skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a dichotomy that's fairly recent in historiography, and doesn't at all fit with historical usage. If memory serves right and came about in the wake of the rise of the Bourgeoisie and the French Revolution, with the need to conveniently give the nobility a foreign tint.

Moreover the Germanicity of the so-called barbarian tribes, including Pre-Merovingian Franks, has to be reassessed now with what we know about identity politics in the Late Roman and Post-Roman World. People might have played at being barbarians a lot more than actually being it, in a very comparable way you see Americans pretending to be this or that.
Wow those reasons don't sound very compelling to me! (I'm a programmer but don't know R.)
Standards can only happen when an industry has matured and moves slow enough for these standards not to be obsolete by next year.

We have plenty of laws and standards regarding handling private information, payment systems, independent pen testing and so on. So it's incorrect to say we have "no standards" at all. Where it matters, we do.

But to try and standardize a process that's evolving faster than a standard can spread is pointless.

This doesn't make software engineering any less engineering. Engineering isn't about standards. It's about the design, construction and use of systems.
When I worked at a company with the MS Suite, I used Box's auto sync on my `notes/` folder for this. Now I use Google Drive's sync, but I'm sure there's other solution for Dropbox or whatever your company uses. I knew a guy in grad school use just used `rsync` to automatically back up his folder in the same way, but I never learned set something like that up.
that's abandoned now I think
This is the best time to change jobs I've ever seen.
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Is like telling a story that is only correct if you get all the facts said, but there are so many styles to tell the same story, and people can’t agree in what’s best, there is always someone coming up and saying ... actually I can tell the story better to make it more enjoyable and easier to understand.
That would be fine if that happened.
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It is expected behavior using tar with tapes. I was curious if the reason for posting was due to unexpected or new behavior.
Copilot violates the assumptions many people made when they open sourced their code. Moving from manual to automated use feels like a privacy violation because it dramatically changes the amount of effort it takes to leverage the work in an unintended context.
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k6s? Maybe!
I feel like Instagram was always like Maxim or Cosmopolitan magazine. Lifestyle marketing to people looking for what to buy to be cool. Guess I can see Skymall too.
First thing you need to do is start the job hunt for a new job. Everything else will only deliver marginal results while requiring maximum effort.

Remember not to complain about your current employer ( or girlfriend ) while in the proces. Good luck.
> This is something that I actually put in my folder when I came out here today.
You have no idea what it is. Nobody does. Because it arrived on the internet
to me this morning. It's a request for the rights to use my song, Another brick in
the wall II, in the making of a film to promote Instagram. So it's a missive from
Mark Zuckerberg to me. Right. Arrived this morning. With a offer of a huge, huge
amount of money. And the answer is: Fuck you. No fucking way. I only mention that
because this an insidious move of them to take over absolutely everything. So those of
us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit, in terms of the control of the
publishing of my songs I do anyway, so. I will not be a party to this bullshit, Mark Zuckerberg.

> "We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment
of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless
a work it truly..." -- and yet they want to suburn, they want to use it to make Facebook
and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor
all of us in this room, and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general
public, so the general public could go "WHAT? What, no?" No. No more.

> ...

> You think, "how did this little prick who started off by saying 'She's pretty, we give her
a four out of five, she's ugly, we'll give her a one'. How the fuck did he get any power in
anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.
Big big reason: R doesn't alter data without being asked to, Excel does so, silently, sneakily. Anything important should not be done in Excel.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/165042/stop-excel-from-a...
Not quite, CD Projekt (the witcher company) is named like this because they were selling pirated CDs in Warsaw.
At risk of a slight tangent, I look at the vast majority of the documentation I wrote over the first 25-30 years of my career and all of it is defunct, and largely unread.
> - Keep many tabs open: you can if the sites are wikipedia-like. Anything more complex and the system starts swapping. Magic Sysrq-f is your friend in such situations.

I ran a Raspberry Pi 3 as a desktop for a little while, and I believe I ran into the same problem. In most of my Linux installations, I format the drives without swap. I've never had a problem with it. But, I didn't know how to disable swap on the pi3.
For small datasets and simple charts, I'm not sure there are any compelling reasons to use R instead of Excel (unless you're already more comfortable with it). Plus, Excel is great for beginners - most people wouldn't need a class to draw a basic chart.

The more complex the analysis, the more reasons there are to get out of Excel.
I’m not sure how you not caring about Roger is a violation of the rules such that it should be flagged. Please explain.

Maybe I should flag your comment? It seems without substance and I don’t like you anyway. Same grounds you present.

The Dude abides. But you’re not him.
Honestly i struggle with it. My partner recently wrote an R package (phd biology) and I’m a developer. I had done a bit of R but nothing substantial. By the end of the project i couldn’t think of a compelling reason not to use any other language. The R tooling is clumsy, the language isn’t great…the built in graphs are ok? It feels like the reason it’s popular is mostly just people not wanting to update skills because they’re in a tangential field where this is a solution so it’s not a priority to change.
Yes and no.

Tesla did innovate, but frankly not as much as many people want to give them credit for. And a lot of the innovation happened before Musk even joined, at least when it comes to basic EV tech, not talking about AutoPilot or whatever.

Their real achievement was creating a market and interest. This new consumer and investor interest was also in large part to Musk throwing his ego around in public. A lot of other car makers had models in late stage development phases too, but didn't really see enough interest and a market need to bring those models forward to reach production. They were fat and happy, selling their fossil fuel models.
I guess it's the clear rules and structures that ADHD children like
I guess.

I'd just be happy with some Russian Scifi dubbed for the first time to begin.

On Wish Dragon I was disappointed they referenced the game as chess, when clearly that was pandering to the English audience. It would be nice to fix that, it doesn't feel like that was the directors decision.

But sure, George Lucas could stuff a lot of dialogue up.

To me the concerns that original dialog will be lost are simply not real. If anything they can be restored if you have just the subtitles/original script

I think fan fiction re-dubbing could be really interesting. I think some movies could be turned around on the dialogue alone.

But to fear the authenticity of movies is at stake while spreading the worlds media across cultures, no, to many data hoarders to be losing original audio these days, I think we are safe.

And obviously on Khan Academy etc you do want to alter it. That's the point. Fix mistakes. Change things for different cultures. Speak a little clearer.
The solar system should last 25 years. That’s about 2c/kWh.

With your electric utility, after all the additional fees, you’re probably at at least 15c/kWh.

Storage simply needs to cost less than 13c/kWh to make economic sense.
Buying a running or decommissioning coal plant is a short term play. Buying a coal mine is incredibly long/integrated.
Let’s not forget, though, that parents can be mouthpieces of propaganda too—religion, bigoted views, even preference for certain brands produced by giant corporations.
FWIW: Minecraft: Pi Edition is discontinued. It only saw
a single release (0.1.1 alpha) in 2013. More info over at https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pi_Edition.
This is death with extra steps. I would redefine the S to why it's worth salvaging the project.
Dietpi allows you to improve performance, overclock the CPU, etc
You’ve identified an aspect of other fields of engineering and are saying since you feel this aspect may be missing from software engineering that it therefore isn’t engineering. But if you look up what engineering means broadly this isn’t part of the definition at all. Which I guess goes on to say it depends on what you mean when you say “engineering”; a specific manifestation of engineering or the general practice.
part of Rogers' appeal is his inherent naïveness regarding some issues like Syria/Venezuela and his songs (if you heard ten of them, you heard most of them). But that naïveté also allows him such beautiful expressions of visceral opinions and is part of the reason he remains somewhat loveable regardless of his failings.
If this saves at least one 3 year-old then I think my comment is worth it
You can of course mix beer with cocaine, but I guess it's better to mix them inside your body, by taking each of them separately the normal way. The parent was talking about cocacola.
With millions of users using Excel, I am not convinced that there are no solutions to the problems of Repeatability, Batch Processing, Extensibility as mentioned in the article.
If you’re interested, you should check out ‘Ortho Bionomy - A path to self care’ by Luann Overmyer. She touches a lot on what you were just saying.

Often, people expect to do whatever they want and then go to doctors to ‘fix’ them. It’s good for doctors, but not so great for you.

I just started getting into some of the self-care routines she lists in her book after breaking my foot and having multiple doctors recommend surgery to ‘fix’ things. Instead of going down that route, I asked an Ortho-bionomist I know personally to help me. In a single session, most of the swelling and limp in my foot ‘disappeared’. After sticking to the very simple routines he suggested and that I read in the book(none involving pills or icing it), my foot healed more in a week than it did in the 2 months I sat around taking Tylenol and just ‘waiting’ for someone to fix me.
Saw CSV mentioned in the article but didn't see it mention that R can read Excel files directly. So, you can use the spreadsheet to capture data and process it in R.
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If Rogers Waters says so it must be true, he wrote good songs 50 years ago so he must know a lot about everything.
SPA: React or Next.js?
Trying to work out which is going to be easier to develop a dashboard for - want to be fast in development and not get stuck in too much abstraction
I firmly believe the only thing good for the planet is fewer people — and to cut off the inevitable reply, no I don’t think this logically means I should kill myself.

Nothing else makes any sense to me. There’s a 0% chance the world works together to “fix” our environmental mess. Nothing to date gives me the slightest hope this is a solvable problem.

Just don’t have kids. Everything else is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Or do have kids. Whatever, it doesn’t really matter.
How do you integrate this tool into an existing blog?

I like the idea of ActivityPub followers but shifting all the contents over from an existing static site sounds like a wasteful exercise
This appears to be FB’s implementation: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/837705ad8011e249d5e...

GPLv2 or Apache 2.0
Yes! Yes, of course it is.

Hiring a competent developer to build a simple brochure website shouldn't cost as much as a small car, but yet here we are.
We are adults and we can deal with being sneezed on, therefore lets get sneezed on as much as possible for no reason at all!
The gist of the article is that software projects have more ad-hoc decisions and more flexibility. This is due to the nature of software. To claim this as a justification that software engineering is not engineering seems rather shallow to me.

You have less repetitive process in software because once software is built, copying it and reusing it as-is is free. In construction if you need to build 10 twin buildings, each of them is a project on its own. In software that'd be building one piece of software and deploying it 10 times.

Furthermore I question the notion that software projects can accommodate more "fundamental midcourse design changes". Can you spend 2 years writing a dedicated Windows desktop application and then midway suddenly switch it to being an Android application? That would be fundamental. Reskinning the UI or replacing a dependency with a similar one is not fundamental design change.

Software can't sustain fundamental design changes, unless we misinterpret what is fundamental and what isn't.

Basically we need to be careful with our analogies so we don't cross from trying to extract insight into flexing our useless cynicism about how software sucks because it's not like making a car in a superficial ways.
It happens with slow technologies that ought to have standards as well. I do work with OS2.eu (Danish public sector owned open source software organisation) and we recently brought the first project into multiple supplier territory. It’s a Drupal PHP project, and as I understand that means that everything that gets build should follow Drupal standards that are pretty much set in stone. After 6 months of governance going this and that way, and the countries second largest city (and biggest PHP developer) as a mediator, we are only now moving into the blissful world of compliance where everyone has agreed to develop Drupal modules in the same way.

Compare this to when we build a new city hall. A massive project involving almost 500 smaller local contractors, in a business that actually moves forward pretty fast. Some of the materials they ended up using weren’t even invented when they began. The project was finished a head of schedule and under budget.

I know construction isn’t always like this. We’ve had our share of catastrophic projects, one elder-care center in particular, but compared to buying software it’s almost child’s play, even when things go wrong.

So I think it’s perfectly fair to say that software engineering isn’t engineering. If you can even build a simple webpage, without two suppliers disagreeing so much on the “standards” that it takes 6 months of governance to achieve compliance, then there is just so far for the industry to go before it’s anything that even resembles engineering.
This also provides a good transition path in case you'd like to experiment with R but have existing spreadsheets.
Heat waves != Heat domes

Yes the 49C event in Vancouver and surrounding areas was a heat dome and didn't have clouds.

Where I live, just a bit earlier we had complete cloud cover for an entire day w/ "feels like 40C" hot and humid weather. It didn't rain that day, except once a little sprinkle. It made it muggier outside than it was before.
Sounds like a very good idea. I’m not a parent myself, but I’d be worried the kids might get left behind socially in school if they miss out on certain digital content other kids talk about. Not supposed to be criticism, just a thought of mine :)
Whenever I hear a process is run on excel I do a quick mental calculation of the relative risk of process defect severity, the time it takes to manually do the task in excel, and the investment + maintenance costs associated with automating.

When running any process in excel after enough times there will be an error. It just depends on whether that error will cost you a lot of money or not.

However, there is also a cost to automating these processes that goes beyond the initial investment. Someone needs to make sure the input data stays clean and coordinate any system-wide changes to the interfaces. This is a new thing that can break whenever system-wide changes get made so data governance becomes a priority.
I wonder if donating Zuck's money to the Free Assange fund would've been more useful. But then Zuck would have his song "for free"...
Some compelling reasons - I think most of them can be addressed in Excel, but the reality is most people don't know how Excel really works or how to do anything complex in it. Having said that, as your need to batch process numbers goes up, R and other solutions have more value in my opinion.

I'm particularly interested in "half-way" solutions - something between R and Excel. I've been looking at https://www.causal.app/ - no affiliation but I find their approach similar to a Mac app I like called Numi.
Oops. meant this for my comment below.
I hate to say it, but developing a browser extension and getting emails like these has made me terrified of installing extensions. I’m sad by this state of things, since the era of user scripts and site-specific extensions was the one time in the history of the web where it really felt like users were in control of their experience.
Why not fuck both of them? :-)

The only positive thing about this is, that a fuck you from Waters might be actually heard by Zuck and maybe cause a minuscule amount of sadness.
The "spreadsheet" interface is now universal and not limited to excel. You have a completely equivalent thing with gnumeric, or libereoffice's calc, for example. This interface is really great for kids, for example to compute averages and simple formulas, before they learn "serious" programming. I was taught how to use spreadsheets in school and it is easily one of the most useful things that I learned there.
Horses also need to be desensitized to new objects twice: once on their right eye and once for their left.
Currently watching a health care department in a c.8m person city implement powerBI.

To me, similar reasons surface to why it's a disaster waiting to happen.

Formulae hidden away in non document DAX columns. Its horrendous. Its the worst thing to happen to "BI", "Data analysis" that I've seen.

Given me a clearly defined single R markdown document that's easy to follow. If you can't follow the Markdown document, you shouldn't be running analysis in the first place.
1) corty addresses the inflexibility myth

2) there are always going to be Capex-dominated industries running full-bore 24/7 that need base power with the same power gen profile. Nuclear is perfect for this.

You exactly want to complement renewables with inflexible. You want 100% of your "DC component" of your load profile handled by base load power plants, and maximizing the utilization of power storage by variables.
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Does opening windows help at all? If so, might be the air in your home also contributing
Sources??
IMO this really asks the question: Why is there not a code view for an excel spreadsheet?

I get that some of the basic operations probably create expressions that are too wordy / very "specific data" intensive. That is, if you took the first step and just did your best to create that code view it would have a lot of stuff conditional on specific things.

But it's the next step that gets interesting. Now that you've got it, in what ways can the visual UI change to have the code view create tighter expressions. Now that you've got this view, how can it become super handy for doing things that today are clunky?

IMO there's an interesting "no-code" path in there somewhere and there's also an interesting "make spreadsheet re-use more powerful." Or maybe not, what do I look like, an Excel engineer? Ha!
I’d expect the concern is about plasticizers leaching from the PVC. They’re not “toxic” but they are possibly endocrine disruptors.
I think the medium plays a role too. In real life I can laugh on some jokes because I know the people and I know is a joke and not serious. But even on the chatgroup from work, I know everyone well, I have a very thin skin in groupchats on jokes. And if I say something, often harsh comments comes back, about "censor" and "we can't even make jokes about". Often I think, I even could maybe laugh, if I heard the joke in person to person.

Old movies is another example. Who ever saw the old, old Bond from the 60s Casino Royale. Bond goes in a bath tube with a 17 year old girl. That scene would never go today.
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What is boring is having to explain this, time and again to people that clearly do not understand how their own system of goverment works.

The European parliament works just like any other. Commissioner is synonymous with Minister. They are proposed by their member state and each state get to nominate a single commissioner. They are elected by the European Parliament, the body that is elected by the general populace. This is arguably more democratic than being apointed by the Prime Minsiter, where appointments are made because they are the PM's political buddy, in the way they are in the UK.

Paliament members vote on issues and elect the President, Vice Presidents and Commissions on behalf of the people that elected them. This is literally how parliamentary systems work.

The people that work in the Commission are civil servants, like the ones that work in Whitehall. They are unelected, again, like the ones in Whitehall. These are the people that write laws, and keep the wheels of government moving, in Whitehall's case, as slowly as possible - see Yes, (Prime)Minister.
Is this surprising to anyone? It's the industrialized world:
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/gall_earth_night....
>A White House National Security Council spokesperson strongly condemned “all targeted assassinations in Afghanistan”

And they say Americans don't do irony!
There are also a lot of niche libraries for various statistical tests and analyses that are used for scientific studies. Especially applied scientists who wouldn't necessarily be able to reimplement the math and are not very familiar with programming rely on it as a workhorse. Things like variants of anova, regressions etc. are often just a single line in R, specify the data, the interaction terms etc and you get a nicely formatted output with everything calculated for you, like goodness of fit, p-values etc. There's a long tail of functionality in there that's hard to match even with the scipy stack or other statistical packages in python. Plotting is also much less of a hassle than with matplotlib.

R is more of a free and de-bloated SPSS than an alternative to scipy or excel.
I agree with you that I'll probably never use this, at least not in the next few years. But I think it's worth putting the research in context-- they've only been published for 2 days now. Expecting a production-ready library is... unreasonable? The tooling, the documentation, the textbooks, the wiki page, etc aren't going to compare to Bloom filters, which have been used for over 40 years.