skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are assuming most people want to quit their country, with of no proof or argument. If anything, a bunch of defectors into the South are disappointed by what they found there.

Also it’s not the NK government starving its citizens to death (that strategy doesn’t make sense to keep the power), it’s the US by imposing economic sanctions. The live of the people in this country would improve if they were allow to do business with the rest of the world.

Finally, the divide exists uniquely because of US intervention, and the state would probably have normalized its relationships to the world by now, like China and Vietnam did, if there wasn’t the forced antagonism caused by an enemy state existing just South.
The outrage mob is free to protest all they want. Or to freely speak. I don't see how this group would differ?

I merely used stupid here to make a point, to generalize or pander even, it's hardly just 'stupid' that people try to control. That misses the point entirely.

Regardless the other commenter already noted the very important distinction. I’m not trying to control the mob or define who or what is stupid using some top down hierarchy of wrongthink (trying is the key word here, I could rant about the costs of control and false positives vs the efficacy of FB events, ignoring the large existing willing audiences they always tapped into, and Russia spending a few hundred K in a multibillion dollar election, but I’ve fought that war enough times - the philosophy of how to deal with society in general is what we’re discussing).
Small Promises Regularly Kept
Take out "utf8" and I'll agree ;)

The fundamental problem as I see it is that "string" is a grossly leaky and misunderstood abstraction. The string type is not the same thing as a "text" type. It's being used in all the wrong places for that purpose. People treat "string" like it means "text", but in so many places where we deal with them, they just aren't (and should never be) text. Everything from stdio to argv to file paths to environment variables to "text" files to basically any interface with the outside world needs to be dealt with in bytes rather than text if you care about actually producing correct code that doesn't lose, corrupt, or otherwise choke on data.

C++ understood this and got it right, preferring to focus on optimizing rather than constraining the string type. Many other languages did pretty well by avoiding enforcing encodings on strings, too. And Python 2 defaulted to bytes as well, and only really cared about encoding/decoding at I/O boundaries where it thought it can assume it's dealing with text (though it sometimes didn't behave well there, and yes it got painful as a result). Then Python 3 came along and just made everyone start treating most data as if they're inherently (Unicode) text by default, when they really had no such constraints to begin with.

It boggles my mind that Python 3 folks like to beat the drum on how Python 3 got the bytes/unicode right without taking a single moment to even notice that most strings people deal with aren't (and never were!) actually guaranteed to be in a specific, known textual encoding a priori. They were just arrays of code units with few restrictions on them, and if you want to write correct code, you're going to have to deal with bytes by default (or something else with similar flexibility) instead of text. It would've been totally fine to introduce a text type, but it fundamentally can't take the place of a blob type, which is the language of the outside world.
You can still get $1500/mo for a 2br on the north side. Just be on the brown line instead of the blue line.

The trendy neighborhoods can be just as expensive as SF SOMA, but there's so much inventory, so the non-trendy but nice neighborhoods are much, much cheaper.
The last I saw on it was this:

"Elon Musk says he sent ventilators to California hospitals, they say they got something else instead"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ventilators-ca...
I find most Italian-Americans around here (NY/NJ) claim to be Sicilian or Neapolitan etc. That’s quite genetically distinct no?
I've been to 2 Go conferences myself, and had an absolutely fantastic time. Great people all-around.

But ... the online experience here is a bit different from the conference experience.
I really shouldn't laugh at your comment, but it's amusing to consider their ineffectiveness at the exact thing they claim they're protecting.

I'm honestly half-convinced the NRA is a private slush fund for LaPierre and the rest of the board.

If I'm not mistaken, it originated as an industry lobbying association rather than a rights organization, no? If true, then their actions shouldn't at all be surprising!
> So your claim is that "Python 2" is a language spec, not an implementation? And that there will be future releases of this language spec in the future?

PyPy maintains a Python 2 implementation and will continue to do so.
Commercial speech (I.e. Facebook’s censorship of material on its advertising platform) is obviously what’s in question here.
Samba mount your wsl2 (hyper-v) in Windows. Simple.
Yes, this is a very obvious and severe underestimate for sure. But the point is that the death rate must be at least 0.12%!
No employee is simply talented or mediocre or bad. Everyone you meet has strengths and weaknesses. Some people's strengths aren't in demand every day, but crucial when called upon. Others have weaknesses which rarely appear, but are terribly damaging when they do.

And everyone is drawn to the company of others in the workplace based primarily on interpersonal factors, not others' ability or performance or lack thereof.

Certainly, there are toxic personalities which can poison an environment, but they generally have some valuable assets as well.

Deciding to leave an organization because of its people is never a simple calculation.
The problem isn’t that it is one organization but it is going out of it’s way to hide that. That suggests that it’s motives are not quite what it professes. An honest organization can operate in multiple states but is open about that. What are they trying to hide?
Ask HN: Master of Science in Computer Science at Georgia Tech
I've been wondering for a while whether it's worth enrolling in [the OMS CS program](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/specializations) and after thinking for some weeks I came to the conclusion that it's a good opportunity to take. I decided that I'll try to enrol in the next possible semester.

From the four specializations they offer I'm only interested in Computing Systems or Machine Learning. I believe Computing Systems is the way to go but Machine Learning seems pretty nice with a good future in innovation meanwhile Computing Systems looks like too theoretical - not in a bad way.

To put it in other words, Computing Systems sounds like academic oriented and Machine Learning looks more oriented to technology development. So I'm asking for your opinions or experiences if you have already taken these courses. Were they good? Do you recommend them?

Also, more in specific I'm having problems understanding how I'm supposed to chose the courses I want to take. I'm not familiar with the US college system.

I understand I have to take 30 hours (10 courses), which are divided in core and elective. However, for the [Specialization in Computing Systems](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-computing-systems) it says it's 18 hours, 3 core courses and 3 elective and for [Machine Learning](https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/specialization-machine-learning) are 15 hours, 2 core courses and 3 elective. Where are the other remaining hours?

Some background, I'm Mexican with a bachelor degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
If what you were saying were true then we would be seeing a huge number of symptomatic re-infections and deaths in China and Italy. As far as I know the ‘reinfections’ have been asymptomatic. That suggests that the virus takes a long time to clear, not that it’s mutating.
It is a risk to let the virus burn through uncontrolled. You might get outcome similar to the second wave of Spanish Flu -
https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurge...

Evolutionary pressure on the virus should be towards a "wimpy virus", not a virus that "has the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection".

And yes, it is important to balance the economic damage and public health risk. And it is important to take into consideration that there is a public health risk from economic damage.

In practice, the solution is probably pretty simple. The economy should be reopened in a controlled manner, in a few months. Sport events, concerts, conferences should stay closed, until there are either: antivirals, herd immunity or vaccines.
Mostly when it's cheaper
OP here, thanks a bunch for this! I will take your advice and dump the crypto library for this one.
So, because it's not in a list it's therefore prohibited and thus a human rights violation? Even though it says quite clearly you can meet your friends outdoors as long as you observe social distancing? (13. iii.)

And sorry, I missed the news I guess. What's the cite for people who have been threatened with fines or (!!) prison for visiting friends?

You really don't think you're making making a bit much of this?
As a Java developer I would need a few things to switch and maintain my current level of productivity: generics, a map/filter/reduce paradigm for working on collections, and more flexible error handling -- in that order.

Oh, and let me leave "fmt" in the list of imports even when it's unused, because adding it every time I stick in a printf to debug something, and then needing to remove it later because of compiler errors, is incredibly frustrating.
The point is that given the accuracy of the tests in the Stanford study all 50 positives could have been false positives.

In other words, they don't have the testing power to discern if it is even 5x.

Until about 5% of the population is infected the current antibody tests are useless.
Python 3 features in Python 2 was entire purpose of Python 2.7. All features it came with were backports of python 3 features. They could continue doing that, but then we would never fix the Unicode.

There's so much whining, when they gave over 5 years to do the migration. I think the whole problem was that they gave too much time, and people were thinking it will be like that forever.

Also, Java is not a dynamic language, the type system allows for easy fix of issues like these, the python solution to do that is mypy, but it requires work by adding types.
In those old buildings without a concierge your packages will get stolen and you'll be living in a high crime area. I've lived in old places before and it's terrible. At minimum, you deal with poor infrastructure (no in unit laundry or dish washer) and bugs. Prices are actually low due to COVID. I've lived nearby to Pike and Pine and know the area well.

I'm happy to maximize my TC and not worry about the extra $10k a year to live in a nice, modern building.
This will be a terrible economic loss for US universities come this fall.
What's New in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa
Do you have a funding opps for Covid-19 projects? where?
i was giving feedback to a pioneer project that i was looking with help "finding investment" for a respirator project. at first, i thought that he didn't even bother to google around and his website was on spanish so i also assumed a language barrier. as courtesy, i thought i'd look up some opps for this person because i see them all over twitter (or what it seemed like). thought "will be so easy and quick"

hours later and now writing this post. great.

anyway, turns out its really hard to find. either that or my high self didn't realize how to use google better... however, all the searches for "venture capital" or "funding" or "investment" + "covid-19" (and variations) yielded endless pages of media and consulting coverages, reports and predictions.

so i couldn't really find anything besides a bunch of software discounts and stats aggregation website...

i am high. but this does not make sense. where is all the funding opps? wait now i am questioning if they exist because its fundamentally anti-capitalism to be altruistic (oh no).
I’m looking forward to picking up some test equipment. The problem is hardware is no longer built here. Back in the 2000 dot-com bust, there was plenty of RF and optical equipment going for cheap. As another poster mentioned though, these companies have no assets.
> Nobody has excluded Taiwan from anything

https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1243949792985...
It almost certainly shouldn't be covered. It states "being necessary to the security of a free State". What part of a nuclear warhead wielded by a militia contributes to the security of a free State? Nuclear weapons are rather unique in that they're essentially useless in a civil war. What are you going to do? Nuke the very land that you're fighting over?

Biological and nuclear weapons should not fall in the scope of the 2nd amendment. They're useless for guaranteeing your liberties against a tyrannical government, and the consequences for storing them improperly are severe.
Subway doesn’t explain why Seattle more than SF.

Basically only timing of shelter-in-place does.
The biggest flaw is that they didn't use the confidence intervals associated with the specificity in their calculations properly.

Given the CI's of the specificity all 50 positives could have been false positives so we can't conclude anything from the study.
The infographic from IBM's site (http://filecache.mediaroom.com/mr5mr_ibmnews/184460/IBM_Auto...) says:

> PROPULSION SYSTEM Hybrid power: window/solar (with diesel generator backup)

And while I'm at it:

> SPEED Max: 10 knots

> JOURNEY TIME - PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND TO PLYMOUTH, MA Duration: Approximately 12 days
Free Wireless Screen Mirroring Tool – LetsView
What feelings did you feel in October 2001?
New York seems to be affected by COVID pandemics way worse than any other place in the US. That's what I mean by "worst case".
Everything I’ve read seems to say it’s very, very difficult to accidentally take delivery, but it’s not quite impossible.

In related news, there is a Planet Money Podcast (episode called the Eddie Murphy Rule) where they interview the trader who took possession of a bunch of cattle by mistake IIRC.
What is interesting about Factorio
The same reasons that an even larger codebase never upgraded from Visual Basic 6.
Both? You'd import cv2, which works in either.
> What exactly does it mean?

As usual when he announces policy over Twitter, nobody knows except him - possibly not even him. We'll find out when he gets around to having someone write up an actual document for him.
Musk's response to that article was to double-down on semantics, arguing that CPAP machines still count as ventilators: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1251663844860063746
but why does the effect only happen in software engineering, but not physical engineering?

You don't see buildings that are near collapse and require constant repair and redesign. You don't see construction contracts awarded to companies that build poor buildings. In fact, most buildings work fine, and even tho most also have some defects, those defects tend to be minor and can often be overlooked.

So what makes software engineering different?
That isn't huge. The biggest issue with the Stanford study was that they didn't take into account the Confidence Intervals of the Specificity.
Civ 2 works flawlessly with wine.
RMS dislike of CL was purely due to personal factors: He felt cheated by the Lisp machine industry.
Yeah, sorry, I sometimes use HN as a bookmark service that may also benefit someone else.

The idea is to present a hierarchical file system as flat one, using FUSE.

In this particular case, the version of VLC on my old iPad only searches SMB volumes one directory deep.

So I'm trying to mount a flat /mnt/MP3/ disk out of several nested ones:

/artist1/song1.mp3
/artist1/song2.mp3
/artist2/song1.mp3
/artist2/song2.mp3

becomes

/artist1_song1.mp3
/artist1_song2.mp3
/artist2_song1.mp3
/artist2_song2.mp3

So yeah, pretty specific. But the takeaway is that FUSE is awesome.
I’m not a butterphile, but if you find yourself near a Wegmans on the east coast, the butter boy butter is pretty outrageous.

I could probably just eat it like cheese.
Scientists restore some functions in a pig’s brain hours after death (2019)
Would it make sense to break out the parent that first brought up Why Nations Fail? I'm curious what the logic is.
> This hasn't been my experience, so I tried an image search for [tom cruise]

I believe what he means is that searching for first name + last name of someone who isn’t a celebrity gets you celebrities who match either the first name or last name.

Searching for Tim Neeson gets you a wall of photos of Liam Neeson:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tim+neeson&tbm=isch

Searching for Tim Cruise blankets you with pictures of Tom Cruise, but it at least says “Showing results for tom cruise“ so you know it did an autocorrect. When I tried other first names + Cruise, the effect is less pronounced than with the Neeson example. Maybe it’s because cruise is a more common name as well as an English word.
Ah heck, I was reading another comment by you in another thread just now, and admittedly not thinking kind thoughts about it... so I'm glad to have been humbled by finding this prior reply, reminding me not to make snap judgements of others :) Thanks so much for your hopeful comment!
What's use of Python 2 if you can't use libraries[1]?

It will only get more difficult to maintain your app.

[1] https://python3statement.org/ - note many libraries weren't even waiting until 2020. It is a lot of work to maintain code with python 2 cruft. Not all packages are listed there, for example Django is Python 3 only, starting from 2.0 (currently at 3.0)
Oh nice a project named after diseased colonizers.
gpu + usb passthrough and autostart the vm on boot
Vi Hart: How We Reopen
I hadn't. Thanks, that's a little gem.
So what-about-ism and apathy?

Scandals are such because social shaming, possibly accompanied by prosecution, are useful tools for society to push back against bad actors. Or are you endorsing fraud as a legitimate political strategy?
In some ways that's the whole point of code. You want to get to forget about it doing all these things without you.
I wasn't ready to say that it's genuine laidback, when combined with such aggressive other traits. It might be affectation or sociopathy. In any case, it seemed funny to me (and the show did some similar things with some other characters, like Keenan Feldspar).
Thanks for sharing! Who pays for this?

Also, naive question, what happens if you don't do these things? If the company has no assets, it's not like you can get sued? I'm not arguing that this should be done, I'm just curious what the specific reason is that it happens.
There’s lots of stuff on BCI. People have been pursuing it for a decades and technology is maturing into handling the quantity of data. The limiting factor is the (apparently) obvious: skulls are thick. You get a terribly weak signal through a skull. Who’s going to get a sub-skull implant so they can play VRChat 2?
FWIW, that's the exact same point I made in the GP, with s/HIV/old age/ and s/flu/covid/.
> Adverse selection is a market mechanism that can lead to a market collapse.

if an uninformed buyer buys a lemon, and they don't suffer the consequences (e.g., a lemon works just as well as a peach, 'cept in aesthetics or some other unimportant metric), then it's not collapsing the market at all. It just means that peaches, as judged by sellers, aren't as valuable as they think.

It's like the stock market in this sense - buyers of a stock doesn't "really" know if the stock is a lemon or a peach. Neither does the original owner of the stock of course.
So, given that I was quoting global figures for the flu, on an apples-to-apples basis it seems like covid is about 10x the flu at the moment, in the US, ignoring the fact that it could be much worse without the lockdowns.

None of us know for sure, but isn't it plausible on the face of it that something 10x worse that could easily become 100x or 1000x worse warrants the lockdowns? I don't know if this is common sense, but in an alternate universe it could be.
You very clearly no little about the political and economic philosophy of the country(Juche).

From Wikipedia:

> The Juche theory is the belief that through self-reliance and a strong independent state, true socialism can be achieved.

This isn't really started strongly enough about their views (or at least what they tell their citizens) as regards self-reliance. Most of the famines there have been caused by incompetence. But they are called the Hermit Kingdom for a reason. They want to do it themselves.

They have the resources to create nuclear weapons, but not feed their population? I honestly don't understand how people can make excuses for a regime that had literally provided no value to their people or the world except for war, murder, and suffering.

Note: Was a Korean linguist in a branch of the US military. Might make some people think I was brainwashed, but actually just gave me actual context on the country and it's people.
Vinylon: The National Fabric of North Korea
Oh stfu you fucking liberal.
The US doesn't have a hundred times less old people than Italy. The whole "don't worry about old people dying" attitude of those eager to "reopen the economy" is kind of despicable.

Florida has 20% of it's population over 65 and it's 21 million people might similarly be rather hard hit.
There seems to be an unaddressed need for a well-maintained library implementing spaced repetition algorithms. I have seen implementations for SM15[0] and SM2[1][2] around but nothing that provides multiple implementations and a consistent API on top.

If there was a library like that, a tool like SpacedTime could use it easily (currently it uses fibonacci sequences when determining how soon to recall).

[0] https://github.com/slaypni/SM-15, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844613

[1] https://github.com/walterscarborough/LibSpacey

[2] https://gist.github.com/doctorpangloss/13ab29abd087dc1927475...
Are you suggesting the pro-isolation crowd is actually a centralized entity pretending to be a grass-roots movement?
Frankly I find Andrew Gelman at least as invested in a particular outcome of this political issue as a hedge fund manager.
Wouldn't that just mean allowing more Americans to attend university? I though most people agreed the inflated tuitions were unnecessary for actual learning.

EDIT: Wow, the largest ever tuition increase happened this year, a 3.4% average increase.

https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/fig...

Here's the kicker:

>Part-time faculty and teaching assistants now account for half of instructional staffs at colleges and universities, up from one-third in 1987, the figures show.

>During the same period, the number of administrators and professional staff has more than doubled. That’s a rate of increase more than twice as fast as the growth in the number of students.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4738584
Who do we trust, when everyone is pointing fingers at each other?
> Finally, the divide exists uniquely because of US intervention

The division exists as a result of WW2, and all the antagonism came from the north: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea

> Also it’s not the NK government starving its citizens to death (that strategy doesn’t make sense to keep the power), it’s the US by imposing economic sanctions.

Not that I agree economic sanctions are good policy, but the sanctions exist largely because NK is developing nuclear weapons which they view as more important than feeding their people. NK is in the driving seat here and could drop their nuclear program at any time.

> You are assuming most people want to quit their country

We can only assume, we can't exist run a poll in the worlds most totalitarian regime. The desire to be well nourished is a fairly safe assumption though.