skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have any numbers to back up what you've said, but I believe it to be true. I also believe (but have no facts to back it up) the statement I'm about to make is true: most of the people who use Python are people who would not call themselves computer programmers.

I also believe it to be true that the majority of people using any kind of technology (not just computers but all technology) like the workflow they use and are comfortable with and don't want to learn new workflows or features, so that's not usually a very good statistic to base any decisions off of.

If those are true, should Python position itself as "the non-programmer's language" or continue trying to be everything to everyone, no matter what the use case?
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Well, I found this within one minute of searching: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE/blob/master/enhancement...

Engine or full reimplementation are common for previously widely popular games, some are even supported by the developers: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/05/ea-to-open-source-part...

Also: http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/

> It tries to be as similar as possible to the original gameplay but to integrate user interface features most modern realtime-strategy games have like selecting multiple units
Couldn't I just sideload an APK of it if I wanted then?
That is the perfect use case! Sheets already got a lot of features baked into it, no point re-inventing.
In this case then the flu would’ve killed em..
Taiwan and Germany have the advantage that they have strong domestic medical testing industries. This allowed Germany to do 5x to 10x as many tests as France, Italy and Spain. In turn this enabled them to accurately map the spread of the disease and use targeted tactical lockdowns to eliminate outbreaks at the local level. Korea did the same.

Without the same testing capacity, this strategy simply wasn’t available in most other countries. However now that testing capacity has ramped up, we should be able to employ more efficient lockdowns from now on. It’s still not a magic wand though, Germany’s economy has still suffered significantly even with a relatively efficient lockdown.
The scope of this library is just to render the map. But let's say you can export your strava ride in some json format, I guess it wouldn't be so complicated to display a path on top of the map using other three.js features (like Path from quickly looking at the doc https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/extras/core/Path)
Any death is unacceptable. This is, of course, unattainable in practice, so I would suggest looking at Eastern European or East Asian societies for a rule of thumb (e.g. Czechia, Slovakia, Greece, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam etc.).
Belgium overcounts its cases, deliberately so.
btw. this blog is about binary/source compatibility, which is a fucking hard problem in nearly EVERY language. (maybe not in javascript tough)
very true, but is there even a way to even know how much money they get from the government? (With this black budget bullshit... Who introduced that concept anyways)
While I agree with your first sentence, separation by national heritage is impossible for many demographics in the U.S., including both white and black Americans.

But yeah, I think abstracting 60% of the world population as a monolithic "Asian" category is disingenuous and betrays the lived experiences of Asians from historically disadvantaged and poor countries. I think the Gates Foundation is on a good track by considering Asian students for their full ride scholarship, alongside Native American, Hispanic, and Black peers, by analyzing the specific lived experience of the applicant (a Southeast Asian refugee has lived a different life than the "steretypical" Asian American applicant).
Some universities automatically admit children of faculty, but Harvard is not among them. Source: Me, DP of Harvard faculty member. See also https://hr.harvard.edu/faculty
Try pyhon click: from flask& jinja2 author, it is very nice
I feel like we should just start building a life of social distance. I really hate getting the normal flu so would like to prevent that too.
More importantly, Dune2000 can be played using the open source engine OpenRA, see my sibling comment: EA announced it would release some old source code to help with the project.
Arguably, DayZ was the first to popularize the battle royale genre.
Not to mention the fact that the WHO has included TCM in the International Classification of Disease last year (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01726-1) makes the case that they aren't compromised by China more difficult.

That said, Maybe someone can explain why the USA just can't continue to refuse to pay their dues until there is substantial leadership change? My sense here is that this isn't related to an actual desire for better health organizations and more a mechanism for USA leadership to deflect from their own failings.
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The play you are referring to is "Night of January 16th", but I cannot see any reference to your comments as to its funding (in the Wikipedia article). Do you have a citation for that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_January_16th
Really? 4500 hundred extra death a year is not insignifcant.
Race-based affirmative action is under regular legal attack: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/affirmative-action-sup...

As far as I know, legacy admissions have never been challenged before the SCOTUS.

Furthermore, legacy admissions tend to reward underachieving students from privileged families, while affirmative action intends to reward overachieving students from underprivileged circumstances (e.g. programs admitting the top N% of graduates from every high school help good students who went to bad schools).
Very interesting - it would be even more so to understand the financial/class background within those groups.
There's a split between the licensing world and the non-licensing world; of course Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, DikTrust, wants to buy you into the licencing scheme. It's two worlds. Better read up on history. Linux is free though so go for it. or BSD. Anything but the other folks. Licencing as$holes.
Students whose parents went to Harvard tend to grow up aiming for Harvard themselves. It's likely that a high percentage of the Harvard applicant pool are legacies in the first place. If their stats are as good or better than the average of the admitted class, then what's the problem?

Is there clear evidence that legacies have an easier time getting in on a per case basis compared to a similar student without that that designation, as is the case for applicants with the URM designation?
The argument most people make hinges exactly on the scale of the corporation and their reach. When a corporation is global and controls a very wide segment of all human communication, then it inherits certain ethical duties because frankly it's starting to look more and more like a government entity - one with zero accountability.

> Where do you draw the line?

Somewhere reasonable. I'd say Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, Microsoft, and maybe a couple other massive communications companies, have a duty to preserve free speech - with a small number of exceptions like CP, calling directly for violence, etc...

Ideally, the market would have more competition, but until that happens these companies should remain obligated not to bar content.

Imagine if ISPs started blocking content to people who went to the "wrong" websites, or cell phone providers who overheard the "wrong" phone conversations.
Criticizing the Ayn Rand Institute for taking a PPP loan is flawed in the same way criticizing Ayn Rand herself for taking Social Security benefits during her retirement is flawed. In both cases, there are things the government forced upon Americans. You cannot avoid paying the taxes that fund social security without going to prison. In many cases, you could not avoid going to prison for keeping a non-essential business open through the pandemic. It's not a hypocritical endorsement of welfare expansion to simply take back from the state what they forcibly took away from you.
Somalia, Congo, and North Korea produce very little. Is this what you had in mind? If not, could you clarify?
Not yet, but the code is open to reuse so it would totally be possible to do so in the future! (assuming the necessary code gets written at some point ;) )
in unpatched version, you can place sandbags near enemy tanks, click sell button, move your cursor inbetween the sandbag and the enemy tank and click to sell the enemy tank.
It looks like 24% of Harvard undergrads are international students.

https://datausa.io/profile/university/harvard-university
What do you mean by #4? I've used the web-based teams for video calls with screen sharing even, with no problem for years now. Agree on remote control and blurring, it's also not available on Web.
That is the obvious argument that to take back is not hypocrisy in this case. It seems persuasive to me. I'm willing to take back what has been taken from me, when I can get away with it. It's just self defense. I wonder why people reject it out of hand.
It's a bad black and white (or very few tone) scan. Really too bad that the titles of the items are unreadable!
Keep in mind that years of life lost by dying sooner are actually a complete loss, while a year in quarantine is still partially lived. It varies a lot from person to person. If it was all about yourself, what do you think would be a reasonable exchange rate?
Haven't thought very deeply about this, but FOSS doesn't seem like socialism, as the capital being competed for is user attention. FOSS projects without enough capital does not gain enough developers, and falls into disrepair and obscurity. Not sure what a socialist FOSS movement might look like, but maybe developers would be assigned to projects as opposed to them freely choosing the projects to work on?
WrongThink.
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On an iPhone, this is what the Voice Memos app is for (and works with the screen off). If you have an Android then I have no idea.
Something I find amusing is the amount of miss spellings for some bigger cities. San Francisco is spelled around 10 different ways. You think people would spell check the city they live in before asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more...
Even if you don't want to type on a mobile keyboard you can still preview, read, sort, categorize, delete and search your notes taken on desktop. Another option is to use the Speech-to-Text option of your mobile device/keyboard. Also the next release will contain some buttons to help with common Markdown edits (see my other comment)
Sweden are a model of pragmatism, taking a sensible choice to not have an authoritarian lockdown. Freedom of choice, freedom of movement and freedom of commerce are sacred.
Ok, now do Vietnam.

Also, the choice to offshore medical supply infrastructure was a deliberate one by many wealthy countries. That this was foolish and short-sighted is not any more of an excuse than anything else with their poor responses.
Bending the adoption curve to get ahead of criminals
I have a project that makes heavy use of sed.. On macOS, I `brew install gnu-sed` and use `gsed` instead, so it works like other platforms.
I am not - https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914?hl=en - after Facebook, everyone is tightening up these permissions.
Sorry, the original title of the post used the word "Staff" so I suppose I was primed for "ALD - Staff" and missed "ALD - [Children of] Staff"
The question is whether locking down sooner actually solves the problem. As Melbourne heads into another 6 weeks of lockdown, I'm growing skeptical.
> All kinds of people have made thoughtful criticisms of her essay

And I applaud that. I hope they don't drown in the noise that the less thoughtful people are making.

> Her response has been to double down

The tweet you linked is a reply to a tweet that's a great example of what's wrong with the response overall.

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1279761588438867975

While I don't want to comment on the validity of the comparison, the fact that antidepressants are overprescribed is well documented. She calls doctors unnecessarily prescribing antidepressants lazy.

Saying it calls people who take mental health medication lazy is a gross misrepresentation. Whether it was a deliberate or out of laziness, it poisons the conversation.

> One must be willing to learn in order to be taught. She is not a person that can be reasoned with.

I think that conclusion was drawn way too fast.
sorry what? "fell off" a building?
I agree; My personal view is that it's fundamental to know these ideas, just as one can't be a physicist without knowing a decent chunk of mathematics.

On the other hand, it seems that biology majors seem to "get by" [as far as I can tell] without needing to learn much math. Perhaps one can argue that it's better if they learnt more math. But we can't argue that the profession of being a doctor seems to work without them knowing too much math.

It's unclear to me, where in the extremely broad spectrum of jobs known as "programmer" [writing code for the space shuttle v/s bringing up an android app] where the need for mathematics ends. So I hesitate to make blanket statements about this.

What I will never hesitate to defend is the utility of these ideas of theoretical CS/mathematics for all computer scientists and scientist-adjacent folks.
I wanted to work with dekatrons (my initials are dek) but the actual dekatron tubes want 300+V, which exceeds my personal comfort level. However there is a nice kit with all the necessary electronics: https://threeneurons.wordpress.com/dekatron-stuff/variable-d...
> Also the virus doesn’t discriminate

I mean, of course the virus "discriminates" in the sense that there is a huge disparity in mortality rate between age and pre-existing condition groups.

Sure, it can infect anyone but it's obviously false to act like the effects are equal across demographics.
A dupe from 9 months ago?
I wouldn’t look at it that way. As someone who is middle class and better off than most of the planet I see a more equitable world as the only way to prevent further instability and conflict.

The nature of the dominant classes has changed over time. In the early days of civilization like in ancient Egypt you had the pharaohs who ruled because they guarded the knowledge of when and where the river Nile would flood.
The farmers were mere meat robots who were forced to farm in order to pay taxes. It didn’t really matter how educated the farmers were or how free the discourse was.

Today’s dominant classes rely on an extremely complex society to keep things going. You need a highly educated work force equipped with all the latest communication tools and critical thinking skills. It’s not so easy anymore to get away with unfair social structures.

Increasing automation means that a lot of this oppression is simply unnecessary.

As far as I’m concerned we either figure out how to build a more equitable society where every kid has a fair chance at self actualization or we risk actual revolution in the long term.

I prefer to be on what I see as the right side of history same as the people who fought to abolish slavery, give women the vote and establish a welfare state.
In that case why should anyone be against any kind of welfare? If they will take welfare when its in their interest why shouldn't I take welfare when it's in my interest, as well as vote for it to continue existing?

Also, as the link you posted says, it's those that have savings that lose from government printing money. The Ayn Rand institute does not have enough in savings for the PPP to be merely restitution. In fact, the PPP is a huge net positive for them.

That entire article is seldom more than lies and rhetoric.
Younger/healthier people are far less likely to die.

But they can be a great vector of infection to others.
Because I might still want to record things with my screen off?

Imagine you are recording a video, and you turn of the screen to save power - why would you expect it to stop recording?
The Power of Asynchronous Communication
There are times that discrimination is exactly what you want...
There are so many grave misunderstandings of monetary theory, how government functions, or the net value of services provided for government in that article. It's fun to watch them get bent out of shape to justify their actions. In a way, if a parasitically selfish person is going to find a way to justify their selfishness with some pseudo-philosophy, they will find Ayn Rand, if there was no Ayn Rand, they'll find some other -ism supporting their position.

Politicians operate much the same. They find one set of economists or another to support whatever policy they've already settled on.

On its strongest form - many people tend to form an opinion first, based on whatever biases they have, and then go out and look for arguments in support of it. Including writers of this article. They decided to take the $, and then assigned someone to write a blog post to justify it :)
This is inane, this is throwing the baby with the bath water. The WHO achieved a lot throughout its history[0]. Trying to excuse leaving it out to dry is as stupid as extremely dangerous.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization#Oper...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764630
Btw, here's a couple charts similar to the one you posted that have been updated more recently:

* https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

* https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
>I get tired of these startups thinking they can just throw up videos of non-existent products and get signups as some kind of validation.

me too.

It triggered myself into pondering whether or not humanity will ever actually become less responsive to advertising as a whole simply because of previous experience -- but then I brushed the notion aside, figuring that advertisement psychology is more-or-less all-powerful.
Would you build a livelihood on that? I have heard of that but it sounds like the kind of loophole that got the industry into a situation where you needed to pay tens of thousands to use an API.
here is a gist that works on macOS (using `awk` instead of sed)

https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/0454191800c9caad77a52e0...
I'm wondering why Saas companies like "CODA PROJECT INC" are on that list. I would have assumed they are not effected by the corona crisis. I thought they would benefit from it.
No, it is like saying AMD chips aren't Intel processors.
There are lots of reasons that a society would change. Some factors would include newer generations introducing ideas that the older generation didn't take heed to.

Marriage used to be strictly between a man and a woman. Now society says it can include homosexuals. Women used to stay at home to take care of the house, while men worked at jobs to provide for the entire family. Now society says both roles can be taken up by both men and women. Black people used to sit at the back of the bus, and now anyone can sit anywhere.

I mean, society constantly changes. We see it in history, we even see it today within our own lives. Places like Saudi Arabia are currently having their own version of woman's suffrage even as we speak.

So given this, in your example person, I would wager that society would deem that person not a man, since the hypothetical society has already decided it that way. But that's not to say that person will give up on not being recognized as a man. Our human history has shown us that we don't just stop at an idea, some of us go all the way to pave new rights for entire future generations to come.

Whether or not society adopts the new definitions, well, that's up to the people living in it.
True. And Sweden stands out when you compare it to other Nordic countries. My point is only that you can't draw too many conclusions from just looking at leaderboards at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ and similar sites.
I do not operate with "all cause mortality". I look at the excess death in April May, and in Sweden is so much higher it is not a serious conversation to even dispute that.
I have a question about the abstract for anyone that looked deeper at the paper- does the following statement take into account rejected student stats or only those of accepted students? Because it seems plausible to me that white students "on the cusp" are more likely to get rejected to "make room" for ALDCs. Meaning that removing this preference may actually benefit a typical white applicant more than others. I could of course also imagine that not being the case though.

"Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the share of white admits falling and all other groups rising or remaining unchanged."

I do recall the popular line about how everyone at orientation could be replaced with a new cohort that has similar academic profile, which implies that there is quite a bit of judgement call going on.

Overall, it is unsurprising yet disappointing that they estimate ~3/4 of ALDCs would not get admitted without that status. This system is probably a big reason that most elite schools have ~15% of their students from the top 1%, while MIT is closer to 5%. MIT definitely does not do legacies and of course gives little weight to athletics. I am not sure about children of faculty though.
So much of security entails making policies that people want to help enforce, rather than working around those policies to do their jobs.

If any substantial fraction of your workforce sees your security policies as an obstacle and IT as an adversary, your policies have already failed and it's just a matter of time before there's a problem.

If your policies make sense to everyone, you educate people on why they make sense, and they're so sensible people's first reaction to a breach of those policies is to genuinely understand how doing so might cause a security incident and advocate better solutions person-to-person, you're far less likely to have a security incident.

(That doesn't mean every person needs to be happy with every policy all the time; it means that people need to not systematically feel that IT is primarily an obstacle to their job.)

Companies where most people think IT is actively awesome (not just "not in the way" but actively good) are 1) rare, and 2) likely to be substantially more secure.
Anybody who calls legacy admissions "meritocracy" is just lying. Proponents of meritocracy take it as a design goal, not a normative description of all existing systems. If you want meritocracy then you want to get rid of legacy admissions.
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