves or their coworkers that they aren't to blame for an accumulated decade of technical debt.

In reality, there's no blame to assign when tackling tech debt. Real projects are messy. Folk defer work for short term gains at the cost to their future self. Growing tech debt is just an eventual engineering problem to tackle like anything else. Best practices are distilled wisdom intended to keep those sorts of problems from growing out of control.

Re: the competency of the SO core devs, they very well could and probably are solid within their domain. Not knowing anything about them though, I think it's possible that they're a bit siloed off in their knowledge. If a lot of their core team were there from the beginning of the project and were relatively inexperienced at the time, they may not have ever invested their time into developing test tooling. In some ways it's very impressive that they're able to keep that large of a project going with so little testing infrastructure.
It is an indication that in a free market, people are able to choose what works best while the forks and knockoffs prove that nobody believes in them, or that they are unsafe networks.
They should rent this out, I have 3 computers rendering frames right now, and I can't find more graphics cards anywhere.
Five Sentence Email Rule
What is most jarring is reading about a given topic in a paper like NYT. You will start to have all sorts of deja vu before you realize that they sometimes self plagiarize entire paragraphs to fill in the meat of these articles. Then it becomes apparent the entire piece was written by someone stressed out who must have had 10 minutes to put it out.
In a similar vein, a lot of "ingenious biological designs" turn out to be amazingly hacky close up.

The eye, for example, has blood vessels blocking some of the photoreceptors. A moderately intelligent designer wouldn't run the power cables directly in front of the camera's lens!

Or...maybe we're not made in His Image: cephalopods don't have this problem, after all. Cthulhu ftaghn....
I am not sure where this "RSS is dead" keeps coming from, but I still use it quite happily every day.
>I think we have a larger problem where our education system is laser focused on "knowledge" and often abjectly refuses to teach anything that can be called a "skill".

I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately, especially in the context of news media. As an American public school millennial I distinctly remember covering the term "yellow journalism" in social studies classes in multiple years. But the moral I always took from those lessons was "Back in the past, like at the time of the Spanish-American war, the news media fudged the facts to push their own agenda". Yellow journalism was just a vocabulary term used for something that happened a long time ago. We weren't taught to apply the lessons to our modern lives, which would've been infinitely more valuable than memorizing flash cards. I can't help but think that the whole fake news thing would've been much less of a surprise to people of my generation had a bit more time been spent on learning applicable lessons using history as a context, and not just remembering trivia.

Likewise when we had research projects or essays to write, it was just as you said -- a fill in the blanks exercise. If you found a book in the library that had something relevant you could reference, well, it was a book in the library, so it was obviously true, right? You're going through the motions but you're not thinking for yourself. I didn't get a real introduction into how to actually do research until my first year of college.
> Clearly not. After you eat a bread, it's gone. After you live in a house it's still there.

After you live in a house a long time it falls apart. Capital Expenditure restores the asset to its previous value. Bread just depreciates faster. but can still be traded, bought and sold. In Japan houses are often only ever used by one family, and the house is destroyed when the land is sold. I am taking your insistence on a cash flow perspective to its logical extreme to show that it is not always applicable.

Corn is an asset when it is bought and sold. It is food when it is consumed.

> Should farm (or food producing corporation shares) prices be factored into the CPI as well?

I clearly say at the end that if CPI is not measuring these price increases we should use a different measure. I'm not sure you understand what's going on in this conversation, but food is in the CPI.

> Also, your point about buying housing as some sort of protection against inflation doesn't tell the whole story.

Where on earth do I say this? I say that poor people are exposed to inflation the most, especially increases in housing prices. We should have measure for what working Americans are exposed to, and do not.
What about the general counsel of an in-house legal team?

Surely they care about their underlying activities and not just number of legal hours worked, right?

I have to believe there is a legal team somewhere in the world that is measured on productivity beyond just "number of billable hours" generated.
I think there is a big difference between the the amount of code versus the number of decisions a piece of code has to make. When I think of 'code minimalism', I think of it along the lines of reducing the number of decisions made, but that doesn't always track with the amount of code. Bugs are always going to increase as the number of decisions are increased.
Say what you want about Steve Balmer but he had the right attitude towards that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0
I'm a data scientist who isn't an Excel wizard and I'd like to have the other direction, turn my dplyr code into Excel
Mr. Bill Gates has a great ego, and money to make almost anything happen. Hope he takes up flying! into the ground at high speeds.
Why would I trust this sweater wearing phoney opinions on how to fix the world, given how terrible windows is. When his vaccine truck pulls up to a school, little black kids in Africa run. They know...
I'm not aware of any that had the sort of complementary designs between the compilation model and multiple dispatch. E.g. in Common Lisp, two of the most important functions for multiple dispatch, addition and multiplication aren't generic functions and need to be shadowed and replaced by generic functions if you want multiple dispatch. My understanding is that they did this for performance reasons, but julia doesn't have any performance degradation from making literally everything other than like 5 builtins generic functions because of the way it's compilation model dovetails with multiple dispatch.

I just checked in my repl and in my current session with a few packages loaded, + has 195 methods defined on it and * has 347 methods. If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch#Use_in_pract... they present some evidence that multiple dispatch sees far more use in julia than other languages.
Try telling that to the UK government:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988
If they do that, it'll probably be a couple of miles away at the old natural gas well site they own. That's where they're putting an oxygen purification stack.
Nah I think this is fair game...how much have we been told that Jacinda is better at handling a pandemic because she's a woman?

The default position nowadays is that women/trans people/etc. are exactly the same as men but magically better.
The point is that without btc the energy wouldn’t have been captured anyway. In theory if all btc miners used only renewables, the price of renewables would drop, and become more affordable for others, and the net impact on the environment would be positive.

Renewables are infinite, we are constrained by our ability to capture them efficiently enough to beat fossil fuels.

There are probably other factors at play that prevent this from working in reality though
You're getting a lot of responses, because this is a pretty common complaint about crypto, and it taps into a great "WELL ACTUALLY" moment, because your concern is close enough to the "at least real money is backed by something" misconception (which, tbh, I'm sure you're aware of at this point if you weren't already).

Fundamentally, what folks are trying to get to with crypto is a trust-less system, one that can operate regardless of whether or not there are bad actors involved (including and most commonly as the central authority, aka banks). Historically, it's been a lot easier to build systems that don't account for bad actors, and it's been continually problematic for society because that assumption is so obviously and blatantly false.

Maybe crypto, as we know it, isn't the solution, and certainly proof-of-work has serious negative drawbacks. However, with the advent of automated computational devices, the possibility of evolving past our many-thousand year old system of bartering is too enticing to just ignore. We know there's a better way, and the odds we'll nail it on the first try are nearly zero, so I personally welcome any attempts that lurch us forward in the meantime, even if they're not the end destination.
There's an app called Stocard that can add apple wallet entries for certain types of cards.
I'm sorry, but no, they don't. Out of all of the examples I used, only one has agreed-upon norms and standards that can be measured: racing.

All the other examples I used -- chef, journalist, writer, singer -- can win awards and recognition: Michelin stars, Pulitzer, Hugo, Nebula, Grammy, and such. Those are good indicators of their accomplishments, but that's not the same as having a set of "agreed-upon norms and standards that can be measured".

And if you decide to relax your criteria and say that having those is acceptable, then guess what? There's a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and a slew of other awards for economists.

Like it or not, studying economics is something that people can and do dedicate their lives to. Would it be better if we had more clarity, transparency, and consensus when it comes to what they do? Absolutely. But dismissing the whole profession out of hand is unhelpful.
Not the GP, but I think they are speaking specifically to non-programmers with this statement.

It's not about which analyses are more performant/easier in one object versus the other, it's how do you most easily introduce the general audience to big data, both reading, manipulating, and transforming.

I actually disagree with their statement tbh, as I think that it's too nuanced of a situation to scope like this.

I used to work in a university, and depending on the dataset and the intended output, I would switch between R and Excel for the students. Those who needed R level analysis eventually saw why it was more useful for them than Excel and got good at seeing when to use R versus when to use Excel.

Those who had datasets/output goals that didn't need heavy lifting really just needed Excel. It's not incorrect to say that learning heavier tooling/languages is a benefit, there is also a time consideration to learn and become efficient at a given toolset. The heavier toolsets have their nuances and accomplishing the same task in less robust toolings like Excel is the more efficient and better approach for those who have extremely limited time and for those who are not likely to need the heavier toolset in the future.

It's just a simple cost benefit analysis -- what tool is going to give the best return on time investment?

There is a very valid and reasonable argument that investing into the heavier toolsets will eventually reach a point where even the simple tasks that Excel and other tools allows users to perform more easily with less knowledge is faster/better with the heavier language; the question is "when is it optimal for a given person to invest the time to get to that stage?", and that's a question that doesn't always have all available data to make an informed decision on since it's hard to predict the future.
These nonsense hyperbolic comments are crazy. The complexity of Rust is nowhere on par with that of C++
Funny that you mention it. It's the opposite in my view. Depending on "to whom".

If you you have savings, of course it's better for you to have it hold value. And if you hold debt, it's better for you for that to fall over time. But we are not discussing whether "everyone is in debt" is good/bad, we are talking whether money is good/bad for the money's purposes. Also, Bitcoin flows over wires and gold does not.

Speaking of debt, if "it's good for society" for a lot of people to be in debt (because how else would ppl prefer assets to depreciate so they are stimulated to get rid of them?) then how do you avoid fewer people being creditors? In my view, more ppl with savings and fewer ppl in debt is key to a democratic/decentralized society w/o dangerous concentration of power.
Thank you for your input, that's completely understandable. We're describing in our website the product that is undergoing clinical validation, but want to provide consumers an opportunity to gain insight into their oral microbiome, as there are no equivalent comprehensive oral microbiome tests. The "early access" test is a limited offering that provides novel data to users.

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I'm definitely not encouraging writing "clever" short code. Always strive to write clear code. You write it once, but it will be read (and potentially changed) many, many times.

As for complexity metrics, this is a contentious topic. It's hard to quantify "ideas" or "concepts". I think this is the part where technical design reviews and good code reviews help keep in check.
Ah, the implication of my point was their power doesn't come from their brand anymore, it's from their data, and I think producing loss leaders into the market is a form of dumping that wrecks the markets. (haute couture houses in conglomerates that sell smelly water are another example of that VFX pattern) Their brand could be equifax or the SEC at this point and it wouldn't matter (imo), because they have ensconced, established power.

The FAANGs become pernicious, and I don't see them all being around in a decade.
Those GUI toolkits only look and behave acceptably on linux, because every other linux app uses those toolkits. They look horrible and incredibly jarring on windows and mac.

Can still be fine for opensource/hobby work, anything professional needs better integration with the individual platform native UI apis.

Which is one of the reasons Electron became so popular — nobody has any expectations from a webapp UI, yet they still look better than Qt/GTK/wx on average...
>There is also the issue of declining attention spans as people consume snackable content on their mobile devices.

Have there been any studies to back up this pervasive idea of declining attention spans? I'm asking honestly, not combatively. It has some signs of "common sense" beliefs that aren't true or useful: generalizing over a large group, lamenting something lost, and focusing on something poorly defined. Of course, those qualities don't mean it's a false belief, but they do make me want hard data before I believe it.

Especially because I've seen signs of the opposite with TV shows. Streaming services don't have scheduled programming, so shows can be as long as they want. Different episodes of the same show don't have to be the same length. "Seasons" can be any number of episodes. With that freedom, a lot of shows are now 45+ minutes long (equivalent to hour-long shows with commercials). If the average attention span were shrinking, this isn't what I'd expect.
Low cost index funds for over 7 year investment horizon.

If you are in the US and just want to keep the value, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) directly from the U.S. Treasury. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/tips/r...
My theory is that the elites needed entertainment too. I am judging by the flood of previously unknown art during perestroika. Those books, movies, and the rest took years of work to develop. They didn’t just appear out of thin air after Gorbachev declared glasnost
I'm confused. "That post" is the OP or your comment?

I was responding to your claim about HN being politically biased. One data point doesn't demonstrate anything about that; people post all kinds of things. However, one post can easily trigger feelings of bias, and frequently does. I believe that's because we're all inclined to put weight on the data points we dislike, and meanwhile don't notice so much the ones we like or agree with. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

What I'm saying—perhaps I didn't read you correctly or didn't express it clearly—is that your perception that HN is massively biased towards the right-wing is (a) untrue, and (b) a consequence of your own political feelings. People with opposite feelings look at exactly the dataset and derive precisely the opposite perception. There are dozens of examples of this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870, and countless others floating out there. What's most remarkable is how such comments, though making opposite claims which cannot both be true, resemble each other perfectly in every other respect. That is evidence that some common mechanism is producing them. I don't know if it's the notice-dislike bias or some other mechanism, but it definitely isn't accurate assessment.
Seemingly about 35% increase for 2500m

https://www.mide.com/air-pressure-at-altitude-calculator
War crimes and illegal military action seem to very much be the preferred business of the American military-industrial complex. Most of the US foreign aid given to Israel can only be spent on purchasing US military hardware. The people who benefit from funneling additional billions into the MIC are the same ones that benefit from ongoing American military actions on foreign soil...
Bitcoin is used daily for paying real people money across the internet. You are in fact speculating on it's uses.
Why 2049 is a deadline? Mind elaborating? I don't think there is any agreement on when a reunion must happen.
Sometimes "whataboutism" is subtle. Other times, people simply say "What about...".
Well this gets back to the question of the output. For the law firm itself, this might be a valid approach. For the client, though, this is a terrible way to measure productivity. At a certain point hours may even be inversely proportional to productivity (assuming the client's output is desirable legal outcomes). This works very much the same as software engineering, except that usually (ignoring the case of consulting firms) all of the work is done in-house.
what's wrong is that the implied expectation that she would automatically be successful because she is a woman. the boss was probably thinking that she should let her feminine charm work on him or something like that.

"you will use your whatever skill and you will be fine" is quite patronizing.

i would have stated the situation without making assumptions about her ability to do this, especially not any assumptions tied to her gender. i would have explained that she was the only person on the team who doesn't already have a bad relationship with carl. i would have asked her if she wants to do this and give her the option to decline. and maybe even offered a bonus for taking on a difficult task. and at the same time i would have pushed to have carl fired because he clearly isn't getting along with anyone else.
I conceded the point that he hasn't looked into it with 'fair enough' lol. Regardless, informed is relative. I don't think Bill Gates knows more on bitcoin than I do. His status as an authority figure is uninteresting, because we can find many authority figures that disagree with him.
I would say, no not really. The goal is to make writing readable to human, not same as Hemingway wrote. Those are two different goals, despite Hemingway being also readable.

Practically, I don't have problem to understand American major newspapers.