skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason is it's a discipline that you can't really start in college. Unless you have a fair amount of tech experience of some sort under your belt by then, you'll never be more than mediocre. Ideally, it's experience you got by scratching and clawing. If someone served it up to you on a platter, it's not going to be worth much.

It probably doesn't help that people are being directed into the field for reasons other than that they simply really want to do it. Those people will fail at a high rate.

Finally, as many have observed, there's a knack to it. If you don't have it, you're not going to do well. (I lack the knack for a lot of other fields, and having tried a bit, there's not much way to get past that.)
You're basically complaining that the government helped knock consumers out of their usual state of detached cognitive dissonance.
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What kind of post is this? This question presupposes that CS dropout rates are "so high," but I am not convinced.
wouldn't we all feel better if it wasn't someone who's clearly a little too far right politically?
Doh. Sorry about that.

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> Biking in Paris where it rains all the time and gets really cold, good luck with that (I'm a biker myself and use it all the time, just not feeling good about this knowing Parisians).

Is it really worse than other big cities? Does it have a proven impact on bike usage? As some anecdata, it rains twice more in New York than in Paris 1,200mm vs. 600mm/year) and on more days (121 vs. 111/yr). Amsterdam, the well known bikes-everywhere city is colder and has more rain (900mm) than Paris. Berlin is well know for both frequent rains and a large bike usage.
So 13k deaths in NY (so far) are under 80 years old. That sounds pretty dangerous to me.

Comparison to the flu could indicate that we underindex on all these other causes of death. It doesn't make those death numbers some magical line where now it's worth it, because Coronavirus deaths in 2 months equal annual flu deaths.
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I found this article’s central claim to be unsupported by its content. It talks about lot about how some specific uses of electricity are increasing, but it doesn’t say how the absolute magnitude of those uses compares to overall carbon emissions. This would be necessary to show that “the cloud is making a green energy future impossible”. I suspect this information was left out because cloud energy use accounts for a very small slice of global emissions.

The statistics they do cite are often misleading, and are never very convincing. For example, comparing the energy use from streaming a video to riding a train or walking. In reality, all of those energy uses are negligible. In other words, they are comparing video streaming to the most efficient versions of transportation, and ignoring the sources of most transportation-related emissions. Run that comparison between video streaming and flying to a meeting in person!

It reminds me of an article I once saw funded by the meat industry which showed that the water requirements to produce a calorie of beef are lower than a calorie of lettuce (ignoring calorie-dense plants such as grains and legumes that are much more efficient).

This one is a doozy:

> This grand ‘experiment’ in shifting societal energy use is visible, at least indirectly, in one high-level fact set. By the first week of April, U.S. gasoline use had collapsed by 30 percent, but overall electric demand was down less than seven percent.

By the article’s own numbers, energy use actually went down! Then they somehow use this fact to prove that the digital future will use more energy?

Later, they make more strange comparisons, like datacenters to skyscrapers, when of course, most of the world’s energy use doesn’t come from skyscrapers. And they bizarrely compare datacenter energy use to electric car energy use, when again, electric cars obviously aren’t yet a major component of energy usage.

Overall, I feel this article is not fact-driven reporting. It’s twisting the numbers with the aim of making people who care about the environment misdirect their concerns toward software companies.

To make a more constructive recommendation - if you’re concerned about carbon emissions, start by looking at a breakdown of which industries are responsible for the most emissions!
I'd like to have an iphone for better integration with my mac and for the smaller size, but overall, the iphone SE is still more expensive than comparable android phones (e.g. xiaomi). There are also various features that I like on my android phone, such as the usb-c charger and a jack port.
As a recommendation I'd suggest the typing of the dead hands down the funnest way to learn touch typing as well I recommend the DVORAK key layout because it's much more suited to touch typing as one's hands require far less travel and therefore less propensity for error
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is well established. Even with everyone indoors, the US new infection rate remains around 40,000 new cases per day recorded -- and holding steady. Now with states re-opening that can only go one direction, until herd immunity is established.
The template syntax is actually from go[0] which you can find some guides[1] for. While the Hugo website now mentions this, I'm not sure it always made it clear the syntax is not its own (it just seems to be frustratingly light on some use-cases). Once you understand the syntax though, it applies to more than just Hugo.

[0]: https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/
[1]: https://gowebexamples.com/templates/
At no time did I say that the majority of Indians speak English. I said they have the largest English-speaking population in the world.

Assuming that 300 million Americans speak English (to be generous), that would require more than 22.2% of India to speak English.

According to the last census, conducted in 2011[0], India has about 125 million English speakers. That same link says this is "projected to quadruple in the next decade".

If that supposition is at all accurate, India now has the largest population of English speakers in the world. The next census is in 2021, so we should know for sure by then.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20500312
Do you feel the simplification (or perhaps, dumbing down) of search queries is a bad thing?
I think this similar to what ADA is doing in crypto space.
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I'm trying to sign up but getting 500s :(
True. And certainly a python3 script should never, ever assume that 'python' is python3.
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Amsterdam is flat, not the case for Paris.
Based on existing experience in Europe, it will significantly bolster local economies, as walkers and bikers often go into shops, often unplanned as they just saw an interesting shop during their journey. Net result was a big increase in purchases from brick and mortar stores.
I think it comes down to students having a different expectation of what CS is all about. Students think that if they like to use and troubleshoot computers then they will like CS. Well, surprise, CS has a lot of math and a lot of theoretical work which is a drag if you are not ready for it. Even if you are ready it's still a drag.

Math is a large component of the degree. I remember that most CS students in my school would minor in math since it only took 1 or 2 more classes to complete the minor. Any way you look at it, it's a lot of math. Many people aren't ready for it.

I think economics is one of those majors that has a large dropout rate too. Again, the amount of math is a huge reason why people drop out.
Also there have been reports of Ground Glass Opacities[1] in the lungs of people with infections previously thought of as asymptomatic.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-glass_opacity
> the city plans to maintain its metro system’s capacity at less than two-thirds of its pre-pandemic activity.

As a resident of Milan, I find this rather displeasing. I don't own a car (and have no plans to own one), and I exclusively depend on the metro + trains to get to work, which is too far away for serious walking or even cycling. FTR: it's actually far easier to go there (at least from where I live) with public transport than walking , cycling, and even with a car.

Even at full capacity trains are already packed, and I'm afraid that this will make matters worse than before (example: at some point last month metro lines cut rides to < 50%, and were hastily pushed above that again because trains were too crowded even for the decreased ridership, people who could not work from home and had to go to work instead).

Also, what happens if it rains?
Sure, but that doesn't mean they... won't go away. In fact, I'm pretty confident all signs point to the fact they will go away. In fact you get ground glass opacities with H1N1 inflenza [1]. I guess the question is "functional asymptomaticity" vs "actual asymptomaticity". Like, if it's not bad enough for people to even notice does it really matter?

[1] https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.10092240
Version 2 is lovely, I have been using it in beta and it seems quite stable, looking forward to the final release.
Yup. Frequently played it in labs and the library in highschool. Was a part of life back then. Good times.
It is being done though, virtually everywhere. Huge amount of testing worldwide is confirming case recovery.

You are conflating armchair epidemiologists on HN with the reality on the ground. What people say here doesn't reflect what is being done.
The reason for staying at home in the US is to prevent overwhelming hospitals and more people dying. It was a drastic measure to make up for a delayed response and unpreparedness.

In a given town, X people will contract the virus. Y of those will die of complications. Z of those people will die without hospitalization. So if you keep the rate of people contracting the virus under a rate of Z people, you can avoid EXTRA deaths due to overwhelming the hospitals.

Had the response in the US been early and holistic, it’s possible we could have avoided national stay at home orders and instead used social distancing to avoid overwhelming the hospitals. But the nation didn’t. So to avoid MORE deaths, sty at home orders were issued.

Again, to repeat, the reason for staying home is to prevent overwhelming hospitals and more people dying. The same amount of people will die (roughly) whether we stay at home or not.

And it’s not just 80 year olds. I’ve seen more 30 year olds on ventilators than I ever need to see again.
Old school runescape. I played it as a kid and have never otherwise had such a wonderful and memorable experience playing a video game. Im quite young (23) so when I was playing it back in 2006-2008, I learned a LOT about life. Trading and bartering, getting scammed, talking to people to get help moving forward in the game, etc. Most of my friends who used to play agree.

You can still play, they brought it back a few years ago, but the community and popularity - as well as the feeling of discovery I used to get while playing - won’t ever come back
I should dig around and see if I still have my archive of that one. I'm sure I saved everything there in 1998 or 1999.
Actually, they are fairly simple. A case in point is the basic Korn shell behaviour.

* There are two scripts run by a login shell, $HOME/.profile and /etc/profile .

* These scripts set up environment variables and other things (e.g. umask) to be inherited by the whole login session.

* They, specifically, optionally set an ENV variable whose value names a third script that is run by every interactive shell, including the interactive login shell.

That's exactly three scripts: one for the system administrator and another one for the user to set up login-session-wide stuff, and one for the user to set up this-interactive-shell stuff (such as the shell variables for fancy prompts, completion settings, command-line editing stuff, useful interactive shell aliases, and whatnot). They are always in the same order. And they are simply based upon two things: whether the shell is a login shell, and whether the shell is an interactive shell.

The C shell mechanism is similarly simple, on its own.

The complexity mainly comes from the fact that the Bourne Again shell and the Z shell, amongst others, have multiple mechanisms mixed together and extensions. They look for scripts that are specifically in their own shell languages rather than potentially shared with other shells; .zprofile and .bash_profile instead/ahead of .profile , for example. They have extra scripts that mirror the C shell way of doing things; .zlogin, .zlogout, .bash_login, .bash_logout, .bashrc, and .zshrc, for example. They have idiosyncratic and non-strictly-standard ways of deciding what constitutes an interactive shell. They have mechanisms for disabling the extensions, and ways to come up in alternative not-strictly-conformant sh-compatible modes.
Can someone explain how this works from a 7/10 technical perspective? I hate reading articles that talk to you like youre five when trying to explain advanced concepts. I just want to know how it works in 1 paragraph and thats it.
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I'm not sure I follow what you're responding to. Antibodies are definitive proof of a previous infection, which is what I was talking about.
"oh they must have been bullshit businesses the ones that went bust so quick" - sounds like an airlines without bailout.
Anecdotally, where I live in Seattle, the people who are still driving are driving like maniacs...speeding, ignoring stop signs, lights, etc. There may be more room for cyclists, but it doesn't really feel safer.
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Seems like a classic in the “the idea doesn’t 100% perfectly solve the problem so somehow it’s worse than doing nothing” genre.

I do not follow the leap from mild criticism of the approach (not everyone has a smartphone) to the hyperbolic “end of democracy.”
But do you remember everything1?
What do you mean by “merge”? iOS and macOS are the same thing.

iOS (with a different UI toolkit) is macOS.
Wow this game was a classic.

I recommend setting loading time to zero in the room settings for maximum fun/chaos.
Because 2 years of experience is worth more on the job market than a degree about math concepts that are abstracted away by compilers, so why waste the time and money?
Meanwhile, a minimum of six states still publicly display variations on flags of the Confederacy as their official state flags.
https://extras.denverpost.com/flags/
It uses WebGL and WebRTC for p2p connections.
>they would simply classify everything as a matter of operational readiness instead of lying //

Do you think, it seems that not releasing data would be a clear sign they're hiding something - given the public nature of the situation - releasing distorted figures is very difficult to find as you'd need to take a census of sailors ... which the navy/politicians would simply not allow. And the people involved themselves mightn't even notice if the figures were just massaged.

Appreciate your citation and input.
Summarizing, that article says "we fixed Unicode". Well, guess what? Unicode in Python3 is a catastrophe.

The truth is that Python3, as a new language incompatible with Python2, was a mistake. I'm sure it was well intended, but here we are.
Vroom is good people.
I don’t understand what “hacker-proof code means”, but yes IOHK (who develop Cardano) do use formal methods such as Isabelle and Coq alongside some process specification languages.
As an engineering student, Diane Hartley unearthed a flaw in a skyscraper [pdf]
The Catalina release notes do say "Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default."
And probably safer
A post-mortem confirmed that her gallbladder was loaded with the bacteria that cause typhoid.
A good read! It helped me a lot too -- I've had issues where I would find things constantly wrong in my code and find out my results were not right. It never got to the point of publication, but it was embarrassing to share with my advisor and co-authors. However, with some work we were able to continue to improve the algorithm and get good results down the line! Because of this, though, I am always paranoid of mistakes in my coding, but this article helped that fear a bit.
No, I think they're just constantly streaming out updates over a custom isochronous endpoint so the driver doesn't have to go out and request it at all like you do even with ERDY.
Formal methods are a powerful security tool because they produce useful code so slowly that they necessarily minimize attack surface.
Have you seen his twitter? It's incredibly cringey. I don't understand how someone could be so arrogant to claim millions of companies use his software, when his software is isFalse. Not to mention his hundreds of packages that literally just output an emoji.
> Not every death is the same

OK, so how many "influenza death equivalents" are we looking at? What's your metric for how bad this is? I mean, I think that's a little ghoulish, obviously, but if people really want to make this argument I'd really like to see the kinds of well-founded numbers that the experts are producing. Medical ethics is hardly a new field, after all. You'd think someone would have pulled some analysis off the shelf.

Instead, the people pushing "these people would have died anyway" seem to be almost exclusively political actors (or their proxies on social media sites like this one) with a goal of either defending the inaction of the current administration or pushing a policy goal that necessarily sets the virus loose on the public.

But if you really want to make a numerate case for not trying to save the old and sick, I'd genuinely and carefully read it.
I have a few theories... :)
I second this. What was your handle?
Wouldn’t prisons disproportionately have poorer health than average for several reasons?
A paper linked in the comments there suggests that dropout rates aren't relatively super high for STEM [0]

>Attrition rates in non-STEM fields were as high as or higher than those in STEM fields. At the bachelor’s degree level, students in humanities, education, and health sciences had higher attrition rates (56−62 percent) than did those in STEM fields (48 percent), and students in business and social/behavioral sciences had comparable attrition rates (50 and 45 percent, respectively) as did students in STEM fields. A closer look at how students left their fields reveals that proportionally more students in education (42 percent) and health sciences (35 percent) switched majors than did students in STEM fields (28 percent).

It goes against the trope of "STEM is just super hard and I'm smart because I made it through."

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014001rev.pdf
I've experienced very similar things. Thanks for stating this so well.
I’d be surprised that it would be because of the math - I’d think some math would be expected, I’d guess it’s because you have to think for yourself and problem solve basically immediately.

Pretty much every other class just has you follow rote steps until you get to upper classman years or even graduate school. Some form of recognize the problem type and then implement the procedure of explicitly taught steps for that problem.

In computer science introductory classes you get introduced to programming languages as tools, but you have to figure out the procedures largely on your own.

I think this is the first time a lot of students have had to actually think for themselves when solving a problem, and I suspect the transition is too much for a lot of them and they drop out.
You're doing essentially the opposite of appeal to authority.

Imagine being a bright, capable mind, and a hard worker. You've decided to focus on a particular career which makes use of some of your skills, allows you a platform for recognition, and pays the bills. Say programming, or a dancer, or a top-tier professional athlete.

Imagine that you still spend your free time satiating your intellectual curiosity in other ways, learning about all the things you didn't have time to devote your life to.

Now imagine that you decide to share your own thoughts and opinions about say, cooking, or politics, or whatever, and you get shot down because a programmer's unique life skills isn't transferable to cooking or politics.

> whatever wisdom they gathered through their exceptionally unique life situation is not going to be transferable to the life of 99.999..% of the world

You can say this about literally any profession when you include the scope of the entire world and the people in it. And this is why we share our knowledge and wisdom with others, because we each only have a few pieces of the puzzle. Kobe shared his point of view so that others might gain some insight into the mind of a hard-working athlete, not so that someone might dismiss his thoughts based on his career (even though you try to claim it's not about his career, you start with the phrase "A popular basketball player", so it's fairly transparent what your meaning is).
> The article mentions 40% O2 sat to 80 or 90%; aren't the latter still really low? I'm certainly no doctor, but wikipedia[1] claims "Prolonged hypoxia induces neuronal cell death via apoptosis, resulting in a hypoxic brain injury" and suggests that 80-85% is considered severe and 86-90% moderate.

Yeah, unfortunately I can't find it now, but I remember reading a "what the fuck is going on, these patients should be dead!" statement from a doctor a week or two ago about exactly that.
First wave: Geocities & its “webrings”

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I understand your frustration with Quanta on this, and agree completely. I often times make it through about 2/3 of an article and just give up - just get to the point (and preferably open with that point)!

Here was a lengthier diatribe of mine on a former Quanta article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22549988
This is great if you will never have an economic rival or military enemy.

There's a strong argument that not aiming at immediate productivity produces better productivity long-term (e.g. fundamental science, pure mathematics), but that still holds productivity as the primary value.

But what value survival if we lose our humanity?

A resolution is that our intuitions of morality support probabilitistic long-term survival, even if it doesn't seem so in the short-term, shaped as they are by evolution.
I think the paradox of programming is that it's both easy and hard. It's easy for a few people who manage to get over the "hump" and become self sufficient at it. But it's prohibitively hard for most people, even very bright people with technical degrees. Nobody knows why. It doesn't matter whether it's "just" programming, or the theory of programming.

"Because math" isn't a good explanation, because most programmers I've known are average at math, and yet are good programmers.
Yuval Harari: Pandemic policy will influence world politics, economy for decades
> The numbers are the latest evidence to suggest that people who are asymptomatic — contagious but not physically sick — may be driving the spread of the virus

That’s also suggesting that the fatality rate is nowhere near what we have been led to believe.