skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time elapsed = 202.70372414588928
Population = 100000000
Recovered = 2482407
Deaths = 17590

The actual data in coronavirus.data.guv.uk:
Death rate per 100,000 people: 1.7
I used to let spiders live freely in my house, until one time I wanted to go to bed at night and noticed dozens of black spots on the bed cover. I looked up and saw hundreds of tiny spider babies on the ceiling. From then on, whenever I see a spider in the house I get rid of it. Sorry...
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Why do you rule out drugs making people addicted? If some drugs can alter your consciousness, as they clearly do, why wouldn't some of them be able to get you addicted to them?

To be clear, I do agree that a lot of cases of addiction will start with emotional problems getting people into prolonged consumption. However, emotional problems can also get people into obsessive running, yoga or whatever. But after getting their mind straight people generally don't need to be careful and abstain from running due to risk of a relapse of obsessive running --- contrast this with drugs, most prominently alcohol. Risk of relapse only happens with drugs, because it seems to my layman mind that it's not the emotional problems that get people addicted, but substance abuse. Emotional problems get people into substance abuse, but it's the substance that creates addiction, not the emotional problems, because see example with running.

And there are other triggers that get people into irresponsible consumption (societal expectations, such as in military[1]) that aren't emotional problems. They nonetheless often end in addiction, because of what the substance is doing to people's brains.

[1]: I'm talking about what I've heard from my father from Soviet era military about nicotine. I don't know what it looks like now/in other countries.
You mean like Tesla? Or even any of the top tech companies?
An ECS and a scene graph aren’t really mutually exclusive nor do you need an ECS to do instanced rendering.
It will be interesting to see what GUI library they chose and on what concepts they'll focus. Rust is an amazing language that's maybe not particularly well suited for GUIs - any progress in that direction will

Would be kinda funny/sad if they chose gtk-rs.
My bed slingers (Ender 3 style) have been fairly reliable. Keys there are making the PTFE reliably locked to the inside of the nozzle*1, stronger springs well pre-loaded, careful bed tramming, spring steel print sheets, and doing a long retraction at the end of a print (and corresponding longer prime line and skirt around the print).

My monoprice clone of the flash forge creator pro runs for many months like a laser printer. I can send a print job to it from upstairs and pick up the print when it’s done. That holy grail came from using a glass print bed, ABS slurry, enclosure, and a dial indicator to really nail the bed tramming.

I’ve since added auto-bed-leveling probes on the bed slingers and they reduce the fiddling significantly. I may add it on the monoprice just for consistency/convenience but it doesn’t seem to need it as much.

1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCxO17XZtw
I think it will be ubiquitous in the future. But I am less interested in when it will become mainstream but more interested at which point it will be lucrative to developers and content creators.
>Otherwise throw away and retry with new vaccine.

Could this be in any way related?
It’s the end of an era, like the sixties, buy a nice car now before all they are selling are golf carts. Right now something like 70% of energy comes from petroleum.

if you ask the electric grid to triple in 10 years you’re going to have large scale blackouts meaning Teslas and nice electric cars will go the way of the 1969 Camaro SS/RS
Woah, woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves! Nobody's touching a keyboard until they can prove to the professor they can write a bug-free compiler with pen and ink.
You’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical that these 3 obscure sources that you needed a search engine to find were common knowledge among regular Joes in Massachusetts during the Great Depression
How to Master the Art of To-Do Lists by Understanding Why They Fail
If you're interested in reading the full text of the speech that this blog is commenting on, gzimodo seems to have a copy of it: https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-...
Alpha XXX is their AI applied to XXX. The value is the same as AlphaZero for chess - working out how-to use AI for difficult problems. Understanding AI is important to them.
> horrible public transportation system

Changing this is exactly what you should understand by "time to stop driving towards death".
Capitalism (or free market, there is a difference between the two) is just a mechanism, and as such doesn't have any values. It is impartial to whether there is poverty or not. The values have to come either from individuals (provided they can participate in the system, and if they are poor, they can't by definition); or social institutions, such as government.
I think you've confused Typescript's own import/export system with ESM. It uses the `import` syntax, but it's not ESM internally, it's its own thing designed to ingest and export to multiple module types.
Let’s flip this.

What are the advantages of ESM that led to selecting that over CJS modules for standardization in the first place?
I get tired of reading from webpages like this.

- Spiders are much smarter than you think
- SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER
- some text
- YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
- some text
- Shutterstock image with a big description
- ...

Context switching is hard for the brain. Even in readabilty mode I get substracted by the image descriptions.

It's a pitty because it's a nice article.
There can't be such a thing as a perfect teaching language because there are many aspects to learning programming and the way you'd make those things easy aren't always compatible. "Typed" or not? Automatic or manual memory management? Pointers? ...

But when it comes to teaching the core idea of encoding an algorithm with lines of text, the main thing seems to be that the less syntax there is to think about, the better. Parentheses, brackets, semicolons, variable declarations, etc. are all in the way. We have two very good languages for this - Python and Lua. I much prefer Python for many reasons, some of which I explained earlier, but Lua also works very well.

The copy-paste issue is real though, I'll give you that. Modern editors (e.g. PyCharm) completely solve it, but when using less sophisticated tools, it is a pain. Still, I can't imagine teaching programming without indentation being an important part of it and Python conveniently forces you into it. Perhaps Lua with format-on-save would be better in this regard I might try that some day...
I don't know if you can really make the distinction, is anyone actually hired as a "programmer" instead of an "engineer"?

I feel like developer is the best name for what we do, it doesn't limit us to the act of coding and it doesn't make the presumption we're engineers (very few of us actually are).

Then again if I could choose I'd probably prefer computer programmer, it doesn't get confused with property developer and pretty specifically covers what we do.
You probably mean democracy.
> FB 1.0 or apple under jobs

Two very different companies and scenarios. Jobs as famous for cutting down >10 products product offerings down to 1-2 to refocus the company. His skillset was very much product strategy. He used money mostly for marketing and design. Two things Apple is very much well known for.

Facebook is known for copy, acquire, kill. They offer tons of money to try to acquire competitors. If they say no, then they hire tons to engineers to clone your product, then they kill your product.

Money is required by both, but arguably how both companies spend money is vastly different. Facebook very much uses money as a powerplay than Apple under Jobs.

> Money is always needed, but money alone is not enough. Every funded startup has some money, many have raised a ton of money only to fail badly.

This is such a generalized statement. It's not even worth commenting. Water is wet and the sky is blue.

> FB is investing shareholder money of which he only owns 16.7%

No. Its company assets. Although he owns 16.7% equity, he has >50% of the voting power. Meaning he has absolute authority to dictate how that money is spent. The other 80% can only sell their equity and this doesn't mean they get to take away 80% of the company assets.
Agencies and researchers talk about 2 or 3 kinds of homelessness. Longer than 1 year is chronic.[1] 120,323 of 580,466 homeless people counted were chronically homeless in January 2020.[2]

I don't think the number with jobs is tracked nationally. 10% of unsheltered people in San Diego said they were currently employed or attending school.[3] Another 11% were unemployed under 6 months. In New York City 16% of single adults in shelters had jobs.[4] 28% of families had at least 1 working adult. And people with jobs spend less time in shelters or on the street of course. Maybe none if they can afford a cheap hotel room.

You meet who you meet on the street because people with somewhere else to be are somewhere else.

[1] https://guildservices.org/the-different-types-of-homelessnes...

[2] https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_PopSub_...

[3] https://www.rtfhsd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2018-WPoin...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/nyregion/in-new-york-havi...
For first time students I'd argue they should stick to good IDEs with minimum hassle. They can learn the command line stuffs later. Back when I taught myself C++ the least thing I wanted was to learn the compiling process at the same time, so I picked Visual Studio. After that I switched to manual compiling and linking when I studied C.
> As a young man, who survived Covid, why would I risk heart complications to save some old people?

First of all, because if enough of us don't take the vaccine, we're all at risk from the virus continuing to spread and mutate.

Secondly, surviving Covid once doesn't mean you're immune from catching it (or a variant) again later on. That link you shared states a 1 in 50 000 chance of developing myocarditis from a COVID-19 vaccine. This recent study [0] finds a rate of reinfection among the surveyed population of 121 in 34 500 males and 148 in 31 697 adults aged 18-39. Either of those is more than 2 orders of magnitude higher than the risk of that heart complication. And catching Covid a second time can also leave you with further health complications.

Finally, I just want to point out that the article you linked literally has this citation from the study author:
> He says the new studies clearly show that the benefits of vaccination against COVID-19 outweigh the risks of people aged 16 and older developing myocarditis. Previous research co-authored by Balicer found that in this age group, becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 made a person 18 times more likely to develop myocarditis — a much more significant risk than is observed following vaccination.

So if you're evaluating risk for potential heart complications, I'd think you still want to get the vaccine at the end of the day (barring any other, as of yet un-mentioned, health complications).
[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8373524/
Exactly. 3D printing makes an approximation of the 3D space occupied by a given part, and nothing more. For some parts this is sufficient, for most it is not.

There is a whole history of materials science and production techniques to get to the 'stuff' we have today, 3D printing is rather 1 dimensional in comparison.
Anyone who does serious research in STEM knows that articles from Scientific Reports [1] are to be taken with a pinch (or even a lump) of salt. And yet, here we have a so-called environmental-science reporter using such an article to make doomsday predictions:

> People who study complex systems have discovered that they behave in consistent ways. It doesn’t matter whether the system is a banking network, a nation state, a rainforest or an Antarctic ice shelf; its behaviour follows certain mathematical rules.

This has as much scientific content as Ian Malcolm's prediction (using "chaos" theory) about the collapse of Jurassic Park. So much nonsense has been written about the complexity of natural systems and the collapse of the environment that it's very hard to take any article that starts with such claims seriously. And saying things like "it follows certain mathematical rules" as if that gives your claims some sort of credibility is just one of the many examples of the misuse of mathematics [2] in the "softer" sciences.

The real reason for the majority of environmental problems is overpopulation, not capitalism. Capitalism and globalization has had an important role in bringing people out of poverty, especially in large countries like India and China. If you think this is not true, look at the poverty levels of India before economic liberalization. Less poverty means more education and better family management. Much of this is obvious to anyone who has had an objective look at capitalism, but not to the Guardianistas who come up with such low-effort pseudo-scientific tripe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports

[2]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.70...
I'm not sure mp3s are a good example. Vinyl is booming because many people want a physically tangible medium and streaming services are otherwise teaching a generation that music isn't something worth owning.
The usability of KDE aside, it's not exactly the most lightweight interface. While a VM on my system can run GNOME without issues, a KDE one starts showing signs of slowdowns. Both are easily beaten by LXDE though, as crap as it is otherwise.

Given that they're doing it in Rust one'd hope that the end result could be both very usable and fast at the same time, but only time will tell.
> The government can't get too heavy-handed because that will just drive even more distrust and possibly lead to revolution

The pandemic has taught me to be even more cynic about the limits of democracy that I already was.

My country's government, like many others (including the US, I think?), blatantly lied about masks at the beginning, saying that they didn't work or were counterproductive for laypeople which, honestly, was very hard to believe in the face of common sense as well as the know-how from Asian countries that have been using them routinely for years. When mask shortages ended, the messaging changed and suddenly masks began to be useful or even mandatory. The purpose of the lies was clearly to guarantee supply to medical workers.

Later on, a lot of hyperboles were suggested about vaccines, like that they made you "immune", that vaccination would mean that no restrictions would be needed anymore, or that once a threshold of 70% was reached we would have herd immunity and the pandemic would be over. This was clearly not true, but it pushed many hesitant people into vaccination.

The thing is, I'm a person with principles and thus my gut reaction is that a lying government is a bad thing. But if I place myself in the government's shoes and go back to March 2020, I don't think I can really defend that things should have been done differently. If the efficacy of masks had been acknowledged from the beginning, laypeople would have depleted the supplies, shortages in medical settings would be more severe, and more people would have died. If vaccines or herd immunity had been hyped less, vaccination takeup would be smaller (because many people only seem to think in absolutes, they don't care about risk reduction or spread reduction if they don't have a boolean goalpost) and more people would have died.

With this I don't mean that I'm against democracy, of course. In my own country we had an authoritarian leader who was also a bigot and a moron, so I'm fully vaccinated against authoritarianism. But it seems difficult to dismiss the idea that there are some things, like pandemic management, where you can't really count on laypeople to decide anything.
The thing is, doctors may have no idea about what the exact risks of those vaccines are. Suggestions coming from the top for most of them are to obviously just give out the vaccines, except for some very minor edge cases.

Considering how much gaslighting reportedly vaccine injured have experienced from not just their relatives, but also doctors and others in medical communities, I do feel that many doctors may not have a good understanding of risk vs benefits on this one.

Especially in the beginning of summer, there may be more awareness now, but plenty of cases where vaccine injured complain about what happened and doctors don't believe them or simply tell them they can't treat them as there's no official protocol for that.
The hitch with relational databases is that you need to know what you are doing. This is mostly true for programming in general and a big reason why a lot of software isn't much faster today than it was in 1995, even though processors are many orders of magnitude faster. It's much more visible with relational databases, as they tend to accumulate so much data that bad solutions immediately break.

In this case, I don't think the 3NF-solution they came up with was necessary, it typically ends up requiring really complicated transactions and in some cases it may even be slower because of cache thrashing. What they really needed was to index their table. You can index strings, that's fine. It's reasonably fast, like even with a hundred million rows it's doable.

"But why doesn't the database build indices automatically?", I hear someone about to type, it's because indices make inserts slower and require more memory. In many cases auto-indexing would probably help, but it would break a lot of use-cases too.
Not any specific company. The person I responded to implied that equity shares are not being traded according to if they were making money or will make money.

But from this list, and the net profit and net profit margin figures, they seem to be mostly ordered correctly.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/
> for some completely unclear reason, ESM proponents decided to remove that property. There's just no way anymore to directly combine an import statement with some other JS syntax

This is one of those 'worse is better' things in language design, I believe. It guarantees simplicity, traded off against extra verbosity. In fact, when it comes to the common and probably most valuable case of reading and understanding code written by others quickly, it is not even a tradeoff really, as both are good.

Whether or not that was one of the driving reasons, it certainly is a benefit in my opinion. The two examples given in the post of an inline require don't demonstrate this well, as they're both really simple. I'd say the benefit isn't to stop things examples like that being written and replace them with two lines of code, which admittedly might sometimes be slightly cumbersome. It's that it stops the long tail of much more complex/unreadable statements being written.
> Capitalism is killing the planet

Humans are killing the planet. Every single political or economical system tried over last 100 thousands of years, resulted k in humans destroying environment for short-term benefits.

Hunter-gatherers destroyed most of megafauna. Ancient Greeks destroyed forests of Greece. Medieval Germans destroyed forests of Germany. French and English did it too. Aurochs were destroyed in modernity. Soviets destroyed Aral Sea.

This isn't even limited to our species - algae almost destroyed life on Earth, because they found that funny photosynthetic pathway and started emitting O2 to atmosphere.

The very problem is that humans are form of life and restraining ourselves or worsening quality of life "for next generation" goes against basic instincts and behaviours built by evolution in mammals.
The incompatibility is indeed exponentiated with TypeScript.

There is currently no non-hacky way for using both legacy modules and ES Modules in the same project, and many libraries on NPM have moved to ESM-only. TypeScript's transpilation needs to know what to target as regards modules and JS version, which makes things even crazier than they already are.
https://js.wiki/ Has been enough for us to use across maybe 100 wiki pages regularly updated with ~40 users.
Planet Money did an episode on the recycling issue last year. Excellent reporting, and they do come up with memos: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land

One key point made is that the marketing approach was preferred because the costs were so low compared to solving the real problems. While I think redirecting those amounts to push people in a different direction would be great, it still seems minor compared to the challenges of plastic waste and broader environmental concerns.
My grandfather who lost a brother to polio and himself had to live the rest of his life with a weakened heart would absolutely want people to get vaccinated.

And yes, fossil fuels are a health issue. Combined with the massive climate effects, it's good reason to try to stop burning them.
When I have the misfortune of reading a Monbiot article, I like to brighten my day by going and reading a Conrad Black article which usually informs me of a part of history I didn’t know, or even better, a word I didn’t know.
I get rid of them, too. By gently escorting them out a window. And, like you, I apologize to them and wish them well.
It's nice to see a reply from an actual educator. Maybe you could elaborate on your experience. How was the language selected? Did you ever try a language specifically designed for pedagogical purposes?

I can't find anything on the author's page about being an educator, so I assume they're talking about what they themselves would have preferred.
> Thought experiment: so where's the degree for people who want practical and applicable skills and an in depth knowledge of actually building systems with the modern tools that are popular within the industry, as opposed to just being familiar with the theoretical aspects?

Many European countries have a two-tiered system of higher education. There are research universities that teach both theoretical subjects (such as CS and history) and research-based applied subjects (such as medicine and law). Then there are vocational universities where the teaching focuses on more immediately applicable skills.

The drawback of a system like that is that people generally consider degrees from research universities more prestigious. As a result, research universities can be more selective with their student intake and their graduates have better employment prospects.

Also, when we are talking about degree-based education, the focus should always be on what is needed 10-20 years from now. The delay from making decisions to getting a nontrivial number of graduates to positions where they are ready to contribute is easily a decade. When there are more immediate needs, the industry has the responsibility to provide the necessary education.
I think I agree with you, but you have to admit it's deeply rooted in people's idea of fairness that everyone's gotta contribute.

This is especially the case if you're already a contributor, it's not hard to find someone who will ask why they have to work all day while someone who sits at home gets benefits for nothing.

It's really only once it's easy to satisfy all our needs that you can get most people to not care. For instance if there's a machine that only a small number of people needs to operate to service a large crowd.
And Israel did it with a very short interval between first and second dose. It's not unusual for vaccines to require a three dose regimen, with sufficient time between penultimate and last dose for the immune system to abandon high alert status, in order to achieve long term effect.