skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a specific aspect of pandas research you're interested in? There are a lot of useful guides around table-based workflows that might be helpful :).

I would start w/ different strategies on how to model data in tables. One problem that I often see in pandas data analyses is people treating the data like it's a web app database (many small, normalized tables), rather than joining the data into a few big, denormalized tables. The latter makes it easier for people to answer their own questions / vs relying on a bunch of tiny custom functions someone wrote!

* Hadley's tidy data paper: https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

* Normalizing data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

* Denormalized data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalization

* Emily Riederer, column names as contracts: https://emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/column-name-contracts...
I'm Swiss and I've been following this "technology" since its inception. Yes, it is a scam, I agree 100%. The maths never checks out, every engineer in this country knows this. We are all ashamed.
To be fair, if that is their ethic, you probably don't want to hire them anyway. It seems reasonable to expect that if you ghost a company or recruiter, they are not likely to welcome you with open arms when you find yourself on the job hunt again.
> all major studios WANT content protection to work and the GPL is explicit in its attacks on that

They want content protection on what? Their tooling? They want DRM on the plugins they write for the tools they use? How or why?
Because your hypothetical is something a user can learn to avoid, whereas my hypothetical is one where literally no user could distinguish real from fake without assistance from the OS or the browser.
It's just impractical. You only need a 21x21 foot square of ground covered in solar panels to generate the same amount of electricity this does.

It doesn't make sense to invest so much land, machinery, and labor into something that generates and stores so little energy
> I don't see why the HN community has to honor/uphold/tolerate/defend

Those are all very different words. And you do the same below when you mix up "tolerate" and "legitimize". Are you trying to confuse the debate? To be clear, I'm solely arguing for tolerate and not censor, not any of the other things. And wow, looking at that comment that was flagged, I can't comprehend how you would believe it's so repugnant that it's worthy of censoring and suppression.

> Soros is often viewed as a liberal mouthpiece propagandist

He's the target of unfortunate conspiracy theories, but I want to get this straight: you don't believe Soros is a liberal propagandist? Do you also not think the Koch brothers are libertarian propagandists? Of course, they all are!

But yeah, I strongly disagree. I think censoring people who disagree, combined with the power and income inequality that was created by the plutocrats, will together kill our country. I don't want to give away my identity since I'm aware there are lots of people who would try to get me fired for disagreeing with them, but I've seen ethnic conflict up close and see every sign that the US is heading in that direction.
Please excuse me if I am terribly ignorant.

In my head, liquid must be easier to play with than a solid.

So displacement of water or air should be done.

The displacement of air, being pumped into a balloon under water seems like a great idea.

I know many solutions must have been thought of, but is the inflate balloon under water , then let it float up - the most efficient way of storing energy?

Lithium batteries wear out, but are more energy dense and so arent comparable ( regardless of size).

Forgive me for ruminating I think this is a problem with an already identified solution though?
The entire saga was almost entirely "research".
If I end up talking to a strange and a subject of common interest and/or expertise has been found, I have no problem maintaining a conversation with them, leading up to even exchanging contact information so that we could catch up again later.

But if no such common subject of interest can be established, then that often leads to awkward moments and conversations cut short.

I think the people that are good at this can sustain conversations and interest even in that second situation. Maybe it's like you say - asking insightful questions about a topic they might be knowledgeable about but you're not. I can understand the concept, but I always feel very awkward, probing, and intrusive doing it unless they start passionately spilling the beans immediately.

I would say almost every friend I made beyond high school was because we had some kind of common interest or passion.
The Youtube blog post is here:
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As a Nim user, I keep being motivated because it keeps evolving (like getting a new async implementation based on CPS, incremental compilation, destructors based stdlib), its easy to start using but can accommodate a multitude of use cases with many features. Last year its usage, in my experience, took off and its only getting more widespread organically, without advertisement and support by big companies.
It could be some sort of scheme where the politicians does some sort of favor for the bank, eg. expediting their paperwork, awarding them contracts. However, as the sibling commenter mentioned, it could also be that the bank executives are abusing their position and taking all the gains.
Is it true that they never achieved it? I thought they basically did. You can see the system in action in various talks by Alan Kay.
I had shop in middle school; I wish I had taken more vocational courses in high school, my school had a good program for that. Might have led me on a much more satisfying career trajectory. I enjoy programming for the most part, but it all seems intangible and non-permanent. I know that everything I do will be "legacy code" and considered obsolete in a few years. I'm certainly aware of "grass is greener" syndrome, but making and repairing tangible real-world things feels more satisfying. For now I satisfy this by driving an old car that has no electronics and that I can maintain with hand tools.
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Like how we appreciate people with blue eyes talents or tall people or left handed people without mentioning it?

Thing is those people aren't born in different bell curves with different expectations, considerations, cultural histories, and preferences.

Additionally this isn't just about talents, this is about being talented in a seemingly traditionally male arena, engineering. Women in engineering will always be of note since most women do not choose to be there.
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So, if they're from a former soviet republic, we call they shady characters and the process money laundering; if they're from the US, we call them private capital and the process leveraged buyout.
Why not faster computation via evolution and diffracted light?
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> They can also stop screenshots being taken of exchanges if they are using an Android phone.

This is terribly misleading. A Signal user can disable screenshots being taken on their own device (something like "disable screenshots on my phone when I'm using this app") but Signal makes no attempt to apply this policy to other people in a conversation. It's not like Snapchat, which attempt to block/track screenshots taken by any party.
Small wrist, I have a pinetime, it is a pretty comfortable size.
I think you'd be surprised. Most NIPR computers just use a regular proxy server for internet access. But example: 214 /8 is a DoD owned block, and "weather.af.mil" is on that block, and both externally and internally reachable.
Modern debuggers allow you to execute log statements on breakpoints. Much better than modifying your program to output something.
Because gravity is so weak, in order to store a meaningful amount of energy, the lifted object has to be very heavy or very high. Building large tall structures is expensive, and we just don't have objects that are dense enough to make the system small.
I would argue that charging 430 Euro for their proprietary disk cables is Dell's fault.
No, this is not accurate. The Post Office was split from Royal Mail; Royal Mail was privatised while the Post Office remained (and still remains) in the public sector.
i recently read the the firesim from the berkeley arch group and that was interesting and impressive so I'll eventually read this too. but can talk about the fact that there are 51 authors on this paper? i was annoyed when i had to include 10 other authors on my last paper (most of whom did nothing material) for political reasons. what is the point? if everyone only really counts first author papers then who cares? this kind of stuff leads to citation/publication inflation
>work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of faeces, and measuring 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres (1.9 in × 2.6 in), with a label in Italian, English, French, and German

>At the time the piece was created, Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production, Artist's Breath (Fiato d'artista), a series of balloons filled with his own breath, being an example.

I guess maybe I'm just not cultured enough or something...but sometimes i just really don't get art.
Sure! Let me clean up the code a bit and write a quick post about it, should be able to get it done this weekend.
> I think we assume that technology will keep progressing. We assume Moore's law will continue into the future and we forget that there are people behind the progress. The technology that produced those pictures are gone, we might be able to take ones like them again, but never with the same rockets and never with the same photo-chemical processes. Progress is fragile, not inevitable and everything we have can be lost in a generation just as easily as it was made.

It's good to be aware of our blindspots. The idea of progress as a monotonically increasing upward trend is a very modern and Western perspective. It's not inevitable.
I wonder if doing this would be illegal in the US, a-la Aaron Swartz.
:-) Perfect for quarantine.
I would love to see dollar values or ratios and the timing on this type of scheme.

If they pay $80 million in "cash" for a steel plant and then turn around and ask a legitimate bank for a loan with the plant as collateral, how much can they realistically get for the loan? Any amount is going to be a lot and the lender is assuming that risk, so one would think that due diligence would consider the unique depreciation that could occur in an asset that requires massive maintenance inputs to maintain sustainable operability and hold it's capital value, and that they would build in some contractual mechanism to monitor the value of the asset and enforce it's upkeep.

Even a car dealerships does this with leased vehicles to ensure that the value of the car they get back at the end of the lease matches their projections closely enough that they can sell it off again.
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They literally admit that: "so I am partially (well… mostly) to blame for the nightmare that follows"
You don't have to use every address in 10.0.0.0/8 to effectively fill it up. If your corporate policy is to assign a /16 to each floor of a building, and you have a LOT of buildings it's pretty easy to fill up the space even if most of the /16s are sparsely populated. It's much easier to move on to the 11. space when you build that new building that pushes you over than renumbering your entire corporate LAN.
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Facebook is just another form of change, just like other change we've adapted to in human history.

Deleting things like Facebook is a good way to get left far behind in the digital revolution we find ourselves amidst.

Regulate Facebook, root out and shutdown anonymous actors weaponizing Facebook. This can all be accomplished with political action.

We have a government, let's use it.
Such a pointless popup. We enter personal information into websites every day. Want to prevent this from happening? Make it the home page for every browser.
From the perspective of a working programmer who wants to get things done, ipv4 does everything I need. ipv6 is nothing but a headache for no apparent advantage. It is poorly supported in the real world. I once had a situation where my internet provider appeared to support ipv6 but it was so buggy I could not successfully get apt to work.

After similar problems with ssh, I routinely add "-4" to any ssh invocation. I just cannot be bothered with a protocol that adds nothing to my life but problems and headaches.

I'll deal with ipv6 when I hear that ipv4 is being deprecated. As in, most likely never.
Probably the most important part of the whole saga: https://twitter.com/EyePatchWolf/status/1385280782034427905

Too long; didn't click: the Twitter thread blew up, Dell sent someone with significantly more executive power than their rank-and-file customer support team to do damage control and offer OP a credit for their order.
This is somewhat unrelated to the story, but I am happy and proud of the Post-Gazette for digging into this. The PG is my hometown newspaper -- although I haven't lived in Pittsburgh for fifteen years, it's still home -- and they like most newspapers have been absolutely gutted by layoffs and piss-poor management. You might recall a controversy a few years ago about their firing of the political cartoonist because he refused to be pro-Trump as the owners wished.

Local news is critical for reasons I hope I don't need to explain here, as are investigative departments that dig in deep and uncover things like this. The PG (IIRC) got a Pulitzer for their work on the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky scandal some years back and it makes me proud to see them still doings like this, the Block family be damned.
Even if the country is half a dumpster, as long as it's well defined and doesn't leak too much into the rest, I think it's okay.
A theory of how developers seek information
This is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the UK this century - and it's amazing it is not a bigger scandal.

But we should hope to see legal changes over software evidence - especially as we walk into the AI world - Inpersonally would like to see open publication of the software in any court case. It might at least make people think twice.
Not a resource, but depending on what kind of parser you are doing, maybe an idea.

The thing I'm going to try out next for one of my batch parsers (written recursive descent style as many or most parsers in the wild) is to have AST nodes of kind "invalid". The idea is that the parser should always complete, with minimal in-line error checking, even when I have say "require_token_kind()" or similar calls in my parser code.

Maybe not even an "invalid" kind, but an additional "invalid" flag, so that even those invalid nodes can still have all the regular node-kind-depending structure on them.

The other obvious idea is to use a parser generator. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be happy on that route - from the little experiments that I've done, I infer it's too bureaucratic, too much boilerplate for me to suffer.

The more general advice for error handling is that you should try to make APIs that require very little in-line error handling. Instead, keep errors behind the APIs, maybe collect them in a list, or only keep the first or last error, and allow to handle them at a later point (out-of-line).

And boom, most of the talk about smart syntax and type systems and other clever systems to make error handling more convenient suddenly becomes obsolete.

Yet more abstractly, don't try to build systems that make cumbersome things more convenient, but think how you can do with less of these cumbersome things. (That works wonders for runtime performance, too).
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> I'm still waiting for the feature where you can conditionally stop at some breakpoint -only- if some other breakpoint/watchpoint was crossed over.

PyCharm 2021.1 has this, so I would guess that other members of the IntelliJ family probably have it too.

Set a breakpoint and then right-click the red dot, and click More to open the full Breakpoints dialog. Open the drop-down under "Disable until hitting the following breakpoint:" and select the other breakpoint that should enable this one.

And thank you for mentioning this! I didn't know PyCharm had this feature until I took a look after seeing your comment. This will be super useful.
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I think you are mixing up Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme.
Why is it they have organ donation... But the hospital I'm guessing still charges for the harvesting, and surgery right?

They should then pay something to the organ donors family... Even if it's just twice what a decent funeral costs...

Wife's uncle had his eyes harvested nobody told her aunt and she had a horrible surprise at the funeral when he was highly disfigured...

She probably wouldn't have cared if she'd known... But I feel like there's a black market for organs...

Maybe more ppl would be okay with donation of they knew it'd help their family some.
That was quite a ride.

I recently purchased a Dell workstation with an Intel I9, 128GB (may be 96GB, it’s late here) RAM and a 5GB GPU for a client. This was the first Dell I’ve seen with no onboard video, and for some reason the monitor doesn’t fire up until a minute into the boot process on a cold start.

It also has a metal handle and some proprietary drive mounts…and no onboard NVME slots…and isn’t fast to boot at all…and the wireless is a bit sluggish. Let’s say it has a lot in common with the OP link.
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What about Plaid? Should users avoid that?
Really this is what Docker is all about. If you have environments that need certain preconditions then wrap them up in a container so they don’t break when the system updates.
I'm very glad Revel exists for scooter transport on demand (and really miss car2go for on-demand cars), however:

1. The Revel scooters feel somewhat sketchy to ride
2. Prices have crept up significantly. A 14 minute ride I just took was 10+ bucks, which isn't too much different than being chauffeured in an Uber/Lyft. I'd guess Revel is still operating at a loss, there is just less VC capital funding the rides now.
It is not a pyramid scheme either. Nobody promises "payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme".
> Does "SAN" imply some specific internal architecture for the storage cluster or something?

It implies purchasing dedicated hardware. SANs are CAPEX heavy solutions.

> And, if so, then what do you call the type of thing that EBS is?

If you insist, you could call EBS a SAN-as-a-Service, I suppose.
As opposed to these scooter companies that just YOLOed the whole sidewalk situation and figured they would be too popular to ban once the courts/city councils finally got around to deciding what to do.
Tulip Bulb then
I don't think deleting online accounts will do much to restore privacy. Technology has made it very difficult to be private in the 21st century and it's only getting worse.
If black Americans smoke weed rather than alcohol then yes, they take different drugs. Weed is criminalised far in excess of any justification based on personal or social harms. It just seems normal to drink, in a rational drug policy it would be more controlled than many other drugs.
I agree.

I literally have never owned a workstation with a wifi card, so it's totally reasonable for Dell to not put them in by default.

The author refers to that as being without the internet.

People who don't know about cars ask people who do for advice before buying one. Maybe this person should do the same when buying a computer? Particularly an expensive, custom configured one?
In a discussion about new police techniques, I agree that it's far more appropriate to compare Newark's current homocide rate with its historic rate.
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Seems to be 2018? Even more true today. Social media is at the root of all our division today. We are the same humans we were in the pre-internet 1990s, with the same biases, prejudices, and emotions. But we did not bathe in a virtual pool of deliberately amplified collective outrage for hours every day.
This whole story is a testament to how/why Apple workstations exist.
Guess this is just one more instance the British justice system shows how incompetent and outdated it is with its regulations and officials in regards to modern tech. And I have no doubt the same goes for most other countries, but hey why listen to the experts when you're in power, right?
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See also Linus Tech Tips recent Secret Shopper Special were Dell came in dead last and even scammed them with unwanted warranty extentions etc:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5tLO6ipxw
You are missing the definition of Ponzi scheme, which Bitcoin simply does not fit. Satoshi was not luring anyone into Bitcoin by promising gains.
Interesting hypothesis.

I think a big part of the issue is that printf debugging has always been "good enough" for me. I have used gdb in the past, but I've never felt the incentive to become good at it, so my knowledge of it atrophies and it has become a less interesting option over time. On the other hand, my knowledge of how to printf messages and extract them from the running process never atrophy because I do exactly that every day.

So maybe the situation changes if ever I come across a bug that's so mindbogglingly convoluted that printf debugging is not viable. Then I'll be forced to learn to use a step debugger well, and that could change my choice of tools going forward.
The article is called "The right to crash cars into people".

Fourth sentence: "The bill doesn’t exactly make it legal to run someone over"

It contains phrases and sentences like "right-wing propaganda apparatus", "idea as plainly depraved", "efficacy and ethics don’t really seem to be guiding the decisions of Republican-run state legislatures lately" and "To understand what’s really behind the bill, recall that it comes less than four years after a 20-year-old neo-Nazi named James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove a Dodge Challenger into a crowd of people".

Sorry, I'm not American enough to be able to read this with a straight face.
The thing is, it can be true that the police are both generally brutal and racist. In fact that seems the most likely thing given my limited observations of US policing.
They're not doing both. Not until they start punishing those responsible. Otherwise it is just oopsy and business as usual till the next big fuckup.
> The only meaningful act of protest in the 21st century is to permanently delete your digital accounts?

Surely this is an exaggeration?

I'd like to quote more (it feels gross to seemingly quote-snipe) but the site blocks copy-paste on mobile, making productive discussion of its contents needlessly difficult.