skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the hardest parts of learning a language is just that building enough vocabulary so you can start stumbling your way through speaking it. Duolingo, Drops and similar are never going to be "the one tool" that you need. But they are a useful way of building some of that initial knowledge to then start reading (childrens books), having horrifically slow bad conversations, and the other things that allow you to learn the language.
Hello, creator here!

Now, everything is almost digital: most of the time, no more books, CDs, DVDs library. I miss the time when I went to my friend' home and see what they watched / read...

I would love to know how do you manage your library? How do you share the content you like with your friend? I mean not ephemeral twitter content. The durable lovable one!
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But the point of the comment being responded to--which I also think is a very important point that it feels like you missed--is this isn't some new issue, caused by computers.

Zeitgeist: panic, "the concept of truth is being destroyed by advancements in computers!!!"

OP: sigh, "no... you have always been able to trick people, such as with audio, using a trained voice actor"

You: "but, even with audio, you can also trick people with fancy new computers!"

Me: ?!?
I don't know. It seems to me like we keep getting better at making the system more resilient. Disasters seem to be less problematic now than when I was a child. Even regional disasters get aid brought in on a scale that simply wasn't possible when I was a child.

As an adult, I've witnessed disasters routinely get remedied quicker, better etc than predicted. And we are incredibly meh about it.

Y2K was supposed to be a global financial disaster. It gets remembered like "Ha! Can you imagine those dummies stocked their basements with 5 years of flour like this was supposed to be a disaster?!"

When Iraq set Kuwaiti oil wells on fire, it was predicted that they would burn for years and be a global environmental disaster. Instead, crack teams from around the world converged on the country and invented new techniques to resolve it. They were all out in six months, with essentially no fanfare for this miracle.

Afterwards, the desert bloomed from the combination of fertilizer (soot from the fires) and water (from putting them out) like no one had seen in twenty years. That was also given no fanfare.

I'm in no position to do disaster prep. My life is an ongoing disaster and crisis management is all I can arrange for myself currently. But I also mostly just don't really see unmitigated disasters in the news of the sort that were the norm in my childhood.

Instead, I often see "Disaster In The News! Prediction: 200k Will Die!!!" Follow up: "200 people died. Meh. On to more exciting News."
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>I would be surprised if a human without 99% of their brain could function normally in society today, which requires relatively heavy higher order brain function.

We can always send them to the European Parliament ... no one will notice.
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Wow! And what do you think about this?
If you're part of a community where people do things in a similar way, like a shared culture, you will discover pain points that aren't adressed by anyone, that you can solve for yourself, and if it works for you and you're not too exotic in the way you work (that's the side effect of a shared culture), chances are that it works for others as well.

So you validate it based on adressing your own pain points. The worst case scenario is that you were wrong about the exoticness of your workflow, or the actual size of your community and culture, and keep being the only user. But it's still not a failure if it helps you with your main work.
I am more surprised Apple doesnt invest in their own Unix utils packages honestly. Its not like they dont have the money to do so.
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Yeah, I do Android dev like 25% of my time and I don't use the emulator. The downside is my desk is cluttered with Android devices for testing.

Now IntelliJ... well, I think they only develop on NVMe SSDs. Android Studio works fine on my mbpro with the insanely fast proprietary SSD, but on my desktop with a SATA SSD the code completion takes ages to show up. Usually after I'm done typing whatever I needed completed.

Never got around to learning iOS development so I can't talk about their tools. In spite of my personal phone being iOS :)
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Do you fetch them manually or with parser?
This is what i have been looking for!
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Mortality rate is compared against recoveries, not confirmed cases. Your figure is wrong.
I don't think gender has the same statistics relevance issue, because the distribution is more uniform across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Edit: to clarify, I am not debating wether or not the gender and racial "issue" should be highlighted in the survey, just that the racial stats as they are are not statistically relevant to draw conclusions (at least in non US countries).
Take care if you use a 3rd party build service, like with phonegap (may it die in a fire). The arm packages you get from that won't work in the iOS simulator, which needs a special x86 build.
Thank you! :) I did it myself.
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Rumour is that's coming in March, but it's likely to be iPhone 6 sized rather than iPhone 5 sized, which is a pity.
Ubuntu was also making money via an affiliate tag for all purchases. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/565746/why-does-the-latest-b...
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However, on iOS you can turn off all notifications easily from the control center. Or more exactly, each app has to ask for permission to send you notifications on first start and you can just deny them there.

If you don't want notifications, iOS is much better.
Not really. Long-form things that I want to read later, I put into Pocket [0]. Everything else I don't bookmark, I can just search for it later, or it's lost forever like tears in rain.

0: https://getpocket.com/
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Me too!

Are you a developer btw? What language?
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Mine's at https://aurbano.eu

Started it years ago as a WordPress site, then Jekyll and now a Hugo generated blog.

I really want to start spending more time putting things in there, for me if anything, as a living repository of the things I do...

I do agree that one thing we seem to be losing is the "blogroll" concept, where people would link to blogs of friends, or recommended websites. We should start doing that again - I've got a task for my website now!
A recent paper found that people who endorsed cynical beliefs were more likely to be treated disrespectfully by others: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/th...
I'm glad to see this point being made fairly often.

I see the "base reality" debate in a similar situation. Base reality could be the same thing as a religion, where the "god" is the system operator [1]. That way, you are "only" as scared of multiple levels of reality as you are of religion. But perhaps more importantly, that way you have 2000+ years of debate and reflection on the topic.

[1] Not my idea.
i think that bookmarks will solve search. see my thoughts here: https://www.pythondashboard.com/articles/2020-01-23-search.h...

apologies for site not being done yet and article not fully fleshed out. but the topic has come back many times now that i think i needed to share what i thought about it.

to answer your question: we need to share and distribute our bookmarks in GitHub. it works for developers because our search queries are keyword-based.

pocket, pinboard.in, etc. don't work because they feel like "todo" lists.
Paywalled link.

Every other history piece I've read said Xerox got a good chunk of Apple shares in exchange for them using their research. Perhaps they decided it isn't enough when they saw Apple was successful and sued for more money?
Illinois has very powerful unions that have driven the state into insane total tax burden and near-brankruotcy. Even on the ritzy North Shore of Chicago the real estate prices are below 2008 levels as businesses, jobs, and normal people flee the state.
Same here. I think there is a lot of room for growth in tech based language learning.
Remember exactly same thing happening to me some 18-19 years ago lol! It was in the time when mice still had balls, so the reading sensor got blinded by sunlight in at least one direction - sometimes mouse won't work at all, sometimes would but only on X or only on Y axis. Fix: install window shutters.
>I'm guessing below 5%, but I think this level of preparedness would be a good goal for most people who can afford it.

I never understood this attitude (very common in the US popular culture for one), or the same idea about stocking food, utilities, ammo and such, and taking of to some kind of bunker for emergency scenarios (from a storm, to "when the government comes", to the zombie apocalypse or similar).

While it's prudent to be prepared as a family, it's even more prudent (and it's always missing even as a though from such descriptions, posts, etc) to push and make sure your country/city/community is prepared.

It's the complacent "everyman for themselves" mentality I don't understand.

And with such a mindset, most of these "everyman for themselves" won't last a day. They'd have their stuff stolen, or even be killed, by people with more guns and larger teams. That you have guns yourself wont matter much, they'll have more, or smoke you out, or kill you from afar when you're not aware they're even watching you, or any other such technique.

If the prevalent idea for making it safe, is going at it alone (as a single person or family unit), then others will be all for themselves too, and if they can get ahead by screwing you, they will. Harder for them to do so when a community works together and shares their preparations.
congrats Tomte, you finally got it to the front page:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=paintingstufftolookli...
Here's mine, built using Jekyll, hosted on BitBucket and deployed by Netlify:

https://heiswayi.nrird.com
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I couldn’t believe I couldn’t access Wikipedia when I was in Turkey. If Wikipedia is blocked, how many other sites are blocked?
You could just bookmark everything, and use tags for specific categories.

Maybe add a 'ril' tag for every thing you want to read later, no tags for generic queue of things to look at, 'archive' for things you want to keep, etc.
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Great. Getting rid of that app was one of the first things I would do on a fresh Ubuntu installation.
Lordy - I've built so many over the years! Almost all I've learned about coding (since 1990s) has been through playing with personal sites. I'm currently rewriting my poetry site[1][2] from scratch with new tech, and will be documenting the process on my (resurrected) learning blog[3].

I also built some sites to 'advertise' my Javascript library[4] - but given that nobody in the world uses the library (or if they do, they're not telling me about it) I consider this, too, to be a personal site.

My other big project - building a whole constructed world with maps, languages, histories, etc[5][6][7] - is so 'out there' that I consider it to be "uber-personal" ... and yet this is the site which has led to many of my most important learning experiences (from building databases to designing alien fonts). It's also the site that got me into coding in the first place: if it hadn't been my massive desire to showcase my mad world to the dozen other people in the real world who might be interested in it, I would never have thought about becoming a professional web coder!

[1] - current poetry site - http://rikweb.org.uk/rikverse2012/
[2] - new poetry site (very much under construction!) - http://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
[3] - learning blog - https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/

[4] - Scrawl-canvas library homepage - http://scrawl.rikweb.org.uk/

[5] - Kalieda Encyclopaedia (main site) - http://rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/index.php
[6] - (incompleted) Beta site for the Gevey language - http://gevey.rikweb.org.uk/
[7] - (incompleted) Beta site for the Ewlah Lands (maps!) - http://lands.rikweb.org.uk/
There might be more studies out there but I've come across this one a few times (It has an unsafe browser warning, but I think it's fine):

https://static.duolingo.com/s3/DuolingoReport_Final.pdf

A few notes about it though:

1. It was funded by Duolingo but carried out by an outside team of academics. I can't judge how much this impacted their analysis.

2. No control group, which isn't very promising for the rest of the methodology.

3. More time spent using Duolingo did seem to result in higher improvement

4. Lot of dropouts, some participants excluded for taking up courses. They tried to control for 'outside resources' like watching movies in Spanish but it's unclear if that problem was really solved.

5. Novices of the language learned the most. Makes sense, as Duolingo focuses a lot of vocabulary and basic sentence construction

Personally I'm using Duoling to learn Italian, and I find that I am definitely learning, especially in terms of conversational phrases and vocabulary.

However, I've learned a few other languages by immersion, and this is going much, much slower. I'm 99% sure I would learn more by moving in with an Italian family or by consuming all my media in Italian, instead of Duolingo. For now, Duolingo is a nice compromise, and I accept that I'll learn a limited amount from it.
If the link has any value then I will put them in an internal wiki along with the details on why they are interesting.

This makes them easy to find again at any later time due to mediawiki's excellent built-in search facilities.
I use Notion for this kind of stuff. Free, crossplatform and easy to operate
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I use a self-hosted wallabag for long-form articles that I want to get back to or are part of a particular string of research and it ensures I can always read it even if it disappears.

Bookmark wise I mostly just use the standard bookmark manager. I have considered a self-hosted syncing mechanism but I only have a few hundred bookmarks, it is stuff I use.
Drop the word Cognitive it sounds douchy.
What I’ve found is that it really doesn’t matter which tool you use. There’s many options that will allow you to manage your bookmarks, consider a simple txt file.

The challenging bit is providing a sound enough structure so every item finds a place almost organically. If it’s a simple list then it can take a while to find a specific entry and if it’s too categorised you’ll run into a similar problem. I like to use trees with symlinks.
I would guess that low-income families go to the library to use the computers or wifi.

Possibly even for IT classes - especially the older generations
Mine is https://www.2uo.de

Not much to see, yet, but there's actually some content not linked from the front page.
Looks promising, metrics and measuring the work correctly is a must have in a good team.
If you're using duolingo, its probably because you dont have an opportunity anywhere else to use that language. In that circumstance, I don't know that duolingo is any worse than any other method of learning. However you're learning a language, however, you're going to have to get out and use it with other humans at some point.
So you think the Chinese government has put 50 million people into lockdown just to dramatise the situation for some sort of media beat up?

If we are lucky the problem is not as bad as it appears, but so far nothing I have seen suggests this is anything other than very, very serious.
You didn't but I remember a case where Linux's devs got bitten by gcc which did it..
Not very good for vocab either.

Duolingo is a feel good tool - it makes you feel like your learning, perhaps quickly, without really learning anything.

For example, it uses multiple choice questions. Presented with a word (ananas), it then shows a few pictures (apples, bananas, pineapples and pears, for example). You incorrectly choose 'bananas', because really who wouldn't, and the pineapple lights up in green.

This method is really at odds with the 'best' ways to learn. If your recall is dependent on contextual cues, you will struggle away from that context.

Additionally, the volume really isn't that great. Like a lot of 'feel-good learning' platforms, duolingo encourages consistancy over volume. It's better to study for 10 minutes a day, than for 90 minutes every sunday. That's true, but if you want to learn a language (no small feat), then even 90 minutes a week is woefully inadequate. Being conversant in multiple languages is something to be proud of, and things to be proud of tend to take substantial effort.

Vocabulary acquisition is almost the perfect problem for spaced repetition, so use anki. There's a few strategies here: english word -> foreign word, picture -> foreign word, foreign word -> foreign synonym, foreign word -> english options, english sentence -> foreign sentence.

Pronunciation is difficult at first but gets easier. Accents are tricky - they're verbal gymnastics. Its easiest if you can find a native speaker of your target language, and you should just converse with them. Don't focus on minor details, because you usually pick these up naturally over time.

Listening is easy - listen to their radio, watch their TV. Similar with reading.

But there's one thing I haven't mentioned. Grammar. You do not need to learn foreign language grammar. You'll pick it up. How often have you studied English grammar? Unless you went out of your way, probably never. You learned some basic rules in your first few years of school, but everything else you picked up.
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I used it to quickly get from close to zero to an A1 level - which enabled me to directly take an A2 levels course - instead of getting bored of a too easy one too quickly.

At least it saved me a hundred euros, but it's not a substitute for a real course and real interactions.

But later it talks helped in using more esoteric grammar that I never hear in small talk.

I'd suggest to use the website from time to time as it has some well done explanation to what is grammatically going on (the app is theory free)
Genuinely not the reason for me. I've used a Linux distro of one sort or another since 2003 and the reason was the power of the environment. Obviously since I (and hundreds of thousands of others) install popcon I've got no problem with telemetry etc. I didn't actually have any problem with them having the Amazon app in there except that it diminished my ability to do useful stuff, i.e. it wasn't a good product.

I'm not sure combined web/app/site-search is useful to me on a desktop. Desktop search is useful on its own. Web search is useful on its own and site search helps with that but combining doesn't help.

And a standalone thing to access Amazon doesn't really have utility to me.

Because I could easily edit the system to not be painful I stuck to Ubuntu.
I've worked in companies where breaking things down into subtasks was genuinely used as a tool to prevent the dev team from being overworked.
Nowadays I use Linux, because that is part of the job, that is all.

Back in the day I used Linux, because I needed UNIX clone at home to do university work, which originally used DG/UX on their servers.
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I have used it to create icons, posters, product screenshots and what not. It's really versatile.
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Rust, embedded Rust and CNC!

Tried to make it as lean and fast as possible.
I use Inoreader's "Save to Inoreader" bookmarklet which lets you tag and save the link which can be accessed across devices. Their search works well enough on the saved links and they have a very generous free tier.
The OP seems as if he understood that, but his argument is that this new technology makes the costs significantly lower. The lowering of cost has a strong impact in itself.

In other words, almost no one would have bothered seeking out and then paying a talented individual with a somewhat uncommon skill in the vast majority of cases. Once this kind of software is available for free and packaged in such a package that almost zero effort is needed in order to achieve the same effect, a significantly higher number of people will do it.

So something important has changed. I agree that the alarmist stance is still unwarranted, though.
A generic signal like smoke could work even when explicit search is called off.

In this specific case, broken down car has gasoline and battery and even good fuel source (foams will a lot of smoke and thanks to fire retardant will burn long), making a fire is quite trivial with such means.
It is sort of trivially true that any nonlinear model in practice can be approximated by a sufficiently complicated linear model. So yes, probably. However that is not without cost. It reduces the amount of computer time required and increases the amount of human interpretation and attention required (+ increased time to linearise the original model). On the face of it that is a questionable trade.

My anecdotes are somewhere close to the grandparent's where I'd prefer to see the heuristic method tried first before a linear model is attempted. If nothing else implementing a GA or simulated annealing algorithm is generally very cheap and debuggable in a way that moderately complicated linear models aren't. I'd guestimate that there are 5-10x more programmers who can implement a genetic algorithm than could tackle mixed integer optimisation. Debugging AMPL code is not a straightforward or satisfying experience.
Why shouldn't you be able to dismiss complaints about breaking changes with "the project uses SemVer"? That's the point of using semantic versioning in the first place.

If there are breaking changes, the major version is increased. Consumers upgrading to a new major version and not expecting breaking changes strikes me as irresponsible.
Libreoffice Present is pretty buggy. For example, sometimes clicks don't do the right thing. Also, I've had slide elements become uneditable. These bugs are really noticeable when making presentations with complex slides. Libreoffice also produced really poor kerning, poor antialising and figure quality after resizing (though perhaps this has improved since my last try).

Beamer and google slides are fine when you want bullet points or a figure. My scientific work produces lots of pictures and graphs - figure placement and labelling is really important. Animations are also sometimes necessary. Beamer, google slides and libreoffice just don't work well there.
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https://paplauskas.lt/ no js, no static site generator, all html and css written by hand. Blogging like this is so refreshing after coming home from a mile-high stack of dependencies at work :). The only part I haven't solved yet is having comments under posts in the same lean way.
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