Darts: Non-Facebook alternative for timeseries forecasting
The title of the post seems very editorialised.
First of all, being non-Facebook is hardly meaningful when we talk about open source tools. Secondly, the project doesn't advertise itself as being non-Facebook, the poster has added this. And lastly, it's false - from the prerequisites in the readme:
What do you mean by "optional"?. You are including it [2] [3] [4] as one of the options (not re-implementation of the original paper [1]) and it is one of the dependencies [4] (Prophet [5] is an open-source library built by facebook research).
I think we should distinguish between science/open-source and policies when we mention open-source projects.
If I put out a buffet where some items are vegetarian and some are not, I don't advertise it as a vegetarian buffet with the excuse that the nonvegetarian foods are optional.
That’s actually exactly how vegetarian buffets work.
If you want to avoid Facebook with this library you can. That may not be the case with every library so folks who care about such things appreciate the callout. If you don’t care you don’t have to.
As a side note when in Brazil I felt like "vegetarian" food meant "just little bit of meat" and "caipirinha without sugar" meant "just don't mix (the layer of sugar at the bottom)" :) Did love it though.
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The title of the post seems very editorialised.
First of all, being non-Facebook is hardly meaningful when we talk about open source tools. Secondly, the project doesn't advertise itself as being non-Facebook, the poster has added this. And lastly, it's false - from the prerequisites in the readme:
Yes, that's offtopic and baity. We've changed the title now. (Submitted title was "Darts: Non-Facebook alternative for timeseries forecasting")
Submitters: the site guidelines ask you to rewrite titles only to make them less baity. Less is not more! Not in this context at least.
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Using Prophet is optional :) To be an alternative doesn't mean to cast everything useful aside
Edit: it's important to note that this is an alternative to Facebook Kats, I should've probably added this in the title and that's my bad
What do you mean by "optional"?. You are including it [2] [3] [4] as one of the options (not re-implementation of the original paper [1]) and it is one of the dependencies [4] (Prophet [5] is an open-source library built by facebook research).
I think we should distinguish between science/open-source and policies when we mention open-source projects.
*References*: [1]: https://facebook.github.io/prophet/#:~:text=Prophet%20is%20a....
[2]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/darts/models/pr...
[3]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/setup.py#L12
[4]: https://github.com/unit8co/darts/blob/master/requirements/pr...
[5]: https://github.com/facebook/prophet
If I put out a buffet where some items are vegetarian and some are not, I don't advertise it as a vegetarian buffet with the excuse that the nonvegetarian foods are optional.
That’s actually exactly how vegetarian buffets work.
If you want to avoid Facebook with this library you can. That may not be the case with every library so folks who care about such things appreciate the callout. If you don’t care you don’t have to.
What’s the problem?
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you don't visit many restaurants that advertise vegetarian buffets
As a side note when in Brazil I felt like "vegetarian" food meant "just little bit of meat" and "caipirinha without sugar" meant "just don't mix (the layer of sugar at the bottom)" :) Did love it though.
Lol people will roast you if you say vegetarian buffet and serve meat there.
As an apropos there’s a bomb vegan Korean buffet in Dallas.
That’s just a buffet. When you use a qualifier like non/vegetarian, then the assumption is that the buffet would comprise of that.
TIL about Kats. My assumption was that this was a reference to Prophet, which has not been treated favorably lately on HN.