skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on your definition of cheap. An average person in india earns very little and does not invest enough to fight against the inflation rate or growing age.
This.

It seems like the OP would be better served by CommonMark or any of the alternate implementations which are designed to be more feature complete to solve these kinds of formatting problems.

Regardless, if you want to go down the rat hole of exactly what is Markdown, the only "correct" answer is 'whatever Gruber's 'markdown.pl' does, warts and all'.
I think this might be it! And yes, I think it was also Popular Science in which I saw the ad. What a blast from the past!
While I acknowledge that Markdown's lack of extensibility is a big problem, one that RST doesn't share, RST has its own problems. For example, this is how you write a link in RST:

`link text <https://news.ycombinator.com>`_

Obscure, but OK. This is how you put something in monospace:

``monospace``

So then how do you make the link text contain monospace formatting? Last I checked, there was no clean way. Using non-matching bracketing characters is a terrible idea because it inhibits nesting, which has been known at least since POSIX shell introduced $(). There is really no excuse for the way RST uses backticks. This is a major reason why I prefer Markdown.
There are too many things that may or may not have some kind of effect. Adding to the brainstorming list: taking your shoes off at home, showering in the evening vs. in the morning. BTW I don't think people wash their hands more in Japan, but who knows.

There definitely are places within Japan that have more cases despite having a lower population density. Okinawa (south) has very few cases, while Hokkaido (north) has a lot of cases. That seems to support the hypothesis that climate plays a major role.
I support a couple hundred people working from home and have seen multiple cases where 'fiber' internet was getting <3mbps and 150+ms average, making VoIP and even RDP pretty awful to use.

CenturyLink seems to be the worst offender so far. They must really over provision.
The hardware was quite innovative: for example it had the tiny Toshiba spinning hard disk (and some anti-skip cache) so had a comparatively unbelievable amount of storage that fit in your pocket.

On the software side the integration with the iTunes app made it easy to use which was definitely not the case with the other devices. They were electronics gadgets -- OK to use if you read the manual and were comfortable with the mechanations of getting tunes into them. The iPod was a music listening device.
It's definitely a hard time for the restaurant industry, we're doing what we can to support our customers through this. The nice thing is that our customers see a pretty big ROI with our system and they need the revenue bump now more than ever (once they open back up).

In the meantime, we also work with quite a few car dealerships and autospas who aren't being hit quite as hard as the restaurant industry.
Totally agree. rst is feature-rich but very difficult to get right. You practically need the documentation open at all times. I would rather write (and read) documentation in txt, with links as footnotes.
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In general, though the government and police in India are acting with too blunt a force in this issue. Like UK PM mentioned even the need for going out of doors once per day for exercise, Indian PM says don't go out at all, which isn't practicable at all, since virtually all home delivery systems have been shut down (effectively, that is on paper essential services are to continue, but there is not enough framework done for that in many parts of the country, occasions where even the cops arrested the delivery people for curfew violation, and even more incidents where they were beat up).

Similary some states only allowing trucks with essential commodities to enter and exit. Now trucks coming with vegetables etc, often has to go back empty, but state not allowing entry/exit of empty trucks, likewise myriad issues of logistics are needed to be resolved.
I am aware of useRef.

> Saying that every framework should be possible to combine with every other sounds very nice but probably impossible.

I said specifically that I disliked frameworks that want me to conform. I did not say that all frameworks should conform to me.

> How would I how to update a state inside a Svelte component from the outside?

How would you update a Web Component is the same way this works. https://dev.to/silvio/how-to-create-a-web-components-in-svel...
I've been writing all my documentation in AsciiDoc for the past few years, and I love it! As another commenter mentioned, it's even compatible with markdown.

I previously used Microsoft Word for all documentation, but the lack of human-readable diffs in source control was a PITA, and some features are just much better in IDEs that Word (e.g. search and replace with regex).
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(Obligatory joke:) So, the events of Akira are not going to happen.
>Why not add a second headphone jack so two people could listen and share the experience?

Probably because of the Steve/Ive design philosophy.

Also interestingly iOS does supports audio sharing with Airpods.
Probably the other poster meant it requires a lot of CPU for you to have a virtual background, not for other people.

It wouldn't make sense for other people using the feature to take any more processing power--I assume the video is encoded and processed the same either way.
Why is July for them so important? Football season?
I went into this article fully expecting to disagree but I think it makes a valid point. Plain Markdown definitely has issues that cause me to gripe to no end. These however are mostly resolved via extensions. The author argues that Markdown isn't a good choice since it lacks these features without modifying the standard however I don't think extensions are too big of an issue.

If the extensions are part of the build script for processing the documentation then ultimately the user and consuming developers won't notice the difference between this and using another markup language.

Hell one of the documentation pipelines I see quite often is the Doxygen + Breathe + Sphynx pipeline. This handles the markdown and offers most of those extensions mentioned by the author out of the box.

If your documentation pipeline works well and the user can't tell the difference, there's no reason to switch. Markdown works and is more elegant to write in than LaTeX and rST by just about every measure in my eyes.

One last note is that every markup language has it's own special blemishes and issues. LaTeX and rST are very much not immune to this and when it comes down to it, a properly built doc pipeline will cover these up no matter the language.

TL;DR: If Markdown is making your life difficult it's probably not Markdown that's broken, it's probably your documentation pipeline.
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The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is responsible for classifying viruses and they use a bunch of different criteria, such as chemical characteristics, structure (e.g. look at Covid-19 vs a bacteriophage), type of nucleic acid, mode of replication, host organisms, and the types of diseases they cause. They also group them based on common ancestors.

In other words, it becomes a new species when there's a change to the phenotypic traits above.
This is missing the point.

The goal is "please write your documentation." What solution has the least friction around that for engineers? Right now, it's overwhelmingly Markdown.

It's not perfect, and often doesn't provide the features a technical writer or other content specialist might want, but it handles most use cases and is something developers are willing to write in.

So please, write your documentation in whatever you feel like. As long as it gets written.
Modi didn't say anything but this was decided at a local level. In my town,

1. Vegetable vendors will be open from 6 am to 10 am.
2. Grocery shops will be open from 5pm to 7pm
3. Hospitals/clinics/chemist shops will remain open as usual.
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CoronaVirus So far affected Rich Countries significantly higher than poor countries (Only China where it originated and Iran are exceptions).

One Theory is people in rich countries have less immunity. (Africa, India etc have better immunity since the countries are used to poor hygienic conditions since young ages and develop better immunity).

I added Per Capita income of the country to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center Chart: https://imgur.com/bbCzab2

Edit: I see down votes. Note that Travel between Vietnam and China has been significant (similar to west) but Vietnam is not severely impacted.
SCTE markers are encrypted & sometimes removed at the cable head-end. Even if they weren't stripped, it would be illegal to decrypt and look at them.
> The quality is actually high enough. Maybe that is due as YouTube is currently lowering the quality due to Corona?

Maybe. Also, for newer videos YouTube takes a while to expose higher qualities. I see now that the videos have very few views and that only 720p is available. This could also be the reason.

> Two videos have the hum. This cannot be changed because the lecture capture system in the lecture room does not allow this (It's Panopto).

You can probably get rid of the hum pretty easily with pretty basic filtering in a video/audio program (or even a Python library).
You might also be able to re-upload just the audio tracks. Just say if you want my help with this.

> The funny thing is this: Once I started doing the memory diagrams in the lecture, the students' work exhibited a lot more quality. Further, absolute beginners understand, for example, the concept of an iterator vs. iterable.

I'm not surprised. I've been saying for a while now, that learning programming is analogous to learning how to play an instrument (e.g. the piano) where you need to learn the right techniques and concepts early on if you want to be able to become highly skilled later on. Otherwise it's unlearning and relearning a bunch of stuff, which is less than optimal.
Thank you for validating this idea of mine, somewhat.
Invoking Cunningham's Law:

Appeal to Mundanity: I've supported dozens of systems over the last 15 years, here are my opinions:

The best documentation is the implementation.

The second best documentation is any documentation at all.

The better you reveal your implementation, the better your documentation.

If you want to improve your second best documentation, knock yourself out. Concentrate on documenting interfaces and the location of your primary documentation (the source code, settings, etc)

If you want to bikeshed your second best documentation, I'm afraid I'm just going to laugh at you.
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This is pretty nifty!

Twitter's UI is pretty bad at being able to filter for good content and I always feel like I'm missing out on popular threads because they are buried somewhere in my feed.
There was at least another olympian who tested positive that said he has had extreme fatigue even weeks later and he has lost a lot of strength.

A lot of constant training required to be an olympian.
I'm talking about the initial location (which is what this article covers).

Of course the most popular content stays in faster tiers, but the difference is placing it there first and aging it out instead of promoting it after from slower tiers.
Especially when you want to get the data out, B3 (from backblaze) has a much better cost structure.
Just this week I saw a good article about this[0].

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/media/japan-abe-shinzo-name-i...
Mutability is an access pattern and not an underlying data layout.

In fact, some structures that lend themselves to immutability represent the hardware better. Take your vector of a billion elements. It probably is too big for L1/L2 cache. Is it actually a billion things next to each other in memory? Not at all.

If you used something like a radix balanced balanced tree to represent your vector, you get amortized O(1) access and mutation can be implemented using copy on write at individual leaves of the tree. And your abstraction is much friendlier with the cache, because it reflects how the hardware works much better than a simple vector.

In practice, immutable data structures can be much more performant at scale than pretty much anything. They're not just convenient for soundness. Trivial data structures like vectors are really only useful when you're talking hundreds to the low thousands of elements, at which point who cares how much memory they take up?
Because the crocodile tears from Repubs are false and only serve to make Dems feel bad, look weak, and capitulate to a shit sandwich for workers, unemployed and essential personnel and services while Wall Street gets dollar bills like they just time travelled to the wild west with a kissing booth sponsored by Pornhub.

Dems were and are right to push for real direct cash payments (lol fuck off with tax breaks and other wonky voodoo), expanded sick leave and unemployment benefits among other things.
Yep. Was going to say the same thing. IMO Sphinx and rst is a bad experience. Markdown _is_ simple—that’s what is great about it. I’m also a fan of languages that support markdown in comments/in-source-documentation (rust, elixir, etc.)
But it required a huge amount of continued police presence and threat of vacuous criminal action on top of peoples natural fear for life to achieve that. Police has been using force on people on the last 2,3 days. That would be deemed unacceptable in most advanced countries.
Deep Archive is really cheap for storage, but you better pray you never need to restore your files.
Not really sure. There seems to be evidence that symptomatic cases have long term effects on lung capacity.

They all train every day, so I think even a month out would fuck up their preparation. Especially if they give their coach COVID.
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Most people will agree documentation is hard and painful. Engineers like to build and have someone else maintain and support. Im talking in generalities - so don't get too offended if thats not you.

So it follows that you should reduce the critical path to documentation down to the path of least resistance. Markdown tools are plentiful. If you use GitHub, it is the core of their project management tools.

Also, you want documentation to be a "living & breathing document" - in the sense that it should be updated and modifiable by everyone. A LaTeX-like solution doesn't lend itself easily to collaborative work.
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Japan did a terrible job of containing this, the government did nothing but bury its head in the sand and hope it'll all go away.

It's China's fault this happened, as usual, first it's bird flu, then swine flu, now this, they need to get their food hygiene standards sorted out.
Think of Modi as Trump without the lunacy. He leads a right wing party which is anti-muslims and has used fake news and use WhatsApp/Facebook/Twitter extensively.

But, he does not have his head in butt, he knows killing people never gives votes. He runs an efficient organization and has trust of a majority of Indians. Even Anti Modi know about the issue and the capacity of Indian health system.

Edit: It is to add some context around implementation and success of the lockdown.
I've heard some truckers on radio shows saying that it's typically a three day window between restocking a particular product type at any given grocery store. I've also heard the toilet paper manufacturers saying that there's no shortage in supply. However, from what I'm seeing in my area and hearing of in other areas, either the truckers or the manufacturers (or both) are incorrect.
Boost is an external library and it is known for its overly complex templates and long compile times. It isn't part of C++. The features that were adopted from being tested in boost do not have the same dependency problems. Your initial criticisms didn't hold, now you are trying to criticize external libraries as a failing if the language. Maybe you just want to criticize c++ with anything you can think of, no matter how ridiculous.

Ironically there are probably an endless streams of criticisms that could be lobbed at it, but everything you've mentioned are things that just aren't problems in practice.
Is it really this easy to become a data scientist today? Can you go from 0 to 1 with online programming tutorials like the original post and fast.ai?
If you use much *nix style software on Windows, you may already have a XDG_CONFIG_HOME directory. It defaults to ~/.config

Even on my relatively clean Windows system, that directory contains config files generated by NPM and Scoop.
Given the huge reliance on outsourced IT labor in India, I would curious to see how it would affect operations in the West. The pandemic is already affecting school's and testing centers that rely on online proctoring based in India - most of them not available at least until the end of the week (this is before the announcement).
I’m glad there are some languages that define a simple convention for writing documentation as comments in code directly above the symbol, and tools for automatically extracting and displaying that documentation.

I prefer knowing where to look for documentation in any project, rather than having to guess where some Markdown or HTML or RST files might be, separated from code.
I'm trying to decide if I should wear the mask or not, but whatever I read the only question is if a mask can protect me from getting the virus. But the question that interests me is if the mask protects people around me if I have the virus (and I don't have the symptoms yet). If it does, then everybody should wear a mask.
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Something about the sequence of events in the article is weird or I'm just missing something.

They got a water taxi to the bay on Isle Royale that was close to Siskiwit Lake and then portaged their canoe to the lake. (Which is indeed fairly close.)

Then:

>After canoeing back from Ryan Island, mother and son got well and truly lost. At some point during their 18 miles of hiking, they lost the trail.

Where did the canoe go? Why wouldn't they have been being picked up and returned the same way they got there? There's lots of mention of GPS coordinates. Yet this story doesn't bother to mention that, I don't know, they got lost because both of their phones ran out of juice? (Because the story seems to take place well after the time when most people had smartphones and they were clearly using GPS in some form.)
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There's hills that seem worth dying on. This doesn't seem to be one of them. The author says it's "tolerable" to use markdown for a README.md, but in many small projects -- that's all there is. Besides the code, there's the README. When I think of larger open source projects, I don't see intricate or excessive usage of markdown. They have full blown websites-- React, Jest, Material UI-- you name it. I don't see a single actual example of the problem.
> embedding images as base64.

That's already possible with data URL. You can easily do `![alt](data:image/png;base64,<base64 png here>)`.

Now, this won't work on GitHub due to security restrictions (you could embed an SVG that contains a script). But Markdown/CommonMark supports it just fine.
This headline is (unsurprisingly) misleading. The argument is actually "the rounding error of this calculation is smaller than the Planck length, and we still get rounding errors that compound to large amounts over time."

This is really an argument about the ability to measure and simulate, not about which of the laws of physics are invariant under time reversal.
There was an official document sent out on the official social media and traditional media channels that answers all these questions [1]. td:lr, essential services will continue to work

[1]: https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1242476674710560770
Sucks for people whose favorite cocktail (much needed in these times) is a gin and tonic. Especially because the niche high end tonic waters are usually rubbish for a G&T. Luckily I've got a bag of cinchona bark i've been meaning to make tonic out of for a year or so now...
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Great point. We built a web app that allows businesses to create, upload and schedule content to play during the commercials. Unfortunately, restaurant owners are way too busy for that and usually don't have marketing backgrounds so we now offer to create/manage their content for them.

It isn't too much trouble for our team to manage and it's a great value add for the businesses.
And in some states in the US, the DMV will sell your information to companies who will eagerly remind you that your car's warranty has expired.
Markdown and reStructuredText are very limited, and the latter is awkward and unfriendly.

Use AsciiDoc. It scales up to entire books. It's extendable by design.

It supports embedding diagrams, maths & so on.
> They must really over provision.

Oversubscribe :).
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Conditions of Public hospitals hugely depends on the state. States like Kerala has good public hospitals while other states have very pathetic health system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
I read yesterday that Japan had administered something like 16,000 COVID-19 tests in total. So I think they're basically not testing and hoping that it goes away.
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All that work, and you still need to manually generate proper meta tags and structured data for SEO—and then add custom functionality for editing that in contentful. And then the client’s marketing team realizes they need AMP support, so you have to manually build that since most static site generators aren’t designed for that. And then the client sees a competitor has ESP integration in their Wordpress admin and can send newsletters in the same place they publish content—-so you have to custom build that. And then the client suddenly needs to add payment integration and e-commerce capabilities. And then they need to generate one-off marketing landing pages without needing to call you. And so on.

And then 300 hours later you realize that the entire static site ecosystem is designed for developer pleasure, instead of the needs of real businesses. And after you add the things real businesses need, you kinda just wasted months recreating Wordpress. And you realize you probably should have just used Wordpress.

[this has been my realization over the past couple of years trying to shoehorn clients into static sites]
While this works great if you are using your personal computer to do work. But if you use your employer issued computer to do personal hobby project, then please be very careful. In 90%+ of the cases your contract with your employer have the claus saying (please review your contract to clarify) that they own copyright of all your work while you are under the contract even if it's outside of working hours or on the weekend, with a few exceptions, and using employer equipment (employer issued computer) nullify one of the biggest exceptions.

IANAL but I would strongly suggest everyone to only use their employer issued computer to do work related work and move all their personal, hobby projects into their own personal computer, unless you don't care your employer owning the copyright of your personal hobby projects.
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