skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you actually believe Chinese numbers...?

The Chinese government isn't Oceania, with a near-total ability to force a narrative that's widely in variance to the facts. For example, just look at how well they've managed to convince the world that the Xinjiang camps don't exists and are fully of happy Uyghurs that are grateful for the education they're getting there.

If China had the same per capita COVID death rate a the US, they'd have had 1.1 million deaths at this point (and the associated stresses on their healthcare system). That's not something they could hide, because that's something my relatives would be able to personally report evidence of (especially since one is basically living in a Chinese hospital right now because of a bowel issue). Instead, they going about their business normally, often without masks, and no one's getting sick from COVID.
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I don't understand the mindset you have to be in, in order to prefer the second error example to the first
Ruby on Rails vs. Django in 2020 and Beyond
Good choice; we went refurbished on the regular, and have had 4 technician visits in 6 months.
> Does the US publish death rates during the year or only afterwards?

At least Our World in Data website has those numbers:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
Yes, Ireland did various changes to restrictions before going to the full restrictions everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_Repub...
I think the comment above yours was mostly joking, or at least deliberately simplifying things.

But since we’re here and I can’t resist, I agree with you that statements like “x is destroying democracy” are meaningless hyperbole. Social media has a role in influencing the outcome of the democratic process, sure, but to say it is ERASING DEMOCRACY is ridiculous. It doesn’t mean anything. We still vote, and those votes still matter.

My nostalgia for the internet of yore and the affects of social media on democracy are pretty much divorced ideas anyway, I really did just mean for my original comment to be a funnysad observation
Columbo pauses on his way out the door

"Excuse me for asking, but did you say you saved the file as guy.brush?"
Tools, Household Chemicals type stuff, tech parts.

Yeah easy to refund but I spent 2 hrs insect treating my house now I have to do it again, not a pleasant task. Oh yeah now I have a roach infestation because the traps were fake. The effects are much farther reaching than you make it out to be.
I understand not trusting govt and large corps, but you can also read the studies on the vaccines yourself, as well as expert analysis by other parties (e.g. public health researchers at major institutions, with no ties to the large corps).

Nothing is zero-risk, but Covid is certainly a higher risk than even quickly-researched vaccines will be.
I guess survival rate means a different thing from side effects.

I would be still cautious with that statement and not underestimate it.
I am going to take this next! I am excited to see what it has to offer.
Let's see... it's a calculus of death vs potential long term adverse effect:

P(death) < 0.05% for the vast majority of the population (Age < 65) vs P(unknown) long term harm in life quality, my wild estimate: P(0.1%). It's within the same order of magnitude.

I'd take the vaccine in a heartbeat, long term effects and all, if P(death) was 10% or higher.
Boom. That’s it. It’s not cheating that’s the problem—that would be an epitome of a red herring. Emulation of a traditional environment with online learning software is not how it was intended to be used, nor is it practical.

Even when I was in college, the number of traditional courses serving additional content through Moodle/Blackboard was stupid high. I understand honor system and all that jazz. But really, if the ~15-some athletes in a business 200-level section are going to gather in the library to cheat together...then maybe the quiz should have been delivered traditionally. At least then, I wouldn’t have to hear the half-a-class rant from the professor about what losers the cheaters are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Windows didn't have one until a few months ago..? Also, the Mac App Store has been around for 10 years, Homebrew for 11 years and MacPorts for 18 years, so it's not like there was an urgent need to build one.
What is Hubble looking at now?
Your sources clearly show Suicide skyrocketing since the 90s ended.

More importantly, my claim was the change in suicide "among people coming of age." Suicide of minors has never been higher, ever.
Time in the market >>> timing the market.

Even the absolute worst luck gives you perfectly acceptable returns on 30-35 year timelines. Multiple orders of magnitude better than a savings account, for sure.

Time and time again the best approach for highly compensated people who don't want to actively manage their finances is to put a chunk of every paycheck into a broadly diversified range of index funds and forget that it exists. In the US this means a) getting your company 401(k) match no matter what; b) putting the rest into a Roth IRA as cash flow/debt service allows; c) putting the rest into the remainder of your 401(k) as cash flow/debt service allows; d) putting the rest into a non-tax-advantaged brokerage account that basically mimics your 401(k) but probably has better fund options.
How can this be "de-googled" but I can also use "all my favourite apps"? I'd love to step away from Google, but I have some requirements on apps from the play store for work (slack, okta) and personal communication (whatsapp).
Making it look easy is the true strength – what can we learn from it?
Can your runtime handle non rust wasm code?
Interesting strategy. What after that?
I though it had been merged but it looks like they remove the auto blocking detection and merge a revised version of the runtime [1].

1: https://github.com/async-rs/async-std/pull/733
Apple's support of my software company was terrible and shameful.

I got a dev unit (mac mini). It had beta 2 on it. We started the porting effort and had questions. Forums were the only place they said answers could be had. Never got any answers.

When beta 10 was released, it just wouldn't install. We tried for a week then saw a post on the forums that gave a hint about Mac-to-Mac reset of the firmware and general machine state. We had to upgrade another machine to Catalina to use it (inconvenient, but not a killer).

When 11.0.1 came out it wouldn't install and now the machine is a brick. We ordered a production mini with the M1 and it will be here in late December. While we sit with the brick and can't do any porting.

At every step we hit brick walls and had zero help from Apple. It was beyond frustrating.
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> And abandoned quite quickly, like most projects.

Amended your statement slightly. If anything, there's a fairly high incidence of successful projects coming out of the Rust world.
The thing that has always frustrated me about anti-cheating/anti-plagiarism software is that it almost always only hurts people that did something by accident or unintentionally. When I took the one kubernetes certification exam as part of an old job, you used software like this and at one point I leaned too close to the screen and the proctor couldn't see my face and that got me flagged.

People that want to cheat or game the system will find ways, it isn't hard to do. In undergrad we setup a copy of the code checking software that our department used so that we could share code without it getting flagged as copies. I'm sure there are ways to game these systems too if you are motivated enough.

One of the issues is also just academia being so hyper-focused on thinking everyone is there to become an academic which is not the case for the vast majority of people. So these exams and the guidelines for student evaluation is grounded in that expectation instead of the reality.
Huh? I wasn’t making a value judgment at all, just observing Apple’s historical behavior. That is how they look at profit. And they move all sorts of revenue around to make certain price points more appealing. Mac mini gets cheaper at entry level, macOS is free. To the extent those are lower margin, they make it up in services or other hardware lines.
Minor nitpick: li-ion batteries contain no rare-earths.

The catalysts used in oil refining do on the other hand - specifically Lanthanum.
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Started at about 10:19 EST. All of our systems went hard down with timeouts. Now the entire ec2 console is not responding.

And, as always, the PHD isn't showing any issues.
That is how haskell's scheduler works, but I was not aware that it was the same with BEAM. Makes sense.
Introduction to TypeScript, Part 4/4 (Modules)
> I can write tests that make it harder to cheat than some other fields

This might be my prejudice speaking (I studied math) but isn't this basically because grading is that much more subjective? So it would cut both ways, harder to cheat but also less objective / impartial assuming no cheating.
Yes, that is why Discord is doing it: https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
You're probably being downvoted because this information is easily looked up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine
Well I certainly never expected my project's name to conflict with another "shitty static site generator" haha. I ended up swapping "shitty" for "stupid" however: https://github.com/esell/sssg

I started down the Go template route and quickly realized that pandoc + some other standard tools got me everything _I_ needed. It was a great learning experience for sure!
Edit: I do plan to get the vaccine, but as a software engineer I know beta versions usually have the most “bugs” — and I have the health privilege to be in the back of the line so I will!
There is not much difference between 'New Coke' and 'Coca-Cola Classic' to be honest. Both were moves to hide the fact that Coke was switching from cane sugar to HFCS. After the New Coke debacle the switch back to 'Classic' was the old formula but with HFCS. If you want a taste of what Coke used to be like you want to find Mexican Coke bottles, that is as close as you will get.
Production outage at 2am.
No Slack notifications is _why_ I use it ;-) but if you want you can use Google's notifications with migroG (obviously giving them substantial tracking opportunities). AFAIK the effort to support non-Google notification servers dose not yet work.
I prefer the Algorithms course by Princeton but I still really like this course. The deep dive into the mathematical proofs and timing of these algorithms is what gives this course an advantage over Princeton’s course.
There may be in general, but in this case I don't think it's a factor. Something like 40% of deaths have happened in nursing homes, where residents don't have much agency to reduce their individual risk.
> That you could search the population by age/height/hair color/relationship status meant implicitly, it was a dating site, albeit a crude one.

In the first place it means they knew about a problem, and searched for ways to solve it. It does not mean they wanted to enforce it and spread it. Relationship status is a big hint there.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with annoying people who want to be annoyed. But ignorantly bothering anyone just because you can is harmful.
MySpace and the Coding Legacy It Left Behind
> So message passing is the only way to communicate between proccesses?

There are escape hatches. Obviously, you can do something really heavy like open a network port or open a file descriptor, but it also provides you with use ets, which is basically "really fast redis for intra-vm stuff" and you can transact over shared memory if you drop down to FFI.
That's a pretty bad mindset, new pip versions (20+) include support for binary distributions that saves a lot of time when installing pretty much anything that needs to be compiled.

Just run `pip install --upgrade pip` every month and you will be fine.
> There are inherent sexual dynamics in any social circle,

Yes, it maybe there, but no, It's only a problem if people make it one. It's not there by default and unavoidable.

> I don't think the current trend of perceiving any unwanted sexual interest as inherently bad is at all healthy for society.

That's a pretty hostile view.

> P.S: i know and remember a lot of my friends who found their S.O. through facebook so it being alive arguanly disproves the assumption behind

There is a difference between making friends and eventually hooking up with one/some of them, and going out to make victims on purpose.
> States maybe could but only because of very old case law that might well not stand up today. Of course, private workplaces, schools, government offices, airlines, etc. could to the degree that it might be quite difficult at some point to refuse.

States probably can compel people to take it, considering some already require it for use of public services like schools. I’m guessing private companies can do whatever they want as long as they avoid running into disability law. I think this is a problem though - as a matter of principle, bodily autonomy is sacrosanct. Citizens who are forced to give up bodily autonomy to use basic services they can’t reasonably avoid (roads, public transportation, schools, etc) simply don’t have basic freedoms in my view.
I tried to get more people to pay attention to what you were doing, and still miss you in the Clojure community.
Salesforce to Buy Slack
Not to mention the side effect of the collapse of our healthcare system.
That Michael Saylor tweet is hilarious:

"#Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy."

Certainly it's that, and not rampant Tether printing / fraud / lack of exit off-ramps / institutionaland retail investor ignorance
Korea did well during Covid but needs a change going forward
What on earth are you talking about? If I add `def bar...` to a file foo.py in my PYTHONPATH, it does not suddenly become available in my interactive session, I need to import it first. Further if I change foo.py even importing it again in the repl (or jupyter notebook) will not have any effect. You will need to use one of several reload hacks which in practice won't work reliably for all sorts of reasons. In contrast, unless my memory severely fails me (and I don't think so, since I just checked against octave), in matlab if you edit a file in the path, it will be auto-imported every time you save it as soon as the repl is non-busy.

Have you actually used both matlab and python?
Amazing day for structural biology! If it weren't for the pandemic, I would be out at the bars celebrating tonight!
It really doesn't matter. The biggest benefit of ARM are the fixed length instructions and only Apple is actually taking advantage of this by decoding 8 instructions at once. The big question is whether decoding that many instructions is actually a benefit. It's entirely possible that branch prediction and other factors are greater bottlenecks that have to be tackled first to take advantage of the faster instruction decoding.

Intel's Pentium processors (the original ones) were doing pretty badly because they made the pipeline too deep at the expense of other things.
That's why I wrote "mostly." Some reasonable measures to deter casual cheating may well be worthwhile. At some point though you draw a line where you start hurting honest students more than cheaters. You're not going to prevent it 100% absent draconian measures.
Side effects of shutdowns include:

* depression
* suicide
* poverty -> famine and disease
* missed education
* dependency on gov
* freedoms given up and transferred to gov

I also agree that there are other side effects, just like every disease.
Where did you get the movie reviews dataset? I'm interested in doing something similar for music.
note there is not a claim this vaccine prevents infection, only lessens symptoms, meaning you are still contagious.

"We all expect an effective vaccine to prevent serious illness if infected. Three of the vaccine protocols—Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca—do not require that their vaccine prevent serious disease only that they prevent moderate symptoms which may be as mild as cough, or headache."

"Prevention of infection is not a criterion for success for any of these vaccines. In fact, their endpoints all require confirmed infections and all those they will include in the analysis for success, the only difference being the severity of symptoms between the vaccinated and unvaccinated."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/cov...
> recognize that some people will cheat but they're mostly hurting themselves.

This assumes that what you learn in university is the useful part, not the grade or the allocation of time that could be used for hackathons, projects, clubs, or internships.
I keep a jar of bacon grease in the fridge for misc. pan frying (makes amazing hot dogs). I simply cannot believe it's never occurred to me to make french fries with it!
It's interesting, because I've always found (personally) that I didn't really understand any mathematics until it became a foundational tool for another form of math I needed to use. Although I took courses with proofs, they never really helped (I'm more engineer than mathematician). Notation is a huge help (and can be a hindrance) in grasping the

So Addn<Multiply<Trig<Algebra<Calculus<ODE<PDE... unfortunately, I don't consider myself to have really learned PDEs although I can work with them. It's interesting to work with someone who CAN solve a novel PDE analytically, since their tool set is larger and they have real intuition.
Not a startup in the typical sense, but I created a side project maybe 10 years ago that had great traffic growth and was signing up users.

It was basically a content website so I was using Wordpress and MANY plugins without really understating how the worked together. Traffic kept growing and I was getting pretty excited.

My other (and current) business was growing more so I focused on that. After a few months I checked back in and the other site had actually broken in an update of Wordpress and been getting zero traffic for months and didn’t ever recover once fixed.

While I would like to say that the point of failure was the site breaking, the actual point of failure was me not being able to focus on it like I should have.

Related, but had I given it the focus it deserved, my other business might not have been as successful and my life would likely look incredibly different now.
WhatsApp actually provides an APK download on their website[0]. I'm not entirely sure whether they keep it as up-to-date as the version on the play store though.

[0]: https://www.whatsapp.com/android/
Why not use 1/2 and get a bigger number?
I live on a farm and work from home so I am pretty "sheltered-in-place" but I will probably get it as soon as it is generally available in my area.

That's likely to be when something stable with an ordinary cold chain is at normal pharmacies, but who knows? I work for a large University that probably has hundreds of those super-cold freezers and we get a supply I might go into campus for the first time in seven months...
Make exams that are harder to cheat. For example:

- oral exams via video call

- written exams where students are distributed over a larger area (e.g. the university rents a warehouse for the examination time) so that the COVID-19 spreading risk is nevertheless kept very small.
Cats do kill a shocking number of small birds and other mammals. A conservative estimate is somewhere around 7 billion a year, and that's just in the United States. I have 4 cats myself but they never go outside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife
"Just one more thing ...."
Using Anonymized Data to Support Multi-Interface Digital Experience Platforms
I agree, by having a shutdown and mandatory at-home confinements and fear mongering, you have people not attending hospitals and the like for routine and checkups for more serious diseases.
I agree with everything you said but just wanted to add RSUs/options are only even offered to a slim minority of software developers nationally. I am well paid for my job generally, and particularly for my area, but even something like an employee stock ownership program is extremely rare around here and outright RSU/option grants are unheard of. You'd get laughed out of any interview for even suggesting an ESOP to most places that don't have it.
Does it reveal the secret :-)
> I don't actually know what an intent flow is!

Sorry, I might've made that up :).

What I meant is that stracktraces do not necessarily reflect the actual code path that the error was caused by (eg. with deferals to internal work queues), and even if they do, they tend to have terrible SNR (too much technicalities of how your code is structured, not enough information about the data that caused the error in the first place).
If you're willing to dilute the meaning of "ponzi scheme" so broadly, then yes, the economy is a ponzi scheme.
My recent absolute favorite is Lupe Fiasco explaining it to Hotep Jesus (some NSFW language):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0MA48bfshw#t=2h14m3s

The overall video is a about vaccines in general (Hotep Jesus is rather skeptical of them), but Lupe explaining how mRNA vaccines work starts at this timestamp. There's also a place where the audio cuts out. It's only a minute or so, but they go back and finish where they left off.
If they wanted to solve it they would remove that feature entirely. Relationship status was there to facilitate. We’re just going to have to agree to disagree here.
MSRs are called "registers" sure but you can't actually perform any operations on them other than a load or a store, and you can't use them to stash random data outside of main memory because they affect the operation of the processor. `k0` (or e.g. MIPS's `r0`) are even worse, since you can't even write to them.

That's not what most people care about when they talk about how many registers a processor has.
Always feels like treading google for some other random developers
To Be or Not to Be Uncertain
Yea... so I used to do the whole nap thing too. I still always felt groggy and had a head fog. For the last 2 years I decided to discipline myself to get roughly 8 hours of sleep every night (a sleep mask to block out excess light has been a God send). Also no caffeine after 5pm and only 2 cups of coffee max per day. Oh and less carb, more protein diet with daily exercise. In essence, I quit giving myself excuses for being a lazy whinner. Other than the Thanksgiving food coma, I dont take naps because, and sit down for this revelation, I dont need to since I get a proper amount of rest nearly every single night. Look, sometimes life throws shit in your face and a nap is a great stop gap remedy to pull you through. Nothing wrong with getting stitches when you get a cut. Theres a problem when you keep cutting yourself because you jump into a pool of knives everyday. It's just weird that we are fetishizing piss poor health habits and then glorifying the bandaid fixes instead of simply addressing the main problem. But hey, that's the great evil self-responsibility everyone wants to avoid.
deluxe paint was available for DOS as well, wasn't it?
I don’t know about the downvotes, perhaps because it’s only tangentially related to the post? But I appreciated the thought. Talk about an unsung hero. Whoever died on the placebo died so that the rest of us can have the knowledge that we have a safe and effective vaccine. We should be grateful to them.
Why do you keep calling child care inane? It's not stupid, or simple, and raising the next generation is literally the most important task. Diminishing the role of caretaker by calling child care inane is extremely offensive, especially to people who choose to devote their lives to the task.