skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ancdata-o-story similar to what the author describes in the article.

2-3 months ago I was about to take the Goethe B1 exam (German language). I would had probably passed it anyway, but wanted to be sure. I downloaded the official Goethe B1 wordlist (2.5k words), and one week before the exam I started learning it in Anki.

I spent on avg. 2.5h per day, and out of those 2.5k words, I didn't know maybe 800. I've learnt them. Many of those words appeared later during the exam.

I told about it my German teacher, somewhat excited, and she was sort-a 'meh, whatever, you can also learn in other ways'. I tried to explain, that "800 words, and in a week, and so fast", but as much as she loved my good exam results, she had no intention to recommend this way of learning to others.
My impression is that both in the US and in most European countries, there is a dire need for new political parties to enter the mainstream.

I mean this election is basically a forced choice between two grandpas and both are representing values from before I was born.

Where's the political party that I would trust to do what will secure a good future for my kids, because they, too, have young kids?

Where's the political party where people roughly my age are calling the shots?

US, France, Germany, UK, ... All I see is conservative old people. Germany and France tried to establish new center parties, but in both cases the newcomers quickly got infiltrated by old politicians and drifted far right, meaning conservative again.
if only .PDFs could easily be converted back to a useful raw format. parsing them is a bloody minefield, irregularly stuffed with proprietary metadata galore
Grids are not just for formal use, they're useful any time you want to have aligned text, e.g. if you want to write a markdown table mixing Latin and CJK characters.

And I doubt you'd want to eliminate all formal uses of Latin characters. E.g. a plaque about a person would likely want to use their preferred name, which might be in Latin characters.
Now this is fun. The S Pen on my Note 8 works in MS Paint!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised - it just treats it like a mouse - but it was neat to see.

https://imgur.com/a/R8rbdYZ
Wow, that's a huge stretch. I read the reference to McDonald's only as a job where significant numbers of teenagers first learn about team management and cost/quality optimization. It's not merely "flipping burgers" but more generally the McDonald's program and a strong corporate work ethic.
Rust’s core team are pretty fanatic about backwards compatibilty, though. Best practices are still rapidly evolving but if you have code that compiles and works, it should continue to compile and work indefinitely.
That wasn't particularly clear from your 'worst non-tiny countries' (which out of context just sounds mean-spirited). So you meant in terms of new cases, not total cases?
In this light, it's really crazy reading about the initial Montreal Metro construction -- completed in less than 5 years. They actually extended the orange line by two whole stations because they found their construction costs were lower than expected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro
"I was looking forward to watching my favorite local team as an outlet for the massive stress of living through a global pandemic, and instead it kept zooming to the ref's head" is, at the very least, reasonably a massive let down.
ICC?
That is one good reply. :)
Steve Jobs*, not Apple :-).
Are you worried about Sweden too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MljLpcD0VWM

Deaths flat in case you were wondering: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sweden%20deaths%20coro...
Don’t miss the awesome “zen mode”.

https://onlywei.github.io/explain-git-with-d3/#zen

This the the best tool I’ve found to demonstrate to people, how commits that no longer appear in your history due to rebase or amend etc, are still there in your repository.
> A metal basket (or so called swivel frame) is placed on top of the mast, which can rotate 180 degrees horizontally.

Is there some reading of this that makes sense with the figure being 180° instead of 360°?
Sounds like some orange dude set the password.
Yes, since the original article is about new cases, not totals per se. Normalized totals will be the same everywhere - everyone will get it eventually.
I’ve used flashcards quite extensively during my studies (electrical engineering and telecom engineering) and I continue to use it for technical subjects; albeit with reduced intensity.

Spaced repetition systems are not just about “rote” memorization. When used right it is a very personalized practice tool that can help with quite high-level ideas.

I wouldn’t fx. make flashcards for an entire API — instead I would focus on the concepts and features that are important for what I am doing. You can make it about “exactly” what you want to practice and remember.

Think of it more as a collection of personal notes with build in recall practice, rather than remembering scores of “random” facts.
Good luck y’all! Life in Thailand has been pretty awesome (if you don’t rely on tourist dollars) since we hit this point some months back. At this point when the occasional bizarre local case does show up (and one or two have here) the government can go nuts on contact tracing and make sure it stays under control.
What do you want them to do? Give her 24/7 security? They are telling her that if there are people against her she should be cautious. It's hard for police anywhere to prevent something that hasn't happened yet.
SRS is the classic technical user situation. Anki looks like it’s from 1995 and has a massive initial learning curve with specialized vocabulary to learn (Cloze, decks, etc.) When it’s advertised, the copy is overly technical and confusing to the average person. Just look at SuperMemo’s home page, for an example:

https://www.supermemo.com/en

To get widespread SRS adoption, two things need to happen:

1. The primary software needs to be simplified and prettified. The aesthetics of Anki are unappealing to pretty much everyone. And just using it has a learning curve far greater than basically every other popular app.

2. The marketing message needs to be about benefits, not features. No one cares about the forgetting curve or the intricacies of available card types. Everyone cares about saving time and money, learning cool stuff, and having fun.
Yes, but some knowledge is a requirement to really understand something. Trivial example: can you really understand addition of numbers if you can't remember how to do it?

Pure memorization of facts is also really helpful to creating new understanding: Have you ever read a textbook that stacked definition upon definition and at some point you can't really keep up anymore because you're going back to the previous paragraphs all the time? At that point, pure memorization of definitions (even without understanding them really) already helps massively to reduce cognitive overload and makes forming new understanding form the rest of the text even possible.
Do you still know those 800 words today?
Locally acquired cases - indicates successful cessation of community transmission, which means you're back to the easier task of trying to detect and contain importation.
Deaths do lag new cases, but something big Sweden has going for it is that a lot of Swedes live alone.
This pretty much sums up my experience with apps whose devs thought they could make their code smarter than me.
You can register an XSS attack as a UK company name
I think moat websites are built using the following algorithm:

while (!website_crashes) {
add_more_tracking()
add_more_adds()
}
What is the real cost of personal data protection?
Has this year's icon design trend gone too far?
It reinforces something I think I’m slowly learning: tools are just tools, nothing more. Anki has its place, as does an impact driver; neither will make you a better person by itself.
I don't think anyone promised that spaced repetition would turn you into The Most Interesting Man in The World™, and if they did you would be rightfully disappointed. But SR is good at getting you to remember things and sometimes that's the problem you need to solve.

Not everything can be solved with a hammer, but sometimes you have a bunch of nails that need to be hammered-in.
When I first got into Linux I was like this. I regret it, now I very rarely recommend someone to try it and almost never help them set it up. I guest most people here understand why, tfa is very recognizable to me.

Now 20 years later I run all my infrastructure from my basement, no cloud dependency for me, my OS does not spy on me and all tools I need for day to day life are Free... Freedom!!! See I proved them wrong, they should have gotten into it... Right? Wrong! Nobody cares!
Yes: http://github.com/l1ving/youtube-dl
Well the French story is nuanced:

> Despite repeated rulings against it and an October law that explicitly outlaws UberPop, its drivers continue to ply French roads and the American ride-hailing company is actively recruiting drivers and passengers alike. Uber claims to have a total of 400,000 customers a month in France.

I think France has a long history of violently taking back what’s their’s.
As a long-time employer I've had my share of new graduates come into the business and tell me all the things we are doing wrong.

They are not wrong. And I'm happy to discuss it with them. But their "big picture" experience is limited, and this can matter.

I do not mean to patronise you at all when I say that the ideals of school sometimes have to bend when faced with limited resources. I know, I sound like every condescending oldster ever, but experience adds nuance that may be hard to see.

Obviously I can't speak to your situation, and I know nothing about medicine or medical teams [1] but there is one technique that may help you better understand the choices being made;

When advocating a specific approach pay lots of attention to the possible downsides of your recommendation. I've seen a significant maturation in my engineers when they can honestly articulate the down-sides of their point of view. If their answer is "there are no downsides" then it's easy to dismiss them as not fully understanding the problem. Every decision has a downside. But those who can see, and balance both the upsides and the downsides, who understand the negative impact of their choices, are starting to show their maturation.

In most cases there is no perfect approach, and ultimately someone has to make as decision, which may turn out to be right or wrong. And I get that in the medical field the impact of being right or wrong is significant. I don't envy you that.

[1] anecdotally I try not to work with doctors. The nature of your job requires that you project high levels of confidence with minimal data. Given the placebo effect I understand this - no-one wants an indecisive doctor. Alas this character trait works less well when interacting with other professions about _their_ area of competence. I've found doctors difficult to program for because (with respect) their ego gets in the way. When everyone treats your word as gospel, and you must "never be wrong", it's easy to become self-important. I don't tell a plumber what kind of pipes to use, but doctors all try and design UI with unfortunate workability issues.

In any team there are going be different opinions, and in the heat of battle there isn't time to pass on all the data that matters. But in the aftermath I encourage you to speak to your team leader about the decisions he took and try and learn from the experience. Sometimes she will be right, sometimes your approach may have been better. No-one is right all the time.

And in 10 years remember this process when you are team leader and some fresh-of-school youngster tells you the "obvious best thing". Be open to learn from them, but also forgive them their absolutism.

Above all, thank you for your service in this most trying of times. You have entered a meaningful profession at a opportune time.
I put all kinds of things in my Anki deck, mostly unrelated to software development, but I have created cards for things like the definitions of CRDT, ACID and monad, what link-local IPv6 addresses look like, and some useful flags in grep and parallel. Ever get annoyed by the realisation that you learned something a few months ago, but have forgotten it by the time you need it? Anki can fix this.
> Legal consequences are facts, morals are values, they are different things. There is no necessary connection between law and what is right, cf. nazi germany, ussr, aztec human sacrifice, etc.

But consequences come from judgements, and judgements reflect values. Therefore law, like morality, necessarily includes values.

> There is no necessary connection between law and what is right

As a moral relativist, I would say that because law defines morality, it makes right by definition. But at the same time, there are many moralities, and so, many rights.

> I’m not sure where your confusion lies.

It's that the author decided to take a stance already, and I'm not finding a good justification for one over the other.

> The author opposes licenses which seek to apply the rules of property to intangible items

Perhaps here lies the crux: nothing in the four freedoms seems to me like a license or rule of property, because none of them enforce scarcity. I got an impression that the author didn't oppose them on those grounds, but I might be misreading.

> Not all immoral behavior should be prohibited with the coercive power of the state.

But this is the value judgement I'm questioning. Apart from situations where it would be destabilizing due to different values of the people, why not? And since the article already lays out two fully destabilizing options, why not choose the option that aligns with their values better?
Yes, Yann and another machine learning celebrity: Leon Bottou!
I use it to lubricate my ability. Basically every time I have to google something to do my job I toss it in anki.

Not having to look up syntax and what not is a far better productivity improvement than editor hacks for example.
Think of Venn Diagrams, only part of Turkey is part of Europe. There's overlap, but one isn't inside the other. Turkey is, like Russia, considered a transcontinental country. They aren't "in" either continent, but part of them is.

> And if history is important, the Ottoman empire has a history very much involved with the rest of Europe.

As an adversary/attacker, yes. But that's not a reasonable foundation for declaring membership.
one (small) group that has taken to spaced repetition study techniques quite enthusiastically is the tournament scrabble community. the thing about scrabble is that you don't need to know what the words mean, you just need to memorise "acceptable sequences of letters", and also while there are ~275000 valid words in the official dictionary, people have already done the work to sort them into usefulness order. so if you want to play top-level tournament scrabble it is really helpful to simply memorise, say, the 5000-10000 (depending on your dedication) most useful words, keyed by "alphagram" (the alphabetically sorted set of letters in the word). e.g. ADEINRT -> [ANTIRED,DETRAIN,TRAINED]. again, you don't need to know or care what those words mean, just to know the they are the only three words made from that set of letters (as an aside the most useful words to memorise tend to be predominantly 2, 3, 7 and 8 letters long, most tournament players master the 2s as soon as possible, take a while with the 3s and start "cardboxing", scrabble jargon for using a flashcard app with spaced repetition, to learn the top few thousand 7s and 8s)

anki itself is not super popular since there are apps like zyzzyva that are specialised for scrabble word study, but the technique is.
I read this article and I was “ok memorization, but is that learning??” And even after perusing the supermemo website, and so on I’m still not convinced that this isn’t anything more than memorization for exams.

There’s a reason why this is popular in the “rationalist” community: they’re mostly college kids. I have never seen a coworker or other industry professional use any of these tools.

Why, because doing isn’t the same as remembering. Over time you remember by doing. That’s it.
Why is this on the front of HN? It’s a boring blog post about some, seemingly entitled, person who’s on a rant about people not wanting to listen to Jehovah’s witnesses.

It’s not remotely useful. Changing hearts and minds is a skill in itself. It’s why people spend 3-5 years in a university to pick up skills on how to do it. Yet here we have some anecdotal story about someone who fails to convince strangers about some method of learning that is described as “99% of people never learn learning, you can be the 1% by doing this...”, and lets be honest, those people aren’t the authors friends, because actual friends don’t just shrug off your interests. I feel like I’ve just read an article on a subreddit about cringe or niceguys/gals about someone socially awkward who don’t understand why people don’t think they are the greatest.

Maybe it’s just me, but I sure wish I hadn’t ever read this.
Not long ago, it was popular to criticize the US's handling of the pandemic as a failure. Seeing the surge of cases in Europe makes what the US is going through look less exceptional and more expected. There's also no reason to think the level of containment China achieved is politically attainable in the west.

Realizing it's "only" 180 cases, yes, China is firing on all cylinders:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/29/large-covid-ou...
I started learning Korean during our age of perpetual quarantine, and the first thing I did when I sat down to start was ask myself, “How do I study?” I’m a decade or so out from my last bit of formal education, and I haven’t had to sit down and study since.

If you research that question - “how to study?”- a bit, you will immediately be inundated with dozens of resources swearing by spaced repetition. Once you use it for a few weeks, it’s clear that the practice itself is helpful for retention. However, flashcards alone are simply not going to teach you a full language. You need reading exercises, speaking exercises, listening exercises, and writing exercises. These are rarely, if ever, all found in one place, and I quickly found myself following a few different programs, each teaching part of the full puzzle.

People don’t want a tool. They want a silver bullet. Anki is very much just a tool, and like other tools, it requires you to do work with the tool to get a desired output. Making good cards is a time consuming nightmare if you want images and sounds, and getting those cards to sync across devices is non-trivial; you’re lucky when a mobile app supports importing all your media in your decks, or lets you study reversed cards in a sensible way. Proponents will say, “You can just import some great premade decks!” This might be useful for an intermediate, but as a beginner, having a deck full of vocabulary that deviates from the words I’m being taught in my other lessons is nearly useless.

I can see how it’s tempting to tell the world - “You could learn so much faster with this one weird trick!” And the author knows that sale works; it’s easy to get someone to try Anki. Those users quickly realize that there are barriers to reaching the point where they have a net productivity increase, so why would they change what was working just fine for them already?
>I often think about ways of disrupting businesses which rely on shady deals/regulatory capture/other anticompetitive measures. I just as often decide that it’s not worth it, since I don’t want my legs broken.

Any smart organized crime is going to realize that directly intimidating startup founders with violence on American soil is a great way to a) get an overwhelming amount of federal heat on them and b) turn whatever it is they're doing into a scandal immediately.
I’m always curious about the “Anki should be prettier” comment.

I use Anki a lot, so I’m not in the best position to judge its first-hand impression. But, what would you say should change? Both in terms of visuals and interaction?

Genuinely asking.
Racket is also worth a look if you're curious about programming language design as it is very easy to make small DSLs. It is also a great language and eco-system if you're looking for a playground to explore different programming concepts. The community is also very helpful.
You telling people to buy expensive masks. They're going to be used multiple times forwards and backwards sticking them in their pocket 20 times then touching it and touching everywhere else. That's why masks are dangerous because the wearers don't understand how to use them This is what my MOPP training taught me in the 90s and again in 2000s. WE WERE TAUGHT BY UNITED STATES MILITARY TO NOT HAND OUT MASKS IN AN EPIDEMIC WHAT CHANGED?
It's crazy thinking about the amount of technology that went into the infamous "Fox Puck" for tracking and display (where they literally cut a puck in half to embed tech and coordinate with an array of receivers in the arena) to what can now be done by the cameras themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxTrax

I suspect in this instance it wasn't just the bald head, but the particular near-sunset lighting that was a contributing factor.
> If you're lucky(?) enough to be behind a NAT with enough hosts to be meaningful privacy-wise (dozens? hundreds?), and whoever's running this NAT isn't keeping logs about it (do they? honestly don't know), then you might be seeing a significant privacy upside.

I worked out of a co-working space for a while that were explicit about not logging anything on their NATed shared internet connection. I saw more Google captchas using that (without a VPN) that I’d even see with TOR. After I left, a friend I’d made there told me they eventually found out someone there was doing seriously blackhat seo stuff and they kicked him out. Took a few months but eventually all the captchas went away.
Agreed. Adobe's recently-announced [1] Liquid Mode for mobile devices is a step in the right direction.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/23/adobes-liquid-mode-uses-ai...
Code that runs on embedded computers has a long lifetime.
It is important to point out that Coronavirus emerged when the Northern hemisphere was still in Winter and early spring, a time where viruses can extremely thrive and now the Northern hemisphere is seeing a second wave because we still don’t have a vaccine and are entering a full new winter with COVID.

The southern hemisphere had only to battle COVID for a single Winter, and that delayed too, having had already the advantage of all the lessons learned in Europe. It’s very likely that their second Winter will already see a vaccine so by pure chance when the virus emerged countries in the Southern hemisphere have had a much better situation and therefore should expect better outcomes.
Is there an underlying pattern here: Canada's most 'socialist' big city is also its most corrupt?
This is NOT what Anki is for. It's called space repetition for a reason. The whole raison d'etre of spaced repetition is that you can memorize information in a fraction of the time by reviewing the information at progressively increasing intervals. If you had practiced spaced repetition, by the end of the term you would have spent a fraction of the time studying and would retain the vast majority of the information for months. If you spent a few minutes per week reviewing, you would still remember those facts today.
XPS happened during the Microsoft era, which means no one really wants another format dictated by them. So there was very little incentives, interest and adoption.

XPS ultimately became an Open Standard as Open XML Paper Specification. But the fear and burn during IE era were far too great.
I think probably the main issue is that a lot of people just don't enjoy studying with flashcards. You could tell them it will literally make them 2x more efficient, and even if they believe you they still won't want to use it.