skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the web front end could be a huge multiplier for them.

It's going to take a few years for Blazor to catch up & have a chance to surpass the Node ecosystem but they have a good shot.

They need more/better front-end specific tooling & a quicker feedback loop with hot reloading. There is some hope that hot reloading will make it in for next November's .NET 6 release.

As Wasm & Blazor improve, I think it has the potential to be what people like about TypeScript but with less setup required or worries about missing dependency support.
Similar project in Java: https://github.com/miho/VWorkflows
There are large areas of the world where public transportation is pretty limited as a day-to-day thing.
Roasting coffee beans in the oven and Types of coffee roasting. Best guide
Spoiler: they use the driver-facing camera to watch the driver.

Edit: why downvote? This is a pretty clickbait story. Feel free to comment if you have another perspective.
Pricing in the externalities of peoples’ houses is a bit of a Pandora’s box, and I can understand why no-one’s too eager to do it. If you’re going purely utilitarian, well, that’s rural housing out the window for a start. Essentially all of it.
I like CSS grids for global layout stuff because of the layout flexibility it gives you when it comes to different screen sizes and orientations, without having to use js when you need to swap the order of things around (and at some point you will have to eventually unless it is a very simple page). This helps separating the markup from the styling even further so it is rather a good thing.

I would — however — never had the idea to abuse it like that. Why not just limiting using max-width on your text-related tags?

The only problem I ever had with that is that markdown generated HTML will wrap <img> into <p> if it follows the standard and as of now there is no CSS way of selecting p without child of type IMG or p only with child of type img..
Can a judge reject a case because he doesn't "want" it? It's their job after all.
damn this setup seems --way-- too complicated. if you want to lay down and work why not just use a couch or beach chair and a laptop? alternatively, a bed and some pillows works fine, too. i work from home and i mostly only use a desk if im falling asleep, in which case -- im using a standing desk. the rest of the time im in bed resting on some pillows and going over tech stuff. prob not the healthiest life-style but i find desks super uncomfortable and hard to focus. ops setup seems insane to me
Over-13-years old Excel already opened delimited flat files natively, and it threw warnings when you opened a .csv file that exceeded the worksheet row limit. Someone in the distant past was just clever enough to hack together the script (with no error handling) without being curious enough to know it wasn't necessary in the first place.
You mean the common JS environment that doesn’t support fetch, Node?
The typical users of javascript ate programmers, they know that errors.
The typical users of Excel most of the time aren't aware of Excels weaknesses. And good look finding these errors in large data sets.
There is a difference between visible and lucid, especially if you do not expect errors.
Indeed, you have to manually inspect results to verify correctness. If you're lucky maybe your error will result in one of those weird error values being shown instead, but way too often that is not the case

Not to mention that complex formulae are still usually expressed as a bunch of gobbledygook in the cell value textbox, which is about as easy to parse as minified Javascript. And that's to technical users like ourselves.
We're already building with Blazor using the server-side model and it's pretty incredible. We can get massive amounts of functionality built in minutes because it's just .NET, especially with all the existing backend logic easily shared and used by those components (via signalr).

The WASM mode is still a little rough but it's rapidly improving. Hot reloading will definitely make a big difference there when it arrives.
This is what it most likely is. Analogous to starting out on an easy to hack together tech stack, succeeding, and dealing with tech debt when something goes wrong.

I guess its easier to understand since everyone uses excel, however it does end up giving a halo of blame to excel, as opposed to human processes.
Last year, many of the houses that burned down in Malibu were miles from the nearest wildfires. It turns out that burning embers can travel miles in the right wind conditions.

And pasture land is the worst type of buffer, since dry grass burns easily, and quite hot. NorCal, for example, has lots of pasture land, especially in wine country, and that is one of the reasons that Santa Rosa and Napa have been hit with major fires every year for the past 3 years.

There are existing ways to protect a town from burning down, largely related to building designs and materials. The problem is that these all cost money, and the type of people that live in these high-risk mountain towns generally don't have the money to incorporate those features into their buildings.
I spent 10 years doing C# on a big system and love it. However it never got the momentum Java did so I've switched. I prefer C# over Java, I hate a lot of Spring attribute/factory/builder craziness, but Java has so much more wider support I would always choose it first now.
I use them to play music. I can ask it to tell me who the artist/track is. I use it as a radio, I can play FM stations around the country. I use it to set a timer, countdown, alarm. I use it for a calendar. I ask it to read bedtime stories, or to entertain the kids, what sound does a horse make, etc. You can do a lot with it, but it's really worrisome too. Sometimes I turn it off, but I hate that I have to walk over to it. I'll like a switch I can control from my phone or an external device...
Sadly Node Services has gone the way of the Dodo bird. I'm not aware of any replacement.

https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/12890
I love this, but I would fall asleep in this thing in 2 seconds.
The Internet Computer’s Sodium Release Brings It Closer to Completion
The Sodium launch event unveiled the open algorithmic governance system that will manage the revolutionary blockchain computer. The use of novel cryptography and computer science to create a blockchain hosting unlimited data and computation on-chain is catalyzing a seismic shift in computing, representing a profound opportunity to restore an open internet and create entirely new varieties of web services.
Dragonfire Internet Services: A Retrospective (2008)
California Prop 24, Consumer Personal Information Law and Agency Initiative
I had this idea in 2006/2007. My thought was to make it a personalized, on-demand magazine (ha, remember those). An interesting take on this might be to roll up all of the saved articles for teams at a company. Whenever an article gets enough saves in Pocket, or enough response on slack, it goes into the publication.
> or shadow in summer is a must in some areas.

This is what louvers and (eave) overhangs are for. You'd only need some trees for westerly windows once the sun gets closer to the horizon.

As an added benefit you can get some solar gain during the winter months if desired if you get the overhand length right (plenty of online calculators).
It's not quite a direct comparison, but in law there is a 'heat of passion' defence which affords leniency for crimes committed when e.g. a parent walks in on their child being harmed and murders the assailant.

The reason this defence (and a line of other similar) exist is because as society we have accepted the fact that people will act in self interest, self protection, and above all protection of their children. No amount of education or indoctrination overrides that. (Fun fact, in some countries, escaping from jail is not illegal/punishable - assuming you don't commit other crimes in the act. Because, once again, we as society recognise that it's human nature to seek freedom and it cannot be overriden, therefore punishing it achieves nothing.

Ultimately it doesn't matter if you think a parent driving to work tired is acceptable or not, because we already know that they absolutely will. The only question is how do you mitigate the damage of driving to work tired, and whether your mitigation strategy is a net benefit or net loss to society.

'Make it compulsory for cars to detect sleeping/unconscious/seizing/microsleeping driver and pull over' is an infinitely better strategy in every regard imaginable compared to 'ban up to 50% of the population from driving'. And note that only one of those 4 situations would be avoidable with a ban, the other 3 can strike at any time with no warning or history.
Well, the one thing anti-AWG try to say is that it's just climate, we don't need to change our behaviour. When where long cycle climate change is going to force us to change our behaviour anyway.

People thing AWG is just carbon reduction, but it will demand far more change than that.
I mainly follow civil rights cases.
Satisfactory is early access, though I have no clue how close to finished they are. (Though, from what I have played -- just got up into Tier 4 -- it feels really complete)
Is "quietly" really the appropriate word here? Do stores typically put out announcements when they stop stocking certain products? If not, "quietly" just seems to be a way to create an air of vague menace and treachery without saying it.
.NET is starting to look nice on Linux and macOS. I'm very disappointed that AOT compilation has apparently fallen on the wayside, though.

CoreRT was supposed to bring full AOT to C#, and that project is still in alpha with a disclaimer saying there are no plans to make it production-ready. LLILC, the compiler that targets LLVM, is also not production ready.

Anyone know what's going on?
You caught me - I'm just here for the comments :)
Yes, my point was that trees are not the risk, the buildings are.

CA forests are built around wildfires, and have adjusted to them over the centuries. We have not.

(The firefighters were shocked because they weren't expecting the trees in the town to be almost untouched, given the devastation in the surrounding forests.)
I think we're seeing more awareness that the situation due to a number of factors: climate change, yes, but overzealous fire suppression and public policy too.

Yet when the topic turns to historical California, I'm surprised there isn't more acknowledgement of just how much of the California ecosystem has changed in the last couple hundred years, making comparisons not quite as apt. Invasive grasses, as just one example, have completely changed the landscape.
Quarter of employees at gaming firm Ubisoft report misconduct
This example demonstrates why I don't understand Python's type annotations. They seem to be incompatible with the language's core principle of duck typing.

Why would you constrain a function like `square` to only accept `int`s and `float`s? What if I want to square, say, a `fractions.Fraction`?
There's one issue: what if the only homes available in exurban areas are large, single family homes? I would love to buy a brand-new modestly-sized single-family house under 1,000 sq ft in an exurb like Tracy or Hollister provided that it's in the high $300K or low $400K range. I believe there are many people who wouldn't mind purchasing a condo or townhouse in an exurb. The problem is I don't see many being built in these areas, although in the downtowns of these places there are older single-family houses that are of modest size. Every now and then I see townhomes in exurbia that start at roughly 1,300 sq ft., but that's it.

Here's something I'm wondering: why are there no suburban or exurban developments that strive to build new versions of Downtown Palo Alto or Downtown Mountain View, with walkable commercial areas, some apartments and condos near these commercial areas, and some modestly-sized houses built a little further away but still within walking distance to the commercial core? Suppose developers built a "New Palo Alto" near Tracy or Hollister, which is within commuting distance from Silicon Valley. I'd buy in a heartbeat.
I think a realistic example of what you mean would be looking at getting support from Uber. If you want to something from their checklist, it's simple, but if you have something that doesn't fit nicely into their FAQ, it is maddeningly impossible to have a real interaction to get your issue resolved. That is what a simple, automated solution looks like.
CSS is able to target print: https://www.princexml.com/
Band saws, C++, Javascript have a different user group than Excel. Most of them have been trained on the tool they use.
If Excel were a band saw, there would be a lot more people missing fingers.
> I tried copy-pasting an example here, but it didn't render.

Is this any better?:

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Edit: No, no it is not. (HN drops U+2588 '' for some reason.)

Edit: But U+25D9 '◙' works.

@mods: I assume no one has commit access to fix this bug, but on the off chance they do: bug report: HN deletes U+2588 character at some point in the path from submitting a comment to that comment being displayed; not sure exactly what part's going wrong there.
Well Blazor is new so React will have a bigger community, however there are millions of C# devs around the world and they can be instantly productive with Blazor so it shouldn't be that far behind, if at all.

While React's ecosystem might be huge, the quality trails off quickly and it's pretty messy even with the popular stuff, much of which is to add functionality that every app needs but isn't included in React itself. Blazor already comes with everything included, but can also use the full power of C#, the massive standard library, plenty of 3rd-party packages, and the tight integration with the backend.

I suggest looking at some of the Blazor presentations (by Steven Sanderson the original creator) to get a sense of just how quickly you can build: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khn7sDUSEJM 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBYmTpugz0 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLhoRyLxwAE
With respect, those pictures you posted fail to capture the scale you elude too. Pictures of structures in my city look equal in magnitude
The biggest change by far is to process not code: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/

I have mixed feelings about a 12 month development cycle. From the perspective of a library maintainer but not a core contributor, this seems like a headache to support up to five versions concurrently. I understand we want to avoid the Python 2.7 debacle, but seems pretty rapid no?
I think it'll be all right. python3.8 is its own distinct package, which will install alongside the existing python3.6.

Debian/Ubuntu's "alternatives" system can select what /usr/bin/python3 runs. In practice, changing that away from the distribution default can break other people's code, and the win of an LTS is not spending time on that stuff.

But you can get yourself a Python 3.8, then you can build venvs, run a Jupyter kernel in it, whatever you like. If you can download or rebuild all the modules you want in a 3.8 venv, you're pretty set. And everything wanting Python 3.6 on your LTS still works.
https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/tencent-telecomm...
Man, this is gonna put a damper on his presidential campaign. [1]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/john-mcafee-running-president-and-a...
Yes, but still just a responder role. Not many servers support all the roles, which is the part I find most useful. I only recall hearing of one implementation from a well known company that supported filters and authorizers, and was from a while back; I also haven't looked into it in a number of years and really can't remember
Your cat isn't diabetic, I guess.
To say it more accurately, a change in an electric current induces a magnetic field.
this is one paper that reads well -- Lessons for California Fire Use from Western Australia ; doi: 10.4996/fireecology.0902014 ; Fire Ecology Volume 9, Issue 2, 2013

in that, they discuss controlled burning among other things.. they reference Dr Scott Stephans who was lead author on

'Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Forests Adapted to Frequent Fire' February 2018 / BioScience

where it is stated, summary first paragraph :

Massive tree mortality has occurred rapidly in frequent-fire-adapted forests of the Sierra Nevada, California. This mortality is a product of
acute drought compounded by the long-established removal of a key ecosystem process: frequent, low- to moderate-intensity fire. ...
The scale of present tree mortality is so large that greater potential for “mass fire” exists in the coming decades, driven by
the amount and continuity of dry, combustible, large woody material that could produce large, severe fires. For long-term adaptation to climate
change, we highlight the importance of moving beyond triage of dead and dying trees to making “green” (live) forests more resilient.
> The Federal government manages 57% of California forests. Another 33% are under private control. Very little of the parts of CA that are ablaze are managed by the State.

Sure, but you don't have to (control) burn a lot of that. Simply focus on the parts that are where people live, which could perhaps be handled at the local level.

Contract a private crew to do a burn from people's property line to the border of the county: wouldn't this negate issues of state and federal jurisdiction?

You still have to worry about fire brands/embers floating down onto houses, but it would eliminate some of the risks at least.
Was the part where they said he probably paid to have his neighbor murdered true? Because that was not a very good look for him.
I’m guessing this news will come out when the iPhone event happens in the next few weeks.
Plenty of rural housing has minimal fire risk, especially if homes are built from fire resistant materials and homeowners take proper responsibility for clearing defensible space.
> One issue is that the scales don't well-match. [...] many time-scales

Indeed, teaching of scale pervasively fails. Physical, temporal, and other. But it's also taught very very badly. Thus it seems an open question how well it might be taught, and to whom.

Might we teach it better? This[1] (mine) illustrates one speculative approach to teaching size down to atoms, for a young and outreach audience. And here's[2] an old attempt at helping develop a feel for torque, down to picoNewton-nanometers. Many years back I started on a temporal zoomer - don't know if it would have worked, but I've not seen anything similar since. I recall some work on teaching deep time in intro geology as being rather nice.

Interactives with physically realistic molecular motion are vanishingly rare, and I've never seen a one with temporal zoom. So I suggest we're not even trying yet to explore whether we can teach this well.

Those last two "Inner Life ..." videos are regrettably even more misleading than the original. Motion in the original was aphysical, but at least it was simple. Those two retain that aphysicality, and add aphysical jiggle, further obscuring how badly you're being misled.

Creating educational content to support an excellent understanding of science is ghastly hard. So much so, that I suggest we're not even really trying yet. Which would mean how hard it will be to teach, once such content exists, is necessarily an open question. I wish I knew of folks exploring it.

[1] first section of http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms (page loads slowly - was meeting prep, not intended to be public)
[2] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=CK6Ji&m=torq...
Today's announcement was merely that he was indicted back in June and the indictment is now unsealed.

He was arrested in June and presumably may be out on bail in Spain while the extradition hearing proceeds.
When the creator of your car makes comments like

"Your hands are just there for regulatory reasons"

Then turns around and blames you for acting like that's true when a known defect kills your wife

(aside: Why do you think Mobileye had the same tech as AP1 in multiple other cars but never turned it on continuously? Why do you think it was always limited to highway speeds and correcting a lack of input? Well that's because it can't tell an overhead sign from a stopped firetruck very well...)

Are we really then allowed to go back and go "well they had a nice disclaimer".

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It's funny really, because calling it Autopilot wasn't enough (spare me the airplane comparisons). Now there's a feature list called "Full Self Driving... capability"

Like, the term FSD is used as part of a label for a collection of features, of which NOT A SINGLE ONE is even a COMPONENT of self driving, because EVERY SINGLE ONE requires full time driver attention.

They're literally using the fact that theoretically, one day, the SENSORS MIGHT OVERLAP WITH WHAT FSD REQUIRES to sell it as... not FSD. FSD capability.

What a joke.

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Tesla has gotten away with homicide, and I guess we're ok with them continuing to.

The useless comparisons about "Tesla with AP is safer than Tesla without", show me the comparison that Tesla with AP is safer than AEB+LKA+ACC (pretty much AP, minus the party trick that lulls drivers into a false sense of security), and I'll show you a made up study.

Because that would be AP being exactly what it already is, minus the one mode where the driver is supposed to be a safety net for the computer. Where the driver already has responsibility to make sure it doesn't crash! It's literally like removing the ability to steer your bike with the training wheels, the training wheels are still there!

It's simple really, Tesla has put marketability of a safety feature, over the actual safety benefits, at the cost of human lives.
Or have it curated, along the lines of "something every Go programmer should know". The issue with ever-changing content is how you make sure you know everything you should.
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That's true. Compliance - we went with clamav for what we do - it was easy to set up on cloud.
Interesting, noted!
Nvidia just replaced video codecs with a neural network
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Could be worse. Could be a 641 line perl script.
Keeping Up with John Perry Barlow (2016)
What is tf-idf, if you don’t mind me asking
> LINQ for data operations

> advanced ORMs like EntityFramework and NHibernate

I've used all of these. Rails' ActiveRecord blows all of them clean out of the water.
They can pre-empt being assigned in the first place to avoid the situation.
Is this really true?

We really love blaming extremely complex problems on simple political boogeymen. And when you really think about it, that is all by design.
California has relied on out-of-state generation, notably from the Pacific Northwest (Bonneville Power Administration and others) since the mid-20th century if not earlier.
Wouldn’t that be Chrome? The ubiquity leads to lazy developers testing only on it. Maybe some fancy SVGs saying “Best viewed on Chrome!” To really rub it in :)
Oops. That language isn't specific to the peace prize even then though it kinda sounds like it it. Still, my comment stands.
You're not "getting away" with anything. You're paying someone else to do a job, and that other person writes software to do the job. They're the ones responsible for the software at that stage.
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Neither Nasty nor Brutish
I've read about 10-15 comments and not a single person said they are not sure, or that getting government out of money business should allow free market figure out what is best.

Talk about hubris. What a bunch of clowns!
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