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Re:O-Ring Automation
on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:25PM (#46504391)
It's a reference to a model of growth that in itself is a reference to the challenger disaster. Basically something like a "weakest link" theory of growth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_deve...
Was surprised to see this here; i think it is a good model for thinking about tech productivity
Re:What went wrong with wireless USB
on Sunday May 04, 2025 @03:52PM (#43889068)
"depending on executive and blood alcohol level" is such a good throwaway joke
Re:
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:08PM (#40744469)
This is just conversational australian english
Re:Threads, an Instagram App
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:00AM (#36582743)
bayeslandia
Re:Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:28PM (#34949030)
Folks who know Pulsar and Zed internals: which one of them is more likely to gain support for Atom packages? I find Hydrogen[1] invaluable as a data science scratchpad since it supports python/r/julia/etc under a common interface via jupyter, and have been unable to construct a comparable workflow in vscode or any other editor [using scripts as opposed to notebooks, which i find far too bloated].
Re:Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:27PM (#34939110)
I like how programming language article/book title cliches are cross-pollinating now. In a decade, I hope we'll have "Bite size julia for morons who know how to stand on one leg and can read perl"
Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022)
on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:39PM (#34209961)
polynesian god of high fidelity bluetooth playback
Re:Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead Guilty to...
on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:10AM (#34090061)
Caroline's dad is an MIT econ prof and wrote a series of books titled Hard Math for X. New installment should surely be Hard Math for Crypto Fraud and Jail Evasion.
Re:Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan
on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:15PM (#33738035)
Some speculated that prosecutors had gone soft on looting after the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. But it is hard to see any such trend in the data: generally states with more shoplifting prosecute more shoplifters
The claim is about the time-series comparison, and the rebuttal is about the cross section comparison. Is the journalist in question stupid, gaslighting, or both?
Re:My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal
on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:00PM (#33535406)
Marty came across as a slimy prick in the (otherwise excellent) Noclip documentary about the making of Doom (2016). Turns out the real-life version is much worse.
Re:Programming Fonts
on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:09PM (#32036443)
TIL Luc Devroye has time to design and maintain fonts. Legend.
Re:Goodbye, Feedly
on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:20PM (#31960766)
I pay for Inoreader and really like it.
Somewhat ironically, its killer feature for my use case is the ability to ingest emailed content will make emailed content look like any other RSS feed, since lots of scientific journals / sites have stopped using RSS.
Re:Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
on Friday July 01, 2022 @01:37AM (#31942758)
Paul Romer on Mathematica is a good read. https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-...
Re:Katapayadi System
on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:28PM (#31877033)
This is cool + reminds me of [Konnakol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konnakol) , which is a similar system for time signatures in music. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2LzlLMbqpM) is a good intro.
Re:Sunsetting Atom
on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:12PM (#31674259)
RIP.
Hydrogen [https://atom.io/packages/hydrogen] running on Atom is the cleanest multi-lingual data science IDE in existence and has been my go-to for years. Haven't found a drop-in replacement elsewhere [vscode's language support is scattered: native python integration, different for R, Julia etc].
Anyone on HN have recs [besides vim slime or send-to-terminal options in other editors, which work but are clunky] ?
Shpongle and OTT are amazing goa-ish electronica. OTT's new album is great.
Re:Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists
on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:11PM (#31188079)
This might run counter to the super minimal setup, and feel free to ignore if so, but mathjax/katex support would be nice. I often have simple ideas that can be summarised in a couple of lines of math that could really benefit from a light platform like this.
Re:Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?
on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:18AM (#31106492)
Academic use: CVX[R/Py] are excellent because they plug into both open source and commercial (Gurobi, Mosek).
Re:Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash prog...
on Sunday February 13, 2022 @01:53AM (#30319845)
Powershell doesn't simply enter the chat. Powershell enters-its-username-and-password-and-hits-enter the chat.
[I'm usually a fan of informative command names, but surely there's a happy medium]
Re:JupyterLab Desktop App now available
on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:15PM (#28623762)
I've been using a poor-man's version of this using a tab-to-window chrome extension for a while https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-to-windowpopup...
seems like the desktop app doesn't support extensions yet (need my vim and snippets), so I'll stick to the original for now.
Re:Learn R Through Examples (2020)
on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:02PM (#27409457)
hard second. ggplot2 was the last (only) good package hadley ever wrote; the rest is more about reinventing the wheel and viral-marketing with hex-stickers than about getting work done. the newer stuff in particular is atrocious; heaven forfend function calls that don't require understanding the lore of a package (`recipes` has stupid functions like `recipe`, `bake` and similar nonsense).
at a push, base + data.table + ggplot2 get everything done. tinyverse ftw.
Re:Show HN: Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for ...
on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:29PM (#22514676)
This is fantastic. What arguments should I pass ./cxxmatrix to get the mandelbrot set or game of life?
Can't seem to get it to work / couldn't figure it out from the repo.
Re:Why I use R
on Sunday January 05, 2020 @10:47PM (#21966274)
Agreed. Recent updates to rlang have made programming dplyr/ggplot2 functions a bit better, but it still feels super clunky. I use data.table for most things for programmability and speed reasons.
As much as I like ggplot2, I find the rest of the tidyverse to be solving problems it invents (e.g. quosures to fix the problem of not permitting string arguments for dplyr verbs) and monopolising an open source ecosystem.
Re:LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes
on Thursday December 26, 2019 @02:40PM (#21886122)
They recently implemented a pretty restrictive freemium subscription model that has tempered my enthusiasm for it massively. 50 snips a month is nothing for grad students.
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas
on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @06:27PM (#18759620)
Merry Christmas from another Nepali on the other side of the world (Bay Area) and missing home.
Re:Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science
on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:04PM (#18348399)
looks similar to Hydrogen for Atom. I'd recommend that (since it is actively maintained) too
Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:38PM (#18118439)
Thanks; been meaning to. I've not seen a good exposition of what benefit the DAG way of doing Causal Inference has over the Potential Outcomes Framework. Morgan and Winship (another good textbook) tries, but I didn't really buy it. I guess I have to hear it from the horse's mouth.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?
on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:36AM (#18110280)
In econometrics / empirical social science:
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jorn Steffan Piscke
- Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences by Guido Imbens and Donald Rubin
- Data Analysis using Regression and Multilevel Models by Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill
Re:Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be
on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:04AM (#17941099)
kill it with fire.