skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Risk Factors section

> The online language learning industry is highly competitive, with low switching costs and a consistent stream of new products and entrants, and innovation by our competitors may disrupt our business.

I don't personally like Duolingo. Formal education has been better for me, with languages. Both Duolingo, Memrise and Rosetta Stone neglect to tell you why any language rule exists or what contexts its used in and just procedurally generate gendered ways to ask for an Apple for 50 levels of lessons, pretending like rote memorization and classical conditioning is useful. I would say that it is not, context is very important.

Enough people believe this is useful, like you, you want to read signs. This won't help you notice that the entire color spectrum can be wildly different in different languages and cultures, or that you sound like you used Google Translate and everyone will look at you weird because they speak in a trendy way.

As for a company, its just ARR. Enough people will pay for it and use a subscription, that's good enough.
The contractor was a pool contractor. He saw from experience that it looked bad, but was not in any position to pronounce on the structural integrity.

Semi related, I live in a very badly maintained major city, where driving under many bridges we can see cracking, big chunks of concrete that fell away, exposed re bar, etc. To me it looks very scary, but I have no real reference point. If a bridge collapses, the news will be able to interview someone who says what I said above about the appearance, but the only thing that really matters is an engineer's report.
I hope to be able to update my note on either of the characters such that it will propagate to all cards that contain either character.
Talk about a wide moat! When you can forego trademarks and marketing, completely ignore the competition and still pull out a 150M and grow, you’ve got one hell of a business.
The killer feature of Ryan Air is that it costs £10 to get to a stag party in Malaga, for people who are too blitzed to care about comfort, basic customer service, getting hijacked by foreign governments, etc. The difference is, there are still professional-grade alternatives to Ryan Air, and the company you work for isn't going to make you fly them for business every day. (If they do, you should really quit).
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I would pay twice as much upfront but that's not an option. So instead I pirate Windows 10 Enterprise which is an absolute dream OS for a prosumer.

I'd buy it but I haven't been able to figure out how to.
My company has those but doesn't require them; I've missed a couple, myself.

Is it common to _require_ them?
It has been decriminalized then re-criminalized [1] before. To end this loop, lets just legalize anything that doesn't hurt others and let people decide what is good or bad for themselves, given we follow this logic on substances and habits such as alcohol, sugar, sun bathing, throwing darts, parachuting, hang-gliding, replying to emails whilst drunk. I would wager that driving a car is a higher risk to others than inhaling or ingesting a drug though I don't have statistics to back that up.

[1] - https://theconversation.com/re-criminalizing-cannabis-is-wor...
Its not a financial aid program, its a market segmentation program.
Youtube flip-flopped because they rely on others (who also flip-flopped), which is exactly what they should be doing, right? Surely if youtube middle managers decided what's kosher all by themselves, that'd be worse?

Journalists use youtube to get a wider audience, but youtube is not really a mechanism of original reporting. It's not Physical Review Letters, it's Popular Science. If things were otherwise, if getting a true and important fact idea kicked off youtube could actually silence it, we'd already be screwed.
That would throw off a simple compass, but if they can see relative strengths of magnetic fields it would be more like a source of glare than a blindfold
Watching the flicker thing for a few moments made me think: is it possible that some sort of sensory stimuli could paralyze you?

It would be fascinating if some crazy combination of stimuli could have sort of a “reset human” sort of effect. Given that we’re revolved organisms and not machines it’s hard to imagine any evolutionary purpose, but it’s fun to think about.
You're getting buried because of your political opinion, but I agree that "there is no reason for weed to be illegal when tobacco is legal" makes no sense whatsoever... I thought we were supposed to be nerds that overvalued logical thought here ;)
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Nice catch, I agree. I should have said land is deflationary.

There's surely a few more nuances where it isn't.
CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis Through Language-Image Encoders
I hope you realize that restaurants and other small businesses provide tax revenue to the city, while parked cars usually don't (in most places).
It sounds to me as if you don’t have much real world experience developing software in a functional language. Am I right?
I know it was bottom-up for at-risk students too in my district because our school district did a good job of surveying families and communicating the results. For example the families of students on free lunch programs supported remote learning at slightly higher rates than those who did not receive food assistance. Support was similar across self-reported race/nationality categories as well.

A lot of at-risk students live in multi-generational homes and it was obvious even early on that older people were at higher risk from COVID. Families did not want to risk their kids bringing home a case and killing grandma.

Our district did a good job of prioritizing assistance for families who needed it, including meal pickup and delivery options, as well as remote schooling rooms before they began general reopening. But at least in my neighborhood, the loudest voices for re-opening schools were among the professional class who were struggling with managing remote schooling while working full-time at home. A lot of lower income families were working less than professionals because we have a big service sector around here which was largely idled. Financial support like UI and eviction moratoriums were bigger issues to them than remote schooling.
Same. I've never had an account, and for as long as I can remember everytime I end up on their page I'm greeted with a login screen.

In fact, I've always found it perplexing how little information or incentive there is on their landing page that would encourage me to make an account. I only even barely know what that site is for because of osmosis and image previews from sites that link to it. Makes me wonder how they got critical mass to even get started.
How many more copies of windows 10 were sold compared to Windows 95?
Well the contracter isn't a structural engineer so he can't make the determination that "this building will collapse in two days".

The media has definitely been exaggerating the evidence that management had, but it's still clear that they needed to be more aggressive in inspection and restoration.
Toilet privacy seems to come up at every company I've worked at. American stalls tend to have large gaps whereas European offices usually have private rooms with their own sink and mirror. Bathroom hygiene seems less important still even in post-COVID times.
> And not moderating them is a slippery slope to facilitating violent extremism, and to anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths.

Have we really learned nothing over the last year and a half? What will it take to shake your faith in the media?

Four weeks ago, the idea that COVID-19 originated from a lab was a conspiracy theory, likely to get you banned with extreme prejudice for being a qanon white supremecist.

COVID-19 was a conspiracy theory. Then it was a conspiracy theory that human to human transmission was possible. Then it was a conspiracy theory that wearing masks was at all helpful.

What will be the next domino to fall? What will the new truth be a few weeks from now?

If anything, censoring "conspiracy theories" led directly to the COVID-19 pandemic.

If this was 2015, I think things would have gone much better for us. Citizens would have been able to fill in the gaps where journalists failed us. There might have been a panic for people to buy masks and close the borders, sure, but the pandemic would have probably been contained.

I was banned for spreading conspiracy theories in February 2020 when I pleaded with people to practice basic hygiene and postpone travel until we had figured out what was going on.
Email, uucp, nntp, and irc were basically funded by the users of the systems since it was primarily P2P systems operated by the ISPs. Most/many ISPs had local ftp mirrors of useful software, and of course provided the first http hosting.

The Internet and the web could have grown in this way indefinitely with large e-commerce sites paying their ISPs proportionally more for traffic but reaping the benefits of not maintaining brick and mortar storefronts.

The first search engines had no ads. They were public services to a large extent. Modern Google is a distributed crawler/indexer and inverted search tree for queries (last I heard). Something quite similar could have been built and sharded across ISPs.

DNS is still ad-free, supported only by the ISPs and Registrars that benefit from it. So is email. The PKI is free again.
BitTorrent or ipfs could localize the costs of content distribution if media companies weren't bamboozled by DRM.
> write to me in the mail with your DB IP: FTHISGUY@recoverme.one

why the redaction? name and shame.
Buck stops at NewsBlur on this one. Let's call a spade a spade; unqualified. Newb. It happens. It happened. Port scan next time? Metasploit maybe? "Script Kiddie".. It's in the name.
I tried so hard to get into Duolingo but I just felt like I was making progress so slowly. I much prefer italki. It's a lot more expensive than Duolingo, but worth it IMO to actually talk to a native speaker regularly.
How many more engineers work on Windows 10 compared to Windows 95?
It's time to treat social media like the climate crisis, researchers argue
For sure, I'm not a proponent of unlimited free speech. It's those grey areas that concern me. Like, using Hitch's example, is holocaust denial hate speech or an incitement to violence? Under certain circumstances, I imagine it would be. It's easy for me to say it should be allowed because I know the majority of society right now would dismiss their claims, but at what point (in terms of the percentage of society) would I start to feel uneasy about the idea being discussed? Is it better then to censor it outright? What if, as Hitch says:

... Might contain a grain of historical truth; might, in any case, give people to think why do they know
what they think they already know.

I can't bring myself to tell someone else they can't consider the idea, but I can also understand why someone might want to censor that. So what does one do? I don't know, but my intuition points me to the former and hope that we've educated society enough to handle that.

Perhaps we'll be able to set up elaborate simulations one day to see how things play out.
>it's literally just a compilation of videos that they think YouTube should cancel

No it's not? Where'd you get that intention from? It's literally to catalogue and store the content
One needs not "sell" anything to have a market share. For example, Google's market share in general search services can be defined as the number of queries made on Google as a share of all queries made on general search engines. Facebook's market share in messaging could be defined in terms of messages sent. That would of course be difficult to measure, but nonetheless that is still a framework to think about market share in messaging.
Ah yes. The new administration's "house cleaning."

Better known by the people who actually work there as, "Shoving a bunch of people and papers around to show you're changing things, with no plan, strategy, or even background information to support a single thing."

If you think alternating parties solves the problems, you have another think coming your way!
But now everyone is itching to travel and so maybe they'll continue the insane growth as people learn languages of the places they want to travel to.
> and to anti-science activists leading an otherwise-developed country to top the chart in pandemic deaths

Seems a bit crude to pick on Czechia, Belgium, Italy, Britain, Spain and France like that. Surely they're not so anti-science as you're suggesting.

Covid deaths per 1,000 population:

Czechia: 2.85 | Belgium: 2.2 | Italy: 2.11 | Britain: 1.93 | US: 1.84 | Spain: 1.73 | France: 1.65 | Sweden: 1.43

And if we were analyzing trends, Germany rather dramatically joined the Covid party toward the end (with an extreme death rate across a rough five month span). Was that due to a mass spontaneous national anti-science movement on their part? I don't think so.
You might have a point for an actual "forum", but this is his personal blog, and comments exist at all there at his personal pleasure. Your confidence in it doesn't matter, nor does any other reader's. The only consequence to someone "losing confidence" in his personal moderation style is that they don't comment anymore, which is fine at worst, more likely exactly the goal.

Further, objectivity is impossible in moderation. There are no shortcuts, some judgment is always required or your "objective" rules will be gamed to death. Acknowledging the subjectivity is exactly the right approach.

I think this is the future of "forums" as well. Moderation depends on trust, so we'll be more explicit about who we're trusting, and just roll with it. Best case we get multiple moderation perspectives on a decentralized discussion mechanism. But if we just get used to the idea that forums are shaped by the personalities of their moderators, that's probably an improvement.
I worked all the way through Duolingo's Mandarin curriculum a couple of years back (after having basic knowledge from studying on another paid site). I can say that it was definitely fun, and it was easy to study every day. The downside was that I was still at a pretty basic level when I finished their curriculum. Logged on just now, and they haven't added any new content since I finished.

For people who just want to learn a few words of a foreign language and have fun while I'm doing it, Duolingo is great. And I'm sure that the market is huge.
Cool to see italki mentioned here.

italki.com was the first startup job I got out of college over 8 years ago in Shanghai, and where I met my current cofounder.
I really like Duolingo. It's not my favorite way of learning a language§, but they do a good job of pounding vocabulary into your head over and over. I will never forget that jeruk is "orange" in Indonesian.

However, taken from "Risk Factors" on this S-1:

> •users feel that their experience is diminished as a result of the decisions we make with respect to the frequency, prominence, format, size and quality of ads that we display;

Duolingo has a big problem with both their ads and how they promote their Plus plan. (I hope to never see an owl flying through space again)

Primarily, the quality of the ads I see are those stupid fish games or the "pull this pin to drop lava on the knight" that you see advertised on Facebook. I'm sure they're making money off of views, especially since you can't proceed in your lesson until you watch the video, but it cheapens the brand name of Duolingo (at least for me).

If they had ads for anything language, travel, or even food related, it would feel more on par with their branding. But so many other dollar grab apps do the same thing [regarding those kinds of video ads] that it feels like I'm just looking at another cheap app.

Secondly, how they promote their Plus plan. You are limited in how long you can access their platform by how many hearts you have. Miss enough questions, your hearts run out. Run out of hearts, you're restricted from proceeding further in your studies. You must buy hearts to stay on their platform. This feels counter intuitive, as you are now kicking users off of your platform and lose the ability to sway them towards other things you have to offer.

I have found that between carrot and stick approaches, it is usually better to use a carrot where you can.

§ - For my style of learning, I've found Pimsleur to be one of the better approaches. Breaking sentences into phrases, phrases into words, and down words into syllables really helps me grasp the langauge more, especially with the context that goes around in the "story".
My understanding was that there's literal years of earlier documented to-be-fixed (fairly urgently) issues that this contractor wasn't looking at this go around.
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Comparing worldwide isn't really a fair comparison if Google doesn't internationalize the trends

"Learn spanish" is "impara lo spagnolo" in italian
"Duolingo" is "Duolingo" in every language

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=duolingo,learn%20...
This guy infrastructures.
It is, and it is (I thought?) common knowledge due to the high profile cases where this was abused. There's nothing morally wrong about doing it, but it is illegal and people do face consequences for it.
> Inheritance isn't the root of all evil, dynamic dispatch is. It's a remarkably powerful implementation detail but one with enormous cost ...

Dynamic dispatching typically costs one pointer lookup in a vtable[0]. By "typically", I specifically mean "in any production quality run-time environment." This is not an "enormous cost" by any reasonable definition.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table
Morabito Consulting did a survey almost 3 years before, listing repairs that needed to be done. I think images like this is just evidence that lawyers will accumulate. The media will just use these images to add drama.

In West Seattle, they shut down the bridge from cracks, but it did take them a while.

>>Those taut tendons serve to push the concrete together like giant rubber bands. They help the concrete resist the gravity and other forces that could crack or otherwise pull it apart.

>>“In most cases [of] cracked concrete, you're not too bothered about the concrete not operating properly,” Stanton said. “You are worried about the steel inside becoming corroded.”

https://www.kuow.org/stories/city-has-known-about-cracks-in-...
Oh, so the embedded calendar system in Joda-Time is a mistake. I too disliked that choice and wondered if it only exists for localization uses (but then I'd like to have a separate set of "display" classes), and well, he knew (or came to know) it. I'm relieved now.
It means “the manufacturer realizes they won’t get the price they charge from other channels from you, so is willing to settle for the PR and tax benefits (and whatever residual cost is still charged) rather than nothing.
I've never encountered a company where those are _required_. Missing out on the networking that occurs at them will hurt your career, but that won't be the direct cause of getting fired or missing a promotion.
That depends on the implementation, though, doesn’t it? After all, in the Netherlands, it’s only decriminalized, yet there are stores selling it all over the country.
No, it should be legal because it's no one else's business but the adult who's changing their consciousness as to what they put in to their body, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else.

Just like if an adult wants to go skydiving, which is a risky activity, it should be their choice.
It is a risk, I agree. I can assure you that there is work done in the lab, and that we plan to publish it, one way or another.
I personally think that bioRxiv can be perfect to do a fast publication.
Which is insignificant in the context. The noises that video author discusses comes almost purely from tires rolling, at speeds where ICEs are basically silent compared to it.
We're a social species. We are constantly scrutinizing one another. The author's thesis seems overly baroque: "evolution had humans use their absolute income/wealth to judge their relative status." And that's not considering that evolution didn't have a damned thing to do with income even though heredity does have to do with taxes.
Or possibly shot for attempted armed robbery.
Addiction hurts others though. You can’t get physically addicted to most of the things you listed.
Startup idea. Reliable and effective whistleblowing programs for stuff like this.
This doesn't really make sense. If your goal is to become a skilled chess player, writing a program doesn't address that. You'd need to put in the time.
If, on the other hand, your goal is to win games, why waste time writing a program? Just take one of the strongest engines and build on it.
If the goal was to learn how to program an engine, again, that's what you do.
> To end this loop, lets just legalize anything that doesn't hurt others

Everything hurts others. People and their actions don't exist in a vacuum - we are all players on a team called "society"; the actions of people, even if done privately, can end up affecting the performance of the team. Cars, alcohol, and tobacco are all legal, and all of those things end up harming others directly or through second/third order effects.

I'm not necessarily against decriminalizing or even legalizing marijuana, but I don't think the reason for doing so should be because it "doesn't hurt others", but rather because governments should infringe on liberties as little as possible even if it means bad consequences could emerge from abuse of said liberties.
> you should just turn your formulae into images that you load using `loading="lazy"`. And of course, to make sure they fit any resolution: generate SVG images.

One drawback to this approach is that SVG equations have a fixed layout, so e.g. they can't automatically line-wrap. Most of the equations on your Bézier page are pretty short, but I notice that you have elected to manually wrap them in some spots when they get too long, or in other cases just let them spill off to the side. This is most apparent with a narrow viewport (e.g. a phone), but you can also see this by using the responsive design mode on a desktop browser or even simply resizing the viewport. The longer equations get cut off on the right side and you have to scroll horizontally to see the whole thing, which isn't ideal. One of the benefits HTML is supposed to have over just, say, a PDF is the ability for the same document to reflow to different viewports.

The Bézier page illustrates another common issue with SVG images of equations: they have a lot of text in them, but none of it is searchable text. That means no Ctrl-F and no search engine indexing of that text. This is fixable via SVG, though, since SVG images can provide a searchable text layer. (I don't mean to single out your website, by the way, this is an issue with math all over the web. Also, selectable text is a longstanding bug in Cairo[0], which pdf2svg relies on to generate SVGs, so it's not an easy fix on your end anyway.)

> there is simply no reason to ever use it. Nothing is mining the web for maths, and semantic markup for maths buys you nothing.

MathML supports automatic linebreaking of equations. SVG doesn't. That's one simple reason to use MathML. I'm not sure whether this fits your definition of "semantic markup" or not, but it is useful. Linebreaking even has its own section in the MathML spec.[1]

It's also not true that nothing is mining the web for MathML. SearchOnMath[2], for example, indexes pages from the NIST DLMF[3], which uses MathML extensively.

[0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38516

[1] https://www.w3.org/Math/draft-spec/chapter3.html#presm.lineb...

[2] https://www.searchonmath.com/about

[3] https://dlmf.nist.gov/help/mathml
It depends on what oil. Margins in Saudi fields like Ghawar are enormous and costs are as low as $5 a barrel. By contrast American shale oil extracted via fracking can cost up to $30 a barrel.