skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not logically following to me that just because it's easy to walk through a place it must necessarily be easy to dive through it. Diving is always significantly harder (you're wearing bulkier equipment for starters). It costs more energy to swim through water than it does to walk through air, the water has currents which you have to fight against, and the waters are murky so you have to go slow and can easily get disoriented.
No particular use case in mind yet, aside from exploratory development.
Why not a repipe gluing operator so that

foo%$%bar %>%>% f()

is equivalent to

(f(foo(bar)), f(bar(foo)))

I'm just kidding, but please no more cryptic symbols in Python's syntax, if it can be solved with functions instead. We have other languages to scratch that itch.

I haven't read the PEP, so I don't know the trade-offs, but I'm not loving this (:=) syntactic sugar either.
This is a great time to call out California and its Prop 13 (1978) where property taxes are capped at 1%ish and can grow no more than 2% from time of purchase.

As a result, a new homeowner in Silicon Valley ($1.5M median home price) will pay $16K this year. Meanwhile there's a homeowner in Atherton (where CEOs live) who has a $6M home and pays $3K a year (and their children inherit this rate.)

Disney pays about $0.08/sqft in property tax on Disneyland. The new owner will pay about $7/sqft.

Unsurprisingly, this has caused California schools to get about $9K/child in funding. About the same as Mississippi. But the cost of living/labor is 2x-10x.

Warren Buffett was always amazed at how he paid more in property tax for his place in Omaha than in California - simply because he bought in the right year.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Buffett-s-Prop-13-co...
I’m having that problem with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

It takes 120 pages or so to get to the real plot. An amazing amount of time. But I’m kind of enjoying it and get the feeling once it starts moving I may really like it.

But at the same time it was so slow for a good portion of the start I’m not sure I want to continue.
It is on UserVoice [1], and it has over two thousand votes there. They've marked that as "sorry, no plans," and they've marked previous issues as "by design" [2]. They use Chrome announcing plans to deprecate SVG animations as their primary justification, but Chrome backtracked on those plans after realizing that there were important use cases that mattered to the community [3].

> In the 15 months since we announced our intention to deprecate and eventually remove SMIL, we’ve heard a variety of opinions from members of the community. We value all of your feedback, and it's clear that there are use cases serviced by SMIL that just don’t have high-fidelity replacements yet. As a result, we’ve decided to suspend our intent to deprecate and take smaller steps toward other options.

I understand that they don't have an infinite budget, but it really seems like they made their mind up here years ago and haven't been interested in listening in the community since then. It's also a bit circular to "prioritize based on how common the standards are found used in the wild" when they're single-handedly responsible for preventing developers from using SVG animations "in the wild" in the first place.

[1] - https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...

[2] - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

[3] - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
You can't live in or raise kids on a stock portfolio. If you're a single bachelor who moves wherever they can make 5% more every year, then by all means, rent.

Kids, spouses, and most people with friends, don't care to be constantly uprooted or at the mercy of a landlord who is likely to raise prices every year. Renting results in no value - it's a direct cost for never any gain. Even buying a house in a declining market will net you less loss then pure renting.

Does it tie up your wealth? No. It converts your wealth into a usable asset (a house). You can't build a shelter out of bricks of cash, or convert a money market account to a nursery.
Re: Only to realize that the author defined it's own little world.

Lisp makes it easy to shape a sub-language to fit your own head well. The problem is, few others can figure out YOUR head. Communication conventions are not always pretty or efficient, but they work because they are conventions. If you place parsimony (compact abstractions) above inter-human communication, then all you get is isolated parsimony.
It's more about Phoenix than Elixir alone. The language is approachable enough, although clearly different, and the frameworks are similar enough (router, controllers, templates, gem -> hex, etc.) that a rails dev can become productive in this environment relatively quickly. And, the effort to do so comes with a number of serious benefits.
Sorry, due to Hanlon's Razor, we have to accept that every politician who feigns ignorance while collecting massive checks is operating in good faith. We still have to accept that good faith after we've loudly, painstakingly and publicly explained the details to them, because they may be deaf or have memory issues.
I charge about $120k/year on my Amex charge card. I use my Chase Visa when a merchant doesn’t take Amex (rare), but I’d rather use my Amex whenever possible.

To not maximize credit card rewards means to subsidize others who do. To fix the problem, you have to regulate interchange fees down so that rewards aren’t sustainable and are no longer offered. The problem isn’t American Express, it’s lax financial regulation.

Personally, I fully support the cramdown of interchange fees and the resulting impact on financial institutions.
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Check this one out. https://github.com/borntyping/python-infix
I think it's a fine rule; be master of your free time. But beware of the reasons you are setting it down. Profound books can be difficult reads, and older books especially were content to make you work for it.
This seems rather one-sided in terms of the costs of using a credit card. Yes an Amex costs me a fee each year and yes I can't use it in lots of places, but when my dad's iPhone died 2 months after the 1 year warranty ended, I realized he was on my phone plan and I pay for that with the Amex card, so I'm in the process of getting that paid for, which will offset more than a decade of fees.
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I’ll have to double check and make sure but as far as I know the safari version of stylus doesn’t do this — it’s written and maintained by a totally different developer.

I’m planning to write my own Safari stylesheet extension some time in the coming months, though, because old style Safari extensions are being phased out in favor of Safari app extensions and I don’t know if the dev of the Safari stylish extension plans to make the leap.
The flip side of that is the state then has to raise tax on investment properties in order to keep revenues stable. This in turn raises rents on rental properties as landlords absorb the greater tax load. This ends up being a very regressive tax structure because by and large people renting their housing are of lesser economic means than those who own.
> I wish employers could realize that they employ grownups and could at least be honest to them.

As someone who only tries to hire grown ups, I can assure you that many employees do not act like grown ups at all.
My 2016 Jeep Wrangler has Chrysler's garbage voice control. When I say "settings," half the time it hears "español" and changes everything to Spanish, and also switches the digital speedometer from mph to km/h. The confirmation prompt doesn't understand "NO" even when I scream at it.

Once that happens, the only way I've been able to switch it back to English is via the steering wheel controls, but you can only get to that menu when the vehicle is in park.
Partially agree, but Manhattan goes to far. Go back to walkable towns and villages, 3-6 stories in height, surrounded by forests and countryside.
“Nobody has open source too much.” -Fireside Chat with Paul Graham.

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Purely from anecdote, I think many people were in government owned housing and were able the cheaply buy when Communism fell. I'm sure there were various schemes, so not sure how often re-privatization happened below market rates, or even if there was such a thing as the "market" for the period directly after Communism. From stories I've heard in Poland there was somewhat of a mad dash to buy as much property and land as possible.
Humans only think that way because that's how we get programmed. Science tells us how things are, and we don't have the skills or technical means to verify. Everything from special magical pictures of planets coming from special magical telescopes or spaceships that only nasa has access to... It all adds up to the public being passive spectators and believing it all.
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One person got sick, everyone got sick.

Combine that with the growing popularity of "all-in-one-bucket" PTO (IOW, your sick days comes out of the same bucket as vacation/holiday), and it's a wonder anyone stays healthy for any period of time.

For the longest time I joked with my wife that I'd take a $20K pay cut to not work in an open office. The job market called my bluff. gulp Sure, it's less money (and probably right around the $20K I was willing to trade), but I'm pretty sure my office is bigger than the one I had at Microsoft back in the day. Ask me today, and it's a trade I'm glad I made. And I haven't been sick in the five months since I started. :-)
How does one look very liberal?

Ive seen that clip. The guy was either super unstable or just trying to "out crazy" the streamer and scare him away.
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FWIW, the fish aren't really naked in the sense that they had clothes on. "Naked" is just some constraint you put on your own life.
Haha you should do some research on Japanese work culture and how it relates to leaving after the boss.
I think it makes sense to give it 100 pages, but I read a fair bit faster than the average person.

I think it is also a question of the other factors indicating that a book might be worth reading... is it a classic? Have others highly recommended it? Is it for a book club?

While I'm well aware of sunk cost and realize that it often makes sense to cut and run, I have had the experience a few times with both books and movies where it all came into focus right at the end and make the whole thing worthwhile. If I'd stopped 90% of the way through I never would have had the moment of appreciation.

Just as a hike through the mountains is often rugged and lacking in scenery, reaching the peak changes the entire experience and puts the grueling work needed to get there into proper context.

Some albums are uninviting on the first, second, and even third listens, yet after a while something is unlocked and the music finally makes sense.

I'd argue that some of the best things are good in spite of being inaccessible. It's asking a lot of any creator to give us a happy path and also give us something deep and significant. Sure it happens now and then, but I prefer the significance over the happy path just as I prefer a carefully prepared meal to a piece of candy.

The world wants to give us candy... the endorphins of the clickbait headline are 90% of the endorphins one gets after reading the whole article... the endorphins from watching a porn scene are 90% of the endorphins of watching a romance with a plot... a few pop tarts will go down quickly and dampen our enthusiasm for any cuisine.
Their presence is ... easily felt on other subreddits. It's like saying "Bloody Mary" to a mirror.
They somewhat cleared it up in a comment. Low latency was one reason.
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Heinlein’s Razor! Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
No, we cannot allow that. We have to allow the state to have absolute power to make poor decisions and then force everyone to conform to those poor decisions.

Look at SF. The right answer is to for old people that bought into the town during the Haight-Ashbury days to sell since they are too cash poor for the rents (property tax). The wrong decision is to change the zoning laws that prevent 5+ story apartment buildings that meet earthquake code.
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Rewards cards are really just a way to reward wealthy people for being wealthy.

I went through a bankruptcy in my early 30s, largely because of credit card debt, and then immediately started getting big pay raises. 7 years later, I came out of it with an 800 credit score and a six figure salary and it was an incredible eye opener how much money and kickbacks credit card companies are giving to wealthy people for the privilege of using their card, while I was getting fucked 10 ways to Sunday on interest when I was making 30k a year and struggling to make minimum payments. I worked out the math later and it turned out that even with the bankruptcy I had paid well over the amount I borrowed in interest and had barely put a dent in the principle.

These days I’m regularly getting $100 cash back rewards and free flights or hotel rooms and not paying a penny in interest.

I don’t really get the economic incentive of shoveling money at wealthy people while grinding down lower class people into debt slavery.
But a very entertaining story though!
If I'm a seller, it doesn't matter to me one whit whether the money that I don't get ends up in the pocket of the bank or the broker or the government. I really don't care whether you call this lost money a tax or a commission or points. All I care about is that it's money that the seller was willing to pay that someone else gets to keep and not me.
None of those sheets except for Annoyances should be applied globally.

I don't guarantee Annoyances won't break other things, but I do guarantee that the others will.

Assign the to a nonexistent URL or domain initially, or disable them.

If you've got specific bugs with the Annoyances sheet ... I may be able to address them.

My usual first-stop debugging tools are adding either an outline or background colour to an element:

outline: solid 2px red;
background: #faa;

... which tends to show what rule(s) are being triggered. If something breaks, add those rules, and disable the "display: none;" one.

I'm also finding that the shift to "display: flex;" styles is breaking some of my assumptions. It's no longer safe to presume that everything is displayed as one of block, inline-block, or inline.

Position directives are also problematic: initial, static, relative, absolute.

That said: I've evolved those styles over a few years, and they tend to work reasonably well. Some nursemaiding required.
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The problem is how to reconcile manual controls (which are great) with Carplay/AndroidAuto (which is even greater). The only control I have over Carplay without using the touchscreen is next/previous song and volume :(
VIM [1], Emacs [2], intellij based ides over ideavim's set scrolloff 999 command like in vim [3], Atom [4], ...

[1] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_your_cursor_centered_vertical...

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/edt/Scro...

[3] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim/blob/master/doc/set-com...

[4] https://atom.io/packages/scrolloff
This is very cool.

Makes me sad I'll never do anything like this.
Because robots up to the task don't exist yet (and aren't even particularly close). It's a very hard problem.
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It would be nice to capture that and decode.
> My mission: write the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface.

Can somebody elaborate on this?
I stand corrected! It's good to get the facts straight, there is a lot of misinformation about Greece and tax dodging (which, I imagine, is where I got the idea)
> For example, the New York system was private and actually paid for itself.

Which New York system? The New York MTA is the result of consolidating multiple, unprofitable systems (e.g. LIRR, New Haven, Staten Island). Most were snatched out of the jaws of bankruptcy by the government as commuter service just isn't profitable much of the time. Let's not forget that the private rapid transit (BMT and IRT) didn't work out so well either (bankruptcy and poorly thought out contracts) and eventually was acquired by New York city.
If you've not been paying attention or specifically trying to counter that trend, you'd be amazed at how complex a typical site is. Even those which otherwise appear clean.
I just left the office after failing to concentrate on a method that took 6 booleans as an argument and constructed a set of > 10 SQL queries, despite blasting Chopin on my headphones, because there were 3 different conversations being held behind my back.

My current employer has a "strict" no WFH policy.

And this is the best working environment I've had.
By the time I left my previous jobs I was almost clinically depressed and a big part of that was the horrible open office culture.

Can't wait till the entire industry goes mostly WFH so it's easier for your average dev to get such a job.
It's less the tool (git) than the culture of active OSS contribution across the social network of github members.

Github has wikis too, which are backed by repos.
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I get back 6% on groceries and I absolutely would go to a different grocery store if they didn’t take amex.
The government that didn’t want it got replaced with one that did, which then called a General Election to strengthen its position and instead found itself weakened.

The PM stated (in writing!) that she called that election in order to increase her majority and so be able to force through her version of Brexit; however despite losing so many seats she needed a coalition afterwards, which in a democracy ought to be pause for thought, her post-election government not only still wants Brexit but also refuses to countenance any variation from her implausibly over-ambitious goals.
China firm makes 'laser gun' that can burn protesters' hair from kilometer away
When I wrote Lauren Ipsum, a children's book about computer science, I used the real words for everything. Words are random anyway so you might as use the ones everyone else does. There are a few puns, eg "Hugh Rustic" teaches heuristics, "Eponymous Bach" names everything after herself, and "Xor" is a colorblind chameleon. I also included a species of animal called the Jargon who constantly spout computer jargon. They are cute in small numbers but will run you over if you let them.

My favorite comment was from a mom who'd read it with her six-year-old. Weeks later she was storing her luggage, putting the smaller ones into bigger ones. The kid piped up and said, "Mommy, that's recursion!".

Kids are smart. It's astonishing what kids can do if you don't tell them it's too hard.
The EU parliament is not nearly as toothless as you make it out to be. It _can_ block and amend directives such as the one we are talking about. And you _can_ vote out your MEP at the next election.

You can also vote out your representative in the EU Council (and the council of ministers) because the UK member of the council also has to be a UK MP.

So the power in the EU rests with directly elected politicians and with the Commission, which is appointed/approved/dismissed by directly elected politicians. The Commission alone cannot pass laws.

In some countries, neither the prime minister nor cabinet ministers have to be elected politicians (unlike in the UK). This additional level of indirection obviously extends to the members of the EU council from these countries, but that is a function of national constitutions.
It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab
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I'm not sure where the problem is, where I'm using past tense it's for events that happened in the past. The system can be current but have been launched in the past.
I've had precisely the same experience as you're describing.

I don't have a total answer, but I suspect a basic problem is that we have too simplistic an understanding of human psychology.

It's also possible that it's a chasm you and/or I can never cross, because to effect the kind of improvements you're describing requires having a particular persona.

I'd love to hear any ideas people have on solving this issue.
When you are 100 years old, I guess you just look at the cover and decide. After that, people read to you?
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Different people have different priorities; someone whose top priority is early retirement would take the extra BS hours, but someone who wants to have more free time now might take the company that offers shorter hours.

There's an advantage to a company offering shorter hours as long as there are fewer such jobs than there are people who want them.
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> Am I the only one who wouldn't mind a responsible way for people to target me with things I don't know about which I might be interested in?

Targeting is about maximizing profits for the advertisers, it's not about maximizing value to you. If they can use targeting to take value from you in order to give it to themselves, they will. For instance, you could be bombarded with targeted ads for product A when you'd really be happier with product B. You can contrive scenarios where ad targeting is a win-win, but those scenarios are misleading because they go against the underlying incentives.

I wouldn't mind a neutral, personalized product recommendation engine, but that's not what ad targeting is.