skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea but there are trade offs

- Risk of too much discussion on exact ordering. I think to my uses of graphical programming languages vs text and having infinite places to put wires made me waste more time on perfecting it than the coarseness of text.

- Sometimes there is not clear priority between multiple tasks

- Sometimes you want to think locally. I might be looking at a ticket and I'd like to know the general bucket it is in without having to look at it in context of the entire table. I might also want to triage it and put it in a bucket without trying worrying about the exact order.

I think a potential is to combine the two. You define discrete priorities and have dividing lines in the UX. The UX can let you drag between buckets or even order within a bucket.
DNS on a blockchain is actually the very first altcoin, before even Litecoin. 2011.

It’s not really usable though; all the “dns on blockchain” means just “well we can store arbitrary data on the blockchain, some are parseable as DNS records maybe, and then I guess we can parse all the chain to get all the records???”

it was as meaningful in 2011 as it is in 2020
As someone born in the 90s I actually enjoyed the prequel movies, being a kid and all. They are terribly campy but it has been the source of many in-jokes.
Big part of the problem is that inflammation is beneficial, only chronic inflammation is a problem. But treatments would reduce both.
You guys are missing the corollary that low-severity bugs being escalated to high-priority is the edge case.

The point is that severity is not ignored; it does inform the priority. Most of the time there may even be a direct correlation between severity and priority.

But other (real-world business) factors also inform the priority; while severity will never change in the absence of new information about the bug, those other factors may change frequently. It doesn't make sense for a PM to reread every single ticket and reassess each one's severity when adjusting priorities, when the developer can just determine that once and record it in the ticket from the start.
Engineers truly are the oompa loompas of science
What's the uptime on that "base application" and what does it do?
Linux commands I can’t live without
Any boardgame that involves eliminating players from it is a non-starter for me.
How to Run a Good Conversion Optimization Program
PS: There's a wonderful This American Life story about a pair of ranchers who cloned their prize bull, Chance. Second Chance, the clone, wasn't quite what they expected.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/291/reunited-and-it-feels-s...
Record browser actions and turn them into tests
> The next problem that people will run into is that because they can't reliably run multiple "things", they won't have a monitoring stack to tell them that certs aren't renewing. But, maybe nothing bad will happen and it won't be a problem. "Hope is not a strategy" if you're a Google SRE, but people do pretty OK with hope in the real world ;)

Sort of agreed with this.

Based on my experience, the reality is a bit more complicated. As soon as one is past the "this VM is a special pet and it is the only one I have" stage in my experience even smaller companies get dozens and soon hundreds of distinct HTTPs entry points:

* Main site/API ( code )

* Ops support

* bizops ( invoicing/quoting )

Which is where the issues of monitoring and observability come up.

I bet techcrunch has close to a hundred HTTP/HTTPS entry points and every time they evaluate a solution to replace their current entry point structure they ask if the new method would at least solve all of their existing problems. Ops people aren't gong to add another partial solution so the mix.
https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss

still in js, but very fast, ~10KB (min), 0 dependencies, and does not require npm [1]:

however, it expects properly formed html and css; the parsers are quite unforgiving.

(i'm the author)

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss/tree/master/dist
Wow. I've got Apple Music/iTunes running for a week or so on this Catalina macOS and the process viewer reports 300MB (including sub-processes). I assume it's a native application. How does Spotify manage to use so much RAM??
Does the typical flu spread as quickly or easily?
fwiw only paywalled if you're not willing to turn off adblocker for Forbes
Monopoly sucks because of using the house rule that Free Parking is a jackpot of money. Not doing property auctions and paying out $400 for landing on Go are lesser reasons for it sucking. Stick to the published rules and the problems mostly to away.
It's all about negligence and what you can prove in a court of law (or settle for in arbitration these days). A person taking an open flame and leaving it unattended or not monitoring it, is negligent in the eyes of most people (aka jurors). There is a reasonable expectation that an open flame is going to cause a fire if expose to combustable material.

But what about a person dropping a lit cigarette on a couch (either sleeping or not). A cigarette isn't an open flame so the above doesn't apply. Is there a reasonable expectation that a lit cigarette would cause a couch to catch on fire? If there is, and a jury agreed, then the person who dropped it would be negligent.

But I would expect said person's lawyer to show that a standard cigarette dropped on a couch would not and could not cause a fire. But cigarettes manufactured by company X are treated with chemical Y in order to make them non-standard. And while the client may be partially negligent (for dropping the cigarette or falling asleep), the manufacture is also partially negligent for (knowingly) adding fire sustaining chemicals to an otherwise standard cigarette. If the cigarette manufacturer could prove that a standard cigarette would catch a couch on fire, and the knowledge of this was obvious to a standard person, then the person would be 100% negligent.
Ask HN: Self Employed and not working hard
I feel bad because I've worked very hard to get to this point. Worked at a job I hated for years to build my savings and skillset to the level that I can work for myself.

To put it simply, I don't exert myself. My pace of work is really bad. I quit during the day far too early.

I use the "pomodoro" system of productivity and once I hit 8, I start on my long list of hobbies. I know I'm capable of doing 12 or even 16.

I put in a good day yesterday, far more productive than usual. I thought to myself: this is actually what a normal day was like when I was working.

I rarely work until exhaustion.

Any thoughts?
There seems to be a common misconception that HDF5 somehow isn't chunked like zarray is... HDF5 will happily chunk things internally and treat them like a single large dataset. It's an index of chunks under the hood. It's _very_ much meant to encourage and allow chunking large datasets transparently.

The big advantage of zarray is when reading/writing to a cloud bucket, where having a single file containing chunks/indicies is impractical and you'd rather work with direct references to objects in a bucket.

Otherwise, HDF5 offers every single advantage that zarray has and is much more mature, stable, better documented, and has better support. If you're working in a situation where it makes sense to have things on disk or some sort of NFS share, use HDF5. If you're working with objects in a cloud bucket, you'll incur additional overhead with HDF5, as you'll have to read its table of indices, then make range requests to each chunk. Zarr is optimized for the cloud use case.
OK, this:

<div class="lg:flex lg:items-center lg:justify-between">`

Isn't this why we have CSS preprocessors? So we can do:

<div class="description-of-what-this-is">

.description-of-what-this-is {
.lg_flex()
.lg_items-center()
.lg_justify_between();
}

Assuming there's enough complexity beneath the mixins to justify their use -- some of these might just be CSS properties.
Imply Raises $30M in Series B funding at $350M Valuation
Not OP, but my guess from their comment's direction is that if the crunch starts hitting real people, then the real money they're spending on online platforms will be pulled out of the market (since the % of free cash being spent on online-sourced products/services has increased, relative to the crunch in 2008 which affected other asset and purchasing classes).
How do you win, then?
My personal threshold (for my submissions) is around ten upvotes or a few comments, or being on the front page.

That is probably too conservative, and I don't follow it slavishly, but so far I haven't had the mods complain. And I submit and resubmit a lot.
Interactive Interpreter Undo (2016)
So chasing the latest LoL champion of the month is bad. That makes sense. But at what level does it pay off to take advantage of the meta changing, and change your main from time to time to adjust?

I would say players around the border of silver and gold would benefit by paying attention to the meta.
On top of what others have said, one case where I've seen value in them being separate is to workaround problems in long gaps between deployments.

A bug might be Major or Minor but there is a high risk to fixing it. You might want to do it early in the development process, ahead of higher severity issues, so you get the most runtime on the fix before the next deployment.
No mention of dask? So far I haven't really had a need for larger-than-memory arrays, but dask would be my go-to choice.
My children learned how to negotiate via family monopoly games. This has made parenting MUCH more difficult.
I wonder how this compares to bcolz [0]. I've been using it for a recent DL project and it's been a lifesaver... haven't tried zarr or mmap however.

[0] https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz
European companies face coronavirus hit to supply chains
Book Review: Just Giving – Slate Star Codex
There is a legal jurisdiction called England (or England and Wales), though. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own separate legal systems (Wales is pretty close to identical to English law and for most purposes England and Wales are the same jurisdiction, NI is quite similar to English law and Scotland is quite different).

I'm not sure if it's quite as distinct here where it's an extradition hearing though.
They do. Keep in mind, most of the produced residues arent recyclable or compostable. What gets exported is a small fraction of it. Could legislation be better? That was my point.
I gave up on this article right away after the first paragraph hamfistedly tried to make it a brexit issue. I don't even have an opinion on brexit, but I have no faith in journalism that leads with something like that.
You may not die if you are young and healthy but you may have a lifetime of lung damage.
And then the components get bloated to handle logic differences between views of the component, so you went from bloated CSS to bloated components and the need for everything to be a component in order to share a single look and feel.

Once the components get too bloated, you start forking them, and you are back to each page looking subtly different.
Monopoly teaches people a view of economics being a zero-sum game and too many people learn the wrong lessons from it. Real life isn't a zero-sum game.
Thanks! Properly formed input is not a problem in my case.
I've considered whether a hot or not type system could be used to rate the priority of bugs / tickets. It would present a summary of two tickets and make implications based on which one the user said was more important to order the whole backlog. I'm sure there is a fundamental flaw somewhere but I like the concept.

My main issue with allowing people to define the ordering is that, in my experience, enevitably you have some stuff at the top, some stuff in the middle and a big mostly unordered heap in the middle.
I don’t know about SV/SF as a whole, but I work for a company that’s not trying to change the world, and our stack is primarily Python. There’s some Java and even some PHP floating around, but I’ve never had to touch anything that wasn’t Python.
Given a list of items one can purchase (here the currency is engineering resources), given each one's cost and benefit (assuming each item is mostly independent), the optimal strategy is approximately to sort them in decreasing order of benefit/cost and work from the top of the list.

In the terminology I use:

Severity = total impact of the bug = (impact to each customer that experiences the bug) * (estimated rate at which customers experience the bug)

Priority level = severity / cost, rounded to fit in one of n buckets
The only way you, or the UN, can justify these perspectives is if you grant 0 probability that Assange was involved in the theft of state secrets or if you think he was involved, but it was okay because "the US is evil".

Fine. But you can't expect the US government and its allies to accept that theory...
> API doc tends to be Euclidean, but at its best documentation is Socratic. That’s when you can really be productive—fast.

Socratic documentation is necessary, but you need both. You really do need both. When I come back to your library after a year of not using it, and I can't remember the name of a slightly obscure function, I don't want to have to dig around in prose for the sentence where you explain what it does. I want to be able to search for a few keywords and get a function definition, with the arguments and the return type listed, and a short description of what it does. (If possible, I want to be able to search by the type; the only language that I've ever seen have this feature is Haskell, even though it would be doable in any statically typed language.)
> Chaining pluses together is the same as adding arguments to add

No, chaining multiple pluses together in Python (as in most widely-used programming languages) is exactly the same as doing multiple two-argument additions, and is not the same as doing a multiple-argument addition.

You can see that in this Python code:

n = 2.0 ** 53
print("(1)", n + 1 + 1)
print("(2)", (n + 1) + 1)
print("(3)", n + (1 + 1))

the line (1) has the same result as line (2), but is different from (3).

That's because addition of floating point numbers is only defined for two numbers and is not associative, so `n+1+1` is parsed as `(n+1)+1` and not some magical three-argument floating point addition, which would give the same result as (3).
> There are some drawbacks such as Windows edition is based on IE etc.

Well that's kind of a non-starter. Part of the appeal with shipping an entire browser in an Electron app is to give yourself a fixed target.

It always seems that these "Electron killers" all have some fatal flaw, be it "just use whatever the system browser is" or "just as good as Electron, if you don't care about file drag-and-drop, system clipboard integration, full CSS support, minor things like that"[1].

1: https://github.com/ultralight-ux/Ultralight/issues/178
How would this be racism?
"If a company I like has plausible deniability, then their intentions are definitely innocent" -Hacker News
In many board games, either a win condition is reached for one player that ends the game for everyone at once, or some sort of scoring system is used to determine the winner after the gameplay ends.
It's still mostly luck (and who-has-the-most-social-capital-to-persuade-the-other-to-let-them-win) based though. There are lot's of much better board games out there.
There is probably some truth though that government is to a degree hoping that Brexit will sort out the mess that is the UK's furniture regulations, i.e. that the officials concerned can cover their backs by allowing industry to replace the regs with codes of practice that will they hope keep flame retardant levels up - something that would have been harder to do in the EU.
> But by and large a lot of society is controlled by a lot of individuals making either consciously or unconsciously making choices to act or not act.

You can't unconsciously make a choice. This is patently ridiculous.

> "The world has moved on" to me says enough people decided collectively X was better than Y. Great! It's amazingly fascinating that somehow each of these individuals somehow chose the alternative. They chose alternatives due to preferences! And those choices included not watching broadcast television (or at least ignoring it). And you're one of them. Congrats, you're part of "the world."

I was clearly speaking about "the world" as things outside of my control. You again have failed to address the specific scenario I made in an ingenious manner.

This is very much like the motte and bailey tactic of argumentation.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey

> And thus my point, not acting is itself a choice that has consequences.

Your point is obvious. It is ridiculous that it somehow "proof" that you are right.

Lets go back to the core argument. Just because you don't take action at a particular time doesn't mean you are supporting an existing system.

People like yourself need to understand the difference between accepting the reality of the situation and supporting the status quo.
That’s not what “plunder” means. Plunder is what Belgium did to Rwanda and Congo and is now funding your present lifestyle.
The game's creator, Lizzie Magie, was a proponent of Georgism[0], not exactly anti-capitalist, but supported common ownership of land.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Building ML systems – beyond training models
Where's your data coming from and why wouldn't people just use that instead of your app?
There's some intense relationship-ending games of Sorry in your past, I can sense it.
Show HN: Opensource.builders, open-source alternatives to commercial software
Not to be an ass, but so is Ant design or Semantic UI.

I honestly think this is priced too high.
During a lunch the topic of cryptocurrencies came up and a co-worker of mine said he'd invested in IOTA and EOS (another nonsense coin).

The thing is I think he's smart and a programmer with the head in the right place and has made a ton of very good decisions at work. So if you think these projects only attract idiots and fools you're wrong. Smart people can also be fooled.
Sure, no magic bullet.
Pope Francis urges Catholics to give up phones and trolling for Lent
This is a building where people are literally employed to walk the halls so that if there is a fire, it will be noticed in time to save the building.

This is also a building where Parliament can be shut down for a day because a pipe burst and flooded the chambers where they deliberate. (Happened about a year ago during Brexit deliberations.)

This is also a building where they know that they need to spend billions on renovations but can't.

On the flip side, this also has one of the most impressive remaining medieval roofs in existence. Contains the lobby that gave us the word "lobbying". And contains more history than any building that you can find in the USA.

If ever you go to London, get a tour of it. Seriously.
My mom was a big fan of mysteries, so when we renovated our house she had them put in a secret passage to her bedroom from the living room.

We've since sold the house, but the last time it was for sale I checked out the pictures and I can tell the passage is still there.
Source code: https://github.com/junaid33/opensource.builders
Show me these papers that accounted for asymptomatic patients.

https://smw.ch/article/doi/smw.2020.20203

"The resulting number, however, does not represent the true case fatality rate and might be off by orders of magnitude. "

"The true number of exposed cases affected in Wuhan may be vastly underestimated. With a focus on thousands of serious cases, mild or asymptomatic courses that possibly account for the bulk of the 2019-nCoV infections might remain largely unrecognized, in particular during the influenza season.

Under-detection of mild or asymptomatic cases may be further fueled after further growth of the outbreak, as healthcare-facilities and testing capacities in Wuhan have reached their limits."
Late 90's, early 2000's were an insane time. I remember working at a startup that raised 25 mil, barely had a working product, no actual customers in production. They spent about 3 million upgrading office space, including fancy furniture like Aeron chairs. The company was valued at near 100 million. This was an early SaaS company, referred to then as an "application service provider" (ASP.) About 3 years later the company was "sold" for less than the cost of that office space renovation. Common stock holders got zero. Fortunately I only bought a small fraction of my options when I left.
I don't understand why? They're just twin siblings of the DNA donor...
The Tenets of Amazon's Principal Engineers
It isn't that they took the blame so much as they wanted to take one blame off their customer and thus remove one incentive that those customers would have to give up their products. Also it is their customers most likely to die in such a fire.

That is what I would assume anyway, I'm not in the industry.
From a social fun aspect, that's a good way to look at it. From the Landlord's Game/Monopoly original intent, eliminating a player basically means they are homeless and destitute, making the educational point rather clear. That said, cooperative games are a nicer way to spend an evening with friends.
I wouldn’t bet on that. Most people want things for free and would stole digitized assets if they can go away. In a way what you wrote is true, but I’ll reverse it: for anyone willing to pay, there are many...
A simplified consistent minimalistic layer over Apache Spark
Toy Industry Looks to YouTube Talent for Next Generation of Merchandise
Many games go until a win condition is reached without eliminating other players in the meantime.
That's amazing! After using Emacs for years, I switched to VS Code. Magit was one one of the things I really, _really_ missed from Emacs and I've never found anything remotely as nice. I'll definitely give this a try.
Personally, I'd prefer such comments not to be made in a euphemistic way and just speak plainly. If you have concerns (valid or not) with immigrants not following the native culture and social norms then say that.
Instagram Engagement Report 2020: Data from over 81m Instagram posts
I got a popup telling me I could install other browsers, and some directions on how to do so. I knew it had to be in response to the EU case, but you couldn't tell from the phrasing that they did it involuntarily.
> We still need to support IE 11

Not all of us. I'm happy to lose the 2.16% [1] in return for saving a lot in time and effort.

[1] https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
In a country where addresses have to be ordered, if not enough numerical space has been left between existing structures you have to do something, either renumbering (painful and rare) or increasing resolution.

Sherlock Holmes' "222B Baker Street" is a famous example.

In France if you put a building between existing addresses 11 and 13 you might do "11 bis" (or if that's taken even "11 ter"). "bis" might be translated as "again", though it's linguistically related to 2, as can be seen by "ter" which clearly looks like 3.

IIRC (it's been many years) you see this notation in the tree structure of 4G/LTE wireless deployment; the secondary (subsidiary) transmission nodes are referred to as "bis" nodes (I only vaguely remember this because an American engineer giving an otherwise excellent lecture on 4G topology mocked this French terminology).

Bizarre story: In 1984/85 I lived at 11 bis Rue XXX in Paris. Literally the week before last -- 35 years later -- I met an American woman at a dinner in Palo Alto who turns out to have lived at number 13. What a small world!
What I find LOL that in December, the interviewer thought "long term" meant 6 months from then.
But what if only a portion of the information is a secret? Couldn't you run a lab and be pretty open that you're doing research cloning animals and just conveniently leave out that the animals are human? That's not meant to trivialize your point at all, but it also seems like the entire supply chain doesn't actually need to know what's going on.