skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the many companies I've done data science with I can only think of a few, rare exceptions where R wasn't used as much as if not more than Python.

If you're mostly dealing with Neural Nets you won't see much R, but for anything really statistical in nature R is a much better tool than Python. For anything that ends up in a report R is much better than Python (a lot of very valuable data science work ends up being a report to non-technical people).

> breaks down on data manipulation

This is very outdated. The tidyverse eco-system has bumped R back into being first in class for data manipulation now. This becomes less true as you get further and further from having your data in a matrix/df (I can't imagine doing Spark queries in R), but if you already have a basic data frame, manipulation from there is very easy.

Even for things that end up in production, whether you're in R or Python, whatever your first pass is should always be a prototype and will have to be reworked before you get close to moving it to production.
Apple September 2021 Keynote
Whenever I hear people say "technically correct is the best kind of correct", I inform them that that's technically incorrect.
Globalization equalizes wages amongst people who can't lobby for protectionism. So only for the poor. If medical/drug patents and professionals were subjected to the same type of globalization that lower-leveraged workers were, inflation would run in reverse for the next 10 years. Instead, people who spend most of their income on consumption are drowning in what are really hidden tariffs and rent-seekers doing arbitrage.
Your comment is the only one in this entire thread that mentions reliability. Even if it were a meaningful metric in the context of race, an AUC of .68-.72 is a puncher's chance at best.
... Windows subsystem for Windows? (Although I guess maybe wow64 was that already)
In other languages you have these endless try/catch things and then the error is all the way at the bottom away from the actual problem, plus it feels kinda hacky.
Fair point, though I'd say such ORMs are broken by design by the sound of things.
Microsoft-made Linux distribution finally making Linux on the desktop happen, did somebody wish for it on a monkey paw?
I agree that if someone is doing this, they do not have definitive proof.

The comment I was responding to claimed "most" people are making claims without proof. Despite the hundreds of millions (billions?) of covid tests that have been administered throughout the pandemic in the U.S.
Best estimates are that photons only make up about 0.005% of the energy density of the universe. There's just not enough of them.
I think many of us skimmed the last third of Seveneves.
The vaccines that are already distributed were distributed considering the original plan of only two doses per person. More vaccines would need to be ordered to get enough for a third dose.
Given that the head of Samsung was in prison for bribery of the president(of korea) and then got released on parole for using Covid vaccination as currency I'm guessing that they DEFINITELY will not.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/samsung-s-lee-receiv...
< I hate finding CSVs that other data scientists

Ideally you should be using the parquet format which will use the binary format, preserve column types and indexes [df.to_parquet(<file>); df = pd.read_parquet(<file>)]

You can get away from a lot of problems by simply avoiding text files
I think it's that the worst of us usually come out "ahead".
apparently a lot of sailors because that's how they went extinct
I'm surprised since many computers still struggle to emulate even the PS2. Is this because the PS4 and newer consoles use less exotic hardware/architecture? I understood this to be why the PS3 is almost impossible to emulate.
Robot vacuums are learning to avoid dog poop, but that’s not all they can see
> Hospitals should have been setting up Covid wards, or tents.

They have, at least where I am. As demand goes up, they've even shut down whole clinics to reserve them for COVID patients.

> The hospital had enough time.

They definitely did not have enough time to train and hire new nurses and doctors.

They are not quitting out of ethics, ego or pay. They are quitting because they are overworked (more patients per doctor), and putting their own lives at risk because people made a choice not to get vaccinated.
> Isn’t most of the complexity associated with itemized deductions

I had to laugh a little at this, its like saying, "CPUs, isn't that just a bunch of switches?" Yes, you are correct. But it's been nearly a century of wealthy people hiring lawmakers to create hundreds of thousands of esoteric deductions that are only accessible to people who own business that they can fiddle with, aka rich folks.
> parts of Dublin are worse than anything I've seen in Northern Ireland

Hah, if that isn't the perfect illustration of the folly selecting your data to support your argument.

No doubt N Ireland is lovely. Dublin is too. A lot of people of the world be thrilled at the opportunity to live in either place.

And I'm sure both have worse parts, since every sizable settlement needs a less desirable part to concentrate it's less desired residents.
I wrote this:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/the-social-media-problem/

Which has a bit of a different angle, but my conclusion is that social media as a tool can be useful but that in the aggregate right now it is a serious problem for which we are ill prepared as society.
The next priority in my project is to integrate payment. I decided to use Stripe. Given this, now I think I should review my decision. I am checking with HN users, what alternatives are out there and what is your experience with them.
Next Spaceflight
Thank you! I was curious about exactly this. But now I have a new question. If a photon is sufficiently energetic to be capable of briefly fluctuating into an electron-positron pair, does that imply that it would, over a long distance, be slower than c, since the e-p pair can't travel at c for the brief moment it exists?
Well there are other reasons for debris besides just satellites going out of commission. For example in 2007 China deliberately blew up the Fenyun-1C satellite for some kind of research purpose accounting for probably thousands of current pieces of debris up there.
They're extinct precisely because they were very, very tasty.
quarter means divide by 4. quadruple means to multiply by 4.
Based on their forum it seems like "when they next update their dashboard". I guess check back tomorrow and hopefully the option is available for all plans.
thanks. will check it out.
I think the throwback on HN on this decision is due to the lack of details and context on the news?

From what I've understood from the local news (I'm a South Korean), It's not about blocking handsets with forked Android (that already happens regularly AFAIK), but the requirement of shipping Google apps like Chrome and Google Assistant. The big elephant in the room here is Samsung phones, which do ship it's own custom browser Samsung Internet (BTW, with ad blocking capabilities!) and a separate virtual assistant, Bixby. That's the part where the KFTC decided was monopolistic.

I don't have a personal opinion this, but seems that the comment threads are focusing on the wrong part.
Manufacturers were always able to bundle up their fucked-up version of Android.
They were always able to ship super-custom UIs. Google never prevented that... but they did force the UIs bloat by having two separate default apps.
I think the difference is that men are more physically violent. Boys fight and throw punches. This doesn't translate well to Instagram. If teenage boys spend more time online and not in person, then they have less opportunities for physical violence and abuse towards each other. However, it's different with teenage girls. There's more emotional abuse and pressure to look a certain way. Instagram and social media are a very efficient way for this type of abuse to take place, so it prospers there with young girls.
> Based on this logic, flu shots are useless

If you believe the reports stating that the flu has basically been eliminated since the start of Covid-19, it seems the shots are indeed pretty useless! All it took was some half-assed masking and social distancing measures, that half the country swears the other half isn't doing. Who knew?
It's to flatten the curve. Approx 10% of vaccinated still require oxygen and other medical measures. And with hospitals currently at full capacity, boosters are a short-term way to keep the hospitalization numbers low until kids can get vaccinated and every one else has had their chance before we fully open everything up once and for all.
it's really simple: you ration care according to the urgency of need. it's no different than any other event that would bring more people to the hospital than usual.

i've heard stories like what you're talking about. they don't make much sense. hospitals running out of oxygen? get more oxygen. that's why we have roads and trucks. not enough beds in the icu? build more. i think often about the start of the pandemic, before it got over here. i saw a story on the news that china had put up several hospitals practically overnight to handle the influx of patients. but here there's nothing but lame excuses. when i hear that kind of stuff it feels like i'm talking to someone that owes me money but doesn't have it.
It’s not hard data. It’s nonsense. There are so many confounding factors that comparing Israel and Sweden is non-sensical.

Hard data is easily available directly from the horse’s mouth [1].

As of today, in Israel, for age 60+, per 100K population. Unvaxxed are 4.5X more likely to be seriously ill compared to 2 shot vaccinated and 40X compared to 3 shot.

For under 60. The same ratios per 100K are 3x and 10x.

1. https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general
> If you went to an alcoholic and said “this shot has a 90% chance of curing you of alcoholism but had side effects and you might end up quitting anyways” would you still call them an idiot for hesitating?

Depends on the side effects obviously. If clinical trials revealed nothing but rare allergic reactions to shots themselves and priors based on established medical knowledge predicted a very low chance of anything unusual happening over the very very long term, it'd be a no brainer. Nobody just quits alcoholism. It's by definition a difficult process.

> Type 2 diabetics can prevent most of the complications if they adhere to a strict diet and medication regimen. When they end up getting a limb amputated do you call them idiots as well?

I would call them idiots if they were presented a single shot to cure them of type 2 diabetes and they decided not to, then lost their limbs.
> Young girls and young boys (and adults, etc) have peculiar behaviors that differ among groups.

But what I’m saying is this behavior isn’t “peculiar“ among these groups at all. It’s the same. Yet we only seem to talk about how it happens amongst young girls and ignore how the behavior is frequently directed towards them as well.
> Intel and AMD are both like that, and it makes me wonder how much space they have opened up for ARM.

Arguably, this is what led to the creation of ARM. Acorn wanted to make a computer with a 286, but Intel ignored them, so they decided to build their own RISC based CPU, the "Acorn RISC Machine".
I work as a systems developer for a bank and records is an easy replacement for a very popular dependency called lombok. Now, records doesn't necessarily do everything that lombok does, but for us it replaces what we actually need. One less dependency and I'm a happy camper.
ECC support is an actual +10-20% cost in materials for the motherboard and DIMM manufacturers. Also, ECC errors are basically non-existent on desktop/laptop workloads. ECC is worth the extra cost in servers, but for desktops and laptops, the market got it right.
Could someone explain the significance of this, why it took so long, and what it opens open?
“Research” - they were testing their orbital targeting capabilities.
Going back a bit further, Mark Weiser came up some principals around 'calm computing' [0]. As we transitioned into the ubiquitous computing age, computers were supposed to disappear. I wish that were the case but we seemed to have designed them to need more attention than ever.

0: http://quicksilver.be.washington.edu/courses/arch498cre/2.Re...
Problem is of course that it's not always possible to know long term effects when you make a decision on some more immediate benefit. So it's not like you're even making an informed trade-off.

As an example, I'd wager that the rise in childhood asthma/allergies is related to something that was thought to be (and maybe actually is) beneficial for children's health in the short term.

When I was a kid, there were a few people I knew of who had chronic issues with asthma and allergies but it seemed pretty unusual. Today, it seems like half the kids on my kids sport teams have inhalers or epi-pens or both.
I have doubts as to the survivability of any 'mammoth' produced. The ancient animals were part of an ecosystem long extinct. Their gut biome for instance is long gone. While they might gestate something and even bring it to term, it could die in days because it can't live in this world without a parent mammoth to donate its biome.
>some extreme (though mainstream and influential) people take "gender is a social construct" to mean that literally all differences between the sexes are socially constructed including height, weight, strength, etc (otherwise known as "blank slatism").

Could you give a reference to someone who actually says this?
wow this is fascinating, taking the veneer of something in the tautological space and using it as sheep's clothing over something known to be a wolf. There's something curious about this form of misleading that deserves to be identified and named to be called out in future instances.
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No, it's not the same as a physical product but there's a growing body of research, supported by some of Facebook's internal commentary, suggesting that it has similarly addictive characteristics, which is why I made that comparison. The point, again, is simple: most people recognize that it will not be optimal to tell everyone that it's their job to ignore a billion-dollar promotional system run by a company which makes more money if they get addicted.

There are some things which you could try regulating: for example, a lot of what drives the dubious aspects comes back to algorithmic promotion maximizing time on site and advertising views. Legislators could ban algorithmic promotion for children, require companies to identify and curb addictive levels of consumption, or require companies to put more effort into moderation on the posts & comments which they promote.

Similarly, I believe at least some countries are exploring requirements to clearly indicate photos which have been modified or retouched.
> So what should they have said in the beginning?

Probably something like “Masks aren’t proven to help yet, but unless covid is unlike any other respiratory disease they probably won’t hurt.” Yes, this could’ve caused a rush on them (though maybe that would’ve alleviated some of the need in hospitals?) and we would’ve had to deal with that, but lying to people in the name “for their own good” is not empathizing with them.

Getting too deep into technical reasons in the middle of such an event is not understanding the definition of teachable moment. Most people aren’t open to learning deep knowledge when their fear or other emotions are up, but it can take real skill to avoid diving into details as an expert. And I have some sympathy for people getting metaphorical microphones shoved in their face, but that just goes back to my point about public health (and medical people in general) needing to know that their job is as much soft skill as hard.
> So generally, to use your example, a non-ECC processor is a regular processor "who's" ECC logic has failed and is inoperable.

But no high performance mainstream desktop Intel CPU supports ECC [0]. Meanwhile AMD doesn't have any that lack it.

What gives? Surely Intel's ECC logic doesn't have such a huge defect ratio that Intel can't have even a single regular mainstream part with ECC.

At work I need fairly low performance CPU with decent integrated graphics. Intel's iGPUs are great were it not for the lack of any parts with ECC. Nevermind that finding a non-server Intel motherboard with ECC support would restrict the choice such that there'd likely be none with also other desired features.

[0] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefi...
> hike taxes on vacant stores 1000%

That's how you get high streets lined with charity shops. Not that I have anything against charity shops, but is that really what you want to see?
This is something they want to explicitly stop when they can show ads to a user base, so why make a fallback that allows users to pihole the ads?
The Covid-19 Hospitalization Metric in the Pre- and Post-Vaccination Eras
I agree that Hibernate in particular is broken by design, but it is what it is...
N64 Memory: SRAM to FRAM and Battery Life Calculations
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is a tool for communication.

Most users benefit from social media and you can't condemn them for not questioning other aspects.

Nevertheless, it is essential to question the intentions and procedures of the company behind it. I believe that external observers and institutions are required for this to happen and to spread awareness of things running afoul.

However, like so many things, software can be used for good, as well as for evil purposes. The difficult task is to define that boundary without compromising the utility for most users.

Related topics: Games, app stores, default browsers, etc.... How far does the state have to intervene? How much responsible behaviour can be expected from the user themselves?
> This domain was never submitted to HN before, so I suspect this is some other article which was put through the so-called "synonymizer" software.

If that's true the domain should be banned. There's no point in reading things that garbled plagiarizations.
They do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit
1) Kids have less experience from which to pull from to inform them that an action might be harmful, how an action might affect those around them or when they are doing too much of something.

2) How the development of the prefrontal cortex affects decision making is a thoroughly studied topic and it is very clear that decision making ability becomes better as we mature(when looking at a significant population...again there are OBVIOUSLY outliers).
I was using the word "animal" in the sense of "non-human." The point is that non-human intelligence is particularly difficult and complicated for us to discuss, because no member of our species has experienced it and so we can only reason about it through complex experiments and logic. We can't lean on things like personal experience and language in our investigations of it.
> Why are young girls so awful to each other? I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect that is has to do with "hormones," new emotions, and new social awareness, etc. But, it's also the case that from a strictly evolutionary perspective, young girls are are the most fertile and therefore the most desirable.

How could the words "I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect..." not be considered blaming them? There is definitely some nuance here (I don't think the parent comment is hard-lining to say that the victims here are 100% to blame), but they are most certainly associating some level of blame to teens and their inherent "predisposed" behavior as you say.
You'll also have nobody to work in the hospitals or pick food for you :)
Apple produces one A series chip for the iPhones every year. How does that work?
Usenet, IRC, Forums all connected friends and diverse groups over the internet before "social media", and IMO they did not have the same negative effects because they did not "gamify" the system with a reward feedback loop like the current social media systems do
One major risk source I see is that the size of the training data for the races isn't the same. For white vs. black patient data, there's between a 2:1 and 3:1 ratio bias in both the training and test data (and a much higher ratio bias for Asian... as high as 20:1 in some of these categories).

This gives the CNN more information on one race than another, which can create a classifier that performs very well on the training and test data it has access to but then flakes spectacularly on data outside the training set (because the source isn't representative of the total variance in the global population).
Hold on. Compared to the ancestral environment, we have:

* Much more sterile environments for fomites. We wash everything including our hands

* Much more sterile environments for water pathogens

* Much less sterile environments for respiratory viruses. We now have indoor sealed buildings that allow aerosols to build up. Ancestral humans would not have had this

It seems to me that we could plausibly use less sterility in terms of stuff we touch, but more sterility in terms of air.

Water seems fine as it is: you see some pretty bad results in places with water borne pathogens.

On what basis can you argue we evolved to have more respiratory pathogens than present, given the lack of indoor environments in the past?
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There is Help to Buy [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_to_Buy
Nanoservices? Snark semi intended.

(edit) What could go wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
There were a few stories that called into question the effectiveness of these tests ranging from PCR, antibody, antigen, etc.
Can't connect != Receives junk from the legitimate server. In that case, "junk" was an empty response.

They did test the game with an unavailable ad server, but it was still brittle (as in: not tested with badly formatted ads)
> I've said from the beginning of this year that I'll get vaccinated as soon as the government gets out of it. At this point, the mandates are specifically why I refuse to get vaccinated.

Do you find any irony in your decision being controlled by the government's policy?
Gen. Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclear weapons from Trump
> Aliens may as well sort us by the colour of our pants as soon as the colour of our skin

This made me chuckle. But it is a good example. I bet there is a lot we can infer from people based on their common go-to colors for clothing.
Not really. This should be an emergeny-use only type support. But don't penalize (by making them pay) for a screwup on your end.
While parents may or may not be the “most” influential people in a child’s life, I think it is certainly possible that the influence of parents/family/tribe can decrease in relation to the influence of the broader world due to changes outside of the parents’ control.

I certainly think the internet gave me access to many more humans, ideas, and tribes than my parents' generation had access to, and it would be hard for me to see how it would have been possible for my parents to have as much influence on me as their parents had on them.

I would even say it is indisputable there are forces beyond parents’ control unless the parents opt to live an Amish lifestyle, such as using devices connected to the internet and various social networks. If you do not give it to your kid, someone at school will, and even more, you probably need to teach your kid how to play the game rather than have them start it blind while the other players have experience.