skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's referring to a subcategory of people at Harvard who are full of unreasonable entitlement and under different circumstances wouldn't find their way out of a paper bag. I had a young American colleague,here in London,who was like this.Went to a fairly good school,got a job at a large corp, and eventually came to London to work for his dad's friend.While he did a reasonable job,the rest was absolutely awful: everyone was somewhat less smart than him,only he knew how to do shit, and ultimately he was the smartest guy in the room .Then obviously all the talks about how the US is land of opportunity and anyone could make it big there only if they put in some effort. The reality is that 90% of his "success" is attributed to one person- his dad, who's a pretty expensive lawyer and could bankroll his sons journey all the way from cradle to London.
yeah, unfortunately a client-side parser has it's limitations. NLP compromise can view any gibberish as a noun -- on the plus side, it's actually how DT would answer if you gave him gibberish. :)
I think a visual approach is great for representing the overall structure of a C++ program (e.g. inheritance hierarchy), but I much prefer code for the lower level logic.

People have been using visual representations of programs for ~70 years. I'm not sure how much room there is for major improvements to visualization.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238819-does-a-high-vir...
1996 or so: altavista.digital.com! I loved (and got pretty good at due to daily training, heh) using boolean operations to find whatever I wanted. No Google back then.

Nowadays Google finds so much noise that I wish I could use boolean operations once again to weed out the spam.

Also liked slashdot.org in its early days.
Gotta love the lively language:

> [...] see someone toss aside the can whose contents he has just consumed, as a Russian vodka drinker throws down his glass.

> City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI), a leading free-market think tank.
The fact the search engine seems to think it knows what you want better than you do. The amount of times I'll enter a query and get results which have nothing to do with said query is astounding, especially when the result crosses out an important word and says it matches one of the others instead.

Or when I enter a phrase and they think it's a typo despite not actually being one, giving me a whole bunch of irrelevant results related to the 'corrected' term in the process.
Am I the only one who is still confused by what they're finding in these antibody tests? Are they looking for antibodies that attach to specific features unique to SARS-CoV-2? Because I'm pretty sure even HCoV-NL63 enter lung cells through ACE2 as well. How can they tell antibodies for these viruses apart? Also aren't antibodies effectively developed in a sort of random process?
So, the Model 3 of smartphones?
I think your title is too vague: if you get no responses, perhaps put your ask into the title and include “Veniqa” in it? Even then, it is very specific so it wouldn’t reach many eyes before it dropped down the list due to lack of upvotes...
https://snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists/
This is exactly the reason why part-time jobs are so difficult to find. By saying "I don't want to sacrifice as much time as possible to this job" you send a bad signal. You working 4 days instead of 5 is frankly not a problem. But you wanting to work 4 days instead of 5 is. Why hire a guy who wants to sacrifice less, when you could hire a guy who wants to sacrifice more? Having a life outside of job is a red flag. Do you have hobbies? Dreams? Want to spend more time with your kids before they grow up and leave home? Go somewhere else; I want someone more loyal than you.

There are exceptions. Typically, women returning from maternity leave; with the assumption that the part-time is only for a year or two, followed by usual full-time. Also, students who work besides their school; again, with the assumption that after finishing school, the work becomes full-time. In both cases, there is a good excuse. "I'd love to devote my all time to you, but my selfish baby insists on my presence, and I need a few months before I can store it in kindergarten for the whole day." "I'd love to devote all my time to you, but this stupid school insists on me going to lessons and exams, but it will soon be over, I promise."

Maybe a health problem could serve as a sufficient excuse. "I'd love to devote all my time to you, but my doctor says 4 days a week max, otherwise I'll drop dead." It misses the "soon, it will be full-time" part, but at least it doesn't signal insufficient loyalty. I don't know; I never tried this. I'd like to hear a report from people who did.
Which continent is the one where no one speaks english?
Because python2 isn't just a language that dissolves away once the program has been written. It's also a thick interpreter and runtime system that will slowly rot away without maintenance.

It's yet to be seen how this runtime will be maintained in the future. Of course, given the enormous usage of python2 it's clear that it will be possible to use it far into the future. But it's really an unprecedented situation where an enormous software platform is abandoned by its developers. If this were a commercial product, it would filter through the long tail of software graveyards like Oracle and Computer Associates. I imagine the main annoyances in the future python2 landscape will be vendor fragmentation and diverging implementations.
I think the iPhone se is a response to the economic downturn. Apple needs to sell phones, this phone is too good of a deal. They normally wouldn’t release a product like this.

Edit:

Dumbfounded that people don’t think the most valuable company in the world doesn’t have a plan for economic downturns. This model reuses parts already made. Somehow it’s coincidental it shows up right as the downturn does?
Absolutely, a good point. I would think for the particularly avid birder that you could probably memorize all of them. We certainly have larger vocabularies than that!
Right but if the premise is “there will be lots of investment because people are spending less and saving more” then all that invested money can’t go into marketing or advertising without getting right back to a low-savings society, unless that spending is ineffective. So that leaves R&D I guess since there’s not much else for that extra money to do. Plus lower returns on equities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-cor... (TL, DR: NEJM next week)
Why is the dropout rate so high for Computer Science?
That 1-2% number seems to be an extreme exaggeration, mostly peddled by the media. From research it seems to be at 0.66% or so.

That's without taking into account that less than half of the population will get infected.

And if you're concerned about short duration of immunity, we shouldn't drag that thing for a year, everyone should get sick faster.
It must be different expectations about what is a good coffee.

London is i think the original place from where high end coffe culture spread out to europe and where idea of small independent roasters came from.

I often buy coffee from London when i can get it. Square Mile, Has Bean, Union Coffee, Caravan coffee all mostly highest quality stuff.

Funnily enough i've lived in portugal for a while and coffee was so bad i had hard time finding good beans. Luckily some cafes were importing stuff but no roasters.
Python 2 isn't dead. What they really mean is: "See all those countless developer-hours spent into adding features, fixing bugs, patching vulnerabilities for free in a language you use every day to make boatloads of money without us ever asking anything in return? Well we won't do it anymore. For free, at least."
The pip docs say support for Python 2.7 will be dropped in January 2021 or if there are show-stopping bugs in Python 2.7 that affect pip before then: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/docs/html/developmen...
"Pfft. Chickens don't even know what a road is!"
Yes. That’s one possible explanation. Interestingly quite a lot of people might be somewhat immune to the new Corona virus due to anti bodies from previous Corona cold infections. More than 30% showed such antibodies in a recent study.
https://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/drosten-hinweis-au...
(Sorry that the only source I have ready right now)
> "for some writing code itself is an act that clarifies the still-murky concepts and helps to produce a good writeup."

This is my philosophy after ~2 years of working on distributed systems. I got sick of vague design discussions where everyone has a 5 minute memory.

I am much happier to sit at my desk and figure it out by writing code, then produce a design doc once I have a solid prototype working. It feels more honest and real.

At the same time, I wonder if I'm missing out on a different way of doing things.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt situation was discussed here several days ago. At this time about 60% of the crew who tested positive are still asymptomatic. Enough time has passed that we can be confident they aren't just presymptomatic. Numbers are pretty solid since they were all quarantined and tracked. Infection fatality rate was about 0.1%, however that's probably not representative of the general population.
As far as i know, every single continet has english speaking people. Either as a primary or a secondary language.
Not a specific website, but the concept of web rings that tied Geocities and Tripod sites together were another a lot of fun.
Thanks for the data point!
That make sense.
Sure, English isn’t a language that everyone speaks natively for personal use. But usually we think it’s a bad thing if people’s other languages die.
Well, for me, that would be allmost the same, as I believe taste has a biological reason, as a strong indicator whether something is good or bad for my health.
(no, pure sugar does not taste good for me)

But officially science says currently no, chalk in water is not a health issue and maybe even good.

(but I would not be surprised, if that changes in the future, like with many other things)
This is a good and thoughtful essay, but in some respects reads like a rationalization of the author's preferences rather than an attempt to engage with the problems. He makes good points about the lack of formal specification, portability, and specialty software; this is indeed a problem, as all the best visual programming platforms are proprietary.

On the other hand, there's no fundamental reason that visual editors shouldn't be able to load and save source code; it's just a different way of thinking about program structure and user interface. There's already a lot of tools out there that generate dependency graphs within or alongside an IDE; the main shortcoming i see is a lack of nesting. There are few instances in which i want to see the entire structure of a program all at once, any more than I want to read all the source code in a single giant text buffer

One might equally ask if textual languages are so great, why are there so many of them? Couldn't everything be written in a nice capable high-level language like C? And of course it could, but lots of people don't like C's minimalism and lack of guardrails. It seems to me that most new general-purpose languages originate in a desire to have the computer do some of the tedious housekeeping (like casting variables) and frustration with awkward syntax.

I'm old, so when I was learning to write code it was just flat text files and every build necessitated a round of swearing over forgotten semicolons, mismatched brackets, or incorrectly spelled variables. Syntax highlighting, code folding, autocompletion, and bracket matchings which do so much to make development in a modern IDE pleasant and productive were once viewed as undesirable crutches that would lead to poor practices, lack of portability, and inaccurate second-guessing of developers' intention by the IDE, subjecting hapless coders to the tyrannical will of the interface illuminati.

I suspect that behind the aversion to visual programming lies a fear of standardization and automation that will result in widespread developer redundancy as it becomes easier for domain experts to build out their tools without code specialists, somewhat parallel to the development of electronics from hobby clubs where people helped each other with soldering irons, multimeters, and resistor identification charts to today's electronic factories populated only by pick-and-place machines assembling components too small for adult hands to manipulate at dizzying speeds.

The more automation and and ML that finds its way into IDEs, the more standardized the underlying libraries are likely to become. To the extent that programmers are freed from syntax production and housekeeping duties and processes can more easily be read (from visual graphs/charts) with domain knowledge alone, the more likely it is that the most common functions become wholly standardized, in the same way that chips are. 555 timer ICs have been around since 1971 and the most popular derivatives are dual and quad versions. Nobody is writing new and improved 555 timers and there's no real demand for them.
I dunno, seems accurate to me in this case haha.
If it wasn't for DRM, that game would probably work under Proton.
It's like a defense mechanism. You value the work less because it was computer made rather than to admit to your flawed value assignment and vanity or human supremacism.
Not too long ago while optimizing some x86 code on my i7-4900k, I discovered that at least for this code it was appreciably faster to do

mov [mem], reg
div [mem]

rather than simply

div reg

I'm no asm guru, but I expected the L1 cache to be slower than a register, and certainly not a round-trip via L1 to be several percent faster.

The reason I stumbled upon this was that the compiler emitted the first variant and I tried to optimize it to the second, but lost speed. That's when I decided I'll stick to optimizing my high-level code...

FWIW this div was in a somewhat tight loop, but sadly I've totally forgotten the rest of details. I do recall adding nops here and there to play with loop alignment, it wasn't that.
while the absolute value doesn't matter, its time course is mostly representative , because countries rarely change strategies wrt testing.
60% is the probability that a particular positive test result is actually a false positive. It's not the overall the false positive rate.
https://everything2.com/ which, amazingly is still up and running.
They also spend a while working on their products, so I don’t think they had time to change much in response to the downturn.
Not even google own all the space. There are other video sites and if none of them want you, you can put your propaganda up on your own site.

I'm not American, I'm not really interested in the details of your first amendment. The difference is between government telling you that you can't speak or spread ideas and a publishing platform taking a decision not to carry your pernicious lies.

I'm fine with the latter. It's their commercial choice and it's a benefit to society in this case.

Are you going to get upset at Penguin and tell them it's censorship when they don't publish your novel too? Or maybe Barnes and Noble?
> If you start pulling in many different components

But if you've made that choice, you will likely be more aware of what you're dealing with.

There are definitely valid reasons to go with big-upgrade-every-year-or-two kinds of distributions. It can make developing software that depends on other software easier, especially if you need binary compatibility. A book or article about that system won't be out-of-date immediately.

Personally I wouldn't mind a few spread-out glitches throughout the year compared to frantically trying to repair a broken system after a dist-upgrade and losing a weekend.

I have had a few glitches with arch, but I think they were mostly some manual intervention for signing keys and didn't harm the system.
Cool — all clear now.
Virtual webcam – play a video in e.g. Zoom
The same is true for French, or Mandarin Chinese. Still, good luck getting by in English in the middle of China, Russia, West Africa or Latin America. Hell, rural Germany can be rough going.
I've tried to force myself to write something in English before coding, and... it's not 100% followed, but it's often helped. Sometimes I'm not even prescribing the full 'solution', but it's a sketch of the pros/cons of a couple approaches. This can help me remind myself later of why a particular option was chosen, even if it turns out to be bad.

I can't say if anyone else who looks at the code ever also reads what I've written - it seems that generally they don't (even though I announce it and it's in the commit activity stream and PRs).
Here's a (work-in-progress?) monograph about the mathematics of tensegrities! Neat application of representation theory outside the standard examples from chemistry!

Connelly & Guest 2015, "Frameworks, Tensegrities, and Symmetry: Understanding Stable Structures"

http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~web7510/framework.pdf
I’ve noticed this on my keyboard. It has a “BIOS mode”, but it works fine in “regular mode” in the BIOS anyways. Maybe because it’s actually UEFI?
A few years ago a phone with this price tag would have been a flagship phone. Apple defined a new category with their $1000+ phones
> where the top marginal brackets were around 90%.

Lol nope. Would rather take my chances with the virus than hand over 90% of my earnings, and I suspect most would agree.
Not really. I wasn't aware of this. The only thing I found on reddit regarding the situation was the link I sent above which didn't have any controversy.
If you already have a double-sided floppy drive, then you don't have any reason to make flippy-floppies to use that second side of the floppy.

To read the second side of flippy-floppies that you already have, you use the single-sided software that wrote the disk and that only uses a single side of the floppy and flip the floppy over. Then you transfer the data to a normal double-sided floppy.
It absolutely sold me. Buying an Apple phone wasn't even on my radar.

I bought it and later discovered it has wireless charging. I thought, wow, this is quite the play. This phone is way underpriced.
Most languages borrow, often heavily, from its neighbors, but this one is truly a Frankenstein of a language. There’s something deeply unnatural and aesthetically unpleasing about it. I don’t understand how people can like it (although many do).
I am not willing to even consider these results until more details about testing are revealed. There has already been so much misinformation about testing and results that I am incredibly skeptical of any results now.
To join in the other comments here: because it's not safe to do so automatically. There are semantic changes to the language that do not have automate-able solutions. E.g. how strings/unicode/bytes work, to name just one.
Ask HN: Future CoronaVirus Vaccine Safety
Quick question: a Covid vaccine might be ready in 12-18 months, obviously way faster than the normal 5-10-15 year average. My question is, could a a future corona virus vaccine do more harm than being infected by the virus would have done?

There is no way you can check how it effects people long term, offspring, etc in 12-18 months.

I'm not anti-vax, I have all required vaccines plus all that I could find at a private clinic. But I also know that some vaccines have caused problems in the past.
Overdue? The 2016 SE was also $400.
I don't think he has a Patreon, but you can always get a paid Dominion account.
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Illy? Are you serious? Megabrand corporation that often uses mix of Arabica and Robusta not even full Arabica (meaning blend of cheapest cofee).

Look around a bit you can for sure find awesome cafes in London. If not there than probably nowhere. I posted few of my fav London roasteries to comment under this one.
I found the reverse. I had to do a tech debt cleanup of the code and found that doing an abstract diagram made it much easier to map out the interrelation between all the classes which was hard to keep in my head all at once. Also made it easier to communicate to others visually why it was spaghetti & easy to create a diagram about how I'd like to clean it up. I used PlantUML because what a lot of text -> visual things miss is that they don't provide the necessary knobs to tune the level of detail so doing the diagram by hand was a necessity.

There may be multiple ways to look at something - sequence graphs, data flows - and additionally you don't want to capture all the details in the visualization, you want to be able to cut-off the diagrams at choke points where they're not helpful (e.g. I don't care about package X in the code) which is what all visualization packages try to do. This is directly analogous to geographic maps.

Imagine if you viewed the map for a state/province whatever & had the local road network detailed. That map would be unusable & discarded quickly. Diagramming tools need to be able to take text & generate a visualization that you can zoom into/out of & lose/gain the appropriate level of detail necessary, be able to switch between different aspects (like you can with street view vs regular vs satellite, vs topography). I think the reason we don't have equivalent tools for programming is three-fold:

1. There's a lot of popular languages. Maintaining support for parsing & mapping that to the visualization abstraction is going to be a lot of work. Probably manageable though.

2. As engineers we tend to think in either solving the problem or not. No visualization is going to be good as a hand-drawn diagram in the moment nor is it probably good enough (at least the first version) as a vehicle for making the modification.

3. There's lot of type erasure/dynamism that's impossible to capture in code analysis (e.g. type-erased callbacks like `std::function`, `std::any`). That makes the visualization incorrect or cause it to fail prematurely.
Barely. The Broadcom BCM283x family is pretty weird -- it uses a programmable GPU which is (among other things) in charge of the early boot process. The Amlogic part is a much more conventional design.
I don't know if it's some weird quirk of copyright, but I really wish they'd just release both versions on video everywhere. AFAICT, there isn't a 4K HDR re-release of the International Cut, which is a shame.
A lot of the asymptomatic cases had pneumonia in their lungs too. They were however still able to expel CO2 and so did’t feel shortness of breath.
When you're working on a touch screen device without a keyboard.
This has been Ronny’s dream since the exit. Incredible. Thank you world:)
I had (somewhat hyperbolically) Asia and Latin America in mind but this being HN I eagerly await someone pointing out the existence of Belize or some parts of India and Singapore in a valiant effort to be technically correct.
That just doesn't seem true. In the US testing strategies are rapidly changing, since health officials indicate this will be essential to safely removing restrictions.
K10k.net
Linkedup.com

The link dumps of all the new and exciting shit people were doing with the internet.
There will be patches. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS shipped with 2.7 and is supported until 2023. RHEL 7 shipped with 2.7 and is supported until 2024. What will be interesting to see is if there will be a "standard" fork that everybody pulls patches from, or if every vendor patches himself ...
wiretap.spies.com (originally a Gopher site, but eventually had an http version)

gatekeeper.dec.com ... an FTP site, but hey, you did say early days!