skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this depends on what part of the statistics universe you're working in.

For example, within Lisp-Stat the statistics routines [1] were written by an econometrician working for the Austrian government (Julia folks might know him - Tamas Papp). It would not be exaggerating to say his job depending on it. These are state of the art, high performance algorithms, equal to anything available in R or Python. So, if you're doing econometrics, or something related, everything you need is already there in the tin.

For machine learning, there's CLML [2], developed by NTT. This is the largest telco in Japan, equivalent to ATT in the USA. As well, there is MGL [3], used to win the Higgs Boson challenge a few years back. Both actively maintained.

For linear algebra, MagicCL was mention elsewhere in the thread. My favourite is MGL-MAT [4], also by the author of MGL. This supports both BLAS and CUBLAS (CUDA for GPUs) for solutions.

Finally, there's the XLISP-STAT archive [5]. Prior to Luke Tierney, the author of XLISP-Stat joining the core R team, XLISP-STAT was the dominate statistical computing platform. There's heaps of stuff in the archive, most at least as good as what's in base R, that could be ported to Lisp-Stat.

Common Lisp is a viable platform for statistics and machine learning. It isn't (yet) quite as well organised as R or Python, but it's all there.

[1] https://github.com/Lisp-Stat/numerical-utilities/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/mmaul/clml

[3] https://github.com/melisgl/mgl

[4] https://github.com/melisgl/mgl-mat

[5] https://lisp-stat.dev/docs/resources/xlisp/
How mobile networks detect “personal hotspot” and how to hide it
If you're familiar with both modern APL and the "Iverson ghost" NumPy, you'll likely find the latter a frustratingly crippled experience.
> I think you’re misdiagnosing the cause. Nearly everyone I know—my circle skews highly educated and well compensated—cares more about social issues than economic ones.

Of course they would. They are very well educated and very well compensated. Their needs are taken care of, economics isn't at the top of their political concerns list. However, they do not represent the majority of the US, they only represent a tiny minority.

https://www.legalreader.com/low-wage-jobs-are-the-new-americ...
My experience in southern Indiana was that you could confidently dig a good sized hole almost anywhere with little trouble.

My experience in upstate New York is that if you can get a rock to wiggle, you can eventually dig it out. I am always surprised when wait for a cool day with a couple of hours free and then end up hitting nothing and finishing my fence post in five or ten minutes; I've spent six or eight hours digging out enough of a boulder to wrap a chain around to plant a tree.
I have no idea what people expect dems to do about abortion. They cannot pass a national law without the senate. Most blue states already put in protections.

It's not like they can just trot down to the court house and change the judges mind.
Well if you're distributing requests over multiple servers, I wouldn't call that a monolith.
please let me know if you have any questions about gamestory!
Sorry what does alpha mean here?
Micrometeoroid damage to James Webb Space Telescope imaged for first time
By "equalize" he probably means "lower" for many. Perhaps he doesn't want to say to those of us in high-wage countries to realize that we're competing globally for position salary-wise, and thus companies are incentivized to pay you less, because there is someone else just as qualified as you who will work for less.
I wouldn't call that a monolith then.
I still don't understand why when I look at a mirror my left and right is flipped but my up and down isn't. If I hold my left arm out, the person in the mirror holds out his right, but up and down do not get the same treatment. Why?

EDIT: I understand that it's front and back that actually get reversed, but that still doesn't help my understand why we think that left and right are reversed by don't think up and down are reversed
I get this and people have tried to assuage me throughout my career with things like "yeah but it's up to the manager so you'll be fine" or similar. I absolutely hate manager-discretion "perks" because they aren't official ("on the books"), they can be taken away at a moments notice on the whim on your manager or if a new manager comes in who doesn't agree.

Before COVID this was the case with WFH at my last company. I was able to WFH for 2 days a week but it was impossible to get that codified in the handbook. I was even on the committee that oversaw edits/rewrites of the handbook but HR would not let us add anything about WFH other than "It's up to the manager". I had so many people tell me "I don't know why you are so bothered, you are able to WFH". Yes, today, right now, with this manager, or at least this managers current demeanor I have WFH but all that can turn on a dime, I wanted it to be official. "Of course", the company as a whole couldn't allow WFH, that would be "impossible". I left that company in late 2019 and... surprise! They went fully remote in 2020 and now are a hybrid with the majority of people WFH-ing. It was a rare case of being told it was impossible and would never work to seeing not but a few months later all their arguments to be shown for the BS they really were.
Downtime during working hours is time for self-care.
So lockdown mode is IE6 on iOS?
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

Biden announced policies related to new drilling starts but none of that impacts pricing or output to the degree you’re suggesting it does. There was no “shutting off” of production for sure so consider this a serious argumentative point?
The EU is not a monolith. Its constituent countries are both more and less corrupt than the US, but the EU requires unanimity for foreign policy decisions, unlike the US enchi isn't beholden to reach State.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
Yeah one nuke, one canal. That nuke, that canal. They did get it to put out a gas well fire, perfectly at the first try, and gas well discovery--made good money off that. Don't talk about that, or like falsify the toxicology oh oh radioactive danger danger! Haha.

Like you know the guy who took the biggest direct risk with the Chernobyl regulus is still alive? Doesn't even have cancer.

EDIT: nobody talks about the metallurgy of plutonium in all of this, huge thing. People think nuclear bombs don't have any specific personality, just uniform atoms, when Pu has the most complex metallurgy.
Outside the box solutions? Get a high-temperature-supeconductor-magnet satelite out there, that flings ferro particles aside way ahead in the particle stream?
> It can be any single byte, except probably not 0x00.

At least on Linux, indeed you can't use 0x00 (aka ^@), because _POSIX_VDISABLE (the thing you use for disabling special characters) is 0.
I was comparing apples to apples - spaceflight to spaceflight, like the GP did (first rocket VS reusable rocket boosters).

For the space telescope, the first ones became operational in 1962, and the fundamental principles are the same. The advancements are wonderful, but they are iteration, not some paradigm shift.

Robotics is probably the most impressive of the three, though again, some of the basics of these systems and algorithms date back to the first AI explosion of the 1950s and 60s.

To emphasize again: the point isn't to piss on the extraordinary work of the scientists and engineers working in the last 50 years on these technologies. It is to recognize that the work of the pioneers of these fields from the 40s to the 60s is even more awe inspiring.
For most of this time we didn't know it was bad though.
As a kid my mom would take my sister and I to the big Pasadena Public Library which had these DEC terminals all over the place for using the card catalog to find books. I was fascinated by them and would often just sit and play hacker. Might even be a big reason for why I am a programmer today.
>Why wouldn't corrupt people just bid low and give the public manager a bigger kickback?

Well, if the public manager has no powers in the assignment, there is no reason why the builder should "pay" him/her, from this point of view lowest bid is effective as an anti-corruption method.

And by bidding low the builder will have less available money to possibly attempt to bribe anyone.

But then (maybe - just hypothetical) once the lowest bidder is awarded the contract they will find each and every possible way (including bribing) to get more money for the contract, changes, improvements, extensions, etc..

The usual counter-argument is that all builders are the same, so if you award the contract to (say) the 2nd lower bidder, they will make exactly the same, only starting from a higher "base",

There are often very fine lines between "contributing to bankrupcy of builder", "paying a fair price" and "spend too much public money".
I think one reason to make this feature public is to get more people to use it, and therefore dilute Lockdown Mode as a signal. As you say, it’s pretty easy for an attacker to detect this mode: with a browser, just check that the Safari version is high enough but that certain features are not available. If even 1% of iPhone users are using Lockdown mode, it’ll far exceed the number of people who really need the feature to stay ahead of nation-state targeting.
I've used a recruiting company https://www.facet.net/ that also handles contract work, and works with a lot of startups. They can add you to a mailing list to send you opportunities that match your criteria.
Well, that's for the amateur sports, but I can tell you that if we're talking about professional sports where players are way more skilled, the strategy there plays a huge role. I didn't understand that before I started keeping track of the sports with http://www.televisionet.tv/ , but at the same time, it's pretty obvious that execution rules supreme anyway, there's no doubt
I was referring to the same comments, they also get point increase for the number of subcomments, it is not solely based on votes. It is also the case that it requires more votes to get a single point the more votes you have.

tl;dr it is not a simple linear relationship between votes and points
Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed
In many ways a casino is like a theme park. Customer comes in, you empty their wallet, they feel happy for a while, job done move on to the next sucker. By aggregating over a large number of customers the casino takes what is gambling to the individual punter and makes it into a sure fire income stream. In a way it's honest work.

Whereas most of the "cryptocurrency" stuff is a scam, sometimes a scam onion, with layers of scams performed on other scammers. It me reminds of a juice MLM I ran into. At first I see the usual pyramid structure, there's no way you can "make money selling this" unless you're near the top of that pyramid, there are celebrity "endorsements" paid for with a nice chunk of money, and so on - but then I realise there's a whole other level. The real scammers don't waste their lives on this "fake it til you make it" crap. The MLM company has an exclusive supply deal with a single manufacturer, every bottle of crappy juice a victim pays for as "stock" for their "home business" is coming from one company owned by the scammers who dreamed all this up. They're nothing to do with any pyramid scheme, even if the Feds bust the whole thing, they're innocent, they just own a business which sells 10¢ of juice for $5 to the MLM company, just Capitalism red in tooth and claw. For every $1000 some fool spends on juice they'll never drink, $100 may end up going to some shark with great charisma and no conscience who reeled in that MLM fool, but $500+ ends up with the faceless juice makers.
11l is a semi-esoteric compiled general-purpose programming language
> But that analysis ignores the billions of people whose lives will likely end because of global warming.

...that number is not even remotely plausible. Where did you get billions from?

Example: 250,000 extra deaths estimated between 2030 and 2050. That means an extra 5 million deaths in that period (https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...).

Another: 83 million extra deaths by 2100, and I suspect that's under the more pessimistic scenario (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dishashetty/2021/07/30/climate-...)

Action on climate change is very slow, but happening. Climate change is not going to be even remotely as close to as bad as you appear to think it will be.
If anything, Italy is practically the most trustworthy treasury in the world: despite the highest debt/GDP ratio in the world after Japan, they have never defaulted on debt and even resorted to effectively expropriating their own citizens overnight rather than missing payments.
Mu number 1 tip from some 20 years of watching UI design evolve:

Design that is more accessible for users with disabilities is more accessible for everyone.

The first level of this is easy, but few do it.

Step 1: use a desktop PC. Windows or Linux as you prefer, but not a Mac, and not a laptop.

Step 2: unplug the mouse. Learn to do everything with the keyboard. The WWW is a pain but most other things are easy, but you'll need to learn the keystrokes. Few know them these days. Windows is good at this, and you'll quickly discover that most Linux desktops are poor. (For me, Xfce is about the best.)

Spend a week working like this. You will discover a tonne of stuff about UI design you never noticed before.

Step 3: for the most advanced users only. Now you are used to working without a pointing device, install a screenreader -- NVDA for Windows is good and free. Now, unplug your screen. Learn to work with keyboard and sound only.

I am part way through learning this and it's savage, but it's like learning to play chess blindfold. Once you have the patterns in your head, you discover that you don't need to see them and you can still be fast and efficient.

But steps 1 & 2 will put you in the 1% of best UI designers there are in the world today.
I'm assuming you're referring to Django Rest Framework? It's one of the nicest API frameworks I've had an excuse to use professionally. It's easy to see why.
There's an article with examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#United_States It doesn't seem like a comprehensive list. For example, I scanned the page for "Fairness Doctrine" and found nothing.
Parsing already does happen (mostly) on a process which doesn't have privileges. Read about Blastdoor.
What's the gel made out of? Is it beneficial for the environment?
Or you can work for a remote digital agency.

This one accepts part time: https://www.zdigitalagency.com
So Mr Consultant, what would you recommend a Microsoft shop uses?

Not everyone is keen on IRC, or having a relationship with Salesforce.
I knew this, but I didn't know how dumb some of these categories are.

Thanks!
> Congrats, you're the problem.

You're agreeing with him. He is making the judgement that actions such as his is a problem, and then he makes the point that there is no feedback to prevent such actions.
Phoenix Wallet
Oh I'm sure the actual work to compile those packages is not much. It's more to do with keeping the number of packages on my system to a minimum.

Actually I would not be surprised if the JavaScript engine can be omitted with just a little bit of patching work... assuming there's not actually a build configuration that leaves it out. I've found that with some software projects and their dependencies, "required" does not always mean required.
Compare to the total number of records, very, very few were destroyed in WW2. It's not like every building on the planet were burned down.

And lots of people have their own records in family bibles/other books. Modern genealogy sites (and even general web searches) have (and still are) digitizing old records, news papers, graveyards, and lots of other historical records, and this data is being fed into all sorts of databases/AI/analysis tools, making really precise records of giant family trees possible, with original photos, handwritten notes, census data, and on and on.

So there's likely a better, more accurate records of all of this, back hundreds of years, aggregated than ever before.

I know in my case, it doesn't take long now to trace parts of my family back 400-500 years into ancient France (I'm in the US). The number of original records I can see is astounding. It's only getting better.

And it's pretty easy statistically to count % of people making age 100 in countries or regions where records are very, very good, get a good model of how that works, including as many relevant variables as people want to study, and use that to get a good estimate of how many are in places where records are poorer quality. That is how science is routinely done.
Prob a lot of these companies are just cutting the bottom bucket. Don't companies like banks usually do this during a little downturn, using the "economic conditions" as an excuse even though they know it's just 6-12 months max.
Parties literally never do anything: they must be owned by the capital-owning class

Parties always agree: they must be owned by the capital-owning class

My pizza is late: they must be owned by the capital owning class

If your explanation works to explain everything, you've just found a very long synonym for "magic" and you don't actually have an explanation.
For Linux users, the equivalent is https://zealdocs.org along with https://zealusercontributions.vercel.app/
I know for IT at least there is a reverse trend with outsourced work. But IT techs don't want to go back into companies anymore because now they make more as consultants and they have better working conditions without 24/7.

Sure, theoretically if everybody works at home... but there are language, time-zone, cultural and other barriers to consider.

Engineering as a service may work to a degree, but if you use an external service you really have to write specifications and they have to be extremely precise...
I'm kinda-sorta a healthcare IT expert at this point and Amazon has been harassing me to interview with them ceaselessly in the past 3 months or so. I wonder if this was the reason.
> I think democracy has vastly more legitimacy than alternative forms which all rely on violence.

If you think that democracy doesn't also rely on violence then I have some waterfront property in Arizona you might be interested in buying. It's called the "tyranny of the majority" for a reason.
I would like that. If a comment of mine is downvoted to -4, I'd like to know if the upvotes and downvotes are (0,4) or (36,40). In the latter case it could mean that I wrote something controversial but not nonsensical.
BCE anounced net asset purchases in PEPP ending in march, though. What remains is to manage how to dump the balance out.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2022/html/ecb.mp2202...
In the context of trading I believe: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
I might be missing something, but I think the author has an overly-restrictive view of what an RDBMS is. It's an umbrella term, not an existing and uneditable list.

> Relational data can sit in solutions other than RDBMS.

An RDBMS is a system for managing relational databases. If you're storing your data somewhere that lets you manage it relationally, then you're using an RDBMS. It might also do some other things - it might not just be an RDBMS - but it still is one.

As long as relational data is useful, which I don't see changing any time soon, there will be a need to manage it, and that means we still need RDBMS.
Why is this immoral? Genuinely curious. It seems the underlying assumption is that every second belongs to the company while you’re “on the clock”, but this doesn’t line up with many companies’ philosophies of “get the work done, time is irrelevant”.
The EU is categorically less protectionist than the US, and is one of the most open economies in the world.

If you honestly believe otherwise, you are intentionally misinformed.
Maybe their new owners won’t break their iOS SDK at a rate of 3-4x a year.

And of course they have their GitHub issues closed, because they’re a support company.

Emailing them gets an automated reply that you can only email them via your account holder’s email. Then when you do that you’re a dev playing telephone with another dev via a support agent.
none of the daily or weekly marketcap changes have anything to do with the equivalent amount of money changing hands

you also have said nothing to the contrary

basically the commonality is that you two are attempting to have a conversation on differences valuation models, when this isn't a conversation on valuation models. everyone understands that this is thinly veiled copypasta for why you respect one asset class and don’t respect another asset class, some people love to read that stuff but this isn’t what this conversation is about.

its a conversation on float and what float does and does not convey. the limitations of what float can convey is the same across all asset classes which is that the last traded price of a small portion of the supply is multiplied by the total supply, and this does not factor in how much could be sold at that price and does not factor in how the buyer and seller agreed upon that price or if there was any pricing projections or valuation metrics involved at all.
Gratis versus Libre
Sorry i was specifically referring to the reusable boosters and astronomy.
Agree, seems like access rates and toll rates should scale with vehicle weight, but that the slope would be lower in access rates than usage rates.
With minor exceptions like grandstanding bills that are never meant to make it to a vote let alone pass, no federal legislation is written by legislators or even their staffs.

I can’t find it, but there was a case not so long ago when the senate accidentally voted for one of those grandstanding bills. Maybe somebody else recalls the particulars.

In any event it’s clear to any intelligent observer that the actual dynamics of governance put a lie to the fiction that our system functions as a representative republic.
web is so saturated, it is hard to turn off the internet if you want to put some distraction free hours of coding. There will be something you don't know

My guess is that OS programming (Linux etc) has not been affected that much form this overflow of redundent tools and you can stay productive offline?
In your expert commodity pricing opinion/method, how much do you ascribe pricing deltas to each of:

1. General inflationary forces
2. Disruptions in the euro market due to Russia/Ukraine
3. Global output / pricing forces
4. Biden’s future/sentiment based policy positions
I have explained it, but your bias clouds your judgment, sorry.

Supply of effectively every good is higher than prepandemic. Demand is even higher. Retail sales have exploded vastly above trend due to fiscal injections. This is NOT a supply side issue, this is consumers mass buying which leads to shortages. If it were a supply side issue, you'd see big hits to corporate earnings, instead they became massively inflated due to excess consumer spending.

Personal income is rising much faster than sustainable for 2% inflation. Are you aware that money is nominal? People getting paid more means nothing if prices rise faster than they're getting paid. There's zero inherent value to a dollar.

Inflation is a product of supply and demand, not just one or the other. When there's an imbalance, prices rise to a new equilibrium point.

Go on, cheer for higher nominal wages as consumer sentiment sits at all time lows and real wages are deteriorating faster than any time in history