skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a practice that has always baffled me. Why burn off fossil fuels for no gain at all? It's bafflingly wasteful.

Plastic waste is also an issue (not sure if straws are really the biggest issue there), but it shouldn't be hard to tackle both.
> As a developer I don’t want to have to optimise my code based on the first meaningful paint

You don't have to implement this anywhere, not even on web. This is only because people making web frontends want to measure the performance to this granularity.

The web is different from all other native frameworks in that it is highly asynchronous: your text comes first, your images come later, css gets applied somewhere in between, then come in the third party content (usually ads but not necessarily, it could be embedded video for example).

> I used to think being a front end developer only was a silly role as the skills are easily learned. Now it’s so complicated, the top front end engineers should be getting paid the same salaries as senior backend.

Wow. Reading this I get the impression that you think that currently backend engineers deserve more money intrinsically. Why? Depending on the program the frontend might be way more important than the backend.
Making good interfaces _is_ complicated, even if the tooling would be perfect a good interface requires a lot of thought.

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I've seen many threads and discussions dissing backends made by 'frontend devs' as if it were an insult. But please realize that frontends made by devs unskilled in this domain are equally bad and prevent your programs from being used by a lots of people.
</Rant>
About the only thing MS did for the Amiga was Amiga Basic, which was bundled with AmigaDOS until v2 and was eventually surpassed by AMOS, GFA Basic and Blitz Basic.

There was a lot of good productivity software for the Amiga: Protext, Wordworth, Final Writer, Final Calc, Superbase, Professional Page (Gold Disk did a lot of good software, I wonder what happened to them?) but there was a kind of inferiority complex about being ignored by mainstream business. The Amiga magazines would often have to explain to their readers why they didn't use Amiga software to produce their magazine for example.
> don't believe Google has a moral obligation to send traffic

Bizzare. The only reason google gets traffic is because of those sites. Your comparison is also off, google is not another book (they dont create content), it's the librarian telling people which book to borrow.
Times are given as EST/PST, but we are on Daylight Time.
Because when the browser un-gzips it, it takes a lot more memory than the minified version. And everyone seems to complain about browser bloat.
Facebook collects audio voice chats on Messenger, pays contractors to listen
This has existed for quite some time to deal w/ mismatches:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...
That comment never wrote that neutrinos were faster than the speed of light?
You know how cell phone batteries wear out after a few years, because many li-ion batteries will lose 20% of their capacity after ~500† charge-discharge cycles - and users often have to throw away their phone in response?

Vehicle-to-grid would have to pay me a lot if it means I have to scrap my EV after 5 years instead of 10.

And if the power network is going to use half of my EV's battery's cycle-life and pay half my battery's cost, why wouldn't they just buy their own battery?

And if they're only going to activate V2G for a few hours a year, it'll have to pay high hourly rate to cover the cost of the extra car components.

On the other hand, just limiting charge rates in times of high demand doesn't degrade cars' batteries at all. Makes much more sense IMHO.

†Yes, it depends on the battery model, the temperature, the current - but we all know from phones that battery degradation is a real thing.
While I find the way you expressed this disgusting (the "restrained" aspect of what you refer to only extended to the aristocracy, the common folk was treated about as well as cattle on average, sometimes better sometimes worse), the little kernel of good idea in this comment is exactly what confederations of states like the EU enable: link the economies, make freedom of movement possible, break down all obstacles to market competition while preserving regional identities and diversity.

Note that empires do NOT do this, as they need to force stability,unity and legitimacy from the top, while confederations of democratic states get their legitimacy from the bottom (if designed well. There is lots of improvement left in the road towards democratization of the EU).
It also gets never old to tell that this quote is most likely not from Socrates. But you know that already, don't you?

What we know from Socrates, this doesn't sound like something he would have said.

Although, having done no writings of his own, we have two main sources for his life.

But then again, Plato often put his own words into Socrates' mouth and this is something Plato could have said. :-)
The C128 was a crazy Frankenstein's monster of a machine,though, with two CPUs (and the disk drive adds another), and all kinds of other expensive additions to support the CP/M mode. It even boots the Z80 first and checks for certain conditions before switching to the 8502 (and in CP/M mode some BIOS calls switches between the Z80 and 8502, I believe to save ROM space by reusing IO code etc. across them).

It's a fascinating but totally bizarre machine trying to satisfy several contradicting goals at once (be a business computer; be a better c64; be 100 percent c64 compatible) and in doing so doing none of them well enough other than perhaps the c64 compatibility (which wasn't perfect, but was very close), but at a too high cost.
Dosing time matters
Doesn't work for me either. Ubuntu 18.04.3 and Firefox 68.0.1.

The console gives this error: "TypeError: m is null".
This sounds like an episode of black mirror
I use HAVIT HV-KB390L, it's a low profile mechanical keyboard, I absolutely love typing on this keyboard.
> This suite of products, in order to function, must collect and analyze every URL visited by every browser of every machine on which its installed. ...

That's why these products are privacy nightmares.

Bitdefender has admitted that it compromised a user.[0] That was a major case. I'm sure that many other users have been hosed, in less newsworthy ways.

> Because Avast has to see and process all these URLs anyway (in order to serve their function of providing web security), they anonymize, aggregate, and remove any personally-identifiable information from the browser URL visits and then provide them to Jumpshot, who then makes estimates about broad web usage behavior.

There's no reason why URLs need ever be uploaded.

0) https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/massive-blow-to-...
So did Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, John Brockman, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, ...

It seems like Epstein had some kind of scheme that relied on associating with famous people. He was supposedly a fund manager, but he didn't do business with anyone in the Wall Street, his back office was tiny and he managed the fund alone.

Popular theory is that he was blackmailer. Bring in underage girls, film rich people sex with them, then make them invest into your fund and never ask money back or ask other favors (like more connections). This does not mean that everyone who spend time in his island was caught in a trap. It was probably small percentage of people he entertained.
Build your house in the ground. We should all live in Hobbit holes, which means comfort, because of consistent year round ground temperatures.
Well, regarding South America there is a generation that grew up reading "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" (even the author Eduardo Galeano has criticized his own work).

Blaming all the region problems on the "imperialists" and stuff like that is a line of thought still very alive and kicking around here - it is way easier to blame some imaginary entity than taking responsibility for your present situation. It is very inline with the current "outrage porn" culture.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp...
A 200km/h head on collision with equivalent modern cars is absolutely survivable. Gravity is pretty potent at getting you moving faster than that, and with extremely uncertain impact point
>This feels like "guilt by association"

It is. That's why Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory suggesting the Clintons had Epstein killed[0], and why we're going to hear about the Clintons' association with Epstein all over the web until election day. This whole thing is a character assassination buffet.

[0]https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-i-have-no-idea-if-clinto...
It normalises the metric across all levels of production. Scale according to use.

A 5" iPhone weighs 138g. Much of that is probably battery, display, and case, so chips are on the order of 10% or less of the total. I'd estimate at <10g.

The core processor is the A10 Fusion SoC, 125mm^2, probably a few mm thick. Silicon has a density of 2.3290 g/cm^3. That adds up to about 20-30g, depending on thickness, though I'm not sure of the density or thickness of a silicon wafer. I suspect actual mass is less.
Unlike, say, the design of an actual rocket ship (where it is perfectly OK to leave everything to the experts), the economy is the truest form of democracy - of the people, for the people, by the people and all that. You cannot really opt out of it. And ignoring it is generally a bad idea. And to make it worse, someone you don't know and cannot influence (and is generally unaccountable to the elected political class also) controls policies which directly affect your livelihood.

We probably need more discussions, not less. But I agree with you that folks should also spend more time learning about economics. If you think there are good sources for learning the subject, please let us know.
Let me do a tl;dr because that's an important subject that could cange plastic from environmentally problematic material to a highly renewable one.

Recycling plastic is hard because we have different types of plastic for different uses. If you mix them in a trash, it is hard to take them apart and recycling them together leads to very poor materials.

Nowadays, there is active research in making a more intensive recycling that retransforms plastics into their precursors, which are basically the same even for different types of plastic, so this is a process that do not require to sort plastics by type.

Only scanning through the article, it looks like this is a solution to separate these precursors from the remaining impurities (coatings, ink, colorant) and get pure monomers. That's an important step in the process.
Using the big searchbox it is not possible to find this document, you need to use the small searchbox on top.

Then you can find this post that seems to be related.

https://foundry.lbl.gov/2019/06/05/new-polymers-close-the-lo...
Interestingly the reverse is true for Earth events. I a mail gets delivered 75 years later, then it's news :)
This is where SAR imagery comes into play [1]. There are a few SAR constellations online and being worked on that are shifting the discussion about what we can track [2][3].

[1] https://medium.com/from-the-macroscope/its-always-sunny-at-o...

[2] https://www.iceye.com

[3] https://synspective.com
>Old man yells at cloud.

Oh please. I feel like reading old books these days is some invitation for criticism about how "the youths" are the problem.
Well, Liberty Reserve allowed me to pay anonymously for VPN services and servers. And now, Bitcoin does. That's all that matters to me.
Scale matters. Compare a small animal falling and a large animal falling (i.e. compare what happens when they hit the ground). A "drone" large enough to carry a human or two will be much more heavily damaged by an impact that appears to be similar to one that leaves a much smaller drone intact.

A parachute system only helps if you are high enough. Looks like the flying thingys we are talking about here will be close to obstacles a lot and not very high up much of the time given how they are to be used.

Battery redundancy: The scale argument again. This is an order of magnitude harder to achieve on a much larger man-carrying "drone".
Over a couple of decades what has stood out to me particularly for Amigans is how gullible they are.

If I was going to choose a retrocomputing group to target with a scam, it would be Amigans every time. They are _so_ determined to stick behind a bad bet long after it's obvious they were wrong.
(12) 12 Facts and Things to Know About Huawei's Harmony OS
I feel you, once a control is displayed it should never move. To me the main offenders are autocomplete suggestions that continue to load on top after some fields were already displayed.
You summed it up pretty well. All of which is reinforcing itself. Could turn, under the wrong circumstances, into a self fulfilling prophecy. But than isn't that valid for almost every other industrial nation as well?
..because if you drill a divot out of the inside of the plain, clean it with hydrochloric acid and break your thermometer on there you might get some pitting.. whoa, dodged a bullet there.
Ovo Energy in the UK is trialling V2G with the Nissan Leaf [0]

0. https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/vehicle-to-grid-char...
> Someone recently flew a jet-powered "hoverboard" across the English channel.That thing is powered by several large model aircraft jet engines. It's much like the Hiller Flying Platform of 1954.

Not sure the Zapata "flyboard" is fully consumer-ready. The inventor lost two fingers flying an earlier version. https://www.core77.com/posts/89748/Franky-Zapata-Crossed-the...
This phrase probably uses the verb kontrollieren, which means check/control/examine

It's not about petty bureaucrats and trivial infractions, it usually is referring to someone getting checked on the subway for tickets - and sometimes not having the proper ticket (or maaaaaybe being asked for id due to anti-social behaviour)
Haven’t been to singapore for a while but I was never stopped at customs (green channel)

If you are on about collecting fingerprints at immigration, the US does that, as do many other countries.
The first paragraph seems to address this: because it's enjoyable.
As far as I know the Spiegel list, which has a lot of media and book shop presence does not count Amazon. The GfK in German has an exklusive deal with Amazon for data, and they do not deliver the Spiegel list data. The Spiegel list also uses an additional voting scheme among their journalists.

I have found the Spiegel list a bit weird for years, it contains a lot of highly light reading or polemic stuff like that guy yelling at today’s youth. That it does not include Amazon data explains quite something.
So x event happened 550,000 years ago and the radiation from it might kill us. You say that we may get a warning from neutrinos before the harmful stuff kills us?
What Is a Planetary Gearbox?
Far from it. At just commodore you had their PC line and the C128D. These desktop cases do look great!
Arctic permafrost is thawing fast
Before I read your comment, I thought the description sounded like Newton’s Cradle.

Flicking a jump rope sounds more akin to AC to me, though. Maybe, pulsed DC?

What about a train or bumper car analogy (not joking)?

I would really like to see this as a visualization.
Google has grown into a cancerous middleman.
What Is a Stepper Motor?
If it's incredibly hot, doesn't that also mean it's incredibly sunny? Sounds like solar would be the perfect solution here. In Australia, energy prices sometimes go negative because of the abundance of solar energy[0]. Admittedly not during the hottest days when everybody turns up the AC, but using solar to supply that energy still seems like the most logical approach.

Of course alternating between extremely high and negative prices due to the volatility in supply and demand should create plenty of opportunity for businesses that make money simply storing energy and evening out the fluctuation.

[0] https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-push-south-australia-...
The Pan Am building in NYC used to have a helipad, but there was a crash [1] and it was removed.

Today most western cities have helipads tucked out the way - on the river in London and NYC for instance - for safety. Every time a helicopter falls out the sky and lands on an unfortunate pedestrian, the rules tighten. That's not going to change with drones.

[1]: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/may-16-1977-he...
ISPs aren't the NSA, and the NSA has no issue watching your VPN egress.

SNI is probably the most critical here, and it is getting opportunistic encryption.

Threat modeling. Do it.
It's seems that everybody is discovering a secret that everybody knew all allong.

Meh, these "neural networks" have to start somewhere. They have to be trained somehow, and need to be corrected somehow. That's why all the companies claming to be able to parse speech and translate it into text are being discovered paying some form of contractors to listen at them.

What was everybody expecting? Stuff like alexa / google home / siri etc to happen like magic, just like that ?
One thing, he pointed out that his objection to the double colon is not why he rejected the proposal.

Another thing, reading closely I think what he wanted to say (but maybe failed to communicate clearly) is that the double colon is a problematic lexical choice because in the slice syntax, it's already possible to have two colons in a row, but these should be lexed as separate tokens!
I personally prefer the Williams X-Jet or "flying pulpit" from the 80s:

https://youtu.be/guc56Kbz5yI

Pity it never went into mass production. We should crowdfund a modern version!
You make a very interesting point. As a reasonably recent dev (three years ish), starting with Python (and Kivy), then Go, then HTML/CSS/JS, I can see some consistent patterns emerge.

I've built a few apps with frontends by now and every, single, time, I could not tell you whether my frontend code is any good.

In Python I sort of know when my code is good. It 'feels' good. It might not be clever or amazing, but I can get it to a point where it doesn't repeat loads, is reasonably easy to read even months later and behaves consistently and can be tested easily.

In Go I feel this effect even more strongly. It feels quite wholesome to me.

Frontend? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just can't get to a point where I am satisfied with how it's setup. Yes, I can make it work, but it never stops feeling messy. I don't want to use a billion libraries or frameworks either. I like to do my own thing (having tried some frameworks, I felt I was mostly working against the framework).

Javascript-anything always feels yanky. No matter how much I optimise it to death using webworkers, try every CSS trick in the book to load things as quickly as possible. On my 4.5Ghz 4790k with 32GB of ram, everything I do always hitches, stutters, jitters and doesn't feel smooth. This is true for the web (and that's after adblocking). Like, how is that the state of things? Browsing the internet on a weak work-machine without adblockers is literally unbearable. I simply don't do it.

So I don't know what this predicament is we find ourselves in nowadays, or whether I need to spend more time with frontend work, but overall it feels far messier, far more difficult to get right than the backend stuff I have built. Anyone have any pointers as to how one deals with FE work?

Even simple sites quickly turn into a mess of thousands of DOM elements and every time I try to write non-repeating code, I notice one more setting or attribute I need to switch particularly, so then I am adding yet another conditional to a function or writing another function, which basically does the same thing, but not really...

Wish I could go backend-only, lol...
I'm pretty sure that it is generally considered a more reliable design in both small drones and such vechicles. Yes, there are 4 booms, but there are 8 ESCs, 8 cable sets, 8 motors, 8 motor holders(they are the ones experiencing most vibrations), 8 props.

All those 8x parts are much more likely to fail than the boom. How would the boom even fail mechanically if it's just a solid holding mechanical part that is well-built and tested? Would it just break off? Because of what? If so, in any regular normal airplane or a helicopter there are many other similar parts which are usually not redundant. This must be due to the fact that such solid parts fail very rarely, and perhaps more importantly, can be somewhat easily tested on the ground to check their structural integrity. Motors, ESCs, etc can fail due to many other reasons and are sometimes harder to test properly, there is much more risk in them.

So yes there is redundancy.

This configuration of props is called coax, and is specifically less effective than just putting 4 motors of higher power and bigger props. If there were no gains in reliability, no one would build drones like this, because they would just be less efficient and fly for less time. There is basically no other advantage in this setup than their better reliability due to redundancy.

>And with co-axial counter-rotating props, a prop failure will almost certainly cascade to its partner

Do you have a source for that?

If a prop breaks, it will likely fly off onto sides due to centrifugal forces, not on the vertical axis into the other prop. Additionally if a bottom prop breaks, there is already a downward flow of air from the top prop, which will act as additional downward force on those breakaway parts which will force them to fly off downwards, not upwards into the remaining prop.
Every month a country is said to be about to collapse.. yet none have done so.

Medias should resist the urge it seems.
We opened our digital cooperative guidebook after 8 years of existence
Barclays Has Suspended Cooperation with the Coinbase
Do you have an accent (preferably from the Anglosphere) that gives you away as an expat? The stigma (at least in Germany) basically doesn‘t apply to native English speakers (or at least much, much less so). Nobody here makes fun of Kevin Costner for being named Kevin. The stigma is specifically about lower class Germans frequently choosing certain foreign names for their kids.
Electric car, sure, but Tesla? Doesn't the company have some Saudi money in it? Not sure how much stake they have in it, but I'd guess they are close enough Elon Musk tried to take the company private with their backing
You do realize that's several logical fallacies in one?

"smell about right"

"spot checks suggest they're reasonable"

"generally reliable in my experience"
It's too early to say if they "succeeded to stop" anything. Could be that they just postponed it.
Is anyone aware of a good lecture series on Youtube or equivalent about Systems Engineering. I covered it in Uni, but it would be nice to go through a refresher.
Particle Filter: A Hero in the World of Non-Linearity and Non-Gaussian
I think most of my zero-click search are a quick question on something you can find at wikipedia.

Well, I don't see the problem at google providing a cache to save WP's bandwidth. I block ads anyway...
> for me it's very much a "mind's eye" thing, not like an image projected into my visual field

Same for me.

> In article 2, the researchers are said to have asked their subject to recite every third month going backwards, apparently to test that it's not just a mind's eye visualization

I would be terrible at this task. I don't see the whole year (week) at once. This representation would not be of any help for that. It's here when I am scheduling / planning, or when someone is saying / I'm reading a date.
Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (2017)
Serious environmentalists should be talking about flooding parts of the Sahara or other wild geoengineering prospects, not plastic bags at the grocery.