skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works great... for a while. Then you end up wanting to tweak something here and there, start adding classes to things, and you realize you want to do something that requires changes to the DOM within a component and you're screwed. Or you ignore the fact that the right way would be modifying the DOM, use some hacky CSS to kludge it, and you start getting browser inconsistencies. Either way you end up stuck with 100k of dependencies to style a popover and a dropdown that could have just been defined in a design system from the get-go and done with minimal CSS in a React/Vue type architecture scoped to the individual component.
I also really enjoy building CSS UIs from scratch, but editing existing stylesheets is a pain point. Band-aid after band-aid.

I think keeping UI components tiny and coupling the stylesheets with the component is the best way I've seen (not necessarily styled components, just styles in the same folder as the component.)

As the component is removed, its easy to nuke the stylesheet with surgically removing related styles and not breaking something else.
That was an example.

Sure. It's an example that doesn't apply to journalism well which is why there are such things as newspapers one subscribes to.

People still live there. English-speaking people too.

Indubitably. The work of visiting journalists in crisis zones would be impossible without their help, often at tremendous personal risk. But that just makes the notion that journalism can be replaced by individuals armed with a keyboard and a patreon account more, not less preposterous.
Android Q might ship with more privacy protections
Isn't that how Linux replaced most the UNIX players, by cloning them?
I love css, so no... I get really into it.
I'm a fairly fit person and I am not going to run for an hour twice a day. 30 minutes by bike is fine but if I am gonna get on my bike I might as well go all the way to work which is what I do. Public transport is just no use to me until I move somewhere with better access.
64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant
Yeah, I noticed the same, I can't trust a service that want to keep itself secret.
I remember when I first told my colleagues that I followed every single CSS course on Lynda, they laughed. They thought why would you spend all this time on a non programming language?

No one takes CSS seriously. For most, CSS comes as an after thought. Build every part of the application then suddenly "Oh Right! CSS!" Slap bootstrap or other popular framework then don't think about it.

Yes, CSS is not a programming language like others but it is just as complex. It requires studying, practice and long exposure to become versed in it.

Note: you can google your way into using a couple jquery functions, but you can't become a competent JavaScript developer like that. The same goes for CSS.
LA has about 10 bus stops per square mile. It looks like Metro's Google Maps API key expired but there's a nice map here[1]. Most of the gaps are uninhabited areas or cities that have their own transit systems. But just because there's 5 bus stops within a half mile of your house doesn't mean that those 5 (or more) bus lines take you to your destination. It's like a graph, as the number of bus stops increases linearly there's n^2 ways to connect them. Traveling somewhere that isn't directly North/South/East/West usually requires 1 or more transfers, and most of the bus lines are subject to the same traffic that you'd experience if you drove yourself.

[1]: https://www.metro.net/interactives/gmaps/bus_routes/bus_stop...
There is a big difference between a complex UI on a complex application and an unintuitive UI on what should be very simple.

It is completely nonsensical how Snapchat works. You have to swipe every which way and there's no clues when to swipe where. You just have to memorize the magical incantation to do what you want through trial and error.

We as a society have built up a fantastic 'language' of UI. We know what buttons and menus, etc do. Snapchat throws away all the ways you want to intuitively navigate and give you no clues about what to do instead.
Oh, I never noticed that. That's pretty interesting—although unfortunately, that syntax does not look terribly convenient to write, which is the main thing I'm after here.

I think the best way to get identifiers with whitespace to work in a Lisp would be contrive a syntax for S-expressions that uses something other than whitespace to separate things. Perhaps letting (first rest-1 rest-2 ...) be written as as (first: rest 1, rest 2, ...) or (first, rest 1, rest 2, ...), so that example could be written as:

(let: ((first number: 10),
(second number: 20)),
(+: first number, second number))

I imagine it would be possible to write a macro in Common Lisp to transform this into runnable code, or a language in Racket to do so—although, I'm not sure how many people would actually want to make or use something like this.
it's a pilot program for just 3 stations (one subway, one busway and one light rail), so no need to worry about a messy tethering yet.
Create, analyze and edit smooth color palettes
Like most cities, LA's public transit system used to be a privately-owned, for profit network, mostly from Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway. By the 50s, those companies had shuttered most of their routes because of competition from private cars and buses, so eventually they were bought by local government and became the public transit system.

Same thing happened in Chicago. Before there was the CTA, there were private, for-profit rail roads connecting the city, owned mostly by the Chicago Rapid Transit Company.

So, if Via is unsustainable and unprofitable, and was acquired by local government, that wouldn't really be any different from how the LA Metro got started.
Open-Ended Learning in Symmetric Zero-Sum Games
I've written a small but non-trivial amount of CSS for my website recently, and my general perspective has been that CSS has quite a few non-obvious corner cases (margin collapsing, the exact semantics of how things will wrap or overflow) and I really haven't quite understood why certain solutions work and when some don't (when they seem to do the same thing?), and I'm not sure if it's because the model is just too complex or these are idioms that I should memorize.
Until the week there's a national toilet roll shortage and you have to shut the office for a week because you don't have any toilet roll and lose $100,000s.

Both our examples are glib, but it's very easy for JIT to turn in to a "penny wise, pound foolish" scenario, where you're saving small amounts of money, but occasionally losing big amounts of it because of those savings.
"Exposed to it"? Hah.

One of the main reasons Britain abolished public execution in the 1860s is they were too damn popular. Less isolating from the messy details of the deterrent sentence being carried out, more ceasing a drunken family day out tradition that's getting way out of hand.

Sometimes tens of thousands would turn up at Newgate (Outside the Old Bailey prison, which stood on the site of today's court. It's the UK's major criminal court so often on TV) or the other major gallows. Enough that it wasn't uncommon for there to be deaths in the crowd. Plenty of merchants selling food, beer and souvenirs. Perfect opportunity for the city's pickpockets to have a profitable working day out.

Madame Tussaud’s would buy the executed's clothes and a death mask to ensure the fun spectacle was available for anyone who couldn't get there on the day. The broadsides[1] (single sheet news bills, not naval gunnery) for a particular execution might sometimes be printed in the millions. A couple of million were printed for the hanging of a banker executed for fraud. Hmm. The 2008 banking crisis might have turned out different if that law were still on the books. :)

So in the 1860s when public execution (and hanging, drawing and quartering for treason) ended it was with typical Victorian double standard.

Now, on meat sales I'm inclined to agree. The butcher showed the process quite plainly. Tesco and other supermarkets hide it to such an extent that knowledge of cut or what comes from where is minimal. Kid's especially, aren't learning where food is really from, and I think they should.

[1] https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/broadside-grand-moral-spe...
>> I think a breakthrough is really in the eye of the beholder . Society these days doesn't really provide a platform for creating and implementing breakthroughs.

If you'd ask yuval-noah harari, an historian, he'll say that with today's and tomorrow's innovation in AI and robotics , we're at unprecedented era in history.
Ah, that does make sense. Thanks for adding the examples -- I can totally see this happening. Guess I just haven't been bitten by that yet. Although, I do remember running some mass regex through the codebase to update class names when bootstrap changes something. Or, changing templates to use some new formatting. This can be nerve wracking.
> Strikes an equitable balance between reliability and respect for the user.

Is it just me, or is that a novel interpretation of "respect for the user"?

"I'm going to continue to track you even after the usual and expected method of preventing tracking in the browser is used, but if you jump through an unexpected hoop that's not documented to the user, then I'll grudgingly delete my tracking data..."
Just to add to the point above where I say that beijing, moscow, washington, have all access to my unedited file, I forgot to mention Her Majesty the Queen and the MI-6 have the oldest file on me, since the day I was born, because I was born by the hands of a surgeon doctor that was an agent of the MI-6, who went to fucking west europe and to fucking east europe to fight the fucking nazi . And he had nightmares and could not sleep well for the rest of his life, because he saw the children in Paris packed in the holes of the street, hunger and freezing, covering themselves with newspaper, and he saw that they look exactly like the poor mouses and rats on the streets too. And he remembered his 5 children 10.000 kilometers away.

So...they know I am for peace and pot.

...even forgot to say that he was my grandfather, and there is a street with his name in owr town...

Already lets open the last bit...The street name is actually of my granpa's father, so my grandgranfather or something like this. American (U.S.) family.

The little hospital my grandGrandpa built, where my grandpa was born, and where my father was born, and where I was born...

still stands to this day, unmodified, in his original taste, since my granGranpa opened it.

Dr. Taves Health Home. We accept credit cards. look at Altavista : )
It sounds like they hit a performance/feature wall on their original design.
This doesn't hold water when the current administration stops refugee resettlement and makes applying for asylum more difficult (legal by definition) while simultaneously opposing family unification (also legal by definition) by calling it "chain migration". The RAISE Act would cut legal immigration in half. And that's while ignoring changes to the H4 visa and general animosity towards the H1B visa program.
CSS isn’t bad after writing it a lot and googling the same tricks to do what typically works. My best advice is to stick to some framework for most UI (material or bootstrap) with using custom css seldom. Colors are definitely an art form and matter a lot.
>Its goal is to identify users after they've removed standard cookies and other privacy data such as Flash cookies (LSOs), HTML5 storage, SilverLight storage, and others.

AKA

>Its goal is to identify users after they've taken actions to not be identified

sigh
Hey Malcolm, cool to have you chime in! I've appreciated reading your stuff around the internet and your IndieHackers interview was really cool.

I noticed you have a coaching offering as a higher tier on Complice - have you had much success with finding takers on that? I'm currently working on a coaching practice of my own and have wondered how effective "coaching as the top tier of a SaaS that helps you do the thing I'm coaching you about" works.
> This accident stems from the fact that imported chemical materials do not meet the requirements, resulting in flaws in the wafers produced.

It's possible one of the washes or doping agents was contaminated, rather than the wafers themselves.
CSS doesn't seem to be experiencing the same revival or energy that JS is still experiencing.
If it requires network connectivity then by definition it’s not self-driving.
So with all of that, how does the last mile problem turn into '3-4 miles (or more!)'?
If the "official" answer to the last mile problem is scooters, that'll run into all kinds of resistance from people with disabilities.
If you have time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

It's great.
If sweating is the primary thing keeping you from riding: get an eBike.
I do think it is a bit ironic that it is, at least partly, economist raising these issues. Since in my view it is partly the misuse of economics as a way to decide things, rather than as a way to perform what is decided, that have left us here. And by that I don't mean you shouldn't consider economics. It is just that in an ideal world, you do things that are worth it anyway.

1. I think you could to some extent William Gibson this though. "The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed". Maybe we have made less progress, but it also looks far less because it isn't being obviously distributed. (I guess in regards to Moore's law you can remove "not evenly" from the quote).

2. I agree. I wonder if this doesn't have a lot to do with misguidance. Basically a lot of our ideas of the future are old. Therefor we want self-driving cars, even though we know cars are limited in the sense that they have non-specific applications. So a lot of what people see as the future is a non-starter from the beginning.

I will have to read some of that material. I do think that science could be getting harder. On the other hand I am not sure we are even making the effort. Space exploration is something that get really hard really quick. But there are certainly a bunch of things you could at least try to explore in our solar system. But I guess that progress can be hard to quantify as well.
Hey Abi! It's been really cool to follow Pull Reminders. I've been bringing it up in conversations a lot lately as an example of a solid one-person founder technical SaaS. Hope it continues to succeed! Thanks for all of your in public work on it. Cheers!
It's conspiracy to commit bank fraud if you lie to a US bank to get them to clear US dollar transactions in violation of sanctions.

Banks pay astronomical fines for evading sanctions.

Infographic -> https://www.refinitiv.com/content/dam/gl/en/documents/infogr...

And it's conspiracy to defraud the United States if you obstruct or defeat an agency of the US government.

Also money laundering, wire fraud, stealing trade secrets, etc.
Not sure if they’re ahead in any area exactly. Do you have specifics?
In love hello sign but it feels like a few weeks of work to build. Feels like they dodged a bullet.
Kite raises $17M for its ML-powered IDE
Fei-Fei Li’s Stanford Team Is Crowdsourcing Robot Training
FWIW, TrueHD also contains a lossy core (AC3 in this case), just like DTS-HD MA. I was also surprised to see that my TrueHD tracks are 24-bit, but my DTS-HD MA tracks are 16-bit.
Most perspectives on science highlight the hierarchical nature of the process, and how successive layers are built on previous ones. I largely agree with this, and Sean Caroll outlines it in 'The Big Picture', but many have pointed this out before. Before I'm willing to throw in the towel, let's at least figure out what biology is all about :) For this task, we'll likely use a tremendous amount from fundamental physics, and then we may need to invent what's next (or not, I'm sure you are well aware of the view that physics was 'solved' in the late 1800's.....but leave it to the Germans to need a more efficient lightbulb).

In addition, from my perspective, research isn't just about what we find out in an isolated field, but also the interplay of discoveries and knowledge between fields. This latter view, 'integration', is largely unexplored at scale, though lip service is constantly being given to it. I think there is a tremendous amount we can do here, and it's not just marginal. Overall, I am more optimistic I think, perhaps to an unwarranted degree :)

I also think that language is important, especially in the service of scientific understanding and progress. In this respect, I think category theory is poised to play a major role as a language for the sciences, and particularly integrative science in the 21st century.

I've been working on this in my spare time: https://www.eonias.org/, which I definitely hesitate to link to here because it's unfinished, but I figure I might as well start putting it out there. I think there are lots of ways to improve the way we go about research, having been in the grind for a few years now. There are tons of different opinions on this, but I just wanted to do something.

In short, I personally am not concerned whether 'research productivity is getting worse because of X, and because X is "the laws of physics"' is actually true or not (this is a complicated question, and the relevant question is whether 'productivity' can go up again--I think it can). I believe there's plenty left to do, and we need far more people doing it than we have engaged now. After all, should we move the money from the budget of the NSF into tax incentives for football stadiums? From my perspective, I think the NEH should have a much larger budget, which in and of itself is an interesting topic of debate. I mean, where have the humanities gone?? I'm f@#C!ing tired of AI and robots already. ;)
You can go into your storage listing and delete the update from there. Then it won’t nag you anymore
Yes and they aren’t unquestionable.

YC released the SAFE and then a few years later, after working with thousands of founders, thought it was too confusing to have a feel for ownership and conversion with pre-money valuation caps, so they moved to a post-money SAFE.

The SAFE itself has a few variations and you’re welcome to add/remove things as they make sense. With more complicated legal documents, like a Series A raise, of course people should adapt.

Open standards are a starting point.
Not as good as SNCF which is state run.
The demo looks neat, but the idea is not new. How does it compare to competition.
> They also discovered “significantly higher" incidences of cancer in vegetarians, as well as increased rates of anxiety disorder and depression, although they note that this is inconsistent with other research.

Having scanned the original paper (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...) this seems like p-value hacking. If you check table 3 they report the p-values for the chi-squared test that they did across disease categories and dietary habits, it seems they are using a threshold of p<0.05 as being significant. The problem is that they have repeated this test across ALL the different conditions without adjusting this threshold of significance, and then handpicking the ones that satisfy p<0.05. At the very least they should correct for this by using something like a Bonferroni correction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction).
Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m gonna need a citation for that
An abandoned tunnel in a Sydney train station is available for rent
Experience. Reading what features there are and trying them out.

CSS can be fun. Its easy to learn but hard to master.

Be careful; if people recognize you know anything more than basic CSS, you’ll become the CSS helpdesk
I designed software for the AEC industry in the past. You wouldn't believe how engrained are signatures in their mental model for doing things. So much, that we once ended up builiding a functionality that required a scribble that would get attached to a finalized inspection.

Not like that was different from simply pressing a button and acknowledging some message. No cryptography, no standards about legally binding e-signaturees, nothing. They just wanted the scribble of the inspector attached to the form.

Signatures are basically a way of signaling approval, ackowledging something or declaring intent. I designed that feature and always thought about it more as a intentional friction to make someone think briefly before closing or approving an inspection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_south

Vegas and Colorado are neither coastal nor southern. My vision of "American desert" is probably near Albuquerque where I lived for several years. It snowed every year. But you'll note that New Mexico isn't part of the south either, despite its location on the border.
Singapore's national HIV patient database leaked
depends. 3000 is a lot of money in Romania
> and there's no choice

And this is the thing that many web developers miss. As they've begun to creep into the mobile and desktop space, intent on replacing native experiences with a continual barrage of non-native, bespoke apps, each with their own design, they've mistaken widespread availability with quality and utility — that HTML/CSS UIs are widely available is all to do with ubiquity and lessening an otherwise not-at-all steep learning curve, not technical merit.

Give me springs and struts, Autolayout, or PowerApp's style declarative positioning any day.
The repulsion experienced viewing a corpse is one of the classic examples of "abject horror" (or so my college class would have me believe).

While it is reality, it is still harsh and requires repeat exposure and mental training to overcome the natural resoonse for most.
Taxing investments more than standard labor should be the baseline. Us workers should not be subsidizing the significantly discounted rate that investment earning are taxed at.
It was an example to show that you don't need to subscribe to an agregator. You can subscribe to the content-creator directly.

> But that just makes the notion that journalism can be replaced by individuals armed with a keyboard and a patreon account more, not less preposterous.

Would be nice to explain why it must be a visiting journalist.
There was an article in the New York Times last year about how New Jersey suburbs are paying ride-sharing people to ferry commuters to train stations so that the towns don't have to build larger parking lots.
Same for me. As someone who's done a lot of layouts in InDesign, it seems to me that CSS is only starting to offer decent tools to reproduce that mental model (e.g. CSS grid). But somehow doing incredibly basic things such as positioning or aligning elements can still take inordinate amounts of time.
I clicked for old paintings where shadows are wrong.
Take a look at the Model Legal documents from the NVCA: https://nvca.org/resources/model-legal-documents/ (free to download, requires giving up email)

It is typical that the term sheet results in ~5 different contracts: the Stock Purchase Agreement (through which the company actually sells stock), the Investor Rights Agreement, the Voting Agreement, the First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, and changes to the company's Certificate of Incorporation.

There are also sometimes opinions of counsel and other "ancillary" documents which are just as important but not typically negotiated as they're very standard.

It is mind-bogglingly routine that a company pays $30k to "expand" from the term sheet to definitive contracts, and then the VC firm spends an additional $15-30k++ (reimbursed by the company) to review that expansion to make sure the other firm did it right.
So you are saying: Judges never convict people to the maximum sentence? I'm sorry, your point isn't very clear. It's a bit muddled.

Or are you saying that his probably of being sentenced to the maximum was low? If so, how low? And when does it stop being 'intelligent' to consider a small probability with a horribly outcome? I mean, in your intelligent opinion.