skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having learned a different language through immersion at adult age (30+), whether or not you get the feedback is culturally dependent. In France, you would get this feedback more often than in, say, the Dutch or Swedish language areas.

That said, I think it's not just getting feedback that counts, it's also being open to feedback. Relative to an adult, a child doesn't mind getting embarrassed as much. Adults often don't want to lose face, and are then less likely to learn the language with full abandon. Natural language learning ability aside, I made quicker advances than other people because I didn't care about making silly/stupid mistakes but others did.
I'm not sure I understand your concern. Why are you interested, specifically, in deep learning (as opposed to more general statistics and optimization techniques)? What makes you un-interested in the big picture of statistics and optimization?

I'd say: start studying linear regression and when you master it end to end move into more complex topics.
Even so, his black hole theory also had a long time coming to acceptance. What he says might be hard to prove, but it doesn’t sound totally absurd, and probably also isn’t an uneducated guess by someone who knows the math.
> "Market rate" is basically the median negotiated salary for similar roles.

Ok, then most FAANG engineers are far above the market rate. If they unionized they would probably lose money when the union tries to level everyone out.
I don't think _you_ (nor I in my personal capacity) would, but your provider definitely should, and then you get the benefit.

So if you're hosting via some accelerator like Cloudflare, AWS API Gateway, whatever Google has in this space, or app host like Heroku and friends, they'll happily do the work because they get the aggregate benefit. Your own site will become marginally faster or have happier roaming users, and so on, essentially for free.

When you're developing a generic website, I don't think you should care about this. When you're self-hosting, you can decide if it might be worth it or not. It probably won't be worth the effort unless you're doing something really intricate or special, in which case you'll be really happy that you have the option.
There's also other non-domestic uses that could greatly benefit from cheap large-scale desalination: Agriculture in arid regions. Sea water is not an option, but taste is not a primary concern.
I think the point here is that once we learned how to handle Covid, it will not be more dangerous than flu.

The main question for me is if someone who got Covid and recovered can get sick again. I haven't seen any answer for that question I could trust. There are some headlines from time to time "got Covid again after recovery", but given the quality of media reporting it means nothing.
I think this answer some of your questions about the history of OpenGL and how it became so fragmented: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/51669
I intentionally mentioned behaviour changes first in my comment, we can't fully separate rules and lockdowns from voluntary behavioural changes. In the end all that matters is the changed behaviour, not whether it was enforced or not.

Full lockdowns are also not the best way to handle increasing numbers now, they were necessary earlier this year because we didn't know much about the virus and which situations are the most dangerous. With the knowledge we have today we can use more specific interventions to contain the virus.
Doesn't it make sense that influenza numbers would be far lower this year given all the health security measures employed for covid?
Have been reading reddit since 5 or so years now, but pretty much only the frontpage. I like reddit but it has gotten so political and toxic. Many posts boil down to "haha look how stupid this person is". I sometimes skim the controversial comments to see what the hive mind disapproves of. Recently, on the mega threat of Trump being covid positive, the controversial comments were along the lines of "I don't like Trump but I hope he gets better, nobody deserves covid". So not wishing someone death is bad? Overall reddit is pretty toxic.
Might political conservatism be driven by taste sensitivity?
> Actual Influenza is in fact quite dangerous.

Agreed, but we don't destroy economies over it, we just get on with things and accept it for what it is.
It's, also, important to keep in mind that Influenza has a vaccination, which is very cheap and many elderly people take it. Yet, many die from it (and it doesn't make any headlines).

We are at the end just comparing apples to oranges. It would be really interesting to make such comparisons if we hadn't any vaccination for Influenza.
You'd have to compare infection rates for the season peak to matter. Infection rates for influenza probably being an order of magnitude worse than Coronavirus in April, probably. But whatever, the mortality rate data is there in the table, too, if you care to look. Influenza death rate in January 5yr average was 4218, which is about 1.8x worse than April. That absolutely does not make up the 12x difference here.
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The "problem" (and I use the term "problem" from the perspective of the network, I don't believe it actually is a net problem for the world) - is that limited the reach of content would potentially reduce the amount of content to interact with exponentially.

Lack of content, lack of engagement, lack of reason to keep returning. Healthier for the world, but, potentially a very hard problem to solve from the platform provider side to keep it going long term.

There will be models that get it right, but would require quite large shifts in user behaviour.

It'd definitely be nice though.
Influenza is contained because there is some form of herd immunity already. Remember COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, which is why it's spread so much so fast, no one is immune at first. But to suggest that the covid death numbers will be this high year after year after year is unlikely in my opinion, as is shown by the fact that many places with big first waves (north italy, sweden, london) don't have a second wave (especially in death numbers).
Indian definition of academic achievement is very rote learning focused. The academically very successful person is not likely to be very intelligent, they might just happen to be hard working because indian education system is mostly rote learning based.

In the above-average-but-not-best part of academic achievements spectrum is where most of the actually intelligent people are found. They are not as studious as their hardworking "topper" counterparts, but in general, actually understand the subjects and can think creatively.

In my experience here, I have seen lot of "academically succesful" people and lot of intelligent people, there are very few people who are in both of these sets.
This is one of the things that makes me proud to be Portuguese.

Also, does anyone remember the name of the doctor that started this whole movement? I think the first name is João, but I can't remember or find it. I might be tripping, pun intended.
It doesn't even contain the author's name
It would, but when you look at the data for the last 3 months Influenza has killed more people than COVID-19, so apparently that logic is not true.
In my experience it isn't much worse than equivalent C# solutions, perhaps a fraction slower.

Having .NET CORE as a foundation means that whatever improvement the platform gets, F# gets.

This means that not only gets to interop with all the NET frameworks and such (good or bad), but also enjoy the massive performance improvements that's been going into CORE lately (compared to old NET).
This is an oversimplification. What specifics do you claim puts Sweden closer to the other Nordics than other European contries?

For example, Sweden had school breaks around the time of the large outbreaks in northern Italy and Austria, leading to many ski vacations to those areas. Did the other Nordics?

To be clear, I don't proclaim this little example to be an explanation for why Sweden had more cases, only to shine some light on how complicated things can be. It is not clear that Sweden's response "failed" and it certainly isn't "pretty obvious".
Technological advancement is good in its own right.

The issues with inequality of wealth are real, and separate.
> ...to drive people to paywalls.

You are making assumptions about motivations. Dang’s post Tell HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic [1] explains the rationale that many here adhere to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I doubt this explanation really captures the gist of the phenomenon. Many current and upcoming trends (containers/Kubernetes, machine learning and Rust, for instance) have suffered in varying degrees from either of those problems, yet their adoption among companies is ever-increasing. I suspect they suffer from an issue also shared by the likes of cryptocurrencies: they don't have a "killer benefit"; a concise, persuasive reason that using them is a discrete improvement over current practice (like "high-level systems programming!", or "self-driving cars!").
>Without knowing which one is being used, there's not much of a discussion to be had. We can say nothing about practicality or environmental impact, not to mention a host of other issues.

Wouldn't this information likely be patented, which could explain much of the press release secrecy?
One issue with drugs policy, I mean in general total prohibition, is that it has come about for moral and emotional (even religious in some case) reasons, like the prohibition of alcohol in the USA once had.

This can be seen in the fact that use is usually a crime. There are no other substances, however nasty they might be, that are a crime to drink/eat/inject. To me this elevates the use of drugs to some sort of sin for, really, arbitrary reasons.

This makes taking a pragmatic and facts-based approach difficult.
I really hope Facebook can not interfere in the elections. If they can do that, it would be a serious cause for concern.

But how would they do that? Send a zombie code to the brains of its users? Hack into voting machines?

That article makes little sense, imo.
>"...healthcare is universally free in Portugal..."

In principle only.

In practice: how much have you spent on dentist bills in the past year?
Japan has a culture of wearing masks when conditions prevail (normally pollution related but also disease). They also tend to be not into physical contact in social settings, and are more likely to be in compliance to societal laws.
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Abstract:
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Honestly the emphasis on over optimization and the idea of finding the right way of learning something has wasted me so much time and lost me countless opportunities. I'm not the average person. I need a solution that works for myself and sometimes that means the method only works for me.

The most important thing is to just start and stick with it, no matter how meaningless or small the thing you are doing is. You will jump onto something better as soon as you find it. However, if you haven't even started then you will always look for something that's even better than the best thing you already know about. i.e. you will do nothing even though your methodology or the instructional material you found is already more than good enough.
> Air France and British Airways can not legally fly routes like Seattle -> Tokyo or Sydney -> Seoul

Can you explain more about this? I assumed those routes were just ones that were only of interest to the more local carriers.
The numbers for Jan-Aug don't include December for any previous year, so there's no flaw there.
Actually there is built-in GTK Inspector [0] and I used it successfully with gtk-rs before.

GTK_DEBUG=interactive your-app

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK/Inspector
Given the adoption rate of WebGL 2.0 (including the issues with blacklisting drivers), the current state of WebGL 2.0 compute, I don't have high hopes for a 3D API where the shading language is yet to be defined.
I had given a very similar answer here: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/41208/the-sleeping... in an attempt to draw a parallel to the Sleeping Beauty paradox.
Not as clear as you make it sound: Swedes did change their behaviour/travel patterns in response to Covid-19, the Japanese instituted mask etiquette a century ago, and no one lives in South Dakota.
Okay, now open Table 5 on that same spreadsheet. And take a look at the numbers for the year 2000.

# of deaths Jan-Aug (due to either flu, pneumonia or Covid)

2000: 40,436
2020: 14,013 + 48,168

Yes, this is significant and certainly Covid seems to be able to spread across a vulnerable population much more quickly than the flu but it doesn't seem to be orders of magnitude deadlier on balance. I get why people thought it was 10-20x in the beginning but it seems as we've learned more it is not the plague we thought it was.

Also note the numbers for August have already flipped so that 4x more people are dying of flu and pneumonia now than of Covid.
They also had a major incident last year where customers suffered data loss. As I heard a bug made their systems think that customers didn't pay so it terminated their instances.
I'm writing serious software in Lisp.

Other developers working in related areas are using Ruby and Python but my software runs a lot faster.
That is helpful, but even with a clean needle they will administer something possibly contaminated anyway. Good program would also give out medical grade clean heroin like they do in Switzerland. Clean heroin is relatively safe contrary to popular opinion. This removes the dealers from that segment of the market or at least severely reduces the sales volume.
I know, I just wanted to make a counterpoint in case somebody is deterred from the article.
>In the winter, my house was cold. In the summer, it became hot. The next winter, it got cold again. Now my house is on fire. But it's fine, because it's just becoming hot again. The temperature of my house is always changing, you see.

Ad absurdum. And I am not saying it goes up & down, I am saying it has been going up for thousands and thousands of years already.

> What's a good neutral source you'd recommend, then?

I would recommend to avoid polarization and listen to both sides of the spectrum.

> Says who? And measure and calculate what?

I say so, I have studied computer science, did plenty of math, then 'numerical math' where you discover how hard it actually is to do precision calculation with these damn computers. You might be surprised. Then I worked with a bunch of scientist who developed physics models and experienced first hand how much they struggled to get anything right.

> what

End-of-times. The (grand) deluge. Messiases who predict the end-of-times and offer the solution to it?
It's design by committee, and it is pulled apart by multiple different hardware vendors.
Well, (un)fortunately WebGL 2.0 adoption is mainly blocked by Apple. And as Apple is one of the driving forces behind WebGPU, I expect it to be adopted by Safari faster.
The one on HN has been running for many months (The one on Reddit only lasted weeks) and has only been called a GPT-3 once I can see.

Given it's ability to get a lot of upvotes and no need for a voting ring it would allow a lot of control over discussions through up votes and down votes. Mmmm Russia.

It'd be interesting to see it's upvote and downvote history. There are definite attacks on HN you can see play out.

I think this bot is actually academic since it is very prolific, it could hide itself a lot more if it wanted to.

[edit] OT: I'll give an example of a ongoing Russian attack, Bellingcat is constantly flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bellingcat.com

Bellingcat is prime HN, open source intelligence. A lot to learn from. Nothing on Wiki about bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat and it often talks about Russian intelligence they'd like to keep quite. Questions why it's flagged on HN are quickly made fuzzy.
Norway has a death every 3 days or so right now.
Yeah but there wasn't really an increase in covid related hospital admissions until recently. Given the issues with the uks testing (and reporting) regime it's rather difficult to draw any conclusions about infection rates from the most widely cited set of figures which are numbers tested (or tests mailed out, or tests manufactured or possibly some other definition of test known only to Matt Hancock). The ONS estimates based on random sampling however show that the infection rate only started increasing again at the beginning of September, which explains why we've only seen hospital admissions rising over the last couple of weeks and deaths haven't climbed much yet. Also, so far, it seems not to have started spreading through care homes again like earlier in the year, which is one of the things which seems to have driven up the death rate so high.
Depends on the timezone, I guess?

When I browse, it's a mix between the two groups and a third group that upvotes and engages with the post you said "hackers in the archetypical sense" would.

(The timezone thing is starting to become my stock reply; when I browse the semi-regular threads of how HN is going downhill or no longer populated by hackers, half of the claims disagree with my daily experience on this site. Can't explain it in any other way.)
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Like I said in another comment, I could have been more clear on my initial comment.
Hackett would be pretty much the argument for me to choose Racket - but the development is dead at this point.
>However, we need to compare COVID-19 to Influenza to get some perspective. I would argue that Influenza is worse than COVID, for the simple reason that it kills more young people and children. The average age of a COVID fatality is higher than life expectancy. Influenza destroys more years of life.

I think that's a very good point. And also one of the reasons the perspectives differ so much.

However we don't know yet about the long-term effect of COVID on younger people. It could still very well lead to a decreased quality of life for young people as we've seen in other posts about scarring of the lungs and permanent fatigue.

Granted influenza can cause similar after effects (like pericarditis and permanent fatigue), but it appears to be less frequent.
Those are the worst flu seasons (in recent history) in Sweden.
I have to disagree with the commentary a little bit HN is still one of the only places where the insights are consistently thoughtful.

There are a lot of smart people on FT it's paywalled and quite expensive (ie professionals only) and even it can be a little reddity at times.

Don't fully discount some forums on Reddit as there are some smart people there, and there's something to be said for 'raw' authenticity, sometimes a poorly articulated point can be enlightening, but you have to wade through a lot.

I don't actually agree fully with the moderating approach but you have to give them credit here.

As far as 'cutting edge programming' well - is there such a thing? We can only argue so much about concepts that have been addressed before. One might say 'AI' or at least Deep Learning is the domain of 'cutting edge programming' wherein there's enough new fodder.

And there's been a Cambrian Explosion of startups so pure novelty is going to be hard to find.

A simple rule: "Would you miss it if it were gone?" I think so, which is something to say in 2020.
Well it probably depends on the amount of IC beds / ventilators / trained personnel available per location. I know that here in The Netherlands they narrowly avoided a triage situation where your condition decided if were going to get treated.

A second order effect that might not be obvious is that during the first wave a lot of non-emergency procedures were postponed, a lot of these non-emergency procedures can still be quite urgent and can have negative consequences for the people who had to wait.
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They _are_ in Numerics (including Windows support). I think Nate is just trying to keep dependencies to a minimum, but feel free to raise an issue.
Does it have an rc.local equiv that you can script those service starts into. Something like the docker entry-point would also work.
so hooli wasn't google after all
You are cherry-picking countries based on geographic proximity, but that's not really a meaningful factor. Germany is right next to France, France had the stricter lockdown, yet Germany has no excess mortality.

Meanwhile, Norway has almost twice the per-capita GDP of the other nordic countries. Finland has no large metropolitan area. Sweden has more people in elderly care. Lots of factors to consider, but geographic proximity isn't really one.
I prefer Twitter to Facebook. I still think there are threads on Twitter (daily!) where things can be learned in real time for later follow up/reflection. It isn’t a good medium for arguing though. This experience may be a reflection of my particular old school circle (I joined in 2006)

Facebook unfortunately doesn’t have vibe where people You trust can jump in and provide an insightful thread. It’s just stacked piles of trolling and baiting. Its only saving grace is keeping in touch with family and friends who don’t use any other platforms.
"The bulk" is hard to quantify, but looking around for technology in my apartment (and whatever else I use outside of it on a daily basis), I wouldn't say so. A lot of it was previously available for well-off (not rich) households, and then became cheaper mainly due to scale. That doesn't seem to be a direction they are going with a low passenger count plane that has the biggest benefit for people that spend a lot of time traveling between continents (like regular high-stakes business trips).

More importantly most of those things don't inconvenience the people around me. If I use my computer or my kitchen-aid (high-price items in the past), it doesn't disturb my neighbors (or would have in the past when they were still in their infancy).
Why not go to the source?
https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/absolute_beginners.html

Is there something wrong there? We (NumPy) would love to get feedback and improve it.

This would be a natural “next step”
https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/theory.broadcasting.html
So did they test every dying person on influenza, and if they died, cause of death was "influenza"? What if they tested positive for both influenza and Covid-19, what cause would be listed?

I'm just not convinced the comparison is very meaningful, as I suspect many more people were tested for Covid-19 than for influenza. The testing strategy may have been completely different, making the comparison meaningless.
> huge effort is expended in polyfilling over the differences.

That is the problem right there.

Hence now we have ChromeOS as the Web, just give Chrome a couple more years with the current trend.

And OSes adopting the Linux ABI, or even running it virtualized, instead of caring for POSIX compatibility.
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This is disproven by the study in question. Scandinavia had significant infux of genes during the Viking age, influx corresponding to the areas where Vikings raided/traded/settled.