skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I wasn't originally a fan of Go's error handling, but I do find it forces me to explicitly handle the error, I very rarely use a plain `return err` statement, instead wrapping it with additional parameters.

Whereas when I use Rust's Result types, I tend to not add any additional context with `map_err` (until I need to investigate the cause of an error and have to retrofit it).

There's still definite room for improvement though (I think the Go 2 proposal will help a lot).
R is everywhere, especially when you need to visualize stuff. It is primarily used in teams who are trying to get rid of SAS in my experience.

You are right in the sense that R is typically not used end-to-end as far as I can tell, but already tries to start with a data connection to some sort of dump or datalake, or datawarehouse.

Many people in my team use Python for modelling, but grab ggplot in whatever way to make their presentations and visuals (they all use different methods, usually something messy like mixing python and R in a notebook or so). GGPlots also has a vast library of super high quality plugins.

Python is far far behind in the viz space
Been there. Done that!

https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/8085

This was before I had the slightest inkling of ever attempting anything like a fork. :)

And I'm truly thankful for all the people who are placing their trust in the long-term health of Bridgetown as warranted by the extremely active and robust 16-month commit and release history so far.
Being able to copy an API is a feature, not a bug. For the same reason that if you buy a crankset for a bike you should be able to get one that fits.
Every company will push whatever it needs to maximize user attention.They are all out there selling ads to make money, I don't think the other players are different than Facebook.
this reminds me of polýMATHY channel, look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYpTfx1ey8 and at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDhEzP0b-Wo for some "real world" latin usage
LOL, that's funny because it's (sorta) true!
It's only a problem when you need to change job (this is why I haven't done this).
It's experimental, you just use it or not depending on its usefulness.
5th paragraph.

> China sits on the U.N. Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which authorizes groups big and small to participate at U.N. functions. At its publicly held meetings, any representative can hold up an application. Chinese bureaucrats scour each group that comes before the committee, scrutinizing every nook and cranny of their websites for references to Taiwan, say researchers who’ve studied the committee. If groups don’t include Beijing’s preferred language, China asks the committee to request changes.
"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."
I benefited immensely from a good high school (american, public). It was the only thing I got close to a humanist curriculum. That was nice. I would not want to pay college prices to learn basic biology/chemistry/history/etc. The knowledge I learned there has been more useful to my career (data science) than what I picked up in undergrad or grad school (MIT), and that's not to downplay either of the latter two.

I also learned that I was a weird kid who didn't know how to socialize... and so I had good time to do that while being forced to meet with a fairly large group of people for an extended period of time. College did not do this. College provided opportunities for this, but it was easier to be a recluse.

What America needs is more good high schools, not to give up on the concept itself. If anyone doesn't need high school, it's kids who don't have any interest in learning there. I had an easy time academically in high school. Mostly A's with no studying, and over a dozen AP classes passed, including a few that I just tested out of with some self study. But I still learned a great deal. I do wish it moved faster, but in the scheme of things it was a great experience.
True, that is a a challenge, I didn't think of that... It's definitely easier to use those doses still sitting in central warehouses somewhere. Funny how demand can be off so much from estimations. I, and it seems I'm not alone with that, really did expect demand for the vaccine to be much higher than it turned out to be.
> I think as a society we need to prove that we are smarter than these companies and are capable of discipline and self-control.

Kind of like how we said that the answer to alcohol & tobacco was to show self-control, not restrict sales and advertising? Expecting people to go one on one against enormous companies’ profit motives is a recipe for failures.
I'm happy for all those who enjoy Latin, but I loathed learning it. I was subjected to six years of mandatory Latin, and I hated every minute of it. Not to mention two years of classical Greek. I was more interested in science. I argued for learning a more useful language like German or Spanish.
> We wouldn't be particularly surprised that it can guess race.

That's actually a great example of this problem, though.

https://www.theverge.com/21298762/face-depixelizer-ai-machin...

> It’s a startling image that illustrates the deep-rooted biases of AI research. Input a low-resolution picture of Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, into an algorithm designed to generate depixelated faces, and the output is a white man.

> It’s not just Obama, either. Get the same algorithm to generate high-resolution images of actress Lucy Liu or congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from low-resolution inputs, and the resulting faces look distinctly white. As one popular tweet quoting the Obama example put it: “This image speaks volumes about the dangers of bias in AI.”
Author here, thanks! I am not familiar with this website (science-news.co) so I cannot comment on the quality of the writing (or human origin). I agree with you that "prove" should be "predict" - they did not prove anything except that from a theory standpoint, this process can happen in quantum mechanics.

The sentence about lasers is also strange, I have no idea what is meant there. My only guess is that it might be trying to describe some laser experiment that uses lasers to "heat" a hohlraum to produce a field of photons. Then some other high energy photon beam is used to collide with the photons inside the hohlraum.

edit:
Original article from DOE press release is here with a bit more info: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
Valentina Tereshkova (Sea Gull): The First Woman in Space
I heard a few months ago that UK infant ICU was in a dangerous spot because babies had caught all the bugs. Someone born in March 2020 would hardly have been outside until they were 1, so would be getting their first exposure to respiratory illnesses late. Babies usually get a slow, trickling exposure. By getting exposed to so many minor illnesses at once, their immune systems overloaded and they ended up in ICU with 4 or 5 things at once.
Sequenced yes, assembled, no.

Since there's no complete DNA of an individual specimen available, it's impossible to recreate an actual mammoth.

What they're hoping to do is basically isolate the genes that give certain traits (esp. cold adaptation, e.g. fur) and add them to the genome of Asian elephants.

So all they can get - best case - is some sort of mammoth/Asian elephant hybrid.
I guess I would fit that bill, so I'll give it a shot.

I still care about stuff like this, and there are definitely ergonomic improvements that could be made.

I guess my feeling is that overall, for the programs I write (network services, broadly speaking), the benefits greatly outweigh the annoyances.

on the positive site, in my experience, Go:

- Is easy to learn
- Has a relatively small surface area
- Generates static binaries
- Forces you to consider error handling
- (I'm listing this as a benefit as well as it's a downside!)
- Is pretty darn fast, both at build time and run time
- Is mostly well documented (text/template documentation excluded)
- Takes backwards compatibility seriously
- Cross compiles easily
- Has generally very good and fast tooling
- Has superb network-related libraries
- Has excellent support for concurrency

on the negative side, it:

- Is often not pretty or elegant
- It does have an aesthetic of its own once you're used to it, but it's never as satisfying as nailing something exactly right in haskell or rust, or doing something highly dynamic and fancy in python or ruby
- Sometimes resists nice algorithms and data structures
- this is why I would never want to use it for data science, for example
- Is very opinionated
- if you want something it doesn't agree with, you just don't get that thing

For much of the work I do, the positives outweigh the negatives. Maybe that helps?
> the government basically gives you free money/tax breaks if you buy a home

Such as? MIRAS was abolished 20 years ago. Homes are arguably under-taxed (no US style property tax), but that's not really a "break".
You probably don't gain the entire market share even if the attack succeeds in leaving them permanently without a payment gateway, except in situations where the answer to "who is attacking us?" is fairly obvious...
Curious, can this process be reversed? Also, is momentum conserved, then if it is wouldn't the positron and electron be ejecting at the speed of light (and wouldn't that violate the principle that matter cannot reach the speed of light)? If not what is slowing them down / where is the energy going? Could this be theoretically a way to power something? Either by the ricochet of the particles off something, or by using them to energize something?
Around here it's free and the pharmacy gives you a $5 coupon for getting it. They definitely see it as an easy way to get people through their doors.
played through, lovingly built, amazing.
while all the techs are impressive, level design definitely counts for at least half the soul of a game.
You also put your credit card into your web browser, and it can even store your cards (without the cvc) to autofill them for you.
Le Big Mac
Right. It's a hard problem. That said, we think we can get better.
They were a governing party with 1/6 of the votes in a coalition with a party that to this day delays the exit from coal because 'jobs'. In an economic crisis when the word greenhouse gases (and not yet climate change) was not prevalent at all. In retrospect, you are probably right. But at the time that simply was impossible.

> Now Germany has lost pretty much exactly as much power generation from early shutdown of nuclear plants as they are running in terms of coal power generation.

And exactly that is not because of the green party. The green parties program from 2005 outlined the end of coal subventions for 2012. The status quo is 2038.
Reminds me of the Genki Rockets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genki_Rockets
> House prices aren't that tightly linked to incomes. House prices are more strongly influenced by interest rates and availability of credit.

I believe banks in the UK don't lend you more than 4.5x - 5.5x of your income, regardless of interest rates.
That report really under-sells the severity of the vulnerability, in form (just a forum post really? "Hey all," really?) and content.

Definitely check out Péter Szilágyi's twitter thread: https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/143764611870017536...

> No analysis, no security report, no post mortem, not warning any of their users that their secrets might have been stolen

If it wasn't clear before that everyone should get off travis (and it was), this should be the thing that makes it clear. This is not a trustworthy company anymore. Which is sad when they really used to be.

Private equity running it into the ground.
> The UK government has data showing that about 2X more fully vaccinated people are dying from COVID than the unvaccinated (1,091 fully vaccinated vs. 536 vaccinated), even though the unvaccinated account for 3X more patients coming in for emergency care

Because of the demographics of those 2 groups (old are more likely vaccinated, middle aged and below are less likely) and their risk profiles - it takes 150 people in their 40's to be vaccinated to have the same impact that 1 person in their 80's being vaccinated will.
who wants to eat a dodo? no thanks.
In the financial world we think in bps (units of 0.01%), so it would be standard to write percentages with 2 decimals so you can easily see it's 10bps at a glance.
Damn, AppImages are so nice.

You download a thing, and click it to run it. No messing with a package manager or installer, no dependency hell, nothing but the software you wanted to run.
> It lacks a do-notation system, currying by default and guaranteed tail-call optimisation.

And instead gives plain structs with separate impls, traits like Into/From that cut tons of custom-made transformation code, more uniform iterators (in F# some things not implement iterators that other things do, because everyone need to implement again all of them) and other idioms that are very practical.

Is a tradeoff, sure.
Gaussian Process Regression Demo
Quarto – A scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc by RStudio
> (including by still prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders)

Bernie only changed his tune after Trump got elected. FWIW, it's always been obvious that more immigration reduces wages for low-skill workers (and everyone I suppose, depending on the volume of immigration). I was always really confused that this was not common knowledge.

Like, Ross Perot ran against Clinton/Bush 1 on pretty much this platform, and that was in the 90's.
Of possible interest, a C++ replacement for Pandas:

https://github.com/hosseinmoein/DataFrame
> As seen in renowned system distributor Puget Systems' statistics, AMD has risen from a 5% share in systems sold since June 2020, up to a dominating 60% as of June 2021.

Wow, maybe this stat is misleading or only referring to some small segment of the market, but if not, that is an incredible loss for Intel in just a single year.
> Two, all those state school run classes are certainly too "mild" for extremists. I mean, the students of evangelical families (and I don't mean protestant, I mean the extreme strains of protestantism that are rampant in southern Germany) certainly send their kids to protestant classes, but at home they teach the opposite in many cases.

My point is that in the United States, even the “mild” Protestant or Muslim stuff is off limits in public schools. Everyone is taught secular humanist morality, often of a highly individualistic variety. So unlike in Germany, even religious people who aren’t “extremists” may want to home school their children.

I’m a liberal Protestant, but I’d still consider home schooling my kids. I just want them socialized in the basics of their religion. That’s an option in public schools in much of Europe but isn’t in the United States.
Yes. Also this: “It isn’t the absolute number of deaths that should be compared as there are 20 times MORE people vaccinated over age 50 (where most deaths occur) than unvaccinated. The UK has a 95% vaccination rate for people over 50. The rate of deaths is much, much lower in the vaccinated population. The rate of death is the number who have died in a population (vaccinated or unvaccinated) relative to the size of the population, usually expressed as number per 100,000 people. With 20,000,000 vaccinated people over 50, the death rate is 3.2 (per 100,000 people), but for the 1,000,000 UNvaccinated people, the death rate is 32 (per 100,000 people) — ten times higher. In other words, the vaccine is 90% effective against death, consistent with what was found in the original clinical trials.”
wait for what to actually work? a hole or closed mine? There's barely enough nuclear waste globally to justify storing it in a single place. It's still a valuable resource so just sealing it in a hole seems like a bad move at the moment anyway. your complaint is similar to one about the lack of airports in pre WWI Europe.
Software Testing Trends Testers Need to Follow in 2022
I would estimate that roughly 99%–99.9% of cases get resolved without anything on HN. (Per the GP comment, things have already improved 50% since earlier this year and will, I think, improve tenfold by the end of the year.)
Whichever it is, remember, from a .sig on ancient posts by Vassil Nikolov:

LEGEMANVALEMFVTVTVM (Ancient Roman programmers' adage.)
That speaks to it being a game shaping, but not being an intentional design decision.

I'm familiar enough with SCBW to have played on ICCUP (albeit as a D player)
In this case, I think that the leading Git provider is where it should be hosted, due to community size. And that's GitHub for now. That can absolutely change in the future.
I've never had time for Intel creating 400 different CPUs just to create artificial market segmentation and force people into a more expensive CPU. Why is there an i3, i5, i7, i9 - ahh, right, because then you can try to justify charging incrementally more for each additional feature. Oh you want turbo boost? Sorry that's an i5! Oh you want hyperthreading/SMT? Nope, next model up. Oh you want ECC? That's a "workstation" feature, here's an identical xeon with nothing new other than ECC!

Just STOP. EVERY CPU they make should support ECC in 2021. Give me an option for with or without GPU, and with or without 10Gbe - everything else should be standard. Differentiate with clock speed, core count, and a low power option, and be done with it.
It's unrelated to your main point, but:

> Additionally, R is a very, very flexible language (like Python)

I'd argue that R is much more flexible than Python syntactically. There's a reason that every attempt at recreating dplyr in Python ends in a bit of a mess (IMO) -- Python just doesn't allow the sort of metaprogramming you'd require for a really nice port. Something as simple as a general pipe operator can't be defined in Python, to say nothing of how dplyr scopes column names within verbs.

Arguably this does allow you to go crazy in a way that ends up being detrimental to readability, but I'd say overall it's a net benefit to R over Python. I really miss this stuff and have spent an undue amount of time thinking of the best way to emulate it (only to come up with ideas that just disappoint).

> Finally, when you need to hand over stuff to software engineers, they vastly tend to prefer Python

Indeed, this is maybe 50% of the reason my organization has pushed R to the sidelines over the past few years. We used to be very heavily into R but now it has "you can use it, but don't expect support" status.
Java 17
Morally I agree with you but the pessimist in me thinks that is unrealistic. I believe facebook is primarily motivated by their earnings. If an unhealthy behavior with instagram leads to more engagement, which means more ad sales, why would facebook interfere dramatically with that recipe? I won't be surprsied if they already A/B tested more "healthy" types of content with their feed and recognized it lead to a dip in engagement.
Ah, I can see you have not yet read the article. :)
Sure. I know this, and it's true. But by analogy, this is like saying "heroin is only addictive in small doses if you choose to take less". Is it good advice? Absolutely. Will everyone follow it? Nope. Should we despise heroin addicts? No. We should create a better system.
As somewhat alluded to in the article, there is a similar movement within the study of Classical Greek. In some ways this is even more interesting for classical Greek epics because there is good evidence that they were traditionally sung. There are a number of interesting recordings of the Iliad and Odyssey in the original Greek [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI0mkt6Z3I0
Guess those geniuses earning massive salaries are too dumb to figure out ways to counteract this effect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or they’re paid massive salaries not to do that.
> toothpaste tubes used to be metal in the 60s and you were supposed to punch a hole on the front of it with the back of the cover cap

I'm definitely too young to remember anything from the 1960s, but you can still buy tomato paste in tubes like that. Neat.
>Hey, why is it called the United Nations instead of the United States anyway? Oops, cause there already is a United States. But the UN is clearly an organization of States not Nations.

States are sovereign political entities; of course modern countries tend to have a federal state made of several constituent states (see: USA, Germany, etc) where each claims certain jurisdiction. In ancient times there were city-states like Athens, Sparta... and even in 18th century Europe cities like Venice were states (Republic of Venice).

Nations are people united by something they have in common. That could be shared history, language, culture, the geographic area they live in, or something more abstract like fandom of certain sports teams or other hobbies.

There is considerable overlap between nations and states, and given state is already overloaded, extra words are added for clarity.

I like "state-level" because these sorts of exploits and attacks are really about resources, not sovereignty, territory, etc. The fact is a rich person or company could fund a team that does vulnerability research and get results on par with the top tier folks already doing it.

And, the UN should be called the "United Countries" since it is really about territorial areas. They admit members based on geographical claims; I don't see any ethnic, cultural, or fandom group (that isn't in control of some territory and thus also country/nation) as a member.
Are you an IRS tax exempt organization, a 501(c)3 prolly; where donations to you are deductible from taxes? Its worth the lawyers fees.
In theory no, in practice yes. They had an active nuclear weapons program that officially stopped just short of completion in the 1980’s. They also currently have multiple nuclear reactors in the country.

So, they have the capacity to have produced nuclear weapons in the past or to produce them in the near future, but if they have any is somewhat unclear. Still, I would expect Shanghai to probably get nuked at some point if China invaded Taiwan.
This might also be of military-strategic interest: if you can clean up debris, you can probably also clean up enemy spacecraft.
GNU Taler is not a real cryptocurrency.
> Whatever the working class is in the UK, if they believe that immigration reduces salaries, they are far removed from any modern notion of truth.

Can you provide some references for your (rather strong) claim?
I wonder how a small outfit like UDOO manages to design around an AMD embedded part then. The boards are out there and they work, but I have no idea how the negotiations happened.
> How much does it cost to get the annual flu vaccine in the US?

As with all things in the US healthcare system, nobody knows how much anything costs.

That said, annual flu vaccine is included under mandatory no direct user cost vaccinations in insurance plans covered by the Affordable Care Act (although your insurer can pick and choose what locations they'll cover).
I'm surprised you dont like pandas. I've found it to be a pretty easy to use and useful tool and you can almost always use something like DASK (or if youre lucky CUDF from rapidsai) if you need better performance.

I will say that my very first "real" programming experience was Matlab at a research internship, so maybe i just got used to working in vectors and arrays for computational tasks.
Wrapping at every layer usually ends up with:

failed to start a session: failed to read the session config file: i/o error

This is perfectly equivalent to

java.lang.IOError
in startSession() line 192
in readConfig() line 123
in openFile() line 131

Except that with Exceptions you get this for free, with more context than naive wrapping (and much more than `if err != nil { return err }` ).

Usually with exceptions, you want to catch and add more context at every layer boundary, and get the call stack for free.