skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the idea of the tutorial level masquerading as a regular level, so it doesn't feel like a tutorial. Earliest example I know of is Super Mario Brothers 1:1, but it may not be the first. It's distinct from simply ramping up difficulty, because it involves things like deliberately presenting challenges & opportunities in a certain order, and, at first, in isolation.

[EDIT] incidentally, here (many) games have an advantage over other software, because they play linearly rather than presenting a large space of possible actions all at once. Games that are more similar to productivity software (city builders, say, or grand strategy games) have trouble doing this without it being obvious that you're in a tutorial.
As an aside, castle.xyz looks really cool! I can’t wait to play around with it.
> Perhaps teaching users to bias analyses with e.g. Yellowbrick and the sklearn APIs would be a good curriculum traversal?

Yellowbrick > Third Party Estimaters: (yellowbrick.contrib.wrapper:
https://www.scikit-yb.org/en/latest/api/contrib/wrapper.html

From https://www.scikit-yb.org/en/latest/quickstart.html#using-ye... :

> The Yellowbrick API is specifically designed to play nicely with scikit-learn. The primary interface is therefore a Visualizer – an object that learns from data to produce a visualization. Visualizers are scikit-learn Estimator objects and have a similar interface along with methods for drawing. In order to use visualizers, you simply use the same workflow as with a scikit-learn model, import the visualizer, instantiate it, call the visualizer’s fit() method, then in order to render the visualization, call the visualizer’s show() method.

> For example, there are several visualizers that act as transformers, used to perform feature analysis prior to fitting a model. The following example visualizes a high-dimensional data set with parallel coordinates:

from yellowbrick.features import ParallelCoordinates

visualizer = ParallelCoordinates()
visualizer.fit_transform(X, y)
visualizer.show()

> As you can see, the workflow is very similar to using a scikit-learn transformer, and visualizers are intended to be integrated along with scikit-learn utilities. Arguments that change how the visualization is drawn can be passed into the visualizer upon instantiation, similarly to how hyperparameters are included with scikit-learn models.

IIRC, some automl tools - which test various combinations of, stacks of, ensembles of e.g. Estimators - do test hierarchical ensembles? Are those 'piecewise' and ultimately not the unified theory we were looking for here either (but often a good enough, fast enough, sufficient approximate solution with a sufficiently low error term)?

/? hierarchical automl "sklearn" site:github.com : https://www.google.com/search?q=hierarchical+automl+%22sklea...
In presentation form: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/life-after-java-8/
Can we please not pretend that these issues are new? Instagram didn’t invent body image issues or children being monsters, they’re just participating in something which has existed forever.
To who? The company? The developer?
>The biggest problem has been that all the productivity gains have gone to the 1% essentially.

Going back to the other commenters note on wishful thinking: your situation requires a major refactoring of American politics and governance.

'Subsidizing' car dealerships at it's worse makes cars slightly more expensive, which is probably a societal good (yes even electric cars).
yes J&J, and yes, it's back on the market; it got pulled off for like a week or two in April but returned shortly thereafter:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-and-...
> As with all things in the US healthcare system, nobody knows how much anything costs

Once things are opaque one has to start wondering about motivations, financial incentives and <groan> the underlying politics.

Getting the vaccine into another wealthy & healthy child "for free" vs getting the vaccine into one poor & elderly adult ("but who will pay?") would appear to have very different outcomes, at least based on what we thought we knew about seasonal flu. The wealthy & healthy child might end up being off school for half a day less (maybe). It's almost certainly a bigger deal for the poor & elderly adult.

Perhaps it's just a lot easier to convince the healthy & wealthy family to take their kids to the pharmacy and have the insurer (cough) foot the bill?

Side note: the EU doesn't seem to be that keen on vaccinating healthy youngsters against seasonal flu[0]

"The immunity that is elicited by influenza vaccines is not as long lived as the immunity following natural influenza infection. This is especially so for individuals in the so-called risk groups, hence people have to be vaccinated annually [..]

The main strategy of immunisation programmes in Europe is to directly or indirectly protect the more vulnerable individuals"

[0] https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/seasonal-influenza/prevention-...
The space stuff moves a lot of terrestrial stuff off-planet. Telecommunications has physical impact, much of it still wired and strung/buried across very long distances, or otherwise occupying space for lots of grounded towers. Sending that garbage (rhetorical or literal future) up solves your “worry about” for that industry. Yeah it matters.
When a virus "mutates" it doesn't replace its entire genetic code. A vaccine might work just as well against a new variant if the mutations are in an irrelevant area (e.g. outside the sequence that codes for the spike protein).
Granted, Hacker News is banned for causing depression in too many people :D

Mozilla went bankrupt because too many ~~idiots~~ outstanding citizens tripped and fell while using Firefox.

YouTube was banned for causing deaths with their irresponsible use of information.

Who knew fixing a car, building a high powered laser or eating a Tide pod is dangerous?

Not the users' fault.
Anecdote to support your statement: A close friend that tested positive for COVID last year works at a hospital. They saw no value in getting vaccinated since they had already been infected and recovered. They were given an ultimatum last month of "get vaccinated or find a new job".

Reason has left the building.
If you hate America so much, then what are you doing on a Silicon Valley forum? Do you ever wonder why there’s no Silicon Valley in your country?
I appreciate the quality of the art given that this is presented (at least partially) as a tech demo! Oftentimes you don't get both; it's refreshing to see
> You accounting for taxes?

Yes, taxes are very comparable in California and New York on this income level. 400,000 CAD in Ontario is taxed at a net effective 44.8%. In BC 43.8%

In California you'd be taxed at an effective 42%. In New York you'd be taxed at an effective 43.2%. And after the Biden tax hikes go into effect this starts to look a lot worse.

Not to mention the Canadian tax bill includes healthcare whereas the US salary is reduced by $12,000 a year to account for it.

> HST? Gasoline? The general higher cost of anything imported?

You're making $400K a year and you think that a $55 average monthly gas bill is going to make a difference?

Yes this is all factored into the PPP adjustment. [1]

> How about the recent run up in housing costs?

It happened in both countries.

> Having worked in both countries, $300k USD goes way further in the US than $300k CAD in Canada.

I suspect this isn't true.

Now you can cherry-pick non-tech cities in the US, but I can do that with Canada too, and of course, the vast majority of tech folks have historically chosen to live in NY and CA for a reason. Will that hold? Who knows!

[1] https://www.oecd.org/sdd/prices-ppp/purchasingpowerparities-...
Environmental Awareness: Environment Values in SwiftUI
Agreed, hardware drives computer behavior; this fact horrifies some "people";

Raspberry pis are computers and, so, raspberry pi picos are computers. Raspberry pis, and picos especially, are obsessed with computation related to hobby projects. This doesn't change because computers can technically compute anything.

Is what people are "horrified" by the dangerous facts you spill, or the fact that your analysis here completely misses the point when we talk about social media and interventions aimed at curbing their tremendously negative impact.
No more Lombok @Data annotations needed...
NB: Post author here.

Std deviation definitely helps a lot, still often not as good as percentiles, was actually thinking about adding some of that in the post but it was already getting so long. It's funny how things you think are simple sometimes take the most effort to explain, definitely found that on this one.
I'd love for council tax to be scrapped, but I'd prefer it to be replaced by a risen in income tax, with money dished out by Central government to local councils.
Interesting but the "Isn't this just multiple return?" section seems to completely miss the point. I don't see any examples of what multiple-return would look like. And multiple-return is what I want.

At first glance, it looks like this (sure, more powerful) pattern matching system is not going to satisfy my desire for a compact syntax that lets me do the equivalent of this typescript:

const [foo, bar] = getMeTwoThings();
the real question is : Am I less likely to be hospitalized when getting delta strain if I am vaccinated for alpha strain
Forgive me if I don't consider "you can tell someone's race from physical features" to be quite as extraordinary a result as "particles can travel faster than light".
Could you please stop posting ideological battle comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, regardless of which flavor you favor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The new FFM API looks really cool. Still incubating but having better native interop I think could really be a big win. Most developers will never touch that stuff but having the ability to manage native, off-heap memory and safely(ish) make native calls will be great.
> and they go blue primarily because of the discounts, would the pricing end up being slightly smaller than otherwise?

I don't know about the others, but AWS already has different prices for ec2 for AMD vs Intel vs ARM. It's not a case of "going blue", they'll support anything that people will pay them for. Pricing tends to be dictated more by power usage than by hardware cost.

For non-directly-ec2 backed services (like ECS and s3, as opposed to say RDS) I'd guess they'd go all in on ARM regardless for the power savings.
For non-NUMA aware workloads with high inter-core coordination (for example, a write heavy database workload) Intel will still perform much better because the cross-chiplet latency of EPYC chips is very high. Going through the IO die and to another chip is about as expensive as going to main memory.

Hyperscalers are running web servers which is a different story. But if you're running web servers you might be better off with Graviton in perf/$.
> Very antithetical to functional programming.

You are confusing functional programming for pure functional programming. This is like confusing Smalltalk-style OOP with OOP in general and then complaining about C++.

Mutability and functionalness are orthogonal, although the immutable style lends itself well to functional programming and mutability is more kludgy in FP.

But given that both Rust and Go have first class closures, they qualify as a functional programming language. The definition of FP is that functions are data. Python, Rust, Go, etc all fit this definition. Modern c++ does as well.

There is no reason not to include these languages, not only they support functions as data, they also support higher order functions (functions that take callbacks accepting callbacks accepting callbacks, ad infinitum).
I'm also baffled by this comment. Wouldn't that same reasoning also apply to moderation, i.e. if you think Facebook's moderation is bad, you should just not go there? How are they "controlling people" if you acknowledge that going there is voluntary? Also what if their moderation is what is making a lot of people happy? I really don't get what your complaint is, please be more clear.

Edit:

>it's impossible to decide what is and isn't false

I can't agree with this, all organizations have to decide at one point what is false and what isn't, otherwise they have nothing to act on. It would be more convincing if you could suggest ways their moderators could resolve these disputes and determine what is actually true, because what you're suggesting sounds to me like they should just decide that everything is false all the time.
One thing I like about this post is that it explains things in an accessible way before getting into a deep dive. Might be worth sharing with the marketing team as they'll "get" long tail in the context of web search, so the concept is fairly transferable to stuff that they would know about.
Which is not free money from the government. It’s a loan.
Yes, but somehow, web browsers never check for "device integrity", and websites just blindly trust that the browser, or whatever it is on the other end, would do whatever it's told. They don't even have a reliable way of telling what kind of device or OS the user is accessing the website from. And everyone seems to be fine with that.

And that's how it should be with apps, too. And people need to be educated to never, ever be so trustful. You lost your savings to a scammer? Well, you'll be more diligent next time.
OneNote. Since 2006. The sections and subsections may vary, but each note is purpose driven and dated. Each meeting gets an entry and Outlook has a good feature where I can "create notes" which will let me mark who was present with their contact info for easy reference.

Typically, the notes these days are hand written. If I want, I can use OCR to convert hand written notes to tired text, but search finds my hand written entries so I don't bother.

Notes are generally bulleted lists. I go back later and make TODO items from them. I can also clean them up and send meeting notes out to the group.

I like OneNote because I can embed images, screen clips, use hand written notes, access them anywhere, link to files (directly or embedded) and organize how I like. I don't like the newer "non desktop" versions of OneNote so I use the old 2016 desktop version.
This is the Daisy project the article talks about, which appears to have been neutral on this kind of sentiment.
For the most part, the various JDKs not really different. They're builds of the same OpenJDK repo.

They occasionally have a few small changes, maybe with a few extra bugfixes new or a backported.

The one small difference between compiling it yourself is that Oracle does control the TCK, a test suite for the binaries that Azul and others might use but not open to you.
I've found that Toronto has a bigger appetite (pun not intended) for higher quality "fast food". Quiznos and craft burger joints also come to mind.
> The store wasn't clean, the food was overly greasy but not in a good way, and they didn't properly season the fries.

When they expanded the "new concept" in Texas, guessing 90s-00s, they were often coupled together with a Long John Silvers and they obviously shared the same fryer because I could taste seafood with the fries. If I order fried seafood that's fine I suppose, but not when I'm ordering a burger and fries for a meal from A&W which has no seafood (AFAIK). I think I tried it twice in total and swore it off. All to say, when it comes to consistency, they weren't even trying.
Thanks for posting this. I noticed that, install a guard was one of the last "if only" possibilities.
> Either wages need to rise or house prices need to fall.

Raising wages in not in the best interest of share holders.
> This is the definition I’ve always heard

It's not as precise as you think, because fertility isn't transitive. Consider members of a species, M1, M2, F1, F2. M1 might be fertile with F1, M2 with F2, but M1 may not be fertile with F2. Are they all really members of the same species?

Read up on the species problem for more information (there are now 26, not 24):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept
There's the old saw about how you pronounce Latin will depend on whether you were taught by Father Brown or Father Leary.

In areas where Catholicism has predominated, it's more likely that the ecclesiastical pronunciation will dominate. As I recall, the German exchange students I had in some of my classics courses used the classical pronounciation (their big weirdness was pronouncing θ as an aspirated t (like in Goethe) rather than a th sound.
Ya reminds of the (awesome but at the same time horrific) post apocalyptic film Threads: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/?fc=2&ft=29&fm=1
"Just assume that an employer will take whatever an employee is willing to give regardless. It's the employees' responsibility to push back and manage their own work-life balance."

We have tried 'maximum capitalism' experiment in the 1800's: it gave us children in coal mines working 10 hours a day and dying of blacklung. It gave us people in workhouses losing their hands because the steam press malfunctioned and then starving to death because they have no way to support themselves.

Do you want goid old days back, or do you have good reason to believe it will be different this time?
I agree but to be fair, I do remember that a lot of fresh international undergrad students just arriving from China tended to be very patriotic and pro-CCP even back in early 2000s. The difference is that a lot of them changed their minds after a few years living in a different country.

I did notice back then that graduate students who had completed undergrad in China tended to be much less pro CCP and not buying that much into things. This does seem to have changed.
Driving libzip with Tcl's CFFI package
See my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28527329
Well, CCPA started doing this in California. In the event of a data breach, the company can be sued for actual damages, or statutory damages of $100-750 per affected consumer.

As a point of comparison: If CCPA had been in effect during the Equifax incident, the statutory damages only for California residents would have been $1.5 billion minimum. As far as I can tell for Wikipedia, the settlement they agreed to with 48 states combines to about 1/3 of that amount.
>> an engineer I worked with had a father in dentistry and told me my kid had "German teeth in an Irish mouth"

Off topic, but this sounds very engineery, indeed. Was the conversation polite?
We (Fundación PostgreSQL) posted a new post titled "Respecting the majority, questioning the status quo as a minority": https://postgresql.fund/blog/respecting-majority-questioning...
After Floyd's killing, Minneapolis police retreated, data shows
NB: Post author here.

That's really nifty, wish I'd heard about it earlier. Might go back and add a link to it in the post at some point too! Very useful. Definitely know I wasn't breaking new ground or anything, but fun to see it represented so succinctly.
"Travel to Australia is possible exclusively by plane or boat" is a sentence very few people would have a problem with, although you could also technically and with great effort get there by swimming, blimp or hanging from a million helium baloons and hoping the wind blows the right way.

In all discussions I've heard that mention "exclusive value" or a similar concept, the agreed-upon definition was always something like "where all others are orders of magnitude worse".
Isn't it almost always that the safeguards in place are poor? Either poorly maintained or the caretakers don't care at all.
I am not. I reported something and was fired the next day. I was also wearing a PAPR (N100 Powered Air Purifying Resperator) for the time I was doing testing. Though I was in close contact with many infected patients, I was also in pretty hardcore PPE. I'm doing much more photography for now and some music work as I find the right place in tech again.
Yeah -- std deviation has a similar problem to the mean in that it doesn't give you a full picture unless the distribution is close to normal / gaussian.
The imprecise definition of "species" is exactly what I was describing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept
We got rejected by braintree, and went on a multiple month long back-and-forth and in the end it got nowhere.

Fixed it by using Fastspring. It is a fully integrated solution, with a slightly higher fee, but saves you a lot of dev hours. Their support is amazing.

Edit: it might sound clunky, but asking for wire transfers costs almost 0 dev hours, but can still used to prove your potential clients would really pay.
Access to cheap loans is partly what's driving the prices up. I think a better solution would be to enact legislation that penalizes the use of residential real estate for capital gains or profit in general, including serial landlords and AirBnBs.
anyone able to run Java 17 on a Pi ? wonder if there is an ARM release for Pi yet.
Now if only the standard release for PineBook Pro would use newer than a 5.7 kernel so we could get hardware codecs.

Might just have to sit down and figure out how to cross compile Gentoo for it.
There are some newer data structures that take this to the next level such as T-Digest[1], which remains extremely accurate even when determining percentiles at the very tail end (like 99.999%)

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04023.pdf / https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest
that's exactly why you should rethink the concept of a 'dog whistle'.

1 ) painting an individual politically by extrapolating a single opinion across their entire persona is irresponsible and over-simple.

2 ) 'conservative' is over-generalized to the point of uselessness and ambiguity.

it's a concept (dog whistle) that is used strictly for generating rage and calling other individuals to arms so that the crowd picks up torches and pitchforks and follows your lede in attacking an individual's opinion with as little prompting or individual thought as possible.

the classification and announcement of a 'dog whistle' makes civil conversation near impossible afterwards, even if those who announce it are dead-wrong or working in poor faith against an individual.
On an individual level, it makes sense to talk about personal responsibility.

However, if you are looking at a large percentage of people experiencing something, it isn't helpful to just say all those people need personal responsibility. You can point to individual failings when you talk about an individual, but if 75% of people are having individual failings it is symptomatic of something structural.
Is it? It sounds like you are explicitly disagreeing with hpcjoe's position, but just a bare "no, I'm right" isn't informative. Can you give some reason or argument that supports your position over hpcjoe's?
loads of fun. shouldn't take many more bytes to add a crosshair and proper movement code
keep in mind that most of the latin you end up reading in school is rather formal/complex. it's hard to parse in a similar way that charles dickens is harder to parse than casual/informal english. stuff like de bello gallico and some new testament books (greek) can be very straightforward.

it is definitely hard to get started with latin/greek when your native tongue is a highly positional language like english, but I don't think it is intrinsically harder. the same information is there, it's just encoded in word endings rather than order. in english, the word order is only really important within individual clauses. you can still write very complicated (and syntactically correct) english sentences with clause orderings that are very hard to parse. I'd argue this requires just as deep of a mental "stack" as latin/greek.

anyways, that's just my two cents as someone who studied, but never fully mastered, latin and greek in college.
Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
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Worst case those just trash some family photos of a dead relative. Hardly anything important.

/s