skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is it just me or is the syntax for css grid a bit clunky? I'm talking about specifying ranges using "1 / 4" to mean 1-3 inclusive, or having to separately specify grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns each time. It makes it both hard to learn in the first place, but also hard to remember for casual users (people who use it once a month or so for a new design).

Tables don't have the same issue -- once you learn the syntax for tables, you never forget. And even bootstrap is a bit more memorable. But css grid always requires a few trips to stack overflow.

Everything else about it is fantastic, but I wish they thought more about intermittent users.
> Paying for quality can be waaay above what even an above-average earner would want to pay, and with little guarantee about the quality.

There is your problem buddy. There are still masses of companies making high-quality products in the UK but the issue is that most Brits expect to pay the same price as Primark.

It is totally illogical: why would you expect an adult in the UK to make clothes for the same wage (i.e. produce a product that costs the same) as a 9-year old in a Vietnamese sweatshop?

Whether it is worth it is really up to you but I have not come across a British company making products where the extra price isn't worth it (ignoring the ethics of having small children make your clothes)...and that is why they exist. Yes, most Brits don't pay for this stuff anyway but the companies that focus on quality generally operate in areas where that premium pays (your assumption is presumably that high prices are just about corporate greed...this isn't the case).

You can buy a pair of a suit shoes made by a child and they won't last very long. You can buy Church's and they will last until you die.

I also don't really think most people in the UK being poor. Relative to what most UK workers produce, they are paid a fucking bomb and are able to consume (and do) almost all of their income. The issue is that they spend their money on cheap tat (this is something in the national psyche, Brits love the idea of getting something for nothing...from what I have seen, other countries will pay for high quality products).
It's important to give kids food every few hours for the first few months. When they are hungry, they'll let you know. At some point (4 months? not sure what the experts say) you can start trying to get them to sleep at night.

When you finally get them sleeping through the night, it's important for them to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day, including weekends. It puts a huge dent in your social life, but it results in happy, pleasant kids.

If you provide an environment where your kids are on a regular sleep schedule every single night, that's way more than half the battle.

More than anything else, mentally prepare for world where everything you do is controlled by a little baby, and their needs.
> Also the "skills" required aren't that high

I hear this a lot and in my experience, I tend to disagree.

Learning how to sew a shirt is much harder than say making a solid timber table or welding something together. It's certainly harder than any desk job/IT role I've had. Having spent 30yrs in professional development, I'd say that programming is about as hard as making a table: once you know the libraries inside and out is the same as knowing chisels inside and out. After that it's just design and then implementation of said design. (Yes, I got bored with professional programming: c++ games -> automation -> finance & web).

I've looked at a huge range of skills since winding down my programming life.

Making clothes is actually challenging ... For me at least. No piece of cloth is perfect, like a program can (almost) be: it moves as you measure it and cut it. It reacts to heat/cold and humidity. Then there's style (a thing I'm seriously lacking in). It goes on. Such as how a complex flat plane shape, combined with other flat plane shapes, when sewn can generate a 3d image -- but you put it together inside out! It's pure mathematics made real.

So, to say that it's unskilled, since having tried to learn it... Is simply not true.

I'd say it's only a few notches easier than trying to visualise the curvature of space time when you're studying the theory of general relativity (yes, I dabbled in that too)

So, I'd say that appreciation for the skill set has disappeared, and that is due to a managerial thing: metrics. Once your job is analysed in terms of metrics, then it can be analysed in a clinical way. It's what almost completely happened in our industry: hence the migration of a lot of development to India/Indonesia, and manufacturing to the cheapest country.

Edit: typos/readability
I think there was a missed step between the original concept and the step to productionization. Recent scandal aside, MIT's Media Lab has been a pivotal force in technology, but sometimes the world at large isn't ready for pivots. In this case, fighting both Microsoft and Intel (with the full benefit of hindsight) was unfortunately and ultimately foolish.

My outsider perspective is parts of the Media Lab had an ivory-tower, idealized view that Thinkpads running Linux are the proper way to compute (no judgement, I still believe that), thus the OLPC should resemble that, but childlike. One route to productionization would have been to move the platform to existing expensive Windows(/Intel) laptops after the first production run proving that a $100 BOM was quite possible. Moving to Windows laptops would have been a very large compromise to the original project's high-minded, ambitions goals, but one that would have preserved the project. The Windows kernel and Explorer isn't open but that wouldn't have prevented porting the Sugar interface to Windows and kept the main UI software goals of the project open source and editable/"compilable" directly on the laptop.
So we shouldn't punish bad driving?
Upvoted for effort, but if all I want to do is show off a subset of the books I've read and offer a bit of commentary on selected titles, I could do that on a web page. Why would I want to bother providing personal data to yet another web app?
> I can't help but wonder why technical debates have shifted into personal ones,

This pretty much hits the nail on the head. Why do engineers think they can talk about sexual assault in the same way they mull over the pros and cons of Kubernetes. Which is why, when Richard Stallman is mulling over whether sexual assault is a real thing, or whether you can really have assault without violence, it's a nasty place to be. Because the person talking about the issue very clearly isn't read up on the subject and is talking about (and often to) people who have actually experienced quite disturbing situations.
>Now the math department? They were a different story. No calculators. Period. Ever. Made higher-level calculus... interesting.

When I took calculus the professor made sure that every arithmetic problem could be solved quickly. The trick he used was to carefully track factors when setting up the problem, so that the numbers never got very big, and also so that things had a way of cancelling (I can't tell you how many problems had one or zero as an answer.) Calculators weren't necessary and in fact would have been slower.
>- Public policy (scooters being pushed on to people)

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Policy changes will almost always be reactive. Should we just defacto outlaw everything?
I'd be more upset about the idea of being snooped on by cameras everywhere I go. That _really_ doesn't sit right with me, and there are certainly concerns around privacy, security, and a government that probably shouldn't be trusted with such info.
You don’t need a graphing calculator for tests. You can handle it with a scientific calculator that has expressions. The students could just use a graphing app on their phones for class/homework and a cheaper calculator for tests.
I would have agreed with that statement 5 years ago, but it simply isn't true today. Most manufacturers now offer some premium laptop line that is competitive with MacBook performance and build quality (often better) for a fraction of the price.

Even some of the less-premium lines have significantly improved in the last half-decade. A family member recently got a Dell Insperon and I was very surprised at the build quality.

In today's market you buy a MacBook for macOS and a logo. You just happen to get a decent laptop bundled with those.

That said, you'll have to make some sacrifices at the $500 range. At that price point, I always tell people to just get a used, high-end laptop instead of a new, crappy one.
Assigning fault has nothing to do with safety.
It's worth noting that this is legal in some places. Not everyone on HN may be aware of that. I know I was surprised when I first saw it.
I know this is a cliché, but a fraud detection system cannot work transparently.

Also for fairness - Does Akamai publicize the internals of BotManager? Imperva gives you much transparency into how DistillNetworks works?
This is the dirty secret of usage analytics. Both Google and Facebook got in trouble with Apple for effectively doing the same thing by abusing internal apps - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18205795/apple-google-blo...

There is a major free AV vendor logging the usage of their 100m+ users for years and selling that data to third parties, and no one seems to care.
fair question... $500k in measurable lowered AWS spend(cancelled RI's and end of term and never renewed). if i figured in salaries and was fair about it, id say about 80% of that was actual savings, 20% was related to costs involved with rewriting or porting code. i wouldn't count the costs of new features into that as that is still forward progress, just writing in Lambda rather then for life on a traditional web server.

to put this into perspective we have grown about 10x and our monthly AWS bills have actually lowered. so I have no way of knowing what this workload would cost on EC2, going down that rabbit hole would produce a "savings" number easily into the millions.
> People want it, though. Why can't they have what they want in a manner that is as healthy and effective as possible?

You’ll find no argument from me. The comment you were originally replying to though pointed out that some (many?) vapers are currently unaware of or are trivializing the risk of “cooked juice”. And that it’s ironic that many seemingly health-conscious people are doing so.

That is not a rational response. That is trying to justify a behavior that still has unknown long-term health implications.
I've just done it. You're right.
Static First: Pre-Generated JAMstack Sites with Serverless Rendering as Fallback
SolarCity was insolvent when Tesla paid $2.6B to buy it, lawsuit says
'black' and 'white' aren't simple at all.
DoD Guide to Detecting Agile BS
Yeah should.

Multicore super scalar processors make me nervous about my assumptions. I wouldn't put it past one of them to realize that the result is unused and nop it.

It's always good to check.
The cookie links back to a demographic profile that ranks you against other consumers to determine how "valuable" you are.

"Ahh yes. Sandra will be ovulating soon. We can charge a premium to present just the ads she needs right now."
It is ironic that just after I read this item I opened Safari and discovered that the latest update (Safari 13.0) had removed all protection from trackers, malicious advertisers, and unwanted media that I had previously used. So without notice I would be exposing my computer to those hostile elements if I hadn't noticed.

This is not what I want - Apple has done a bad thing.
The best thing we did was to pick up a well established book and avoid click bait articles. So many articles out there are pure garbage.
I can't. Neither can SO.
I agree with this a lot - asking for help can be tough when you're used to solving your own problems. Paying for help - such as a regular house cleaner if you can afford it - is totally worth it.

One thing that we did that was unreasonably helpful was to sign up for a meal kit service (we used Good Eggs, but I assume there are loads of them around). It just meant that we had less decisions to make about food, and removed a lot of friction there.

Last thing - try to sleep when the kid is sleeping. Better to do that than catch up on TV.
The TOC is totally weird and looks like it's been copied from a different site that offers, among other things, "employment ads, and other like services", "E-mail, Messaging, Blogging, and Chat Services". On the bright side, at least it doesn't have a forced arbitration clause.
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It also supports img tags. Being able to write HTML is very powerful. Markdown support would just add feature bloat. Next you will ask for a markdown live preview.
FWIW, my university specifically only allowed calculators pre-approved as non-programmable for any exam.

Casio FX-82/Sharp EL-W531/Texas TI-30. These go for ~20$.

Fancier ones like the TI-84 etc were only allowed during lectures, where you can already use your phone or whatever.

I think the market is under change for sure. Apart from less distractions and more native interface, there's no edge in having a TI-84+ anymore.
Also after hiring you have a trial period that can last up to 8 months during which you can fire at will (with a 1 month notice ).
No. "Ionizing radiation" is not a reference to breaking hydrogen bonds. It _can_ affect covalent bonds (introducing them or breaking them), but hydrogen bonds are not the same thing.

This research likely has no direct impact on how we understand the effects of EM radiation on DNA.
I think that was actually a bullet point on the side of the box.

Features:
* ...
* IR/Serial Port
* Look down on TI peons.
* Removable Storage
* ...
And throw in https://adnauseam.io/ to taint the underlying ad/tracking data.
The older the instance type is, the worse the price/performance is. They'd save money upgrading from the m1.small to a similar sized t2 or t3 instance.
I know this is a crazy thought: But why should every student need to buy their own calculator for testing? In a given class period, what, 10% of a school's population is in a math class? The school should be providing adequate calculators for test-taking, but of course, that would cut TI's income by a factor of 10.

(It's worth noting that "an X for every student" mentality really only is beneficial to whoever is selling X.)
>There will always be slip ups, over-simplifications, snap judgements, subconscious or not.

Absolutely. The mark of intelligence is to recognize them and correct for it.

And the people who just permanently slip up, and never correct themselves, and somehow always make the same snap judgments? 100% racist.
Sleep now, next 18 years will be hard. :) Enjoy the sleep during the second trimester.

In the first baby, the time from the contraction to the delivery is something like two days, with random contractions every two hours or something, it's (more) difficult to sleep. When the contractions are frequent enough you go to the hospital and wait a few more hour. Ask the doctor for the details.

It's not like in the novies! Nothing is like in the movies!

The first two days after the delivery are terrible. The baby has tummy ache and cries and cries and cries and cries. You can try to fix it with some tummy massages. Ask the nurses in the hospital for help, they have a lot of practices, it's like magic. Usually after two days it get's better, hopefully.

As another comment said, babies have a lot of variation. Don't get too worried if they don't follow exactly the calendar. I've never seen a calendar with sigmas. Ask the doctor.

Doctors also have a lot of variation. Try to get one that is good and that fits yours preference. Bonus points if s/he understand what you want when you ask for a calendar with sigmas.

Once the kid enters kindergarten, s/he will get all the silly contagious illness. Expect to have her/him at home like 50% of the days during the fist 2 or 3 months.
The way I take that to mean is: if you're using a Googlebot UA, and your request doesn't come from a Google-owned IP range, you're very unlikely to be a legit crawl from Google, and you'll be detected and dealt with.
Regular or irregular?
Not agreeing or disagreeing with either of you just wanted to add some details to the garbage collector thing.

Nims GC is able to either be controlled in terms of when and how long it runs, and it can be completely disabled in favour of manual memory management. In fact people have gotten it to run on really low-powered microcontrollers like the Attiny85, as well of course as various Arduino boards. The benefit of Nim in these systems is that since it compiles and has such a rich macro system your are able to write abstractions that the compiler will turn into highly efficient code. So you can still write business logic level readable and maintainable code, while the compiler spits out super-optimised versions. This of course requires you to first write these macros, but often times a little goes a long way.
By asking some site which has PII of yours to look up the fingerprint and associate it with the PII. Like, anyone you've ever given an email address, phone number, or credit card number to.
Agreed. My immediate impression is "Goodreads clone with fewer features" not "anti-Goodreads".
This article reminds me of that famous video of Steve Jobs talking about how sales & marketing guys take over a tech company and engineering gets pushed out. TI has no monetary incentive to make these calculators better, the only way for them to make more money is to aggressively sell to schools and lobby for more favorable legislation around their product.
No, that's the consumers in emergent economies. In the 1st world things are working properly.

That's the all gist about meat consumption: let's look at all the problems meat production has in emergent and 3rd world countries and then tell people in the West they shouldn't eat meat.
Going beyond facts is an important component of “being human”, so in that regard it makes the AI seem more intelligent. The problem is the AI is 100% honest with what it thinks, unlike a human.
Also const/let/var declaration keywords for whether something is constant and whether its known at runtime or compile time are also very very friendly.
Well the key difference is that on-paper anyway, MS claims they use telemetry to make Windows better and fix bugs, Google spies on you and your personal data so that they can sell your profile to the highest bidder who will attempt to convince you to open your wallet.
Interesting. That kind of reminds me of the "two tokens" approach to guiding customer service conversations in a favorable direction, where something has gone wrong.

They say that there are two tokens on the table at the start of any such interaction, one says "this is very serious" and the other labeled "it's not a big deal." If you are receiving a report of a problem from a customer, you are best advised to pick up the "very serious" token, as by signaling that you take the problem or issue reported most seriously, you can reassure the other person and alleviate their feelings of how serious it is for them.

Whichever token is picked up first, the other party will always take the other one. It is serious enough for them to call, so they will be appreciative if the service person who is responding clearly takes the matter very seriously. Even to the point of taking the opposite position, disarmed.

If you instead chose the other token, to signal with your speech that it's not a very big problem by saying for example "that's no problem at all," then you may get a very different response. "Well for me, it is a problem, and I need it resolved quickly." Instead of being disarmed, the person may feel a need to defend their reason for calling.

I got this from "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work"
…which some browsers have already started removing.
Things I Learned in Corporate IT
Sorry! I should've at least googled before asking that question.
What evidence is there that pulling over and then re-entering traffic is any less dangerous than adjusting your GPS at a stop light?

We used to call it "common sense." Though it does not seem to be so common anymore.
RPN FTW.
Joshua Cohen, Apple University’s Resident Philosopher [audio]
Speed up your laptop with few clicks
Direct link: https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB...

Much love to whoever wrote this paragon of clarity and brevity.
That's why I'm in support of automated linear speed checks absolutely everywhere.
“Should” was the operative word in that sentence. The fact that individual consumers would normally be at the back of the line is a disgrace, however true it may be. The sentiment was that in a just world they would be at the head of the line.
This seems more applicable to consumer products, not business / cloud services, though I imagine I might be overlooking something.
IDK. Sway is my daily driver. I just checked Firefox, and the screenshot tool works as expected (including clipboard). So unless GP is talking about capturing non-Firefox windows with that tool, I do not have that issue.

This Firefox instance is running on native Wayland. The only issue I have with it is sometimes the coordinates for the context menu are wrong.

But yeah, there might be compat issues, if some protocols are required for stuff. But Wayland itself is the baseline: you'll always be able to draw windows and interact with them.

What's left to extra protocols isn't guaranteed to work: control of the compositor with a client, for instance (color correction, virtual keyboard, screenshots, window placement, screen geometry, window decorations, etc.) is completely up to the compositor (and the protocols it can speak with the client). So is other stuff, like graphics tablet input (with pressure sensitivity, tile, etc), minimizing windows, window miniatures as used for KDE's taskbar as well, I think.

But then, it's not like everything worked flawlessly everywhere on X either :)
And as long as the baseline is solid, we can build on it.
sigh. I think he's actually saying:

no-camera - do not document, experience

people-as-nav - ask someone

people-as-comm - talk to someone nearby

no-distraction - :)
Not only a good resource to learn Nim, but also an excellent programming book in general!
If you look at data from a few years ago you’re missing the full picture. Cigarette smoking by high school students has been on a heavy decline for the past 20 years. Especially in 2012 when it was already looked down on socially.
I guess Apple is hedging against a 2nd term for Trump.
That's the key question here, isn't it?

If faces are like other images in the database, then according to this article turkers were presented a word and a group of images, and asked to click all the images that showed said word. https://qz.com/1034972/the-data-that-changed-the-direction-o...
Um, I couldn't find any evil in that thread, sorry.
Order is on its way, thanks to teleoperated delivery vehicles
I find the 89 to be a huge leap over the 83 entirely because of the screen UX.

On the 89 it would draw the actual fractions and show exponents in superscript rather than only using parenthesis. You could also scroll up to previous entries and bring them back to the editor (or get previous answers).

The mistakes you avoid from not having to count parenthesis and being able to easily access previously typed equations was really helpful.
Good advice. We found (in SF) that the lactation consultants and many of the neonatal healthcare providers came across as quite pushy promoting breastfeeding when the reality is that it doesn't work for every parent. I think it's good to try it, but if it doesn't work out then just feed the kid with formula and don't beat yourself up about it.
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Actually, I remember discussing this with colleagues back in 2006.

Also, the Hugo Gene Nomenclature Committee have been quietly going around changing some of the worst offending gene names.
It's sad to see this being downvoted despite that it's essentially econ 101.
Russia adopts Paris climate agreement: decree