skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I agree with basically everything on the list except one (I don’t think rgb/hsl should accept alpha arguments, rather rgba/hsla should have been available from the start; but that’s probably an unrealistic expectation given the performance impact at the time), but haven’t thought through all the ramifications.

But one thing I’m disappointed isn’t on the list is a syntax sanity and unification proposal. CSS is a DSL so it gets some flexibility here, but there are far too many syntax variations for the same basic language primitives.

- Either all functions should require arguments separated by commas, or treat all commas between arguments as whitespace (helllloooo lisp)

- More to the point, a slash as an argument separator is bonkers. The rgb/hsl syntax breaks my brain every time I see them with an alpha value.

- Every shorthand should have a longhand equivalent (they’re finally fixing transform, but this is another syntax disaster).

- Lists should have delimiters at all. Or they should be an explicit function.

- Keywords should have some kind of sigil. The current state is untenable, as the keyword space is enormous and ever growing, making invalid bare strings (often used for browser compat) dangerously likely to become valid on unmaintained sites. The “don’t break the web” counter-instinct makes introducing new features almost guarantee more syntax fracturing.

- Either media queries should have been a part of selectors, or nesting should have been made available across the board (though I’ve seen rumors that this is being considered).

- Existing properties should get new values rather than introducing an ever growing, increasingly confusing, set of similar properties that do slightly different things in ways that are so inscrutable that even MDN can’t explain them in plain language.

- Feature forking should have its own syntax (eg or/cond type functions), not implemented as multiple definitions of the same property.

Partly syntax, partly behavior:

- Every pseudoclass should have a -within suffix equivalent, not just focus.

- Equal-specificity rules should be considered more specific by the order they apply to elements (ie the order classes are applied in markup), not the order they’re defined in the stylesheet. Atomic CSS is brilliant, but a minefield to generate programmatically (with any library in the space left to write tomes on ordering caveats), because the specificity spec is just plain wrong.

- Functions should be composable. And I’m thinking specifically about color manipulation here, so while I’m on the topic, HSLuv or some other perceptual color space should be supported.

- Styles in general should be composable in stylesheets. This can be as simple as a native extends keyword modeled on SASS, or as a function.
I have not but I am going to file the idea, it would indeed be a good starting point.
> The rise of variable renewable sources means that there is an increasing need for electricity grid flexibility, the IEA notes. “Robust electricity networks, dispatchable power plants, storage technologies and demand response measures all play vital roles in meeting this,” it says.

Which is why it's not really the cheapest. Fossil fuel and nuclear power don't have these associated costs.
> If you have a liability situation, maybe you could work to rectify it

Well yes, sure, of course.

And like you said, maybe Python isn't the right language in the first place for mission-critical life-is-on-the-line software.

But if you have already gotten yourself into a position where some piece of your business infrastructure is dependent on an obscure bit of hard-to-port-to-Python-3-and-maintain-exact-behaviour Python code, then it is exactly the "2to3 transition that's shaking up your house of cards", no?

And, furthermore, like you said, if you find yourself in this position, you should be looking at some other language entirely rather than porting to Py3, eh?
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Only $186135.22 at 32/m/techland #poverty right?. Going to check back in 5years after the startup exit ;).
Yes, the original constitution was drafted in English and the full official text of the Constitution in English, available here: https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/co...

However, Amendment 58 (https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...) made sure Hindi translations exist
Hindi version here: https://www.india.gov.in/hi/my-government/constitution-india...

I am not sure about authoritative versions in any other language.
I'm from ATL. The weather is comparable, though much more humid and colder in the winter. Housing costs are much lower though. Maybe give it a look?
https://github.com/neodigm/vivid_vector_alphabet/blob/gh-pag...
IMO a lot of the “propaganda” are people/planners just being realistic about your options. There’s not enough in it for most communities to build the new or cheaper suburbs you feel entitled to or legislate kicking older generations out of their homes by overturning Prop13 or whatnot.

Even when the olds do die out, you’re not going to get some discount. Newport Beach is never going to be Detroit.
At Roadblock 1, should have asserted he is the subject matter expert on React, and the existing team is not. And walked if they did not accept that. You can be polite and diplomatic when setting hard boundaries like that.

Bottom line reality is, if the existing team is so awesome with React, what do they need the author for? He should remove himself on the ethic of Cost Containment. And if the actual reality is true, and the existing team only knows enough to understand React represents a conceptual shift in how to design code and how to complain about it, let the author do his job and the team grows their skills.
> According to the Washington Post police shooting database, 19 unarmed black men were shot by police in all of 2019. Not exactly some runaway problem.

Ignoring that 2019 seemed to be a low year, that's still more people than were killed by police in the UK in total.

> Meanwhile your government can dictate whether your child can live or die based on their calculated prognosis - and won’t let you leave the country for a second opinion.

Second opinion from whom? NICE have to balance treatments based on cost-efficiency as well as efficacy, if you want to pay for better treatment they don't stop you because it's not on the NHS.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/health/nhs-healthcare/nhs-... If you want a second opinion you have to change GP, which is basically exact what you'd do in the states anyway. Just because you want them to give you an opinion doesn't mean you'll get the one you want.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...

Meanwhile, people die every year in the United States because they have no healthcare at all. A Bit of perspective...
>Some intelligence is simply less intelligent than others.

I completely agree with you there, you're preaching to the choir.

To compare apples & oranges I could say how would you feel if you were surrounded on a dangerous freeway with nothing but noticeably below-average drivers including the vehicle you were in.

Natually I expect many passengers have become familiar with that particular traffic situation a time or two.

IOW not just below average but below ordinary expectations, and as mentioned dangerously so.

Natural intelligence, or lack of enough in the case of many who are performing noticeably below average, can only take you so far and it has always been a limitation.

OTOH would you feel more comfortable with all automated drivers instead having noticeably below-average performance due to their less intelligent below-average automaton behavior?

What if you noticed something your driver did not?

What could you do to alert a driver that truly needs a little advice from the back seat for instance, whether for navigation, safety, or far more elusively a sense of danger or even courtesy, in either case?

Would your observations as a passenger have any possibility of ever being helpful in either situation?

Would the relative artificiality of the intelligence or lack of it involved be a factor?

What if it was not just below-average drivers but some of the traditionally worst who are barely acceptable and realistically for them it's only under ideal conditions?

Seems to me risks increase exponentially the further from ideal, and the deviation between natural and artificial types of risks could result in a valley having its own kind of uncanniness.

Personally speaking as the strongest advocate toward ML & automation most people have met over the last 50 years.
This list is self-consciously blunt/rude (correlating programming practices with intelligence and sanity) and unaccountable ("who knows what I'll believe in a few more years"). It's an annoying combination. I imagine many reader will haughtily deploy these commandments against their colleagues.
Visualizing countries by share of Earth's surface
And :void would be a singularly terrible name anyway, because “void element” has a particular meaning in HTML (⅌ https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#void-elem...): an element that cannot have any children and accordingly has no end tag in the HTML serialisation, such as <img>, <hr> and <br>. Renaming :empty to :void would completely undermine this, since :empty matches any elements that have no text or element children (note: not “have no children”, because comments are allowed), regardless of whether or not they can.

The whole idea of allowing :empty to match elements containing only whitespace is fraught. Whitespace could be collapsed completely, to one space, or not at all, depending on both the surrounding markup and the values of such properties as display and white-space. If you decided the concept was worthwhile supporting, then :blank would be a decent name. But changing :empty to accept whitespace, well, that’d be a far worse design mistake.
Five million vaccinated Britons told to carry on 'as if you have the virus'
They indeed are. As I keep referring to the Locomotive BASIC manual and the QuickBASIC builtin help to implement my version, I'm amazed at how many features those had. Especially the latter was a great IDE even when compared to today's standards.
And what difference does it make if we now know we are being tracked?
It’s absolutely ludicrous to find water so bland you can’t drink it. Especially if you’re overweight.
22 and probably a negative net worth so there's that. And I've been working for 4-5 years :shrug:.
Nice work, seems a little faster compared to most data grids. Not as fast as DataGridXL though! (Disclaimer: I am the creator of https://datagridxl.com)

Best of luck!
I'm not sure if you're deliberately misreading what I've written.

The _concept_ of IP is sound, see the two examples I have given. As I've clearly stated, proper regulation is key. An example of bad law is the mickey mouse protection law.

The fact that anything _I_ produce is my property is brilliant (my so called moral rights). If you want to sign them away, that's entirely up to you, the point is, its my choice.
And I would not refer to those Spanish speakers as “Anglo-Saxon”.

The so-called “hispanic” population is a true ethnicity within the U.S.A., distinct from the Anglo-Saxons, that is not defined by race, but by a different culture and native language.

A Hispanic man can be white, black, blow, yellow and in practice is a mixture of all, what defines him is not the color of his skin, but the language and sensibilities he was immersed in in his formative years.
I think you know more than you think you do. Some random advice:

There is a lot to learn. One of the wisest coders I know told me to try to narrow my focus. (There's no way anyone ever learns everything about everything -- so just pick one language/project realm that you see has some long-term interest/potential for you, and be proud of that.) The advice they always give you is to learn one language really well, because that will make it easier to know what to look for later in your career when you move to another language.

Someone once told me: just code. Just start coding up things. Fun things; things you want to do, so you'll do a lot of them. Besides being good practice, along the way you can upload it to your GitHub repository, so you'll eventually have a body of code that you've written yourself.

One thing I wish I'd done more of: collaborate, maybe on a large project. You can find them on GitHub. This will get you reading other people's code, which is always a good practice on its own. (In the last few years there's now Twitch channels where people talk about their code, but you need to be reading the code too.) Just learning the dynamics of a coding project is helpful for employment.

Live people really de-mystify coding - and also help you stay focused. I found a study group for CS50 (which I was taking online), and that really helped me feel like I wasn't the only newbie, and kept me going. Harvard/EdX's CS50 was a terrific online class, by the way -- "challenging but do-able," as they say. I learned a ton of things about the programming world, but the best thing was it wasn't too easy, so I was really pumped about the things I ended up doing, and it gave me the thing I needed most: confidence.

Maybe the most important advice: if you can actually get involved in professional programming, anywhere, then that will get you doing it every day, and a lot of the rest of your learning will take care of itself. Volunteering for an open source project is a good step to take if you can't get someone to pay you to do it. (If you're not comfortable about your coding, they also need documentation -- which still gets you reading code and thinking about code...)

Stay positive. Stay healthy -- and get some exercise. Help others. These things really help with your mindset, and help make good things happen...
Just put it back from whence it came. The extracted water doesn't exactly leave the environment, it will find its way back into the oceans anyway.

If the excess brine is diffused over a wide enough area or as is often the case, the outlet of an estuary, local disruption is minimal and global disruption is exactly zero.
You can find a few paintings scanned in high quality here:
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/art-camera

Rembrandt's self-portrait is one of my favourites:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/self-portrait/-gHQe8...
It's a bit puzzling, why would you add an annoying banner for 'fashion' purposes? It's more work and if you don't believe it's useful (in this case to shield yourself from potential legal trouble) why would you do it?
Thank you for this post. Out of curiosity, what newsgroups are you reading/posting to? I've been wanting to get back into Usenet but not interested in binaries, and looking for active groups. Thanks again!
Capital has shown it will not fix climate change but only try and profit on the destruction. If free markets could solve healthcare or the island of plastic in the pacific, it would’ve happened.

Literally nothing is getting better while corporate earnings increase, so wake me up when the market figures out how to respond to actual problems, not just automate away labor.
Oh I'm not arguing against the idea of doing your due diligence before you move in and the fact that freight is very important. I'm more arguing against the feeling that you don't get to complain or try and make the city a better place to live in when you move there.
>testosterone keeps falling consecutively every year in developed countries. We don’t know why.

the more developed the society is the less valuable are the testosterone benefits like the ability for heavy physical work in harsh conditions, etc. and the less tolerance the society has for the testosterone driven behavior - thus natural selection drives testosterone down. For example when you have a car accident, display of rage would put you in a losing position in US where you just need to exchange insurance info, and your higher muscle mass and hand-to-hand combat skills decide nothing, whereis for example in Russia the rage is a synergetic addition to the metal tire tool in you hand displayed as a credible threat. Another correlation which would suggest why testosterone would be selected out from government and management positions in developed societies:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/kykl.12169

" To measure testosterone exposure, we apply the facial width‐to‐height metric (fWHR) – a standard proxy widely used in the psychological literature – and look at a sample of Russian regional governors. We find a positive relationship between the fWHR of the governor and the level of repression in his region. "
An interesting thing in my neighborhood is that there are a couple of sizable retirement apartments, and also a row of apartments that have a lot of people attached to the university such as grad students and visiting scholars. These are people who might be less inclined to drive, benefit from shops that cater to them, and don't have space for huge bulk purchases. There's also a growing affluent population moving back into the middle of town.
Socialism cannot be removed by pull requests, only by brute force.
I do quite like erythritol. I've hear allulose is good too. You need to be careful though because sugar alcohols like erythritol can cause GI (stomach) issues.

The second point still stands, erythritol doesn't enhance flavor and won't make Greek yogurt taste like cheesecake.
This always seemed true to me. I was really surprised to see so much acceptance about the findings that put 75k as some magical cut off point. I can say from experience the difference in my life from 75k to what I am at now is monumental especially considering I make 4x more than all of my friends.
There's barely any non-white workforce available where i live and we operate. I stand by my question being perfectly valid, what does a diverse workforce that doesn't deliver software to the globe do better than one that isn't diverse? If the answer is as you're suggesting: that we're missing out on competent workforce because we're racist, then I don't see the importance in a diverse workforce, but rather importance in not being racist and hiring whoever's best. I'm not tasked with reqruitment, but I don't believe my colleagues responsible for this are racist. And we're short on people right now so if we had a !whitemale presenting himself with a skillset we need, we'd hire him/her in an instant I'm sure.
Well for whatever reason that’s not happening with enough frequency
"wrong per se", do you really want to bicker over the meaning of wrong. It was his advice/predictions/theory (call it what you want), that when followed turned out vastly different than predicted, that is wrong in my opinion. Look how many years it took him to come out and say "the pace" was not adequately (incorrectly) taken into account. He was even awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and 1.4 million dollars for this theory that played a large part in tearing apart the middle class.

My comment was indeed too hyperbolic but basically true. A mistake that affected our country so negatively cannot be forgotten or forgiven.
Google will pull search engine from Australia if it has to pay news publishers
Seems more like an alternative to Handsontable than for LibreOffice Calc. That is, its not an end-user spreadsheet, but rather a spreadsheet/datatable component for use in your web applications.

Its a very different use case.
Main page has more info: https://www.empire.cx/

> Empire is a real time, multiplayer, Internet-based game, featuring military, diplomatic, and economic goals.

Why link to a wall of text? Am I missing something?

Has anyone played it?
A 25% decline in population across all the richest countries would be highly significant. But it won't be enough if people in developing countries start consuming more and more. Hopefully their populations will also start to level off and then decline as they become richer.
$75k is nothing in the US. It’s the bottom end of living wage.

Edit: $75K is basically two people working at proposed min wage with moderate OT. $3000 per month with even laughably low $1K mortgage would leave you with just enough for family of four.
This is an old article. It's resurfacing now because the supposed benefit of selling this vaccine to AZ was their ability to produce it and distribute it rapidly, but on Friday they announced a 60% reduction in their q1 supply to the EU.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-ast...

It's important to hold "free market" solutions accountable when they fail to deliver. Maybe all these decisions were really made in a good faith belief that selling to AZ was for the best. But the proof is in the tasting; intentions are important but they don't change reality.
> The researchers have discussed the concept with companies that may be interested in the next step of building a prototype plant to help work out the real-world economics of the process. “One big challenge is cost — both electricity cost and equipment cost,” at this stage, Kumar says.

Huh, I thought their big breakthrough would be figuring out how to make this economically viable. It's not a big surprise you can make useful chemicals out of brine, right?
It's beautiful. Well done!
Good, as it should. No company that competes with ARM customers should ever own ARM.
The work and polish of these "side projects" always inspire me.

Will this ever work on React Native? (sorry if I am that guy making insane demands..)
The comparison is the simplicity of Wordpress/server-based vs Gatsby/frontend frameworks to get a working site. The ecosystem is a separate concern.
I have a home-made, bespoke version of one of these for my ST. Bought it a few years ago off eBay, I think. It works great. It's nice to have an optical mouse.
Oh, headline kind of triggered me. Gave me hope for USB storage on Amiga 500. That was an unreasonable thought.
Hahaha, I’ve known this to be true. All those articles that kept spouting the $75k threshold nonsense over the years... I just internally chuckled at. It’s just some make-yourself-feel-better fluff.

That number for me is about half a million. We’re all different and I don’t appreciate being pigeonholed by the “experts”!
Well, I was born in the Caribbean and much of my family is actually culturally Caribbean, and I much disagree with that.

The African-American does not eat Caribbean food; he does not listen to Caribbean music; he does not practice Caribbean traditional festivals, does not dress in Caribbean clothes.

I definitely feel that you draw this association purely because you think of Caribbeans as dark-skinned; it is a very different culture.

The African-American in general eats Anglo-Saxon food; he listens to Anglo-Saxon music; he celebrates Christmas and Easter; and he dresses in Anglo-Saxon clothing.
I understand what you mean. It can't be neglected though that obesity actually changes your brain chemistry (I was a neuroscience major and read a lot about this).

It's also important to note that behavior is motivated by reward. Staying hydrated is important and it is so much easier when that beverage is sweetened. While tasteless water may not be a big deal, creating a sugar free lemonade I'm sure would definitely increase how much water you drank each day.
Do Not Track should have been made legally binding. Hell, with any sane interpretation of GDPR it would be.
Duh.

Whoever authored the original 75k year study had a bias and/or agenda against our current economic system.

We didn't need a study to show that even above a 75k salary, more income is correlated with more well-being.

This is a prime example of why scientific research should be used as a tool to advance society, not as a religion.
Duolingo is pretty bad to learn any language.
Windows Forms seems a bit lacking here, though. As far as I could tell in my attempts, the tab control doesn't support auto-sizing itself to its contents.