skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good documentation isn't only about it being readable in plain-text. It is about being accurate, maintainable, easy to read (when processed) and even, dynamic (look at Stripe's documentation that contains your own API keys, not random ones). Anybody writing documentation with this goal in mind will quickly realize that Markdown is not fit for the job.

Asciidoc is fully compatible with markdown, and provides a lot more functionality out of the box.

Basic functionality often needed when writing documentation aren't part of the original markdown spec and require non-standard extensions: tables, footnote, table-of-content, cross references are good examples of this.

The markdown ecosystem is now riddled with non standard extensions and reminds me the browser ecosystem of y2k.

A quick search on Google allowed me to find this page[0] which lists no less than 20 different markdown flavors.

Asciidoc comes in 1 and only 1 flavor that does most of everything you want.

Also, there's a great open-source project that allows you to create a documentation website in Aciidoc: https://antora.org/. (I'm not affiliated, just a happy user)

[0]: https://gist.github.com/vimtaai/99f8c89e7d3d02a362117284684b...
Will there be a free/lower price tier for open source or non-profits?
While stories are mostly standalones, there are sometimes references to past events/characters, so maybe it's better to just start with the first one!
Strongly recommend ignoring virtualenv, venv, and pipenv; and using Poetry instead. Poetry is simple and feature-complete where the others require you to learn all kinds of minutiae.

http://python-poetry.org/
Thank you for the great read! Wondering how io_uring would be put in place of this situation...would be very interested in the authors review: https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
I quit my job to start BoomAdmin in a recession
Ha, I thought 'Margin' would be the name of the latest javascript framework. I'm not sure if the claim that margin is bad is funnier or less funny.
Ha, I am. I feel like OPENSTEP and Rhapsody are ignored these days, much in the same way people think every GeoCities website was in Comic Sans.
Markdown is great! You get just enough formatting with little effort to structure docs well and include URLs and so on as needed. It can be written in any editor. It gets bonus points for being easy to convert to other formats - impress your family and friends today!
That would suggest that you actually have a better chance of surviving if you stay away from the hospital.
> Just look how it's impacting the local health care system. If it exceeds the capacity by X % that's how big a problem it is.

Ok, let's look. There are 1175 serious/critical cases in the US [0]. I assume all of them are hospitalized, and mild cases are asked to stay home. There are 900k plus total hospital beds in the US, and 132K ICU beds [1], resulting in the current COVID demand from hospitals to be between 0.1% to 1% depending on how many of them need ICU beds. What am I missing? Before I am accused of not understanding exponentiation, I am all for prepping, but much alarm is about how we are already running out of capacity.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
[1] https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
My friend has been working on an open source wysiwyg for markdown which is worth checking out: https://opencodex.dev/demo
Things don't have to go up for a public vote to test whether a message has political potency in the hearts of Americans. It was tested in the media. Similarly, Coke's messaging doesn't have to go up for a vote to see whether it has the potency to win over the hearts of Americans.

The message of President Trump's conflicts of interests has already been tested and America shrugged. When there's only so much air in the room it's important to pick messaging that wins.
Wow! I wonder how India as a democracy can enforce this.

Does india have enough testing kits now?
Would you (or anyone) care to add some countries in Europe for comparison?
These workers should fall under the same classification as other "gig economy" workers like Uber drivers. Whatever the relevant labor laws are in the UK, the government should be subject to them also.
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> I believe

Okay, but the person you're replying to was asking

> What source do you have that confirms this?
CDC coronavirus testing decision likely to haunt nation for months to come
Markdown is an ok choice for documentation.

Poor documentation of a project is not due markdown being used. Good documentation requires different types of docs targeting the different types of docs and different types of users.

When it comes to the ability to capture things in docs there's more that's useful than markdown can represent. For example, notes, warnings, etc. Tools like hugo have come up with work arounds that are outside of markdown.

Just saying... some things like asciidoc allow capture of richer information.

Still, the format isn't going to make the docs good or bad.
I think the last sentence hurts your point. There is definitely painful sex which is worse than nothing and there is definitely misleading documentation which is worse than nothing.

Markdown is good because it is much easier for someone to notice it needs to be updated and to fix it without yak-shaving.
Leanpub: Public Early, Publish Often
Experimental 'biohackers' reckon they have the answer to Covid-19 test ki
Ask HN: One Giant monitor, or multiple large monitors?
We're all stuck at home now and probably thinking a bit more about how to upgrade and optimize the home office. I have an old 27" QHD display which developed a column of dead pixels and I wanted to solicit thoughts regarding experiences with those monster 30"+ (curved?) displays, or multiple 27/28" displays. I will be driving them from a 16" MBP, peripherals aren't a concern for me.

Thoughts? Recommendations?
Proof of god? We can't even prove gravity, or for that matter anything else in the physical world.
DIY Eco-House
I'm guessing the author doesn't like reStructuredText either.
In my opinion this is the entire selling point/core value of Augmented Reality and is why it's been a pursuit of mine since 2006 or so.

And for clarity, it's the world facing camera that is the most critical part of AR, in my opinion, not what is displayed to the user. The display simply gives me most compelling reason to the user to adopt the technology. The reason for this is because a world facing camera system is a tractable tangible thing that we can build and actually deploy today. The current state of object detection with CV, and the other long tail analysis you can do with it, allows us to get really really good at making inferences of world and user state, based on detected objects (+ some telemetry).

So today, you can get really close to a high resolution log, from strapping a camera on your head and building an object detection pipeline. The challenge here though is of course what you all expect, privacy, monetization, influence, control etc... The world where everyone is logging everything about themselves, which means they would also be logging their interactions with others, is the no-privacy world that everyone is terrified of.

You can't create Laplace's Demon and also preserve the virtues of privacy.
> I believe it should be a one way trip, ie. we can abstract code functionality from the view, but we should not abstract view functionality into code (and then back into the view at render time). That's like crossing the street twice and ending up where you started.

Can you give an example to illustrate this approach?
It doesn’t seem like their roles would be replacing any workers in hospitals etc. This is a call to mobilize the last miles between people at home and pharmacies?
Ford is using stock car parts to upgrade design of ventilators and respirators
This looks like a pre-Bat'leth.
It's batch sync, not streaming or replication. By default, appears to dedupe based on PK.
Ask HN: Has MyFitnessPal sold customer data to Netflix?
Hi,

I am fairly convinced that MyFitnessPal have sold personal data to Netflix.

I use a unique email address for each online service - e.g firstname.surname+myfitnesspal@domain.com.

I recently received an email at this unique address from Netflix. The email is legitimate and is definitely not a phishing attempt.

I have never used this email for any service other than MyFitnessPal.

Has anyone else received a similar email?
Does anyone know whether this is even legal? I'm an EU citizen and I did not give consent for this to happen.

Thanks

Here's a copy of the email:

"Hey there,
We’re the customer service team reaching out to help our newest members get started with Netflix. If you’d like to chat before you start your subscription, you can call 1-844-505-2993 with any questions. Also, there’s a bunch of information in our Help Center, including answers to common questions about how Netflix works.
If you’re all set, finish your account setup to start watching. If there’s anything you need help with, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Cheers,
Netflix Customer Service"
A situation like this one may actually speed up the need for many business to digitize their business models.
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How coronavirus is rewiring the Republican and Democratic parties
Then what exactly is the goal? If you're not better off after doing something than before doing something, then why would you do it? Hosting the Olympics doesn't help a host nation in any measurable way that I've ever seen, though it does seem to increase the profits and prestige for some national leaders, the IOC, and of course other companies that stand to profit from the event as another poster here pointed out. I don't see how that helps the people of the nation at all.
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an easy would be the animated movie "The twelve tasks of Asterix"
The biggest benefit to markdown is even if every parser was deleted and nobody every wrote a new parser, all markdown documents would still be readable. I do not want a markdown replacement that has functions and includes. That is a terrible idea.
Act of congress is a very common idiom, and widely understood by many who have similar systems of democratic government. Don't be that guy.

Ah yes, forgot calling out pedantry hits too close to home with one of the world's most pedantic communities.
Invisionapp has a freehand draw mode that is shareable and collaborative. I've only used it for UX things(as that's what It's designed for) but honestly you could probably draw whatever so long as it's simple
I especially like the fact that you can have counters in asciidoc, so you can do interesting kinds of numbering. Trying to do the same in markdown is tricky and it's what actually led me to asciidoc.
The simple explainer is that almost all viruses give immunity so there is no reason to fear this one doesn’t.

The immunity might last a month or a year. Or two weeks or ten years. That we don’t know.
Why the negativity? Would you prefer to ignore entertainment context and only think of the weather in the host country?

Commercial interest has a direct correlation to the number of people who tune in. Even if money wasn't a factor, the number of people watching should be a core metric.
Yes, on the whole it's cultural as culture informs us as to what is public or private. And no doubt individual behaviors can change, though the degree to which they can readily change for any particular adult is the sticking point. Culture isn't the only dimension--the strength of the physiological response (which is rooted in genetics) undoubtedly varies. For all we know, maybe 10% of Romans were secretly midnight poopers and perplexed at how people could chat while doing their business.
Such covert behavior would naturally go unnoticed by others.
The complete set of Asterix is on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/Asterixcompleteset/mode/2up
One that is happening in nearly every parish is that scammers are using church bulletins to get the personal info and then sending a "message" from the priest to those people. So while not CEO fraud it is very similar. A great setup and one that you could find a way that you charge when teams are doing the right thing... have the test be free and the training have a cost
Presumably with the money you save from not buying overpriced or unnecessary things due to ads you can afford some subscriptions.
I also can't buy groceries from holding the door open for people and yet I do. People are sometimes just nice to each other, helping each other out, especially in need, or in this case, a pandemic.
although the picture is very blurry, by my reckoning, that part is roughly the sixth largest font on the page, the top three being "Website Listing Service", "Web Listings Inc", and "DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES", "SUBSCRIPTION INCLUDES", and "INQUIRIES". there is absolutely no way that "THIS IS NOT A BILL" is the largest text.
You mean like eschewing short term pandering to the market and massively reinvesting in the company? Like they've done for years. So, yes, Amazon thinks long term.
Personally, I would like to see less if it bleeds it leads news. Some positive stories would be more helpful.
Last time I read India was not affected by blackdeath event which spanned from Europe to Japan but didn't touch India (there is no proof that it did touch India, no mass graves were found, no account in historic texts or local hyms or folk songs)
Markdown doesn't have tables tho. No cross-refs, either.
I guess it will be even more difficult to run Hackintoshes with 10.6
There is a good body of knowledge around dealing with concurrency issues within a single process. We've tools (locks, semaphores ...) to deal with the complexity as well as programming paradigms which help us write code which minimizes data races. It's interesting to realize that in a world with an increasing number of micro-services manipulating shared resources (a shared database, shared cloud resources), or even multiple nodes backing a single micro-service all reading and writing to shared resources, similar concurrency bugs arise all the time. Unlike a single process where you can use locks and other primitives to write correct code, there is no locking mechanism we can use to protect access to these global shared resources. We have to be more thoughtful so we write correct code in the presence of pervasive concurrency, which is easier said than done.
The worrying thing is that beds are easy. We could just requisition hotel rooms if we needed. The bed is the least important part of the package of stuff that we mean when we talk about beds.

You need doctors, nurses (and these are specialist nurses), ventilators, oxygen, etc etc.

We're already seeing a collapse in skill mix in London ICUs. Nurses are going from 1:1 (one specialist nurse per patient) to 1:6. Doctors are going from between 1:8 - 1:15 to 1:30

> While many covid-19 patients have minor illness, large proportions of those who are admitted to hospital require intensive care — and modelling suggests the NHS’ previous ICU capacity could fall far short.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/exclusive-intensive-care-staffing-rati...
You can do all of that with computer vision today.
I've seen documentation efforts fail because of Confluence's terrible search.
House panel warns coronavirus could destroy Postal Service by June
Inspiring words. I wish yours was the topmost comment on this post.
This is basically tailwindcss, and is an excellent approach when done well.
>>> e.g. adding a line break in the middle of a heading because you want a two word brand name to appear at the start of a line

However using a &nbsp; in your brand name would likely be a better way to handle this, and makes actual semantic sense in your html. It's also coincidently more robust to changes in your layouts.

Purity for it's own sake is problematic, and definitely sometimes there won't be a good semantic approach. But thinking through cases a little deeper and trying to represent things better semantically can pay off big dividends by increasing the robustness of your solutions.
More likely someone created a trial account using that email address with a fake/stolen payment method.
I spent hours of my childhood reading Asterix, Tintin and Gaston [0]. Each had an amazing slightly different universe.

Now living in the US it always amazes me how different the Comics culture over here is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_(comics)
"Page Last Updated: 03/23/2020"

Strange indeed.

You said your test kit arrived already? What does it look like?
It's in the second sentence of the post =P

"This is a procedure for leveraging git aliases to set an identity at the project level..."
From that article they state that Tokyo had 154 infections, with 101 hospitalized. That hospitalization rate is roughly 5x higher than seen elsewhere; implying that their actual infection count is closer to 750. I think there's something amiss...
Forget GNU Screen, we recently launched a professional video player called Screen. Check it out!

https://videovillage.co/screen/
Specialized Operators have higher priority. If available they will be called.
Paywalled article. Any chances for a summary/key notes?
Forcing the government to act as our economic and political structure reveals itself inadequate in the face of a national crisis _is_ what will spur legislation. Hopefully smart forward-thinking legislation.
I have. If the "content authoring platform" is not integral to where the source code / original content is written - many people, or I should say most people, tend to just not write it. And then it only gets written with very strict disciplined pre-commit reviews.
Salary expectations questions–How should you answer them? (2020)
Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking
what about the tiles for OS8 and OS9?
1 and 2 are not a defense. That's a garbage ecosystem and we would all be happier without them.

3 is you're telling me not to believe my eyes. I'm sorry, there are some things that are so dumb you have to be very smart to trick yourself into believing them. You don't need a sophisticated statistical analysis to know what kind of advertisements you see where.

4 is circular reasoning. "Targeted ads are better than non-targeted, so if (per 1 and 2) I've already conceded that many targeted ads are garbage, I need to hypothesize (3) that the non-targeted ads are somehow worse even against the evidence of sense."

5: Google and Facebook are separate entities and need separate explanations. Facebook is a pure parasite. It does nothing for publishers except drive them traffic (which is in itself, a cost center, not a profit center). Publishers need to figure out how to convert traffic into profit. If we're talking about publishing, that requires the ads to be on their site, which means Google. But Google is screwing the publishers too because they can track and deliver eyeballs from anywhere.

It's just an obviously sick ecosystem. People have been doing advertising supported publishing since the 19th century, and it was fine until ten minutes ago, when suddenly tracking was possible. Coincidentally, ad supported publishing collapsed at the same time that tracking became possible. Is this really a coincidence? You've got to be pretty clever to convince yourself that it is…
(Small typo correction: 10.16, 10.6 is Snow Leopard).
I think the single most important factor of successful technical documentation is to locate documents close to code. Markdown is an excellent choice that strikes a nice sweet spot between expressiveness and being code-like (so can be checked in to repo and live together with the code).

Google had done that, and in an exceptional whirlwind by self-motivated engineers who are delighted by having markdown docs in their repo, replaced majority of existing and legacy documentations with markdown files. This thing is called g3doc, and should be well known to people have connections with Google engineers.
Yes, I'm well aware that curved swords are common (scimitar, calvary saber, katana, wakizashi...etc), but that hook sword is just out there.
Now do me this favor: take your experience and opinion, and compare it to others. How many people share this with you? If the Acer was just that substantially better in terms of value and build quality, why isn't Acer the #1 laptop in the US? Why do so many companies, organizations, and developers not share this take with you? What may you be missing?
From the 12 Tasks of Asterix: The Place That Sends You Mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk
Druid is produced by Alibaba the article should have mentioned. This is concerning because of human rights. Alibaba Cloud has been processing data extensively for medical studies on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Changing Minds on Coronavirus
Upon a little more research, in an NPR interview [1], Dickey does not claim to have exhaustively searched the island / proved non-existence:

> DICKEY: We hiked in as far as we could to try to find the center of the island, was unable to find Moose Flats or Moose Boulder. Who knows; it could have been there, but highly unlikely.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815546895/the-lonely-non-isla...
One counterpoint: there are now a bunch of unemployed people. The govt is planning to give them much aid.

This implies that paid labour is basically free for governments at the moment. They can either pay people jobless claims, or hire people for the new work that needs doing.

Volunteers are also a great idea! But I want to emphasize that governments shouldn't shy away from projects now if the labour costs money. Because they're currently about to pay people to not labour. So any outlay in salary is a savings on unemployment claims.
I think we will be able to go forward with custom kernels or some hack failing that.
Southwest Refuses to Refund Passengers During Covid-19
Henneguya are definitely metazoans, small and simple, but also very sophisticated ones.
Me too. I've found markdown + LateX for equations a nice way to write, with minimum friction. Currently trying to sell my daughter on it for her physics project. She's sufficiently frustrated with word's equation editor and randomised picture layout that I might just win :)
> You don't need to use them.

But people will, though. If you're lucky enough to be there at the start of project you could establish a list of allowed functionality but at that point you're documenting your documentation, which feels, uh, sub optimal.
To be frank, I'd like this all the time. For most videos, buffering is more annoying than resolution, and I don't care about quality.

The only time I care about quality is some educational content where there are e.g. small equations on the screen.

Good call.
The only two things markdown is absolutely terrible at right now is maths (because it's not LaTeX) and writing things like vertical Japanese with furigana (certainly, throwing HTML at that problem works for both cases, but it makes things also incredibly untidy for your documentarians).

For everything else, there is basically no reason not to use it if you want to write documentation for people to read, rather than produce a typeset product for people to consume.
They could charge a reasonable price, or receive [more] funding from taxes. The notion that scam/junk mail is essential to the system is moronic.
Autonomy markets and their potential bugs
You mean, Markdown with embedded LaTeX?

Show me a widely-available tool for rendering that please.