skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as someone who has taught different languages as first, second and third languages to students and young pupils I would say it becomes easier. Not easy in an absolute sense. It still requires effort.

I would however agree with you that those who say "it's easy to learn another" in an absolute way has usually only considered languages from the same group so far.
> Yes, we need be wary of unnecessary intervention etc. but I'm just shocked to read this kind of stuff.

You are shocked that I think people ought to be compensated for the income lost due to government order?

I am shocked that you think it is okay for the government to take people's property and liberty without even thinking of compensation, as they are mandated to do by law.
And 1.8 billion people in stay-at-home mode, but you may not think this may have anything to do with it.

Did you simply just woke up and decided to troll?
I hope YouTube keeps this, even as a preference - I am often satisfied with 720p, and it uses less bandwidth consumption for those occasions when I am constrained.
I wish we would quit moving it around. The Olympics could be quite profitable if countries didn't spend a fortune building for it.

If we held it in Athens (not sure if Olympia could support it?) for the summer, then have it rotate between countries that can host without massive infrastructure changes for the winter (NA - Calgary/Lake Placid, Europe - St. Moritz, Oslo Asia - Beijing, Pyeongchang).
Actually, we (a tribal community college) went with GoToMeeting because it was $19 per instructor (we only needed 20 - some classes in the vocational area are going to do limited face-to-face) and a lot easier for the instructors to deal with. We will probably download all the videos, but I'm not sure we are going to post them to YouTube or let the students catch the replay at GoToMeeting.
Because the landlord got there first and staked a claim to the parcel of land, that they then don't use themselves for anything except charging others for the privilege of using it. I mean you can see how it's not a super compelling arrangement even though landlords have made it impossible to avoid in desirable areas.
The oxygen concentration is actually quite a bit higher in most hadal zones (> 150 µmol/kg [1]) than oxygen minimum zones that exist in the middle layers (< 45 µmol/kg [2]). It's definitely not a hypoxic environment relative to the rest of the ocean.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5829614/

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/group/MicheliLab/pdf/oceanographica...
I’m not personally convinced that a complete shutdown is the right choice. But SARS wasn’t very contagious and only had a few total cases in the US. Arguably H1N1 should have had a somewhat stronger response. Also, people are used to the flu and it’s not as scary.

(Also, there wasn’t really any research needed to vaccinate against H1N1. It was just a matter of production. On the flip side, the flu mutates very quickly to evade immunity, whereas coronaviruses seem to mutate very very slowly. A COVID-19 vaccine that works* seems likely to provide protection essentially forever.)

* Early indications were that the obvious vaccine design for SARS made the disease worse, not better. That’s why we haven’t seen much excitement about inactivated COVID-19 vaccines.
This is not the only comment ITT to recommend Asciidoc. It seems interesting, so I looked into it. On the asciidoc Github page [0], I found this note: "NOTE: This implementation is written in Python 2, which EOLs in Jan 2020. AsciiDoc development is being continued under @asciidoctor."

In other words, upgrading to py3 was such a pain, they rewrote it in Ruby instead. Ouch! This has got to be the worst example (among more than a few) of py3 pain I've seen yet!

[0] https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc
Just a couple days ago, I spoke with a patient rep for a medical practice in metro NYC. She was obviously working from home, with a young child yelling, and pressing buttons on the phone. And obviously tense. So I just said that I understood that she was working from home, and that everything was OK. And then everything was OK, and her child quieted down.
mpv --no-video [youtube url]

(This uses youtube-dl, without saving it to your hard drive.)
Yes I think it is misinformation. It doesn't matter how much you hedge what you are saying, because the implication of you saying it means that you believe it.

Think about it this way, if your mother was concerned and you said, "Don't quote me on this, but as far as I know, you can be infected twice", you can bet your ass she would believe you.
Reconstrcut RedShift Stl_querytext Using AWS Athena
Not everyone loved it. Astérix and the Goths was an early and very unfavourable depiction of the Germans as militaristic and ruthless, written with WW2 still fresh in mind. The Germans did not like this early strip. Goscinny and Uderzo seemed to regret this early portrayal, as Goths in latter Astérix strips were depicted more sympathetically.

My point here is that "political correctness" has a point. Of course most Europeans love Astérix. It's usually harmless and in good fun. It's punching upwards or sideways. But making fun of genocided cultures by completely misunderstanding them is not in good fun. Oumpah-pah or Tintin in the Congo are a different sort of thing than Astérix In Helvetia.
In any post mortem, it's dreadfully important to capture information while everything is fresh. People writing articles like this now are capturing valuable information that will inform any thorough post-mortem performed later.

The absolutely most useful post-mortems I've dealt with were ones where information wasn't gathered immediately. An outage that occurs on a Friday night is an example of one that will be low fidelity and less actionable. By Monday morning, everyone involved forgets many important details and the proper order of events necessary to get an accurate picture of what happened.
None of this is somehow secret. The standard name for this is "definable"[0]. Although, one has to be really careful with this sort of thing; there are apparently a number of subtle logical issues[1] that come up when talking about these...

(Note, by the way, that there's any number of other fields one could put inbetween; such as the field of algebraic reals, or computable reals, or the fraction field of the ring of periods...)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number

[1] https://mathoverflow.net/a/44129/5583
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I introduce the idea of a type right in chapter 1 because of exactly the argument you make.

As Python is really more about the behavior of objects and not so much their type, I introduce these already from chapter 4 onward, for example, iterable vs. container, and many more. I actually would say that this is the essence of any dynamic language (duck typing).

"and how to read the python documentation" -> that is an important point you raise!!! I found that beginners have real trouble reading the docs because they are screening for words like "list" instead of "iterable". However, as I teach abstract behaviors early, they actually understand the docs.

"like using .format() instead of fStrings" -> I mention .format() but mainly use f-strings and tell the students right away that they are both faster and easier to read and that they should default to them.
Say it's 1% and doubles every 3 days, that's 7 doublings away from over capacity or 21 days or 3 weeks time. Keep in mind bed to patient distribution is non uniform so we'll see shortage before then. Lockdowns take 12 days or so to see effect (from what Italy is seeing). So really, we have about 9 days to do a national lockdown.
I see a lot of similarity between Markdown and Golang, both have a lot of critics with some reasonable criticism. They're both limited in ways that competing languages aren't, but somehow they both just feel so productive to me. Some combination of the right feature set, stripping everything else away, and focusing on simplicity just works for me.
The only way to pass the phishing tests at my employer is to never click links in email. But then we also have a number of official systems sending emails with links in them (bug tracking, code review, Zoom invites, HR portal, etc).

The only way this kind of policy makes sense is if you have to actually give the phishing site some kind of credential in order to fail, vs. merely opening on it.

If someone has a Chrome zero-day, we're done anyway. Just post it on HN.
This extension should allow you to set basically anything you want for YouTube.
Preferred resolution, audio level, playback speed and much more.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-...
Sure, but they were also threatened with governmental intervention if they didn't refund their tickets (including ones bought under the non-refundable price range). They ended up refunding everyone, but the cash they refunded had already been used to pay for fuel, to hire and train people, to pay airport fees, etc.

In a fair world, where everyone made good on their agreements, those consumers that bought non-refundable tickets wouldn't get their money back, but they did.

I don't think airlines need to have all their income replaced, just that which is directly attributable to governmental intervention. If they're still in the red after that, the money should go to their creditors and then their investors. That is what we all agreed to.
Made a WebView wrapper for Windows, that has an additional benefit of having a separate browser profile (e.g. no crosstracking): https://losttech.software/Downloads/FuZoom/
I would rather have markup free documentation than no documentation at all. Many of the documentation markup languages have a pretty significant overhead. There is a reason markdown is so common for docs.
I'd hope people wouldn't be using a setup like this for any other reason than learning k8s or tinkering/fun.

edit-before-actually-posting (sorry I'm a bad person for typing a reply before clicking the link):
Wait, they're selling these things? Ok, then I'm stumped. What would you do with 8 rpi's that you couldn't do with one?
Make it 5 years. If you start having the kid do it at six years old, he can be productive at eleven years old, can't he? Make it a slow kid and he'd still be productive at fourteen years old.

School and college is pretty much just to waste your time. None of the things you learn transfer well into work life.
There's no drug testing. I just started a month ago. There is a background check.
I'm a little confused, would you mind explaining how the lethality of the virus is related to your thesis? The way I interpreted your post makes it seem like it's just two unrelated thoughts (net neutrality and the lethality of covid) that got mixed together
so what is the modern version of PhoneGap?
that's weird, I use the app and don't have this problem. I love the UI even on iOS.
Is there something specific in Postgres (perhaps in the binlog) that makes it easier to do this than MySQL? Seems like there's more tools for this kind of data loading than I've seen for MySQL.

BTW: Awesome work ankane! Cool dude too :)
I mean, you're not wrong, if we can test for anti-bodies we can get a better handle on this whole thing in 3 months, especially given the reportedly high occurrence of mild or asymptomatic individuals. That'll give a sense of where we are in total. But no way are we waiting for herd immunity before the restrictions start to loosen.

We very much still need to be able to test for people that currently have it - we're kind of starting from zero every time people come out of lock-down, so we need to test for outbreaks before they happen.
I feel that it is mostly about nobody else explicitly calling the strategy best-fit. For example BIBOP-derived GCs (which for purposes of this discussion includes BDW GC) are inherently best(-ish)-fit and in fact traditional unix malloc is also mostly best-fit.
Because in the initial days, the CDC had a valid point. The W.H.O/Chinese test wasn't that reliable (at the time) and it wasn't unreasonable for the US to make their own. It wasn't until week after week went by, with the CDC straight up lying to the FDA/HHS, that the real failure became apparent.

The second the CDC realized it wasn't up to the job, it should have begged the FDA to allow labs/companies to make their own tests. Instead they lied for weeks, wasting the most critical time in the US's portion of the pandemic getting nothing done. It wasn't until UC Davis broke the law and tested a patient and the governor of California dared the FDA to do anything about it, that Trump put Pence in charge and things started to move forward and responsibility for testing was moved away from the CDC.

I don't know if Dr. Redfeild of the CDC made these calls, but either way, he should have been replaced immediately, because he'll make the history books for the amount of lives this will cost.
The standard term is "definable", not "useful": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definable_real_number

But yes, Chaitin's constant is an example of a number that is definable but not computable.
That's true, though systems programming is in practice dominated by the C ABI (great post on that here by the way https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/03/Abiopause.html). Zig does something quite special that puts it ahead of the crowd in this space; It can import and use C libraries as easily as C does (no bindings required), and it can itself be built into a C library, auto-generating the required C headers.
Its a really hard option for instructors who aren't computer folks and stuck at home. The Business tier allows for 250 participants which is damn good for most classes. I get the feeling a lot of schools will come up with the money for a couple of months for a paid service. We're out $380 a month for our 20 instructors. Also, some of the paid services are allowing schools to use free accounts.
ℚ[π] is not an algebraic extension of ℚ.
https://www.gq.com/story/inside-americas-coronavirus-testing...
Should I be worried about the hantavirus?
3 more open startups were added to the list! :D
thanks, I really appreciate the kind words!
I'm all for calling out Google where it's warranted, but come on, I think the simplest explanation for this (reducing default bandwidth - note it doesn't prevent people from manually choosing HD - helps the world without costing Google much of anything) is the correct one. Lowering their bandwidth isn't going to make a lick of difference in their overall stock price one way or the other.
earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669467
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>The point is that "discover an animal that doesn't breathe oxygen" is purely a word semantic game.

I still don't understand your point. This species is an animal, according to accepted taxonomy.
> A “useful real” is just a real number that can be precisely described (not just approximated!) by some symbolic notation. Obviously, this definition is loose and depends greatly on your choice of symbols and their definitions.

In fact, the definition is necessarily loose. If you could make it precise then you could carry out Cantor's diagonalisation procedure to produce a precise description of a real which couldn't be precisely described, a contradiction.
So you don't think refunding non-refundable tickets had anything to do with it?

When you buy a ticket, that money is used to buy gas, pay wages, pay debt, etc. That money is not typically refundable, unless you pay a higher ticket price as an insurance premium against the risk you need a refund. Can you ask an employee for wages back, a gas supplier for a return, or a creditor for a stop payment? As a courtesy, the airlines refunded all tickets (which is a lot of money). Now they don't have a lot of cash. That is not fair, at all.

A lot of companies are funded with cheap debt and are not at all affected by the shutdown because their industry is unaffected by the government's meddling. In fact, they're making a lot of money right now.
UC Berkeley to postpone commencement due to coronavirus
necessity is the mother of invention
In NYC more than half of the population doesn't own a car.
> latency

AIUI google uses BBR which attempts to not fill up buffers and thus only add minimal extra latency. Plus in many cases the last mile is the bottleneck, in which case proper queue management on the router or its counterpart can keep the latency low. I think fq-pie is a mandatory part of docsis 3.1 for that reason.

Congestion should only result in limited bandwidth, not in significant latency spikes, and youtube will automatically lower resolution anyway if available bandwidth is too low to sustain playback.

So no changes should be needed at this point.
It is a balancing act, but we need to watch out that we're not letting the economy run the show based on things like overinflated valuations and speculation, which at the first sign of trouble, implode on themselves at almost a 50% loss.

How much actual value(quality of life) is really being generated here? How much of it is hype, bandwagons, and charades? How sustainable is it and what safety nets are available when the bottom falls out? During this time you also think about how many people are telecommuting effectively right now, and how much downtown economies and real estate relies on everyone getting in their car, or on a bus/train going downtown each morning, and then the knock on effects this has on the environment.

A lot of people don't want to hear pessimism or realism, they want to see growth, growth and growth. Growth at all other costs can still result in the side effect of quality of life improvements, but unlimited economic growth has not been sustainable, and we've had quite a few boom and bust cycles the last 2 decades now. If you're designing the economy to continually boom & bust, it's hard not to expect eventual economic destruction. It's not a matter of "not letting it happen", it's a matter of that's how it's been designed. It's what it does.
The "benefit" obtained by rent is, mainly, permission.

When the authoer says landlords don't provide much benefit to society, I think they are comparing against a society in which landlords don't exist.

The author pays rent because they have no choice if they want permission to use a property; all available properties are owned by landlords.

(You can tell it's more about permission than service provided, because there are so many empty buildings, and many people would be delighted to be permitted to just go ahead and use them.)

In the alternative society where landlords don't exist, the author would not need to pay for permission. The "marginal" benefit is other things of value, such as making a nice place, and upkeep and repairs, which many landlords don't do much of.
What worries me about this move from Apple is that it may stifle creativity on the platform.

Apple is working closely with Little Snitch to provide them with APIs with the features they need. Fine.

But would Little Snitch exist if there were no Kernel Extensions?
Note that in mathematics, when not otherwise specified, sets are typically compared by inclusion, not by cardinality. No mathematician would say "set Y lies between X and Z" to mean |X|<|Y|<|Z| and expect to be understood, unless there was some particular context to suggest that interpretation. It would in general be understood to mean, as it does here, that X is a subset of Y which is a subset of Z.
I don't remember the exact start date when people started noticing we had severely fucked this up, but it's been a common refrain in the media for the last month at least. If you're still asking "where was the media" NOW then you need to seriously reevaluate what media you're paying attention to, because the ones you're looking at are doing you a big disservice.

Here's one from a month ago: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-28/corona...

Ten days before that, people were becoming aware of asymptomatic carriers which should've triggered a huge testing effort to try to prevent community spread: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-18/report-show...

Less awareness of it in late January: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/coronavi...
South Korea didn't do well just because they had supplies. They were able to test mind boggling number of people nearly from day one, which meant they could do contact tracing as fast as humanly possible and stop new cess as they were spread. And yes, the initial CDC test production we were promised would have been on par with South Korea's initial response. We had a chance to slow this down and the CDC blew it, then lied about it for weeks.
Perhaps I missed this from the blog post since it's unfamiliar to me. Can you compile Linux with this? Like, could you really straight up use this is a drop-in replacement for a whole Gentoo system?
To be serious, anything but Confluence. I have had enough with that and have to continue endure its existence for many more years. I use RST when I'm programming in PyCharm (support out of box I think), and use MD in other places.

BTW I think Typora is a nice MD tool as it supports copy-paste of screenshots, extremely useful when writing tech documents.
How I became a bitter programmer. (1995-2020)
Hell is other peoples' algorithmic choices. My GC-fu isn't high level enough to comment on this one, but I just spent the last two days suffering in dependency hell because someone thought it would be a good idea to use a full-blown SAT solver for package management. Grr.
Google has private fibers to shovel things between their data centers. And the point of a CDN is that it acts as a force multiplier. You cache once and it can serve the same video to many users, conversely this means far less data needs to traverse many hops
The cross compiling features of Zig look fantastic! Installation is so easy, just downloading and extracting a single file.

Should every compiler stack have prioritized cross compilation over other features? (I vote: YES). Cross compiling programs has always been a PITA for most languages.

It would be great if Zig cc could be paired with vcpkg [1] for a nice cross-compiling development environment. Looks like vckpg requires a C++ compiler though.

1: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
Using your work email doesn't remove your name. Both you and your employer get the credit.
> no offense

Of course no offense. You don't have a history of the most brutal systematic slavery in history and the ensuing racism that persists to this day. European subjugation and mockery of Africa is older and has left wounds that have had more time to heal. The wounds are still fresh in the US and they keep being reopened, so it's of course natural for them to still hurt in the US.
That's a very good illustration of the danger of demagoguery. If someone not already in the habit of looking for any reason to keep foreigners out proposed it, maybe it would have been taken more seriously.
OS X 10.7 is still my favorite default wallpaper. I was surprised to see the author didn't care for it. Given the minimal descriptions for 10.10+, I take it they care more for the abstract blue backgrounds of the earlier releases than for mountains as well.
Google Invents AI That Learns a Key Part of Chip Design
better than nothing... arguably...
Ah! You know, kinda, yeah. Combine educators who can produce detailed lesson plans with performers who can deliver them, kinda like a lecturer and a TA, and it really is reminiscent of the Primer.
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And this is why I argue when some refer to places like Saturn or Jupiter as "hostile toward life" or "Impossible living conditions". They are certainly hostile to they types of organisms with which we're familiar. But as we often find, nature has a way of surprising us.
I also loved the Spirou comics. Le Petit Spirou was very "educational" as a kid.

Agree about the comic book culture, the only people I meet here in the US that have read Belgian comics seem to be other Europeans. But on the other hand, even though I was reading comics voraciously as a kid I knew nothing about DC and Marvel before the comic book movie craze started.