skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been on duolingo since the beginning and am sure that I've spent more time with the site and app than 95% of the userbase.

I've learned languages with duolingo.. and by that I don't mean duolingo will teach you a language.

There's two things that I feel that almost everyone misses.

#1: Using duolingo alone will get you to about an A2-B1 level in comprehension and an A1-A2 level in writing and speaking.

This is just the basics of a language.. enough to understand basic expressions. You're never going to learn a language without further practice and tools. Spending time in books, trying to form your own thoughts. Duolingo is a great start, but if you never progress beyond it, of course you're not going to learn a language.

#2: and most important. When you complete a course you're not done.

I see this all of the time, people just get to the last exercise and stop.

You're not going to learn a language this way because most people can't retain a 2000+ word vocabulary by only seeing a word a couple of times.

There's a reason why your "strength" in categories decreases as time passes.. because it's unlikely that you've actually remembered every single word you were taught.

I've participated in a large number of duolingo related discussion over the years and one thing stands out is that there is a strong correlation between people that think you can't use it to learn a language and people that go straight through the course, reach the end, and stop.

Anyway, it has its flaws, and is far from perfect, but I can't imagine having a better product that does not come with a fee.
>How should I keep my links working?

Build functionality that lets you mass-update all scihub links across your site, and manually update it whenever a domain goes down

Or link to .onion versions (and a link to TOR)

Or stop linking
Does it mean it will be possible to use EdgeDB with hosted Postgres databases, like RDS and maybe Amazon Aurora (on Postgres mode)?
Looks interesting. I think I'd have to be a lot more dedicated to that, and need some other resource for learning grammar, vocabulary, and testing complete sentences.

The nice thing about Duolingo for, say, French is that I can kind of mindlessly do it every day to keep my skills up and improve my vocabulary, and then do smaller bouts of studying using other methods to improve actual fluency.

But with Japanese, Duolingo just doesn't work very well, and just learning kanji with WaniKani would miss all of the rest of the context, so I'd need something to pair with that for learning the rest of the language. Any recommendations on good resources for learning the actual spoken language to go along with WaniKai?
China owns over half of the mines in Africa. It subsidised the infrastructure to get mined materials back to China.

That is all to say it now has extremely cheap access to any raw material it wants. Japan's super-expensive submarine sludge isn't going to make any difference.
I've seen so many pieces of safety-critical hardware BSOD at this point that I would not be at all surprised.
If that's classist then the guidelines as a whole must be classist.
No no no. Money should go to the people doing the work.
Thank you for that. I see it requires non-standard access to the OS.

What I meant was, to see Google endorsing it -- on their own site(s). Even if/where they do, obviously in its current state the app won't be functional for the average user.

Sorry, I didn't read further in before making my comment.

Regarding that, it would be useful if Google provided or enabled such a tool for the average, locked-down user to review the exact state of their Android OS (less carrier specific modifications) and updates to same.
Letter from NTSB to Tesla regarding its removal: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/HWY18FH011-Tes...
I use StartPage sometimes...just depends on how I'm feeling at the time.
I write multithreaded code all the time. I simply do not encounter the amount of "pain" that is touted as the reason things like the borrow checker need to exist. Generally, you write abstractions around synchronization and asynchronous dispatch and then just use them. C++ works on platforms like PS4, mobile devices, embedded, and more already with good support from vendor toolchains. If I use Rust, I have to use all these wrapping libraries or write my own. Yea the syntax can be pretty in some ways, but I already have structured bindings in C++17 and a whole bunch of other things I can do.
I find the new design noisy and distracting.
You're right, perhaps the worst headline ever, the company actually wants to do the opposite:

"Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone" – TechCrunch at: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/08/meet-the-tech-company-that...

The Time's editor should be ashamed.
It does not; Apple does not allow code execution outside of its app store.
"The world’s first electrified road that recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it".

Well, that's a buss.

Jokes aside, the concept is quite old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus#History

Not easy to disengage though.
Also too much animation. Material Design has accessibility problems for motion sensitivity.
The difference is domain knowledge, it takes time. You might feel that way about kernel because the high level concept of resource management is pervasive in programming. So you might feel you can easily dive into it, but it will take you equally long to say port the kernel to a new architecture/write drivers for a new platform.
Run a meetup group. There are/were 2 guys who ran the Ruby on Rails meetup group in Houston, and were constantly being asked by companies who were trying to look for RoR devs to hire but would often just ask them to do short-term work. I think their abandoning the group now....but someone should snatch up the opportunity.
I found TinyCards to be good for some things, like drilling on kana, but I find that the extra context provided with full sentences and different types of exercises in Duolingo to be better long term. But maybe I haven't found the right card decks in TinyCards yet.
I realize you're not the same person, but I'd still like to find out if people are against racial purity or eugenics for a real reason or just "because Nazis". The whole idea of eugenics is to reduce genetic diseases and suffering. Surely, if diseased children started to appear, the same program would stop them from reproducing and spreading it. Low intelligence humans already have considerable suffering too because modern economies don't have much use for them so they often live in poverty. Wouldn't it be nice to prevent that suffering by making them smarter?

Indigenous people all over the world had racial purity before contact with outsiders. Is that a bad thing? Is it good that native Americans are essentially extinct by interbreeding? Should Americans try to mix their black and white people to reduce the racial purity of both, or is the current state of a little bit of mixing already the perfect balance? In that case, Japan, which is very racially homogeneous, must be suffering from too much racial purity and we should try to impose interbreeding on them for their own good.
PayPal has changed a lot. Back when my parents sold thousands of items on eBay, PayPal would screw them over many many times, and not just with disputes - PayPal often locked funds for months without cause.

It is fairly easy to find out what PayPal used to be like when Musk ran it - just ask some older eBay sellers.
From your link:

The only tax analyzed here is the federal individual income tax, which is responsible for more than 25 percent of the nation’s taxes paid (at all levels of government). Federal income taxes are much more progressive than federal payroll taxes, which are responsible for about 20 percent of all taxes paid (at all levels of government), and are more progressive than most state and local taxes.
Insurance contracts also often include "most favored nation" provisions or equivalent, where any discount you give other people must also be given to the insurance company.

This is also why commercial/retail space will generally negotiate on almost anything but the rent per square foot, since if they lower that, all the other tenants will immediately demand lower rent.
People misuse it a lot. Sometimes they're implying that if you can only find a handful of counterexamples, then you're showing how strong the rule is overall. Sometimes they're just spewing nonsense.

The original meaning goes like this: an exception of "if it's Thursday, you're allowed to have a brownie" proves/implies a rule of "no brownies"
> "Sounds cruel, but why not (a) train the bird to select the magnet, then (b) remove beak and check if it can still do the trick, or (c) remove eyes and see if it can still do the trick."

It sounds cruel because it is cruel.

Reminds me of this quote from Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"[0]:

Tell me yourself, I challenge your answer. Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature ... and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.

[0] http://www.bluffton.edu/homepages/facstaff/bergerd/classes/L...
I agree on the ideal of extra jurisdictional non-interference, but I consider it an ideal. Realistically, a global intercommunication network involves risks. Risks that people should have the chance to manage.

When companies and governments take away the freedom of self-determination from people, then the question becomes more complex.

This is why, despite agreeing with the moral stance, I believe that Google has been put in a difficult position, and do not need a priori defence.

Freedom of information is an important issue, but I prefer to turn my attention to less controversial actors.
Self driving cars. Would love to just take a nap in the back, that's all.
Wow, so do I understand right, that in USA you don't know the cost of medicine before buying them? What's the reasoning behind that?
Esp32 already out, right?
>I can’t help but be amused at the way people fear cell phone towers but love wireless charging devices

how do you know they're not a disjoint set?
I mentioned search history because it's one example where we can prove the archive doesn't export all your information. Because it's visible in the UI if you know where to look.

Presumably the same is true for likes on posts/shares, a major feed training signal. (Find the old post, it will still show that you liked it, but post likes are not in your archive.)

But yeah, then there's the darknet of data they've gathered on you that isn't visible in any UI.
That would make a lot of sense. Wonder why a lot were skipped.
> then they sell the models, or the results of the models

Meh, the models will be worthless in a few months, and that is if they aren't already worthless right now.

All those black boxes with magic coefficients from inputs to outputs are inherently unmaintainable. Toss them a black swan, and it all goes pear-shaped.
Are you suggesting that the error rate of type checkers, verified or not, is even in the same ballpark as the error rate of human reviewers?

If I care so much about system correctness that I do the insane amount of work that is formal verification (just look at how many man years sel4 consumed!), I don't write C or C++ at all, I use Spark. There is a reason why you can count the number of formally verified kernels on the fingers of one hand, and it's not because everybody tries to use C++ instead of C.
You can expect that the NASA did true 4K without blur and at a good zoom level...
Not OP, but I'm familiar with a couple primary care providers that don't file insurance claims. It's refreshing to see up-front pricing on their website for services they offer, e.g.: https://www.palmettoproactive.com/services-pricing
Birds measure magnetic fields using quantum coherence
While I enjoy the story, I find it hard to believe a second could provide any useful advantage.
Cool, but it's yet another case of re-engineering the same thing. (edit: its not entirely new).

Splitting editors into an abstracted structure for finer control over data and presentation is something that's been done for a decade now in various text editors. Medium and Basecamp started similar projects and there's Mobiledoc which is trying to standardize the format. It'd be nice if all this effort focused on a single project so we could all just get a decent editor instead of different versions with various states of functionality.

FYI, my running list of editors: https://gist.github.com/manigandham/65543a0bc2bf7006a487
Seneca the Younger
Facebook doesn't and has never sold data. It has a free developer platform that has been reduced over time to almost nothing and it has ad products where it uses the data it has to deliver ads to people that match criteria.
I don't think you know what actual safety-critical hardware is if you are running Windows or even Linux on it...
Depending on the market you can save millions in production picking a cheaper, less powerful mcu. Sure it takes some extra work to squeeze in more features in less flash and every cycle counts, but on runs of millions of devices, this is easily paid back by the extra profits.
Nice resources. I should probably elaborate on my actual study methods:

- Vocabulary study with Anki

- Kanji study (RTK order) with a script that shows vocab on my desktop

- Grammar study via Tae Kim

- Listening practice with regular consumption of Japanese music & television

- Reading/writing practice by engaging in Japanese discussions on Mastodon, IRC, 2channel

- Reading practice with Japanese manga and novels

- Regular meetups with friends (native speakers) IRL

- Translating anime and manga from Japanese to English

Soon I'd like to start blogging in Japanese, too, but that's a lot of work. Can also recommend jisho.org as the best Japanese/English dictionary on the web, and djt's bunpou guide as a deep grammar reference resource.
I still confused about SEO.

my link

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ACC is a different feature that exists separately: it does not touch the steering.
The short version is that Anki’s spaced repetition is very good for retaining and learning vocabulary.

My background is that I’ve used it while studying Korean. I’m at about 2,000 korean words now, of which Anki has helped me a lot. Each day I review 50 words and add 20 new ones. It sucks but it works.

As you see new words in reading material, etc, you can add it to Anki. That’s supposed to be how it’s done, but there are premade decks also.

The real beauty lies in anki’s customization. You can add pictures or custom fields and style them. You can reverse the deck so you’re seeing one side or the other when reviewing.

Anki is NOT helpful with a word’s context if you don’t know it or don’t add sample sentences. Which is why people recommend building your own deck over time by reading short stories or news, etc, and adding every word you don’t know, rather than using a premade 5k word deck.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Perhaps that's because they have too many words?

If you look at some of the core languages like German the course has a 'words' tab and it shows you exactly how strong it thinks you know each word and when you saw each word last.

It could be different between languages, and who knows how well it works.. but it's definitely something they seem to be working on and putting thought into.
I'd find completely awesome if it weren't for tools aimed at killing people. I'm not sure I enjoy advances in that area.
Google is lying to you with their activity controls
I use this to stop Google from tracking me https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity , I just did this to see what information Google is gathering on me. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout. As it turns out they don't match and Google is lying to us all.

To start I keep my Google Gmail clean and the "All Mail" box continually empty. But turns out Google has kept my email for the last 6 months without my permission. I have already requested that it be deleted thought their online tools and all my mailboxes show empty.

Moving on to browsing history I have all of my Google activity set not to track https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity , going to the site shows no activity. However looking though the logs that Google has sent me from https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout they have my complete browsing history for the last 12 months.

I am actually sickened by this as I go out of my way to protect my privacy and take all of the steps provided by Google to stop them from tracking everything I do. They are just straight up lying to people, it is disgusting.

If you have any Google account of any kind then the information they have on you could be a treasure trove, the damage someone could do to a public figure with this type of information would be huge.
These dumps of all the stuff that is in the service about you is super dangerous. If they get your account they can then download everything you have ever posted almost effortlessly. I can imagine these will be on sale in the dark web.
Indeed, it's almost the opposite!

> > Boundless Mind’s business model is to develop new versions of the same persuasive tools, combined with machine learning, that big tech firms already use–and then to sell them to nonprofits and companies promoting education, health or social welfare.
>Linkedin is worse than Facebook in terms of privacy.

And that sucks since it's hard to have a professional life w/o one. I've known women who were stalked/harassed because despite otherwise being pretty locked down their harassers found their linkedin and used that to harangue them.
Yes it is from Gunshow, and that isn't the full comic. It's even better when you see the whole thing:
http://gunshowcomic.com/648
It can be, though most forums comment systems could use HN/Reddit like threading. Paging and paging and having to have the reply blocks can be terrible, especially in long ones where they splinter into different conversations.
Most definitely credit agencies first. https://blog.nils.digital/gelvora-data-breach-and-your-perso...
An omnipresent underlying sense of anxiety and rage caused by something or other in my past that is useful for work but not useful for building relationships!
It kind of feels inevitable in America, but Goldman Sachs analysts questioned the wisdom of using gene therapy to cure people - because that cuts off pharmaceutical companies from a steady income stream keeping them alive through selling them drugs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...
Who is "we?" :)
a much better question would be "who in congress was responsible for our not being able to crate modern public healthcare system?"

The answer is certainly not the liberal/progressive wing of the Democratic party.

The existing policy is a compromise that liberals signed off on to improve the conditions of the worst off, but they were not able to create the kind of conceptually coherent total overhaul we would require to make the system rational.

I agree with you that blaming Obama for a failure of leadership in this situation is borderline absurd, but it's a simple narrative that is easy to regurgitate in a complex, frustrating world, so we have to forgive people for believing it, to some extent.
> What will happen?

If you happen to have subpoena power or can otherwise legally compel the engineer to cooperate, then what will happen is that they lose their seat at the table and get downgraded to a code-monkey that gets called in as needed. "What that this widget do?", "It increments the frobbs. The thinking at the -" "That is all we need to know, thank you for your time. You are free to leave."

And not to mention, you are the engineering board and your report on this project will have a direct impact on whether they can continue to practice as an engineer.
Not to discount the significance of providing new treatments for things like malaria and sleeping sickness, but that's a pretty different category of problem altogether. The model described in that article is aimed at solving a different issue: providing medications for treating illnesses that are largely (though not exclusively) found in the developing world, and for which there is little investment from existing pharmaceutical R&D centers[0]. By contrast, Hepatitis C is the most deadly infectious disease in the US (and is comparably bad in Europe - arguably worse, actually due to inferior treatment options at the moment compared to the US).

The cure for Hepatitis C came from a US-based company, out of research conducted on US patients and funded largely by the US pharmaceutical market. You wouldn't see groups like the DNDi tackling that kind of work, because they have vastly fewer resources than larger players do, and they ultimately wouldn't be able to compete, nor would they be able to establish distribution in the markets where they would need to have an impact[1].

Now that chronic Hepatitis C is a curable[2] disease, it's not surprising that other players will focus on providing cheaper alternatives to the treatment course, but again, that's a different problem from what the large pharmaceutical companies in the US and Europe solve.

[0] The US is the largest of these, producing half of the world's R&D medical and pharmaceutical research, and Europe is another hub. China and India are the fastest growing, but have only been players on this scale in the last few years.

[1] Producing the medication is, in some ways, the "easy" part - actually ensuring that it reaches the patients who need it is the really difficult part, and honestly the more impressive aspect of DNDi's sort of work.

[2] Expensive, but curable
Would it be possible to detect an industrial civ. in the geological record?
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Facebook is the perfect company to take all the heat. Mainly because Mark Zuckerberg is such an icon.

https://hackernoon.com/why-facebook-is-the-perfect-represent...
Agreed. I speak Portuguese fluently as a second language, and wanted to see what the Duolingo material was like. First warning sign: I couldn't pass the test to study intermediate content, because a significant proportion of the multiple-choice answers were just wrong. Then, looking at the beginner content, a shocking number of answers were wrong as well. It was kind of funny, since each piece of material had user comments associated, you'd see 70+ comments from people all complaining about wrong answers.

That immediately destroyed any trust with them. When you put out educational material, it has to be correct. That has to be the foundation.
> I was little disappointed when I didn't hear intense dialup-modem-like sounds encoding data I'm the midrange

Me too(although of course cool nonetheless). For dubstep to fulfill it's "alien communication" meme we need that.
> Equifax also owns a company called theworknumber, which your employer voluntarily provides with salary information.

For clarification, this is a give-and-take situation and only applicable if your employer subscribes to this service. If they want to request salary history for new hires, they need to provide salary history for old ones.

Most small businesses don't, but if you contract through a staffing agency, those do.
"a generic will be substituted for a brand name drug"

We had a similar corruption here, in Lithuania, until the law has been passed that pharmacist must offer a generic alternative. But there again, world is seen very differently in EU than USA, so I don't expect that to apply on the other side of the pond.
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