skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how widely this applies, but sometimes undirected anxiety is harder to deal with than being worried about a specific thing. And if you're going to be anxious no matter what, then external circumstances might not affect the intensity of the anxiety as much as would seem logical. So it's possible that some people have benefited from having a very concrete threat to focus on, and relatively clear steps to minimise the risk.

(I'm not trying to push this too far: I assume it mostly applies to people who have enough control over their lives to take the necessary precautions, and who are fortunate enough that the threat to them and their loved ones remains a possibility rather than a tragic reality. And I know that the exact opposite can happen: sometimes external threats just multiply the pre-existing anxiety and make it even harder to cope.)
A static class in C# can't have any instance data, instance methods, and can't be instantiated. It's literally a namespace in everything but name.
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You are correct, deaths lag a bit, as does reporting of the deaths, which downward biases the IFR. Antibodies also lag before they show up in the serology tests, which upward biases the IFR.

But broadly, the studies I've cited largely back up the CDC's estimate of 0.4% IFR. Some of them have methodology in the papers themselves which give similar numbers, and I encourage you to read the raw data.

But an IFR close to the flu is not at all surprising. Covid is a respiratory infection. It kills the same way the flu kills (eg. pneumonia), so you'd naively expect them to have similar fatality rates and outcomes, and they do.
This is interesting perspective. Do you think this have the potential to negatively affect responsible parties on MSFT side given the negative PR generated?
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There doesn't seem to be anything there directed against Twitter's editorializing. If anything, this puts online services in the position of having to censor more to avoid nuisance lawsuits.
No doubt the President would want his friends to benefit. Infotainment is cancer.
Ask HN: Why someone would use a nocode tool vs. a cloud CMS?
With the rise of the nocode movement we see a lot of services that allow anyone to build a website on top of Airtable, Notion or Google sheet.
(almost a new service a day just on PH).

However non-techies have already countless of solutions to build their portfolio, their website or their e-commerce (think Wix,SquareSpace, Shopify or even Google Site). These solutions are extremely easy to setup (usually just blocks to add or remove) and at a very accessible price. Cherry on the cake: they have millions of templates and customisation possibilities that no-techie love.

So why should someone pick a no code tool for her website?
Yes, this is the point of `dataclasses` and `attrs`.
I don't think there's any need to blame Microsoft here. It's not like they've ever done something like this before.

If they had, surely they'd have learned from the backlash.
You're being dishonest in your reasoning.

> In normal mathematical notation, 1/3 is interpreted as 1/3 of 1

Why would you deny the possibility of 1 being 1 list of fruits rather than 1 fruit?

In the original example, it was 1 table of students, not 1 student.

Everything you say after that is based on this broken assumption.
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> std::cout << DominoTilingCounter(4, 7).count() << '\n';

> // Fails to compile!

What? But this literally does compile. The author is pretty well-versed in C++ so this one is a bit baffling. Just because it's a temporary doesn't mean it's forced to be const or something.
The market could suggest something better than YouTube, if it were actually competitive. Monopolies may briefly be efficient, but they're always evolutionary dead ends, and getting out of one is more costly than any short-term benefits.
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> When we break down differences in years since learning to code by gender, we notice some retention problems. We see a big drop off at the 10-14 year mark when compared to men, though we've seen some improvement from last year's survey. This is consistent with other research that women leave tech jobs at higher rates than men.

I'm sure that women leave tech jobs at higher rates than men, but hasn't there been a stronger focus on educating women for tech jobs in recent years as well? In other words, if more women have been learning to code in the past decade, then I'd assume that that also leads to a larger percentage of women in tech having learned to code more recently.
The "mail-in voting is fraud" idea is a transparent attempt to disenfranchise voters who happen to live in cities and don't have 2+ hours to wait in line.

Is in-person voting better? Republicans have been working to close in-person urban poll sites for years. They want to make it as hard as possible for city dwellers to vote, full stop. [1].

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/11/us-polling-s...
I swear, HN really is the old boys' secret clubhouse.
That's a different piece of legislation
I do commend you on that. Good work getting some traction on your idea.
What new cuddly Microsoft? When did they grow fur? Did people honesty believe that some messaging and branding choices would outweigh the influence of institutional inertia, for such a large company?
> can exclusively be moderation

But not for the purposes of section 230. And there's significant precedent to this effect that you'd need a supreme Court ruling to change it.
In all fairness, they're pretty hard to read.
A provider uses a CDN at their discretion, but it's totally legitimate to have a client-site cache as well. If I've got 20 users going through a squid proxy to get to the internet, that's something the provider has to live with. Not to diminish your core point, which I think is correct, but there are limits on what providers should be able to expect.
You only looked at the conversion of an Object to a Record. That’s really not the point of this. The point of introducing true records and tuples is to bring value semantics to JS for compound data types.

It seems like if you create two records with the same nested data, they will be equal when compared. This may sound small, but if you try out a language with real value semantics it changes the way you code.
If the produce is lost, it's tax deductible

If the produce goes back to soil, it's an expense and next time it will result in higher output.
If your think multiplication is weird, you should check out my floppsy https://github.com/dosyago/floppsy

It uses division and floating point!

You're welcome to try your hand at cryptanalysis. I think a lot of the statical properties are measured in the SMHasher results.

Thank you, Thaddée :)
That made me laugh so much back in the day. But what was ridiculous back in the early 2000s is now a practically everyday event. My wife frequently uses a "find my phone" app to find her online device.
Satellite data needs to be open to everyone to use
This reminds me of the blog rant "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns": https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
Dolphin Smalltalk is still being developed and is open source now: https://github.com/dolphinsmalltalk/Dolphin
Every country is able to implement travel restrictions whenever it wants, regardless of what the WHO says. It goes against their treaty obligations, but they (almost) all do it anyways.

I'm skeptical that the travel restrictions are what set Taiwan apart. Cases always leak through, and they did in Taiwan as well. The important thing is making sure the virus doesn't spread once it's in the country, which requires things like testing and symptom screening.
>The draft order would push the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules clarifying the issue, potentially allowing users to sue over takedowns if they were inconsistent with companies’ terms of service, did not provide enough notice or meet other suggested criteria.

I find this interesting and I'm not sure where I stand here.

On the one hand I'm not happy about an executive order that limits liability for online platforms. The onus for posts being on the user, protecting the platform, is a core part of running any service. On the other hand, this doesn't seem like it would make platforms liable for content that users post, instead it's liability for the content that the platforms choose to _remove_. I've never considered that angle before.

Would it be akin to compelled speech on the part of the platform, or does it make them more like common carriers that can't pick and choose who gets access?

I suppose the biggest risk here would something along the lines of having bad actors post content that follows the rules for a site, but is also obviously against the spirit of the site, causing the posts to be removed and opening the site to a lawsuit?
Calling it "WinGet" was the real punch in the gut.

Does Microsoft select for assholes or something? There's a thousand other package manager names [1] in the wild and they chose that one.

So much for "developers, developers, developers"...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...
Surely accusing a person of murder where an investigation has concluded otherwise can be proven.
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Fair, but the adult children that cant be trusted to come to the same conclusions/opinions/perceptions that the platform holds without some contextual messaging? :P
But see, it was not surprising. It was just... life, and how can that be surprising?

I guess what would shock you is how normal it felt for us, back then. I mean, when that's all you know, that's just how it is.

You had to be careful with the general frame of the ideas that you expressed in public - but that was normal. You could not freely leave the country - but that was normal. Anything that had to do with the government was a bunch of lies - but that was normal.

Yet life went on. People grew up, got married, got a job, etc.

We used to tell a lot of jokes about the government - I guess as a way to cope. I miss those jokes.
It may be a harm to society to allow things to happen as they have been, though -- platforms started out as reasonably free, with only the most egregious content removed, used this freedom to develop a moat, and then are gradually restricting more and more content, while retaining their moat.
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Zuck looking to get that Trump traffic ...
Although it's cliche to submit old pg essays, "a decade or so" is a nice time to revisit this list. The last big discussion seems to be 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381699

Prior to that was the initial submission, 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3686840

The reason I'm submitting it was that #6 turns out to be solved, and it was quite surprising:

6. Bring Back Moore's Law

...

It would be great if a startup could give us something of the old Moore's Law back, by writing software that could make a large number of CPUs look to the developer like one very fast CPU. There are several ways to approach this problem. The most ambitious is to try to do it automatically: to write a compiler that will parallelize our code for us. There's a name for this compiler, the sufficiently smart compiler, and it is a byword for impossibility. But is it really impossible? Is there no configuration of the bits in memory of a present day computer that is this compiler? If you really think so, you should try to prove it, because that would be an interesting result. And if it's not impossible but simply very hard, it might be worth trying to write it. The expected value would be high even if the chance of succeeding was low.

--

If you read https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/spatial-partitioning you may notice it does exactly that. It's the "sufficiently smart compiler" for ML. You can literally trade TPU cores for memory: twice the cores => you can train 2x larger models. And I was shocked that it seems to be transparent. Other than twiddling a few options to TPUEstimator, I did zero extra work, yet we were able to train a full 1024x1024 StyleGAN2 model. (Previously the maximum was 512x512 before we ran into per-TPU-core memory limits.)

That made me curious which other ideas on this list were quietly (or loudly) solved since 2012.
That's true. But you also actually have to learn at least some things that came out of the same official sources and make sure that they do make sense.

That's why I'm saying that the object level is important. Teaching meta is way more difficult.

Also, as I wrote somewhere else, if I look at my Facebook feed for posts of former schoolmates, the ones who had good grades at the time and ended up in higher ed, learning about the world, they don't post fake news and clickbait and horoscopes and don't allow random apps to post in their name etc., while those who used to be struggling and couldn't learn English (as a foreign language) well etc. they do post junk.

Now there are always exceptions, like the university educated engineer who turns to build a perpetuum mobile and cries conspiracy for "getting silenced" etc. But by and large what it comes down to is having a large body of knowledge and understanding about the world. It's not particularly that their "critical thinking" skills are better. They have just read more, learned more, can use foreign language sources, generally have a better model of how the (natural and social) world works, condensed to "intuition". Simply dropping in a "critical thinking" course for kids won't make a significant effect I fear.
Hi tasty_freeze,

I happen to be friends with the Jayden's Juice guys. I do a lot of processing through their facility. It's great to hear your story. I actually had a conversation with them last month about releasing a CBD-only version of Jayden's Juice for the mass market but they steadfastly refused on principle. I am glad you were able to find relief. If you'd like, drop me your email and I'd be glad to send you a care package.
What makes you so sure? Until last month there was less unemployment than at any time in our nation’s history. Things stay the same until they change.
No one can talk about you if they can't see you though.

I hope to own 5 wooded acres, so I don't even have to see anyone.
On the topic of eliminating simplistic classes: one of things an object is for is to enclose multiple pieces of data and provide multiple methods that access that data.

If one can compose ones problem into a lot of classes of object that only have one method then it is quite acceptable to just use closures instead:

HI = ‘Hello’
def greeter(title, name):
def f():
print(HI, title, name)
return f

I wrote a whole bunch of Python like this, yesterday. It felt liberating! So terse!

Downside: one very common reason to have more than one method in a class is to define __str__. There will be no pretty debug printable version of my greeter() “class” for me, alas.
It's cool idea (very similar to the Goal Zero system). But I have to say the sketchy Alibaba-level photoshopped product shots of the main battery unit don't add a lot of confidence.
This illustrates pretty well one of the main reasons I switched to Apple years ago: I know what I'm getting and at least until keyboard-gate it did "just work".

While it's true that I could get better-specced laptop, phone, bluetooth earbuds, and so one, I consistently run into two issues that I just don't have with Apple: 1) there's almost always something subpar about the product, that reviews didn't warn me against, and/or 2) I hate having to carefully select from a dizzying array of inter- and intra-company options, where often companies actively game the system (reviews) or try to up-sell.

It's honestly somewhat astonishing how consistently I run into these issues when I buy a non-apple product, in particular laptops.

Now of course being 'in' the ecosystem already also has a ton of benefits, and of course I can afford being a little less price-conscious. But it's absolutely not the case that I go for Apple because it's cool. Or because they market well.
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Won’t even explain why this is a bad comparison because you already know.
Happy like a pig in shit, we vim elitists might say! ;)
Both. Either. Does it matter?
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Can I try this in an older Android tablet? I thought it was a TF-lite thing under the hood.
Consider Manchester, UK. Great tech scene with easy access to some of the most beautiful landscapes in England (Peak District; Lake District).

London would be the last place on my UK list.
I dont think the government should be able to prevent platforms from engaging in moderation just because I might disagree with the moderation policies of some of said platforms.
I agree, it could save platforms a lot of effort, and possibly put the onus on advertisers (who I suspect pressure the platforms anyways to engage in this sort of behavior) to adapt.
The haiku is a nice touch
Mutable in C++11 land holds a weird space because the threading model says that const member methods are thread safe, which mutable member variables are not.
This is the number one feature I look for in a language now. It’s hard to describe why value semantics are useful when thinking about a language as it exists today, since the language influences what we think is possible. But having records and tuples like this changes the way you write code.

The biggest example is, you don’t have to think in terms of references anymore. Again it’s hard to explain how much were forced to think about references and specific locations that data happens to live at, but that thinking is pervasive in how we write code (if you’re using a language like JS, which most popular languages are like).

Value semantics means you can stop thinking about data-as-a-location or data-as-a-reference and finally start thinking about data-as-data. If two records have the same values, they are the same. This means you don’t need to know anything about where data came from, you can construct matching data and say “are these things equal?” And they will be. This inherently reduces coupling and complexity.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the first amendment is exactly why state governments and local governments must allow, for example, the local satanic temple to open the council meeting with a prayer. And why publicly funded universities must allow street preachers and pro-life demonstrators.
Finally! I found that screensaver. I've been meaning to recreate it as a learning exercise.

I once observed a mass extinction on this screensaver. A very aggressive carnivore (meaning it survived by eating other organisms in the sim), reproduced like crazy, used up all the resources and the died out itself. I only ever observed this once, despite watching the screensaver quite a bit.
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I don't know whether the distributed nature is a problem, though.

Voter intimidation is a lot easier, for example, if you know where and when to turn up.

You would probably find it easier to tamper with a voting machine if you know where they're going to be, and if more people have access to them, too.
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The already proclaimed their desire to get rid of the URL. I don't think this is in the interest of the user and more in the interest of market dominance and information filtering.
Twitter also doesn't fact check Republicans. It fact checks exactly one person, known for spreading misinformation.
Name your virtual desktops? I'm underwhelmed. How many years will it take the get the ability to have different desktop backgrounds, which is what users really want?
As commitees dilute responsibility usually via anonimity (“it is not me, it is the majority”), you should never attribute personal (human) traits to them. Their members deny responsibility: then you must assume the committee is irresponsible (i.e. has no human intent).

So: the committee only wants what the papers say. In this case: benefits.
My biggest problem is the license is pretty strict, so I don't really have room to try it and see if it works for me.

90% of my notes are work related, so I don't really generate enough "hobby" notes to stress the tool and see if I want to use it. I'm not going to drop $50 to try and it and see if I like it. I'm also not going to violate their license to see if I like it.

I wish there were a trial for the commercial version. 14 or 30 days would be really useful as an evaluation period. Without being able to try it before I buy, though, it ends up being a pass from me even though $50 isn't _that_ expensive.
The article is an informative and educational review. Highly recommended! A++++ merchant!

But seriously, read the article.
Regression to 4chan? Assuming this continues as-is they can still moderate the site to remove obscene material, but otherwise have to act like platforms.

I don't think this draft will survive for long.
Cool to hear that they're working more on 64-bit version of Raspbian (now Raspberry Pi OS?)
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We definitely have the people. But even in academia the good ones will go to US because the budgets they get for research are way higher.
This is exactly what I am getting at. Does it prove otherwise? Can Twitter know the state of truth about this? Should we tag every post saying OJ did it with information about the trial and that he was proven innocent? What about posts about Michael Brown and the Ferguson riots? Courts found the cops innocent do we need to append the Michael Brown was murdered posts with WELL ACTUALLY the court found him not to have been murdered FACT CLOSED.
Amplified grows some great flower. Good choice.
I wonder if this would have implications for IRC or Discord as well.
No, by "vested interests" I mean whoever had power at the time. In the 70s-80s it was the ExCo, which had on it a few business elites hand-picked by the British.

In the 80s-90s, as China opened up its markets and needed HK investment, many business elites cozied up with Beijing, gaining political power in the process; they became the vested interests today. But they are not exactly the same group as the vested interests in the 80s.

> > However, the proposal was ruled out after a government consultation concluded that people were 'sharply divided' over its introduction that year.

By that time the CCP was heavily involved. People feared that introducing direct elections would (and eventually did) antagonise Beijing.

> rather not be a pawn in an opportunistic power grab by business elites

This is an interesting take. Do you have anything to support this claim?
Thanks for the response. I wonder how many of the 1/3 in the first article can be done fully remote, i.e. without needing to come in once or twice a week, which might make moving out of the city less attractive. The uniform distribution seems strong too... at $50m revenue it feels like you're looking at big businesses which have a lot more leeway for offering remote positions. How many of the 130m jobs belong to such big businesses? It all seems pretty hard to predict.
You could be right, in 2008 we handled about 10^5 complaints per day, and the volume seemed to double every year(most of those were automated complaints from external systems complaining about our customers spamming/phishing/etc), I don't know what the figures are now.

My point was we had automated rules in place that worked really well and there was nothing really clever about those rules.

It was a game of cat and mouse between our rule designers and adversaries who always tried to probe our thresholds and evade us while we tried to find new useful facts about customers, new probes, new actions, react proactively, but not screwing our legitimate customers was always our number 1 concern.
You got it cheap but that idle computer must have costed you about an extra hundred buck in electricity over 4 years...