skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started learning again last week. This is now attempt #3 to learn Japanese for me and this time I'm coming at it differently to before. I tried using WaniKani in the past, and although it was good it wasn't quite what I needed.

This time around I'm instead primarily using Anki, and I have 4 main decks. A hiragana/katakana deck, a WaniKani kanji deck, a KanjiDamage deck, and a custom deck for anything else I want to learn. I work through the first three decks each day, but I'm not great at learning through memorisation, so instead the third deck is where I put things I actually want to learn; useful phrases, text from manga that I didn't know, poetry, and regional dialect words. I've bought a moderate amount of Japanese-language manga (CDJapan ships internationally, and buyee.jp is great), and I'm trying to acquire more poetry books (send me recommendations if you have them!)

Ultimately this means I'm learning lots of fairly obscure stuff early on (like how nakagama is a billhook) but as that's what I'm interested in it's far more likely to hold my attention. And my short-term goal is to be able to write in the various Japanese poetry forms.

Kanji is still immensely frustrating to learn, no matter the techniques used. I am ultimately resigned to learning it though; in my lifetime I must learn a second language, and Japanese is one of the few that has ever held my interest.
> Printing more would ensure currency debasement.

Lot of countries around the world intentionally debase their currency to stay competitive. It's a valid monetary instrument. In the short term, currency debasement would lower the standard of living of Americans, but it would make their labor competitive.
They want to deflect blame from the US parties on the level of disorganization during the election. They did that last time by blaming Russia for the failures of the 2016 campaign and that playbook resulted in 3 years of driving liberals insane over "Russiagate", which turned out to have barely any evidence beyond a few Facebook groups. That worked really well, so they'll do it again.
As much of running it on a pregnancy test as nikola's valuation.

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453246536028160
How (Supposedly) Rational People Make Decisions
Something that's important to note:

Foreign actors are primarily interested in sowing chaos, and only secondarily interested (at most) in getting a particular candidate elected. The best case scenario for those who want to interfere with the election is for the US government to be widely perceived as delegitimized and ineffectual, which opens up space for them to pursue their own interests, which are often not the interests of the United States or regional neighbors.

That doesn't mean domestic actors won't be doing things that delegimitimize the election on their own terms, but it does mean it will be very hard to tell genuine criticism from foreign-sponsored agitprop. The best thing to do is to listen to those who are ostensibly on your own side with a high dose of skepticism.
It was meant as repatriation of resources back to the downtrodden, as all well meaning ideas start off....

True, am not against that, but without checks and balances, as as happened in India, it ends up creating another set of problems ( poor Brahmins now complain of lack of opportunities).

The caste system was not as rigid before, it was more a system around professions ( Brahmins - intellectual class, the Kshatriyas - warriors, Vyshya - Merchants), until someone at the top decided it did not have to be based on that anymore.
and if they hadn't waited so long to update to a sane file format no one would complain but they waited until 2007 to fix the format long after the dos era memory excuse had long ceased to be an issue. even then they only did it to allow them to shoe horn their format in as the iso standard after one was already selected bribing there way through the process.
Yes, but the name "Linux Subsystem for Windows" would have been much less confusing.
Serious question, simply put: why? Was this done for academic reasons, or is there an application for this technology in mind?
True and what’s more, Microsoft recently deprecated a load of Wi 32 native controls like Menubar and Toolbar where they now want you to migrate to the managed code / styled MenuStrip and ToolStrip.
If one considers a university as a hedge fund with an education and research division, then it is rather sensible to have policies designed to increase the likelihood of wealthy individuals providing incoming capital.

I was in graduate school when I first learned that writing good grant proposals (and other skills related to acquiring large quantities of money) was arguably more valuable than doing good science.
I worked for two consultancies that basically created apps for multiple startups and we used .NET Core in almost all projects. I don't really have comparison because besides simple, personal Django projects I never had much experience with Python but I find .NET Core actually enjoyable(I come from Android Java/Kotlin world). I don't like the community which is, mostly still stuck in the enterprise(though that's changing alowly) and often feels like an MS cult, but otherwise, there's nothing bad I could really say about .NET. Especially when paired with Azure ecosystem, it's really easy do develop and deploy, it's really fast, easy to work with thanks to Entity Framework and stuff like LINQ, there's a lot of choice in libraries. Some are still stuck in .NET Framework(Windows) world, but most of Nugets already implement at least netstandard2.0 which allows you to use them with Core. In overall, especially now with Blazor becoming a thing, I'd recommend at least trying it out.
I've been unable to find any NHS data that supports your point.

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75/v1

> Methods: We first estimated YLL from COVID-19 using standard WHO life tables, based on published age/sex data from COVID-19 deaths in Italy. We then used aggregate data on number/type of LTCs to model likely combinations of LTCs among people dying with COVID-19. From these, we used routine UK healthcare data to estimate life expectancy based on age/sex/different combinations of LTCs. We then calculated YLL based on age, sex and type of LTCs and multimorbidity count.

> Results: Using the standard WHO life tables, YLL per COVID-19 death was 14 for men and 12 for women. After adjustment for number and type of LTCs, the mean YLL was slightly lower, but remained high (13 and 11 years for men and women, respectively). The number and type of LTCs led to wide variability in the estimated YLL at a given age (e.g. at ≥80 years, YLL was >10 years for people with 0 LTCs, and <3 years for people with ≥6).

14 years for men and 12 years for women.

Have a look at the ICNARC data. https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

Of the 10834 patients admitted to ICUs in England and Wales so far the mean age was 58.8.

9580 of these patients were able to live without assistance in daily activities.

1094 had some assistance.

Just 40 had total assistance.

These are the people most at risk of death (they're ICU patients), but they're not the frail group of 90 year olds that you're making them out to be.
We're talking about SLC caching in the flash itself in addition to any DRAM cache. The advantage of SLC cache is temporarily faster writes but the disadvantage is that write performance is variable.
To be clear submitting a patch to fix it is exactly what the author of the above reporter did.
Well, obviously. But presumably the ... is meant to imply that this is the summation of 1/(10^(x(x+3)/2)).
Seconded! It gives very good flavor of life working at Berkeley and living there, and also the Internet of the day: https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...
Thanks for following up!

Your point about capital requirements is well made. This is what I was hinting at (but did not explain) in my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538786

> The obvious next question is: what, if any, mechanism
> puts a limit on bank X's ability to lend? If it
> considers a borrower credit-worthy for a $1 billion
> unsecured loan, can it just make the loan, even if the
> loan is much larger than the bank's existing balance
> sheet? What will happen when the borrower tries to spend
> some of the money with a customers of bank Y or Z?

The answer is, of course, the capitalization requirements you described above mean that (i) no, it can't make arbitrarily large loans, and (ii) the bank should hopefully have enough liquid assets to satisfy redemption of demand deposits.
College is an academic pursuit. What other type of "merit" besides academic merit could possibly be relevant when we're talking about college admissions? I mean maybe alcohol tolerance, but...
Feels pretty nasty - I host a single droplet for non-critical stuff, and I can't get any details from the console for it either. Not sure if it's still running in the background or completely dead.

Be interesting to see how long it goes on for, its been a few hours now with no updates.

https://twitter.com/DOStatus/status/1308495463092371456 <-- Twitter seems to be collecting people asking, but not really much in the public eye.

Waits patiently for an update

EDIT @ 22:16 BST (22:16 UTC)

Just got this as an email. Interesting...
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In order to minimize downtime, we will attempt to perform live migrations in all possible cases. A live migration would result in no downtime, but minor performance decreases in disk I/O and a second or less of packet loss as the network is switched over to the new physical host.

In the event that we are not able to perform a live migration of a Droplet, we will perform an offline migration during which the Droplet will be powered off and migrated offline during the window.

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Yes! The success of the town will be determined by how much money its businesses can bring in from outside the town. I hope to start tech businesses to sustain the town and enable growth.

The big difficulty of traditional cooperatives is that they are subject to local markets for necessities: housing, health care, energy, transportation, and food. By starting a cooperative as a town, we can save big on many of these things.

For example, a cooperative in San Francisco has huge capital costs for each resident for housing. The cost per resident in major cities is dominated by housing. A cooperative built in a rural area has negligible housing costs. But building in a rural area brings some interesting problems.

Health care is also a large cost. The town will have its own clinic to save on that. If the town can grow fast enough, it can build its own hospital and save enormous amounts on health care. The hospital can also earn money by treating people from the surrounding area. I wish to retire in a town with a hospital.

Much modern housing is built without energy efficient options. This is because buyers are either ignorant or they prioritize short-term costs over long-term costs. An extra $200/mo in energy bills isn't so much when you're paying $1000/mo in mortgage. But once the mortgage is paid off, that $200/mo feels like a lot and they regret the decision to skip the architect consultation, triple-pane windows, and heat-recovery ventilators. A cooperative can have the expertise and foresight to optimize for long-term housing energy efficiency. This is good for the environment, the residents, and the cooperative's finances.

Cars use lots of energy. They wear out and depreciate. Accidents destroy quality of life and waste tons of money on medical bills. Roads are extremely expensive to build and maintain. Road damage is proportional to the fourth power of vehicle weight. A town without cars and trucks won't have these costs.
That's a false equivalence
Ask Google. They couldn't put fiber in my city because AT&T told the government to tell them not to.
A Cuckoo’s Egg! Fantastic book.

Cliff stops by here from time to time to comment as well. Here’s a recent comment thread he participated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830277
Has it? When it comes to nation states, do you really think that it would make a meaningful difference whether they hire 10000 people to create propaganda vs having a single AI algorithm? Yes, it would be a win in terms of cost, but creating propaganda is not a resource-limited endeavor for a large nation state.
If the county is bankrupt but the people in it are enjoying a high standard of living then I would call that "working"

Government's job is to provide for its constituents as prescribed by said constituents, not to collect taxes, sit on cash or build things. Being bankrupt or not doesn't really matter any more than it affects the government's ability to carry out the will of the people and if the will of the people is to do nothing then bankruptcy probably won't be much of an impediment.
Any reputable analysis that tracks these campaigns throughout other years?
The highest earning 1 percent of New York City residents generated 43 percent of city income taxes

From (biased but presumably factual): https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nycs-high-income-t...

Edit: just trying to add info, not bias the conversation! Maybe also relevant: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/3d-map-the-u-s-cities-with-...
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial
Sounds a bit like developing in Haxe: https://haxe.org
No genuine ambiguity here, it's the book (and I suspect that's typical). Even if you increased the ratio of theoretically ambiguous sentences, if that comes at a decrease of actual, practical ambiguity (uintended and unnoticed by the speaker) that's a win.
I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast [Video]
Yep. If AI is a threat to anyone it's the size and reach of those who control it that makes it potentially dangerous. If that's a concern you don't do this. It's all about the Benjamins.
As someone who used tramp and switched to VS Code, it's absolutely not the same thing. The difference is plugins work on the remote side of the connection without having to be aware they're in a remote connection. VS Code makes this work by having an agent running on the remote host. For the first time I actually got autocomplete and code jumping working without a horrendous amount of effort.
It is fairly clear (at least to me) that driverless cars should make no "moral" decisions at all. They should attempt to avoid accidents if possible most likely restricted to emergency braking.

Avoiding one accident in favor of a different accident is not attempting to avoid an accident. AI should not be involved or in any way evaluate the better of two accidents.
First off, good on you for giving people second chances. The world can be cruel, and good people make mistakes. It's nice to know there are people out there like you willing to take a chance on someone with a less than squeaky clean past.

I think the problem here is the line between professional / personal life is a bit blurred. If he is doing good work and continues to do good work, keep him. However it is not the place of an employer (or a workspace) to fill every need in someone's life. He needs to move out and work on establishing healthy boundaries.

Does your health insurance plan cover mental health services?
The richest city on the planet can't afford to fill potholes?
Credit to this group. I've had a SourceForge address in place for 20yrs or so that forwards to my main email and it kept working through after their acquisition in 2016 of Sourceforge.
I'm somewhat surprised at how many commenters here are shrugging off or even supporting this blatant corruption by these wealth-defiled crooks.

I wonder how this comment section would look if it was revealed that people from a low income background had hacked the admissions system to gain entry. I expect the tone would be much more critical, calling for prosecutions and sanctions, and lamenting the sheer unfairness of it. I'm pretty sure it would be in stark contrast to all the bribery apologism we can see in these threads.
How does this work for apps like Soundcloud and Spotify?
The terminology is borrowed from category theory. The partially ordered set of types can be seen as a category where the points are the types and the arrows are the is-a relation.
In this setting, a covariant/contravariant type constructor is a covariant/contravariant endofunctor.
NASA Found Another Way into Nuclear Fusion
> and only secondarily interested (at most) in getting a particular candidate elected

It's quite fortunate for them that there is a candidate with an extensive record of creating chaos when elected.
I disagree, I read it as “it is not necessary to ensure that property remains unscathed from the eviction process, thus an untrained crew removing someone’s possessions from their former home is a reasonable/sensible idea”
Most of the disinformation is coming directly from the guy the Russians helped during the last election: Trump.

Trump is doing their job.

According to Trump you should ingest bleach and vote twice. And sanctions on Russia should be lifted so they can keep annexing territory. And North Korea should be left in peace after launching missiles over allied territory (Japan).
How do you think they count any other form of death by disease?
> Foreign actors

*Russia

It's just Russia.
are you asking if anyone implemented the 3d first person shooter DOOM inside of the vscode plugin system? that could be a summer of code project for some aspiring coder.
The USA doesn't have any concept of privacy in the digital environment which corporations could disrespect. They deal with digital data like it's a gold rush: whoever mines it, owns it. There is a fundamental difference between the constitutions, laws and ultimately the sentiment of these two "unions of nation-states": the USA simply has nothing like this:

From the Charta of Fundamental Right of the European Union:

Article 8 - Protection of personal data

1. Everyone has the right to the protection of personal data concerning him or her.

2. Such data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law. Everyone has the right of access to data which has been collected concerning him or her, and the right to have it rectified.

3. Compliance with these rules shall be subject to control by an independent authority.
> Has anyone here used (or are familiar with relevant cases of using) .NET for developing startup products, including MVPs?

Yes, I have. I've been programming with C# since it was first released, so we're very well acquainted, and I can build MVPs quickly. As always though, it depends what you are used to.

> I'm seeing .NET as predominantly an enterprise-focused technology

I didn't see it as any more enterprise-focused than Java, andid say less so since dotnet core brought multi-platform support.
It's such a strange coincidence
This can only get worse. This person likely requires medication, and that won't happen unless he wants it.

Letting him live at the office won't help him in the long term if he's unwilling to seek mental health help. It will only drag you into his crazy world.
maybe just make it an ads-supported linux blog site? linux is everywhere, if the blog articles are of high quality, i think there are many potential followers
I agree that caste preference in marriage can have bad effects, similar to many other filter bubble mechanics in society. It’s also probably a symptom of other problematic concepts of value.
To add my own similar anecdote, they mailed me a check (overseas, I might add). I didn't cash it, as it seemed like LJ needed the money.

I am likewise glad to see another try, but hopefully it won't try to emulate a generic tech/Linux blog. They had a niche for deep dives and original content, but I wonder how viable that really is in 2020.
Others can try to disrupt the election for their own goals.
Author is working on it's own code editor, so article is more than biased.
> The caste system in India was originally based on profession

That is the official political line, but the reality (as always) was much more complex. It also had a significant tribal, multi-racial, and multi-cultural bases, all evidenced in scriptures and the cultural, linguistic, and genetic landscape of the Indian subcontinent (including Pakistan, Bangladish, Nepal, and Sri Lanka). In that respect it's nothing unique even to India - the social structures of most of the world were built on the same basis.
That doesn't even make sense. The artificial pressure of "is this person's family from a caste that is comparable enough to our own that we can arrange for our children to marry" is taking priority over any other selection criteria. Whether you're right or wrong about the genetics of IQ is irrelevant -- you're fighting way too hard without realizing you're not even in that arena.
If you are willing to presuppose the proposition that caste correlates to socioeconomic status (I have no idea), then a sufficiently experienced person probably could. There would probably be slang, mannerisms, or common sayings that would give away your background, just like most Americans of different socioeconomic groups have different behaviors
Are you building and/or using any .NET desktop GUI applications _on_ linux? I'd love to poke around some open-source projects to see how these are being made today.
Older people have become younger
> let the rich kids subsidize it for everyone else

The state schools already do this. It's called "out of state tuition". For example, UC Berkeley charges California residents $14k/yr tuition while everyone else pays $44k/yr. Not surprisingly, the number of out of state students admitted to the UC system is increasing every year. [0]

[0]https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-plannin...
I was very disappointed to find that VSCodium wasn't able to do this. It makes me consider switching back to VSCode.
So that's 43% of 13%, call it 5%. A far cry from 71.

And if I'm not mistaken, the city still gets that money as long as the job is located there anyways.
Can you explain what it is you think the government spent on beyond its means? ie is it one of these:

- trillion dollar wars, and in general, multi-trillion dollar military expenditure

- subsidized private health insurance (as opposed to a more streamlined/wholesale universal healthcare plan)

- social security fund that leaks value over time

- massively bailed out banks

- widespread quantitative easing

In my humble and probably misguided understanding of Keynesian economics, you would want the government to fund e.g. a federal jobs guarantee during a recession.

Like, if you had a recession, pay one set of people to dig a hole, and another set of people to fill it up again, because then at least money would still propagate throughout the economy.

But I'm not certain that these huge expenditures (above) really did much to help worker or city solvency. Basically unless you are one of the government's top clients, don't expect it to pick up a check pad.

I guess I can sort of see how you're saying that it may have been Keynesian-esque for all these various industries but it's certainly not that Keynesian for the little guy.
A very convenient one.
Hypothetically: If they would give you money after submitting the article, but you had to fill a small form. Would you submit it?
Running KDE Plasma Desktop with Vulkan