skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the cynicism. The article leads with a concrete example of technology working and producing better outcomes.

I have no doubt that having a human coach is a big win and results in better outcomes, if you get a good one. One of the opportunities the tech can present is the ability to augment a good coach so that they can effectively help hundreds more students. I bet some teachers/coaches are bad enough that software without a coach would be superior.

One thing the tech industry has proven to be great at is getting users addicted to things, I have to wonder, why aren't we seeing apps that get kids addicted to something they actually learn from? (My best guess is there just isn't enough money in the space to attract the best tech talent.)

No disrespect intended to teachers, but a lot of times when they get involved in the discussion they keep going back to "that's why you need to have a good teacher who teaches correctly," and that's completely true, but the problem is, there aren't enough of them, and there may never be.

To me it always feels like there's a lot of entrenched and regressive thinking in this discussion, well the reality is that Facebook owns the attention of millions of kids in the developing world now. The educators, the NGOs, etc. already lost the war. The kids are Facebooking instead of doing their homework. These people consistently applied the tech in dumb ways and Facebook won because they were smart. This lesson is a bitter pill but it needs to be swallowed.
In practice, as the previous poster pointed out, Imperial numbers are rational, not real. You wouldn’t normally experience ‘3.7’ feet.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not a proponent of the Imperial system (for instance, calculating prices for groceries is painful). I am just pointing out that the metric system doesn’t take into account many Human use cases (Base-10 isn’t great for Humans). It was a system forced upon people by an ‘ivory tower’, and consistent with US philosophy, it makes sense that they rejected it.
3.0 is a huge milestone for vue.

Currently the architecture forces you to import the Vue object entirely , has Vue under the hood isn't really modular...

With 3.0 Vue has taken the typescript way and is using packages , similar to angular , it looks absolutely awesome to work with now.

I really hope class based components will be supported natively without compiling or transpiling.

Working "out of the box" has always been part of Vue philosophy , I really hope this continue.

This is really a big release , but it's still sad to see the 3.0-alpha branch is not visible on GitHub , i really would have loved to have a look at it.
Maybe it's the constant React vs Vue articles that make me suspicious, but if you are referring to React when mentioning webpack / transliteration, i'd like to mention that you don't need them for React neither. It can be resumed to a simple script tag as well.

I hate this misconception and wish it would just go away.
That's a look of purely holistic vision of the world, "collection of parts" is not included.
They should have abandoned much earlier. A few weeks into that project they should have been getting their first results from swabs of tears back from the lab. Thats the point at which they could see that glucose levels would be low, hard to measure, and with low correlation to blood glucose.
Vodafone Spain blocks the use of Cloudflare DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
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At least in Greece, where the fleet is in general older than other more developed countries, the steep decline in the last few years can be attributed to price (taxes mostly).

I remember when I got my license around 2008 everybody was freaking out in the idea that the price would approach 1 euro per litre. Now after years of recession the price casually goes to 1.80 especially in the islands. So people just drive less and also more reasonably (not fast accelerations, showing off etc.). A welcome side effect is the big reduction in road accidents.
Same.

Curiously after you asked me this I also tested my trackpad a bit more and it turns out that if I go slowly from off the trackpad onto the trackpad it doesn't register the touch at all.

Not sure if that's some kind of feature intended to prevent accidental touches or a bug. Never noticed it before in my ~7 months of use.
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It's hit and miss. At work I'm running a lubuntu install from 2012 that flawlessly upgraded up until now, sometimes skipping releases, sometimes not, switching desktop environment and window managers a few times along the way. Arch Linux on the other hand always has some minor breakage every now and then. Not with the package manager, but just something about the system being broken.
Actually, the majority of hospitals and trusts had little to no infections in that attack, obviously some (too many) did which is why it was bad news. But the NHS, in IT terms, currently operates as a disparate set of trusts with mostly their own IT systems. The reason that there was the level of infection there was, was due to lack of national IT standards/systems being enforced and trusts using outdated unpatched systems. The few national systems in use are, while not perfect, much better funded, updated and secured.
> Who actually decided that metric was the right answer?

People who wanted actual definition of units.

Once upon a time if you wanted to sell stuff in my home City you would need to use the city measurements made via a really big stone tablet in the old roman center with various units of lengths.

This was hard to communicate and stuff.

The French decided that one unit of measurement was better than many and made one "easy" (possible) to replicate and validate when the imperial one still used medium sized wheat seeds as measure of pressure.

But now everything is ultimately standardized on the metric system (even the US).

So one need to ask better at what? Better to standardize? Metric no doubt. Better to use? Well this appears to be controversial
I have gone there when the place was half empty and told there would be a 20 minute wait, which turned into 40. The hostess told me I needed to download an app to check in for a table. I can go further but I am surprised that place is actually still in business, it has terrible customer service and mediocre over salted food.
I would strongly recommend against anyone using Seaborn.

I used it for charts in a paper recently, since it includes swarm plots. I hit a problem when overlaying certain types of plot on the same axes (I think it was swarm plots on top of box plots, so I could show every data point as well as the quartiles). The problem was that the data would end up shifted, so the x axis labels weren't correct, even though each plot on its own would work fine when the other was commented-out. The only reason I noticed this was because I spotted that a peak I knew occurred at x=13 was showing up at x=14.

Although it took a specific set of circumstances to trigger, I thought this was still a serious problem since it causes data to be misrepresented, and it doesn't cause any warning, etc. that something is wrong. I made a minimal example script, opened a github issue ( https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/issues/1409 ), where the library author insulted me and locked the issue. I sent them a followup email, to explain that I was not after "free tech support" (I'd already worked around the issue for my paper by 'faking' the labels), I wanted to help improve the library so that others would avoid having incorrect plots (especially those not lucky enough to spot it like I was) and how I'd already spent considerable time narrowing down the problem to the minimal example, as evidence that I wasn't trying to be a freeloader. I also began my email with an apology for using this side channel, and that I wouldn't contact them again unless they consented to it. The author replied with more insults.

I didn't contact them again, as promised, but now I'm actively opposed to anyone using this project, due to the author's complete disregard for corruption of scientific data.
Spain was no different, and from what I'm seeing, I think that there will pass many years before the damage of the "little belt tightening" is undone.
If it is true local restaurant or pub you should have locals coming regularly. It means they have reservations for whole year on same time at some day. This is true for Prague pub called U Zlateho Tygra. That pub is in city center and in every turist book. Locals have booked tables all the days for whole year. Tourists can sit if locals don't appear or between 3 and 6pm before locals come.
Glad to read your comment. I believe that we create too much data to make sense of with default tracking for everything. We also hire people too readily to look at that data, the next step being that these analytics people start making unreasonable demands, in part due to how Google obfuscate how their search engine works and therefore people in the game of SEO really do not know what they are talking about.

As a consequence of this you can end up having SEO people destroying a site that is designed for humans to read as they still have quaint notions about keyword stuffing. Because these people have no real knowledge of code or the products the website hopes to sell they have a less than useful effect. They will track that one conversion and give themselves brownie points for their SEO and disregard the thousands of others who didn't get past the wall of SEO keywords to get as far as a converting page.

What surprises me is how poor the server side analytics tools are. Server logs should be great and what SEO people look at side by side with their frontend analytics. They should be doing this for basic sanity reasons, to see if the 'hits' add up or whether some slow loading pages burdened with scripts that never fire is mangling the statistics. Or even to check if some developer has 'gone rogue' and stopped the scripts being loaded on pages that matter to them.

Yet despite the obvious utility of server side tracking - not least the no cookie message - nobody is doing a good job of providing decent software for it that would pass muster with SEO types.
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970)

E. F. CODD

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Controlled disclosure. Keep the focal point of news off the Saudi-Israel paradigm.
Time to retire the Scoville index. Anything with that range is next to useless as a real measure.
He is saying that you need twelve digits to actually use base 12 and that in every base N with N>1 you write N as 10 (eg in hex 10 is A and 16 is 10)
> When cooking, I routinely need to split some quantity of an ingredient into thirds or quarters.

Why?
What was the goal of the redesign? Did anything positive come from it?
Is that really the only choice?

The UK is one of the richest countries in the world. Part of the reason for that is a long period of generally pro-business, economically conservative government. That's good in many ways, because in a modern economy, business and investment is needed to drive improvements in individual living standards.

But doing that relies on a sensible long-term strategy that can be used to achieve social goals. There is no point in cutting healthcare spending for preventative services, for example, if those cuts result in higher long-term costs. Cutting spending on disability benefits doesn't magically save money – it just transfers the cost of disability support to charities and carers, while in many cases destroying the lives of people who have worked and contributed for many years.

The thing is, when you say "a little belt tightening", this actually means that people in the UK with the lowest incomes start to suffer and in some cases die. I struggle to believe that it is good long-term economic policy to have a large share of the population struggling to afford basic essentials, while the richest demographics continue to increase their wealth.

In the most recent UK budget, I received a large tax cut despite being a relatively high earner. Indeed, UK policy seems to be continuing to shift in that direction, and the only possible reason I can see for that is a deliberate, ideological attempt to enact a policy of minimal public spending.

The UK has many economic and structural problems which could be dealt with, but it's hard to see how continuing to redistribute wealth to the richest parts of the country is going to do that. And of course we now have an entire government that will be paralysed by the economic and political aspects of Brexit for the next decade, so I guess there's no immediate chance of salvation.
This is really nice! It would be really handy if you can shortlist the words you want to revisit by a click.
>much of Europe has been victimized by the cult of "austerity"

What cult? Capital markets decided that Greece is too risky to lend money to at reasonable rate. Same happened with Spain and Italy, but they were saved by European Central Bank which became a lender of last resort and bought plenty of their bonds, driving interest rate lower.

It's not like Italy and Spain can easily tap capital markets borrowing trillions of euros at 1% interest rate, but decided not to do so because of 'cult of austerity'.
I lost mine in France when I was 21 ( got it at 18yo ), I'm 27 now and just starting again you can travel Europe quite easily the big problem where I live now is I need it more and more due to work.
I don't understand what you mean by saying that.

Do you think nobody lives in the countryside any more? Do you think the next generation will permanently live in cities? Who do you think will grow your food and look after your open spaces?

My point was the author of my parent comment probably has a very skewed view of the need for cars, if all their friends are young metropolitan professionals.

They have a blind spot to the needs of a lot of other people.
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If a middle income family gets a second and sometimes even third car that doesn't necessarily translate into a proportional increase in kilometres driven.

If enough families get additional cars that could also easily offset whatever young people are doing. It's more complex than "there are more cars, thus people giving up cars is not a trend"
This article barely mentions GWT. Is Gmail still officially a GWT app? Wappalyzer seems to think so, if not GWT by name, it identifies the programming language as Java.
Exporting reactive JS native apps for iOS and Android is the most significant feature -- was what I would have said.

I looked it up before writing this comment, and apparently Vue introduced this in June 2018. Case in point of this comment thread :)
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I don't quite get how it works. A quick search tells me that USB 3.0 indeed allows A-A crossover cables to connect two hosts: https://superuser.com/a/945523

...but this leaves only a single conductor to do the entire thing?
Agree, and this is why I don't recommend Linux to anyone who isn't a techie. It's just plain ugly and that's the first thing people notice. There have been improvements and exceptions here and there, but the UI sector seems so volatile that just because current GNOME or KDE look consistent and usable, I can't expect the next iteration to be good as well.

Since starting to primarily use Linux in 2008, I've consecutively moved to simpler and simpler DEs, to the point where I'm currently running i3 everywhere for about 4 years. Less ui = fewer things to fuck up.
Let me clear something: how do you count? Can you multiply 63895 by 12? By 6? By 3? By 10? This is an standard, there have been coltures where the base was 60 and they could multiply 63895 by 60 easily. But now the whole world counts in 10.

I would be happy if that number was 12 but the simple fact that we write in base ten makes it not the case (also mathematically speaking 12 is divided by a square which causes weird things)

There is nothing wrong with 12 but as long as you cannot do 63895*12 easily 10 is better
Yes, it's easy to avoid austerity by borrowing off the next generation.
Could you paste the simple script tag that makes React work without transpilation? I always thought you needed Webpack (or an equivalent) to transpile JSX into a vanilla js function the browser can interpret.

If you're referring to Create React App, it uses Webpack - just preconfigured so you don't have to fiddle with it before you start building.
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You forgot one reason not to switch from 2 to 3: Zero benefit. Nothing python 3 does would benefit my scripts to any extend over just using python 2 as I always did. Is learning 3 a huge hurdle? No, it is however in some cases completely unnecessary.
It was already wrecked and heading for a cliff.

Austerity brings the cliff closer and reduces it's height.

You'll notice the fall and blame austerity but it's better than the alternative.
Recipes in cups are one thing I cannot understand, I do have a scale, I can measure everything with that
Something like this? https://gist.github.com/gaearon/6668a1f6986742109c00a581ce70...
And yet many of them know more about the rules applying to cycling than most drivers. A cyclist rolling through a red light is fully aware of its meaning, licence or not. Many drivers who cut off a cyclist while turning however seem to have a deeply rooted misbelief that somehow a turning car would have precedence over a cyclist going straight. The licensing requirement is surprisingly ineffective.
The ECB has printed €2.4 trillion since 2015 and very little of that has gone to Greece, Italy or Spain. The tap was turned off for Greece by the EU when they refused to help them with debt (mostly owed to German banks) - this was a political decision, as was that to impose stringent austerity on Greece, on people who could not afford it (pensioners etc). It didn't have to happen that way, it was a deliberate choice.

This had nothing to do with free markets (which really are not very free, they are massively impacted by central bank actions).
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I'd love if you'd have something in Turkish.

Great job!
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Are the voices backwards for anyone else? English sentences are read (unintelligibly) in a French voice and vice versa.
http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=f727d42f-7649-49b0-b583-99bb9...
Exactly my thoughts :)

Also: the F22 datalinks are incompatible and can not easily interoperate with the F35 ones. That problem sound familiar too.
Open Tweaks, "Keyboard & Mouse" tab, enable Emacs Input. Now you get Ctrl-W in text fields and other shortcuts from Emacs. Doesn't quite work in Firefox though, which has a lot of conflicting shortcuts.
None of what you said makes any sense to anyone but a philosopher and has no value in the real world.
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>research teams

Lol. Writing JS libs is not research.
Well as someone else commented, the source material is likely from Project Gutenberg, so a long out of copyright translation is perhaps expected.

On the other hand, Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries, so I think it enhances reading Don Quixote for the translation to use early modern English - e.g. "Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath".
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They move to the city. I wonder how much of that gasoline use reduction is simply a consequence of ever higher urbanisation.
Neat idea. I would add ability to build own dictionary.
Usually you don't test a single change before merging, but branch from master, merge any number of changes and then run the tests. So the master branch would move forward every 20-30 hours in this case, unless the tests of a merge batch fail, in which case master would kinda stall for a bit.
This depends on the country you're in. If you're living in a large city such as London, Berlin or Paris -- sure.

But try living in Belgium, a bit more rural Germany or the Netherlands (perhaps with the exception of Amsterdam) and things are definitely less accessible if you want to get out of the city for a bit.
I did something similar for Chinese! Mandarin (Traditional & Simplified), Taiwanese, Cantonese, and Hakka.

https://pingtype.github.io

Sorry that the user interface is so bad, please just try clicking some items in the heading row to see what's there.
That’s without JSX. Transpilation is required in order to make use of JSX.
Thanks for the response. I forgot to mention that the Make/CI jobs are run on a Slurm HPC cluster (actually multiple since the CI file uses runners running in multiple Slurm clusters for different resources). Make ensures we don’t redo stuff unless needed.

Point taken about restarts, but I usually want to see why a thing fails before retrying.

It seems like Pachyderm mainly offers better granularity, especially for the data management.
I tried making a beta version of Pingtype (Chinese/English parallel) for Japanese, but haven't figured out word spacing yet. Could you help?
My feeling is that most people who use Vue or React only need a template engine. Typical use case: You have an array of objects and a template how each object should look like.

So you do...

<div id=users>
<a v-for="user in users" :href="'user/'+user.id">
{{ user.name }}
</a>
</div>

<script>
let userList = new Vue({
el : '#users',
data: { users: users }
})
</script>

...to make Vue render the list of objects.

This is the only thing I ever use these frameworks for. Everything else I think I can implement in a better, leaner way myself. So I wonder if I should switch to a template engine instead.

What is the next most basic/common usecase for Vue?
No, I meant simply adding a tag and using react directly, in any context. That's how it was originally designed, btw. It wasn't meant only for SPAs when it was conceived, but as an addon to existing websites.

The other comment gives a perfect example and there are a few tutorials (although I do agree not very mainstream) that teach React without JSX/Webpack/Babel/etc.

edit: You are correct that you need transpilation for JSX but you don't need JSX for React. The confusion of JSX/React sounds eerily similar to how newbies confused jQuery for JS.
While Singapore public transport is good and taxis are reliable, they also make it very expensive for people to own a car, and the total number is restricted.

See here for numbers: https://dollarsandsense.sg/complete-guide-buying-car-singapo...

Their example car worth 50'000S$ (~36'000 USD) will end up costing 160'000S$ (116'000 USD) total.
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In general I like games that are a good/interesting/fun abstraction of reality. This normally implies interesting mechanics and sugestive graphics. I normally prefer simulations, rpg, strategy and rogues. But never too realistic, unrelevant details should be wiped away, as an extreme example, what's the point of playing an ultra realistic simulator of a restaurant? It would be better to get a job doing that and earn some money.

Note also that I don't consider myself a gamer, I only play occasionally.

Yes, modern indie games are the only modern games I play.
I thought it was a different distro?
Right now I'm using several different distros on a fairly regular basis (all debian based but I'd like to do an Arch Linux build just to learn more). I still have to open the command line constantly, even on Ubuntu. Just the other day I had to do a .tar.xz manually.
>It didn't have to happen that way, it was a deliberate choice.

What was the other choice? ECB printing money and lending it to Greece fully knowing it will be never paid back?
cool, thanks for the info. I'll give it a try... :)
Great idea!

But being native Spanish speaker... No Spanish as source language but many texts with Spanish as language to learn?

Shouldn't be the same texts but viceversa?