skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We put together a panel of software engineers who studied the actual source code because the government had failed to provide a credible expert that the media could interface with. This caused many issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dN99ljgD4
It’s really not dynamic vs untyped, but the extent to which the language design chooses to coerce a value into a given type instead of raising a runtime type error. Python is guilty of this too with its truthy values, e.g. `if []` — an empty list of type `list` is suddenly apparently inhabiting the bool type and is equivalent to False.
See previous discussion on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22986147
Every single corporation out there is a totalitarian wet dream

1. Owns all your I.P "thoughts" while you are on the premises.

2. Monitors all your communication channels.

3. Can do drug / psychological testing if you are not performing efficiently.

4. Usually runs without direct democracy by a corrupt middle management.

5. Gives you an id number and laptop for easy tracking, blocks websites.

6. Has an elitist immigration policy via interviews, analogically speaking with easy access to discrimination by any number of ways

7. Has a class system delineated via dress code, bonuses and liability .... with the lower classes being held most accountable for making mistakes.

8. Upper class is also exempt from any mistakes and are more free to do what they want, like doing LSD or coke for productivity .... the lower classes like marijuana and alcohol.

9. Lead by a cult leader with a grand vision of utopia and megalomania.

If you take a hard look at life,

1. Childhood - Parental authoritarianism

2. School / College - School authoritarianism

3. Adult Life - Corporate Authoritarianism

So 20% of your life is in school and college you don't have any rights. And in adult life which is 30% of your life, you spend it in a corporate where you don't have rights. The rest 50% of your life you are weak and useless, unless you have influence.

If you are going to give up rights for a corporate why not a state ? Do rights even matter ? The goal of the government or capitalism is work you to death anyways .... the only time you can exercise any rights is when you are unemployed or the weekend.
Sale of .org web domain blocked
I'm really glad Bandcamp exists as a place where I can buy high-quality, DRM-free music, with a reasonable revenue share and no-bullshit experience. This makes me like them even more!

If something isn't on Bandcamp these days, I often don't even bother messing around with the alternatives and just pirate it.
sed grep & awk :)
> modeling pure polygon models, e.g., for games, is a different activity

It really isn't. I think you want to drive home some distinction, but the vast majority of work flows model straight polygons and the only difference is that they know they are going to be subdivided and smoothed later by the renderer.

You say that there are all sorts of different issues with subdiv surfaces, but it just isn't true. Modelers and texture artists might look at everything smoothed to make sure there aren't any surprises in the interpolation and distortion in the UVs, but everyone deals with the raw polygons.
The most significant, perhaps, was the aftermath of Reichstag fire [1]. What happened after that, we all know.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
The article does not make much sense, starting with the unsupported statement that "restaurants have been competing on price." That's really not correct. In any economy, some actors compete on price, others on quality or other differentiators.

The competition is on price only in commoditized markets, and even there margins vary based on demand and offer. If you have a gold mine, you have fixed extraction costs, but the price of gold is floating.

In the restaurant business, shops have different categories. A Michelin star, for example, allows you to be in a different "price bracket." Some of this, of course, is reflected in ingredients, location, and skills, but usually, a restaurant doesn't need to change location or chef to get an extra star, they just need to improve quality.

The "street food" or "comfort food" business does compete on price and generally uses marketing and location as a differentiator. You buy a cheap hot dog at the stadium because it's there. Competition for the cheapest street food is what she refers to, assuming that a niche is a whole market.

A market where there's too much competition on price means that there is more offer than demand. If several restaurants close, it means the number of restaurants and the number of people that need one rebalance, and this will mean higher margins for the remaining ones.
Python (and Ruby) are dynamically typed and strong typed. They are two different things. Strong typed doesn't mean that you can't do this

a = "a"
a = 1

That's dynamic typing. Strong typing means only that

a = "a" + 1

fails.

More about that at
https://en.hexlet.io/courses/intro_to_programming/lessons/ty...

JavaScript and PHP and Perl automatically cast to a reasonable value with all the advantages and pitfalls.
There has been questions to apple-google ct too, but I always take any country's gov's actions with skeptism. Especially, when they are not making the details/specs public.

Also, have a read:
https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
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Notion was the tool that made me realize I wanted opinionated tools.

At first I was excited by all of Notion’s possibilities, but after a while I felt this was not a strength but a weakness.

We were on Notion for six months, without much enthusiasm. I switched us to Clubhouse + Stack Overflow for Teams and we’re loving it.
Why on fridays? I don't have time on fridays...
EPA and DHA can be had from plants? Which ones? Rapeseed only has ALA. As far as I know, those other omega-3s are only found in fish or algae oil.
Yes, it also assumes no significant mutations/different strains. That's why they're saying actual epidemiological models used to support decision making are much more complicated. But it gives techy lay people (the worst kind of lay people) something to play with and understand a bit more
Me lern gud.

One reason is that I am not afraid to ask questions about why something is. I need to learn my subject "to the bone."

At the start of class, I'd always be asking questions that would have facepalms and guffaws around the room.

By the end of class, I'm helping everyone to figure the material out.

The best teachers I ever had were trained teachers; not subject matter experts.

The absolute worst teachers I ever had were subject experts. They would routinely skip important fundamentals, and shame you for not knowing them. I guess that they assumed we would be able to figure it out on our own; which isn't a bad idea.

Except when they don't give us the time or access to resources required to learn.
Covid-19 shines a light on inequality, Britain's elite Eton College says
‘Breathable’ Electronics Pave the Way for More Functional Wearable Tech
We self isolated really early due to a possible COVID scare, so for months now we’ve been using a local green grocer who has always done free delivery over $40. Early on it was phone orders only, payment details read out over the phone. After a while they moved to email. Now I’ve noticed a Shopify instance. It’s been fascinating watching the digital transformation step by step.

Problem is its still a black box as to when it’s coming. I emailed Friday morning and they might do a delivery run around 12pm, only they didn’t. Nor Saturday. Usually the only warning I get is a push notification my card has been charged and some time in the next 15min-3 hours it might show up.

This isn’t about Uber Eats or Deliveroo, this is about tiny operations in hyper local environments. COVID has brought a lot of companies kicking and screaming into the digital age, so I hope apps like these capitalise and stick around. Impeccable timing!
Everyone's an Epidemiologist
There also seems to be this misconception that being intelligent gives you a license and even a propensity to be a jerk. I just don't buy it. Sometimes smart people are jerks. But if you're a jerk the onus is on you in my mind to prove you are smart. I won't make that assumption.
Or think about it for a moment and realize that it would be True with either precedence if interpreted as expected.

Or read the very first part of the linked page that shows:

>>> (True == False) is False
True
>>> True == (False is False)
True
Omega-3 is not a single thing. There are three important acids, ALA, EPA, and DHA. The first can be found in some plant sources, I mostly get it from flax, soy, and kale.

The latter two are only found in fish, and for the vegetarians, algae. A few people have mentioned cod liver oil. I supplement with an algae oil, it contains the omega-3s and I believe avoids the worry of toxic metals.
Code readability is massively underrated.
Good restaurateurs will manage to find a way, IMHO.

That’s literally what the article is about. More importantly many restaurants cant sell alcohol. Sounds like you and the article are talking about two very different things.
> it only brings you down the abstractions ladder.

Ironically I'd say you're both right and wrong at the same time because of the somewhat paradoxical nature of concatenative languages: you're closer to the metal (especially with Forth) but at the same time working with Forth is an exercise in abstracting everything away. The strength/weakness is that it has only one hammer to do so: defining Forth words to manipulate the stack ("words" == Forth lingo for functions, more or less). It has a Lisp-like minimalism (you can almost think of it as postfix-Lisp in some sense).

The Fun class you describe misses the point entirely of the minimalism of Forth or Joy - the complete lack of syntax is a feature that makes concatenative language inherently composable in ways that other languages can only dream of. In a language like Python, you could compose three function calls like so:

y = foo(x)
z = bar(y)
w = baz(z)

In a language like Joy (or Forth, or Factor) you would write:

x foo bar baz

.. where the x is only included if we assume it is a stored value that has to be put on the stack first.

Ok, sure. But here is the thing: imagine that I wish to refactor calls to foo and bar into their own function (this particular example is childishly simple of course, but I think it gets the conceptual point across). Compare the Python and the Joy ways of doing that:

def bla(x): return bar(foo(x))

DEFINE bla == foo bar

The difference is small but significant. Because the concatenative languages have no function application, refactoring is often a simple cut/paste operation, followed by one big find/replace. You can literally split (almost) any piece of code into parts at any point, define those parts as new words, and the result would be valid code. Precisely because of the brutal minimalism at play here.

The trade-off is an upfront cost of having to structure the entire program around stack operations, and thinking in a postfix way of doing operations.

I'm not saying that makes them better - I like my type checking very much, and in the right amounts a bit of boilerplate makes code a lot more self-documenting. But I also think that learning how to solve problems the "Forth" way is a good programming exercise.
Finance Isn’t Science: Why Wall Street’s Models Will Always Have Limitations
> In an interview, Mr. Schmidt — by turns thoughtful, pedagogical and hubristic...

> While that philosophy has led to social networks that spread disinformation and other unintended consequences, Mr. Schmidt said he was convinced that applying new and relatively untested technology to complex situations — including deadly ones — would make service members more efficient and bolster the United States in its competition with China.

If the NYT would cast an equally cynical eye at politicians as they are doing at Eric Schmidt, it might actually be productive.

To me, this article is so drenched in loathing that it's hard to read. (E.g., the second paragraph that I highlighted seems to misattribute elements of the authors' opinions to Eric Schmidt.)
AMD GPU hijacked to sneak PC data
Yes, it would be something if the US govt. had policies, long-forgotten since WW2. Good luck to Dr. Schmidt.
I'm quite impressed with the work that went into these simulations. The folks who put this together did a great job. It would have been a great method to explain to the public how lock-downs save lives by not overwhelming our hospital ICU bed capacity, but for one critical omission. My idea for a way to improve these simulations would be to include what could be the most important public policy issue of them all: In many US states, the governor has forbidden (or greatly restricted) pharmacies from dispensing hydroxychloroquine. How many people could be kept out of the ICU (when the medicine is used in conjunction with azithromycin or zinc) if governors allowed pharmacies to dispense this medicine? I've yet to see a study where hydroxychloroquine, when used in conjunction with z-pak or zinc, was found to be ineffective against COVID-19. Of course, that's not proof of anything, but, with 25% unemployed in some of the biggest US cities, rigorous scientific studies may wind up taking more time than we can afford to wait. Therefore, it seems to me that the best way to find out what works to save lives (and keep people out of the ICU) is to look at what the front-line doctors are doing at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the world:

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/c...
>can't we simply compare the populations that consume a lot of omega-3 ( fish primarily ) vs those who don't?

That's how we came up with the hypothesis in the first place. But that's all such a study can do, give us a hypothesis. There are too many confounding factors (smoking rates, alcohol consumption, poverty, environmental toxins, ethnicity, other dietary differences, etc) to answer the question of omega 3 relevance. We need studies like this one, only with objective measurements instead of asking subjective questions to draw conclusions.
Something I put together last weekend which my friends and family have been using while working in front of their computers (yes, you can switch to other sounds if Samuel L. Jackson shouting at you is too much ;))

Hope you find it useful!
The Future of Wearables by Kevin Kelly [video]
Simple, softwares work even though they can have bugs. The judicial system is not perfect with a lot that can be improved. It works because people haven't lost faith in it and almost all disputes reach courts instead of streets.
The argument of "If you can do a better job, why haven't you already?" is an extremely lazy gotcha on all levels. As for the rest of my comment, it is merely commenting on recorded shifts in social democracies with 911 being a highlighted turning point aided by the rise of the digital economy.
The problem with this though is all the data I look seems to be such a huge % of deaths of people over 75-80.

That demographic is going to die soon from something. There is a level of irrationality with all this in pretending that we are dramatically extending the lives of 80yos.

I remember the first death in NYC, Cuomo said they were over 70 and would have died from the flu also because they were in poor health. We have completely lost that level of rationality.

A huge % of the people we are "saving" are going to die in the next year from something else.

When I have tried to express this thought to people I have mostly got a sarcastic "yea fuck grandma, let her die" response that is completely irrational.
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Is everyone who writes an article about anything suppose to be an expert from a worldwide perspective?
Maybe not software specific but a must read, for business in general, is High Output Management by Andy Grove. The best way I can describe it is: a manual on how to be a better business manager, for engineers. It's dry, its concise, its exactly what I needed when I wanted to learn more of the "business" side of things and it helped me greatly.
I haven't Eric since his comments on the "creepy line" and "if you have something you want to hide, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place". Seems like he'd love to oil an authoritarian apparatus.
Low cost oil being good for green energy is very technically correct in that it could be used for that if not for the massive demand and supply chain disruptions. If you are committed to building green power and oil could be used best for whatever reasons. However it does undermine the economic motivation. Although they are counterintuitively enough perfectly compatible.

Crude oil is more a battery than an energy source really given the energy needed to invest in refining it. Usually coal was the source historically for refining with some niche situationals like hydroelectric to save on power cost. Using "green" energy to export oil is older.
Ironically if you have a refinery powering it by wind and solar isn't a bad idea given current power costs by source and can help reduce inputs required.
The claim wasn’t that C++ is Turing complete, that’s trivially true. The claim was that C++’s grammar is Turing complete. I don’t know if that’s exactly the right way to phrase it, but C++’s template expansion stuff is Turing complete.
To be honest, this is exactly what my manager told me. It's also when I was introduced to the T-shaped approach. As a dev, I want to learn multiple subjects, but I've found that mainly focusing on one thing while also educating myself in others is a good approach.
I disable javascript, it works against this kind of shit for now.
Just wanted to chime in and also say that this is extremely confusing for a RegEx beginner, but thanks for your work, it looks really nice.
There is a fear that medical personnel might spread the disease.

Yeah, police force is a complex beast in India. Just like anywhere in the world.

Regarding civil liberties, can you specify why you have come to such a conclusion?

There are countless instances where police have infringed civil liberties, as well as countless instances where the police were ineffective.
Are you working in the industry at the moment? The best way to learn is talk to people who are closer to the business side - product managers, sales people, finance, and so on. Also software touches on a lot of industries, so you might want to narrow down a little what you mean by software-specific business.
Ask HN: Intellectually simulating Podcasts/conversations/Talk
What are some of really intellectually simulating podcasts/talks/videos you have come across. In any of the categories.
> their civil liberties get massively infringed on a regular basis?

^This in addition with rumors spread among these sections,
Also, as far as I know (that would depends on the country, but I believe it is generally true), those professions (except for teachers) can't go on strike too much, they have to keep a minimum service running, which vastly limits their negotiating power.
Strains, as well as who gets the virus. C19 is equally contagious, but far from equal in who it kills. In NJ (where I live) 40% of deaths are to people in extended care. In Philadelphia, same people, but it's 50% of their deaths.

We need models that consider the details. We need models that consider that the virus preys on the weak (i.e., elderly and pre-existing conditions). Taking these profiles and applying them across the entire population is inaccurate ans misleading. It might even be dangerous.