skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, post-40. Living proof. I took on debt to go to a boot-camp, General Assembly, and was hired as a contractor to do website work. Things fall into place after that first job, but it was not easy and I had to push myself.
Yeah, well after the holocaust no jew will give up sovreignity and rule so it can be a minority in an islamic state.
A 300-Year-Old Tale of One Woman's Quest to Stop a Deadly Virus
I can backup the phone just fine, but couldn't figure out a way to have all photos/videos on my computer and some on the phone (for when the total size exceeds the phone's capacity)
If the data collected are anonymous, what right to privacy is being infringed upon?

To me this means data like number of page views over time, etc. It's information that you get in the course of operating your service and that does not involve any personal data.

At the most basic your car does collect "anonymous driving data": It collects the distance travelled at the very least and most modern cars also work out an average MPG based on that.

"Privacy" needs to be defined here. In general the term relates to personal data. I have a right to be anonymous and left alone when I walk in the street, for instance, but others are still free to e.g. count me if they want to make statistics on how busy a street is.
The CPI is about as good an index as the DJIA--i.e. it's pretty meaningless but everyone refers to it out of inertia.
The comment I replied to was discussing the necessity of the concept of expected utility for the success of any economic theory. My points were with reference to that - I am only claiming that it is not a requirement for a reasonable economic theory, for the reason I stated. There are other syntheses that might better describe actual economic behaviour.

More generally, there are two aspects of the value of EUT being discussed:

1) Does expected utility theory describe observed economic behaviour. There is evidence that it does not, and my previous points concern that fact.
2) Can expected utility theory be used to design a system that will produce optimal outcomes. EE confronts this question, and claims that, in the usual formulation of EUT, it cannot (because the ergodic hypothesis does not apply).

As others have mentioned, in practice some people do account for non-ergodic behaviour. Others, however, do not, and being explicit about the limitations of any given model rarely hurts anything except people's egos.
“Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind, and so it’s not a great climate thing”

That's the sole actual quote attributed to Bill Gates in that article (which doesn't even link to any source). The rest is the author conflating their thoughts with Bill Gates's.
No, not really. You're suggesting more capability for violence will secure their freedom. I'm noting the observation of facts at hand suggest the opposite.
It seems really weird to me that you're selling a "non-diagnostic" early access test but also claiming on your website that "Bristle analyzes your oral microbiome to detect oral diseases." I've seen early access in video games, but never before in a medical device. I'm sure you have lawyers who told you this was okay, but I feel like the whole reason that you have to do clinical trials before selling a product (the spirit of the law, so to speak) is that many consumers will believe that the test you're giving them is producing valid results, even if you have a fine print disclaimer saying that it is for "medical purposes." If someone took this test and wrongly assumed that the results meant they were safe from oral diseases, that could have a really negative impact for them.
It’s a vicious cycle with cost cutting removing these positions, leading to fewer people reading and relying on the paper, leading to more cost cutting.

I also think that there’s fewer pedants complaining in letters to the editor about these kinds of errors. And probably fewer editors paid to read any letters.

Finally, since any discussions I have with friends about the NYT turn into a tribal discussion, there’s a weird situation where people defend poor writing and editing because they are pro-NYT. So I tend to avoid, or at least not participate because they are so pointless and boring.
Wikipedia says Project Veritas is a far right activists group, you could have honestly mentioned that.
Or, as I like to call it, Magic Monetary Theory.
Meanwhile, in Texas, there are very few high voltage (usually called HVDC) interconnects between West Texas (where there is a huge amount of wind and solar but it is variable), and Colorado/New Mexico (where you can store a lot of potential energy and excess electricity by using the Rockies). A lot of this is due to the historical dominance of the oil/gas industry in Texas politics.

Instead of building a lot of expensive batteries you can just use a lot of pumped hydro or air, it would have saved the Texas grid.
Lawyer up if you want a real response. Letters from lawyers do magical things. Sounds like you were making enough money to warrant at least an attempt.
Bitcoin maintains international order with electricity. Countries maintain it with enormous armies. Debateable which one is worse for the planet
Thanks, I wasn't really asking for the actual bond but speaking Russian; I was asking "how did the Soviets address the same kinds of issue in popular culture" (if they did at all -- a parallel commenter suggests that it wasn't really a topic safe for anyone to touch).
Check "Game as a service is a fraud" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
People always say "two wrongs don't make a right" and then make no effort to correct the first wrong that happens to benefit them.
Can only guess that gesticulating is a bad habit because the motion catches the eye of an observing enemy, may give away elements of the conversation (e.g. directions, shape of movements), and may designate you as a higher value target (the man with the plan).

Also, you can’t stand at attention and gesticulate at the same time.
On the west coast of the US, we have a 3GW DC link between Portland (actually, The Dalles, a few miles from google's first datacenter) and Los Angeles. DC power transmission over long distances has less loss, and only requires 2 wires. Its 850 miles (about 1350km) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
Yeah, my PC is from 2015 (and it wasn't state of the art then..) so it's quite a pain to replace.

Also I have an Ultrawide monitor which perhaps isn't the best for gaming, but is far superior for work.
as Argentinian , other south American country we have cities without energy next to power generation plants, and subsidizes for sector who don needed (residential downtown) but have political influence, i live in the richest and biggest cities of my country and i have subside transportation while,in the north who have a lot less resource pay the full tariffs only because my cities have more political influence in national elections.
Fun and joy in and of themselves are worthy pursuits. That's completely aside from considering video games as an artistic medium that can be used to learn and share about the human experience.

Bitcoin does none of that. At its very very best it's a way to buy hallucinogens on the internet with massive external consequences.
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It's frustrating that we can't vouch for it, either.
>Right up until you have to implement, debug, or enchance these lower-level packages yourself

That's the very benefit of a larger ecosystem: you don't. Whereas with a smaller ecosystem, you often do.

>95% of your users can't contribute or even understand what's going on, because they don't understand the language it's written in

That's even more of a problem with Julia, since the code written in Julia will be unfamiliar to both first level users (much much fewer use Julia than Python) and to library developers (fewer know Julian than C/C++, which such Python libs are written in).
"In the past two decades Israel has given back complete control of Gaza to the Palestinians."

Bollocks - there is a complete naval blockade.

[Before the Hasbarati downvote me - I truly couldn't care whether is a good or bad thing, but HN is for facts].
My personal gripes are the lack of tables, RC notation and iterative calculation
As a person who mostly does (large) data analysis and mostly uses python, I've recently thought of when I prefer to use spreadsheets vs python and my (personal) conclusion was to use spreadsheets, when my data can fit into one screen. In that case with excel you directly see all your data, you can change inputs and see output change in real time. But if the amount of data is larger than that, I am better off with dedicated calculations (in say python) and plots summarizing the data.
No, just because he's a billionaire doesn't mean any of those things.

It's just that Bill Gates is legendary for the amounts he reads and his recall ability, and his contributions to many topics outside of just managing MS (state of the art algorithms, erradictinc malaria, nuclear energy etc). I thought everyone knew this, but apparently not. So you can see how funny it is when a random guy on HN says "just because he's a billionaire" :D
People will say "you don't need a $500 card to play PC games", but they'll never acknowledge the caveat that a budget card won't run games anywhere near as nice as a PS5/XSX.
> Some posts/comments are flagged and downvoted for slightly controversial opinions, despite the neutral or even positive or curious tone.

Neutral or even positive or curious tone does not, ipso facto, make a comment not a negative contribution to discussion. Community moderation is not exclusively, or even primarily, intended for tone policing.

> The policy, and maybe even mechanism for downvote and flag to be adjusted so that a number alone does not trample arguments.

That's, like, literally the entire purpose of having downvoting.

> Maybe "downvote/flag" comments, which if voted, will add downvote/flag count for parent arguments?

Downvoting exists to reduce the signal/noise ratio. Making metadiscussion mandatory for downvoting is directly contrary to the purpose and makes it easier for the kind of comments downvoting exists to address to have the effect of sidetracking threads that downvoting exists to mitigate. It would defeat the purpose of the feature.
> I don't know what they did but it is now unbearably slow

There was this announcement about GPay is reimplemented in Flutter. It could be related to that.
> Excel, and more importantly, the spreadsheet is the best way to build intuition for a dataset, hands down.

Excel is a low-dimensional, untyped, flat database. I couldn't think of something worse. It has been successful only because its design mimicked traditional accounting books. But for more complex datasets, ugh.

Back in NeXTSTEP days there was Lotus Improv (and later Lighthouse Design Quantrix). It permitted high dimensions, true names for rows, columns, hypercolumns, cells, and so on, and sophisticated modeling capabilities. It was, clean, required none of the ugly bug-filled hacks you see in Excel, and very easy to get your head wrapped around. Of course it's dead now.
This.
You dear reader, you ignored BTC when it was first raised on HN in 2009. "Silly internet people, you cant make money without governments!".

* Then it hit $10. "That's not worth my time".

* Then it hit $100. "Just games for internet people."

* Then it hit $1000. "Silly worthless digital tulips."

* Then it hit $10000. "Its obviously a bubble".

* Then it hit $50000. 'Its using too much energy! This is unethical".

It will hit 100k, 500k, 1M.
You will run out of excuses eventually.
Tech certainly does have a diversity problem, by which I mean lack of diversity actually works to the detriment of tech companies. Yes, from the POV of companies who are hiring, this is largely a pipeline problem. No, tech companies aren't going to solve this problem directly themselves.

But, what tech companies can do is change their candidate sourcing practices. I'm in favor of some version of the Rooney Rule [0] in tech hiring. Roughly, you should make sure to interview at least one person from an underrepresented group each time there's a position to fill. Given the pipeline problem, I'd cap it at some arbitrary number of candidates per opening -- one large enough to ensure that the company made an effort to seek out candidates who would add diversity to the company, but small enough that you can still actually hire. You'd have to validate that recruiters were actually contacting people from underrepresented groups to make sure you're not just getting to a point where every position ended with "Welp, we tried, but the only people we could find to interview for the position were these N white and Asian guys," but it could certainly work.

The beauty of this approach is that you don't lower your hiring bar. You just make sure to get people from underrepresented groups in front of your interviewers and hire them if they're the most qualified people for the job.

Now, I get that big companies don't hire for 1 position at a time, so, the point here would be to have your pool of candidates interviewing always contain a certain number of people from underrepresented groups. This is explicitly not a hiring quota, because you don't lower your bar. It's just putting an opportunity in front of more people to see if you can get people who look different from your standard straight, cisgender, white or Asian male tech worker into your recruiting pipeline to begin with.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
I kept telling people for years that I'm awful at writing tests. You're coming to me for advice because I'm less awful than you are.

Nobody really seemed to get what I was trying to tell them. It parallels my experiences with Scrum "Well if it's not working you're doing it wrong". I love tests, and I hate tests. It's a very codependent relationship.

I did run into a string of people who had either very good value statements or very good questions, which helped.

But I still find tests I've written that violate the guidelines I try to set for the team. There are probably few moments in the week when I have, to be completely blunt, my head so far up my own ass as when I'm writing tests. The only time I am juggling more info at once is when I'm debugging, and in debugging I don't have to worry about the future reader. I doubt I am unique in either regard.

Unless I go out of my way to make the tests as agonizingly boring as I possibly can.
I am a staunch code minimalist. Less code is (almost?) always better. The best, fastest, cleanest code is the code that doesn't exist at all. Always aim to write the least code. Less code is less maintenance, it's less to grok for the next person to read it.
Yeah, I have no idea what the answer is. But if the Palestinians somehow all of a sudden had a massive (and well-organized) military, they couldn’t be ignored and settlers would see it in their interest to leave voluntarily. Then maybe peace could happen. The asymmetry of the military situation means that one side is desperate and the other side sees no reason to compromise, and therefore you have a low level conflict forever which is not actually good for anyone.
Actually, Python came into TIOBE Top 10 in around 2004. So it took more than a decade for it to became decently popular; your point still stands.
Billionaire Bourgeoisieshevik who made his billions making other people have to use bad software because it was "the standard" suddenly wants to tell us about how something else being bad for society and the planet etc.

What's really bad for the planet is the rest of us have to put up with his bull.
^1 for Excel keyboard shortcuts.

One can customize the ribbon at the top for must used functions, which can make Excel such a fast tool to use compared to Google Sheets or even Excel for Mac (speaking as a Windows user).

If I had a big Excel project to do, and I had the choice of 1/2 day on Excel (Windows) vs. a full day with Google Sheets or Excel (Mac), I would pick the 1/2 day with Excel (Windows).
I mean I'm going by precedent, there's popular HN threads every so often decrying the externalities or lack of utility of Bitcoin, the comments supporting the articles rise to the top but there's a handful of people saying that Bitcoin is still worth it somehow.

Now there's a lot of people attacking Bill Gates for lending his image to the arguments. It could be that there's a majority of Bitcoin believers here but they don't usually care for arguments and just do "he he miner goes brrr" until a celebrity billionaire appears.
I'm sorry, they lose all credibility when they call forced updates "malware".

We spent the entirety of the late-90s/early 2000s complaining that MS didn't force updates on users, so these massive worms were infecting half the internet with exploits that were patched YEARS earlier.

It took moving a mountain to get MS to enforce patching of consumer systems, to sit here now and claim that's malware is both irresponsible and ridiculously short-sighted. Without mandatory patching, I can say without exaggeration that the entire internet would be less safe. Anyone spewing that nonsense is either too young to remember how horrible things were, or too stubborn to acknowledge it was the right thing to do whether they personally agree with it or not.
One great feature is that when you add images in FairEmail, it removes metadata, renames the file and other privacy-preserving data.
Me and spreadsheets go way back. My first job was hacking Lotus 1-2-3 at Kodak as a summer intern in 1985. I consider it my first programming job.

A year later, I got interested in neural networks, and built back-propogation models in Excel on the mac. Yes very SLOW but still a great way to learn.

As side project ten years back was to leverage Excel's native web query (IQY) mechanism to build a profitable SaaS company just based upon letting users get data into Excel from various 3rd party social media and analytics platforms.

Now I work in big oil and our team basically turns Excel models that users create into scalable data warehouse apps.

Even after years working with Excel, I still consider myself a journeyman.
It is awesome. Any project that improves daily life for any part of the Middle East is a way to show the haters that the world isn't waiting for them to come around.
Mito looks really interesting, I look forward to trying it out. I'd there a way to sign up for Mito without the hubspot meeting?

For us we are going the opposite approach, we are building a VB interpreter to make it easier to run, build, and extend existing Excel programs. We allow calling libraries written in WebAssembly and GraalVM supported languages.
1. New HN account

2. What kind of real start-up was it that relied exclusively on IG to make sales?

3. Without real details, this looks suspiciously like a competitive social-media attack on InstagramHelperTools.
if i want to save, don't hold cash?

hold what then? become investment manager in free time instead of my day job as software developer?
I can only speak for scientific computing, and really just neuro image processing, but the people I know in that field genuinely love their trash can Mac Pros and iMac Pro’s. They work so well for that kind of research and have a ton of life left. I know a professor who actually switched to all System76 Thelios and loves those too, but they still keep iMacs around to make figures for publications.
Or just hunger in general. Before the agriculture revolution starvation was the primary cause of human death.
Yeah, I'd like to know exactly why that is.
I'm still bitter about Google Play Music being killed for YouTube Music. YouTube Music has been worse in every single way.
But we can't have twice the amount of transactions because there are also block size limits.
That particular strawman code little.

Code that e.g. can be configured to load data in a particular way, and then run in a particular way, and is then run, hella fast in C, does. Numpy is not:

import nympy
numpy.run

Neither is pandas and others...

You might as well ask "what is the point of glue languages". Just ask anybody who ever embedded e.g. Python/Lua/Guile/etc in a C/C++ program (which has similar mechanics)...
> i.e. Bitcoin's energy usage depends on the difficulty of mining a block which is not affected by the number of transactions in a block.

Only if the transactions do not have any fee. If they have a transaction fee, this indirectly increases the difficulty of mining future blocks (since the miners get more Bitcoin per block, they can use more energy per block before their expected net return is negative, and they are incentivized to do so through competition with other miners; the Bitcoin difficulty adjustment then notices the increase in hash rate and increases the difficulty).
Privacy itself is a human right. So every country signing the universal declaration should be pursuing privacy for their citizens, which is not the case.
'You get a choice between bitcoin mining and military force' to solve the consensus issue.

Bitcoin doesn't solve, for example, hate crimes or something like this.
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Some might say humans are what contribute to infectious diseases being such a serious problem.
> "oh, none of these cryptocurrencies are actual money"

get a tor browser and discover monero being used in the wild.
Bitcoin's value is an illusion. Mostly because it seems like a good way to avoid the government's control of wealth, but taxes on bitcoin transactions would destroy this illusion and consequently the value of the currency. The collapse is inevitable. The only question is how much damage it will do in the meantime; the more power it gobbles up, the more it hurts the planet.
We have to stop burning massive amounts of energy to store and transfer value.
Thanks, I'll give that a try! The very differences are the point; if it were nothing but a reshoot of an existing trope that wouldn't be so interesting. So your "like James Bond written by Checkhov" is the kind of approach that would be interesting.
How does it compare to visidata?
You are being transparent. SQLite was developed _for_ war machines, with that as its foundation. The code of ethics is merely an attempt to whitewash its history. The founders are shameful for their lack of self awareness.
I have compiled my research in formal verification tools and papers here, there are a couple dozens:

- https://github.com/mratsim/weave/issues/18
Why, can you elaborate?
Arab(muslim/christian) citizens get full rights under law, vote like any jew israeli.
On the flip side, in the occupied territories the Palestinians (arab muslims/christians) don't get to vote, and are basically under military occupation.

So Israel is (was) willing to give equal rights to any one who accepts jews place in israel.

The last few decades are begining to erode this willingness. And I fear we maybe slipping to full apartheid.
That Shirley Jackson example is particularly galling because her prose is considered by many people to be about as close to perfect as a human can get. Better than Hemingway's. IIRC, her editor said in an interview that she was their easiest client to work with, because her work didn't actually need editing.
Does that mean reducing the Israeli military would also help?

The goal is for both the Israeli and Palestinian states to exist and for there to be peace. An Israeli hegemony over the Palestinian state, with settlers and all, certainly doesn’t help that, and it may be a rational goal of the Palestinian state to become too much of a nuisance to be ignored. If peace means subjugation, I think many Palestinians probably wouldn’t be okay with that. The Palestinians are seeing a lot of “might makes right” arguments right now about why they should just accept subjugation.
Regulatory capture is the long-term attractor for any "free market" system.

The rule of law needs to put its thumb on the scale if you want to get rid of the predatory elements.