skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also interprets and coerces values in formulas.

Empty cells are interpreted as zero, which can be downright catastrophic, if the data is just missing.
The article does not speak for me at all.

I massively won lockdown.

1. Gained a totally new skill that got me employment for a modest pay.

2. Learned to paint digitally.

3. Learned to play the piano.

4. Furthered my expertise with two (human) languages.

5. Learned three new programming languages.

6. Spent a lot of time with people I care about.

7. Read about 50 books.

8. Exercised regularly and got into good shape.

For me, lockdown was the ideal situation to live. Absolutely no regret or worries.

It was perfect.
Thats the idea.
> Yep. I’ve been trying to delete my @mac.com ID for years, for various reasons this is impossible (2FA, unreleased apps, etc.). It’s one of the special ones where you can’t change the email address you use to sign in with, you have to use @mac.com.

This is no longer true. I was able to change the primary email address on my @mac.com account to my personal domain. I did this maybe a year ago. The @mac.com address is still associated as an alias I can’t delete but it’s no longer the primary address.
> increasing productivity

Is it, in any real terms?

> and improved health care

Doesn’t this make the problem worse? I.e. longer lifespan for the aging population, and even more demand for healthcare professionals from the limited set of younger workers.
Integrate your existing blog with https://fed.brid.gy/ instead.
What kinds of projects afford you this, I'm curious?
Majority of the religious ads I see are for church services or special events. What time, where, etc. There are many aimed at proselytization. There's a surprising number which are just sermons in text form, or just rants. Plus there's people flogging their book, podcast or Youtube channel. And then there's a fair amount of religious tchotchke. T-shirts, crosses as jewelry, custom Bibles, etc.

The rants I find most interesting. They almost never want to sell anything. They just really wanted you to read what they had written and paid for the privilege.
Knime is way more powerful, but it requires more learning too. It has nodes for programming (R & Python, and I'm pretty sure it has something with JAVA) your own transformation if you want to integrate complex stuff, but it's very capable out of the box.

Excel has PowerQuery too, which is very nice but you hit the ceiling pretty easy. Knime eats a lot of data down the throat with modest PC, Excel really struggles with large datasets, not matter how you use or tune PowerQuery.

I know here in HN people talk down visual programming, but I've done pretty heavy and complicated stuff with it. It would be way more complicated with pandas.
I wonder if the ECB takes this into account when calculating inflation
You'll likely be blamed for poor quality as well since you do it on weekend nights under high pressure.

The trick is never to commit to any kind of work like that in the first place. Communicate early, in writing, to the stakeholders, that the project will fail in the current setup, and then don't work on the weekends to accomplish it. Demand that either the scope is reduced, or deadline is extended.
Agree. The movie industry hasn't been disrupted in the same way that Spotify disrupted music distribution. The same balkanization used to happen with music licenses. Spotify disrupted that by simply pirating and offering the record companies a piece of the cake after the fact.

Someone would need to pull something similar with the movie industry.
the naivete.

Piracy was widespread over here before internet was a thing.

Copied audio tapes(prior to cassettes!), or movies etc.
I learned best in Scheme because you don't need to parse your input and can just evaluate a tree[0] (Parsing is, in my opinion, the most boring part about writing an interpreter!)

Chapter 7 of Crafting Interpreters lays out how an evaluator works in a pretty clean way [1]. I've also blogged about evaluating ASTs in JavaScript [2]

Lastly, Gary Bernhardt took it a step further and instead of "evaluating" code, "compiled" it to JavaScript (this tutorial uses Ruby) [3]. Very much a mind-blown moment for me.

Have fun!! Writing interpreters remains one of my favorite things to do when learning a new programming language.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAlR3cezPJg

[1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/evaluating-expressions.html

[2] https://thatjdanisso.cool/programming-languages

[3] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com...
I would never do something like that, but of course I had to provide identification when I checked in to the hospital.
> It’s technically illegal and not just every random person can easily find what they want. But those who are motivated enough to find the content and skirt the laws are able to do it.

«I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.» Robert A. Heinlein
How this could be named open source but actually be licensed under a creative commons non comercial license (BY-NC-SA 4.0)

https://doc.kerberos.io/opensource/license/
A substantial aspect of education is learning about how others live and alternative forms of organization. If you don't know any better, the status quo seems like the only outcome possible. If you know others are living better lives and corruption is optional, questions start being asked.
Not to mention credit deals between SpaceX and Tesla as well. Also his habit of promissing outlandish stuff (self driving taxis for example) to keep money flowing and evaluations high. And then manipulating the unregulated Bitcoin market, trying that with stock traded on wall street would get you in hot water with the SEC. Something Elon has already experience with. Good cororate governance is something else.
If you'll build things from the wood rather than burning it, it'll still be carbon-neutral for many years. And you can grow new tree where it was cut, to consume more carbon.

Now the question is how to utilise used wood without releasing carbon. May be just drown it to deep water?
Sure, but there is a big difference between "obedient and expendable" and highly trained to do risky things that might well kill you (and would certainly kill anyone not as highly trained).

From a cynical resource investment perspective this is true, too: Infantry that you spend a week training, put in the cheapest boots possible and send to front to soak up bullets is expendable. Test pilots that are among the most highly trained pilots in your military and have decades of experience are not.

I just don't think the picture where engineers build death traps and the generals order obedient pilots to fly them really applies to the type of experimental flight programs that eventually turned pilots into astronauts, where engineers and pilots would have worked closely with each other.
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Actually when you use R functions to import CSV files, they also guess data types and make some conversions by default. The difference is that in R you can turn them off if you want to. But in Excel there are automatic changes you can't turn off.
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I'm talking about "health span" and not "life span".
I've always thought that every highschooler should be taught the basics of programming with an easy language like Python instead. That really is a superpower in a lot more contexts.
No, uninsured people also don't pay it. They are offered a fraction of the cost if they pay "cash" once you're leaving.

I went to the same ER in San Francisco with the same problem 3 months apart (kidney stones). The first time around I was uninsured and the bill was $2000- they told me that they'll cut it down to $500 if I paid on the spot, which I did. 3 months later I had the same problem, had purchased insurance, my bill came out to $8000 and my deductible was $2000.
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It's not as if humans were an endangered species, wouldn't be bad that the population gradually decrease to 4 billions and less
>I wonder about just growing trees/bamboo and storing the logs on big piles as a carbon sink.

Biochar is pretty similar to what you're describing.
a decade ago, I loved Roger Waters as a singer and musician, I don't know what he did else (I've read some comments that point out things he "wrongly" did) but I can feel something by seeing this video. I agree with his decision but I'm a bit shocked by him being so scathing. I feel like something's wrong with his virulent behavior. Is it really necessary, constructive and efficient to be so scathing ?
The thing is: people have a budget, whether they want it or not. So, when they spend $50 to buy a video game, that's $50 less for theaters. It is all connected, so I think that in the end, free piracy (like torrenting) doesn't change much on the global scale.
Fair enough! But I do hope you fought that bill really hard and got them to cut it down significantly. I was living in Europe a few years and signed up for travel insurance and thought it was really 'funny' that if you are going to America for more than a few days the rates basically double because the payouts the insurance has to provide are so extreme compared to the rest of the world.
Even if we recreated the entire Amazon Rainforest, it would only be equivalent in embedded carbon to 4-5x our annual human emissions:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/amazo....

We would have to essentially recreate the Azolla event (a geological process that took place for 800,000 years) to undo the carbon we are putting into the atmosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

The only way to stop climate change is to stop digging coal and oil out of the ground and burning it.
I agree that R isn't ideal, and a proper programming language is preferable to both. Which one of course will depend on the domain, but proper control over float precision, fixed-point arithmetics, bignum and debuggability isn't good in R either. It's just that R is still far above Excel.
An Open Letter to the 5M Confused People Who Bought a Samsung Galaxy Note (2012)
Planting plants is great and it will make you and me happy. I also love plants and forests. But if we still keep mining oil and burning it, we'll have warmer and warmer days every year due to the greenhouse effect.
Findings by professor suggest UCLA Admissions may be violating Prop 209 (2012)
Yeah these tourism flights have limited utility on their own beyond rich people games. They're also years from competing with the big guys, if ever.

BUT these B teams things advance tech anyway, cross pollinate, help with public awareness and motivation for new students. Some of this stuff will be garage startup level soon.

The BE4 engine is in a deal to be used by ULA, if they ever get their business figured out.

SS1 was a Scaled Composites design by Burt Rutan, pioneering carbon fiber construction, now in wide use for space applications.

It's telling that neither Boeing nor Lockheed can make their own engines. It seems like their problem is their business model is hindering their engineering accomplishing anything and they depend on the B teams to absorb the risk. SLS is using RS-25's from inventory, will they all go home when those are depleted?

edit, correction: They CAN make new RS-25's and in 2020, NASA signed up AR to make 18 more.
America's version of paying the barbarians to stay away from the gates of Rome in the last days of a dying empire.
I am honestly struggling to understand why this publication is even being allowed in a forum about programming, computers, technology and such. This is just old politics of a very specific country.
How many of these come with their own genre of heavy metal music?
Opus with good settings is fine. I seriously doubt you could tell the difference between lossless and Opus with a blind ABX test. Do it (you can do it at home!) and get back to me.

What's often far more noticeable is all the ways that the music is altered during production. How it's recorded, mixed and mastered. You'd be surprised what kinds of sources still get used as part of the mix today. Someone using an unshielded quarter inch cable to record a guitar amp is far more likely to contribute noise than Opus. Or a producer using Abbey Road Vinyl or iZotope. Or whoever uses some "free sample pack" that originated from an MP3 re-encoding
of a poor rip of Best Service Gigapack. It's all out there.
Okay, interesting. I had read some articles about medical debt that alluded to those levels of savings for paying cash in one lump sum quickly but still, it's pretty striking that you get a 75% "discount" for cash on the spot.
Isn't it surprising that just eating real food (clean diet), not smoking or drinking and walking a little everyday can cut all cause mortality like in half, leaving you younger, healthier and more mentally engaged. Those changes in lifestyle for some is hard work, not everyone is cut out for it. Shame they don't think it's worth saving themselves and prefer the taste of pills to healthy food. I sort of figure it's Natural Selection at play, all these folks who choose to poison themselves and embrace chronic illness as something that is inevitable will eventually fall out of the Gene pool, unfortunately the destruction they cause during and on the way out costs all of us an enormous amount of resources.
Doesn’t travel insurance cover any hospital you get taken to in an emergency?
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I'm happy with Amcrest cameras, both for indoor and outdoor use. They have some very affordable 4k options with PoE if that matters to you.
True it’s not the price they pay typically, but it’s the price they start with. It’s “hey, well knock 50% off the cost if you pay now”.

Which is stupid, since the price has no basis with reality.

The insurance companies know this - when they negotiate, they look at $90k for stitches and say “yeah, we’ll pay you $1,200”.

The uninsured get screwed because the hospital acts like their charge master prices have some basis in reality.
The only way to look at security is to ask: “How many US Dollary-doos does it take to break this?” And if something costs more of them US Dollary-doos to break, then it is “more secure”.
Thank you for the summary, very clear and succinct! It's mentioned in a different comment here, but it might help to clarify at the beginning that (unlike bloom filters) the data structure is fixed (can't add more entries).
You can set the data type to "text" when importing CSVs, that turns most things off.
It's probably better to compare it with Voiceroid, which focuses on plain TTS than singing.

Here is one of the characters that is available in both Vocaloid and Voiceroid.

https://www.ah-soft.com/voiceroid/yukari/index.html

You can see there are 6 tunables. The first three, "Speed", "Pitch", "Intonation intensity", seems pretty standard to TTS engines.

For "Anger", "Sadness" and "Joyfulness" though, I think very few other engines provides settings to those. (Can anyone else name one?)

The point is there is no one right way to speak a sentence. There is way more context than the text itself. Like the use of strange intonation in synthesized train announcements used in Japan to increate legibility in noisy environments, as another commenter mentioned.
Been using it for a while.

Refreshingly simple business model. They don't even hound you for an email address.
> I now worry more about the long-term survival of humanity

I think humanity as a whole will do just fine: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/world-population-...
Yeah, when I looked at the code I was like: "it's just like Go".
A journey through the troubled former Yugoslavia
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble --Rudyard Kipling (b. 1865)
I’m not saying we can effectively offset fossil carbon by growing the biosphere - we’re currently shrinking the biosphere after all - but it’s an additional benefit to restoring damaged ecosystems.
Shouldn't Vega be comparable to ggplot2, at least if you're working with HTML output?
I know of a case where payment got cancelled: eBay found the seller fraudulent and refunded either out of pocket or from insurance, probably the latter.

That said, sometimes the licenses can indeed get cancelled. I’ve seen a really sketchy looking photocopied label that a guy “got” that didn’t work. Depends on the channel perhaps.
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For me, the biggest reason to use a programming language instead of Excel is its capacity for abstraction, and hence ability to organise code and separate concerns.

Attempting to solve a complex analytical problems in Excel is similar to a doctor trying to solve medical problems by reference only to atoms.

Instead doctors use a variety of abstractions: organs, cells, enzyme, etc. to understand and explain a problem.

By using a programming language, we can develop appropriate abstractions to solve our problem in a way which keeps a lid on complexity.

I think this concept does make sense to an advanced Excel user, and can help explain the situations in which they may reach for a different tool. Having made some very complex Excel spreadsheets in the past, I think was aware it can become very difficult to develop them or generalise them further, even before I became a programmer.
Replace the Dollary-doos with your favorite currency or medium of exchange.
Western people already reducing their numbers. But there are other civilizations on this planet who's not going to reduce birth numbers and they'll quickly replace those who don't have kids. That's kind of social evolution. And any effective means to force other countries to reduce their birth rate are unacceptable in current morale.
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I’m not saying the price is ok, but I’m guessing based on the description that includes a plastic surgeon given its a wound to the face. Generally speaking they’re going to charge a huge premium for one of those guys because that’s the going rate: people don’t like scars on their face.

I’d be curious what the price is for non-face stitches.
"because I can't possibly fathom my hard earned money paying for someone else's treatment" seems to be the most common reason.

And you know what? Fine, whatever, in some twisted version of the world I can accept this as an argument. But I wish people would at least realize that by only having private healthcare they are fucking themselves over as shown here. The prices, the copays, the restricted access, the in and out of network treatments......all of that is completely made up to feed the system.
What kind of age would people suggest getting your kid into programming? For example, for something like scratch is there a minimum age recommendation? I'm a bit reticent to give my son access to a tablet/phone etc given how addictive the bloody things are.
Kerberos name is a security ticket protocol/server.
These are relevant within security professionals.

But for the rest of us, the question more is about balancing between security vs usability+productivity+accessibility. Where you draw the balance is based on individual judgement, leading to endless debate and "binary thinking".

> [...] if something isn’t perfect then it must be terrible, or that if you don’t fully agree with something then you must therefore absolutely disagree with it.
Interesting promise. Will give it a try.
Does anybody known similar tools, written in a different language (no expertise on Go)?
Yeah, I might have used too harsh words. I am not a native speaker and I am not always certain about emotional value of particular expressions.

Experimental pilots of that age had a significant mortality, though. A realistic commander would have to take that into account.
Those numbers make kind of no sense. We had a 5 days delivery+postpartum at Stanford and were billed ~200k (insurance paid 50k, we paid 600$) which I found insane already. So 100k billed for stitches makes even less sense.
Thanks again.

I can see it basically depends on a lot of factors.

I'm presenting temp/humidity numbers that are reasonable for where I live (NYC where the summers still are pretty hot and humid), but your numbers are much more extreme (and god forbid they should be daily averages!). And then, you're dehumidifying down to 45% RH -- my consumer-level heat pump doesn't even have that option. In the summer (like today) it never goes below 65% RH indoors on hot humid summer days, even if I put the indoor temperature as low as 68°F -- I can't control the humidity. I'm sure for office HVAC systems there's more control.

Also as another commenter mentioned, I'm also mostly cooling indoor air that's already had the humidity removed. You commented that typical houses have 0.5-2 air changes per hour, but my new-construction NYC apartment is nothing like that. It's maybe 0.5 air changes per day, it's so tight -- I know because I have a CO2 meter so I know when to open the windows and run a fan to force fresh air when levels double. Again, professional office buildings might bring in a lot more fresh air -- my apartment is new-construction so pretty airtight, and with a split heat pump so it can't intentionally bring in air from anywhere. It's not some massive HVAC.

Anyways, it seems like we're both right -- in a regular new-construction home in a climate where it makes sense to use a heat pump both for heating and cooling, heating and cooling costs are roughly the same for a temperature difference in either direction (as reflected by my electric bill). While in a humidity-controlled office building in an extremely humid tropical climate with tons of airflow where you can control the humidity level independently, the energy usage for cooling and removing humidity could significantly exceed the energy used for cooling air.
Ipcei on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (Ipcei-CIS) [pdf]
Some options I know of are Liberapay [0], OpenCollective [1], and GitHub Sponsors [2]. Best way would probably be to view each FOSS project’s page and see which they accept. A little tedious but you can set a recurring donation and forget about it. There’s also sometimes an option to discover projects you can donate to like on OpenCollective.

[0] https://liberapay.com/

[1] https://opencollective.com/

[2] https://github.com/sponsors
It would make much more sense to build houses out of those logs instead of storing them on big piles. That way you can reduce concrete use in buildings, which itself is a major source of carbon emissions.

Log houses have been a thing for a LONG time in many parts of the world, and other types of wooden building exists as well. It seems like environmentalists have totally forgotten this obvious and superior form of carbon sink.

Here in Finland we're building even large blocks of flats from wooden materials these days. Yet the EU keeps telling us not to utilize our forests as much as we do now...
I mean on the surface level it kind of makes sense but when you add up all the additional costs from rent seekers like collections agencies, the lack of negotiation from medicare (although I vaguely remember hearing they might do this now) on drug and procedure prices, and hospitals overcharging those who can pay or with insurance to offset the emergency treatment they give to those who can't or won't pay I feel like this argument doesn't hold a ton of water. I mean, you're not paying it directly in taxes, just in a bunch of other ways.
On Spotify, there is some music that is only available in some countries. But it's a small fraction of the music, probably less than 0.1%. When switching countries, those songs will be kept in your playlists even if unplayable, IIRC.
This looks very beautiful. I wonder if it supports math typesetting (via latex) out of the box or if there are plug-ins for that.
Increase in demand doesn't just impact climate change, but encroaches on land and destroys more of the environment.