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When you are learning the basics, you are doing very basic tasks. R can do very basic tasks. MS Excel can do very basic tasks. If you never go beyond the basics, there is no compelling reason to use R (or any other programming language) over MS Excel.

Programming languages come into their own when the tasks stop being basic, but the learning process usually goes through "Hello, World" first.

I mean, if you're just going to print a line of text to the screen, why use Python? Just open an MS Word document. MS Word can even include variables and insert them dynamically!
Also DAX and power pivot - if you think excel doesn’t have the features to reuse data sets I think you will be pleasantly surprised! This works alongside power query to create a relational data model from everything you import.
> We only make money when you do

Many of content creators are not getting revenue from donations/subscriptions. For example, influencers have a personal contracts with companies. Some of them deliberately ignore turning off YouTube monetization for their videos, against, because they have different revenue source.

But there is also a case that confirms a part of the hypothesis: maybe you know guys who have a YouTube channel “Corridor Digital”. They have created their own mini-platform for their subscribers and are using youtube as a traffic source. I think you will be interested to know about their motivation and relevance of the idea.

P.S where can I follow the development of your idea and product?
I think one of the things this is really missing is that Excel fundamentally supports 1 data structure - the table. What if your data isn't a table? What if your data is many tables? What if your data has 3 dimensions? It soon becomes incredibly difficult to map your actual problem into a set of tables.

It's actually one of excel's great features - they so strongly constrained the way you represent data that it's easy to reason about.
>Why is there not a code view for an excel spreadsheet?

There is, just press Ctrl+`. There's also dependency tracking, sort of debugger.
Or better by studying anatomy and dumping money for small fixes w the best surgeons
Quite possibly. There were some contributing factors (massive change in senior leadership, followed by an immediate re-org that stretched out over months where a majority of staff didn't know their roles) that make it hard to put my thumb on any one contributing factor.

But a small environment, with no long-term goals + the sheer terror of a pandemic and unstable government fed by the media machine...isn't healthy.
I think we're going to a have a boom of CRISPR derived plants that are going to help us out big time.
Interesting. I’ve been building a home camera network and the state of this space (the nvr software) is pretty abysmal: zoneminder, blueiris, shinobi, etc… gonna take this for a spin.

This is a terrible name for an open source project though.
This is the typical „CS-people“ reaction to learning R. R is a language written by statisticians for statisticians which can be a good but also a bad thing. Fact is that R is the lingua franca of statistics, most new methods will be first available in R, rarely in python, almost never in julia. Despite the superior design of julia, there are good reasons to still use R, for example, there are many state of the art libraries such as ggplot2 or data.table which beat any alternative from python or julia.
Sweden has such a bad reputation as a place where the is corrupt. I wonder if the public feels that?
did they use golden thread? my daughter recently had to have quite a few stitches and it was no where near this.. (also american hospital)
Lost me at promoting security through obscurity.
That’s the kicker - almost no one pays these prices so when they get stupid nobody notices. Unless you’re uninsured then that’s the price they use.

As someone in the healthcare field - the best way I can describe it is that providers and insurers fight it out however they can. The problem is is that patients get the shit end of the stick.

I think calling out that both hospitals and insurers are fucking over patients is a positive change. Hospitals used to always get a pass, but they’re a huge part of the problem.
Aww, I'm sure a child would have plenty of content to enjoy in 2013-era Minecraft Pocket, but it's a shame they disabled survival mode, I didn't realize that.
To be fair, Stanford's admitted hospital food is really, really good and the care is the best around.

Through a botched 12 lead ECG, I ended-up in their cardiac unit over a holiday a few years back. It was better than most hotels. Insurance covered 100%. I don't think I ever saw the actual costs.
The overall goal is to reduce CO2 emissions as much as possible. That alone favors nuclear (existing plants, not new ones) over coal and oil. That gives you stable base load without any CO2 issues. supplement that with as uch renewables as possible and flexible gas plants for ad-hoc peak demand. Phase out nuclea once renewables can provide that power (storage solutions and so on).

Wind and solar were already a lot cheaper than Hickley C a couple of years ago, so that question is not about costs.
That entirely depends on the animal. You don't want dog, cat or human.

Chickens have been used for ages to make really awesome manure. It's so 'hot' you need a lot of other material + time so it doesn't burn plants. I guess they might not count as pets in most places, but around here lots of backyard chickens.

Do horses count as pets? Horse manure is awesome too. It's only lightly processed grass/hay and you can still see individual blades. I started off my veggie garden with a load of 1 year old horse manure from a local horse place.

My guinea pigs mow the lawn in summer (and still get some kitchen scraps like cucumber cut-offs the kids don't like) and the radish greens whenever we pull a radish etc. In winter I still don't feed them any meat :)

These small rodents, along with other common household pets such as gerbils and hamsters, are omnivores, eating both plants and animal proteins (mainly from insects). That being said, those kept as pets are typically fed a plant-based diet with much of their proteins and minerals obtained from specialized food, often in the form of pellets. So, unlike meat-eating animals (including your cat or dog), their manure is perfectly safe for use in the garden and suitable for home composting too.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/manures/guinea-p...
Excel doesn't alter data without being asked either. What it does do by default is try to change how the data is displayed. If the column is properly set to the correct data type the data will be shown correctly because Excel doesn't change the actual data. Column types can be set when csv files are imported.

The problem described in the article isn't an Excel issue. It is an issue of the geneticist failure to learn the basics of how their tools work.
So if I have Zip codes with leading 0’s, use R?
> and most of the governments since them (and the current one) have been left-leaning (PSOE mostly).

False, they have been mostly alternating.

> And now, in Spain, the COVID-19 crisis has shown the inefficiency of the government

We are vaccinating way more per day than other EU countries, having surpassed in total vaccionations the USA and Germany (https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations).

> the unemployment is the highest in the last years

False, it's actually lowest than in the previous economical crisis (it peaked in 2013) and now there's COVID going on (https://www.epdata.es/datos/paro-espana-hoy-epa-ine/10/espan...).

> and the price of buying or renting a home is high as ever

Spain is one of the few EU countries where house prices have went only slightly up this year, compared to the notable increases in others, which are more than double the net increase (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...).

> Ideological propaganda (left-leaning mostly) is very much alive in Spain.

To complain about propaganda, you're sharing a fair bunch yourself.
This article from Elsevier is amusing. https://www.elsevier.com/connect/allegations-linking-sci-hub...

This is insult to the intelligence of the publishers.
Why would that cause corruption to be questioned?
Most economists and certainly the markets, forecast temporarily high inflation then it comes down. Few economists crying inflation always get the press.

(Fed's target is 2% average)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate "represents a measure of expected inflation derived from 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Securities (BC_10YEAR) and 10-Year Treasury Inflation-Indexed Constant Maturity Securities (TC_10YEAR). The latest value implies what market participants expect inflation to be in the next 10 years, on average."
Yeah, how could anyone not like the US puppet pick. We've been trying to eradicate the socialist government of Venezuela for the last 20 years.

Guaidó has received in indeterminate amount of Venezuelan cash frozen in the US. If that doesn't speak to who is pulling the strings here, I don't know what will.
I agree, the tooling can be clumsy. I'd wish for a language-wide standard to help with replicable R environments. Perhaps using conda makes sense here.

But when you say the language isn't great, what exactly is the problem?

IMO, R is a fascinating language from a programming perspective. The combination of first class environments, lexical scoping, non-standard evaluation and metaprogramming allows for extremely performant and expressive domain specific languages, e.g. data.table, tidyverse and ggplot.
> Unless you’re uninsured then that’s the price they use.

I don't think many uninsured people are paying sticker. Sometimes they automatically get charged with a discount, sometimes they have to call and get it. Some folks don't know to call, but these folks' bills are, I expect, not usually getting paid in full in the end anyhow.
Mainly because they haven't heard of Python apparently.
Worse, who takes care of all the old people.

So far, we have increased our lifespans up to 85 or even 90 years, but our healthspans are significantly shorter and those last 10-15 years are spent in state of partial or complete dependency on others.

Unless we can do a lot more in the longevity field and stretch healthspan of old people significantly, we won't be able to meet the total demand for workforce in care.
It really depends on the definition of "neutral". Is it neutral with respect to the atmosphere or to the biosphere?

I'm very skeptical that as we keep mining new carbon from the deeps every year, we con manage to put all this carbon into the biosphere, and none into the atmosphere.
Absolutely! For power-users of Excel, this article reads as "the reason we don't use Excel is because we don't understand how to use it".

For those who aren't as familiar with Excel, all the functionality the author is describing as missing in Excel is actually built into it out of the box - as a feature called Get & Transform (or 'PowerQuery'). You can load in a CSV, manipulate it, do batch processing, and all the steps are visible, editable, resequencable and deletable (showing you the M code behind it!).

You can even handle hundreds of millions of records this way.

For those who want to learn, I would wholeheartedly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Pivot-Bi-Excel-2010-2016/dp/1...
But do uninsured people actually really pay this? My impression was that you still can (and should) try to negotiate with hospitals/providers whenever possible and/or ask them to create a payment plan for you. But maybe that's not common knowledge?

Since you're in the space, what do you think of the startup they mentioned in the thread, turquoise.health (or rather the idea behind it, not literally the startup)?
Purchased (not streaming) music has been DRM-free for ages even on iTunes and other major platforms. But most other content like movies and TV shows isn't.
What I learned the hard way is that non-us citizens who need minor medical help should go to a drop-in clinic, not a hospital. In the few times I have done that, the fees were reasonable. The one time I went to a hospital to treat an infection in my thumb, I had to pay over $5,000. The same procedure in Canada would have cost me $50.
How do you store your surface?
I lost some but not most of my movies. Same for apps. Music was the worst, but on Apple Music so not purchases (just had to re-add a lot of things to my library).

It has to do with how the individual content (film, app, song) is licensed. If the same content has a separate license in the new country, it won’t carry over.

Also note this means it will depend on the two countries you are moving between (ie. I went US > UK, and I would guess there is a lot more licensing crossover between these two countries, whereas two others may not have so much).
So can anyone who is in the medical field shed some light on this? Because if I was under obligation to list prices but didn’t want to I would probably inflate them like this too since I can give arbitrary 99% discounts.

Without a requirement that hospitals list their prices by billing code and must actually charge that price to everyone across the board with no adjustments or discounts laws like this are basically useless.
This is not true for everyone. If your family members are mentally mature, they should know about your requirements of alone-time.

My parents and SO have always understood this, and I have never had the problem you are describing after my teenage years.
I pay for Letterboxd to filter my “watchlist” based on the streaming services I have (it uses the JustWatch API and supports several countries and obscure streaming services).

I personally prefer paying because I can decide what to watch on a whim, on 4k, without keeping a stash with several TB of movies I might never end up watching (like I did before Netflix) which I then have to copy or stream from another computer to my Apple TV to watch. Not even talking about the PITA of having to keep up with working tracker sites, mirrors, etc.

I understand pirating because of the price, or availability, but in terms of comfort streaming has won me over some years ago.
money? their income is donations from the flock
These are also good points against no-code
I would recommend the opposite - pick stuff from tidyverse (mostly dplyr and ggplot2) only if you need them. Knowing base R goes a long way on its own.
Archive of the same article https://web.archive.org/web/20210508074419/https://www.elsev...
I got the iTunes account a long, long time ago. And then when I heard the @me accounts were going to go free, I got one so I could name-squat. And then when I totally drink the Apple Kool-Aid I find out that I can't merge the two accounts, even though I've changed the iTunes account email a couple times.

So now it's a continuous exercise in trying to remember which account I use for what. Essentially, if it involves money, it's the iTunes account. Well, except to pay for the iCloud storage. Yeah, pretty straightforward.
I think it's that the flat flakes increase the surface area to mass ratio to well within that which surface tension (from moisture in the food) can adhere the flake to the food?
Lol right? Although I'm guessing even for non-emergency services there's still not a ton of comparison shopping going on. People probably trust their own doctor's referrals and don't know to comparison shop - with the new rules it seems a bit easier but I'm sure hospitals don't make it all that easy.
Are there any good example UIs for drawing some thing that is almost always square vector graphics on mobile? I have not found a good way to do that, I usually add houses at home with a desktop, it's soo much faster and precise with a mouse for me. Then I add more data with the Streetcomplete app when I'm on the go.
Increasing productivity in geriatric care basically means robots taking care of people.

I am not saying that it is impossible, but it is definitely hard. Which means psychologically hard, too. Without contact with living people, you are likely to go mad in your bed, even if your physiological needs are taken care of.
Why? Were they worried that releasing the study would increase piracy and hurt sales?
Awesome build and write up. I used to work for a company called AEssense making automated aeroponic systems for commercial cannabis growers. They are still around and have installs all over the US. Many similar features to your NFT system. Cool stuff!
Not all quotes are scare quotes.
So the high level idea as I understood it seems to be this:

Use a hash function b(x) to transform keys into fixed length bitvectors.

Now we want to build a function b'(x) such that b'(x) = b(x) for any keys in our set, and such that b'(x) is a random value for other keys. Checking if b' and b agree will be our membership test.

They construct b'(x) as h(x)· Z, where h is a vector with binary entries and Z is a matrix with binary entries.

By taking all the elements we want and computing h(x) for each of them we get a bunch of vectors that we can arrange into a matrix H. Z can be found by gaussian elimination on that matrix.

The name ribbon filter comes from the fact that H is constructed in a particular way that gives it a ribbon shape. That shape makes the whole thing efficient in time and space.
Additionally, in 2011 China set standards requiring that companies recycle at least 98.5 percent of their silicon tetrachloride waste.

It's fairly easy and cost effective to recycle once you have the infrastructure in place. It seems most of the pollution reports are from before the mandate and also when precursors were way cheaper relative to the final product.
Maybe. That's why I am trying to discuss. To find out why are they wrong.
Do they really have a way to track you down as a non-citizen for nonpayment? I know it's not the most ethical to skip out on a bill but charging incredible fees to foreigners who don't understand the American system doesn't seem that ethical either.
Increase in population definitely accelerates climate change. If the world's population doubled to around 16 billion, would humanity's carbon footprint remain the same?
1, 2, 5.

three sir

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Can someone also post non-YouTube streams? The ads on the platform are getting positively insane.
The statement here is "all plants are carbon neutral" and therefore ".. carbon mitigation actions involving plants are idiotic" ?! .. Can someone with actual knowledge please break this thought-cycle while I am not thinking about consecutive 43+ (110F) degree days here?
While that is a very real problem, it isn't totally persuasive. It is just as easy to create traps in R (I lost days of my youth to R's challenging-to-defend jungle of an almost-type-system). It is even harder to debug than in Excel too - I would expect less bugs are found in R scripts because less people are up to the challenge of trying.

People shouldn't do important work in Excel. If it is important, people should be involved who have invested the time in learning something more powerful. Indeed, we could ask they aspire all the way to good practice and store their data in a database and their code in git. But there needs to be a process to verify model correctness no matter what tool is being used and bugs will exist in R as well as in Excel.
> Birth rates are at their lowest throughout the developed world.

India isn't the developed world.

According to the UN, the world population is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.

Despite the stagnant fertility rate, growth rate is still targeted in most countries at approx 3-4%, through immigration. I mention this because everyone has a higher environmental footprint in the developed world, through consumption.

Everyone wants a home, vehicle, gadgets, good food. If not everyone in the world can enjoy 1st world experiences without encroaching on the environment and destroying it at a catastrophic rate, then we're overpopulated. Meat consumption is already under scrutiny for land-use (particularly in Brazil) as though the problem isn't the growing demand for it, but the meat itself. When scaling up, everything destroys the environment.
From a pure logic point of view you'd better kill somebody who thinks the more people the better. But people are generally not good with logic especially when their beliefs are questioned.
Strongly Agree. Population control is trying to affect second order outcomes and has shown to create demographic time bombs.

The only intervention supported by data is providing and mandating access to good education, jobs, birth control and enforcing legal rights to women. Nothing else even comes close.

This policy is being proposed in UP, which performs very poorly on women's equality compared to higher GDP states.

All they have to look at the birth rates in southern states with high education outcomes for women - Kerala,Karnataka and TN
Debugability.
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Everything you're complaining about is just petty bikeshedding issues.

Just learn it, it's more powerful than the alternatives.

P.S. I'm a Python person and not at all an R fanboy, but it's undeniably more powerful and versatile for data science tasks than Python or Julia.
>Climate change and population growth are separate issues.

Sperate, but related: the latter contributes to the former.
I recently watched a video about Martha Argerich [1], one of the most virtuosic pianists when she was young, still performing entire concertos from memory in her 80s. She had cancer twice, recovered, and remains a top performer in classical music. It's amazing how some people could retain so much of their brain's function as they age, while others start to degenerate in their early 30s.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYkQleTcck8
Yet people still say this system is better than universal healthcare, go figure
High TFR + high density of population + not enough resources = a recipe for future disaster. Kudos to the Uttar Pradesh authorities for tackling the problem.

Yes, Alaska or Estonia could live with a TFR of 3.0 for a while. Uttar Pradesh not so much. 200 million people crowded in a state smaller than Germany is already on the edge.
>So if I have Zip codes with leading 0’s, use R?

Several other software tools also mess up leading 0s including R if used in a naive way without specifying extra options. My previous comment about this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017116

Like R, MS Excel can also preserve leading 0s -- if you specify the option on import. (Click on Excel 2019 Data tab and import via "From Text/CSV" button on the ribbon menu and a dialog pops up that provides option "Do not detect data types" (Earlier version of Excel has different verbiage to interpret numbers as text))
> There is no reason to use R when Excel can do the jobs. It is when Excel can’t handle the task at hand, R shines.

I think the problem is more nuanced because Excel can do a lot. There is a large set of use cases and tasks that are possible in Excel but your team would be a lot more efficient and productive using a programming language instead. The trick is to recognise those tradeoffs and it it's not as simple as sticking to Excel as long as things are still possible there.
I used to share the concern with overpopulation, but birth rates are often below replacement in developed countries. I now worry more about the long-term survival of humanity than I do about overpopulation. I expect all countries to eventually become developed and follow the same trend, and eventually the population just naturally dwindles because we become a post-survivalist society and don't care about propagating our genes anymore, and we just care about optimizing individual happiness.
Art you can mostly do as you want with (you are free to sell it and do what ever) as long as you just use the OSM data, it's only if you are trying to add commericial data to the mix that you can get in trouble.

I do not think there should be any problems.