skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I concur with all of these points. I've also written a bit about Anki and updating some of the default settings for better retention. [0] Making a good template for cards changes everything, particularly with adding context / usage sentences on the back of the card. Also, switching to using the native definitions once you can instead of the english translations helps immensely.

For me, I -hated- how long it took to input words into Anki, so for ~7 months I used Evita's Korean Deck which has about 5.5k words. I eventually burned out and got tired of the lack of context in the cards, but that helped me learn a lot of day-to-day vocabulary. I tried this a bit with a Japanese 2k deck but I think with logographic language it doesn't really work as well as slowly inputting words that you know the context/definition for.

Nowadays I write down words from books/movies/etc that I don't know in my journal, and every once in a while I collect those into a personal anki deck. I actually am working on a CLI program that helps automate the process of searching a word's definitions and creating a card. It outputs all of the selected definitions into a csv, which I can then bulk import into Anki. [0]

It's important to do it every day. Anki by default allots 20 new words per day, but this is quite a lot unless one plans to spend a while every day on anki. I find 5-10 words is more tenable, and simply 1/day is better than 0/day if one burns out.

[0]: https://andrewzah.com/posts/2019/better-anki-usage-guide/

[1]: https://github.com/andrewzah/carajillo
Hi. I run imgflip.com, a fine purveyor of cat pictures, among others. It serves ~100TB of bandwidth and hundreds of millions of image views per month with total infrastructure cost below 5k per month. I believe Imgflip completely avoids dark patterns because I abhor them and strive to provide positive value to humanity, although I would love for you to share your opinions to the contrary. Imgflip is also 80% profit. It employs several of the techniques you mention, but efficiently, rather than bloated and inefficient like many companies. Curious to hear your take
How do you advance technology with free range livestock? There is no technology, that's the point of it.
Pressure to maintain revenue growth will lead them further down the path they've already been on for a while (long-time non-paid Duolingo user here): longer, more frequent, and more annoying ads, and more frequent upgrade calls-to-action. I swear there are some days when I'll do ten lessons and see the exact same upgrade ad after every single one.
Are you saying the pilots should have been able to handle it? Training wasn't needed? Obviously you're trying to make a point but you aren't saying it, you're just presenting supporting details. So I'm asking you to clearly state what the take away from all that is supposed to be.
Where do you draw the line at anti-science?

Where do you draw the line? Where is the line where moderation becomes censorship?

There are so many questions to ask. Is book burning (in moderation) censorship or "stopping extremist ideas"? The analogy is correct. We've reached the point where we aren't moderating actual extremism but impeding on actual inquiry. There are a lot of very, very well researched channels that mention, for example, the lab leak hypothesis and are auto-banned by an algorithm. This was a conspiracy theory until a few months ago. Makes you think, doesn't it?
The US is concealing its research on viruses while criticizing China's secrecy
Excellent early console pinball game (though quite a bit later than the one featured in TFA—actually, the machine it was based on didn't even exist yet then): High Speed on the NES. 1991 release.

Plays great, considering the platform. You can learn the real machine decently well with the NES game. Like, if you've gotten OK at the NES game, you can walk up to a real High Speed cabinet for the first time and basically know what you're doing. It even feels pretty close as far as ball movement and flipper handling, aside from some (excellent) extra digital-only elements & bonus games they added (the video game is, remarkably, much closer to a 1991 pinball machine in features and "story" progression than its 1986 parent game is, without ruining the core gameplay of the machine). That's a hell of an achievement.

[EDIT] oh, do take care if you try it via emulation: it's a game that becomes nearly unplayable, even for someone who's very good at it, with very low levels of added input lag over the about-as-close-to-zero-as-it-gets of an NES hooked up to a CRT. The timing elements on the (video game version only) pauses during the ramp shot for multi ball are brutal with a tiny bit of extra lag, but even just keeping the ball alive becomes hard with much more than that.
I imagine the market for people wanting to learn English is even higher.
Perhaps the recovery process for people who forget their passcode?

Easier to implement if you have other verified communication methods.
I keep hearing about lawyers, but who exactly gets sued? The victims are also the building owners. Seems it was their responsibility?
It's not a public service, it's a business; they delete covid misinfo because they get yelled at if they don't, not out of some misguided notion that they're wikipedia.
Empty space, but not empty in energy, correct? They wouldn't be held far apart if there was no energy between them.
The media and a lot of people want to frame this as a melodrama and are now casting about for someone to play the part of the villain.
People make mistakes, especially in high pressure situations.
What software do I trust my life and money to which does not give me legal recourse if I encounter an issue?
There's a Russian movie about this, called Salyut-7. It's basically the Russian Apollo 13.

I won't pretend it's perfect, there's some drama thrown in, but it's well worth watching if you're a space fan. Lots of spaceships and docking and practicalities of living and working in space.

The director is apparently flagged to shoot a movie on the real ISS soon, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_7_(film)
I seem to remember reading the exact same papers 10 years ago down to the quantum radical based theory. Has this field really advanced?
their soil stability test holes kept failing inspection

What do you mean by "stability test holes kept failing inspection"? If you're referring to geotechnical boreholes, there's nothing to inspect - it's a test of (among other things) soil strength. It's certainly possible to have soft/loose/low-strength soils (soft/loose solis frequently cause the borehole to collapse on itself, that's not unusual) but that doesn't speak toward safety. The building just has to be designed & constructed to account for that, usually by stiffening the soil and/or using a pile foundation.

I’ve always wondered how many other buildings are in the same state.

Given the loose soils and relatively high-water table in Seattle? Pretty much all of them. Structures can be built on soft ground, it just needs to be done right.
People say you miss out on things by not owning a smartphone but I think it's becoming increasingly clear that you really don't.
Folks that come from over funded and over engineered companies don’t know this. Because they haven’t experienced it, it’s simply not possible to them. If you have money to burn, you do so.

My company has grown 15x in the last few years and our total infra costs continue to go down, because we pay attention to them.
I should've mentioned that I actually took Spanish classes a few years before Duolingo. Those classes taught me the grammar and why the rules exist, but I didn't memorize many words (or I forgot) and I had serious trouble understanding actual Spanish speakers.

Duolingo "teaches" alternate tenses weirdly and IMO too late. But it does well for memorizing words, and it has people speaking with actual Spanish accents and forces you to understand them. So it's particularly helpful for me.
The four thieves vinegar is doing something like that (https://fourthievesvinegar.org/)
They work also on patented molecules and try to reverse engineer proces, and then publish it. (which makes it illegal, so they are anonymous)
I don't know how many molecules they published though.
I mean, the US has a huge culture of waiting for shit to happen before doing something about it. People don't take warning signs seriously.

It happens in buildings, it happens with electrical fire safety, it happens in healthcare (insurance and doctors largely don't believe in prevention in my experience).
The best method I have found is to have several blankets, and to put one blanket underneath, and then to rearrange it until everything is supported exactly how I want it.

Then later I may move around and find another position.
>Now, I am for legalizing and pardoning (non-dealing/manufacturing) weed, cocaine and mushrooms. The only reason I am hesitant for heroine, meth and fentanyl is because if I remember right, heroine and meth get laced with fentanyl which is very easy to overdose on. But I am willing to be corrected if that's not the case.

The argument you usually hear back is that if those harder drugs were more regulated, there would be no accidental overdoses where the street drug has been cut or consists of unknown quantities, safer places to consume, no drug deals gone wrong, etc... I am still not sold on the solution there. I know other countries have some sort of program that gets pointed to, but I don't know enough to comment. I do only know that those drugs have absolutely wrecked the lives of people I knew. If they were legal they still seem to be so addictive that the user's life is 100% focused on getting high as often as possible. So maybe some regulation so that certain people can get those drugs but without risk of overdose? But isn't that what methadone is for? I am sort of rambling here as I try to form a better opinion - because if we just outlaw those certain, very-addictive drugs, a black market will always exist. But that is also something I would never want my family members to try on a whim.
The contractor was there to assess a cost for cosmetic improvements to the pool. If the building owners knew of the structure problems years in advance why was there a cosmetic improvement to the pool happening anyway?

Should have spent the money on actual improvements not cosmetic pool updates.
> Notably, Smalltalk has a negligible share of the market, so why should anyone waste time debating Kay/Smalltalk’s notions of OOP when they are at best niche?

Objective-C[0] is C with Smalltalk's "notions of OOP." Objective-C has been the dominant programming language for making macOS and iOS programs since OS-X was first released. Swift[1] is taking over the role Objective-C once held alone, but Swift's roots in Smalltalk's "notions of OOP" are easily discerned.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)
Those license terms seem to me like they'd allow using someone's picture in unlimited advertising, for free. They also sound like they'll definitely be using them to train models. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that means they can sell them to advertisers for whatever nonsense.
Lessons Learned from My Profitable Indie Film on Sriracha (2017)
'Really normal in the server world' is something i heavily disagree with.

So there was no firewall then? https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/cloud-firewalls-secure-dro...
> Though I can totally see a PETA stunt of pulling down a statue of Elvis because he ate meat.

Oh most definitely.

I get it, and I really debated whether it was worth posting and opening the whole can of worms. From an American POV, I figured the can was already cracked and it was worth airing it out all the way rather than let it sit. It’s a sore spot.

Gotta say I think the wider point about how things we take for granted today may be viewed in the future is a good one, and can be applied across our social/economic relations. I for one hope to be considered a barbarian by our ancestors.
You haven’t purchased Duolingo stock today. You know what happens next.
Perimeter security would have been just fine here. The breach occurred because the host was exposed directly to the internet, rather than e.g. sharing a private network with a load balancer.
No. It’s called hot linking.
I was lucky that my childhood interests gave me a basic skill set that aligned with an opportunity that I got through no effort of my own aside from coincidentally making friends with some very helpful people entirely on accident. I also got lucky with personal issues like addiction support and housing.

There’s literally nothing about me that’s special, least of which my work ethic. I’m very happy about where I’m at in life but I have no illusions about how I got here.

I wasn’t born remotely wealthy and didn’t have all the advantages that many others have but I did not get to where I am through “hard work.” I got lucky.

I have friends that are smarter than me, harder workers, more creative, more entrepreneurial, better communicator, etc that have had a worse professional experience than I have. I literally just met the right people at the right time.

The only contribution that I can seriously point to that I did objectively was just being a nice person at the right time in the right room, without knowing what was going on.
Reduce the risk and increase the payoff. Not sure how, but those are the levers that need adjusting.
I agree that this is annoying, but it's also not too hard to build a habit of syncing after every session. It's 'y' by default.

I haven't had any issues after remembering to do that, but I only really use text-heavy decks and not ones with lots of media.
> Especially knowing that if they could zoom in further to the subatomic level, the atoms themselves would also be mostly empty space.

I don't think this is really true, what you're seein in these picures are the probability distribution of the particles. Zooming in will make the high probability areas bigger until you end up with an area where the probability density is approximately at the maximum and evenly smeared out. The probability cloud does not end in a sharp point or a a singularity, there is a smooth maximum instead. I wouldn't feel comfortable calling that area 'mostly empty space' it just feels like the wrong visual
An entire subreddit was quarantined in February last year for spreading misinformation about what was considered fact just months later. As of today that subreddit is still quarantined, even after the last "misinfo", the lab theory, is no longer considered taboo to talk about.
Utilizing Analytics Kit to Evaluate App Update Effects-Huawei Developers
Something something about goats. ;)
Apropos the spectrum, I’ve noticed that remote work can also be harder. People mute and don’t show video, or the video is so small and grainy that it’s extremely hard to pick up the not-so-subtle clues and vibes they are throwing off.

It’s taken years to work out what are generally positive/negative signs in-person and now that’s all out the window.
I've recently bought SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB Flash Drive 128GB and it's cool in all senses.
low interest rates means there are abundance of US dollars floating around for people to engage in things like stable coins.

high interest rates means less growth for any assets as liquidity gets tied/dries up.

Interest rates are cyclical, all high interest rates cause a period of pain and death for semi-ponzi schemes that works during periods of low interest rates.
This still doesn't feel like a fair comparison.

The Aviron website clearly states that the device is still perfectly functional as an exercise device without the membership.

Also, I cannot fathom that I'm considering a subscription service for something like this, and yet I am... anything to make exercising fun, I guess.
My exact first thought reading this on their home page as well. I'm not sure I trust "stablecoins" anymore after all the recent news the past two weeks...
The subtitles are a bit painful / "Someone set us up the bomb", but looks interesting, thx
Mark Zuckerberg made some substantial (100s of millions I’ve read) donations to the DNC and proxies. It would be surprising that they would then almost immediately try to destroy his company. A quid pro quo is pretty believable.
Could you give an example of such a market?
> Overuse/misuse of inheritance has triggered hatred of OOP among many software developers...

"It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them."[0]

0 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_h...
MAIN SCREEN TURN ON.
Yes, lots of agriculture is growing animal feed.

Animals get feds lots and lots. Here's a description of finishing cattle, from a beef marketing perspective:

https://www.highlandcattleusa.org/content/Grain%20Finished%2...

Casually talks about feeding cattle their weight (or 2x) in corn over the last 3 months of their lives.
I think it should be on the government as well, but they don't seem to be willing to do it.
I was being flip; I should have used a smiley, I guess. Sorry.
I think part of it is a need to feel like this isn’t something that can just happen. It helps to feel like “the system” or “someone” should have known but dropped the ball. That way we can tell ourselves if our building were in the same situation, we’d know. This wouldn’t (and couldn’t) happen to me is a comforting lie we like to tell ourselves whenever theres a tragedy.

I think maybe humans as a species aren’t so great at processing freak accidents. For some reason it’s easier to accept when we have someone to blame - real or imagined.
The interesting thing here is the second edition of this book was released yesterday, and includes two new chapters.
For me attempting to take cold showers is usally a few seconds of shock, followed by more shock, followed by me nearly cracking my skull as I trip out of the shower to turn the setting to something at minimum lukewarm.

I did actually suffer through a cold shower today just because my apartment's interior temperature is at 91F, so maybe there are some differences to this based on local climate and living conditions, as well as personal preference.
That might be true, but regardless of docker (or other, similar solutions), shouldn't MongoDB have had auth protection?
How do we buy into Duoloingo stocks?
So I did Spanish on Duolingo for awhile a few years ago, as in the whole way down the tree. In the end I wasn't really satisfied, for several reasons:

1. Honestly I'm not sure I remember any of it. I found the retention to be pretty terrible. Maybe that's just me;

2. Answers were often obvious with no knowledge of the material. For example, if something is a question and only one of the answers is a question then that's your answer.

This is a pretty common problem with tests I find. Test-taking is a skill you can learn, which is useful... for passing tests. Back in college I can remember getting 80%+ in French multiple choice tests knowing nothing about French.

Here have been some of my go tos over the years:

- With multiple choices where answers are randomly distributed you'll find each answer letter occurs just about as often. So if you have 100 questions with 4 options each but only have 16/90 As, there's a good chance a lot of the remaining answers are A. Yes, test preparers can assign them uneven weights to defeat this. My experience was almost no one did;

- One question can give you the answer to a completely unrelated question. So in a language test you may need to conjugate a verb and be unsure about it but another question will have that verb conjugated in a sentence;

- So many times I've seen tests where two or more questions are based on the same underlying piece of knowledge that could be one of two things. You answer one question one way and the other one the other so you will get 1 of them right. It's usually better than gambling, which may mean 0. But you may also need to get lucky in which case it might be better to shoot for 2 risking 0 instead.

Honestly I think it's tests like these that taught me a lot about managing probability.

- Lastly, and this one may seem obvious but it's not for some reason: answer every question no matter how dumb your answer may seem. If it's a freeform answer you may get partial marks for something. It costs you nothing to try.

I've occasionally seen multiple choice tests that penalize you for a wrong answer, which requires altering the strategy. I think I've seen this twice, ever, however.

But I digress...

3. Likewise where you had to pick words to fill out a sentence, your choices were so limited the answer tended to be obvious.

4. Around that time Duolingo started the pressure to monetize by adding the hearts system, which basically penalized you for getting anything wrong such that you couldn't continue if you made enough errors. This then created the mental barrier of not wanting to get something wrong and googling it to make sure. Just the act of worrying about it was distraction enough;

5. I found the lesson structure to be haphazard, like the topics had pretty random selections of words.

I feel like it would've been better if they'd focused on the most common words and phrases used conversationally.
Xbox Cloud Gaming: Now on Xbox Series X; Expanded Apple Device Availability
And I’m sure whoever told you that you couldn’t be productive in spite of inheritance feels ashamed. I hope they see this post!
Good luck to you. I am not convinced people would be more likely to give money or a job to someone when they have only seen an avatar, but what do I know.
Pretend it doesn't exist?
We have a sandbox dev cloud environment and a way to sample a subset of prod data into this dev sandbox. The sandbox dbs are namespaced by the devs username and their branch, so you don’t have conflicts. Devs control how they sample prod to recreate the needed behavior. And we can test on each other scenarios as needed.

The key here is “sample” from prod to dev, otherwise it’s far too large to be workable.
> Not as if it matters as long as the GOP holds out on passing anything related to legalization. What a joke of a party.

Please do not get tribal flame wars started especially if you are objectively wrong based on direction of politics.

Biden admin is the one which last month banned menthol cigarettes and flavoured tobacco - 86% of blacks and 46% of hispanics prefer menthol cigarettes. Opposite of which, several of the pardons issued by the previous admin were for non-violent drug related crimes thrown in prison for life thanks to the 90s crime bill written by Biden.
Do they have any of the same stack-ranking in the Flex algorithms that they employ for full-time jobs? That could explain some of this as intentional, the algorithm working as designed, as opposed to simply being coldly inhuman. I know, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. But I'm just checking for misguided competence.
100k?
Doesn’t even get you 20% in most places where rent is over 1k
Legal opiates wouldn't be laced with fentanyl. They'd be tightly regulated. And it would probably be packaged in ways that wouldn't require injection. That sort of packaging would probably be part of the regulations. No one wants needles lying around.

If users know exactly how strong & how much they're taking then it should greatly reduce overdoses. Some will still happen but, as a society, we've decided a certain amount of alcohol overdoses are acceptable. Opiate overdoses would get similar consideration.
Some people may have been renters, rather than owners.
IG certainly doesn’t vet their advertisers very well. But what do they care if it’s a scam, they got paid.
Sure, but I think a substantial problem is getting FDA to approve your manufacturing process.

Even then, modern insulin is apparently quite a bit better than the "classic" stuff.
> zero times out of zero

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
Ah okay, yes that’s good you coupled it with a class

I think people should understand that it’s a supplement, and not a solution when you’re on the plane to that country already