skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! I made a similar thing for myself, but without nearly as much polish as your project [1].

I use a custom text file format to allow creation of cloze deletions and reversible cards as well as basic cards. I also annotate text files on export so that I can export the file again without creating duplicate cards.

The big shortcoming of my script is that it generates .tsv files and Anki only allows .tsv files to contain one note type. They also do not incorporate media.

I'd like to be able to sync edits made in Anki back to the text files and vice versa. It'd be really cool to integrate a text file parser and alternative card editing mode into Anki with a plugin.

Perhaps I'll send some PR's your way instead of duplicating effort.

1. https://github.com/isaiahstjohn/flashbang
So Sweden has gone almost cashless but they still have a manual process relying on embossed numbers?

In the UK embossed numbers on cards are gone now
It's fine.

Personally, any app that insists on spamming me with adds is not worth my time, and i replace it with "something" else that fits the bill.

The same goes for apps that have subscription models, apps that require access to gps/microphone/etc without an explicit need for it.

I've replaced about 20 such apps in the past couple of years.

I understand that not everybody is willing to make that move, but everybody has the option to do so.
I'd say his viewpoint is quite realistic and based on common knowledge. It's comments like yours that are childish.

If you really believe the structure of US expenses isn't heavily impacted by interests of a few rich, powerful men then I'd call your view of the world very naive.
Ask HN: How to find time to learn
As I'm getting older it seems like I pick up more and more interests I want to learn about, as well as things I need to learn for my work and things that I feel I missed or didn't cover properly in school and want to revist. I really enjoy learning but feel a sense of anxiety about the limited time I have and have difficulty focusing on one thing at a time. How do you all fit this into your lives? How do you know what to learn and in what order?
I have no desire to have a long term remote job. I want to work in the office. However, I've opted to be remote for a couple weeks after someone in the office tested positive for COVID-19. My productivity is noticeably lower (for me at least). I would imagine such a radically different work environment would take time for anyone to adapt to.
We use an in-house one
(An excerpt from another longer reply I just posted):

From: npg@East (Neil Groundwater - Sun Consulting)
Date: Wed, Jun 27, 1990
Subject: Humor from Dennis Ritchie (at USENIX)

(Actually Dennis's latter remark was attributed by him to Rob Pike)

from Unix Today 6/25 page 5.

"..., Richie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium
a few years back and announced that X was brain-dead and would soon die. "He
was half-right," Ritchie said. "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still
sucks."

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/1332...
I understand what the blog says; I just have experience that learning to park via HUD is a very different game than looking directly; and that's a low-speed, low-object-count endeavor. Looking at possible intents might be overwhelming; but I trust that much can be achieved with training.
The SARS in SARS-CoV-2 stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. It's the primary infection that kills, such as by directly causing pneumonia.[1] By contrast, seasonal influenza deaths are usually by secondary infections, mostly bacterial pneumonia. The H1N1 influenza strain was more like SARSr-CoV in that deaths were usually from primary viral pneumonia.[2]

Obviously if you suffer from preexisting health issues, especially cardiopulmonary issues, you're far more likely to develop pneumonia, primary or secondary, or otherwise succumb.

[1] This page equivocates Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome with pneumonia: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007192.htm

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
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I wish LibreOffice, GIMP etc. had an M-x way of finding the commands, and a describe-function to ask what exactly a given command is doing. Or C-h b way of sifting through keyboard shortcuts, in just another buffer with search and everything.
> Australia is mostly desert, it shouldn't look like the UK y'all.

This is the big problem - lawns kind of make sense if you're trying to be a tiny Capability Brown emulating the English countryside, but outside of the temperate maritime climate they're highly unnatural and have to be kept on life support.
I suspect many of the changes have to be legislative.

I don't think most of those organizations can simply restructure themselves at will to deal with a potential small pox attack.

That doesn't occur in some sort of "oligarchy" as you describe it.
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Directly from Uber? They don't make much money - Uber pretty much pays just for the Apple computers as well as Apple Developer Program.

However, this doesn't mean there is no gain for Apple in it as Apple is investing in Uber. That, and not having Uber could make users move to Android devices.
Free lists of grants and fellowships around the world available online
An abstraction of cron-utils for the vertx scheduler
Things to know about e-cigarettes
Pipedrive for sales. Asana/base camp for pm. Notion /bookstack for knowledge management.
Or the people bringing it to your country in the first place. Traveling from an infected country is reckless and disrespectful for the lack of better words.
Have you tried https://readwise.io?
I export my kindle highlights from sideloaded books through an iphone app and send them to import@readwise.io. That's better then downloading and uploading the txt file. Web is also covered. Dunno about your docuemnts though.
I've lived in Sweden for nearly 10 years, and the whole cashless aspect is really something I've embraced. Cashless payments dominated even 10 years ago, but I've also seen a massive change in the past 2-3 years with places no longer accepting cash. Grocery shops still do, but most restaurants, takeout places and cafes are cashless. On the contrary, I find myself irritated in Germany where cash is required.

The main thing I want to see is stronger privacy laws regarding transactions. There's some hope here with the EU. Data mining of purchase history should be banned outright for instance. That said, even though I'm privacy-concerned, I don't view cashless payments as one of the bigger threats. I refuse to own any store loyalty cards because they give the store an exact list of what I buy, tied to my identity, which is a much bigger privacy threat. My bank does know which grocery store I shop at, but that can be guessed with very high confidence anyway based on my address, which is public.

I'd like to see Sweden at the forefront of developing cashless societies. The national bank is testing the platform a state-backed cryptocurrency. With the right combination of technological and legal mechanisms, that is very much something I would like to see.
The response to MERS was a total shitshow (no laws against breaking quarantine, quarantined patients playing golf, flying to China, etc.) and we were lucky the virus didn't spread too easily. But they seem to have learned from that and are handling things really well this time: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/02/asia/coronavirus-drive-th...
How you may be tricked by the Dunning-Kruger effect
It's not criminals who need to be worried about this tech.
Apple forced Uber to stop their location-tracking shenanigans when they were found out.

I agree that such large apps are treated somewhat differently than smaller ones—anyone smaller than Uber would have been banned outright. That’s due to demand from
Apple’s customers, though, and not
Uber directly paying Apple.

But Uber still had to rush and submit a new version of its app. They didn’t seem to believe Apple was making hollow threats, nor do Facebook and Google and all the other big players adhering to Apple’s policies.

Even if Apple wanted to allow larger apps breaking the rules, they couldn’t. It would be very obvious if some apps were allowed to send ads and others weren’t, and it would lead to all kinds of problems in the court of public opinion and possibly a real one.
I think it's interesting to contrast the approach from Public Health England (smokers should switch to vaping, non smokers shouldn't start vaping; vape products should be regulated but available) with the approach taken in other countries.
It's a pity it's chrome only.
Game Boy Color
Here is a description of the format: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...

If you'd ask me it's a perfect example of how not to structure a database. It's not even in the first normal form.

I'd love to create an Anki clone that has better UI/UX and a better database format and I think that would remedy some of the biggest pain points about Anki. But since most Anki users (me included) use several plugins that are quite essential to their Anki experience, an Anki clone would have to support those plugins, too.
I couldn't help but revise the code because it failed to even use minus-equals and is severely unoptimized.

Here is my rendition. Mind you, this is mainly for IE as ES6 has a String.padStart method. I would also use Array(n).fill() but again, IE does not support it, so manual string appending is the sacrifice to make..

module.exports = function(str, len, ch) {
if (ch === undefined || ch === '') ch = ' ';

str += "";
len -= str.length;
len /= ch.length;

var pre = "";
while (--len >= 0) pre += ch;

return pre + str;
}
Can confirm, haven't been to the London office in 2 weeks and have no intention to go for the next month or so.

The idea of getting a tube at 8:30am isn't a pleasant one.
Worked fine in Firefox Mobile on my BlackBerry Key2. That surprised me!
The leadership that people vote for are interested in "people with guns ...".

I know of no political will to restructure government to better handle a small pox attack. People vote on other topics.

I'm also a bit skeptical about the theory that China's "upside" isn't simply bypassing the media, ethical and other concerns noted in the article by simply controlling the media, information, and not dealing with ethical concerns.

I'm also a bit skeptical about what if any "upside" they have considering their controls on information.

I'm not sure you want that....
I think, on the contrary, I'm among the few who do understand the DOI (though I'm obviously biased in my favor). Freedom is meaningless if you cannot exercise that freedom, and being without basic needs like food or shelter would certainly prevent that exercise. Nothing about homeless shelters or food stamps compromises individualism, either. On the contrary, it enables it for those who lack those necessities.

At the absolute bare minimum, if it's really so much trouble to build more homeless shelters, we could and should designate more places for homeless people to take shelter into their own hands (e.g. tents or cars) without fear of some jack-booted badge-wearing thugs kicking them out and confiscating what little personal possessions they had. As long as they ain't committing other crimes, I fail to see what the problem is.
If he had known what we know now, for example the amount of energy the brain uses, it would have seemed like an even more fantastic device to him (and clearly the seat of the soul).
For reference since it's kind of buried/obfuscated: Their point of comparison is between an NVIDIA Tesla V100 and a 44-core CPU. The latter is probably something like a Xeon E5-2699, which has a list price of $4115 USD. Hard to find accurate pricing data for the V100, but it looks like it was in the $7-10k USD range back in 2018. Still a cool cost/performance improvement but not as massive as I was expecting before I looked up the test hardware.
That link does say that you can use pull requests for merging the short-lived feature branches back into master. It says that, for small teams, pushing directly into master might be acceptable (presumably without code review).
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Does your dictionary have a search history? That's how I add new cards. Every day before reviewing, I check the list of terms I looked up and then create cards for those I think will be useful to remember.
What speaks against this theory is that in austria, which is north of italy, the cases so far have been pretty mild.
Virological
People don't vote for flood protection.

They do like military spending.

I think sometimes folks wrap up the political will of the people in "oligarchy" simply because they don't like what those folks want or value.
Oh my, an informative comment like this getting downvoted without a proper reply.

This is what I hate about HN, and I don't know I will stay here for much longer.

And for your comment, at least I am grateful for your point of view and insight.
that's the difference between "best" and "perfect"
Having done a Salesforce integration, I imagine that rolling your own would be a lot easier than working with the Salesforce API.
It's surprising and worrying how many countries merrily jumped on that bandwagon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
I'm Swedish and this stuff makes me really worried. Especially since the main way for two people to exchange small amounts of money is through a proprietary app that uses a proprietary ID system (owned by a for-profit company) that only runs on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.

I really hope this trend dies off, a cash-less society is a terrible idea.

I will say, however, that buses not taking cash is perfectly fine. They use NFC/RFID ticket cards which can't identify you. Not being able to buy tickets with cash is a little less fine.
The best laypersons's summary I could find:

"SLIDE doesn’t need GPUs because it takes a fundamentally different approach to deep learning. The standard “back-propagation” training technique for deep neural networks requires matrix multiplication, an ideal workload for GPUs. With SLIDE, Shrivastava, Chen and Medini turned neural network training into a search problem that could instead be solved with hash tables"

https://insidehpc.com/2020/03/slide-algorithm-for-training-d...
Because that’s not possible – you can’t have multiple cards with the same name on the same account.

I know, I’ve tried after I’ve spent the entirety of january without without a card due to losing one (and the bank fucking up the replacement).
Ask HN: Automating with RPA vs. BPA
Curious to know the specific reasons why a standard small-medium sized business looking to automate routine admin would opt for RPA over BPA? (When it will usually cost a magnitude more?)

I get that it's the hot new tech but RPA isn’t offering anything radically new in terms of the kinds of processes it automates. Businesses are generally using it to handle the same repetitive processes that traditional BPA has been handling for years. Parsing emails, updating databases, sending triggered messages, processing documents, etc.

Granted, working on the interface level rather than relying on integrations is a lot slicker. But it's still a similar set-up time to traditional BPA. (Training bots vs writing 'if' rules). And practically speaking the trained bots are still just running rule-based actions.

Has anyone conducted a cost analysis of RPA vs BPA, considering the specific processes they need to automate? If so, what were your outcomes?
Sorry for the off topic comment but this then/than mistake I read every day is just getting on my nerves.

"
What to Know:
Than and then are different words. Than is used in comparisons as a conjunction, as in "she is younger than I am," and as a preposition, "he is taller than me." Then indicates time. It is used as an adverb, "I lived in Idaho then," noun, "we'll have to wait until then," and adjective, "the then governor."" [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/when-to-use-th...
There is a big "It won't happen to me" mentality I can see going around. In many people's minds, coronavirus is something people in Asia get, not something westerners get.

Students at the university in my town are bragging about going skiing in northern Italy, saying "It's overblown" and "It won't happen to me".

Even acquaintances are saying "It's just the flu, what's the big deal?".
The edge cases should all be addressed by the spec. :P

I don't recall any objections raised that would be addressed by code. (though also, there have been at various points in time implementations, just not merge ready ones...)

In 2013 there were more serious privacy problems in the bitcoin software which probably would have made the encryption less relevant. Most of the known ones were addressed by 2016. I still didn't hear about the bitcoin tie in until Oct 2019, though, sadly.
I think fish has that?
You're probably referring to "trusted computing" which is a very specific use of signing and attestation of computing states.

If it is so specific, why is it present in every single Intel CPU? And why aren't end users able to delete the built-in root of trust and replace it with their own?

Trusted computing, as implemented by Intel, is actively hostile to the citizens of a free society. So in this case, I really can say that it denies software freedom to the user.
Groups linked to oil companies funded Facebook ads denouncing the rail blockades
That's fair, though it's much easier and cheaper to rent CPU time because of the overwhelmingly larger amount of supply.
> industries that are heavy reliant on spreadsheets

That would be all of them. Spreadsheets always end up running a business, because the ultimate measure of business is money / resources, which is inevitably expressed in numbers.

Dedicated solutions introduce rigidity in handling data in exchange for optimisation in handling business logic. They succeed when benefits in the latter area are worth the loss of freedom in the former area.
AFAIK stingrays typically use 2G, since 3G and upwards have strong mutual authentication (i.e. the network authenticates the phone but the phone also authenticates the network). They just jam the 3/4G signal to make the target phone fall back to 2G.
Well, at least now we know it's widespread [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
I mean, yes, that seems like how you would do it. If you've lived in your city for a while I don't think you'd really need maps all that often. I still remember printing out routes in the age before GPS!

Also, regarding texts, I carry an iPhone, but I'll answer text messages when it fits in, which can take hours. Don't want my phone to control my life.
Swish and its identification system "Bank ID" are both owned and operated by for-profit companies. The clients only run on certain operating systems and they're actively preventing custom clients.

An app on your phone is not an alternative to handing a bill to someone.
How are the KYC requirements handled in Germany? What sort of documentation do you need to open a bank account?
Enable User Input in My Spreadsheet-Based App
I hope by 'docile' you mean wise and responsible.
Yes, this is complex. I agree; so far we've been pretending it's not complicated, and that's not really working any more.

The law is based on moral decisions, so I think "splitting that away" is probably circular - eventually a law will be made to deal with an immoral situation. We might as well consider the morality now and save some time.

I think we should get into all sorts of discussions about what's OK, what's not OK, and what is an edge case. People should be held responsible for what happens on their domain. There should be a discussion about whether the potential registration of "faceb00k.com" is legitimate or not.

What if there was a jury of 12 random people who had to approve every domain registration, and also decide whether that domain registrant should be anonymous or not? Would that lead to better results than we have now?
For me it is being super good in scalable projects, and together with well oiled CICD pipelines.
Bubble.io alternative for low code web apps
I actually think hypocrisy should be a defence in court...
Did they just accidentally kill NVidia's business model?
The window system needs to be displayed somehow too. What works for the window system works for the browser too. There's no need for an additional layer of widow system once you have a browser that can draw on the screen itself. A web browser can make a much better scriptable window manager / desktop environment all by itself, than anything that's possible with X-Windows.
What does a cashless society do when the power/internet/etc. goes out (whether due to a natural disaster or otherwise)?
>I've been unable to find out (actually I haven't really looked) how to use vim as a software developing tool (with basic features like autocomplete/suggest and error reporting)

Vi is a text editor with an incredibly powerful language to edit text tied to keyboard keys.

Emacs is a lisp interpreter that's optimized for text editing.

They are not IDEs.
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The article's 0.6 mortality rate seems to have been obtained by dividing the number of confirmed infections (6284) by the number of deaths so far (40) - source: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

This is completely misleading, unless the other 6244 people have already recovered.

The low death rate so far is because the detected illnesses have not yet run their course.

Edit: The source above says that the number of people in South Korea who have recovered from the illness is... 135.
Yeah, I'm aware of the JHU dataset. Unfortunately working out useful CFRs from that is not easy.

You need to be able to figure out infected_at_t_and_dead/(infected_at_t_and_recovered+infected_at_t_and_dead) for some time t sufficiently in the past so that basically everyone falls into these two categories.

And if you want to draw transferable conclusions you also need an interval where treatment conditions were relatively uniform (e.g. already completely overwhelmed health system, or health system that could cope, throughout). As well as an age breakdown of recovered and dead.

The data from Italy does not look promising, they have an old population but seem to have reacted well and still have capacity to treat people. And yet CFR seems 3.8%, without excluding people who are ongoing and will die in the next days and weeks.

It would be very interesting to have a more detailed comparison with the South Korean outbreak, where again reaction has been very good as well and we could look at a subset of people for whom we have no undetected cases, so very good estimates ought to be possible.
In China, street beggars will have a sign with their QR code so you can donate to them electronically.