skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way out of the current predicament is to burn your way out. California needs to have massive controlled burns before the wet season every year, especially in non-drought years, to prevent this kind of uncontained fire from ever happening again. Will some of these towns burn to the ground from "controlled" burns getting out of control? Yes. But the alternative is that they simply burn some other time down the road when less can be done to stop it.

The simplest way to get people to take wildfire management more seriously is to raise their insurance premiums unless they mitigate the risk. I see tons of homes across the west in the exact same situation as the homes that are burning in CA,OR,WA right now. No one takes it seriously until the fire is bearing down on your town. At that point, it's far too late.
I should of included a link directly to the repo README -> https://github.com/australia/aboriginal-flag-cv-model
This is my favourite article on “Creating Luck”: https://www.swyx.io/create_luck/

The argument is that luck isn’t binary, it’s a lot of doing and telling to create opportunities for yourself. I think this is true for your story at Canny - you had built something and you probably told a lot of people about it. You created the circumstances for this lucky event to occur.
Or, more likely, you need to follow more cases.
I say eliminate pennies, nickels, and quarters. That way you can just drop the 100ths place all together and prices will be like: 1.5, 2.3, 9.9 instead of 1.25, 3.75, etc.
> If it is about definitions and wording on hot button issues, I think the [group who intentionally misrepresent their emotions] to be disproportionally large.

And I disagree; and based on that fundamental disagreement, we're never going to reach agreement on the derived conclusion. Oh well.
In the spirit of this idea:

Put Lincoln on the quarter or even the back side of a dollar coin. Maybe this time make it out of titanium or something similarly like other US coins.
Do you have any experience with the extended-release versions? My doctor has suggested I give them a try as well, (started with the dose/type you mentioned) to see which form works best. Of course, treatment management for this is all pretty new to me, regardless of my age, so I'm interested in hearing other's experiences.
CSS is able to target print

Only an old textual part of it, e.g. grids cannot page-breaks. It is far from "flexible" and just "out there if you want". May I ask, do you even media print? Because every time I have to do unusual un-mainstream thing in css, I can bet that it will not work and make a net profit.
Have you done the https://www.fast.ai/ course? Paperspace also offers free Juypter notebooks once you need to return your computer.
Maybe they're planning on selling those lines to a rural ISP like Frontier or Windstream. The price would have to be cheap as one is in bankruptcy and the other just left it.

More likely is that Starlink and competitors end up being good enough in rural areas to make DSL even less of a viable product than it is now. The government subsidizes these services but how long will that make sense for the government, the telecoms, or the customers?
>Fires have health and economic impacts on people who aren't in immediate danger of being burned to death and the only way to minimize these impacts to reduce the number of fires.

Reducing the number of fires isn't really a viable strategy; the flammable material just accumulates more and more. California has always had wildfires, they're just a part of the ecosystem. A lot has been written lately about how the strategy of trying to suppress every fire the last century is a big part of why we have so many giant, out-of-control wildfires now.
As an American, I think pennies should only be used when appropriate.

Such as when traveling by air or making expensive purchases. There's nothing so satisfying as plunking down a sack of pennies when purchasing stuff and saying "just let me know if it's not enough."

The above is sarcasm. I hate pennies. They are pretty much useless these days. The only joy I get from them is when someone annoys me, I can throw them at the person.

They are so useless, in fact, that it actually costs nearly twice the value of a penny ($0.0183)[0] to mint one.

That said, I'd really like it if larger denomination coins ($1/5/10) were common in the US as they are in the EU. Generally coins with value more than $0.25 aren't used (yes, $0.50 and $1 coins exist, but are rarely used/distributed).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)

Edit: Added forgotten link.
>and prices are simply rounded to the nearest 5c when paying with cash

In Canada as mentioned already in the comments we phased out the penny no more made after February 4, 2013.

But many business still today (Oct 2020) have items with prices ending in penny amounts. If you pay with cash it's rounded up or down but if you pay with debit, credit, or cheque the penny amount is used. Stupid because there's no incentive (ha pun!) for businesses to change (double pun!).
Living somewhere where you don't need a car is the privilege, at least in the US. I'd have to walk 2 miles to get to public transit, and that includes crossing a pedestrian unfriendly major road.
More evidence of fiat inflation. Most of the spare change I recieve gets lost or thrown away. Usually if I'm handed coins as change I tell the cashier to keep it because I know i'll never use it. Even homeless people scoff at me when I give them small change.
6.99 is 6.99. It's only 7 if you pay with cash.
There is strong anti-colonialist sentiment still in Africa today. Again, I believe ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not the right way to go. You have to face down ethno-nationalists, or you end up in a very bad place. Just as you have to challenge ethno-nationalists in the US, you need to challenge them in Africa. In the end, they are bad for societies they operate in.
This government had a statistics screw-up just two months ago and the only negative reaction was about how they handled the fallout. As a nation we simply do not understand its value - or the cost of it being misused.
I feel like the documentation (or something) could be improved there. I've never been able to get it to find a bug.

That said, there's also https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension which seems closely related to Orleans, but for serverless.
How is it dishonest if that’s the actual price? Just because it’s close to 7?
Lol, “Topika”
Food for thought:

> Paleoclimatological studies indicate that the last 150 years of California's history have been unusually wet compared to the previous 2000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_California
None of this really has anything to do with an individual right to bear arms. Notice how you had to shift to sovereign states being armed to try to make something out of this. The thing is just bumper-sticker 2A fandom expression. It's fine as that, but it it isn't a serious argument about anything and, outside of 2A fandom, nobody thinks it is, whatever their views on gun ownership rights are.

Just like we don't use 'I brake for whales' or this old chestnut:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

As a basis for any real discussion of environmental policy.
It's also entirely possible that whatever they're importing this data into only supports XLS and not XLSX. I don't think Excel is the ultimate endpoint - the data is getting imported into one or more databases somehow.
Buhari he is die today and tomorrow
That’s a really interesting idea... Got a new spare time project to try out!
Also: what will happen to the idiomatic expression "my two cents"?
Drinking is allowed over 20 years old but some university students tend to drink on eighteen on party. It's illegal but not thought as serious problem.

For high school student or below, smoking is problem (So vending machine must have authenticate feature like card(Taspo) or face age recognition) but drinking is looks like not popular but still considered as problem.
McAffe should have known better. He has enough money to buy any banana republic citizenship that does not have extradition treaties.
I'm confused.

"Fuck it, let someone else fix it." seems to be exactly what you're advocating.

You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good - that just keeps anything from happening.

100% solutions do not exist in the real world.

This is sorta like saying "Why send a man to the moon, when we can't send even send an astronaut to the surface Venus?"
Sounds good. From now on I'll demand a sacrifice before I considering elevating an issue's priority.
I really agree with this. Excel/spreadsheets are great and should be used whenever possible instead of some bespoke solution that will always be worse unless millions and millions of dollars are sunk into it, and even then, will probably be worse, given the state of
software development in 2020.

Like all tools, you have to know how to use Excel. If this is the only error that’s come up, well, so many other problems would have come up with a bespoke solution that Excel is still miles ahead in my book
Nvidia Maxine – replacing video codecs with AI compression
Buhari he is die today and tomorrow covid19
Or get rid of all change!

A while ago I read an article that proposed replacing change with a chance to get a dollar.

So instead of 13 cents due to you:

1. you generate a random number from 1 to 100
2. if the number is <= 13, you get a dollar; otherwise you get nothing

Over the long run you would have about the same amount of money. And you would have the added benefit of not having to deal with change.

Coming up with a (verifiable) fair way to do (1) that is accessible to everyone is problematic though...
Trying to figure out why we don't have a jury pool for the Supreme Court in that case.
NYC Illogical Covid Zip Code Lockdown
Browsers need to try and properly display webpages written before requestAnimationFrame was introduced.
alternative opinion: https://downdetector.com/status/netflix/map/
I highly recommend lunr.js. I've used it on side projects both client side [1] and server side [2] and it works great. My only Yak-shaving was tweaking the separator regex.

[1] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/vectorlogozone/blob/gh-pag...

[2] https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/logosearch/blob/main/src/s...
ie was also a trashfire because of the release/update model, holding the entire web back because it was so far behind standards (ie6 was actually ahead of its time on release, but then didn't get updated for ages). safari, especially on ios where you can't even get any other browser engines, and the safari version is tied to the operating system version, follows that same model with the same consequences. not as painful these days, since the web has come a long way already, but you can definitely see the parallels
I do, of course, know that there are many DEs and window managers. I generalize them quite purposefully. The point I'm trying to make is that on Linux, there are hardly any well-defined standards for anything beyond system calls. There also are no UI guidelines and there's no single accepted UI toolkit (some apps use Qt, some apps use GTK, some use something else). This leads to overall subpar user experience. Many apps have UIs that make you think before you do something with it. A good UI doesn't make you think, it feels like a continuation of your thoughts right when you see it for the first time. Consistency helps a lot here. (FWIW, the way GUI apps feel and behave doesn't depend much on your choice of desktop environment.)

I don't like walled gardens — I despise Apple's service ecosystem and the app store. I just prefer things to work sensibly out of the box. The only reason I made an Apple ID is because it won't let me download Xcode without one.
Americans do love to divide into powers of two (½, ¼, and ⅛) rather then tenths. If anything they would be more likely to issue an eighth dollar as they phase out the penny, the nickle and the dime. And you would see prizes such as 4 dollar and ⅜ cents (and they would probably write it as $4–¢⅜).

EDIT: And petrol stations would display the prices in sixteenths, but charge a sixteenth more.
How much time was really wasted. Its not like someone spent the last 10 years planning the removal of a coin. You could use this logic to say that literally any government function with a recurring basis is a problem.

Why haven't we solved roadworks, you fix the roads but then in 2 years it needs to be done all over again.
Not it’s not. It will either litigate them into a standstill, buy and kill them, or co-opt them like it has any other viable competitor.
Like many of the other issues that plague California, you can chalk this up to Prop 13 and the resulting housing crisis. Once you made housing in the major cities unaffordable through Prop 13 and ensuing aggressive downzoning, the only way to build affordable housing is in new towns and cities outside existing established zones.
A lot of trashing on Excel but I kind of think this particular instance isn't really the essence of the problems with Excel. Perfectly reasonable programmers get this wrong all the time (ever heard of buffer overflow anyone?), and the issue of small test data being unrepresentative of large test data is something everybody has to contend with. If there is a real problem with it I would say it is the presumably silent nature of the truncation which allowed the error to propagate.

The real horrors of Excel come from things like auto-conversion of column data (text, numbers to dates etc), off-by-one errors in copy and paste, overwriting forumlas in cells, sorting of columns that doesn't capture all the rows, etc. These are all problems that are engineered into the user interface of Excel. It's like putting a tripwire at the top of your stairs and just expecting people to step over it day in and day out. It's basically inevitable somebody will fall down the stairs.
I spent some time learning dotnet core this year and with the slow-grind progress Microsoft has made it really does look like the technology stack might start to replace Java, Go, Rails, NodeJS, over the next decade. You can really feel Microsoft's experience in language development and enterprise software development coming together to provide better ecosystem ergonomics than other frameworks and toolchains.

Specifically I'm talking about tools like LINQ, dotnet core libraries, VS and VS Code integration, and the standard library and common library packages.

I still think it has a long way to go but its still a huge potential upside, which is to say nothing of how its coming to dominate the games industry as well.
Buy something cheap and non sensitive in a different category and it will start showing you that. Search for computer parts or something similar.
I’m assuming this is a joke but Linus Torvalds is a US citizen, and the Linux Foundation is based in the US.
i live in northern California.
This article describes the reality on the ground:
https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-...

The winter months used to be spent executing forestry management, 'raking' with bulldozers and diggers designed to clear the fuel that builds up on the ground and becomes a major fire hazard in the summer and fall months. (You can easily find video of forestry raking and controlled burns online, the same term is used in the UK). Controlled burns to clear fire roads and areas in order to prevent fie spread complete the winter cycle.

We are now years behind in clearing the undergrowth that are a major cause of fires. Whether it is federal or state land the environmental lobbyists have been highly effective in challenging these ancient practices, believing they harm our planet.

Always keen to cut costs, the state now spends far more seasonally on fire fighting, a hugely lucrative business, than preventative investment in land management. We are at a crisis point but the governor choses to claim it is 'global warming' that is causing these massive fires, when in reality the far greater issue, which could be quickly rectified, is lack of forestry and vegetation management.

We are now in a situation where logging mills have burnt in Oregon, making it even harder to keep up with processing wood and adding to the cost of housing. While California burns we are importing construction timber from Canada.
Cnvrg.io debuts unified resource utilization dashboard for AI developers
> More evidence of fiat inflation.

It's not like anyone is trying to hide evidence of inflation. Inflation is a measurable economic phenomenon, not some kind of secret. Furthermore, I think most economists would tell you that some level of inflation is good, because it encourages economic activity.
Resting eyes for long blinks is my main memory of drives I shoulda died on. Mostly around 4am on deserted country roads I knew well.

Good news is I would only have killed myself. But honestly there is a reason young people have more car accidents, they make bad fucking choices. I was nothing but lucky!
That's approximately the entire mid-western United States.

Of the the world's 62 strongest officially rated tornados occurring between 1950 and 2013, 59 occurred in the US. Here are the numbers, but note, some tornados crossed state lines. See [1] and [2].

Louisiana 1

South Dakota 1

North Dakota 2

Missouri 2

Michigan 2

Illinois 2

Indiana 3

Minnesota 3

Ohio 3

Tennesse 3

Kentucky 3

Wisconsin 3

Mississippi 4

Iowa 6

Texas 6

Alabama 7

Oklahoma 7

Kansas 8

It looks like there are a number of tornados that don't have "accurate" official ratings so additional states could be on the list, e.g. Arkansas, Nebraska, Massachusetts.

F3, F4, and F5 are all serious tornados, but F5 tornados are especially scary with maximum wind speeds over 260 mph and reaching 318 mph.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_F5_and_EF5_tornadoes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley#/media/File:Torn...
I tried that, pretty great. My one gripe: it only syncs “articles” and there’s a lot of content pocket doesn’t recognize as articles.

Find any way around that? Mailchimp newsletter html versions are a big one.
> What side is down on a fish anyway? And do they actually rot that way? Seems suspect to me. Perhaps an experiment is in order.

From experience, chopping off the head can keep the rest fresh a bit longer (gutting the fish helps more, as the fish is really rotting from the inside out).

As for the direction, in a couple of other languages I'm familiar with the saying is more literally "the fish rots from the head" (Russian) or "the fish stinks from the head" (Hebrew), with directionality implied rather than explicit.

Sort of like "burning the candle from both ends" versus "burning the candle from both ends inward", I guess.
Just Toyota is too strong in Japan, so second place isn't bad.
The generic tool for offices is so good at everything that geneticists also use it; they change a name of a gene to make own life easier?
Flexible function and variable annotations. Oh, I feel we're going to have so much fun together.

That's probably gonna be very useful when reusing types with different libraries (such as ORMs or serializers). I think anyway, gonna have to experiment.
Wow so if you maximize economic growth at the cost of setting up a system that regularly requires a high degree of easily avoidable risk, then later you can use the "you're destroying the economy" argument to prevent any reasonable response that would lower that risk. That seems like a very irresponsible way of managing a system.
Yes, since then we've moved away from cooperative multitasking, especially in cases where we needed low latency, such as in UIs. It is therefore a bit strange that the pattern has resurfaced lately, and has been heavily used in the implementation of UIs and webservers ...

You could argue that in small systems (compared to OSes), you can keep latency under control, but systems tend to grow, and modularity of the systems works against this (modules don't need to know what other modules do or how long they take to finish their tasks).
How often do you wait for people to count out cash and coins? I rarely see anyone paying with cash/coin any more.
This would be pretty cool actually, if we make some key changes: "we will add" -> "do you want to add them now?" and "you have $$$ in your bank account" -> "how do you want to pay", for example.

Basically, automatically giving options to the users based on access to data they should already have. Detecting the car is not even needed, just scan the driver license at a terminal and get going.

DMV does not need to have direct access to your bank account, but can simply hand off the total to your banking app (say), which in turn can then offer the easy payment plan. Some credit cards already offer this option today.

In general, life can be made quite simple with technology without also having to give up choices or privacy. The hard part is convincing the tech companies/govt IT bureaucracy to go this way :)
Well why are these people wrong? You had a thing going but you didn’t complete the thought: if Excel works and they can now calculate “anything” without developing software and deploying containers, where is Stockholm Syndrome? Why are they blind? What should they use in finance? Jupyter notebooks?
While I think this is definitely a useful foundation, things get a lot more complicated quickly once you jump into a large site's stylesheet(s).

Why isn't this element the size I specified? Or why is there a tiny amount of scroll overflow here when I specify overflow-x hidden? What does vertical-align do and how does it work when inline and inline-block boxes are in an inline flow? etc. etc.

So I would add that the next frontier after learning the proposed foundations is learning how the browser actually determines box sizes and layout, and I think this is difficult to understand, mainly because it jumps straight into the spec, or worse, your browser's layout engine specifics.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-sizing-3/#auto-box-sizes for instance is a nontrivial subsystem that a CSS dev will easily run into when nesting flex containers, and I think the standard box model of yore wasn't really written to help grok these concepts.

Edit: one particularly hairy explanation from the spec I recently ran into while trying to deepen my understanding of the box model:

"Except for table boxes, which are described in a later chapter, and replaced elements, a block-level box is also a block container box. A block container box either contains only block-level boxes or establishes an inline formatting context and thus contains only inline-level boxes. Not all block container boxes are block-level boxes: non-replaced inline blocks and non-replaced table cells are block containers but not block-level boxes. Block-level boxes that are also block containers are called block boxes."

Not saying this is relevant for the average use case, but I believe even something like the box model is a day-to-learn-lifetime-to-master kind of thing.
Yup, they just decided to give away some money to the society (via govt taxes). Not saying this is good, just saying there is a difference.
This is why it's a good idea to put boring things like birds or bridges on currency.
Neat idea. Any way to batch import sources from pocket or apple’s read later in safari or similar sources?
Thanks, that's very interesting!
If you like deepfakes, you'll love playing with Runway ;) (based on StyleGAN transfer)

https://runwayml.com/

Or for a real competition, the OpenAI ProcGen Benchmark is really heating up!

https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-procgen-comp...
No, the initial investment is negligible. Article has the high end of brand-new machines at $8k.

It's not $200k in income because you have to stock the machine.
Bobiverse has lots of _good_ physics, especially around astromechanics, but also lots of questionable, bad, and unexplained physics. Specifically the FTL communications and the clone personality differences exist entirely for plot reasons, have very little explanation, and cause significant amounts of disbelief that must be suspended.