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meanmrmustard92on O-Ring Automation

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

meanmrmustard92on What went wrong with wireless USB

"depending on executive and blood alcohol level" is such a good throwaway joke

meanmrmustard92on Please don't mention AI again

This is just conversational australian english

meanmrmustard92on Threads, an Instagram app

bayeslandia

meanmrmustard92on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor

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].

[1]: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen

meanmrmustard92on Elixir for Humans Who Know Python

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"

meanmrmustard92on Rant: Year of Linux on the desktop

polynesian god of high fidelity bluetooth playback

meanmrmustard92on Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF

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.

meanmrmustard92on Why it’s hard to buy deodorant in Manhattan

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?

meanmrmustard92on My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal

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.

meanmrmustard92on Programming Fonts

TIL Luc Devroye has time to design and maintain fonts. Legend.

meanmrmustard92on Goodbye, Feedly

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.

meanmrmustard92on Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Paul Romer on Mathematica is a good read. https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-...

meanmrmustard92on Katapayadi System

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.

meanmrmustard92on Sunsetting Atom

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] ?

meanmrmustard92on SomaFM

Shpongle and OTT are amazing goa-ish electronica. OTT's new album is great.

meanmrmustard92on Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists

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.

meanmrmustard92on Ask HN: Do you use an optimization solver? Which one? Do you like it?

Academic use: CVX[R/Py] are excellent because they plug into both open source and commercial (Gurobi, Mosek).

meanmrmustard92on Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs

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]

meanmrmustard92on JupyterLab Desktop App now available

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.

meanmrmustard92on Learn R Through Examples (2020)

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.

meanmrmustard92on Show HN: Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for terminals

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.

meanmrmustard92on Why I use R

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.

meanmrmustard92on LaTeX, Instantly: Extract LaTeX from PDFs or Handwritten Notes

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.

meanmrmustard92on Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from another Nepali on the other side of the world (Bay Area) and missing home.

meanmrmustard92on Neuron, a new VS Code extension for data science

looks similar to Hydrogen for Atom. I'd recommend that (since it is actively maintained) too

meanmrmustard92on Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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.

meanmrmustard92on Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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

meanmrmustard92on Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be

kill it with fire.

meanmrmustard92on Write – A word processor for handwriting

There's an application on the windows store called Nebo that does writing and write recognition and claims to do drawing recognition too (although I rarely use it; I wanted to use it for math but that is extremely dodgy so far; not sure why because detextify would give it ample training data).