skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, unsophisticated models do not predict anything. You apply them in one country and they do ok, and apply them in another and they get it totally and completely wrong.

Unless all important factors are accounted for, they are going to result in incorrect information for someone. Public policy will then be based on incorrect predictions. People will grow tired of the predictions being wrong and they'll give up on data science entirely.

It's already quite bad that people think they can choose their reality by finding numbers that agree with them and ignoring the ones that don't.

I do understand the point you are making, which is like the epicycles argument. But in global warming and epidemics alike, more parameters are actually needed to model reality.

I do agree that those parameters should be based on actual data, not guesses though. But what value of R would you pick? Is that actually well-constrained?
Was anyone (with remarkable or relevant VC experience) criticizing SoftBank Vision's fund approach before all this debacle?

I remember a lot of articles praising it and basically claiming that their boldness and aggressiveness were going to create never seen returns / disrupt the VC industry forever.
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>They claim that actual funding, just for roads, is 981 Billion while the need is 2 trillion.

So we need to double spending to 12% of state/local expenditures? Even if we accept that number it's just not anywhere near the level of bankrupting cities.
Ah memories. I used to reference the CSS Zen Garden when convincing my clients about our new approach to web building (CSS is awesome!). Never once achieved it (complete separation of content from style) in practice.
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I'm confused. Doordash is knowingly reselling an item for 75% off and someone bought many of the items. No one was defrauded; everyone in the transaction was paid what they wanted to charge, and everyone got what they paid for. What is unethical here? Are you saying it's unethical to take advantage of a sale?
> However, I have yet to find an email provider that mimics Gmail's tagging system

IMAP does support keywords, which are basically tags. Probably some good IMAP-Client supports this?

There is also JMAP as a modern alternative to IMAP in development. Fastmail released a beta-interface for this, which also includes tag-support AFAIK.

And finally, Outlook surprisingly seems to support tagging, but they call it categories(?). It's not obvious at first if you only know traditional categories.
Like the old exercise where you have to write instructions for making PB&J. I know how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but when I have to explain it, clearly, and in minute detail I’m forced to acknowledge the gaps - the steps my brain just skips over and takes as a given. But PB&J is easy so even when I might struggle with articulating the mechanics of it to someone else I don’t doubt my ability. That changes quickly though as complexity increases.

That's fundamentally a trap question. It's like when you keep asking "why?" until the answerer runs out of explanations because we've inevitably reduced things to quantum mechanics. I think the exercise is a useful demonstration of why the code you write doesn't necessarily do what you think you wrote, but as an exercise (or, god forbid, an interview question) I don't think it's that useful.

These days, my answer (after the usual contextual questions if this were a PM/dev interview) would be "I would tape a GoPro to my head and record a video of me making PB&J. If there's any ambiguity, I think 99% of people would be able to fill in the blanks."
A basic digital clock, implemented in Conway's Game of Life
This is such a ridiculous comment I don't know where to start.

Are you actually proposing that being a fully experienced & knowledgeable software engineer should be a base requirement for all academic research (in any field)?

If you, working as a software engineer, were told tomorrow by your manager that you needed to perform heart surgery, and that that now fell under your responsibilities in your current role, would your argument be the same?

The private sector's typical response to the problems in the article would be to hire qualified software engineers to assist researchers. Funding dictates this is impossible, so they make do.
Unlikely. Google employees are paid too much to care what people on a forum think about the company.
What we're missing is an "open letter" of scientists criticizing software engineers evaluation of this model.

Because it seems no one of these critics have ever coded anything to do with stochastic forecasting or simulations.

"The code produces different results between runs" well, I would be very worried if it didn't, unless your RNG has a fixed seed, and all randomness in your model derives from it (so, if you use multiple threads, there goes your repeatability - which is fine).

Also, you want multiple runs to be different, so you can establish best/worse case scenarios (also tuning some of the parameters).

Does the model pass basic sniff tests? (for example, no more infected people than the population of a place? does it follows known pandemic curves? Can the parameters be reasonably tuned to fit its behaviour in existing places?) And yes the model was checked against a different model from what I remember.

In essence, if you take Population x (percentage for herd immunity) x IFR you can get a very good estimate of the worse case scenario for deaths. Then you can see if your model goes to that value given the known parameters.

Yes, the code is ugly. Yes you probably made worse code at a point in your career.
The JS simulation doesn't demonstrate this, though; the bang-bang controller keeps oscillating in very short steps around the goal.
There is probably no funding for outside help... So they get a project fund a PhD student (or post doc) with that, this guy has to produce new results (fast) and more results, then these guys leave, next guys come..

Generally for a simulation group you would need an experienced programmer maintaining the code base, (helping) the other guys cleaning up there ideas before handover, and this as a permanent position. Experienced c++ also means not cheap. Go to you University admins and mention both shocking words (not cheap and permanent without the magic word 'professor') in one sentence, maybe he will recover from his shock in a few days.
>Does the resolution prevent and/or punish bad behavior?

It's just an open letter signed by various presidents etc.

Very much doubt anyone is expecting the US to sign even if it's non-binding. I mean they bailed on human rights council and UNESCO. UK...who knows they're in full on improv mode right now.
I completely agree, and while Trump is my main focus of the above comment I honestly think we need to do full scrutiny of both GOP and Dems I imagine we could hand out a lot of arrests on both sides of the isle. The corruption runs both ways and I don't find democrats as some amazing preferable choice, in fact Joe is a wet noodle. I think we need a reset all around which I'd be comfortable with being achieved by a combination of term limits and arrests for those who have broken the laws.
> closed source core that runs on windows

Also ARM Debian Linux.

> an source available C# wrapper.

The wrapper is there: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacInterop

This one there https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/Vrmac is not a wrapper. It implements majority of 2D engine except SIMD-optimized C++ functions, raw input including keyboard layouts, dispatcher, animations, timers, text rendering (except FreeType integration and SIMD-optimized bitmap transforms), and more.
A 3rd-party application store can't update apps silently to name one, the user has to approve every app update one by one.
Why would they not allow you to sandbox non-play store apps?
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F-Droid only carries FOSS. Technically, that wouldn't prohibit a malware vendor from getting their app into the catalog, but like the processes for package repositories for desktop distros, there's a lot of cultural, social, and procedural baggage associated with being the kind of project that gets distributed through those channels. Who's going to go through the effort? The whole point of shovelware is that it's a low-effort process.
Yes it's extremely difficult not to leak (potential) information. This is called decoherence in these situations. It doesn't matter if you don't become conscious of the measurement result as long as some atoms in your body gets contaminated by the measurement they get pulled into the same branch (or whatever concept you subscribe to, it all works the same).
For those who want to see a more quantitative approach, that's totally fair. Joe Minicozzi with Urban3 is closely associated with Strong Towns and does some great studies with detailed numbers to back up what he's saying.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/2/1/the-surprising-...

It's worth watching one of his presentations, they're very well done, and very data-oriented. Here's a recent one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicYz2PO1IQ&t=23s
I think what you're saying is that you want to run the model on inputs from, say, February and see if it produces results that are similar to today's caseload.* So why don't you go do that? That isn't in any way a software engineering problem, it's a fundamentally difficult scientific one.

* You'll obviously run into the "testing on your training data" problem, but again this isn't much of a criticism. We're in the midst of an epidemic and scientists are rapidly adjusting a model to reflect developing knowledge. The alternative is to have no models.
This is... not remotely what people mean when they say "reactive". And nobody thinks JS is necessary to get a visual theme that looks nice. CSS and JS frameworks serve radically different purposes.
So government can spend billions and trillions on implementing covid19 related policies, but can't spend any money on getting good data for the same? The fact that government policy is driven by some unpublished, undocumented, non repeatable code, affecting the lives of an entire nation, should be treated as a national defence issue. Anyone saying the person writing this was not a software engineer is giving a poor excuse. Government shouldn't appoint random people to do random jobs and in case of poor results say they weren't a trained XYZ. The people deserve a better process.
You could also tell who from the public data has a private area, how long they are in it and when they leave it. You could do graph analysis to find folks on 20k bikes (correlate by zipcode) traveling at > 20mph with other folks that also have privacy areas.

If you find that > 3 of folks in that clique are close together and somewhere else, probably having a group event, many of them may not be in their "privacy area".

Anything that collects your location data is a shtshow when it comes to operational security. Even having one friend with poor GNSS hygiene can expose an entire network of relationships.
Not capital. The incumbent power brokers. Capital would like to work, build new housing, hire workers from abroad, sell drugs legally, build nuclear power plants ... and pollute, and take on more risk, and hire people below minimal wage, and try out this new amazing medication, and so on.

There are good sides and bad sides to this. Currently US politics is in a deadlock between fractured local interests (NIMBY/gentrification, preservation, but also we need low-income housing too; let's build a wall, but also allow cheap farm labor) and federal concerns (tariffs, fuck Obamacare, and everyone in general, but also let's help the economy, etc).

This kind of polarized chaos only helps those who are entrenched and are already playing dirty.
You need to give me more than this. Like: I filed a complaint at date X, time Y, and wrote <this>. Today is date X1 and I haven't received a reply.

It might not matter for your case, but the next time I'm in a meeting I can use this to say "Hey, maybe it's not smart to go with those services from company Z"
Great to see this public online study trying to understand genetic determinant linked to phenotype! As an end user, I am proud to have participated in the study during its initial development phase.
Combine clean architecture with entity-component-system
My idea is to separate my code into data, domain, and presentation layers and use entity-component-system only in presentation layer. So data and domain layers will follow DDD principles and will mostly deal with reading/writing data. And in presentation layer, the domain models will be converted to components and systems.

Did anyone try it? Looking for opinions/tips/examples.
Are Macedonians still putting out a tiny number of low quality Facebook ads?
At some point you have to be expert on a lot of complex systems, all with their own set of weirdness and inconsistencies. I think it’s great you got as far as you did in such a short time. Probably learned a lot.
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Everyone working for a living optimizes their work towards making more money. That doesn't change for people funded with public money. It's pretty widely accepted that the people in charge of public funding (politicians) sometimes act outside of the publics interest for self-gain.

I make no claim as to which achieves better results for the public because it's such a complicated problem, but I think it's rather naive to just assume publicly funded incentives are more aligned with social health than private incentives.
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Google (and Facebook and Twitter and Medium....) are turning into absurd comic book level censors. They have too much leverage and influence over society, and moves like this meaningful harm people’s ability to communicate and conduct basic activities. Google is the worst of them, and should be broken up immediately on antitrust grounds. But let’s not ignore that COVID-19 has exposed the hamfisted authoritarian rule of the digital public square by virtually all technology companies.
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Yeah that's a weird set of conclusions there. I would think the papers based on it want another look though.
> Epidemic experts shouldn't be writing the implementation of their model, they should defer to the experts.

Believe me, a lot of scientists would love to. But as pointed out in the OP: it is next to impossible to get funding for a paid software developer position in a research team. It's a problem the scientific community is increasingly aware of, but changing funding guidelines takes a long time. (Source: computational biologist)
Arguing from the position where you define the ethical framework and then refuse to engage in any discussion about whether that framework is correct is kind of tautological.

In this case a homeless shelter ended up with a lot of pizza (which I'm presuming they consented to receiving), a local business got a cash injection and the OP got some perks. Under your ethical framework a bunch of silicon valley types had to find some other way of pissing $20k up the wall.

I know which outcome I prefer, though I personally wouldn't have done it.
I'm sorry but that's some free market bubble nonsense, most people can't "just move" and just "pick another uni".

It's not that you magically can find some other landlord that's doesn't offer something with 3x rent compared to western-Europe.
The government wasn't waiting before taking action. The Imperial report was impactful because it said that the government's actions were insufficient, that if they continued on with only moderate social distancing people would die in the streets for lack of hospital beds.
Everything is fine. You get what you pay for.
Socialist Twitter would absolutely love this.

We could also use the solution that's worked before and works now in certain places, build enough housing that housing costs are not artificially and immorally inflated so everyone can afford a modest house, even on low wages.
Idk about everyone else but personally, the opportunity cost of a graduate degree makes it unlikely I'll ever go back and get one.
POTS* and electricity are two utilities that are everywhere in the US, including in rural areas. From an end-user's perspective, it's POTS. I'm sure the telephone company runs the signal over digital lines in some areas, but that's irrelevant to the people using it.

* Plain Old Telephone Service
That's obscene
“geographical anti-concentration laws”

Any examples of this in practice?
This is the crux: does it count as stealing to accept the offer of a contract which causes the offering party to lose money?

My answer is no. They offered the service at a certain price, you accepted it. Whether either party profits or not is not part of the contract.

So no theft has taken place. If you want to claim that's it's unethical to take the free money that they're offering, you need to provide a justification for why that is. The onus is on you.

The only way I can see you attempting to justify it is by saying that it involves taking advantage of unforeseen consequences of the contract. But as has been pointed out, they fully intended to lose money, so that doesn't work.
It's very easy to decompile Java bytecode unless it's obfuscated. Not sure about legal aspects, but technically if you need source code, it's almost there.
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why should "the gifted" accommodate society if it intends to give them nothing in return for their excess productivity?
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He contacted wealthy philanthropists, who regularly give money to worthy causes. It’s not an unreasonable thing to do.
I'm not sure how much you and I would agree on concrete politics, but I do like that you're giving some pushback against "just tax more" to move us towards "tax more, fight rentierism, and fight cost disease." You shouldn't be downvoted into the gray for pointing these things out.
> The only reason for the rise of apps is that companies see them as a good way of lock-in customers, gather data and increase influence

Apps live and thrive because they are convenient and provide the most value to most people.

As a user, I wouldn't want the government to tell me what software I should use. As a software engineer, I wouldn't want to be told what software I should write.

If the problem lies in bad foreign apps, a possible solution is to educate citizens using facts and evidence.
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I never understand why people think term limits would do anything. Instead of long term corrupt people you would get a steady flow of people who jump from industry to government, do the bidding of the industry, and then go back. The result would be exactly the same.
These fringe cases exist and are people too, not “nobody.” Cash still exists too. So do cryptocurrencies. Arguments against cryptocurrency that also apply to cash are obvious and uninteresting. That was my point.
If the food delivery driver is knowingly not delivering any food, but is paying for the "food" anyway... that seems pretty close to fraud.

If you order a shitload of real food and the pricing works out well for the restaurant, it's weird but it is still following the rules that DoorDash set out.
They're doing the same on YouTube. Just mentioning covid will get a video demonetized regardless of content. It's as if Google's position is that we have to deny anything is out of the ordinary, like it isn't touching the lives of every person in the world.
> The giant pool of money is consumed by a desperate hunger for any shred of return it can find, and there is an almost limitless supply of smart, creative people who are well-positioned to capitalize on that.

The finite regulators are confronted with a very small supply of smart, creative people in a position to capitalize. That group is the opposite of almost limitless, it's scarce.

Why can't regulators easily handle the dozens of deals per year that are of particular significance in VC-money terms? Nothing drastic needs to be done to regulate that scale of deals better, it's not that large in quantity. We're not talking about tens of thousands of very large funding rounds per year, that isn't going to happen.
I just think that people work for who pays them. Very little of D.C. politician's money comes from everyday Americans.

I'd argue a true democratic republic isn't possible alongside capitalism. The rich will always have disproportionate power over elected officials. Whether it's through direct payments, or the ability to influence voters by manufacturing consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent).
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So it turns people value UX and simplicity than restaurant diversity. And I'm not exactly blaming them. Restaurants' own ordering/delivery systems all usually suck.
>But governments of the 1840s simply didn't have the scope of action available to a modern government, or the necessary vision of their role to accompany that.

The potato blight hit all of Europe, yet there were roughly a hundred thousand deaths in Europe compared to a million in Ireland with two million more emigrating. While Ireland certainly was more reliant on the potato than other countries, the rest of Europe seemed much more capable of addressing the crisis.
Amazon have one but it's never really taken off outside the Fire device range.
> If you compare the free support academic software developers receive from the rest of their community to other engineering disciplines, it's beyond great.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by that?
The have been discussing covid 19 on my radio, fuck I guess that means they are going to impound my car.
I did, might still go that route, but Redimo isn’t a web server (although I am building one that I’m planning to license under Mongo’s SSPL). The code is a Go / Ruby / JS library that builds with your code, so think the GPL does apply. As far as I know the LGPL doesn’t trigger if no modifications are made to the library itself.

Wanted to choose only well known licenses, but I am looking at other options. LicenseZero works only for individuals, by the way - companies will have to go through a separate process, or ask all their employees to buy separately.
Stylesheets have absolutely nothing to say about JS framework usage and vice-versa.
A bit of a digression, but the same was true of famines in India under British rule. India (i.e. Britain) was exporting rice and wheat to England at the same time that a third of Bengal died from starvation.