skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really sure, I also personally some people that became disillusioned after being very tolerant. (I also know people that integrate very well in that society and like what's going on more than their experience in western societies.)

When I clicked the above youtube link, I saw the similarities to reviewing electronics and advancements with smiling faces that serpentza used to have, before doing a total 180.
The text blob found under `record hierarchy -> record group -> series -> item` seems like it would be useful for the tweet body.

For example, you could add a nice descriptive text and the date "SMOG OVER INDUSTRIAL HUMBOLDT BAY-EUREKA AREA, 5/1972" to this tweet: https://twitter.com/dailydocumerica/status/14524913223848591...

Either way, very cool content!
I’ve seen this and has fed into my hatred of pandas
Offhand, one of the big issues that comes to mind is latency. DDR4 has a much higher latency than DDR2 between requesting and receiving, so could be potentially slower in a simpler core that doesn't have as big of a cache, and less aggressive cacheing/fetching algorithms.
I go in my bobcat cage and move dirt. Cages are for safety, ask shark divers.
Odd, you purportedly know the difference between an OS and a distro - but that doesn't stop you from generating the above nonsense list. Just look at the last 5 items... seriously - all these Illumos derivatives are distinct operating systems in competition with one another? And to a degree that is no different from Netware vs OS/2?! Be serous, that list only further proves my point about the total lack of distinguishing difference in the present offerings - relative to the pre-linux environment.

> So just because you might exist in a Linux-only...

Obnoxiously presumptuous.
> People on the left side of the aisle seem to be invested chiefly in social shame; the right side is actively using the power of the state to control public expression and educational content.

Conversely, even without me digging up any references of the progressive politicians also using the power of government to suppress free speech, it seems like you're making a false distinction.

Progressives are using their power to try to get people fired and unemployable (which is somewhat disingenuous to call "social shame"). When you can make someone unemployable in most of an industry, there's little difference between that and using the government directly. Furthermore, progressives use large tech companies (with power comparable to the state in some respects) to censor speech on their de-facto-town-square social media platforms.
Exactly as usefulcat points out: with modern C++, the bulk of object lifetimes should be handled with unique_ptr and/or directly on the stack, so your destructors are automatically called for you (reducing the risk of double frees or memory leaks).

unique_ptr forces you to think about your dependencies and when objects can / should be cleaned up.
I got "nonaccurately" and before I understood what the site was about I read "this word was invented by machine learning algorithm" and wasn't surprised to think ML engineers would have actually come up with this.
RECAP, what an amazing name. Love it.
> With regards to execution, I don't think anyone has done a better job of scaling physical production faster than Tesla? And you don't have to like Elon but he sure does know a thing or two about this.

Does he though? Elon's hand can be traced directly to production and safety issues. Lest we forget his hubris in trying to do final assembly with robots, a task that was tried and dismissed by multiple "legacy" manufacturers, and directly resulted in defects and manufacturing slow downs. He's not even technically a founder of Tesla. He partially financed the A round, and then started telling everyone he founded the company. Even SpaceX widely seen as Gwynne Shotwell's baby. I will say that he he's enough money and a fan base to make a bunch of meme stocks. That's something.

As far as driving a Tesla, I have. I test drove a Model S several years ago. I thought the regenerative braking was weird, but something I would have to get used to. I liked the exterior of the Model S, but I did not like the interior. I thought it was ugly and empty (a personal preference), and the infotainment system a cruel joke that not only lacked features common on cheaper cars (CarPlay), but was filled with knockoffs (Slacker instead of Spotify or Pandora, and Google Maps without Google turn-by-turn in particular) and pointless gimmicks (Paint). Even with their v10 update that brought Spotify to the US (finally a win), also brought a bunch of video streaming services that only work when the car is in park. (Why bother? Just use your phone.)

I think you should compare a Model S to a Porsche Taycan. They're comparably priced plugin electrics, but the Porsche is well... a Porsche, a finely made automobile with attention to detail. A Model S is slapdashed together; but you're right, Tesla buyers don't seem to care. Also, for some reason Tesla owners purchase their cars instead of leasing them, the only electric car owners to do so. I can't explain either of these facts.
Unladen Swallow is a 20% project. Besides, LLVM's JIT turns out to be an disappointment and I believe that no modern interpreted language uses LLVM's JIT at this moment.
due to Facebook's corporate structure, I don't think Zuckerberg actually answers to the shareholders and board members.
I prefer this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Good_...
IME, people learn best by exploring. You don't need to learn certain things by a certain time, so just explore: Find something that grabs you, start there, and follow your nose where it leads you.

Have fun, find joy and beauty, challenge and wisdom. The classics are renowned for a reason and I find them most appealing, engaging, and get the most from them when I think that the book was written by an ordinary, flawed person; there's a personality, their interior world, their experiences, their own vision, their blind spots, just like me and my ordinary neighbor - it's not scripture, there's another person in the room. Then - holy cow, it's incredible that a human created it. I think our instincts provide a good indication of what we are ready for - based on what we've learned so far and what state we are in for learning.

Also, it took me time to not see classics as tests, and to be comfortable not understanding everything. I'm probably not going to understand everything on the level of the authors of humanity's greatest works (and in their field of specialty at the pinnacle of their achievement), or of the experts who study them, or sometimes even of my ordinary neighbor - they will see things I don't; it's not a race. Sometimes, after reading something else, after more life experience, I return to them and they made more sense. Being honest with myself about what I don't understand helps me gain much more than people who fake it (to themselves and to others). For one thing, I know my strengths and weaknesses and can address them; for another, when there's something I don't grasp, I don't deny its existence (to protect my ego) or twist it into something I already think - I give myself an opportunity to learn more.

If nothing strikes you now, a short history of the ancient world might be a good starting point. It would provide ideas on what to read next, and lot's of context - even modern classics often reference or reflect ancient ones. Britannica provides excellent histories for non-specialists, long enough to take it seriously but shorter than book-length, written with personality and the author's voice voice, and usually by real experts (e.g., leading scholars). If nothing grabs your attention, I'd start with their history of Ancient Greece.

Also, I strongly recommend getting annotated editions of the books, which will explain many of the references which may be obscure to non-specialists, or no longer common knowledge.

Finally, I recommend subscribing to the Oxford English Dictionary, which is fantastic for understanding the history of a concept and all the different ways it has been perceived and expressed over time (with the actual quotes from the people who create and use the words). When you encounter a concept that feels alien - either the word itself or how it's used, a quick lookup in the OED provides immediate sense and context, and gives you some grasp of it. It's really a remarkable work of knowledge - the history of (almost) every concept ever put into words.
You may have just done more to bastardize the english language than all the slang of the past 10 years.

And by that I mean that the words are good enough that people will use them and lexicographers will have no choice but to add them to dictionaries.
well , "crowdstrike" did come up for me. Wish I saw this site a decade ago!
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Classics should in the post data scientific age be moved into subfield of computational linguistics.

Literature is both empirical (See recent work on statistical approach to computational literature studues) and subset of linguistics proper.

The same thing holds for classics as a proper subset of literature.

Problem isn’t’ really disbanding the classics department but not having classics studies computationally based or not handing field over to computational linguists.
I love people who blog on medium. I think of all the advice I’ve seen written on the walls of urinals and to think I could have blogged them on medium!
I seem to recall that you have to show intent to commercialize a patent in order to enforce it. Is that a thing, or just a bit of urban folklore that I picked up somewhere?
The only whistleblowers you should trust are ones the government is attempting to completely ruin.
This comment section full of plutonian chemistry and sketchy rocketry is the perfect place to mention Charles Stross' A Tall Tail [0], a short sci-fi story covering both.

[0] https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
nah, nobody at aws is building slack integrations lol. billing ux has been notoriously poor for a long time, theres no investment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkn5wtPYvOM&t=40s

Have you tried Evoke Motorcycles before?
I had their Urban Classic for over a year now and its decent. Dont get me wrong its not a replacement for my gas one for longer rides. However, going to work is just fine.

They do say they will have one with 600km range https://www.evokemotorcycles.com/6061-gt
and only 15min changing.... well lets see when it comes out.
> For those farther removed from this discussion, "classics" would include Shakespeare

I think for a academic department, Classics would be Ancient Greece and Rome, not Shakespeare (which would be in the English department).
If the US drops Israel someone else will pick them up (like Russia or China or India). The country is developed, produces tons of IP, and is armed to the teeth (and has nuclear weapons).

But this is lala-land thinking. As long as the United States remains on the UN Security Council (which is equivalent to saying as long as the UN continues to exist in any practical form), both Taiwan and Israel will remain our client states.
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> The risk of spreading the Delta infection soon after vaccination with that jab was 42%, but increased to 58% with time.

42% (and even 58%) is still a huge improvement since the article says that the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread is around 67%.

The R0 value for Delta is between 6 and 7. So while an unvaccinated person might pass it on to ~6.7 people you will pass it on to only 4.2 people in the beginning (37% reduction), then to 5.8 people (13% reduction).

This calculation also assumes that your chance of getting Covid is the same as an unvaccinated person, which is not correct.
Ask HN: If novels concern the human condition, what does their decline tell us?
I read this today and saw it as a harbinger of something...

Literary Fiction. This genre focuses on the human condition and it is more concerned with the inner lives of characters and themes than plot. Literary fiction is difficult to sell and continues to decline in popularity

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/the-17-most-popular-genres-in-fiction-and-why-they-matter/
yes. add 40% on top of that for the UK price.
>Key is to look at sum balance. Yes, absolutely, somebody else unwinding will increase your stress level; but IF unwinding reduces their stress level more than it increases yours (and vice verse when the tables are turned), it's a net win

Disagree here. If the other person is always or even is just mostly doing the unloading that's not fair and you just end up sacrificing yourself to the utility monster following this advice. This isn't to say don't ever be empathetic, but also don't let yourself be victim to an "empathy vampire"
> Do you think lower rates for long term capital gains incentivizes investment?

I think the degree to which you want to incentivize investment is highly variable over time and a central focus of monetary policy, not something you want to blindly bake into income tax policy, especially in a way which actively exacerbates inequality, when relative deprivation manifestly is a much greater source of disutility in the developed world than absolute deprivation.

> With the current proposal a windfall of inheritance would not be taxed but a unicorn founder would.

We have an estate tax for windfalls of inheritance; but, yes, I agree that it would be better to abolish estate and gift taxes in favor of taxing those as income to the recipients, too. (As with other income sources, allowing spreading via advance and/or deferred recognition).
"PEP 3146 -- Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython" > Future Work (2010)
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#future-work

Perhaps Google/Grumpy could be updated to compile Python 3.x+ to Go with e.g. the RustPython version of the CPython Python Standard Library modules?

"Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard" (2018)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18040664

Today, conda-forge compiles CPython to relocatable platform+architecture-specific binaries with LLVM. https://github.com/conda-forge/python-feedstock/blob/master/...

conda-forge also compiles PyPy Python to relocatable platform+architecture-specific binaries with LLVM.
conda-forge/pypy3.6-feedstock (3.7) https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy3.6-feedstock/blob/master...

https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy-meta-feedstock/blob/mast... :

> summary: Metapackage to select pypy as python implementation

Pyodide (JupyterLite) compiles CPython to WASM (or LLVM IR?) with LLVM/emscripten IIRC. Hopefully there's a clear way to implement the new GIL-less multithreading support with Web Workers in WASM, too?

The https://rapids.ai/ org has a bunch a fast Python for HPC and Cloud; with Dask and pick a scheduler. Less process overhead and less need for interprocess locking of memory handles that transgress contexts due to a new GIL removal approach would be even faster than debuggable one process per core Python.
Ingestion: You are already dead.
There are electric rental scooters littering the streets of most major US cities. They have their uses, but Americans aren't about to use them for primary transportation.

It is very common for Americans to work outside of their neighborhood and have commutes that require the use of roadways with higher traffic speeds than neighborhood streets.
MicroPython isn't really an alternative implementation of Python so much as it is an embedded scripting language that looks pretty much identical to normal Python.
Ummm...what are you talking about? You just made that up.

https://free.law/recap/faq

Is sharing court documents a violation of copyright law?

The court-created documents provided by PACER are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. The question is a little bit more complicated for documents filed by third parties, so we asked a prominent legal scholar about it. He told us that such documents may be under copyright, but he thought redistributing copyrighted court documents was legal under copyright's fair use doctrine. However, there is very little case law in this area (some examples are here and here), so it's impossible to be sure. We certainly believe citizens ought to have the freedom to share public court documents, and we hope RECAP users will help to establish that precedent.

The PACER "policies and procedures" prohibit "any attempt to collect data from PACER in a manner which avoids billing." Is this what RECAP is designed to do?

Absolutely not. PACER charges users for the documents they download from PACER. RECAP users pay for every document they download from PACER, just like any other user. RECAP simply gives users a second option: to easily share documents directly with one another, as they're permitted to do under copyright law. When a user downloads a RECAP document, the document comes directly from our server; the process imposes no additional load on PACER's web servers.
My buddy has a Zero electric motorcycle and it is fun to ride but has limitations I am not ready to give up a gas motorcycle for. But first the price. He paid something like $16-17k CAD for his bike. I bought my Honda for less then $2k and I can leave him in the dust all day long.
The limitations I didn’t like were one range. It could not go long enough and are rides were short lived. We have beautiful open roads so it is easy to go 40km in one direction. You may not make it back if you went much farther. Second was it’s top speed. It could reach 140km/hr but it could not sustain that speed for more then a little bit then the battery management system would slow you down so then battery didn’t over heat. I know some will argue that the speed I mentioned is faster then any speed limit around but that is besides the point I can go to a track and race legally and that bike just doesn’t have it. Lastly the charge time. They sell the bike with the basic charger and it takes 10 hours to charge for about 85km range. They offer a fast charger but it was over $1000. I personally think they should have given all owners a fast charger I think the 10hr charge really takes away from the bike and after spending so much my buddy was hesitant to spend even more.
The pros of this bike were it was silent. Also very zippy off the line. But still my gas bike from 1983 can kick it’s ass all day long. After owning it a few years he is now wanting to sell it and buy a Honda dual sport gas bike.
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SBCL is already about as fast as Java and can get most of that speed without very much time optimizing everything.

Java has hundreds (thousands?) of developers working on it.

SBCL has a handful of part-time devs.

What could SBCL become with all those man-years behind it?

Custom syntax is hardly the big issue when using Common Lisp. I'll take that any day over the dozens of layers of useless abstraction in Java projects. I'll take it over the C code golf or "what does this undefined behavior do?". I'd even take it over the piles of garbage JavaScript I've waded through over the years.
I've seen other strong studies showing that government cost per-capita is _much_ high for suburban and rural areas. Intuitively this makes sense when considering infrastructure - more people use a road in a city than in a suburb, and vastly more than in a rural area. Yet those roads cost a similar amount to construct and maintain.

One of the best analyses I've seen is from Strong Towns - a blog devoted to building livable and financially solvent towns and cities. In their deep-dive analysis of Lafayette, LA, they find that the only part of the region generating enough revenue to sustain the maintenance costs was the dense old-town city center. [1] Most of the costs examined come from infrastructure (roads, power, gas, water), not social services.

I imagine the calculus is different when considering federal government expenditures (as you point out), as the majority of federal expenditures are towards social security, medicare, medicaid, and the military. However, there is significant federal subsidies to farmers as you point out, and huge sums of cash for highways, power, and other infrastructure.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
The places where pandas blows SQL out of the water are in exploratory data analysis and visual output.

The exploratory data analysis part is mostly a product of composability and verbosity. Composability is hard to define succinctly, but an easy example of it would just be the ability to easily define a filter as a variable and then reference that same filter in later code. Python provides a better interface for defining higher-order operations than pgPL/SQL, hands down. As for verbosity, I get data requests at work that require a lot of chained transformations - where I’d have to write 5-10 CTEs and a bunch of GROUP BYs and window functions that would total ~300 lines of SQL. Pandas equivalent would be <50 lines, and also easier to iterate on due to the composability factor. Other “killer-feature” examples of pandas terseness: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...,
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p....

Feature parity varies by db, but pandas is generally much more expressive and capable than SQL for string munging and time-series stuff.

This is before getting to Jupyter, which blows every SQL interface I’ve ever seen out of the water. One-liner plotting with Pandas is a complete game changer for investigating any unfamiliar dataset; the first class plotting integration is really hard to beat.

All that said, can’t comment on your coworker’s situation without knowing the context. A billion time series datapoints might be fine, but if it’s a wide table using 100s of gigs, probably not smart. I wouldn’t use pandas in a large ETL pipeline without a very good reason, nor would I ever use it for serious joining. If he is just straight up trying trying to functionally replace SQL with pandas code, he’s definitely not doing it right.

(Am data engineer, have been working professionally w/ SQL+Pandas on a near-daily basis for over 3 years.)
True, but the more important thing than even the card catalog was that once you found one book, there were other books on the stacks "right next to the found book" due to the fact that the books were organized by either the Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal systems.

Consequently, your searches had a built in "proximity" result--which would give you more knowledge and keywords to do your next search with.
Go ask someone who professionally writes smart contracts.
I wonder if this data could be used to index papers based on the type of mathematics they employ.

The same applied math turns up across domains - I would love to be able to see who else is using the same math I already know on their problems.