skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my personal experience doing homework with my son I think a big issue that is not addressed is that kids/people are different, some don't instantly get it and most f the time the kids will not have the courage to tell the teacher that they do not understand. I have a lot of difficulties working with only 1 child, imagine now working with 25 at a time, and it happens that I am convinced I explained stuff super clear and my son understand it but later I discover that still there was something unclear.

I empathize with teachers and with parents that also stuggle with making the children really understand math/programming and not only solve the homework and memorize some rules. I also wish there were less classes in school, general knowledge is nice too have but IMO is too much(my son is in a public high school in Romania , a good one but not elite)
It literally does not, except in the sense that it ran the method on a list of countries. From section 2.3:

> Overall, 8 out of 10 countries with the highest undercount ratios in the World Mortality Dataset at the moment of writing demonstrated statistically significant underdispersion in our analysis.

Translation: they ran it against a list of countries with known "undercount ratios", and found that 8/10 had high scores. Also:

> The correlation of underdispersion index to undercount ratio was 0.40 (Figure 3).

This is a poor overall correlation, and they do no sensitivity / specificity analysis so you can't jump to the conclusion that a score is meaningful. They make the argument that it works better for the countries with the highest undercounts...but if you know the countries have a high undercount you already know the answer by other methods. And even there, 80% sensitivity isn't that great.
Owners of the index funds, like Vanguard. And Vanguard, in turn, is owned by... wait a minute... oh no... I'm realizing I can't say anymore.
A lightweight language compiled to JavaScript/C
I'll agree upfront that it's been adopted very corporately, but it's worth noting that the Unity game engine uses C# extensively. If you enjoy video-games and one of them is on this list[1] it was likely written in C#.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unity_games#2021
Ha, fair enough, you got me!

I live in the Netherlands and the cycling and pedestrian infrastructure is indeed better than anywhere else I've been. Apart from maybe Denmark, I doubt there's anywhere that comes close to the Netherlands, so comparing the US to it is pretty useless.

There's still plenty to improve, and plenty is improving, to be fair. In the last few years, I've seen quite a few impressive changes in Amsterdam's cycling infrastructure, which was already amazing. Streets getting redesigned now are taking cycling very seriously.

There's also Bicycle Dutch on a similar note to Not Just Bikes, but less polished.
It's not bad, and I use it/like it, but it's also exceedingly heavy compared to IRC. If you want to join large rooms, your server really needs a couple gig of RAM, and the "full featured" client (Element) is an Electron mess that uses an awful lot of RAM. A freshly launched Element connected to my server is idling with 200MB of RAM used, and it'll go up from there.
Be very skeptical of healthline and treat them like an actively malicious source. They have supported batshit insane nonsense in the past.

In this case they did not even link to the study! They literally only have a link to the magazine's description.

Several searches haven't yielded the study they are referencing either, only more content farms running the same story.
-263.15 Celsius?
Their FOSS GUI offerings are similar to Java's. But yes the proprietary ones are windows only.
I think much of the time, correctness of the answer can be checked easily. E.g., if you have to solve for x and find an answer, you can fill it in in the original equation and see if it works.
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I think it might be worth it to add that we’re not talking about some guy in a nordic country living off the state; he is in a third world country where you need to work your ass off to pay the bills. I seriously don’t know how people actually pull it off.
See also:

TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes (cnbc.com)

473 points by underscore_ku 5 days ago | 364 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30272682
You may be right, I was speaking more broadly about education, not focused on college education. Although that does suggest a wider question, why education at all?

Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student?

I suspect society is worse off if we "give up" on educating a large segment of the population. (And I don't mean to imply everyone needs to learn higher math, I am speaking more broadly of education.)
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free
Because not everyone has neighborhoods of kids offering to shovel snow, I even tried to contract it out however most of the companies around here want commercial contracts not residential snow removal, and the ones that do offer "best effort" time tables where their commercial customers come first.

The last home I had with sidewalks the city would fine you if they were not cleared in 24 hours, contractors would come 3-5 days later

>How can you do that when they have to drive everywhere?

never said it would not create other problems, I solve the teens dying problem the same way everyone solved the COVID problem, just lock down. it "worked" then right ;)
Hacking is one thing. I understand the technical thrill. But blackmail and fraud? That's a human-to-human interaction, not human-to-machine. Once a person cross that line where you are harming another person at that level, there is no going back.
I love that warning, it speaks to the issue on so many levels.

Today's technology market is built around rent-seeking for services that individuals take for granted while starting 'the next big thing' and then suddenly when they blow up they're charged an arm and a leg for these 'basic' services.

I would personally refine the warning to say "don't build your factory on someone else's land." because in most cases the landowner isn't concerned about houses so much as they are about groups generating revenue that they can get a cut of.
Personally I consider 3.2 to be the first usable version of Python 3, though that obviously already had a very large and complex data and language model.

New in 3.3:

- yield from: I'm okay with this

- PEP 420 / namespace packages: I think this is/was the best compromise, but this remains a fundamentally ugly topic for something that is sort-of necessary to have

- raise from None: This is okay for library code

- __qualname__: It's a mess. It's not like I'm against having it, but this is a corner of the language that practically invites you to hang yourself one way or another.

- importlib: It's better than the previous iteration but this package was and still is a mess. Again, lots of this is due to legacy aka "the other packaging packages".

New in 3.4

- asyncio beta (no coroutine syntax yet): While coroutines are highly useful, asyncio and Python coroutines simply are not good. This is the beginning of the badness.

- pathlib: Ok!

- enum: Ok!

New in 3.5

- async def, await: This is the release that really set colored functions in stone for Python.

- "@" operator: I've never used this once I think, but that's because I don't write math code in Python. If I did, I think I'd like it, so I'm okay with this.

- type hints: Another oof moment

New in 3.6

- f-strings: Yay!

- dict now ordered: Yay!

- async generators and such: Again, I think colored functions are a big blunder, but if you have them, you need this.

- Variable annotations

New in 3.7

- PEP 563: Type annotations can be turned into quoted annotations without a syntactic change through __future__ import.

- contextvars: "thread-locals for coroutines"

- PEP 562: Added the Python 2 misfeature back where Python 2 interpreted __get__ and __set__ on modules

- Typing becomes part of the core language, I think this is when you could start writing things like "list[int]" (instead of "typing.List[int]").

New in 3.8

- := Yuck

- "Positional-only parameters" because the simplified CPython API for defining functions has this, so ... Python code needs that as well? Wot?

- More typing

New in 3.9

- More typing

New in 3.10

- And even more typing

- Pattern matching
> If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.

Weird, I thought the issue was giving him two sides to a question when there are often many. Give someone only two options and you can shape their choices.
Literature students are _definitely_ allowed to do research on their assignments.

As a physics student, there were some exams where I was able to "google," but almost every exam I took allowed me to bring some notes.
If we're bringing up history, does "never again" apply to Ukraine and the Holodomor too?
>I've invested in GM and avoided investing in Tesla. Mostly just because I understand GM, their business and financials and stock price history makes sense to me. I do not understand the valuations on Tesla, and hadn't even long before COVID and the most recent run-up in value. Clearly I've missed out on massive earnings if I had invested in Tesla instead of GM (although GM's done decently lately).

I'm not currently invested in automotive. Just drive by some dealerships, empty lots. Not because they are selling out but because business is bad. There will be a work from home permanence, the inflation reality will destroy the automotive industry. The only thing keeping them barely afloat is low interest rates.

Then you also have the market disruptor of Tesla. Ford and GM obviously have some fantastic products coming and even some already here. EV silverado and hummer are amazing. Mach-E and EV f150 are possibly the best.

EV cars is a new generation of vehicle and will harm the existing auto industry. Ford and GM are obviously going to survive no problem. They arent worth a trillion $ because they are behind but have significant costs upcoming. GM and Ford's upcoming profitability is going to be quite poor.

Stellantis looks like they are too far behind. Ram revolution silouette looks good but if the Chevy Bolt proves anything... building a good battery has many hurdles. Stellantis has nothing coming soon and may just die.

>To me looking at the stock pricing, Tesla looks like a software company where tremendous growth has been occurring and is expected to continue for some time. To some extent they are a software company, but that software so far has seemed to me to require quite an expensive set of hardware to be sold with it in order to get the software and continuing monthly/yearly/feature revenues sales. This has worked for Apple, so it's not unprecedented, but it'll be interesting to watch how long it can last.

Tesla's first disruption is that after the car leaves the lot. It continues to get better. The traditional auto industry, you leave the lot and your car will be that or worse forever.

The second big disruption is efficiency. AC motors have regen, their motors are ~90% efficient. This creates the new generation of car. A model 3 performance(inexpensive sedan) has a 0-60 of 3.2 seconds. That's faster than all production Corvettes. Faster than a Hellcat. As fast as a Mclaren F1 from back in the day. About as fast as a Nissan GTR or Porsche 911. All the while not being annoying loud, far more practicality, and no emissions.

The most recently disruption... Tesla is now the fastest car with the plaid edition. 0-60 of 2 seconds model s plaid means it's faster than the Demon. Faster than all hyper cars. Yet at significantly cheaper price point. The roadster coming with compressed air to make it faster? Ridiculous.

By the time Ford/GM really get going, Tesla will not have sat around. They will have moved forward.

This is why Tesla has a ridiculous valuation. They effectively are the only competitor in the auto industry for the next several years.
srb2:kart is the real shit.
> Most of the countries in this list are known, based on the excess mortality data, to strongly undercount Covid deaths.

I take great issue with the word *known* up above.

Somebody would need to do a deep dive into this data, but I'd say that this study is alarmingly starting with a premise that is not proven and may be completely false.

If there are excess deaths in poor countries, are they likelier to come from Covid or economic devastation imposed by things like lockdowns, cutting off tourism income, and other economic restrictions? In rich countries, the average person was not close to not being able to acquire a meal at the start of Covid. In poor countries, even in good times being able to put food on the table is a real concern for average people, let alone after 2 years of super limited tourism and various lockdowns and economic restrictions that worsened many peoples' already precarious situations.
The EU is working on such a law, it's part of the Digital Markets Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...
"In the USA, freedom-loving people think fans of the human monsters that tortured and murdered millions of Jews in the Second World War need the possibility to express their personal "opinion".

I completely disagree with this viewpoint and this characterization of what Americans believe. You're conflating support for free speech, with support for things like nazism. Which is just incorrect.

Nobody is starting out by saying "nazis need to be able to post their opinions online". It's just that the way free speech works, it unfortunately covers disgusting things like nazism exactly the same as it covers my own speech. That's the whole point of not letting the government abridge or prohibit speech. Imagine if the government did have those powers, and then decided that it was illegal to discuss LGBT concepts or specific religions.

You can't have it both ways; I'm glad to have free speech because it protects ME (and my family, friends, etc) from being jailed for criticizing the government or having specific beliefs, etc, even if it has the side effect of people being able to post disgusting things online. Censoring discussion doesn't stop people from discussing it in secret, it always gets abused by the government given a long enough timeframe.

The original snippet I replied to from the article was such a holier-than-thou comment, and their country's solution of censoring speech ("good" censorship) didn't even work!
Again please give examples. Everyone says that searching is better which obviously it is, but what the hell are you all searching from these forums?
The point being that there are people out there who might be provoked, but as you observe it certainly isn't the norm. It isn't as prevalent as comments here would suggest. Bicycling is safe, despite all of the alarmism. Hope this helps.
> Serious Organised Crime Unit

Are you based in the UK? That's probably relevant, it seems like a lot of the cybersecurity sector over here is very friendly with NCSC & SC is required for a lot of roles.
Yes it is a valid argument.
This is exactly why Ron Wyden wrote section 230 and why nobody has a replacement that isn’t suspect as a bill of attainder.
A light amount moderation is easy. Doing that everywhere is hard. The same thing works for police. We police a portion of the city, but we don’t want or expect the police to cover every single inch of the city.
> There will be people in my social bubble with similar reactions to the same content

I don't want reactionary right-wingers on Facebook moderating other reactionary right-wingers' content on Facebook.
I've been wondering for a while why LCDs have settled on RGB instead of the clearly superior Bayer tiling. Any ideas ?
At least they are incentived by their own vulnerability to not hit or be hit by things. As opposed to your average modern car which has made the operator of an automobile super safe at the expense of pedestrians, bicycles, etc.
So many words to say "mine now!". Imperialism has never been so verbose/tedious
I was with you until that last bit.

https://www.soundtrack.net/album/the-sixth-sense/

https://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/246/Se7en
I'm with you. I used to be a huge Python fan boy and I used it professionally for many years. With the 2->3 transition and all the new baloney it seems to me that it's being "improved" to death. For backend web stuff Erlang/Elixer makes way more sense, for scientific stuff Julia makes more sense, for rapid application development (RAD) Nim makes more sense, and with Go and Rust and Zig and D and so on there are just better options out there for most tasks.
haha - an invitation I cannot refuse :P
The problem is when you know someone contacted you because of their 'system'. I feel less compelled to reply. It feels more that the person is doing their chores and you are just helping them to get the task done. Somewhat similar because people only reminded of you because facebook displayed on their timeline that it was your birthday. No right or wrong here, but when it's not genuine it's not genuine and period.
Yep, open book exams should be the norm.
Exams may sometimes be disruptive to learning, but they exist for a compelling reason: they help ensure that students exiting the class have actually learned the material.

All students want the credential of having passed the course, but not all students are willing and able to learn the material. If we care who learned the material, we have to verify who learned the material.

To eliminate exams, we would have to either (1) change the world so it doesn't matter who actually learned what they earned credentials for in school, or (2) make all students so intrinsically motivated that they all reliably learn the course material without any need for verification.

Does anyone think that either of these goals is realistic?
Keeping it simple, stupid. I'm writing a database for example and go out of my way to use conceptually simpler algorithms, even if they are slower. I use optional patches to refactor them.

Ideally simplicity leads to adaptibility, simple things make less assumptions, and maintainability, it's easier to understand the behavior of simple things. That being said simplicity for it's own sake is not important, adaptibility and maintainability is what's important.

Using a language that changes often and have a lot of subtlety or features, especially macros hurts maintainability, because one needs to understand the language first.
So we are completing the full circle:

> Cross-Platform... as long as you don't use the GUI libs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePlug

http://www.helicopting.de

https://bitlair.nl/Projects/Ethernet_over_phone_cable

https://forum.openrov.com/t/teardown-of-a-homeplug-adapter/3...

https://rovmaker.org/product/tether-interface-board/

etc, HomePlug has been widely adopted in the ROV building community
I wish that the Clockwork Devterm was this form factor.
I understand that I probably have a niche taste, been a nerd and all, but still.

Maybe I'm not the target?

Do they have a lot of millennial users or is it mostly for the younger generation?
This mastery based approach makes the most sense to me. The difference between grades and percentages is really weird. In some sense, we expect a 90% grade to mean you were able to solve problems on 90% of the material, or with a 10% error rate.

However, in some of the higher level classes, the tests are not on whether you have learned and can apply the material, but whether you can solve new types of problems that you haven't seen before. I've always found these sort of tests to be quite bizarre, as you really can't study for them, and whether I would come up with the required insight in the time limit was an inconsistent indicator. They seem better suited as problem sets.
I had no idea that there was a viable community-produced firmware option.
Would you mind linking it?
Most of these changes directly address friction I've experienced. I like them.
>>So my advice to anyone who already got rich from their investments in the last couple of years: Congratulations! Now take that money, invest it in the most boring thing possible, and enjoy life.

>Taking on risk over the last few decades has paid off in spades.

There's two types of risk here: risk that is compensated by higher returns (eg. buying stocks rather than bonds) and risk that isn't compensated by higher returns (eg. buying OTM options rather than stocks). It's not really clear that higher than expected returns in the past decade or so for "tech stocks and/or crypto", mean that they have higher risk-adjusted returns in the next decade.
I guess I still think it's interesting as a methods paper? It's also useful to have different sources of evidence about COVID underreporting.

I agree that it seems to assume too much malice as a reason for underreporting in general though.
A medical doctor

Just letting lurkers know the article is not about PhD programs or academia in general, as I half expected
Eh. Different things work for different people. I wrote in paper notebooks for years before switching to Logseq, primarily because I couldn't search my notes or even quickly find something. I now use it extensively for drafting documents, research, and remembering quick snippets.
> I take great issue with the word known up above.

It's a quote from the abstract. I didn't write it.

> Somebody would need to do a deep dive into this data, but I'd say that this study is alarmingly starting with a premise that is not proven and may be completely false.

This paper introduces no new data. It takes an existing data set, and runs a statistical analysis on it.
Maybe, maybe you could do this on an imxrt with 1hgz m7 and another core dedicated to usb or something, but yeah to do anything vision wise… I would think even a low end fpga could do so much better
And his colleague Clyde Hutchinson even used BASIC! At least in the 1980s. He even published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research on a system he wrote in BASIC for the TRS-80 model 100 (a very early laptop computer from 1983).
"Elect government" doesn't necessarily mean "vote for the another party". Candiate c1 may support issue X, while candidate c2 does not, so I vote c1, if X is an important enough issue for me, and if I trust c1 to actually make good on the promise of B.
.NET Framework was actively developed for two decades. It's not a jab at them to finally move on to a new runtime while simultaneously providing a very excellent migration path.

And all the things Microsoft "hypes up them drops after a few years" have low adoption compared to their main offerings anyways. It would be silly of them to continue actively developing things like Silverlight when everyone saw that better options were available.
Own it, and capitalize on it! You've already written the first sentence of your sales pitch: "I was involved in a high-profile computer hacking case in 2015 which received international interest."

Continue with "therefore I know about system security...". Write a book, charge a huge rate as a consultant. I'm serious. If you act like a beaten-down person, you'll be treated as one.

It's classic making lemonade from lemons, but it can really work. If not, you've lost nothing.
I think this makes sense.

However, I am sure there are many people who have lost money (or made much less) with reasonings that may be at least as sound as this one.
The forcing is weird, right? Why in the world does it take so much work to reach out to someone?

The obvious explanation would be fear of rejection.

Another story you could tell is fear of connection due to opportunity cost -- what if, among all the people you could connect with, this one isn't a great choice but will end up consuming a lot of your time?

But I think it's probably the first.