skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, this is, oh so damn outdated. (I'm not kidding)

Most people don't know that the flow model totally changed meanwhile, and something like "display: inline-block" actually means "display: inline flow-root", everything that came after flexbox kind of had an influence to the meanwhile borderline insane display model as a result.

Everything related to inset, margin and padding has gotten an overhaul that is ready for ltr and rtl content where they switch x/y flow based on "direction: ltr (or) rtl" whereas e.g. "margin-inline" and "margin-block" are the newer properties for the updated margin.

A lot of stuff has changed for the better, too.

CSS transforms are now specified in a cleaner way, with a predictable way to render them (e.g. translate rotate will not be different than rotate translate). So all CSS transforms have gotten their own properties like "rotate: 90deg" or "scale: 1.23".

I learned a lot when I read through the actual CSS specifications, because I am implementing my own parser (for my Browser [1] project).

Also, did you know that @media, @supports and @viewport queries can be nested in any order? The media queries 4 [2] spec is kind of insane from an implementor's view.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth and https://github.com/cookiengineer/stealth/blob/X0/FEATURES.md

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-4/
Economist Bryan Caplan (who wrote the book The Case Against Education) has been homeschooling his kids for 5 years and shares his thoughts on the topic:

https://www.econlib.org/emergency-homeschooling-a-how-to-gui...

There's a video interview where he talks about social aspects as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_qg27UubM
It's hard to support investigative reporting and fact checkers.

When the bad drives out the good, it's no surprise that no one wants to pay for the bad.
This would make sense, as it looks like money wasn't a huge factor. If money wasn't an issue, time and effort would be, and you can easily reduce effort by storing pretty much everything.
This library has some problems, but Muaz _IS_ awesome.

He is a developer I actually follow on GitHub.
Good way to filter the drama queens.

Productive pessimists tend to value or at least tolerate snark, the drama queen will just make everything about them and nobody gets anything done.
Financial services company here.

Calc + Pandas + google sheets for us.
F-droid is an alternative app store consisting of open source projects. No need for jailbreaking, more information here https://f-droid.org/
How did nyc mess up? I can just think of the nursing homes, but that was due to cdc guidelines, which coumo had to implement additional guidelines.
Irrelevant. Plan a building for 2000 students. Figure out the best location, heating/cooling, building maintenance schedules, etc. Merge districts so that you can offer niche courses for advanced students. Then have the funding cut by 50%, because 1000 of the students go to charter schools. The fixed costs were planned out for the next 20 years, until the rug was pulled out from under schools. Instead, you get fewer teachers, larger class sizes, lower supply budgets, since those are the costs that can be reduced over a short time scale.

I'm fine with properly managed charter schools. However, opting out of public education does not entitle you to defund public education.
Federal Officers Shoot Portland Protester in Head with 'Less Lethal' Munitions
Or just disable Javascript. On Medium, you get a great experience doing this, because it disables what I call the "progressive degradation" strategy set up on Medium. This allows the "graceful enhancement" strategy to kick in. See how images and text render perfectly without JS.

I've already said this here, but progressive degradation is a great strategy going like this: you start with a sane and nice baseline, and then add crap to that for supported browsers and configurations.

You can be thankful to Medium for adopting this technique, because if everybody did that, you'd get a perfect Web by just blocking Javascript on anything that is supposed to be a freaking document. Please lobby for this. The team behind Medium might even be secretly doing this on purpose but don't tell their boss.
> Are YouTube employees raiding HN or something?

From the HN Guidelines[0]:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a YouTube/Google employee, just someone who cares a lot about preserving the quality of discussion HN is known for.)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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very interesting, so they don't have any patches or any identifying information on them?
It would be nice to see one well done summary analysis of all the data that is available, including inclusion of as many as possible of reasonable "...but on the other hand..." caveats as possible. I have not once encountered a single article that even attempts this, it seems everything is written from a biased perspective.
When the police department is defunded in your town, you better hope you have a weapon.
Sustained gross incompetence is usually a mask for corruption. Without the corruption, normal corrective mechanisms that minimize products of incompetence elsewhere are allowed to operate.
If a vaccine cannot happen, neither can herd immunity.

I read it has been eliminated in New Zealand, so elimination is possible with good government: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/new-zealand-coronavir...
I definitely see some questionable privacy practices by Apple...

- While "10x less", iPhone still sends your private information (such as location) to Apple on a regular basis[1].

- Apple encrypts iCloud backups with a key they control, not end-to-end[2]. This means that Apple can decrypt and inspect your phone and computer backups.

- According to the article, iOS developers can use their "new privacy-focused ad framework" to "allow anonymously retrieving data without getting a hold of the user or specific information". I don't fully understand that sentence but it sounds a lot like Apple trying to compete directly with Goog + FB in the advertising industry.

- Hardware made in China[3].

1. https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

2. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
This article is a load of malarkey.

Being grumpy and bad-tempered are predispositions toward having negative emotions in more situations than most people would.

There are two classes of evidence in the article.

The first is evidence that negative emotions are useful in certain situations. One does not need to be grumpy and bad-tempered to recognize such situations and act appropriately.

The second is anecdotes where successful people had emotional outbursts. I assert that the outbursts did not cause the success. Passion caused both the outbursts and the success, separately. Thus there's correlation between outbursts and success but not causation.
There's fundamentally no connection between the health of a union and the quality of the product. That's not the point of the union -- the point is protecting workers! Nobody argued that meatpackers should unionize so they could pack more meat!

So it's entirely reasonable to separate the reasons for the NEA to (1) exist, and (2) dislike charter schools -- that is, because their job is to protect teachers -- from the educational merits of charter schools. We shouldn't expect a teacher union to balance the merits of charter schools, because it's _not their job_.

We can talk about those points separately, but we need to expect that those talking points are completely independent of whether a teacher protection union (and I don't mean that negatively) objects to the schools which cut them out of the picture.
My down payment was £70k, interest rate is 2.14%

When I renew at end of year it shoul be around 1.1%
People on HN always dismiss ads with "Just let me pay for the service." but only when that's not an option.
Yeah, I understand it's a technical limitation.

Just a thought: maybe it could add a function to just sync user's subscriptions via scraping their user page? Of course this requires you to make it public, but at least it would provide an additional option.
I don’t think there is any evidence of that.
Remember, "your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots." If Google catches you attempting to circumvent ads, they are within their rights to consider you a thief and treat you accordingly.
Well, it sounds to me that the parent comment viewed a lack of autoplay as a feature, but it's nice to know it's actually an option at any rate.
Eventually, I understood that a "legacy system" is one that the speaker hasn't sold you.
You're looking for XHTML
If you look at The Black Death - great for young workers. Shit for land owning royalty.

Same stuff
How are they able to legally not have ads? How is that not theft?
All good questions. If it were me I would join forces with other teachers and parents to bring the questions to the principal and school board (or district). I suspect that in many cases, teachers and parents will need to put significant pressure on the PTB to force them to confront these important questions.

edit - If your wife belongs to a teachers union, this would be a great thing for the teachers union to push for.
Even on the outside, it seems like pushing kids back into the classroom is poorly thought out. I can't imagine the shitshow it must seem like on the inside.
Oh right that's not much, only 3000 metrics per host. I guess we see more scaling problems because we have more metrics and tags (physical hosts with 128 CPU, imagine the per CPU metrics just to begin with). I spent days as well testing all the collectors and tuning things carefully.

That's all very interesting.
Personalized ads are profoundly creepy. Glad to hopefully see them disappear.
> A variety of sites that offer hardware-based 2FA don't work well or at all with Brave. While the browser works with Yubico keys, keys from Titan aren't supported at all.

So we've gone from "The website looks fine on my machine" to "The website looks fine on my machine with the contents of my pocket".
because masks are now a political statement and some administrators are republicans
That's how they like to pitch in sales, anyway. There are two problems which it hopes you won't know to ask about:

1. Most of the big claims about charter school performance is due to small sample size or short measurement time. There's a notorious cycle in the field where someone announces that they have a brilliant way to make kids succeed and publishes results which get a lot of attention, but regression to the mean sets in once they try to scale it up or have more than a few years worth of data. Once you get enough data they perform very similarly to the public schools serving the same community — worse as often as better.

2. Schools which show consistently better performance are the ones who can select students who were higher performing when they enrolled. If you can consistently attract richer, educated parents to your school — say with a pitch telling everyone how it's the best possible education for their children — you will post great numbers but those kids would have done well almost anywhere. This can be overt in the states which allow test-in or in the structure of the school (i.e. hit students with enough outside homework and you're going to lose a lot of kids who don't have family resources to support that extra time) or hidden in other areas: for example, a school in a state which doesn't require schools to offer free/reduced lunch will exclude poor kids without explicitly doing so, as will not offering bus service in a suburban area, having limited support for anyone with special needs, etc.

When evaluating schools, you have to do a value-added analysis comparing like cohorts of students. Public schools serve both a greater number of students and a much higher degree of diversity and very few are truly “bad” as — what you're usually seeing is that poor kids have more obstacles to success, and the United States runs a lot of special needs support through schools, and averages hide that information. I live in Washington DC which has tons of charters and there are a couple which have some great things for certain kids but not everyone (e.g. a language immersion) and a whole bunch which look pretty similar to the data from the local public schools when you match for equivalent parental SES.
It was different way of thinking though. It started with just a bunch of text lines. And then SGML is about to tag those text with .. tags. It's content-first layout.

Now we think about layout first, then putting text in it. Html is so old back then when browsers did not even have sense of having standard. Html tag is already good though, we now see it as sort of function, attributes are params. Turns out it started with really good design, but different way of thinking.
I came to say something along these lines. Why would ea be any different to the rest of the tech sector? They want to hire someone with 10 years experience for the (sector adjusted) price of a recent graduate, and the interview process is unreliable as ever so when the perfect candidate walks in the door they probably fail to recognise them anyway.

Having been in a form of ea myself for around 10 years I'd also add that it takes a long time to start being effective. Lots of skills besides tech to learn, which will be very specific to whichever form of altruism you're involved with. So although I haven't looked at those job postings, the simultaneous over and under supply could possibly be explained by skills mismatch.
Give them a few bucks via Patreon or whatever then. That's more benefit than they'll receive from your eyes being assaulted with hours of ads.
You sound reasonable you should acquire a firearm if you want. By the way if you're looking for a good community of left leaning responsible gun owners check out /r/liberalgunowners on reddit. Most gun communities can be more right leaning due to selection bias.
This argument really doesn't work for me because you have nothing to compare the system to.

> Our civilization and systems are set up for failure.

I mean, it's succeeded so far. There have been and will be growing pains, but so far the standard of living has increased over time. To declare failure is just speculation.

> fragile global supply chain

Fragile compared to what?

> Every one of those require money and participation in the economy.

Sorry, but this is just the reality of being a living creature. You can go fully off the grid if you want and make all those things for yourself, but most people don't do that, because, spoiler alert, it sucks. It's more work than participating in an economy.

> There is no fixing it, as every single possibility moves us towards eventual collapse.

Citation needed.

You can point out problems with economies, government, etc. all day long, but if the system you're comparing it to is pure fiction, then what's the point?
Why is that a "conspiracy?" It makes good sense, just sign an NDA with a farmer to use their property. What is the alternative? For every single test travel down to a missile range having days of turnaround.

A conspiracy would be more like they are testing remote monitoring drones on unsuspecting farmers and are not supposed to be spying in the United States because they are under government contract. But there would be no need for something like that for some tests.

Or its aliens.
It seems like Europe is already executing better than the United States. Asian countries definitely did. The real problems may be in Africa and South America where state capacity is lacking or there is leadership that wants to ignore the virus, e.g. Brazil.

Failure to execute is why I will not support another lockdown. We squandered the time we bought with the first lockdown, and I don't see a reason to believe it would go differently the second time. Not with the government we have.
Yes, although this is hardly unique to Apple. Play mad-libs with this statement and it applies to the vast majority of cloud solutions.

___ have your ____, and as long as they have those ____, they can be compelled to ____ it under lawful government order.
No, the reason you “get so concerned” is because you are scared, and intent on spreading fear to others.

You downvote factual comments simply because you don’t agree with them, and don’t want others to see them.
You’re being downvoted because this is unhelpful speculation which adds nothing to the discussion - be it true or untrue. If the response to what you say is “OK...”, what you have said is not terribly interesting.
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If people are fighting over masks, the other stuff isnt going to be done.
That's a million dollar (or more) question I guess. But seeing how they stand behind such nonsense I can't help but call into question every single one of their articles. Every one of them could be "The Big Hack" and I wouldn't know it because it might be outside of any field I could make a reasonable assessment in, and they'd never retract it.
Everyone I follow on YouTube that is trying to make any money there uses some other form of revenue. Mostly embedded ads, affiliate links, sponsorships, and merchandise. These work regardless of whether you watch Google's ads.
I would be very surprised if extracting a non-copyrightable recipe out of a copyrightable longer text wouldn't qualify as fair use.
It's amazing to see how differently we treat the low probability, high impact events like active shooters and terrorism, but we completely fail to do the far easier task of dealing with the high probability, unknown impact events.
A 1031 exchange is only relevant to depreciated investment property subject to capital gains at sale. By engaging in a 'like-kind exchange', the basis of the new property is adjusted and it avoids being taxed on the sale price vs. the depreciated value.

There is a standard exclusion of $250K (filing single) for a property used as a personal residence. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc701
SEO gaming is an existential threat to Google. If they can't even help me find non-pathological writeups of basic recipes, they've got some big problems.
Oh they have been very clear about needing youtube premium for that.
I do get it to an extent. If people want to use it as a jukebox. I have spotify and mp3s for that. I want to play videos in the background that don't have actual visual content ("people talking to the camera" style) and google doesn't want that.
Luckily I can use alternatives for nearly all content like this, first and foremost actual RSS podcasts.

As for the experience being very different on premium: I recently had to use YT on a browser without uBlock/uMatrix and I believe I got a taste of that difference. Scary stuff, not sure how people cope with all the shit being thrown at them.
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> At best, charter schools are there to defund public education.

At best, charter schools are public schools granted flexibility to trial new educational approaches on a limited basis to provide concrete evidence to drive decisions on changes in general practices.

But most charter schools, especially private-operated and especially private-for-profit ones, are not “at best”.
This is completely intentional and the natural growth of right wing political ideologies that has been building since the 80s.

There has been a concerted effort by some to make the government unreliable. There are vested interests in getting the government out of many things it does, and lots of profit to be made taking over what the government provides. The right has, for awhile, been ideologically opposed the government funded education, for example.

If the government is unreliable, it's because the US has elected people that make it so. Government works fine in many countries around the world. Canada, Europe, Australia... all seem in far better shape. We're just intentionally crippling it for ideological and profit reasons.

US voters who voted Trump into office are also largely to blame. No one to blame but ourselves. Projecting anger onto "the system" is missing the picture. To put it another way, if you want your government to work for the people, stop voting people into office who are very obviously breaking the government because they are zealots or greedy.
So you think it would be better under a different political leader? I think it’s great that you’re still such an optimist
In 20th century communist revolutions, small business owners such as storekeepers had their property taken away.

It is not a historically correct view that only those business people who matched evil stereotypes from Charles Dickens novels were targeted for dispossession, and everyone else could continue on as before.

It simply became a crime to own property pretty much beyond personal belongings.

Your own little farm, book store, whatever.

Talk to anyone of Chinese descent who got on a boat and the hell out of Vietnam when the communists won the war.

Speaking of descent, these communist takeovers have been tinged with racism/xenophobia. Whereas in Vietnam it was the Chinese elite with money and education, in the The Soviet revolution, the situation was heavily anti-semitic since a lot of the business owners were Jews.

Modern liberals in America, especially anyone too young to remember and relate to the cold war are, know basically fuck all about any of this. No first hand account of anything, just indoctrination from politically-correct sources.

I myself am a refugee from former Czechoslovakia. I actually lived in communism.

Ironically, now I once again may not criticize communism. Wait, that's not even what I'm doing. Rather, I may not make uncontroversial, true statements about communism that Stalin would likely agree with if he were here.
I’m sure there is good stuff there but superficially it is oh soo close to this: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-compa...
I've noticed in the last few weeks that YouTube has some sort of fallback when an ad gets blocked. You get a white overlay with with impossible-to-read lightgrey text on it, with a blue button in the middle with a call to action on it (eg Signup Now, Click to Learn More). There is still a Skip Ad button and a widget to indicate when the ad will go away on its own.

I have two YouTube accounts, and at first it only happened on one. Now it is happening to both. Maybe it is something they are currently just testing.
Content creators get 55% of the ad revenue so that is simply not true.
I laughed when I first heard about this. Maybe they took the approach of asking for so many un-reasonable things to make sure the school does not open.
I have to ask you Americans. Are you giving up on society yet?

I'm Canadian, and it is surreal watching the country below us completely waste the lockdown so they can go to beaches and bars and then urgently move to shoving kids back into the classroom.

Do you still feel that you can count on your government? On your neighbours?
>it turns out that seeing advertising for a thing which you shopped for and bought last week just isn't any better than seeing advertising that relates to the article I'm reading at the time.

This is due to (1) not having enough data to build good algorithms and (2) advertising campaigns being set up poorly (its not only technically challenging but also expensive). This issue can actually be fixed and likely will in the future.

>I'm also very skeptical that tracking based advertising actually works better for publishes either.

The majority of publishers make more money from personalized ads. NYT and premium publishers don't necessarily since ads on NYT are valuable by itself, but ads on my blog are worthless by themselves. Add some user data, and ads on my blog are worth much more.