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baggiponte··on Ask HN: What's the Deal with Tailscale?
Incidentally, is Tailscale reliable? I recall VPN services are a bit iffy because they need to store user data so it does not really matter the service they offer - if what you are after is privacy, rather than a way to bypass country-based content filtering systems
baggiponte··on New ggplot/Altair like interface for Seaborn now in beta
This brings together the best features of R's ggplot and Altair's features for Seaborn
baggiponte··on How to collapse values of a factor in pandas
This is an area where pandas is bery far behind the R frameworks...
baggiponte··on macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
yeah that's a neat trick. of course you can do that with cmd-shift-5 too
baggiponte··on GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
I don’t really get how the notification to 400k people was sent :/
baggiponte··on Making pip installs a little less slow
oh hi, sorry for the late reply. indeed you are right; i was typing from my phone and was a bit too hasty. i am not a fan of poetry after reading these; TLDR poetry does not support PEP621 about pyproject.toml either, and i feel this is the direction the python community has been going towards recently.

* https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/

* https://iscinumpy.dev/post/poetry-versions/

also pdm is developed by frostming, who's on PyPA (Python Packaging Authority) and more libraries are extending support for pdm (streamlit just today).

but in general i am not against poetry. it's a good tool and it pushed package managers a fair bit further - providing a superior alternative to conda imho

baggiponte··on How to make decisions like a poker player
Wow this is 1000x than what’s in the article - thanks.
baggiponte··on Making pip installs a little less slow
A bit unrelated, but I have been using pdm (https://pdm.fming.dev/) which is something like Poetry but faster and PEP compliant (!)
baggiponte··on How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
I think that this means you don’t have to download a copy of the file locally?
baggiponte··on How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
I don’t understand what this implies/enables O.o could somebody be kind enough to explain? Thanks!
baggiponte··on Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
That’s fascinating! Totally orthogonal: how does PG store data? Do they use columnar specifications such as Arrow & Parquet?
baggiponte··on Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
Perhaps we “just” need Excel and Numbers to support reading .parquet files, and come up with a CLI tool to view them like head/tail/awk? Yes, they still cannot be read as plain text so functionality is quite restricted with respect to CLI pipelines
baggiponte··on Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
I am a total newbie here - you speak of DBs because of the backend that needs to be set up to host the users' app?
baggiponte··on Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
Alternatives to Heroku besides Porter?
baggiponte··on We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
Definitely would achieve more if he open sourced mathematica
baggiponte··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
That’s concerning - I am also wondering if iTerm too sends this data…
baggiponte··on TensorFlow and PyTorch under use linear algebra optimisation
The paper claims TF and PyT fail to exploit linear algebra optimisation tricks: " for instance, reducing the number of scalar operations by applying the distributive law, and automatically identifying the optimal parenthesization of a matrix chain"
baggiponte··on Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
What is Q?
baggiponte··on Adding HLSL and DirectX Support to Clang and LLVM
I’m afraid I’m lost - what’s the relationship between HSLS, CUDA and OpenCL?
baggiponte··on Substrait: Cross-Language Serialization for Relational Algebra
I struggle a bit to understand what Substrait wants to accomplish. They want to create a representation of data transformations (eg group by…) and relational algebra at what level? So it’s like a BLAS for relational algebra?
baggiponte··on Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
Yeah, that I knew: why Click over Typer? Greater control in creating the CLI?
baggiponte··on Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
How do you add a new line? I tried

$ rich --print "\n hello world"

but it just returned

\n hello world

Also, where can I find the list of emoji and the correspondent ":description:"?

baggiponte··on Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
So you are using Click and not Typer?
baggiponte··on Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
That's beautiful! Maybe adding tab completions would be useful? For example:

$ rich "hello world" -p -a <TAB> ...

Where "..." is all the possible values that can be taken in.

baggiponte··on Show HN: Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text
I have been looking for something like this for a long time T.T
baggiponte··on State of Machine Learning in Julia
That’s terribly interesting, given that this popped up too very recently: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/engineering-trade-offs-i...

However, while they speak of ML they refer only to deep learning, and I was wondering where Julia stands in terms of scikit-learn equivalents and if they ever took off.

baggiponte··on Ask HN: Refurbed) Machine to Use as Linux Remote Server
Thank you! What’s ipmi-enabled?
baggiponte··on Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
100% unrelated but I would suggest installing `pipx` when you need python packages to use from the CLI/outside a python project environment. `pipx` installs each package in its own virtualenv, so it is independent of your system python.
baggiponte··on Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
Sure! I completely understand and I am really glad you made this great tool to display the data in such a beautiful format. Maybe there can also be a “—head” flag to display only the top n rows by default, given that the data is read into memory?
baggiponte··on Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
The weirdest thing is that Apple can do this and not use it to make wake up alarms go off after the device is shut down lol
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