skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I repeat, it's a myth, started to be perpetuated since putin https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myths-and-misconception...
A data frame is one of the basic, built-in data structures in R, which was released in 1993. And R was based on an even older S.

So it’s not a new thing.

If you don’t work in computational statistics / data science it might not be a well known term, though.
They have no legal bearing whatsoever for demanding that you install this on your own private laptop. Challenge the idiocy by instead asking them to send you another laptop, one that you will use just for this project, on which it will be OK to install the spyware.
Why are Americans so ... feeble?

In most other places of the world, pain is simply expected and accepted after a surgery.
Version 1 might look odd but version 3 would look an awful lot like a normal programming language. There is no special "programmer" phenotype of person, there's only people who program. All of our current programming languages ultimately trace their history to non-programmers.
> This doesn’t have the same faux objectivity as

This is the crux of the issue I suppose. If you don’t maintain this plausible deniability, you get accused of being biased when you report the actual truth.
Yes, my hard disc at that time (similar experience) was more silent. The sound is either exaggerated or from some even older 5.25" disc.
Why would I want to be welcoming or positive? While I'm not exactly aggressive person, I'm more like neutral person and I would never want to fake welcomeness or something like that. If someone will approach me with question from documentation, I'll never hesitate to answer RTFM and move on.

May be that's US thing that everyone must smile and be kind. I was not taught like that, I don't expect that from others and I'll not fake good mood being in a bad mood myself.
How is it relevant? Tbh I think the way of thinking in which that would seem relevant is completely fucked up.

Also, do you believe women would not be competing for resources if there were no men, and are not competing for resources in general?
One of my family members gets terrible debilitating migraines. When they get it, the whole day gets lost, vomiting, dehydration, maybe a trip to urgent care.

An opioid based tablet they are prescribed for migraine cuts this to about 2 hours. The tablet is issued only by the clinic itself or in a major hospital pharmacy and you can't buy it in regular pharmacies.

The problem in US is lack of controls and perverse profit incentives in the American healthcare business.
QBASIC
Amazon's own retail operations ("sold and shipped by Amazon.com") are simply a mechanism to keep people paying for recurring Amazon Prime subscriptions. Retail profit margins are 2% to 4%, and Amazon has expanded beyond it to businesses with much higher profit margins such as AWS, media (music/tv/movies), logistics, and as a platform for other sellers.

Amazon's market cap is $1.7T, and Walmart's is $391B. And Walmart's retail business is much larger than Amazon's. Compared to Amazon's non retail businesses, Amazon's retail business is worth only as much as it keeps people subscribed to Amazon prime.
Isn't that redundant next to (youtube.com)?
> Shouldn't a company of that size and revenue be able to do both at the same time?

On its own, probably, but holistically it’s always more complicated than that. They don’t have infinite resources and zero coordination costs, so they still have to make product development tradeoffs.
The science was always uncertain, the policy flip-flop was understandable, the absolutely fubar'ed PR is the nightmare fuel.

Masks work. That was not the question. How much they help is the question of science. The cost-benefit decision is the question of policy. How to communicate the changing policy should have been the PR question.

The US and international agencies that set policies are not as science-driven as they should be. ( https://www.slowboring.com/p/our-public-health-agencies-shou... )

Framing this as "lies" is counter-productive. Policy converging with science is mostly a good thing, but first that needs high quality science (= high quality data, asking the right questions, etc). The current US communication zeitgeist using "science" as a shorthand for "policy based on cost-benefit evaluation of such and such scientific reports by this and this community of experts and stakeholders" is a big problem, but it's a symptom of other bigger US social phenomena.
Would love comments / ideas on how to improve ...
> getting in touch with a real person is near impossible

The secret seems to be to leave a balanced, well written negative review ... then they contact you pretty quickly.
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An improved version would be for GPT-3++ to ask clarifying questions when designing/building the app, rather than merely receiving commands
Thanks for yours too! Isn’t this civilised? I can tell I’m not on reddit… I think what I’m getting at is the way an AI learns is kind of a black box. Maybe it is learning about cyclists head movements. Maybe it only learned that for cyclists wearing helmets. We don’t really know it’s put the pieces together correctly - like the classic example of training an AI to recognise friendly tanks and it just learning the difference between day and night.

Because we let it essentially define its own characteristics for recognising things we don’t know if it picked the right ones. We just have to hope the training data was large enough to average out. Using the right features is fundamental to understanding what’s really going on. Perhaps occasionally an AI might notice some connection we humans have been ignoring and that might be good. But in general I think we’ve done a pretty good job of allocating words and language to the important things. We separated out the body into parts that make sense. That kind of thing. If an AI had those underlying building blocks wired up more like our own. maybe understanding in a similar way that we do would be a lot easier.

Last quick example / thought experiment:

To test understanding in a person you try asking them questions that would confuse them if they didn’t understand.

Eg. If I photoshopped a crocodile head onto a Tiger’s body and have it a fish tail and put it on the moon. My toddle would still recognise all the bits and describe it as such. An AI would just come up 33% ish for each possibility because it doesn’t understand what an animal is and that it has those parts.
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Perhaps I'm grumpy, but questions like this irk me. A programming language designed by a non-programmer would simply not work. It would have non-logical magic the non-programmer expects us programmers to create, things like the "do what I mean" function. One would have to seek out someone with a nearly programming language formality in their logical thinking, such as a mathematician, or linguist.
Whatever such a non-programmer would create, it would have giant logic holes they never imagined, rendering the toy "language" unusable for anything beyond the toy concepts the non-programming imagined, and those would require that "do what I mean" function to work at all.
I can recommend WinDev. They use pictures of women to advertise their technology. It can't be bad (ignore the people complaining about the database corruptions, they are jealous because they didn't get the latest WinDev sexy calendar).
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Yeah, I really do suspect that a lot of the rotten parts of programmer culture stems from things like this.
The knobs look like resin to me.
What was used for the calculations for the voice assistant? I'm sure a lot of that is pretty well defined out there, but I'm not into golf so I wasn't sure.

Also was wondering about the "ball dispenser"- were you feeding a ball back into a tube for that, or is there a mechanism for loading the next one that wasn't explicitly shown, sort of like a pinball machine?
Arguably, the new laptop being difficult to procure is a feature, not a bug. It serves as a deterrent to installing that agent, if it's easier to just make an exception.
It does not for me and actually modern browsers do not allow automatic sound playback without explicit user interaction.
Jokes on you. I'm currently using a Q9400 as my daily driver :-)
What you say is totally right, and the only thing that feels slow is 1080p 60 fps video decoding in web browsers, because it has to do it in software AFAIK.
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Always remember, inflation is the goverment printing (inflating) currency to the market in order fund it's agenda by stealing your savings. Basicaly inflation is just another process how government steals your money. Inflation is NOT rising prices, they are trying hard to derail the definition. That's why your purchasing power stagnates - by design.
> Steve Miller, chair of the Purdue board of directors, said in an emailed statement that the ruling "will delay, and perhaps end, the ability of creditors, communities, and individuals to receive billions in value to abate the opioid crisis."

> "These funds are needed now more than ever as overdose rates hit record-highs, and we are confident that we can successfully appeal this decision and deliver desperately needed funds to the communities and individuals suffering in the midst of this crisis," Miller added.

I mean, if that's what you're concerned about, you can just do that now, without a court decision. You can just spend money on opiod addiction relief. You fucking muppet.
That sounds similar to The Matrix.
I don’t know R but SQL is definitely ugly.

There is no world in which listing the columns before the tables in a SELECT statement is a good idea. It makes intellisense/autocomplete awkward.
This observation is pretty widely shared.
>The idea that opioids are addictive is a myth.

They have literal physical withdrawals. The body becomes dependent on them. What else would you call that?
It would look like HyperTalk. I still get a kick out of a programming language that feels like English, prepositions and all.
The US’s pharma have done a ton with pandemic medicine. Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Novavax, Gilead, Merck..
Divorce rates and abortions exploded in the 70s and have been coming down since then
Why is the author bringing this trash to me??? Maybe if you CS undergrad prof didn't teach how "how to be fast" but taught you dependency injection you would be competent.
If you're coming from web dev, I would think of it as a "foreign function interface" from javascript. You're calling a function defined in some other language. Here's a function, in WAT format (Web Assembly Text), that returns the number 42:

(module
(func (result i32)
(i32.const 42)
)
(export "testfunction" (func 0))
)

Go to https://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/ and paste that in the middle box, then click assemble, then download, and you'll have a local file called "test.wasm".

Then, since you already do web dev, get that test.wasm file and a new page accessible from a local web server. The new page should have this in it:

<script>
// should log 42 to the console
WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch('https://path/to/test.wasm')).then(prog => {
console.log(prog.instance.exports.testfunction());
});
</script>

Everything else is facades, layers, and tools on top of that. But that should help clear up what's at the bottom from a web-dev/js perspective. And also what the "2 halves" are. One half being, in your case, that the Rust compiles down eventually to WASM that you host somewhere. The other half being that you need to be able to call into that generated code from your JS.
You should try one of these P-38 can openers they use in the army [1]. A bit challenging to get the hang of, but they'll last the rest of your life and inexpensive to boot.

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I run Debian in a VM, use ssh and VSCode SSH tools to do work within the VM.

Compilation, docker, everything happens in the VM and my MacOS host is just a thin client that hosts my code editor and browser.

VSCode will automatically forward ports, but I prefer to manually manage port forwarding using `-L` and `-R` ssh arguments.
I've met others who could never manage to get things done. I was never in a position to call them out on it formally.

1. What do you fill your time with at work when you aren't working? IE: YouTube, Doodling, or reading? (I'd count reading code as working).

2. How often do you think about your work? It's it only the 10 hours you claim, or do questions such as this one occupy your mind? (An extreme: ever dream about your work problems and solve them?)

3. How are you choosing what to work on? It's implied important else I'd assume you'd be fired.
Work up to SOLID and we can cover microservice architecture in the next course, son
I've been building from components, but now designing my own circuits. It's easy with chips like the 3340, but still requires calibration. With just basic opamps though, getting v/oct and good tracking is really, really hard and is really temperature sensitive, so requires mechanical work like epoxy resins and heatsinks, etc..
R has a lot of surprises built in and is fairly inconsistent. That makes it harder to fully learn (always have to pull up docs for everything). Also it means every so often I'll forget some weird edge case of a function and get a totally wrong result. For a certain class of work, this is fine: if you use it every day and are confident catching errata you'll learn all the weirdnesses. Many professional programmers work in a half dozen languages a week, so one that is significantly harder to learn will feel frustrating. For me it'll be actually slower to get the same result as other tools since I have to relearn its unique way of working.
50 years ago was 1971. There were lots of programmers and programming languages in 1971. By then we had Fortran, Algol, Cobol, Logo, Basic, Simula, Lisp, Snobol, B, APL… I could go on.
For some people pandas seems to click. Good for you. I always struggle with google and the manual to get even simple things done.

I can never figure out if I am gonna get a series or a data frame out of an operation. It seems to edit rows when I think it’ll edit columns and I constantly have to explicitly reset the index not to get into problems.

I think dplyr is easy to read and write. It does get longer than other alternatives, but the readability is imho so good at it doesn’t feel verbose.
Not even engineers; this is true of all business. Any metric defined quickly becomes a goal whether it was intended to or not. Once you attach incentives to the metric, it will be focused on to the exclusion of everything else.
The only signal that results in pay-rises is whether people are leaving to get higher pay elsewhere.

This is the signal that tells an employer that "the market" is valuing people more and so you should pay more to keep them.

Inflation based pay rises are a myth, in that the company is giving a pay rise because the rest of the market is giving pay rises and that delicate balance between retaining people and losing people can be upset.

Should you leave to find something better paid elsewhere? Sure... if money is all that drives and motivates you. But it's not always the case geographically that you have options, and remote work remains somewhat limited for the majority of people.

If people leave my employer will that bump my salary? Sure... if enough people leave and their exit interviews all reveal this "we are under valued and I can earn more down the road" pattern. If people leave for a myriad of personal reasons then the company has no evidence that the market is paying more and they should bump their salaries in return. Even then, it will happen next year as this stuff takes time to build the evidence and result in the change.

Inflation based pay rises were not what you thought they were, and now inflation is rising it's plain to see.
They are stupid for using visualisations that break standard python logging.
This exists. Current implementations work badly enough even in the trivial case that they are completely useless. Making a better implementation would involve technology that we don't have yet. Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27428671
> "The poster says "Their business model (in my case) seems to be to take money from companies to spy on their employees/contractors, and then they sell the employees/contractors private information to "targeted advertising".

> Do you have any evidence for this?? I've just been involved in selecting Drata as a vendor for SOC2 compliance planning for our company. If this is true it's a huge deal and totally against my understanding of their business model. It honestly sounds like bullshit to me! But if you have evidence that they do this, please let us know."

Do you have any evidence that they don't? If so, can you describe a few bits of your investigative process and how you reached the conclusion? For the sake of alleviating people's fears and to clear up the nonsense.
> intel is literally getting into the GPU market 2022

Haven't they always been in the GPU market? Sure, they don't compete on top-end GPUs, but almost all their previous builtin/onboard GPUs:

a) Shipped more than NVidia or AMD

b) Were performant enough to satisfy 90%+ or PC or laptop owners.
> Are you able to, as Your Company LLC, (self) certify yourself as a SOC2 complaint entity? Maintain your own records and be able to provide them for audits from the parent company?

I recognize that you are just making a creative suggestion here, but that is impossible. SOC2 certification is incredibly complex and hard to manage (not to mention, costing tens of thousands of dollars a year). It is difficult to the point of impossibility for one person to achieve.

Not only is is practically impossible, it is also literally impossible for a one-man show to achieve SOC2, because there are control objectives that require separation of duties and verification of one person's work by another. I think the absolute smallest a company could be and achieve a SOC2 would be three people.
I have worked in such an environment. It was likely running on an overprovisioned server, that had to be accessed via an Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin. I'd rather be using a green-phosphor VT100 at that stage.
It is unfortunate that Target even got into the 3rd party retailer game, as customers are now at risk of Target starting to commingle inventory like Amazon.

But at least Target and Walmart allow you to filter search results for items sold only by Target and Walmart, hopefully restricting to items sourced directly by Target and Walmart.
I think in this case that art imitates life.

Most people working in IT when these things came about were burned very hard by being a "cost centre", they were user facing and also had to be deeply technical.

It's difficult to be under appreciated, held to high standards for output but also be user facing (because support requires, more than anything else, patience) and maintain a positive demeanour, most people specialised into roles like "Helpdesk" but those always felt very entry level and were probably very unfulfilling.

Even if you had a Helpdesk: it probably felt that the implementor was "very far removed" from the user, which makes things even more annoying when something breaks down and you want things to move quickly.

BOFH is almost certainly a fantasy that follows the perception of an operations person. Certainly I believe that more than I believe it's a work of fiction that came from nowhere that people identified with and imitated.
I would definitely refuse that. If it's a deal breaker, you can turn the demand around though, by asking what are the actual requirement for the SOC 2 certification to be met and, if possible, metting those in a way that works for you.
Stripe fees are higher than Solana $USDC transaction fees.

You also don’t have to worry about getting your account shut down or funds frozen. I once worked for a YC company, LendUp, and we started off using Stripe for accepting payment but had to stop because the policies of their partner bank at the time disallowed servicing of our types of transactions. We spent a large chunk of time integrating with many different payments processors on and off, it was rough.

In summary, web3 has the potential to be and already is, cheaper, faster, and permissionless.
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Yea, I agree, but will not go as far as saying they are not addictive. At high doses they are. Point me to a study claiming they arn't at high doses.

I must have taken 10 antidepressants over the years. It all started with a run of the mill panic attack, but morphed into daily Generalized Anxiety. Debilitating, but according to my doctor not enough to get SSDI.

My father died, and a nurse I knew saw how much I was drinking. She gave me a couple of Norcos.

I finally felt normal.

I didn't fall into begging/robbing for the drug.

A doctor who heard my story prescribed bupenorpine off label for symptoms of depression.

It's not nearly as good as vicodin, but I've been on it (same dose) for over decade.

There are a lot of studies that conclude if you give opoids to certain people, they are fine with the original dose. (These studies were mainly performed in senior citizens, and rest homes though.)

My point is opoids feel good, and can make a lousy life rosy. The consciousness patient will not seek higher, and higher doses, I think?

We will probally never know now.

I do have some accuantances whom are in extreme pain every day, and everyone of their doctors cut them off of opoids.

No one is talking about the people who didn't abuse their meds, but were cut off, or told to go home and taper off, and take useless NASID's.
That’s a fair point. Banker’s monitored trades and accounts are on record internally and usually tracked by their firm’s surveillance software. Not public though thankfully.
Super high level elevator pitch:

It's as fast as Rust, nice to look at like Python, easy to write like Python, and compiles to static binaries for any platform you can think of.

There are a lot of other great things about the language but this should get anyone excited.
> [...] Basically, a 2005 Windows UI is mostly a bad windows UI.

It is good to look back at what they did wrong, but also what they did right. For me the most notable things:

BAD: too many windows and dialogs. The 90s GUI paradigm was all about pumping out a new window or dialog for every interaction or feature. In this regard Microsoft Windows was actually the least offender, most Unixes and Macs went even further and had each toolbar on its own window, it was madness. In this regard modern single-window apps are much better, the modern tabbed web browsers being the best example (I love that even the config dialog was turned into a tab).

GOOD: the clear visual separation of "layers". Modern GUIs are too flat for their own good, there is little visual cues separating the app window vs app content, everything has almost the same off-white background so the app toolbars and the app content sit on the same visual domain. The late 90s Windows had a very clear distinction: content have white background, app (window,menus,toolbar,widgets,...) had grey background, so the eye was automatically drawn to the one you wanted. Looking at the screenshots in the article the difference is jarring, the Windows XP/8/10 panels are mostly visually flat, there is nothing guiding your eyes to what you want (content vs toolbars), while the 95/98/2000/ME and Vista had clear visual layers.
Well said, and good luck with your problem. These workarounds are a flag one is in the wrong place. I recently left the job where I did the two-pis hack.