skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use R for any heavy data manipulation, but I primarily use the data.table package. The efficiency that both of these packages unlock is absolutely unparalleled in any other tabular data manipulation library, in any other language that I have used. And R has the top 2!!

My skin writhes every time I need to type:

table.loc[(table.column > 2) | (table.column2 < 3)].reset_index(drop=True)

when I want to subset a table.
Excellent comment. This is exactly how I explain it to the students I tutor.

I tend to use the term "contextual recall" rather than the term "memorization", since the former emphasizes that it's okay to rely on a combination of memorization and pithy resources.

Hand anatomy is the best example I can think of. A good diagram can help you recall enough information to answer complex questions that would otherwise require an incredible amount of memorization. You still need to memorize some things in order to answer questions -- mostly the kinematic aspects and various properties of the things being represented (tendons, bones, muscle, etc.) -- but far less than you would need otherwise.

The one pager of theorems and proof construction techniques sometimes allowed in mathematics courses is another example.

This is why generative models are exciting as the next "tool for thought" for me, up there with calculators and search engines. Contextual recall is a powerful tool, especially when combined with memorization, and is a limiter for lots of folks (including me).
It was not my intent to advocate for or against wind; I merely wanted to keep the comparison fair.

But, if you insist . . .

The gas required for standby is miniscule compared to what is burned under load, and frankly, I would bet money that wind was curtailed before "wasting" any gas. Even if we burn gas today, gas not burned two days ago, was not burned. So, it is nonsense to dismiss the benefits of wind.

I do not know what the future picture will look like, but given the relative cheapness of wind generation, I suspect there will be a significant over capacity installed. Grid storage is also coming along. New interconnects are being installed such as the North Sea link to Norway. We are currently importing 1.4GW from Norwegian hydroelectric. I suspect wind energy was exported to Norway when it was blowing. And yes, more nuclear is being built, in the form of Hinckley Point C.
The Mongolian Gobi desert seems to top out at 27C - https://www.amicusmongolia.com/climate-average-monthly-tempe...

(Low of -33C, harsh)
I saw this happen in real life the other day on a recent trip to home depot. Saw someone walking down the road on my way into the store. On the way out I noticed gmaps reported a very quiet behind-the-store road as red, with heavy traffic, presumably the single person walking created the jam.
This happens to me at the tunnel for the 7 train at Hudson Yards in NYC. EVERY TIME. and it doesn't matter that I've ridden it dozens or possibly hundreds of times.
It's quite a leap from someone not personally wanting to represent an alleged rapist to not wanting someone to have representation at all, but the author made that leap easily within only a few paragraphs. The rest of the article goes in to the real point they're making (anti-CRT yadda yadda) but the original premise is so shaky that I just can't take it seriously.
sure the music was fine, it might win best achievement on music score, or music edition... but best picture? you cannot evaluate a picture from the music lol
You crossed a major line here in bringing in someone's personal material as ammunition in an argument (if this can even be called that). That's a form of personal attack, which we don't allow here, and which we ban accounts for doing, so please don't do it again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I interpreted that as gas being too expensive to make it worth being an Uber driver.
Not saying they had to go no-name though, plenty of good known actors out there who hasn't been in a bunch of blockbuster movies recently etc.

But I get what you're saying. Sad, because it really detracted from the movie for me.
I actually agree that common law systems kinda suck in a lot of ways, but their replacement with personal power pretending to be professional judgement is a step backward, not forward.
Most downloads of the entire Wikipedia per country
It is a challenge for many developers. It’s taking developers I work with between 2-5 months to really grok it.

So if you’re working on multiple tiny changing projects, or with contractors who are only gonna be around for 6-12 months, it’s possibly not worth it.

But if you’re working on a project that needs to stick around, and the people you’re working with are colleagues who will remain in the company even if not on the same project, the training is totally worth it, IMO.
R is designed for data analysis, not for general computing. Its syntax differs from that of other systems. Python's syntax also differs from other systems. Same for Matlab. And so on.

Non-uniformity imposes a burden that will be too much to bear, unless the system offers particular advantages. The fact that several systems co-exist is proof that the advantage-burden balance is favourable in each case.

There is no need to converge on a single tool. Carpenters need both saws and hammers.

In practical applications, language syntax is just part of the story. One must also consider the issue of available libraries. One thing that really stands out with R is its immense collection of well-vetted and well-documented packages. Python and Matlab -- the two main alternatives in my discipline -- fall far behind R in this respect. If there's a journal article on a new statistical technique, then there's a pretty good chance of a package written by same author. And, if that package is on CRAN (the repository for such things) then it has undergone quite rigorous testing on several types of computer, with several versions of R.
With Emacs org-babel I just do the refactor using the normal tools for whatever language on the tangled files and then detangle it back to the literate document. There's no problem here.
Keepass was recently found to be less secure and expose password in plain text in some situation. Depending on how your OS deals with drag and drop, might not be the safest option.

BTW KeepassXC did not have the same issue.
The parsers[1] that ElectricityMap uses are open source and use a variety of different data sources.

Here are the technical requirements for each data source: https://github.com/electricityMap/electricitymap-contrib/wik...

(to answer your question, the list mentions that a data source is required to be: "Updated in real-time with less than 2 hours of delay." ... "Can have a longer delay, but then the country won’t be colored on the map")

[1] - https://github.com/electricitymap/electricitymap-contrib/tre...
Ledger Investing (YC W17) is making its metrics public
I worked at a company where the CIO believed everything vendors told him, and nothing any of his employees told him. He also got lots of kickbacks from said vendors and was eventually perp-walked out of the company.

Same company had a head of security who was full-time employed by two different companies at the same time (he had unlimited vacation time for both) without either knowing the other existed.

Best thing was that the company did investment/insurance services and had a banking division.
I use Strongbox on iOS which I highly recommend checking out. It's payed (one time) but open source
What is Web3? NFTs? DeFi? I’m going to save you a lot of time: They’re scams
Dauergeist [dowr-ghaist]

= Durationgeist :)
In that, I agree. I don't know of many (any?) tools that are by nature bad. I just think there are many that are oversold.

That is, my point wasn't to say that you can't do it wrong. Rather, doing it right may not further the end goal. Just look up the article of someone trying to TDD a sudoku solver. It is painful, even though there really isn't any one thing that the person did wrong.
You underestimate how much other low hanging fruit there is. Yes, at some point using less integrated hardware (due to driver issues) will dominate but we are pretty far from that being the limiting factor.
The datasheet suggests that it's a real CM4 inside the box.
USSR, England
I don't want to bicker about it. There are interviews and clips of Dugin on Youtube. The reader can decide if the man is a fascist for him or herself.
Ask HN: Has anyone raised venture debt?
I’m looking into raising some debt or financing receivables for the company I work for and it looks like there’s been an explosion in debt financing for SaaS companies. To name a few there’s Clear, Pipe, Settle, Mercury just launched their own… Have any of you had experience with these different companies? How did you shop around to figure out which deal made the most sense?
Why aren't alcohol manufacturers investing in self-driving technology? That seems like it would be a net positive for them now that you mention it.
I use FOSS in my personal computing needs which heavily intersects with my professional interests. Using 3rd party (FOSS) exposes me to bugs, issues with documentation, problems running things on esoteric hardware, security issues, eventually performance issues. Because of this I often need feedback from maintainers and I'm at their mercy for how fast my issue is resolved.

Supplying a patch, giving feedback for issues, is the least I can do to give back to the people who took the time to write that code.

Because some projects I contribute to are also relevant in my day job I get a deeper insight into that part. Money/financial aspects do not play into that decision but I'd be twisting the truth if I didn't admit the positive impact FOSS had to my career.

Having contributed to FOSS projects in a public way also says something about the person I'm interviewing. If most of my stack is built on FOSS and an applicant comes along with a cool CV but has not one contribution to a single project it's immediately a hard pass from me. I never put applicants through silly technical screening sessions unless they are fresh outta university. But no public commits are a red-flag for senior engineers.
https://archive.ph/HJ3wI
Bear in mind though that one needs to keep taking exams to maintain CPA status

Nope, not in the USA.

Most states have "continuing education" reporting requirements which can be self study in many cases. Take an approved on-line class every 2 years and you're good in most states.

Also bear in mind that most accountants (at least in the USA) don't have any license or certification. Try practicing law like that.
You mention that the code is constantly updated and must be shared with colleagues.

Are you the only person modifying the code? Or do your colleagues modify it, too?

If the latter, distributed version control is why git was created.

Git isn’t the only way — certainly distributed projects existed before it. But you’re going to need to use version control and I don’t think you’re going to have an easier time convincing or teaching hesitant colleagues mercurial or svn instead.

For reference, I am also a (non-software) engineer working with code. We have an internal GitLab instance. There were definitely growing pains getting folks to use it. But it’s certainly been better than asking Joe for his version of this code and Bill for his version of that code and getting them to play nicely together. It helps to have your leadership on board. So a department chair in your case, perhaps?
> The best you can do as a maintainer is to be mindful of the original problem that the solution was architected for, and extend the thing without crossing certain boundaries and assumptions.

Speaking of boundaries and assumptions, one of the most important realizations I have had about software development is the true meaning of modularity:

Software modules are the things whose boundaries limit the spread of assumptions.
I flag them because they're bait for this sort of resentful complaining.

Normally I hide them rather than look at the comments, too, but I went "maybe this one is better?". And it's not. Standard cancel-culture hand-wringing about literally nothing, by an author whose claim to fame is finding increasingly nasty things to say and claiming that no, it is everyone else who is mean.

It's tiresome, HN doesn't need it, flag and move on.
Is that for third party only though? Perhaps also confounded by higher-prices of cars in cities vs rural areas when you do crash into something = higher costs.
"none of this was supposed to happen"

It really wasn't, and I'm sorry. I'll bring this up at the next Deep State meeting. Keeping college kids under control is something that all political conspiracies struggle with, and we'll do better.
What software do you use? I have a poor memory and heavily used Notational Velocity as an external brain, but it's Mac only and I'm looking for alternatives.
Is "sorry you are having difficulty" a "weasel phrase"?

"Weasel phrases" are non-apologies. A simple non-apology is something like, "I'm sorry you are feeling that way". Let's say Bob wrecks Alice's car after coming back from the bar last night. When Alice wakes up, she notices the car is wrecked and she will be unable to take a client out for lunch in it. Alice becomes angry at Bob as a result and indicates he is responsible for wrecking the car and not telling her the night before, so she could get another car to drive. Alice would want a resolution, either in the moment (Bob giving Alice another car) or an assurance that it won't happen again (a real apology accepting responsibility). An "I'm sorry you are feeling this way" from Bob becomes the non-acknowledgment of the actual cause of the emotional output from Alice. Instead, it deflects back to Alice for resolve. This is tedious, at best.

A good tip for Bob avoiding these "you statements"[1] is to leave out "you" as the object of his stated emotional output. Instead, Bob could say "I hear you are feeling sad and angry because I had a wreck and came home last night and went straight to bed without telling you". This comment from Bob becomes a non-you statement by splitting on the "because" and the "without". There exists a separate acknowledgement of the emotional output from Alice, "I hear you are feeling sad and angry" and an acceptance of the action and result, "I wrecked your car and didn't tell you about it."

It is my opinion you get a lot of these types of comments in public forums, where the conversation is a matter of public record. When given the choice between leaving a public trace of "We were the cause of your difficulty...we'll fix you up though." vs. "We hear you are having issues...", I do think companies will tend to do the later, waiting to give the more specific comment to the recipient outside the public view. Maybe our tendency to think we need these comments aired in public is some sort of error in our reassignment of another's emotions. Their emotional output isn't ours, but we may have empathy for it.

As others have mentioned, the comment comes from someone who seems to care about these things, so if Alice trusts Bob, she'll let the comment slide knowing he'll come through for her in the future.

[1] https://www.cnvc.org/
Should the same thing apply to a government entity? Government isn't a person. Should google be able to get all the DOJ lawyer emails in discovery?
With or without an unsubscribe link, I'm marking it as spam and blacklisting you and your service.
If somebody is going in expecting a space western like Star Wars or Star Trek, then I agree with you about the pacing. I think the movie moved along beautifully.

I didn't expect to like it because I didn't really like the book. For me, this is one of the few times where I think the movie is better than the book.
It sounds like a pretty good question to me.

As a follow up you could scope out how familiar the candidate is with alternate encoding options and what the trade-offs and use cases are. (BSON/MessagePack, Protobuf/Avro/Thift, FlatBuffers/Cap'nProto).
USSR's borders were not changed by external powers. And England? Do you mean the end of Empire? I'm not sure on the dates but it mostly predates nuclear deterrence.
> Maybe Julia is the way forward?

Julia is well worth learning, if you do computationally-expensive work. It is kind of a pain to use interactively, though. I use both R and Julia in my research. Think of Julia as the new Fortran, though, not the new R.
Yeah, we have bigger problems in the American legal system. Such as the fact that we do almost no data collection. We have no idea how effective individual judges, courts, prisons, or prosecutors are because no one writes it down anywhere.
This is the only acceptable result to society and if they limit responsibility it eill only be due to industry lobbying and in benefit to no one else. This can't be an externality for everyone else, if it is too much of a burden sinply don't sell your murderous half baked self driving and we'll keep going on like before.
How is this different from riding as a passenger in a taxi, for example?

Also: Drive Pilot is a level 3 system, not a level 2 system. That's the entire point.
> Then, an associate in her late twenties stood up. She said there were lawyers at the firm who were “uncomfortable” with Boies representing disgraced movie maker Harvey Weinstein, and she wanted to know whether Boies would pay them severance so they could quit and focus on applying for jobs at other firms.

This is an odd hill to die on, especially for an attorney who knows how the US legal system works. Everyone, no matter how despicable, is entitled to legal representation.

You see a similar "code" in medicine. For instance, when the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested by SWAT, he was taken to the hospital and treated by doctors for his wounds. The medical staff wouldn't even think of objecting to treating a known terrorist, because their duty is to be physicians.
> someone not personally wanting to represent an alleged rapist

(1) That isn't what happened. The junior associate wanted severance because the named partner represented him.

(2) I would fire any junior attorney who said such a thing. You may think it's acceptable; I do not. Everyone deserves an attorney, not just even when accused of heinous crimes, but especially when accused of heinous crimes. Prejudging a client or potential client based solely on the allegation and news media is antithetical to everything the profession stands for.
It's possible to get to the point where you can become better at effortless memorization, but that takes a LOT of work. I studied 6 languages in high school and undergrad, and by the time I was in my senior year (taking Arabic + Chinese concurrently + over a decade of cumulative language classes) I remembered pretty much everything and reviewing for things like formulae/terms in other classes wasn't necessary.

It's just really hard to get there.
nitpick: 30 or so years later, can we still call Open Source a "movement"?
It should be noted that this comes with significant (as in worth consideration, not necessarily huge) operations and logistical issues. Here's 3:

* Balancing the assignment of users to appropriate agents

* Less flexibility for agents to be specialized (instead of an agent responding to all X related tickets everywhere in the world, an agent must respond to X, Y, and Z from these specific users)

* Handling user coverage when agents are busy, PTO, etc. The spirit of splitting agent access would mean agents would need to request access from an out-of-region authority in order to help with things last minute. An authority who will be expected to be responsive 24/7 without also being an attack vector
Most of the time when I've had to work on an air-gapped network, I was also provided with a second computer connected to the Internet. I found that to be a good compromise, though getting small code snippets or scripts onto the air-gapped network was a pain since I had to type the whole thing or bug IT to transfer it.

I say most of the time, since I once had to work in a very high-security environment with no Internet-connected computers in the area. I had to leave the secure area to look up things on my phone. It was a nightmare.
I wonder if the same corner-cutting happens in the OVHcloud US data centers.
> Which in practice means Mercedes can actually deliver what Tesla so far has only been advertising with

Do you have experience with this tech or are you taking the word of an marketing campaign? Taking "liability" doesn't mean much if you get in a serious accident and have medical issues for the rest of your life. If you get in an unsafe cab does it give you a lot of assurance that technically the driver is responsible?
Former Californians bringing their California money to flyover states and buying stuff? They don't have literal carpetbags.

Southpark City People
Given the computing power needed for 3-dimensional perception alone, it is astonishing how bad we are at basic geometry in the first place.

But if the complexity of geometric and non-geometric forms can be increased and there is a difference in extra effort for animals and humans, it should be testable.
If you want to fund the Mobile Linux ecosystem, I believe it's better to buy a pinephone pro and donate the difference to GNOME, KDE or/and Ubport. Purism has some sketchy history (they refused to refund their customers and lied anawful lot of times) and if you buy a purism phone you will have a less powerful phone and will need to wait years before getting it.
Make that several browser windows. And that's a good point. I sometimes end up inefficiently scrolling up and down a document to reference different parts of it. It almost never occurs to me to open another browser window with the same page for side-by-side reference.
> I work in the cyber insurance industry. This is not true.

Really? I mean our small company has never had our codebase breached and released by hackers, while Microsoft and their subsidiaries have had this happen several times. Similarly Twitch, Github, Valve... all have suffered source code breaches similar to the article.

None of the small companies I have ever worked for have had this issue, so it does seem that large tech companies have a higher probability of having their codebase successfully leaked.

We are also talking about Microsoft, which is probably amongst the top companies that are targeted the most by hackers across the world (mainly because of the impact when they are breached, rather than the ease of breach).

I assume when OP talks about the likelihood of a successful breach, they don't mean the success % of a breach, they mean the total number of successful breaches. When I worked at a big company the security team seemed to be putting out small fires all the time with targeted phishing attacks and so many laptops that could have missed an update, virtual machines getting ransomware e.t.c., and now I work for a smaller company and look after their IT as part of my role we have only had 1-2 fairly small issues across the last year.
Thanks for your comment. I live in TN -- all provisions are for 2 years.
That still requires some calculating before comparing movies, since it's much harder to compare a short film to a bladder buster. Using an average runtime as standard length F, then calculating coughs (C) per F would yield a value that can be more easily compared between films, regardless of length.
> Considering all hard drives eventually break down, even SSDs, this makes Macs disposable products.

Not at all. Apple can replace the flash module (it's not really an SSD) and, eventually, there will be some aftermarket options.
The maintainer has not had any activity on this project in over a year, but it looks like he account is still active