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Death is the best thing our species has going for us.

I have faith that the next generation will be wiser and less prejudiced.

Now if only climate change could wait...

Unfortunately we are running against a shot clock right now and we can’t simply wait for the next generation to pick up the bill.
Trying not to be snarky: you don't compute averages by reading "these articles".
No one says that semiconductors are clean.
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Even better. Fill up their hard drive and make the computer stop working every every day
People will make fun of us for this

No offense intended for this project personally, this is really cool. But what was that joke about how since most founders are young single males, most tech companies make products nobody really needs that are just designed to replace your Mom?
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If you've ever taken a selfie before, it feels weird to freeze your smile pose for even a full second. People taking a selfie want to touch the button when they see their face look natural in the preview and they want it to save instantly.

And, depending on phone (esp budget android) it really can take up to like 2s for a still to go off.
Enterprise Java, Spring including Spring Boot, Maven, and Docker. A lot of these aren't sexy, and they sure aren't my favorites, but God damn it they get the job done and they've got some longevity.
There is online registry where you can look these things up. The site sucks but works.
The owner was active 2 days ago on HN for the latest blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=idlewords
Cleanest if and only if nobody makes a mistake. Otherwise you end up with unfixable messes. And decommissioning is hardly a solved or cheap problem.
An oatmeal recipe that I also consume for years: oatmeal, chocolate pillows (less than 5g sugar in total; that means around 10 of them (with the brand I use at least)), nuts, chia seeds, flax seeds, and some milk - not a lot of milk, though.

To me, it tastes perfectly and has high content of fiber, protein and carbs, keeps you full for quite some time.

Generally healthy and cheap.
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Ask HN: What technologies do you wish you hadn't learnt in 2018?
What technologies have you invested time in learning this year but wish you hadn't?
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Islington (live) to Fitzrovia (work), I see wood slabs covered with lean cement and moquette, buildings with only reinforced concrete directly painted or naked instead of proper well-finished plaster, panels and furnishings used as a quick way to cover unfinished/dirty things, moquette everywhere obviously dirty and crumpled... And no, they aren't social houses.

Of course MANY countries, highly developed included, have poor buildings quality and poor cleanliness in general, France where I live now is one of these for my Italian eyes, Sweden is worse than France etc but worse than London/Newbury/Carlisle (parts of UK a have visited a little bit more than a touristic trip) mean building I only see few Easter European buildings...

Oh, I do not like Paris or Berlin anything more eh! They are not a place to live IMO, however they have a less medium bad quality.
With the affordability of smartphones, men, women and even children are digitally connected with each other from across the world. These phones not only allows to communicate with the person but also help in getting lots of information, as well as getting things done with just a few taps.
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No, plain silicon solar cells making 99% of the market do not contain cadmium.
I was thinking more along the lines of meditation for stress, and IF for weight loss. I've seen both work well amongst non smokers, so hoped they could work for smokers too.
Some problems with TypeScript:

- Discourages using external libraries because of type name conflicts. Interface and class names must be universal so if two libraries use the same name for different types, then that makes things difficult. It's also a problem if two libraries use different type names to represent the same concept. This encourages developers to reinvent the wheel as opposed to relying on battle-tested external libraries. There is a workaround for name conflicts but it's not ideal.

- Type definitions of third party modules are likely to be or to become out of date.

- In terms of code foundation; the way all the logic fits together in TypeScript is rigid and tightly interlocked around arbitrary labels (type names) that developers have invented (and each developer tends to have a different idea about the meaning and use cases of each type). As project requirements evolve, the underlying logic starts to diverge from the meaning of the labels to the point that they lose their meaning completely. Most large TypeScript projects end up with many types that have slightly different meanings but are meant to be used in different ways and impose different constraints on developers (e.g. User, UserInfo, UserConfig, Account, UserAccount, ReadonlyUser...). You might say that this could be avoided by good programming patterns, but if you look at most large popular TypeScript projects, you will see a lot of strangely named types which only make sense to developers who have been working on the project for a long time.
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This was more or less literally how the Stasi archives were reconstructed. It took a lot of algorithmic work and I don't know if it's finished.
I do not want proprietary software nor I want to depend on black boxes to use a service. So if a bank, a public administration etc demand using proprietary stuff that does not came from them they force their customers to buy such black boxes and suffer all their limitations.

For instance I hate in the same way countries that ask users to install proprietary crappy software's to pay taxes instead simple pdfs/standard WebUI.
A question I'd like to see answered: are solar panels net energy producers? I.e. over their lifetime, do they generate more electricity than combined energy that went into manufacturing, transporting and deploying them, including the marginal energy costs of mining the necessary substances they're made of?

Because if not, then they're a net waste.

I'd like to see a similar analysis on emissions instead of raw energy too.

It's not that I think solar is bad; it's just I don't understand why discussions about energy and emissions never include end-to-end accounting of energy costs & emissions.

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EDIT: Yes, I am lazy; in the Christmas fever I forgot about the term "EROI", though I still see it discussed too rarely. But yay, thanks people for jumping to conclusions and accusing me of motivated reasoning and/or sowing disinformation. -.-
> not that it has an API to interact with general SQLite databases

Well, it did, but they removed it, and in fact spearheaded the movement to deprecate WebSQL circa 2010...when Firefox had significant marketshare. Chrome and Safari still, 10 years later, ship with WebSQL support, which makes it pretty clear which side of the fence they're on.
I'm assuming the total revenue for the lawyer should be similar to what they'd get in a class-action, assuming they actually gather a critical mass (for either case); and then if they treat it as a class-action, where most evidence is somewhat shared... then you could re-enact the scenario

Whats not clear to me is whether a class-action must be treated differently from 300 independent lawsuits, assuming a single lawyer/group handles all the cases, from the perspective of the lawyers. Ignoring I guess the cost of 300 independent filings, but I'm also assuming thats a rather small part of the overall cost.
Didn’t delete, but deleted the app and stopped using it. Very occasionally drop on to look something up, or to browse say once a month or so.

I downloaded my data and started deleting everything. I started messaging friends to ensure I had up to date contact info. Then I realised it was just easier to leave the account alone.

Never look at it at work anymore, don’t post anything other than the occasional article on how social media is bad for your health!

You quickly learn who your real friends are - we have long phone conversations every few months instead. Much more satisfying and meaningful. Interacting through a screen is an extremely poor substitute for a phone or face to face conversation.

Attention span improved, extremely focused at work.

When I drop back in I always see the same small subset of people posting the same kind of thing: they’re evidently consistently bored or addicted, and there is very little of value there.

Still use messenger a bit, but use Signal and SMS as much as possible.

Completely stopped using instagram, it’s a whole extra level of narcissism that I can’t stand.

I’d love to see some competition in this space. Small simple apps for chat and photo albums and status updates, chronologically ordered, with a small monetisation fee / freemium model. Please, someone bring back functional social networks.
I would opt for the UK because i'm from europe and don't plan on going or moving to the US, so i think UK would be a more logical choice. I would expect the PhD process to be equally intensive and hard work, and the end result to be of equal validity and value. that being said, if for example you have a big name university wanting to take on your phd project in either and a smaller name in the other, you might opt to go for the big name because it will look more fancy on your resume if a person looks at it who is not in-depth in the field and doesn't know how to compare them apart form knowing some big names.

For you i would suggest taking a look at your future and seeing where and what you want to do there. if you want to do something in the US i would recommend following in the US as employers there will probarbly be favorable to US based universities as obviously some parts will be more tuned to the US market and academic culture, where the UK will be more tuned to their own environment there.

I think in the end your own personal input is what makes a phd valuable and good, as it's your own research project and it's in your hands what quality you will deliver. it will be judged on correctness and all sorts of things, but you are the master of your own project and research so it's your own input which matters most. this will be the same in the UK and the US.

I would go for one based on my future plans and geographic location of those plans more than 'quality' of the establishment, as it's not a course you will be following, but your very own hard work which will be the value and object of the Phd.
I also read it this year (as part of a book club) - one thing I’d note is I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the footnotes worked in the ebook. I had made an attempt with a hardcopy about ten years ago and found juggling two bookmarks a major pain. It’s not without its flaws but well worth the effort to read, and once I got properly going I didn’t find it difficult or a drag at all.
I completely agree with this. I subscribe to the Gary Marcus' view that what we need is the marriage of symbolic AI and ML.
I think to me the value is equal in a way. It comes down to fear of missing out. What events/social activities will I miss out on by not having Facebook? What possible job/career opportunities will I miss out on by not having LinkedIn?
It might have been the case before.
Turns out you don't need that much data today with intrinsic reward functions.
If you lack motivation for a side-project, how would you not lack motivation to build anything on your own? To me, it sounds like you lack the fire that a founder needs.

I’m not sure I see the point of this question, tbh. If you want to swim, you have to get in the water; there is no point sitting on the beach thinking “I’d be an awesome swimmer, but how do I get in the sea?”
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We don't know this yet. We need a few thousand years to see, what had happend to the nuclear waste in the meantime. (Leaked to ground water? Used by terrorist? Accidents in migration of waste? Unknown unknowns?)
There might not be many mistakes if we weren't forced to use reactors designed in the 50s and built in the 60s when we barely understood nuclear chemistry, but rather modern designs using advanced nuclear chemistry and advanced materials and design improvements.

If nuclear power was equated to cars then arguing about nuclear safety using our current examples of failure would be like arguing about automobile safety risks using a Model A.
Does you credit card ever lock you out? For most people no it's not happen, for Julian Assange we know it happen. Does we have an nuclear warhead explode by accident?

A dangerous thing remain dangerous even before accidents happen.
I've read enough books about the internet now to realize that all of the benefits come with costs. I can be just as addicted to any of the information spouts on the internet. Hacker News provides the same sort of response for me as Facebook might for someone else. It is almost ironic but it is harder to 'delete' Hacker News than Facebook because of the walled garden approach of Facebook.
If you can do it at Oxford I would definitely say do it there. It'll be faster, you get to experience in the UK, and Oxford is a really nice city and university.
I feel that this site is just as addictive and with marginal utility as so many other sites and social networks on the internet.
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”they are not easy to recycle.” doesn’t mean they are impossible to recycle.

There already are companies working on it, since solar cell recycling will be a huge market. It likely won’t be possible to fully recycle solar cells, but what _can_ we recycle fully? At least, it will decrease the amount of left over stuff significantly (https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-...)

One would hope most countries would introduce legislation requiring solar panel recycling. The EU already has that, because solar panels fall under theme waste directive (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/weee/legis_en.htm)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18749459
It‘s called EROI and information is widely available.
EROEI calculations are hard to do and even harder to compare accurately, because you have to decide what second and third order effects "count". Most reliable ones I've seen put the lifetime output at 5x to 10x the input. This is actually better than some of the unconventional oil extraction methods.
Dollar General has a much larger selection than an Asian 7-Eleven. It has "real groceries" (albeit a small selection) and many non-food goods like detergent, toys, shampoo, even cell phones and a small variety of clothing. It's kind of like they got a list of the top 10% best-selling items at Wal-Mart and made a store out of it.

Dollar Tree (and Family Dollar IIRC) are a bit different because unlike Dollar General each item is actually a dollar. They're a bit more akin to Daiso, if you visited any of those in Thailand, though again with a bit more food (though less than Dollar General, and in smaller packages).
Ask HN: How do you choose a graduate course in computer science? [Germany]
[Context: I've got an admit to the University of Bonn and the University of Saarland. I'm Indian and do not speak German]

TL;DR: Where would _you_ go out of these three - University of Saarland, University of Bonn, or University of Freiburg?

How would you go about evaluating different Universities for a graduate programme in CS? Apart from the content of the course, what else would you be looking for?

Some specific questions that I am trying to find answers for:

1. Are the research groups in the campus beneficial to graduate students? It seems like a post-doc thing at the outset. For example, University of Saarland has a rather limited graduate syllabus [https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/master_portal/masterangebot/mathinf/informatik_mhb.pdf] but there are a lot of research groups [https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en/forschung-research/research-groups/] in the campus. I wouldn't mind the rather limited course content if I would get to work with some of these groups. I have no idea if Msc. students get to associate themselves with such groups

2. Saarbrucken has a lot of independent research institutions like DKFI, Max Planck institutes e.t.c. If I'm a masters student, will I benefit from the presence of more institutes in the vicinity?

3. Thank you for reading so far. I've done a little homework and tried to objectively compare my options here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YKzzR5OWs-U30j9YsiadMrCm74SL_R0dJ4SXI44gKMM/edit?usp=sharing

_Any_ extra information that can help me decide would be appreciated. Thanks :)

As of now, this is how I see things: Bonn > Freiburg > Saarland. But Saarland would easily be my top preference if graduate students would get to work with research groups - especially the "Cognitive models of human language processing" (Prof. Vera Demberg) team.
The company names rules don't say anything about the names having to match up in any way: https://www.cr.gov.hk/en/companies_ordinance/docs/Guide_RegC...
This satirist wrote a scathing lookback of 2018, and British journalists didn't get a free pass either. Writing about Khashoggi, he says:

Perhaps the saddest part of this whole business is knowing that there are so few British journalists committed enough to get murdered: you could silence most just by breaking the fingers they use to do select all, copy, paste. Nobody’s going to flay you to death just for barking offers of money through the letterboxes of recently bereaved parents, or trawling for offensive tweets with your free hand. Of course, there are a lot of good journalists. Perhaps journalist is now just too broad a term, in much the way the word actor encompasses everyone from Meryl Streep to Sooty.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/22/frankie-boy...
I think I know what you're on about.

In my mind "Serverless" just means "Requires a server" and the author doesn't particularly think about their terminology.
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You comment has unbalanced parens! (;
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I feel like the community has a high rate of domain experts. Newcomers will come to discourse.julialang.org and ask basic "how-to" questions while providing a small code snippet.

Then the package authors, who often do research in the relevant fields, will start long discussions about the application context and the best approach to take (beyond Julia implementation).

That's both fun and a wonderful opportunity to learn, especially across narrow academic fields.
The largest sticking point for me with nuclear is the whole bigger is better mentality. I'm all for it if we're going with passively safe designs. In theory this could help the whole decentralized grid ideas along. I think it would go a long way to ease public fear if we actually built reactors that can't melt down under any circumstance.

I'm just scared of the big reactors. Nothing on this Earth is going to passively remove 1.5 GW of heat coming from something the volume of a hot water heater.

We also need to be recycling our waste like the other nations which use nuclear power, not just chuck what's still 90% useful material in a holding tank for eternity.
Aren't there any local (small) stores? I can't believe everything has to be a big "chain".

Here in Europe, there are a lot of SMB's that fill in the gap of "fresh food". Although they are a little bit more expensive, they are always good enough to fill this requirement.
Please post some citations to back up your performance claims. I haven’t found strong numbers online.
Large majority only work for browser based GUIs,

Then overall they are only able to validate the UI position or widget properties, which are like 25% of the overall UI/UX of a GUI and HIG compliance behaviors.
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Read: https://mobinspire.com/blogs/top-business-intelligence-trend...
Hey library author here, you can ask me anything.

I just released the 0.5 version of my multidimensional arrays (Numpy-like) + Deep Learning library (PyTorch-like) that I've written from scratch in Nim.

Key highlights of this version:

- Sequence/time series prediction end-to-end example[1]
- Text generation with Char-RNN on Shakespeare and Jane Austen work end-to-end example[2]
- IMDB dataset
- read and write: Numpy .npy files, images (jpg, png, bmp, tga) and H5
- KMeans clustering
- GRU, Embedding layers
- Adam optimizer
- Yann Lecun, Xavier Glorot and Kaiming He initialisations
- fancy indexing
- tensor splitting, chunking stacking with autograd support

And in the ecosystem:

- a neural network training demo with live input and loss monitoring[3]
- Nim wrapper for the Arcade Learning Environment to agent on Atari games[4]

Nim[5] is a high performance compiled language with a syntax similar to Python. Nim compiles to C, C++ or Javascript.

[1] https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/blob/v0.5.0/examples/ex05_sequence_classification_GRU.nim
[2] https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/blob/v0.5.0/examples/ex06_shakespeare_generator.nim
[3] https://github.com/Vindaar/NeuralNetworkLiveDemo
[4] https://github.com/numforge/agent-smith
[5] https://nim-lang.org/
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An answer you could easily find by googling. But instead you question this, as if nobody even asked the question before, probably hoping that no one will check and thus having more people "wondering". At the very least you are lazy, at worst you try to spread misinformation.
With the affordability of smartphones, men, women and even children are digitally connected with each other from across the world. These phones not only allows to communicate with the person but also help in getting lots of information, as well as getting things done with just a few taps.
Read: https://mobinspire.com/blogs/hiring-androidios-app-developme...
Good and interesting question, and I would like to know too, but a couple of points here

- You probably meant to say this but, obviously, there has to be a usage time variable in the calculation somewhere. They will presumably have a lifespan where they can be deployed outdoors without replacement/maintenance, and perhaps this lifespan itself but certainly the average hours usage per day will then vary with climate. There might be tradeoffs in the design and materials used which increase durability but lower yield, but then affect energy required to produce, etc, etc. My point is that it's really quite complex and I'm quite sure there is no one answer, especially with the technology changing (improving) all the time.

- You have to walk before you can run. Even supposing there is a deficit today, the only way we get to a future where there is an energy surplus with solar tech is by deploying the not-good-enough-yet tech today and improving it through iteration to the point where it is good enough. Again, then whether it is worth pursuing or not depends a bit also on that (predicted) rate of improvement.
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LXD has a distributed cluster system built upon SQLite[1], that's based on the raft consensus protocol.

1. https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/go-dqlite/
why not google it? The answer is widely available.

Or are you “just asking”?
Median is 40k. I know someone who works there.