skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem, I can never quite tell how writing comes across to be calibrated reasonably.

In general, I only hope and suggest every individual determines to make themselves more informed (knowledge is literally a prerequisite of power), in depth and breadth, rather than haphazardly absorbing information to a shallow depth that is ambiently shoveled on them by commercial forces.

I'm not a reporter, but I know a little about it:

- Just days before Assange was dragged out from the embassy, WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief met with would-be extortionists in Madrid, Spain (unnamed Ecuadorian embassy staff; either intelligence operatives or for personal gain) who suggested a payment of 3 million euros in lieu of releasing months/years of surveillance video & audio and stolen documents covering Julian's daily existence. On top of that, WikiLeaks collaborated with the Madrid police to conduct a sting operation that recorded audio and video of the extortion scheme, and it was referred to the Madrid's prosecutor's office. (I've checked multiple sources and it doesn't seem any of the Ecuadorian embassy staff were arrested, they probably claimed diplomatic immunity?)

- Assange was holding a book, History of The National Security State by Gore Vidal, in his hand when he was being illegally dragged out by British police.

- It is internationally illegal to revoke asylum once granted, unless the statements leading to its granting are disputed by new evidence.

- Julian's parents support him on Twitter quite often, and were at the latest hearing. They had to threaten to walk-out in order to keep Kristinn (WL E-I-C) from being banned for no reason.

- Pamela Anderson has been a vocal supporter. One could surmise that they may have "a thing." I haven't seen her in a while supporting Assange, guess she's too busy marrying and divorcing Jon Peters. ;-)

- Dragging Assange out from the embassy accomplished four goals for Moreno:

1) Silenced a potential embarrassing story from misbehavior of civilian or intelligence service personnel allowing WikiLeaks to make Ecuador look bad.

2) Got rid of "a stone in [his] shoe." (That's a direct quote.)

3) Appeased US interests.

4) Secured the $10.2 billion IMF loan package.

Wikileaks Editor in chief holds press briefing
143K views - Apr 10 2019

https://youtu.be/QFq38d3Q9qY

Spanish police ‘recover Julian Assange surveillance footage’ [and stolen legal and medical documents]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/10/julian-assange...
these kind of comments should remain relegated to reddit
See https://tailwind.build for something that already exists and knowing the community that surrounds this, he will more than make a good return off it so no worries there for the work that has gone into it. ie. https://adamwathan.me/the-book-launch-that-let-me-quit-my-jo...
> Then that's the problem we should fix.

There's nothing to fix. Developers assess severity but the project manager defines the priority. As the PM calls the shots, they pick which issue should be addressed first, and obviously it's expected that some low-severity issues should be given priority over some high-severity issues.

In fact, the only thing that needs fixing is any potential misunderstanding on behalf is some developers on how low-severity issues shall have priority over high-severity issues.
Where is this 1-2GB number coming from? I'm running a fairly large Electron app and the combined memory usage of its processes is about 250-300MB.
Yes there is a lightbulb conspiracy among producers that deliberately and jointly shortened the life span of their products in order to ramp up sales.
CVE-2020-0688: Remote Code Execution on Microsoft Exchange Server
If you think that pricing carbon externalities into all goods now and offering a dividend later (yearly? Quarterly? Monthly?) will not be regressive, ask anyone living paycheck to paycheck how they feel about it.

It might balance out in the big scheme of things, but it isn't going to be doing any favors to people who are already precariously balanced and lack the savings to make personal adjustments. You can be sure there will be mass protests if the price of gas, food, and electricity double (esp food in northern climates where transportation and refrigeration add a lot to produce and frozen goods as well as meats).
Corollary: a good teacher hasn’t understood anything. Well, that’s wrong, I think.

However, this might be true: A good teacher remembers not having understood it.
Pandemic Preparation for IT Teams
I subscribe to The Economist and Bloomberg Businessweek.

I also bought a lifetime subscription to an imageboard site that is not supported by advertising (that couldn't be supported by advertising.)
That could work, but note that there are other libraries that are purpose-built to do diffing without the rest of git's many features. We are using jsondiffpatch [1] and quite happy with it. It also has builtin formatters to output e.g. html view of the changes.

[1] : https://github.com/benjamine/jsondiffpatch/blob/master/READM...
> What does your friend mean by fundamentals?

Your second sentence is mostly it, although it really generalized and lessened what it means to learn your fundamentals; learning your character's options are and what the basic flow of combat will be based on those options. Fundamentals gives you the tools and skillset to play the rock-paper-scissors metagame you've described (Team Fortress 2 also behaved like that). Things that would fall under fundamentals for something like Street Fighter would be:

- learning basic ranges on the stage (SF4/5's "grid" stage highlights this really well)

- learning the range of your character's moves (i.e., Chun Li's standing heavy punch/fierce has considerable reach, more than 1 square on the grid stage)

- using your jab/short to "check" aggression

- using your anti-air moves to catch your opponent's jump-in attacks

- rudimentary okizeme (after you knock the opponent to the ground, you can catch them with either damage or block pressure)

- what general actions beat other general actions (blocks beat moves, grabs beat blocks, jumps beat grabs)

The list goes on to some extent before it starts mingling with more refined actions. While it's rarely a 1:1 translation, things like the above have plenty of carry-over between 2D fighters, and the concepts themselves apply to 3D fighters like Tekken. I'd also go so far as to include knowing what bad habits are as part of fundamentals, like mashing fast buttons while still blocking or after getting up from being knocked down.

It's been buried in the comments but someone posted a link to Richard Garfield's MTG paper about "metagame" and I like his definition of metagame: "It is how a game interfaces with life". The game of rock-paper-scissors doesn't exist in a vacuum: even at a low or casual level, understanding the fundamentals allows a player to make educated guesses about how an opponent will behave during that game of rock-paper-scissors. It's not concrete, obviously, but noting what fundies the opponent has and which ones they're not good at or are completely missing can change how a player approaches the fight over the course of the game.
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)
It would be great to understand the downvotes on this.

Chrome/Chromium phones home, period. Last time I've personally checked this [1] was still true.

It's hard to argue that Google doesn't have an interest on collecting as much data it can. Especially, since their heavy focus on ML, where the algorithms are very data-hungry.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Chromium/comments/3fgabt/privacy_is...
>if you buy into their philosophy you'll probably want a component-based design (web components, React, Vue, etc).

With tailwindcss or tachyons you get some of the benefits of component frameworks without having to use component frameworks, because you can colocate html & "styles" in regular template based systems and scope sections on a page this way. Great DX if you need to render sections conditionally, e.g. for ab testing.

If you think in sections rather than individual components anyway, which tailwind kind of promotes by design, you don't gain that much with a component framework.

The actual CSS functions like an inverted triangle (see ITCSS) the utility classes access from the html, so you won't have any specificity issues because it's already sorted out by having the CSS in a fixed order.

Another advantage is portability of sections between modern frontend JS frameworks and template based systems, you can just copy and paste things around, which is harder if the information about the styles is separated from the html, and without a fixed inverted triangle like CSS structure.
I have found that they're especially good at spotting embarrassing mistakes -- where you've broken something really obvious to every user, such as outright crashes in common use cases. Such things make users really angry: "How could you not have spotted this? How can I trust your product at all?"

The ratio of maintenance to issues remains very high, but the kinds of issues that it can catch put a thumb on that ratio.
Ask HN: Would you use a site like Reddit/HN that linked to article summaries?
I never read the article. For one, I'm a slow reader. Two, I actually just want the facts. For example, if Ford makes an all electric Mustang a typical article might start with a carefully wordsmithed teaser paragraph, then go into the history of the Mustang, then talk about the one guy at Ford who has been pushing for it for years, then finally talk about the details.

What if instead of that whoever submits the article writes a summary of the article (possibly even with just bullet points).
Fair enough, but there is nonetheless a lot more hand-wringing about covid-19 than there is about seasonal flu despite the fact that the total number of covid cases is still less than the number of annual flu deaths.

Covid is very serious and we should not be complacent about it. But I think it's important to keep some perspective, especially since we seem to be on the brink of shutting down the entire global economy.
Ok?

So its a data problem, not a technical problem. Just get the data from pharmacy textbook into a computer. Its not that hard.
You can work with components too, just use the @apply directive. https://tailwindcss.com/course/composing-utilities-with-appl...
As someone who was a teen in the early '00s when torrenting became quite mainstream, I was surprised to see it fall away entirely in favour of streaming services, despite the lack of ownership of the content, and needing to subscribe to multiple services to get the shows you wanted.

I never really stopped either, but as I got older and had more money, I find that I watch/listen to a fraction of the shows/bands I used to, so I'm happy to support them by purchasing digital assets (DRM-free MP3s) and physical (vinyl, DVD).

The DVDs will be ripped to my HDD; they are mine after all.
Sounds like embezzlement.
A short history of the O’Reilly book animals
I did notice the name and logo were awfully familiar, though.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/MMOg-_aR48tAdBU-crlM...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflektor

It's not the exact same, but it's really uncanny.

They appear to be Canadian judging by some of the clients, so maybe it was intentional?
Huh. Interesting stuff. Well, if mine changes, it changes I guess. I don't object to the idea of a more morning oriented schedule, it's just not who I have been up to this point in my life. And I'm not making any conscious effort to change, as I'm pretty happy with this mode. I like being awake in the wee hours of the morning. One of my favorite things to do is go bike riding (or maybe walking) at 3 or 4 am when nobody else is out and about. Just me, my thoughts, and some music, and the world to myself... or at least that's the way it feels, for an hour or so. :-)
My sense is this is for people who do not know css to the level needed to implement BEM. Also, it replaces the cost of knowing css and naming things (class names) with the cost of learning the tailwindcss classes.

I will stick to BEM + colors and sizes maps because this feels almost like using the style tag on each element.

For non-css expert engineers writing spa components, tailwind can be useful.

I can also see that it’s not trivial to mix tailwindcss and scss processors so it’s a no for me.

It has the benefit to limit spacing and color sets to presets but I already do this in my BEM codebase.
I believe Room and Board offers sofas without toxic flame retardants
That's a hypothesis why young children aren't affected by COVID-19, maybe they had more exposure to related viruses due to school. Currently, no reported death for children; but mortality rate is significantly higher for 50+.
"but I'm not willing to install and use npm and several hundred dependencies"

Good luck being a employable lol
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I know but the apps are several orders of magnitude smaller than Electron apps, so I think it's appropriate here:

> An uncompressed Neutralino app is only ~5MB and compressed app size is ~1MB.
Nothing: Esoteric programming language designed for bug-free programming
Try creating a similar set of components. Time yourself. Multiply with your hourly rate.
But isn't Tachyons already on github?
the best bang for the buck will come when one donates to causes that improve literacy and wholesale lifestyle improvements (both children as well as adults)

They will not see immediate results, but the change in a few decades with the new mindset etc will be enormous.
Reminds me of Nidium, but nothing is happening there anymore

https://github.com/nidium/Nidium/
I agree with your overall point I think, but I find that people in general just work better when they have some context for their task and its priority/relevance. Absent that, they sometimes -- consciously or not -- decide "this is stupid" and either rush to just check it off or slow-walk it by allowing themselves to be distracted by other things.
You can move those clases into a css file.

button {
@apply border bg-white; // ...
}
That’s why all “social good” “incentive” taxes should be revenue-neutral (paying all taxes collected back to citizens as universal income). I have absolutely zero trust in governments to spend any such tax sensibly otherwise, and I’m probably not alone.
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Still waiting for a use case of blockchain outside cryptocurrency also.
Ah. That's much clearer. Thank you.
Systems that encourage money to move into the hands of people that earn it, as opposed to lucky people who were born into it. Key examples of fair capitalism boosters (all be them for limited groups of people): 1217 England (Magna Carta for English lords), 1618 North America (when the Virginia Company introduced profit sharing for white settlers in the failing Jamestown), 1688 England (the Glorious Revolution for property owners), 1776 North America (where the new USA codified equitable rules for European men).

In all these cases Royal monopoly power was curtailed, allowing more people the opportunity to profit from their efforts. And there were relative economic booms as a result. But we strangle growth when we reinforce monopoly power, or when we reinforce laws that keep money in the hands of people that didn’t earn it (and also strengthen the political power that money alone has).

When monopoly power is a temporary reward for innovators, it works. Anyone that seeks to extend the time limits of monopoly powers beyond the sweet spot is trying to restore one of those unfair capital systems that kill economic development. They generally don’t care because for them, it is about enriching themselves whatever the cost to society.
Crytpocurrencies are not valued on its software (even though paradoxically, what makes it different from other currencies is that it's only software). Otherwise the best software would have the highest market cap, which obviously isn't the case. This is true to such an extreme degree that it doesn't even matter if the cryptocurrency is used, works, or even have a single working implementation. Seriously, there are top >100M market cap coins that have never shipped a working binary.
They did maintain their own browser. It was called Edge.
There's some truth to the fact that lightbulbs don't last as long as they used to; but there's a lot to unpick here.

First: This bulb was not turned on, and a light-bulb in storage does not degrade, there's no oxidisation happening inside the bulb itself.

Second: heavy filaments consume more power to emit light, and a heavy filament is the requirement to have a long-lived bulb

Third: Even with a heavy filament, bulbs will dim in their light output with years of use. The longest running light bulb in the world (101 powered on years if I'm not mistaken) is less bright than a candle, although originally it was about as bright as a 40w bulb.

More information on that bulb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
The problem with IE was that Microsoft intentionally coupled IE versions with Windows versions so you had a lot of ancient versions in use. So you had to ensure that all web apps you wrote were compatible with IE6-IE10 at the same time which was a huge pain. That wont happen with chrome since it is not coupled to any OS, people can just update whenever they want for free getting all the latest features. Microsoft being pressured to stop that practice is a boon to the entire industry.
I’m spitballing, but Chrome does have issues with high memory usage[0]. But also, VS Code can take up multiple gigabytes[1] on a large project.

[0]: https://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53658769/why-vscode-requ...
Recently used Tailwind for a quick and dirty MVP. It came out looking very polished (way more so than the cookie-cutter bootstrap look) and cut down the development time quite a bit allowing more time to focus on the important stuff on the backend. Worth giving it a try on a side project if you haven't.

Like you, I was put off by how crowded the HTML looked but got used to it and found it way quicker to update and kept the css file clean.
I filed a Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617987

Chrome has a heuristic they call SSLCommonNameMismatchHandling: if Chrome tries to connect to a site like "https://example.com" but the returned cert is for the "www." subdomain of the same domain, Chrome will silently redirect to "https://www.example.com".
What if you want every link (from the perspective of the user, not based on the tag type) to have the exact same style? How would you do that without some sort of build step with an atomic unit for a link?

Isn't a section just a case of a component?
I'll assert that panic and fear is worse than this disease. I'll also assert that the tens of thousands that are surmised to have the virus are largely unreported therefore this disease is vastly overplayed.
Show HN: Find public pianos around the world
I'm out of the loop. What is "OKR" in this context?
Open gmail once with noscript and it will give you the option to switch to the classic interface that actually works.

I had to help someone with something the other day and saw the current version of gmail in safari and I feel sorry for anyone that has to use that.
> If they insist on fixing the lower priority bug first then you should try to stop working with them

I'm all for firing bad clients. Fire the crazy ones. Fire the ones that don't pay. Fire the ones who make ridiculous demands at the last moment.

But the client wants you to deploy a fix to the logo ASAP, you do it. That's the client's priority. As long as they accept the disruption to the rest of the work, it's no problem.
> I can totally understand how appealing it is to effectively ship your entire environment as part of your application instead of relying on shared dependencies.

It's the modern "It works on my machine", but in this case it does because you almost ship the entire machine.
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Yeah, I was thinking about moving on around then and I held off for about another 9 months because it just didn't feel like a great time to play my best job leads. Maybe things would have been fine but it seemed like a good time to stay put until things stabilized a bit.
> Capital is cheap when business viability is high.

While that may be true, might it not also be the case that the relationship is the reverse, or circular - ie. some businesses are viable only because capital is cheap. Again, I wouldn't consider a business sustainable, or 'good' in the sense I intended it, if it can only survive because of cheap capital.
I had something similar, then I dug into it and found that my CSS was not specified correctly. After looking into the spec, I realized that what I thought Firefox was doing wrong, was actually the correct behavior. Chrome and Edge just covered up my mistake is all.
In the US, Avocado Mattress uses wool[0] instead of a chemical fire retardant.

[0] -- https://service.avocadogreenmattress.com/hc/en-us/articles/3...
I guess it needs only 400 Mb of RAM instead of 500 then.
I didn't get the pricing. Is this one-time, monthly, or annual?
> a good tech business would be one that ought to at least survive in a volatile and capital-starved environment

Good businesses should be able to survive a normal recession. Start-ups aren't good businesses.

They may aim to become good businesses. But if their first customer cohorts go bust, or their bank goes under in a country without deposit insurance, or their employees--who have to be on site to do their job--can't get to work because of transit strikes, et cetera, et cetera, they're not going to make it. Irrespective of how prudent they were.
I'm keen on the idea that priority is not a thing, a single issue cannot have a priority.

Priority is an order. If your tracking system makes you assign a priority like "high" then it is collecting something that doesn't have meaning.
This is why everyone in the public eye who isn't a shock jock is burning out
> There was an explosion at a virology lab

Why are conspiracy theories so irresistible to so many people?
“If the report turns out to be genuine”

This still requires the platform to detect _genuine_ transgressions which is very difficult.
I think people just live differently and have different values. Nothing wrong with it, really.
Human reproductive cloning: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
I'd not put a demonstrated and notorious flight risk in minimum security. Low security, yes--not to be allowed freedom of movement until the extradition is decided.

That certainly should have already happened. I don't understand any legitimate reason for the delay.
> because there is a strongly negative view society has on me

It's envy.
Maybe it is about your setup?

I actually got curious and tested Firefox with my personal gmail account (using it for >10 years, so it has tons of emails, filters etc). I did not notice any big issues, text rendering seems slightly different, maybe chrome version is slightly snappier but that's it.
This is an interesting and important topic buried under George Monbiot's usual political posturing and making any and every issue about Brexit.

An example of where EU hasn't regulated properly is somehow supposed to automatically be made worse leaving the EU?

He claims that the government is using Brexit as a distraction from this issue but then links to a parliamentary report as one of his primary sources. (I know parliament is not the same as the current government, but come on, this is not some kind of top-down conspiracy)

Regulations frequently butt up against eachother. Making something non-flammable and non-toxic is obviously not trivial. I would love to understand more about this because there is almost certainly something worth investigating here but can we please give this to anyone but George Monbiot to write about.
Yep, Tailwind offers the ability to create "components" that are pretty much rolled-up sets of classes like that.