skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes people and institutions who say "I am going to focus on nice-sounding nebulous goals instead of this measurable stuff" achieve neither. I'd like to keep some measurable goals in school system.

But maybe we could have both. Self-directed learning, and then participating in Pisa tests. With no bad consequences for the student if they utterly fail because they studied something else. But to have some feedback like "while you congratulate yourself on this and that, literacy in your country is the worst in the world".
What part of their narration is unreliable ?
Give the lockdown a few more weeks, his hair is getting there ;)
Please, we cannot continue lockdowns. This is after less than 8 weeks of these suicidal policies.
Why would it? Everyone is trying to avoid getting infected (and dying). Isn't that what we should do?

Herd immunity means "it's killed as many people as it could".
What are you doing this weekend?
> Who the message they received is _to_ in the sense of which Signal account it's for, they need to know

And, by extension, the exact real world identity and location of this person.

Signal promises not to store metadata, but definitively have access to it.
That's basically Kerberos, which ad is "built" on and extends. I believe both Kerberos and ad require the server to be known to the ad or Kerberos master.
Also well worth reading: A constructive look on TempleOS http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
Controversial take:

Freedom is not the same thing as anarchy. Freedom comes from Constitution and some form of state that enforces laws, and protects it's citizens. (Paraphrasing Lessig's CODE 2.0 http://www.codev2.cc/ from 1999!)

Is it possible, that in order to gain freedom the internet has to become more regulated not less?

If this is the case, how can we do this?

There are no international bodies that have been successful at regulating the internet as a whole.
So far regulation of the internet has effectively come from large governments like the US/EU which are limited in scope and had great trouble being effectively enforced.

Given that there are no global institutions, that can effectively enforce internet regulation:
Is there any way around some form of segregation of the internet along national borders (EU/US/CN/..), that allows the states to enforce their rules within their part of the internet, and keep out bad actors from elsewhere?
In January they said the virus doesn't transmit between humans. Then they said travel restrictions are xenophobic. Then they said the world should thank China for its efforts.
The Age of the Homebody Has Only Begun
Unpopular opinion (for HN maybe :) - the WHO, which does not solely deal with infectious diseases, much to the world's chagrin, is doing the best job that they can considering the situation. On average the advice from the WHO on a whole range of medical topics has been nothing but excellent, and I am loathe to discount them entirely based on a few press statements that have been taken wildly out of context by the media and the internet as a whole. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when HN unfailingly dogpiles onto the WHO in yet another thread. Are people missing the forest for the trees?
It seems pretty clear that at least some of the WHO leadership are being compensated directly or indirectly by the CCP. Short of a complete management purge and starting over I don't see how they will ever regain any credibility at this point.
I think pretty much everyone agrees with you on that, I haven't seen anyone advocate that students _should_ be treated all alike. It's just that providing individual guidance requires more teachers and thus more money...

And then someone comes in and suggests that we don't need so many new teachers if we "use technology" to help fill the need, like some learning app could be the silver bullet that revolutionizes teaching. Maybe it will some day, but seeing what we've had so far I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting to see that happen.
The artifacts may be exaggerated there, as that image got JPEG compressed twice - once by me, and then Imgur did it again and made it smaller (edit: actually, can't see a difference). Here, I've uploaded it as a PNG, so I don't think Imgur messed with it https://i.imgur.com/uzlR3Fj.png

WEBP can do better (uploaded as PNG): https://i.imgur.com/w8XnHda.png
Just that 32GB isn’t considered “a lot” I guess.

Besides DDR4 SODIMM 32GB modules exist, if 32GB is what you want you just buy it off Amazon and put it in. Don’t have to mess around with “what they offer us the privilege to be able to purchase” like with soldered RAM.
Like most of what is not strictly “scientific “ (quoted because this term is being abused so much today that it would be hilarious were it not for the inflicted suffering).

And no: just trying to clear China’s laboratories from guilt is NOT scientific.
The diamond princess fatality rate has been revised and is now around 1.5%
Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
Censorship, where have I heard that? Twitter, YouTube etc., all of them censor and de-platform people.
I wish Finland best of luck in this (no irony), but personally I am very skeptical. While a fraction of time spent this (and/or for some kids) this way may be great, I personally learned basics best in a more traditional approach of class time, a list of problems to solve and a book that I could read alone at my own pace. I will be very interested in what comes out after a few years, thanks for posting.
I have in the past built websites where I assumed that Part A would be the most popular part and so put a lot of effort and work into Part A. Less effort was put into Parts B, C, D etc.

When I launched it and let it run for a while, it turned out - thanks to analytics - that Part B was the run-away success that was getting lots of search-engine traffic and 90% of the visits to the site.

Had I not had analytics then I'd not have known that and would not know which parts of the site people valued. As a result I put the larger part of my focus into Part B instead.
I've tried many, many things, because my main problem is that I'm not passionate enough to learn something on my own.

When you have passion, learning flows freely in your mind, and you don't need much discipline.
But when you're not a natural, you need to create passion through discipline.

So far, what's been successful for me is :

1. Set ONE very specific goal upfront : for instance, "finish this coursera course completely until I get the certification"

2. Only go through courses that are self-contained, straightforward, and that have at least 60% practice for 40% theory. (youtube videos & books are great when you already have that passion and interest in a subject, but if you don't, you'll just waste your time and energy unless the book is really well written and entertaining)

3. 20min a day, every day. You can do more, but you cannot do less. Set an alarm clock, turn off notifications, and just go through these 20 minutes, even if you don't make progress

It doesn't matter if you don't make any progress during these 20 minutes : what matters is that you get into a habit.
This concept is very well-known : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
After 3-4 weeks, if you keep at it, you WILL start enjoying it, and you WILL create some passion inside you.
When you start enjoying the learning process, you'll start getting your results.

4. Give yourself some gratification for doing the work : I use the application "way of life" https://wayoflifeapp.com/. Every day when I go through the 20minutes, I mark a green check on the app, and it's sufficient to make me feel good about it. If I don't do the work, I mark a red check, and it makes me feel bad, so I really want to avoid that :)

Good luck !
> But the 1% for the diamond princess is quite high and I think that number was cited for caution.

Why? The Diamond Princess has had 14 fatalities out of 712 cases which implies a fatality rate of 2%, with 8 unresolved cases still in the hospital that could push it even higher.
Based on some quick searching, it looks like Tox doesn't support offline messaging. Not saying that is the reasoning, but I thought it was interesting. That said, it does looks like it's worth considering overall!
The only important factor is Pixel density IMHO.
And this is where Apple consistently get it right
Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories are such a poor man’s distraction.
If you think Toronto is a functioning city, I suggest you do some traveling.
I read the article. I’m still not sure what the podcast is about. What is it about?
To go along the self-hosting crowd, the whole decentralized web with alternatives to HTTP is solving issues like uptime and low upstream bandwidth by distributing distribution itself, the way bittorrent does. Dat (via beaker browser) and zeronet come to mind.

Contrapoint: content must be static
I've seen test numbers where the top 5% group learn around 5-10x faster than the 50% group. The numbers hold for short term recall, long term recall, problem solving, critical and creative thinking, etc.

There is no way "school" can equalise this. There is no reason to keep stuffing everyone in one box.
> Worth noting also that Sweden has the 6th highest case fatality rate in Europe (other Nordic countries are near the bottom of that list).

It's very hard to make any proper comparisons of numbers before this has run its course. What if Sweden doesn't have a second wave but other countries do?
Someone should do a Tell HN on it.
Is the server doing the hosting isolated from your regular network?
Covid-19 Manage Crowd or Limit People Realtime in Your Property
Sorry but this is just hopelessly naive. Have you seen their handling of Taiwan, their statements parroting CCP propaganda in January claiming the virus was not transmissible between humans, their condemnation of travel restrictions as xenophobic? I could go on.....
Login to Steam. Go to your profile page, look for "Games Owned"

That is a lie. What it should say is "Licenses Owned".

Their EULA, and any additional you agree to as part of the purchase process make it clear (some do it better than others) that you do NOT own the game. You have a license to play it, and that license can be revoked.

Battle.net, Origin and others have the same.

They can take anything away.
Memory power consumption is overlooked but real, and they increase as capacity increase, so if customers aren’t going to use up it makes sense not to offer too much capacity.
> because I end up using the time being unproductive elsewhere.

Isn't that literally the point? If you can do your task in 10% less time, and then end up spending that 10% procrastinating on HN, then you still win - the task gets done, and you also get to sneak in something nice. And if you find you'd rather spend that time on something else, or doing more work to finish everything faster, you can choose to do so. Optimizing work gives you choice what to do with the time saved; the default may be that you waste it, but now you have options.
Apart from the impossibility of doing the “best” (as there is no such thing except in mathematics), it is not a frw press statements. It is knee-jerking before China.

Like always.
Codidact (https://codidact.org) has been born out of all the recent (and not so recent) drama over at SE. It is looking to do exactly the things you describe.
For what it's worth this was an interesting HN post on use of volumetric Monte Carlo ML to design build a better basketball backboard :

Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653
They said wearing masks does not help decrease infectious spread. They actually claimed that wearing masks can increase infectious spread because of improperly wearing it.
I don't follow. Could you ellaborate?
It is funny for non americans to read opinions of americans which are obviously implanted by the US media narative. Yeah, China is all bad, and the US never influenced any international organisation or government? And saying that WHO should be dismanteled because of some errors on Covid handling (while working with early and unreliable data) is just plain dangerous and childish (and influenced by Tramp narrative with which he wants to save himself from concequences from his own wrong doing).
A representative also pretended his audio went out when asked about Taiwan.
The diamond princess was a very high age group though, very far away from the general population average age.
> I can do a lot of things in seconds that take VS Code users minutes or hours.

Out of curiosity could you provide some examples of some of these?
I came across this the other day on reddit. It is another cfr study with much lower rates. https://reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g6nmtf/_/foatvgv/?cont...

There’s other highly tested populations with lower CFRs and then there’s IFR estimates based on serology and indirect estimates on CFR that slew much lower than 1%
> Now, I just don't get it. What are emacs users customizing so intensely that no other environment can match it?

I thing it's a bit between exploring the possibilities of your tools, expressing yourself in some "divine art" and procrastinating under the guise of being productive. There is definitly a high amount of good customizing possible with emacs, but from my observation many end also in the trap of over-custimizing, to the point where it becomes harmful. Not to forgotten all the worthless oversmart solutions build in emacs, beacuse emacs gives them the means to do it.

> The level of customization that emacs supports seems unnecessary to me.

Emacs is a platform for textual and programatic interfaces. Similar to web-technologie. As such you can tweak little things, but also build whole apps dedicated to specific usecases with it.

> Can you talk about a few use cases where emacs is just better than an IDE could be?

It's not better than IDE, but similar level as IDE. Just that you are able to do it yourself. With an IDE, if you have a specific demand like integrating some new tool, or handling some specific filetype, you depend on the producer to build it into the IDE. Just recently IDEs have also learned to use plugins, to allow you build some stuff yourself. Ok, recently was 15-20 years ago, but emacs is 40 years old, predating them all.
I wouldn't want to discount them entirely, but their recent foray into TCM has left me less than entirely on-side. On average I'm sure they do a great job, but they're not perfect and should be pushing back against damaging woo like this.
Can someone post a TL;DR for those of us who can't watch video?

* What's the vulnerability?

* Has it been patched?

* How do we mitigate it?
> when they need it something fast I simply code it in front of their eyes

"wow it was that easy?? I am vastly overpaying" - heard several times
Testing the testers: solving a customer's private CTF
What conspiracy theories are you referring to exactly? Because just based on facts (Their handling of Taiwan, their statements parroting CCP propaganda in January claiming the virus was not transmissible between humans, their condemnation of travel restrictions as xenophobic etc...) they are pretty clearly not on the side of facts or truth. Make of that what you will, but you can't deny the facts.
I don't think "average advice" is a good metric here -- if you play russian roulette you will "win" on average or even in most cases. What matters is protection from downside which is where the WHO failed when they said the disease was not transmissible between humans and travel restrictions were not necessary.
I do it with tabs in the browser... if there's like 30-40 of them (usually for "reading later and saving any good info"), yeah they get closed. I've yet to miss something...

Notes, not really, there's a ton of them in Keep so I look up some stuff from time to time.

I have a massive collection in OneNote notebooks, and once a year it seems I check them and remember some good stuff, but mostly just how dumb I was before :D
Many videos for those interested in learning more -- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bard+prison+ini... -- but the big show to watch is Lynn Novick's and Ken Burns's College Behind Bars -- https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/college-behind-bars.
All I am saying is that cookies are obsolete. The primary reason cookies are still preferred is due to developer ignorance.
That directive was created because of the abuse of cookies by the personal information abuser
Frotz also works on macOS, and it's on Homebrew. I used it to play Trinity, another Infocom classic!
I am not really good setting up my own server. I would do that, but i am a designer.
Cool, thanks for the insight! I'm now considering attempting this as I've started worrying about memory and how to keep it active and healthy (in my mid 30s but people seem to make a big deal about it).
Ask HN: What terms are best for a reseller of SaaS?
I have reached out to a startup in hopes of forming some sort of partnership/becoming a reseller. Our initial 90 minute conversation went very well. I would be able to reach markets that they would have difficulty in do, due to various connections I have established as well as barriers of language, culture and geography.The ball is in my court and they have asked that I propose something on how we can collaborate i.e financial structure. What kind of agreement that wouldn't come off as too aggressive that would help us both arrive to a win-win solution. They're priced as a SaaS.
Yes, and when he came back and was asked about Taiwan again, he said he already discussed China and ended the conversation. Taiwan doesn't exist according to WHO.
Accessible in USA. Decent documentary...
The WHO also is claiming that Taiwan is just a part of China and the WHO will not accept a free Taiwan. Seems overly political and specific for an "independent" health organization.
You do not want to distribute free beer (or any alcoholic beverage) to hundreds of people confined together for hours and with limited toilets, as in a plane.
FWIW, StackOverflow have (as mentioned in the blog post) deployed a machine learning system for detecting unfriendly comments.
There is ongoing debate about this because the evidence shows only a small positive effect for wearing them, and mask wearing can change behaviour.
GP was referring to the “L” and “S” strain theory I believe, which was debunked. The paper you linked is new, and the “more transmissible” property they discuss may just be the “founder effect” at work. It needs more research.
Please don't say he killed himself when it wasn't confirmed
Yeah, I'm swedish and we are very much self-isolating. We didn't close schools, our idiot state epidemiologist didn't think nursing staff should use masks etc. so lots of elderly got infected. Stockholm infection numbers are insane, and we are probably getting there up north soon too.

Lots of small businesses are defaulting. I'm trying to support my local restaurant by eating lunch there every day.

All in all, it's a mess.
Yes, to anyone paying attention, a product labeled as "smart" has been a non-starter.
Goddamn Paypal MFA
Which if true would also likely be due to lack of proper regulation and enforcement.
Like are you going to create another entity in order to do this? Or are you planning to act more in a sales/contractor/referral capacity?
> Australia is in Asia too, close to China

Most geographers would disagree. It's a 12-hour flight from Beijing to Sydney, no closer than Beijing to San Francisco.
The intelligence agencies have been clear there is no evidence of that. Do not confuse the US government’s position with the rantings of an old orange racist.
> If you don't use process isolation, every task can overwrite the heap and stack of every other running task (including the OS kernel and drivers!).

This is not a concern if all code is rigorously checked for memory safety which is quite feasible in principle, and possibly already the case for some uses of WASM/WASI. (Native binary code would need to be annotated with low-level proofs, to be checked by the OS.)
Yup :) I'm running 5 KVM virtual machines, all behind a KVM NAT interface. They're not necessarily all on one laptop haha, but still on-premise. I can do live migrations between the hardware boxes with KVM without restarting the machines. Pretty cool stuff. Then they connect to a public-facing VPS that shuttles traffic to and from. I've tested out different ratelimiting strategies too. KVM's ratelimitter is surprisingly accurate. Probably gonna stick with a 10 mbps uplink and downlink pipe. Seems consistent and reliable, and still a fraction of my 300 mbps up / 30 mbps down home internet. Doubt my ISP cares about my uploading. Literally if a couple people hop on Zoom, they would be using more internet bandwidth than my servers do.
Thanks I skimmed that thread and the one this HN thread is about. There are so many depressing things. In particular this arrogant and utterly ignorant condemnation of Pull Request-based workflows infuriates me:

> A lot of people have not been contaminated by the entitlement that comes with the "I'm sending a PR, please check it in" generated by the Github culture.

I don't think the person who wrote that has even looked at the pull request review that goes on in high quality emacs packages on GitHub, let alone participated in it. This sort of thing really makes it clear that some of the people on emacs-devel are hopelessly out of alignment with the majority of the people would would willingly contribute to the emacs and emacs lisp package ecosystem.

There are many good reasons not to included packages in core Emacs. A big one is that package authors are working in their own free time and don't want or need to have to prepare an especially bug-free release to coincide with Emacs release cycles. Also they don't want to support users using the old version that is in Emacs.
Yes and no. the theory behind flattening the curve is to try and plateau the infection rates so that hospitals do not become overwhelmed.

If we are going to be in a situation where hospitals have ample capacity, and we figure out a way to combat the symptoms of covid-19 without loss of life, then social distancing restrictions would be lifted immediately.
1,500 out of how many who interact with the USPTO for some reason (e.g. filing a patent [via attorney], researching patents, etc.)? I can't expect large portions of the general population know enough about the patenting process (or even patents in general) to contact the USPTO over this issue.
You know that the US also doesn't recognise Taiwan?
And in fact only a tiny handful of countries do?
> The menubar is stuck in the 90s, the toolbar very very basic, even for the 90s. Window-Splitting is not even an GUI-feature and very basic. Only the tabs are somewhat modern, but also simple

You're confusing GUI with Windows GUI API. That's like complaining that a game like Stellaris barely has any GUI, because if you force it to run in windowed mode, then maybe you'll get a context menu dropping down from the application icon in the top left corner of the window.

Emacs absolutely has a GUI. It happens to be drawn almost entirely from characters, but it's a GUI. It uses the language, can display pixel graphics (in GUI-app mode), and even supports pointer devices. The fact that 99% of that GUI is a TUI is actually a benefit (you can also use it from terminal). And with third-party plugins, it has all the sophisticated GUI controls you could dream of, except unlike in traditional GUIs, they're fully interoperable.

A good comparison may be that Emacs is the OS that ships with a tiling WM, and most people unaware of that just use it to tile notepad windows.
I feel like Sweden's approach is a red herring. Everything I've read suggests that life in Sweden right now is very similar to other countries with more restrictive lockdowns. Like restaurants/shops haven't been forced to close, but many have closed anyway because business is down 80-90%. And they're definitely not going to get to herd immunity any time soon. The percentage of people exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in Stockholm is only slightly higher than New York City.
I wonder what they use on the backend. Is it .NET Core?