skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by exploratory analysis? Lets assume that my dataset contains features which are not normally distributed, and I want to check for coskewness and cokurtosis matrices before and after I remove outliers with a method specific to my field of research, found in a academic paper. Am I supposed to code all of this in SQL? What is your definition of exporatory analysis, and which metrics do you have in mind?

And what if I want to make graphs to present stuff to a colleague? Am I supposed to use... excel to do that?
The article says some very positive things.

Now, if several or more people similarly had such an experience (or similar enough), without drugs, and all came out of it saying ~ "God seriously spoke to us, and this is His plan that he wants us to follow in an organized way (but only voluntarily, no one can be forced, everyone can learn this for themselves if they are sincere, read, and pray about it, asking God for themselves)", and they remained faithful to that statement and Plan to the end of their lives, at great personal risk (financial losses, legal & physical persecution and abuse, at least one to the point of loss of ability to bear children, also being driven from place to place, and/or death, which some knew would result and it did), and their associates and successors who said they had similar personal knowledge built a new society in multiple places, with beliefs in serving others humbly, lawfulness under the principles of the US Constitution, etc etc., that would be impressive, would it not?

"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy." Etc.
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Anyone who takes this article seriously has (A) not read how to lie with statistics (B) does not analyze bias in articles based on the person writing it and (C) is directly contributing to a society of misinformation.
Great work, I might use this in some of my apps. Beautiful and lightweight, keep it up!

EDIT: Also, the link on your Github repo is broken.
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have you thought of getting this to work with network replicated p2p sqlite js library? forgot what it was called.

also does this mean that static sites now can scale without relying on db???

what other implications and application do you see?

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Thats because the first time it was an actual bug https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/sep9/worlds-first...
>How it is possible we'll _never_ reach herd immunity

The Michael Osterholm podcast goes into this last week.

"So when B117 came along and we see anywhere from 50 to 100 percent more transmission than previous strains, that automatically had to move herd immunity levels up to accomplish the slowing down of transmission. And we don't know what that is. I can truly tell you, as an epidemiologist in the trenches for 46 years, B117 is much more infectious than the strains we dealt with 6 months ago. But I can't tell you with any certainty what that means. So let's just at the outset say, you know, we'd all like to try to achieve concepts of herd immunity, but I don't know what they are. And I can only hope that we can slow down transmission. But I don't have a sense that by itself will ever stop it." [0]

[0] http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/ep-52-transcript
> Because as an author, I will want the upstream version of libxyz

Why would that be true in general? It would only be the case if the upstream version contains some feature you need that isn't present in the version packaged by the distribution, and then you would only need to do it until the next version of the distribution packages the newer library version.

> and if the distribution provides security updates past the upstream date, this means that I need to use that exact distribution to benefit.

Or support the multiple versions of the library, which for non-ridiculous libraries is often no more than refraining from using the features not present in the older versions.
What you have described is false. The major brands do not "sell shelf location slots" to the highest bidder (aka slotting fees), or require consigment clauses, or require merchandisers to keep inventory in-stock, as a general practice.

Slotting fees and consignment clauses only apply to new products. Slotting fees are used as an alternative to consignment; they are basically a discount on the wholesale price paid by the store for new products that may not sell through. Alternatively, the store may sell the items on consignment, in which case it only pays the distributor for products actually sold through.

Merchandisers...are employees of the stores (they're responsible for internal marketing efforts)...Perhaps you meant distributor? Only a few store chains have an in-stock requirement (Walmart and Costco), and that is due solely to the volume at which they sell-through.

More importantly, and the crucial legal distinction: retail stores pay the distributors for the inventory on their shelves, except for the 1% offered on consignment (i.e., new products sold on a trial basis), while Amazon gets paid by the distributors. That legal distinction is at the heart of why what Amazon does is problematic.

(Source: Kroger was a former client.)
Talk about an article to spark your existential dread.
You're referring to a vortex ring state, which can hit helicopters flying low and slow. It has nothing to do with surviving an engine failure in a powered lift aircraft.
2 times. First I left because of a disagreement on strategy after 2 years. The second I left because of mismanagement at the highest levels.
It's the Sybarites, not the Cyrenians, and that's the origins of "sybaritic".

> But they had carried their luxury to such a pitch that they had taught even their horses to dance at their feasts to the music of the flute. Accordingly the people of Crotona, knowing this, and being at war with them, as Aristotle relates in his History of the Constitution of Sybaris, played before their horses the air to which they were accustomed to dance; for the people of Crotona also had fluteplayers in military uniform. And as soon as the horses heard them playing on the flute, they not only began to dance, but ran over to the army of the Crotonians, carrying their riders with them.

-- Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists

The Aristotlean source he cites is lost.
I wish for us all that some day the internet as it is today would fracture and split into one webapps realm and one hypertext realm so that those who can't stand it when you want to click on something and you do, once the page finishes loading you end up clicking the top page ad instead of the button you aimed at, could go on doing the things we thought we could do, back in the day.
No, there is nothing magical about asbestos. There is no application for it that can't be performed just as well by safer synthetic mineral fibers.

The only thing special about asbestos is its extremely low cost.
Most people claiming they understand (risk, tradeoffs, market, actual adoption) cryptocurrencies are lying to themselves. It's easier to buy $KWEB than read an article written by Vitalik Buterin.
Honestly, the real question in all of this is, Why have kids if you're not going to spend time with them and raise them while they're growing up? We already have too many people on the planet, yet it seems there are people who would rather hire nannies, to watch the kids while they both parents are workaholics. I guess I don't see the point.
> But when most people think SQL and database

We're not talking about most people, but data analysts. If we're just doing simple sum/count/average aggregated by a column or two with some basic predicates, SQL and an RDBMS are your best friend. Always better to keep compute + storage as close together as possible.

> Traditional database client API's

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with this. Most data analysts are not working against streaming data, but performing one-off analyses for business counterparts that can be as simple as "X,Y,Z by A,B,C" reports to "which of three marketing treatments for our snail mail catalogue was most effective at converting customers".
I have never seen a US supermarket chain without it - I would imagine it's a legal req.

You're probably not going to see it in like a local corner store, but those places you know you're paying a higher price already.
The expansion of our society since industrialization has been characterized by the gradual, but systematic, replacement of implicit social capital with explicit economic capital. It's been great for a subset of people (the economic capitalists and those who, for one reason or another, are unable to build social capital) but it's hard to pretend there haven't been costs for everyone.
The answer is a bit more complex, but in short: A spreadsheet and process documentation.
Well, I guess it's not necessary to ask if he got the nerd genes.
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I think you're taking a sample set of 1 and applying it to an entire population.

> Regarding the activity, it may make you feel better but my question is: does it actually improve the situation?

My counter is: yes. Yes it does. It feels good to rant, to get things off my chest. Complaining with others gives me a sense of camaraderie, that we're going through it together.

I'm glad that your aunt's tactic works for her, but it doesn't work for everyone. No-one is required to rant if it doesn't work for them!
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I agree about the internet/tech user part of that. If you asked me to give estimates of their relative size 5 years ago, I'd have probably said that Amazon was much bigger than Walmart, which would have been entirely wrong, of course.

The pandemic was a huge boon for Amazon, but I don't think the battle for retail will have a clean, singular winner and consumers are endlessly demanding in terms of what it will take to remain the winner. Toys-R-Us and Sears learned that painful lesson within our adult lifetime. They won't be the last.
I have this printed out and hanging on my wall. Totally worth it.
> Cloud computing could have saved Y!'s bacon, even as a late entrant (MSFT re-launched Azure in 2010)

MSFT could rely on a large enterprise-focused sales team with existing relationships with CIOs. Y! would not have had that luxury.
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I'm on the side of the pessimists here. Medicine for elderly people increasingly seems to become plugging holes on a sinking ship. Sure as more and more people get old and medicine increases the current record might be broken by a year or two, I'm very skeptical people will ever routinely live older than 120, and the average person will probably not make it past 100.

I'm also very suspicious of people who advocate turning to wonder drugs or treatment to stop aging. For the most part these are just untested treatments that do not have any clear criteria for what they should be doing.
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When reading the article I see the author and the doctor using herd immunity in different ways. I think if you are already informed on the subject that you won't notice the different but if you aren't you'll pick up on it. That distinction is key when it is the job of every scientist to make sure that the public version of their work is approachable (I saw this as a researcher myself. I do believe scientific communication is part of my own job). So I'll break down what I see.

The title is "The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19", which is in contradiction of what we're seeing today. Today we're aiming for herd immunity and actively promising it. But of course, the subtitle adds nuance. This is because at that time we were only talking about herd immunity in the context of Sweden and Trump's "let it run its course". So this conflates herd immunity with herd immunity through natural infection.

> The writers of the declaration received an audience in the White House, and sparked a counter memorandum from another group of scientists in The Lancet, which called the herd-immunity approach a “dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence”

While you and I know that they mean "we should quarantine people and not let the infection run its course" this claim is a bit confusing.

The article ironically brings up what I'm saying

> “I’m a bit puzzled that it’s now used to mean how many people need to get infected before this thing stops,” says Marcel Salathé

Here's two adjacent sentences that contradict.

> Will herd immunity work? (subsection totle)

> Many researchers say pursuing herd immunity is a bad idea.

The next sentence is

> “Attempting to reach herd immunity via targeted infections is simply ludicrous,” Andersen says.

The reason to push on the Nature article is because Nature, above all else, should be much clearer. They write these articles as scientific communicators and have the expertise. I think reading as a scientist you'll miss those "herd immunity is dangerous" moments and fill in the gap in your head because of your prior knowledge, but others don't and we saw that become widespread (as noted in my quote). It's subtle, but the distinctions matter. And we should have a high bar for more prestigious sources like Nature. There are other articles from less (scientifically) prestigious sources which were even more convoluted (iirc, WaPo, WSJ, and CNN made similar mistakes).
> It may be a pipe dream, but I'm hoping to hold on long enough that some of these new mRNA approaches start offering clinical trials I might be able jump in on.

According to Vince DeVita (ex head of NCI) it was the way they did things in the early days. Make people survive until something new came up.

Hopefully with the advances in medical research things will accelerate.

Best wishes
> I'm pretty sure that on average, a year of heavy stress, social isolation, junk food, booze and TV for a young person is certain to knock more years off their life than COVID-19 would.

Honestly, it was neither the most stressful nor most isolating year of my life. In fact, it was pretty low stress. Everyone I know went through the same experience which made communication easier. And I took covid seriously and followed all precautions.

I slept more. I eate healthier food. I do more sport. I spend more time with kids. The worst was home school, the rest was fine.

The comon mistake of anti-covid people is that they assume that if I have mask and socially distance, that I am super stressed whole time. It is just not the case.
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For representative democracy though I think we can experiment with assigning voting weights to age ranges, in a way that allows fresh ideas to exist from people that have a different level of collaborative society in their formative years

Several parliamentary democracies have weighted voting, but thats usually in favor of corporations ie. City of London and Hong Kong
Honest question; how? And what difference does that make to running an app? Running on k8s involves writing 2 yaml files, and scaling is literally the flick of a switch. The architecture of nomad may be simpler but how does that benefit me as a user? I've been running apps in kubernetes for about 2 years now at a "mild" scale and not once has the complexity of k8s been the show stopping issue it's made out to be here on HN.
I saw articles last year saying that 25+% of teachers are high risk. I don't think you could run schools with that many fewer teachers and admins.

That ignores the issue that teachers don't want to return until schools can offer PPE and safety regs.
The two culprits were GRU officers according to this investigation

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