skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our company is working on a language learning application for Japanese [1], which is helping my girlfriend keep sane as it has become a new learning obsession for her, something to decipher gradually to great joy with real results.

If you want to learn a foreign language now is a great time to do some brain training! If you're interested in using our application but the rate is too high please contact us, we do our best not to turn serious learners away if it's a matter of price.

Other things: just getting up early to see the sunrise, helps reset the biological clock and makes the day feel extra meaningful. I prefer to work during the "brightest slice of the day" and feel like more silent creativity can flow.

[1] https://japanesecomplete.com/
> I'm wondering at that level of income, why he doesn't have any cash reserves to carry him through?

Leveraged to the hilt most likely... Lots of fools have discovered how to run their private Ponzi scheme on themselves.
SPA is overused to be sure. But people are also building far more complex things on the web now and some of them are difficult or impossible to do purely with SSR. So pick the right tool for the job but let’s not pretend that we can do everything with just one tool.

And you might say those kinds of applications shouldn’t be built on the web but I’d rather have them on the web than locked up in some proprietary app store with all the centralization and potential abuses of power that allows.
Having watched a significant amount of the hand made hero series (the closest I’ll get to writing games) i’m more inclined to side with the grandparent on this one.

Game dev can be just hardcore programming juggling everything from euler equations to hardware performance budgeting.

Sure you can take the view this are just constraints in a problem solving exercise.

Or it’s highly skilled programming. I fall on the latter view for sure.
Good software is a sequence of good ideas. Deep knowledge of computer science, the tools and frameworks, and the offline side of problem domain including the market mechanics expands the surface area of possible ideas.
Unless I'm missing something, the data for that seems pretty dubious. It says New Zealand has done 120.8 tests per million people, which would be ~4.97*120.8 = 600 tests in total, but NZ has been doing more than double that per day. This data is also 9 days out of date.
I grew up in Southern Illinois near this school district and now live in Western Mass in a school district facing the same problem. We are the largest district geographically in the state and have lots of rural students with no access to the Internet. My wife is an elementary school reading specialist and can’t get in contact with many of her kids. The number one concern for the state Ed leaders is “equity” which for now, while the schools are physically closed, means no online education for anyone in our district.
Some cases like that will definitely slip through. There is a balance between the governments doing strict checks and building a bureaucratic process and providing quick cash injection into the whole economy. It's one of the learnings from TARP [1] where help requests were thoroughly screened and as a result it came too late in many cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
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That comment is about as substantive as many of its sibling comments, I just happen to have expressed the information in a highly elegant / terse way.
Also, that is not flamebait imo, and was not intended as such. The purpose of flamebait is to bait others into an argument, there is no argument to be had with my comment, no lure or hint; it's a simply bold statement. As you can see, no one has replied.
I recently used AfterEffects motion tracking, plus some blurring and glowing effects on a text overlay, to reproduce the jiggling of the telecine process of an old film recently digitized to video, and match the titles and credits at the beginning and end of the original film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrqR9XssJI

I'm in the progress of researching and writing an article about the subject of this video (light pen driven pie menus on a PDP-7 with a 340 vector display, in an early CAD system called PIXIE developed at Cambridge University), which I'll submit to HN when it's ready some time soon I hope.

Neil E. Wiseman, Heinz U. Lemke, John O. Hiles,
PIXIE: A New Approach to Graphical Man-Machine Communication,
Proceedings of 1969 CAD Conference Southampton
IEEE Conference Publication 51, pp. 463–471.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/documents/PIXIE%20a%20new%20...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/library/archives.html

Check out Munching Squares on the same kind of hardware currently running at the Living Computer Museum, with an AM radio so the computer can play its own music synchronized with the graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oRHv-Svwc

Here's the fucking manual!

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/graphics/7-13_340...

(Be sure to order all the luxury add-on options for your 340 Precision Incremental Vector Graphics CRT Display, including the 342 Symbol Generator for drawing text along with your vector graphics, the 370 High Speed Light Pen for pointing at said text and graphics, and definitely the Type 347 Subroutine Option -- a big fan cooled cabinet with a powerful hardware subroutine accelerator that is super useful! Otherwise you have to simulate subroutines in software, which sucks.)

http://www.ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/types
Same thing is happening in Toronto as well.

Airbnbs have destroyed the housing market here and recently the hosts have had to switch to long term rentals... Bringing relief temporarily, but they will be right back to their old ways as soon as this Pandemic is over.

Reddit threads of this discussion on Toronto:

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/fplfke/scumbag_air...

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/fpz6yj/update_scum...
I don't understand it either. Would https://gcc.gnu.org/cwe/123 really hurt so much?
EU probably felt they were justified in their meddling. Meanwhile, we have been eating Danish cinnamon pastries for who knows how long, and by some miracle have not died. And if death by pastry were to become an issue, it would be one [we could solve ourselves](https://www.foedevarestyrelsen.dk/english/Pages/default.aspx).

The entire tyrannical bureaucracy of the EU undoubtedly feel they're doing a great service, while a lot of people feel they're sticking their noses where they don't belong, making problems where none exist to justify their existence.
It enabled whole masses of people to rent their properties out, something they maybe haven't even considered before, be it due to social stigma or technical difficulties, with relatively strong protections of a major corporation behind it. Previously if you wanted to rent an apartment out in a small rural town in Poland, you could.....print some fliers? Buy an ad in a newspaper? Massive pain in the ass basically. But thanks to AirBnb lots of people were able to do it with relative ease, at a benefit to them and those staying in the area. If that isn't benefit to a society then it's only because of a definition of either benefit or society that you picked.
I just looked at the pictures.

What they recommended.

https://aatishb.com/images/2014/08/pizza-fold-hold.png

vs

What I do.

https://assets.bonappetit.com/photos/5a9dd665eb730726d6c7ec1...

If the article said to fold it in half, then we are in agreement. But the picture they provided didn't show that.
Maybe the others here in the forum can tell me, why I should risk buying the pre-order (30% off), when I have no chance of reading a sample chapter yet. (I'm actually thinking of doing this, because I'm looking for a good second book on C after having worked through K&R before.)

When I see that Brian W. Kernighan releases a book, it's an instant buy for me.
Chrome, for example, has banned some adblockers. Makes sense to me.
I guessing it will be a while for AirBnB to IPO.

Also the massive bailouts, the drop in real GDP, may finally lead to inflation and higher interest rates and an end to world wide booming property markets.
Why should you? Perhaps if there are other features of a particular editor that make it worth it. I'm otherwise not one to defend anything that's potentially unnecessarily slow :)
> I began doing gig work while deathly ill and homeless.

> 60 percent of people are at least moderately handicapped. Most downplay it and don't want to wear the label "handicapped" or "disabled." Such people benefit enormously from having more control over their lives

I don't know you nor your story and this isn't a comment about you personally, but writing that kind of sentences with a straight face to defend the gig economy is such a weird thing. You shouldn't have to work while "deathly ill", you shouldn't need the gig economy to survive while handicapped.
My friend used to have a playlist on iTunes called "sleep mix". 3-4 hours of lullabies, Satie, harp music, etc.

The last track? The Penderecki Threnody

RIP
We self-host CodiMD as well. It's great for collaborative technical writing, such as software analysis and design specs. It lets the developers just use Markdown, which is really great when dealing with code samples (triple-backtick blocks!).

WriteMD doesn't look like it can compete with CodiMD, which is free software and can be hosted locally — two huge advantages. Perhaps it'll improve though. Always good to know of alternatives.
At least the wealthy have placed the urgency of the situation above the economy.
I’ve just looked into this - it looks excellent. Can I ask: is this an all-round superior solution to running your own pi-hole?

I set up dual redundant pi-holes on raspberry pi 4s on my home network but switching all devices to NextDNS would give me access to filtered DNS even when away from home, plus save me the trouble of running two raspis (including two Ubuntu instances) just for that purpose.

Could anyone knowledgeable in such things suggest any downsides to a wholesale switch?
The Mid-European political scene isn't as conducive to freedom/human rights issue, as say .. the USA and its coalition used to be.

There is definitely a swing towards less-free societies in the world today. We're getting our rights eroded daily, it seems.

Here in Austria, it has been enlightening to witness the general publics' resistance to the practical actions being enacted by its government to protect citizens from the pandemic. On the one hand, I'm quite proud of my distrusting-of-government associates, inasmuch as I don't really believe we should slavishly obey our rulers without question, but on the other hand I'm quite concerned that the mob mentality/collectivity is ruinous to our survival as a culture in the long run.

It seems we are weeks away from disaster, unless something effective is done - and in the meantime the very strong Viennese anarchist/neo-Marxist caricature truly seems to be more willing to pitch us all into the abyss in order to wreck it all, for future refactoring, rather than help a majority survive.

Time will tell how productive these sociological phenomena will treat us all.
Anyone have good sources on what foods aren't dependant on farm labor? Can the world get by on them for now? I.e. corn, beans & oil? Maybe apples?
So the 'Bush' is so filled with excrement it cant function? Appropriately named :)
The iPhone 6s would have gotten 5 years of os upgrades. But, just because Apple won’t support a device with latest version of iOS, doesn’t mean that it won’t provide security patches and bug fixes. For instance, Apple released bug fix patches for iOS 9 and iOS 10 supporting phones back to 2011 last year.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/22/apple-issues-ios-...

As far as going into the trash. I had an old iPad 1st generation (2010) that last saw an OS upgrade in 2011. I could still download the “last compatible version” of apps like Netflix, Hulu, Plex and Crackle and they still work. iCloud syncing also works with Apple’s iWork apps and the built in apps (except for Notes).
Travelling businessmen, university lecturers, coaches of various kind, tourists, all benefit a society greatly in a number of ways. There's a reason every country has a department in one ministry or another that's solely focused on promoting tourism. Rising housing prices are not the fault of a single company but that of bad policymaking.
I've wondered the same thing ... I also have a small side project to create realistic looking data dumps that can be put in unprotected S3 buckets with the idea that collecting, verifying and selling card data would become harder if only 1% of the data was real.
This is just wrong, here's a quick search and article from Orange County Register listing top paid government workers in California (Since Khan is in CA).

He wouldn't even make the list.

https://www.ocregister.com/2017/08/22/top-california-public-...
Stocks will recover. Of greater concern are workers who cannot afford to miss a paycheck while being otherwise financially responsible, even more so if they have children to provide for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811988#19815635
Buffett is a Democrat.
This is not the authoritarian style of government I expected. It is actually really funny and makes you wonder if we in the west are more in panic than in China. Why do we have to be all so serious while blame other people for not doing their job instead of making some jokes about it.
I see something similar in Prague. Many new furnished (unusual) apartments in center for long term rent.

But I think Airbnb is just a scapegoat for broken market. You can see similar problems in commercial rental market.
Khan Academy is the “local school” right now. Many classrooms are completely unprepared for remote teaching, and Khan Academy is providing relief to the millions of students and teachers having a hard time.
I wrote the novel I'm referring to, and a Computer Graphics textbook (with images and equations and stuff).
Well, it sucks to have your savings halved, but holding stocks doesn't cost you thousands of dollars per month
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The point of a conversion tool isn't to fix anything. The point is preserving behavior, even if that behavior is buggy.
That's exactly my point with stocks and being overleveraged on them. You may not be able to wait for them to recover if you lose your regular incone. Also recovery can take decades, depending on how this plays out. May also be rather quick.
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The playback issue (and the reason video editing went so smoothly) is probably because of hardware video codex support. Mobile devices, iPhone or otherwise, are miles ahead of most desktop graphics cards when it comes to video codec support.

H.265 support in graphics cards and consumer processors has laughably lacked behind on mobile, probably because of licensing.

There's also the fact that a lot of video applications on Windows don't enable hardware decoding by default out of fear of encountering buggy drivers or hardware.

On mobile there's basically only one way to decode video, which makes use of all the phone's dedicated hardware, while on desktop applications can use a wide variety of codecs. Then comes the decision whether to decode on the CPU or GPU, as both have hardware decoding support these days, or to fall back to software decoding because the specific combination of codec and bit depth wasn't supported by the hardware of choice.

Then there's the fact that Apple logically encodes video the camera records into a format that iMovie is well optimised for. If you encode video with your PC's GPU, it'll probably be just as snappy playing back while the iPhone video might still be struggling.
Notepad++ can edit such files. At least that is what I routinely use for much larger files in Windows. Even 500k of text is small fry.
He deserves every penny and more. He’s brought so much knowledge to the world.

For reference, there are many developers making more than that in SV, and they don’t run their organizations.
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> Someone please tell me one benefit of Airbnb for society

It has been an enormous benefit to travelers of all kinds. It has made a huge variety of properties available for short-term rental, and because these rentals are often less expensive than alternatives, it has made travel possible for many who previously couldn't afford it.

The benefits are greatest for those who want to travel to expensive places, and to places that have few hotels -- that is, for travelers interested in most of the world's destinations.

Airbnb has also helped ordinary people to fight back against the powerful hotel lobbies. Perhaps this isn't a problem in some countries. But it is a grave problem in the United States, where the hotels fight hard to prevent any competition. See especially New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/technology/inside-the-hot....

(I've used Airbnb a few times but otherwise have no connection to it.)
Certainly there are plenty of institutions hoping to influence the media to report stories in a particular way. However, that fact doesn't address the suggestion of the original poster, which was that the media as a whole is deliberately trying to find stories of Chinese doom and gloom. I don't think that's true.

Putting aside the fact that in countries with a free press it's hard to ascribe any one outlook to the media as a whole, my feeling is that most media organizations do honestly hope to inform their readers. But there is lots of information out there, and there are editorial decisions to be made around what makes the cut or how deep to dig on a story. There is no objective way to make those decisions, although presumably the interests of the readers are considered.

Of course, it's no big secret that editors and reporters are biased, or that they can be influenced. Fortunately in countries where there is freedom of speech, people have the freedom to report on that too.

The thing about China specifically is that people in other countries are hungry for information on China because it is a rising global superpower. So it makes sense that the media wants to jump on any China story they can get. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances i mentioned before, good stories on China are thin on the ground. As a result i think there is probably too much hearsay and propaganda (from whatever side) seeping into the reporting. I don't think that's deliberate on the media's behalf, i think it's more just a result of them being hobbled by a regime that is actively hostile to press freedom.
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But not nearly as reliable.
Link to GAO report:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705463.pdf
I’m a big fan of Rare Seeds as well. I got a big order from them early this year.
Last time a was in London on six month contract, Airbnb was more affordable option. Normal landlord wanted an arm and leg.
In the US each state sets their own requirements for what is street legal. Each state also determines their own vehicle inspection requirements which vary from none to annual.
You mean you're guessing I'm a pointless pedant? Thank you for your contribution to my Sunday headache.
basic html support doesn't work on earlier versions of ios safari due to the wrong decision that safari is bundled to ios.

you heard safari is the new internet explorer? that's why it's impractical and unsafe to use earlier versions of ios.
Only nazis support censorship.
I've done this in various formats, including single editor, scrivener, and so forth.

I've found that the process of breaking a book up into "chunks" to be a useful one to me. If I can't chunk it, there's probably something wrong with the structure.

But hell, if what you have works for you, go for it. I'm currently using the LeanPub build system which seems to be just enough structure without getting in the way.
On the one hand, I love the IA and really hate to see them burn Bridges/risk getting shut down.

On the other hand, this crisis is going to require bold action and moving faster than the speed of money and negotiation. I was hoping to see 'screw it, everything is free' from hospitals or someone knocking off ventilator designs but hey, this is a start.
I'm not sure if we will be able to separate the confounding factors such as economic impact at the population level. Do you have an idea how this can be done?
I have seen a few studies using this method to look at excess mortality during the great recession [1],[2], but there wasn't a pandemic at the same time.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070776/
It takes at least 2 weeks until the number of deaths starts to decrease. Look at the graph in the weeks to come and you will notice the difference.
At the level Berkshire operates at the calculation is different from generically investing in the market. Buffet buys companies, or big chunks of them, so what matters is the risk profile and liquidity of the individual company. Also when he buys by definition he will create the bottom price of the stock. Him buying will make it go up, so he can’t wait until the price hits bottom, he waits until he has the best buying opportunity and that includes beating other potential buyout investors to the deal so what they are doing matters too.

I do agree though, prices have recovered a bit due to the big stimulus package, but there is a lot more bad news to come and markets will react to that.
Part of me thinks these folks making an issue of the CEOs pay and therefore not donating are trolls and that they may have interests in Coursera, edx, etc., and don't like having to compete with Khan Academy.
I've been a user since it was first mentioned on HN and the major issue at the moment is the performance. I often have to turn it off to get sites to resolve at all, otherwise chrome hangs indefinitely.

Having said that it's free (beta) right now so that's a statement of fact and by no means a complaint
Can someone help inform me better: I heard there are no significant mutations yet, but I also heard there are 2 "strains": S-cov and L-cov, where S-cov is a more recent and less dangerous variation.

Is this right?
Uniformity across regimes suggests a strong underlying correspondence.
Yeah, thats a bit of a stretch tho.. The article really emphasizes 'real world problems' .. They are clearly thinking building some kind of web-app like uber or airbnb or whatever.

Like, you could also say that I'm solving the real world problem of, 'this exact game not existing, cus these specific people would love to play it but it doesnt exist' .. But that is a super-stretch.
NHS was gutted by Torys. "Creaking" gives a false sense of inherent model failure.
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> Not in my experience, though admittedly I live in London.

Well outside of London it is generally awful. TBH London might as well be another planet when compared to the rest of the England (same goes for Manchester and Birmingham, I stay far away).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46444109

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/britains-pothole-probl...

I currently live near Manchester and before that Hampshire. So that is two opposite ends of the country pretty much and it is the problem there. So my experience seems to reflect that of what is reported.

>I'm sure you realize that council tax is supposed to pay for a lot of things, and that council incomes are way down over the past 10 years.

So? It has been like this since the late 90s. I remember my father complaining about it since then. In anycase the roads are awful.
Excellent justification for a business model right here: "And students are already accustomed to [being screwed over]."
Sure, I could edit chapters, or even "acts", separately, and I did for some time; but the novel is a single work, and searching text, replacing text, etc, is much simpler with a single file.
You could help future readers by mentioning the name of your discovered-editor.

(Me? I'd use Emacs..)
Top Wuhan doctor recovered from Covid-19 offers tips on home isolation