skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as dealing with legibility, it has pretty high resolution, so you can write small if you'd like. You can also zoom in and out to write larger if you'd like.

I use it for reading and note taking. It's helpful to jot something down quickly or to take more in-depth notes. You can also install Android apps on there too, so I use Firefox to browse the web (reading articles on Wikipedia, doing research into software products) and sync that with my phone to easily pass data between them.
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With the caveat that I haven't checked his sources, The History Guy did a video [1] on the Avro Arrow program that goes into a lot of the Canadian aerospace industry history leading up to the program and its subsequent cancellation. Before this I had no idea how much of a sore point it was, and still is, with Canadians (just read the comments on the video if you need some examples).

[1] https://youtu.be/F4z5-l7u2Uo
You are welcome. I’ve been evangelizing it more on LinkedIn and twitter as well as practicing talking points for a presentation about the Django intercoolerjs stack
> Try to replace some Vim sessions with Emacs.

Done because I love org mode. What's that? Evil mode? Nah. That's nothin. Ignore it.
They were. My first employer partnered with eInk back in like 2012 to bring a line of ESLs to market. The reason you're not seeing more of it is because in the US the companies prefer to purchase a "turnkey solution" whereas in Europe companies are more apt to develop custom software to integrate the ESL with their systems. And the major ESL supplier in the US, Pricer, uses on-premises servers and IR to update labels which is an expensive proposition. So you're limited in how you can pilot the technology.

I actually think there's a lot of room at the low end of the market to sell an on-premises ARM- or NUC-based server which interfaces with the tags over a radio link and provides aggregate data back to a cloud-based system for control and pricing updates. That would get you the millions of convenience stores who have to pay 3rd-party contractors to do their shelf labels. This would be especially brilliant if you combined a software fee with equipment leases so that your solution is an operating expense instead of an upfront capital cost.
> let’s me download subtitles on screen directly.

How do you do that directly from vlc?
I think it's great that these were rescued back in their day. It's also pretty funny because technically, assuming Canadian laws are roughly the same as US laws, the engineer exfiltrated classified material from a secure location illegally. Which could partially explain why his kids were never allowed near them, for fear they may accidentally rat him out when they were young and wouldn't know better. Which makes it all the more risky.
Salsa, cheese, sour cream and guacamole can make anything taste good. Is there a better combination out there? Only if guacamole wasn't so expensive.

> The lungs, heart, and liver of a sheep boiled, ground, seasoned, mixed with oatmeal and stuffed in its own rectum to be boiled

I will never.

> with salsa and cheese and served with sour cream and guacamole.

Oh, doesn't sound so bad. I'll give it a shot.
Which is the prisoner’s dilemma I mentioned earlier - if you already enjoy herd immunity, why risk being part of the group in which the problems are discovered?
Ah, thanks! I am a little embarrassed. I translated so much Caesar in Latin class. Oh well, it turns out you lose it if you don't use it.

Thanks for the correction and detail.
> I disliked the Alpha floating point, it was always signalling exceptions for underflow.

Alpha floating point wasn't the problem.

The problem was that a whole bunch of "clever" folks used "underflow" for all manner of weird reasons on x86. So, whenever Alpha either ran ported or emulated x86 code, it ran into underflows with far greater frequency than any actual numerical applications ever would.
Make something 16 inches and lightweight. So that you can make it display an actual A4 "paper" and hold it in your hand.
I feel like that is me, and I feel like that would be a perfect job for me. I am, too, at a point where I am as productive as my peers with just about 10% of effort.

Thanks for your elaboration, opened my eyes on the situation.

In your experience, would this be a good time to start your own business, like a SaaS?
Please don't make the mistake of assuming that pursuit of profit is the only reason for an institution to skimp on best practices. Or rather, please don't assume that non-profit institutions (and governments) can automatically be trusted to follow best practices because their motives are pure. They're no more immune to bureaucratic infighting, external pressure, and general human weakness than any company. (And remember, while NASA does incredible work, the actual hardware is mostly built by for-profit defense contractors... for better and for worse.)

That said, is anyone actually suggesting that for-profit companies should undertake gene drives on their own? Because my assumption was that any such decision would have to be made by governments, regardless of who actually does the work.
does anyone have experience using this?
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My intro course used BlueJ, which is (was?) some sort of dumbed down Java IDE specifically for students. The thought was that dealing with all of the crap surrounding software development, like make systems, editors, compiler flags, etc was a distraction from learning basic programming constructs. Looking back I agree completely. As a new programmer, things like compiler flags are pretty much black magic. You don't really learn anything by reciting magic spells.

Learning development tools like the CLI, IDEs, debuggers, linters, et. al. should be required for a CS degree. I don't think an intro course is the right setting.
For whatever it's worth, on twitter Chuck Yeager has said he wasn't a fan of the Avro Arrow. He didn't go into details though. He's well into his 90s, so maybe he doesn't remember the details anymore.

https://twitter.com/GenChuckYeager/status/936416735464366081
There's no shadowroot usage or customElement definitions here - what part of this is a web component? Not to trivialize the creation of what looks like a decent spreadsheet library, but this just looks like a standard library, not a web component.
Indeed I am (that's why I wrote "like"), but they were the household name in the field. Frankly, I don't know who plays that role now, but how confident are you that they behave fundamentally different, as opposed to just not having been caught yet?
Just because a new solution is trending doesn't mean you have to figure out how to use it in your tech stack. Evaluate your needs and where it may or may not fit and decide accordingly.

> This complexity is out of hand. The worst is we now use yet more solutions (server-side rendering, which now needs its own Node server and it's yet another thing to deploy) just to try and dig ourselves out of the hole we dug in the first place.

No, someone had a project that required SSR and for reasons important to their project wanted to build out that functionality in node. You don't have to use it just because it's out there if you find you don't have compelling reasons to apply it to your project.

Just because it doesn't fit your project doesn't mean it's useless for everyone else. Your 90% of projects aren't other people's 90% of projects.
Education, quality of life and equal opportunities for women. As these increase, the birth rate goes down. Most countries that score highly in these areas actually have below replacement birth rates and only grow in population due to immigration.
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Frontend over-complexity is exactly the problem that this is trying to solve for! You can think of this as a simple post-install tool that removes a huge chunk of the complexity (bundling) from your stack, without limiting what you can build.

If this direction of simplified web development is something you're interested in, you'll enjoy this post I wrote back when we started this project (and it was called @pika/web): "A Future Without Webpack" - https://www.pika.dev/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack/

Disclaimer: I created Snowpack & Pika (pika.dev).
There's some overlap with your points but I think you missed 2 big ones.

Blatant cheating to troll is one (myg0t "clan" is the first notorious case I remember from back in the day).

Another is "cheating" to fix problems in the game. Some games are really good except for a couple of issues. An example from back in the day is Final Fantasy XI. They programmed it so ALT-TAB would crash the game. They thought this would stop cheaters (Japanese devs don't seem to really get the PC landscape sometimes) but it was just really inconvenient for the rest of us. I hit it by mistake/habit more than once in a tense moment. So a third party hack called Windower was invented to stop this.

Predictably, it was very popular but there were also players saying those who used it were dirty cheats who deserved a ban. Alsod predictably, because it already operated in a grey area, it received a number of QoL updates and features including add-on support and scripting where anyone could easily develop things that clearly crosses the line.
Hats off to the NOC team.
"Culturally sensitive" often turns into culturally oversensitive...
That intercoolerjs looks pretty decent.

With regards to tooling I agree it is too complicated. I really wish that everyone would coalesce around a standard set of tools. But it would be the equivalent of cat herding.
> One of the main purposes of a price tag is to draw and hold the shopper's eye, and in that respect they fail miserably.

There I was thinking the main purpose of a price tag is to tell you the price.

Product packaging is meant to grab your eye. Price tags are mostly functional (although some shops also use them to advertise offers).
Ever since I saw this animation [1] of the difference between a heliocentric vs geocentric view of the planets, I always see complexity in a new light. The geocentric movements are all technically correct (thats how they move in relation to the earth) but once the true state is discovered it becomes so much more simple.

1. http://www.malinc.se/math/trigonometry/geocentrismen.php
I'd say that cheap Italian and expensive Italian food are completely different cuisines in Australia.

Cheap places are "Australian Italian", usually with incredibly generic menus and large servings of bland food. That's your Lygon Street Italian, if you're familiar with Melbourne.

Expensive places usually serve "Italian Italian".
I wonder if there ever will be completely artificial birth with modified genome to mass produce voluntarily slaves since their brain is altered to feel buoyant from slaving for the corporate overlords.

Would that be unethical?

Should you stop someone from slavery if they perceive it as better?
Wouldn't you impose your own will if you did that?
What if they feel pain from not slaving away?
Since it's from scratch and you can make them infertile or fertile with only similar people, what other reasons are there for you to not do that?
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Some interesting discussion between the authors and the ICLR 2020 reviewers here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=H1eA7AEtvS
Got it.

I left my comment for the benefit of those who have learned regression. I read the article expecting something new, seeing how highly upvoted the post was on HN, but realized it was basic information.

If they removed the symbols from the article, I bet the article would be accessible to way more people.

Regarding causation, I think the essential points are:

- there is never any true causation (e.g. Even though it is always dark when I close my eyelids, I can never be sure that closing my eyelids causes the darkness. How can I know that the next time I close my eyelids, it won't be something other than dark?)

- you can see if a correlation may have a causal relationship by applying common sense to the chronology of events (if darkness correlates highly with closed eyelids, and if I notice that, chronologically, darkness has always followed closing my eyelids, I can be more confident that the relationship may be causal. Stats help formalize this process.)
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> What principles of morality excuse and justify...

That a system is hypocritical or irrational is not criticism of it existing, only criticism that it should exist. The culture very obviously exists, otherwise there wouldn't be a heteronormative, patriarchal, workaholic, individualist, capitalist, suburban culture for far-left types to fight.

> Your presumption is false. Not all people follow your faith or the narrow view you have of the faithful...

You are attacking a strawman. Obviously not all faithful hold traditional views, but a large group of faithful obviously do hold traditional views.

> Among the colonists were Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews, Baptists, Anglicans and many others.

All of whom were Judeo-Christian and grossly compatible with the traditional culture I described above.

The core point of the article linked and the grand-parent comment is that the US used to have a single, "traditional" base culture. We now have two, competing cultures. I don't think your comment addresses that point, rather it only addresses the inconsistencies within the traditional culture. Debating first-level politics doesn't ascend to the level of something that is "interesting to hackers," which is why political debates are softly banned on hackernews.
Tabula had an FPGA that could switch between configurations in a single cycle (it could be time-sliced among up to 8 configurations). Not sure if their actual product would have supported what you propose -- it was more a way of trading off design size against clock speed. A large design could use 8X the logic and run at 1/8th the clock speed of a small design.
What they should have done is license the tech while developing their product. This little move probably left them billions on the table just by preferring to sit on the tech.
> Javas GCs already achieve their goals.

So does Go. Otherwise it wouldn't be anywhere as popular specially with regards to server-side usage by giants of the industry.
Hate to break it to you, but servers and server-side rendering existed before React.

Sounds like you're blaming good tools instead of bad developers.
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Further to this, check out the page for Inko: https://inko-lang.org/

They have a nice little dropdown in the top corner, right there on the front page, that lets you see little code snippets. I really like that.

Should slightly more accessible code snippets have any influence on my choice of language? Probably not. But I like it nonetheless.
I’ve seen them a lot in non-US countries.

There is the reality that if this sign costs tens of dollars, you can go through the old printing process hundreds of firms before it becomes viable to use these kinds of screens though
Look, I'm not one to harp on semantics, but this is bullshit, you can't* just make something a rate by using the word 'per'. If I'm a doughnut shop, and I sell 12-packs of doughnuts, my doughnut-box-size is not a rate, the amount of doughnuts I sell in an hour, or a day etc., is a rate. If my store has a policy of only fulfilling orders once every 10 minutes on average, but only up to one box, or 12 doughnuts per 10 minutes, the doughnut-box-size is still not a fucking rate, even though the shop could say they only sell 12 doughnuts per 10 minutes. Edit: Let me rephrase this somewhat; it's clear greg is trying to use semantic chicanery and multiple definitions and senses of the word 'rate' to obfuscate any actual points. Rate is typically used and understood (let's say in STEM anyhow) to be a measure of 'flow'. Thus his speed example, distance per time, is a rate, or tx per second. It doesn't have to use time as measure, but here what greg is trying to do is say that, using the most generic definition of rate, you can compare doughnuts and boxes and say that doughnuts-per-box (blocksize) is a rate, even though he's really using as example "(dougnuts-per-box)-per-((10 minute)time interval)", which is a rate, and pretending they're the same thing . Of course if you increase the size of the container, the flow, or actual rate of tx/time interval will increase, but saying that the size of the container itself is a rate, is contextually insane.
>A spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, Abolfazl Shekarchi, rejected speculation that the plane had been attacked accidentally by Iranian forces as “ridiculous”.
>digital photo frame

Also for outdoor advertisement. Replacing those LED backlight. Unfortunately the video has shown the quality isn't anywhere near good enough. PPI and colour accuracy are too low.
btw. this map is bullshit.
french basically netted zero co2 emissions for their nuclear power plant. I mean 90% of their uranium ore comes from nigeria. it's not like that stuff gets teleported to the reactors. the uraniums needs to be mined, refined, transported.

see:
- https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg23531450-700-7-generat...
- https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

etc... of course it's way less than coal. but it's stupid to let some countries "export" their emission to third world countries. the map bases their nuclear plants with 12gCO2eq/kwh. which is basically just insanly low and is only the median and does not factor everything in (no build, decomission of the plant (because that is unknown and different for each reactor) and basically the icc does in fact not factors in mining with all their transport routes, mostly it's just a nuclear energy favored estimate)
https://people.redhat.com/swells/scap-security-guide/tables/...

Use (centos) linux because learning how to harden it is a skill that will apply in many more places afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuOBzWF0Aws
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For informational cheats I think we already have proxies that we can tunnel the packets through and get all the details up on a second screen (if you really want to keep your game PC pristine).

For many games packet inspection and injection work just fine to automate actions and provide access to hidden information.
SSR was just an example. It's a valid solution, my point is that it's now yet an extra workaround to a problem we created in the first place.

Websites were SSR'd by default back in the day, the backend (with PHP or whatever you had on there) generates some HTML that the browser displayed. Then we decided that wasn't cool anymore and went through this whole clusterfuck of SPAs to justify cool kids' careers and now we're going back full-circle to a way more complex solution with more moving parts of doing exactly what we implicitly had 2 decades ago because we realised cool kids' careers had negative impacts in terms of page load performance.
Another way to do it is to mount a 2D LIDAR to scan in the vertical plane, and then pan that around. A 180 degree pan will net you a dome/spherical volume (although in a slow manner).

You could do this easily with cheap parallax sensors (like you find on Neato vacuum cleaners, and which are now sold as separate units - RPLidar and such). This has also been done using SICK coffeepot-style 2D LIDAR units (such rigs tend to be large and heavy, tho).

Something I've often considered is the idea of a "stochastic" scanner - that is, don't worry about strict angles, just let the sensor scan at random angles, and note the angle and reading. Over time you'd build up a complete scan. Just an idea I've rolled around in my head; the idea was to eliminate the need for syncing and timing of the scan hardware (2D or 3D), at the price of not necessarily getting a complete perfect scan all the time. It was something of a thought experiment I had while thinking up ways to DIY a LIDAR sensor in a very cheap manner, beyond what has already been done.
> The world production of nuclear power is basically flat for the last 30 years.

I'm glad that China proves you wrong. If they had gone all in with coal+renewables like Germany, climate change would be an even bigger issue than it already is.

> Renewable energy is expanding rapidly. That's currently the only viable option. The best is to phase out all costly nuclear reactors and invest the money into renewable energy expansion.

No, again Germany has tried that. It. doesn't. work.
20 years later, even now at 46% from renewables, the country still has one of the worst carbon intensity figures of all European countries.

Besides, there's an upper limit to the expansion. Wind farms require 360 times (!) as much land area as nuclear, solar 75 times as much for the same output.

It's a beautiful idealistic dream that I hope will work one day, but causes us all terrible harm in the meantime.

> Storage of electricity can be done in multiple ways and we will see larger new installations in ten years from now. Models for running countries with like the US with electricity from 100% renewable are looking feasible.

This is hot air, nothing more than wishful thinking.
And you can't build a power grid on wishful thinking. Also we can't afford "hopefully, one day" to tackle the climate emergency. Another commenter put it best : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996271
I just watched the documentary Human Nature and can really recommend it. Goes into science and ethics of coming CRISPR-CAS revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Nature_(2019_film)
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This isn't really a webpack competitor, it's the same functionality of webpack (production-ready js builds) but leveraging modern web standards (ESM)

It's almost like comparing jQuery to web components, maybe you can achieve similar things to both, but one is a feature with native browser support.
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I suspect if you read the linked thread, you'd see exactly what he thought. He was at Transmeta at the time, and isn't exactly unfamiliar with what compiler writers get annoyed with. You may or may not agree with what he says, but he has a cogent, interesting perspective.
I prefer to just write raw JavaScript, and as little as possible.
Nah, this was the sort of guy who decided to leave the team (not midori this was years later in a different org) and then figures it's okay to act like a jerk on the way out the door. Some (junior) engineer on another team made a bad suggestion. Wasn't enough to say no, he had to tear a strip off him. To the point the manager of the other team asked if they could talk about it (he refused).

Guy was passionate and smart and just a lousy leader.