skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i would recommend getting comfortable with doing stuff with base R, then trying tidyverse. Starting with dplyr might get you results quick, but its "special evaluation" actively confuses your understanding of how the base language actually works (speaking from experience with an R course and subsequently helping other confused folks)

Consider this example:

# base R
starwars[starwars$height < 200 & starwars$gender == "male", ]

# dplyr
starwars %>% filter(
height < 200,
gender == "male"
)

(Source: https://tidyeval.tidyverse.org/sec-why-how.html)

Where'd `height` and `gender` come from in the dplyr version?
They're just columns in a DF, not variables, and yet they act like variables...
Well that's the dplyr magic baby!

dplyr (and other tidystuff) achieves this "niceness" by doing a whole bunch of what amounts to gnarly metaprogramming[1] -- that example was taken from a whole big chapter about "Tidy evalutation", describing how it does all this quote()-ing and eval()-ing under the hood to make the "nicer" version work. it's (arguably) more pleasant to read and write, but much harder to actually understand -- "easy, but not simple", to paraphrase a slightly tired phrase.

---

[1] IIRC it works something like this. the expressions

height < 200
gender == "male"

are actually passed to `filter` as unevaluated ASTs (think lisp's `quote`), and then evaluated in a specially constructed environment with added variables like `height` and `gender` corresponding to your dataframe's columns. IIRC this means it can do some cool things like run on an SQL backend (similar to C#'s LINQ), but it's not somthing i'd expose a beginner to.
I call bullshit on this. It's a propaganda tale from the controlled media in these states to avoid having to talk about oligarchs, corruption and and real issues. At least it's pretty visible in Czechia, where Andrej Babiš and the media controlled by him to use this narration. Hungary probably the same.
Ui, "young nations", that sounds like a wonderful excuse. Of course, since these nations are young, almost infants actually, they need protection, right? Like small children sitting in a school bus? The first thing that came to mind when I read "young nations" was israel. A wonderful young state mostly occupied with killing off the people who were living on that land prior before the british decided to give it away. Wonderful thing such young nations.
That is a false narrative.

Yugoslavia was an ethnically mixed state, with the exception of Slovenia. Serbia tried to keep its terriorially disparate Orthodox communities in one state, but was too weak to do so in the end. There was also a growing unwillingness of the rich northern countries to pay for the less developed southern countries (just like today in the EU).

After the economic failure of communism, there was also a crisis of idealism and people were trying to find meaning in their past religious traditions. Politicians inflamed the divisions to secure their power. Islamism had hardly anything to do with it.
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We should only look at where the data tell us, not what we want to believe. Humans are great deceivers, even to themselves
I have argued this point with my old married former union-employee relatives that see themselves as "poor". Combined they have a $6000/month pension. When I explain I will need to save $2M+ to achieve that income they suggest that I am just greedy/out-of-touch millionaire who should be giving more money away.
Also
-Open source is better for serious work
-Excel is notoriously buggy and shouldn’t be used for anything important, yet it is and the costs are enormous. Many articles on this.
Yeah, I guess the main difference for us is cooking/preparing our own meals is genuinely foreign for us. My wife does try to learn, but for me I prefer to do nearly anything to cooking. At best it's a novelty, I've never looked at ingredients and thought practically about how I can make them pleasurably ingestible.

It's more expensive, but I see the cost as a price to free up my time/energy for other things I find more interesting.

To each their own!
It's been happening to me lately a lot with certain kind of news.

And the other way around too. I think it's satire but nope.
Ok, dangerous jobs are overwhelming taken by poor(er) people.

The idea that rich people take more risks is laughable. Rich people simply gain more from having taken the same risk as a result of the compounding effect of capital investment.
Because they are friends with CEO/board/investors. I interviewed three startups that are exactly like that. One of the CTO asked how I would validate US zip code. I told him there are around 42K zip code, just store them in a hashmap and do lookups. He thought I was crazy and insist on Trie tree.
Strange, not any word about Montenegro. One of the former republic. A beautiful place to visit.
The top student in any grad class is probably still going to make a ton of mistakes compared to even an average dev with 10 years of experience though.

There really is no substitute for actually making the mistakes and learning from them
It doesn’t depend on the student. Every developer starts out as a dumbass. There are an infinite number of sharp edges in software and we all cut ourselves on all of them.
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I disagree that “älvdalen” could not mean valley of the älvor.
> even the ones that don't solve anything, like religion

Is this a fact supported by peer reviewed science?
Right. And considering the existence of natural disasters and horrible diseases, which conventionally moral humans would prevent if they could, the problem of evil is really about arguing the possibility or plausibility that if you were omniscient and omnipotent, you would see that there are in fact good reasons to allow natural disasters and horrible diseases. And if there are, well, maybe there are good reasons to torture babies as well. Who's to say, except God?

Plus, there is no real evidence that God rewards followers. A conventionally moral human, perhaps, would do so. But if you were omniscient, isn't it possible that you wouldn't? Instead, perhaps you would see that it is in fact best to reward sufferers and punish those who lived happy lives, regardless of their moral character. Or perhaps you would see that afterlives are entirely pointless. But it is difficult to take these considerations seriously without degrading one's motivation to worship, so they generally aren't.
Oh yes, Europe in general was against it. France got the honor of getting canceled before cancelling was cool but I’m not saying we were smarter than the rest. But America was fooled
They may have extraordinary potential, extraordinary problem-solving ability, extraordinary communications skills, and extraordinary critical thinking skills. They may be tremendously resourceful and almost entirely independent.

But all of these qualities only accelerate the learning process that happens in the real world. They don't replace it.

Edit: To be fair, given the choice, I'd rather have an MIT CS grad than some schmuck who barely squeaked through the MIS program at Big State U. But I'd take a good experienced dev over either of them.
Fired? They did all of them a favor. No senior devs, overworked team, a-hole CTO, etc.

This should be retitled "How to self-sabotage your startup" or "If this story sounds familiar then you need to update your CV."
Laterpay (https://www2.laterpay.net/) has or used to have a service do allow publishers to sell individual articles. Interestingly, you‘d only pay after you had consumed 5€ worth of content which was a nice on-ramp. Spiegel here in Germany used to use. Unfortunately it didn‘t meet their revenue expectations and they went to a subscription.
Not everything is written in books or taught in classes, even the most accomplished genius is going to have gaps. Depending on the person and they're penchant for studying outside of the curriculum, those gaps could be relatively smaller between people, however it's not going to erase them. Someone who has already built a live system, potentially multiple times, is going to have experiences you cannot just intuitively reason through, you must live them. You don't need a majority of folks like this on the team but one or two could save you a lot of wasted time and effort.
Oh, I thought it meant suicide by drowning (and becoming fish food). Pretty high chance of success... if you can take the leap. It's harder than you'd think.
Hard to understand what this offers. The linked web page barely says anything. The roadmap links to a Github page that is even less clear.
"If you can get to the understanding that all of the outcomes in human thought and behavior are based on inputs of some level, be they genetic, or nurture, or through interaction with others or impacts from the natural environment, then it seem truly odd to believe in a concept like evil."

Again, this doesn't explain at all why there is suffering caused by natural forces like hurricanes, earthquakes, and diseases.. and such sources of suffering are (along with human-caused ones) central to the Problem of Evil.[1]

But even were we to only focus on human beings, and even were we to grant for the sake of argument that we have no free will, then there's still the question of why we are the way we are.. if the answer is evolution and the physical laws of the universe and the history of the universe, then why is it all the way it is?

To theists the answer is "god". But why did god (a perfectly good, all-powerful, and all-knowing god) choose to make it that way... a way that entailed a lot of (or even any) suffering?

That's The Problem of Evil.

It's really a theological and philosophical question having to do with why the world is imperfect and yet supposedly the product of a perfectly god.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801917
This is how I see it. I’m actually open to a creator of our simulation or our reality simply because
it’s the best explanation we have right now. Existence coming out of nothing is ridiculous. We really have no clue how we even got here. Maybe our existence could be proven scientifically down the line, but right now creation is actually the most feasible to my mind, strange enough.

So with that the problem of evil comes up and I gotta give it up to the late great Epicurus. And I quote:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

The other stance you can have are God’s plan is unknowable to us. His mystical plan is not for us to know and grasp. Which is a huge leap of faith and so wishy washy I can’t bring myself to adopt it.
> It seemed like an opportunity for more people to just learn some of the skills for these expensive procedures so out of curiosity, I looked up what army field medics learn. It's a 16 week course. Stitches, bone setting, and minor surgeries should be done by the equivalent of barbers.

But "can I do it?" and "can I do it well?" are different questions. For instance (IIRC), badly done stitches can leave more of a scar than expertly done ones and a badly set bone may heal in the wrong position. There's also knowing the difference between typical situations and more unusual ones that look similar but require a different treatment.

It's not a bad thing to know how to do those things for an emergency, which is the context an army field medic would do them, but that's quite different from an everyday accident with accessible medical care.
Doctors can't really expect all or even most of their patients to take full responsibility for the hard work of actually fixing something. They'll recommend the thing that will work a little bit for everyone. They can't know that you're one of the ones who will put in the extra effort.

At least that's the feeling I got from my GP when he diagnosed me with high BP about a decade ago. He prescribed some pills, I asked about lifestyle changes and what happens when your body adjusts to the pills, can you just stop taking them or is there a tolerance, etc.

He said something like "some people exercise, and maybe it helps, but just take the pills."

I was willing to do whatever I had to do, because I saw high BP as a dysfunction, and wanted to fix whatever the root cause was. I don't want to be an unhealthy person taking pills to help me live a longer unhealthy life, I wanted to be healthy.
Europe's oldest grid-connected PV system is 35 years old, and still running. Inverters had to be replaced 5 times though.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/02/exploring-the-depths-...
How much is “about 2” exactly? [video]
I agree, the "with no ads" really paints consumers as only being cheap and ignorant. It is almost victim blaming.

"Intrusive" doesn't being to describe the modern ad tracking infrastructure, data collection (and attendant leak vulnerabilities), and exploitation.

The pop up ad, autoplay video/audio, and epilepsy-triggering flash ads are just the beginning of the predatory nature of this that has been deeply entrenched as the biggest companies that effectively make up the modern consumer web rely on this for their massive revenues.

It is orwellian in every sense of the word, not just dangerous for individuals in a data privacy and identity theft perspective, and dangerous at the civilization/society level in that it is a direct threat to a free, liberal, and democratic world.

Advertising was already a dangerous psychological influence back in the era of print ads. Now that we are essentially entering the first cybernetic era with our online personas and screen time, it is directly manipulating personality, mental stability, opinion, and belief.
I think there is a huge opportunity for innovation in search functionality that gives users control over the types of content they see. Imagine being able to toggle on and off paid sites, news results, or other types of results. It could be like Google Scholar or Google patents but for other interests: blogs, companies, adult content, ect
> "because I can't possibly fathom my hard earned money paying for someone else's treatment" seems to be the most common reason.

But it is anyway in fact, since that's how insurance works even privately.

There is a model somewhere in between, like the swiss system. Here we pay a deductible amount of our own healthcare per year, which can be one of several set amounts. After that insurance pays 90% up to some set ceiling, then everything.

Costs including monthly premiums are regulated for essential treatment, and people who really can't pay can ask the government for assistance. The differentiator for health insurance is in add on packages. You want a private hotel room if you ever need to stay? Extra. You want something not covered by the basic insurance (most things you might reasonably need are covered)? Extra.

This has the advantage of making the cost of unnecessary healthcare visible to people, which discourages unnecessary use a bit, while making sure that if something really does go wrong you will be treated and you don't need to worry about going bankrupt. It isn't tied to employers either.

It isn't a perfect system but my point is that there is in fact a reasonable middle ground compromise if 'everything is free' isn't acceptable. It is also quite possible to make money even with a system that charges for basic healthcare.

I agree that the US system is probably unchangeable - too many entrenched interests. It seems a shame though. We need some level of safety net as a society.
There is a very simple solution to things like this: just leave. Software developers are currently fortunate enough that there is enough demand that they don't need to work for shit-shows like this. Other red flag: if a shop is only hiring junior developers, it's because any senior developer can smell the stink for miles and wouldn't want to join.

Best lesson I ever got in business was when I saw a highly touted exec get hired, then actually hire a few folks on his team, then quit after 2 weeks when he saw he wouldn't be able to work with the existing exec team. A lot of lower level folks think that leaving is somehow a mark of failure, and while I would see a string of very short tenures on a resume as a red flag, bailing out of a bad company once or twice wouldn't bother me at all (and, if the tenure is less than a month, no reason to put it on your resume anyway).
I agree that recent graduates can be extraordinary, but a team with no seasoned developers is still a major red flag to me.

I've worked on many projects, some successful, some not. The difference was often that the successful projects had a critical mass of wise people who had learned from past failures and could anticipate the pitfalls and avoid them -- it seems more rare that actual project success comes down to having yet another brilliant programmer.
Yet another misuse of the word "Bahasa" as if that's shorthand for "Indonesian".

"Bahasa" literally just means "language", the Indonesian language doesn't have eponyms, so to say "He is Australian" you have to include the noun "person", so "Dia orang Australia" (Sound familiar? "orang utan" means "jungle person"). Same deal with language/bahasa.

People saying "I speak Bahasa" sounds to me like people saying "I speak Sprache" to say they know German or "I speak langue" for French. It's eye-rollingly obnoxious.
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Is this just a pet theory, or have you actually quantified the homogeneity of the most and least religious countries?

While the Scandinavian countries are probably very homogenous, I'm guessing that at least some of the most-religious list (Ethiopia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Burundi, Mauritania) are fairly homogenous too.
Do you really think that every single country in the world has the same values as certain groups in the EU?
> $250K/trip is not "general public".

Almost every major hard-tech innovation was once prohibitively expensive. Look at solar panels, cars, phones, computers, etc. The cost comes (way) down later on with economies of scale and perfection of the production process.
I understand your point, I just think you're letting those nuns off the hook too easily! "Can't" is getting thrown around here in ways I don't think is totally accurate.
My immediate question as a cranky ex-animator who occasionally thinks of trying to get back into it:

Can I draw stuff directly in this, or is this just an After Effects to your as-yet-unreleased Canvas's Illustrator?

And by "draw" I don't mean "hassle with the pen tool and basic shape tools that I see down the edge of the toolbar in your screenshot", I mean "quickly draw lines with some kind of pencil/brush, and do some kind of simulation of frame-by-frame animation".

The screenshots just look like After Effects, and, well, that's just one visit to the Creative Cloud app away for me.
I’ll pay for a paywall for the WSJ and The Economist but I’m not gonna bother even bypassing the paywall for some rando blog.
I believe the official explanation was an "interpretation error" of the vector image used as the source. The printer has taken "full responsibility" for this mistake and apologized. How convenient. From a technical perspective not very plausible, if not borderline impossible.

More likely, a deliberate choice made by a powerful individual, for which anyone with any actual knowledge or proof knows all to well that it would be suicide to talk about it publicly. Whether that would be literal or figurative suicide, that is debatable. Either way though, while Croatia is part of the EU these days, the way in which things function are still very much similar to some other countries in the region .. where powerful individuals can make arbitrary decisions with absolute impunity.

There are plenty of powerful individuals in Croatia who harbor strong sympathies towards the country's dark fascist history. Plenty of those managed to get away with their role in war profiteering (or worse), during the last wars. Probably more than anything because they happened to be useful and on the side of powerful corrupt people in the USA and EU. Regretfully so, because Croatia is beautiful country and home to some incredibly whole/goodhearted people (very much like in other former Yugoslavian states).
> How would one go about establishing via a purely deductive argument that a deer’s suffering a slow and painful death because of a forest fire, or a child’s undergo lingering suffering and eventual death due to cancer, is not logically necessary either to achieve a greater good or to avoid a greater evil?

Gods can't make a square circle, even if they're omnipotent? They could rewrite our brains to just make the words mean the same. Logic problem solved.

The more complex a situation, the more opportunity for this supposed omnipotent being.
Almost everything is right-wing in the US. The left-wing of the right-wing may be a more appropriate description of USA Today.
No, you're putting words in my mouth.

Safety could be actually improved by doing more efficient regulation.
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It's an ordinary German word. Hilariously the Collins dictionary translates it as both "typical" and "strange, peculiar". But those English word choices are ambiguous. I'd say "characteristic" or "exemplary" instead and it covers both definitions. (I'm not a very good German speaker though.) https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/german-engli...
In your example they’ve taken on same risk. Arguably still the poorer person as you have to take into account the ability to regenerate wealth.
> Unlikely unless it just so happens to speed travel and reduce cost for getting from Earth point A to Earth point B.

I doubt that anyone I know would pass on a ticket if it was affordable.
If you’re a nontechnical founder looking for a partner, at a certain point you’ll learn to work with anyone who will pay attention to you at a price you can pay.

Source: was a nontechnical founder at one point.
Aren't you going to get rather hungry?
Same. It went from "wow the arrogance and ego of this person" to "this person is seriously disturbed" to "this can't be real."
A single cargo ship pollutes an order of magnitude more than any of these space flights. On a one way trip.
> I propose that all of Congress and those that work for the federal gov't must send their children into these wars as general infantry.

One does not send their adult children anywhere.

You might argue that only legislators with children in the military are allowed to vote on certain bills. But that would be unconstitutional.

Can't fight privileged exploitation with outraged incoherence.
I really enjoy Wordpress for writing freely.
Ever since Docker-compose, automatic updates and Gutenberg editor became available, I haven’t even needed to look at alternatives.
What you wrote just proves my point about what Macedonia’s neighbours do.

I’m Macedonian and I don’t consider myself Bulgarian. I find it funny that others think that is ok to tell other people what they are. Makes no sense.
So the Catholic-Orthodox secterianism is due to Islamist expansion. Gotcha.