skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if we have any hope of keeping temperature increase within 1.5 degrees Celsius

We're already past 2ºC if you consider climate lag, aerosols cooling, and feedbacks.

See this comment of mine from a couple of months ago with links and such:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20544252
Why We Love to Hate Comic Sans
Started appearing in most supermarket chains in the Czech Republic. B/W and also dual colored.
Unfortunately, you are absolutely correct. Like most I have a smartphone (Android), use Chrome (technically chromium but close enough), and have a device or two infected with Windows 10.
I do take measures to reduce the outflow of my personal data but with no real practical alternatives in some cases, I can only rely on blending into the background noise and avoiding flagrantly awful and thinly-veiled surveillance devices.
> Is there any evidence this is a tradeoff?

Bound checking often is the reason rust performs worse on some benchmarks. Though I wouldn't consider this a problem at all since it can be disabled.
Do we know that Java programs generate more garbage than Go programs? This is often stated, but I've never seen any actual measurements of it. Remember that Java HotSpot has escape analysis just as Go does.

I would not be surprised if the difference in amount of "garbage"—as measured in either bytes or object count/mark time—were a lot smaller than people think.
Ok, we'll move the comments thither. Thanks!
Μπαρτσελόνα – Ατλέτικο Μαδρίτης, πρόκριση τίτλου στην Τζέντα
The NDA required to buy a sample also doesn’t help.
Which little-known Python tool do you consider indispensable?
Where does population control enter into this hypothetical?

Because that's the only way you get to post-scarcity.
Yes. Why is that even a question? Bans on tools have only ever delayed progress and caused misery.

Besides, we've been genetically alternating species for tens of thousands of years. Understanding the essential similarity of selective breeding and genetic modification is table stakes for having a serious and informed opinion about this technology.
what model did you get?
in LA, you can find excellent versions of every type of asian cuisine (thai, vietnamese, japanese, korean, filipino, indian, cambodian, bangladeshi, etc.), not to mention other cuisines like ethiopian, mexican, salvadorean, etc., for a range of prices. the affordable end is still often delicious, but requires a bit more trial and error to find the good places. european cuisines and “new american” tend to be pricier, but is still often yummy. this is why i think LA is the best food city in the country. you can often find the same (particularly asian) foods elsewhere, but either for more money, inferior quality, or both.
Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby – Signal vs. Noise
Thank you, this should be the top comment.
I'm not nearly that old yet wearing a hat indoors really seems bizarre (although not rude) to me. But so does wearing clothes closely resembling what many others are wearing. E.g. whenever I see a group of people wearing suits I find that funny.
(This comment was posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996263 and merged hither along with the rest of that thread.)
Quibi versus the World
It's not a conspiracy. Just business as usual where tech is concerned. The USA didn't want to see this tech fall into enemy hands; it was easier and cheaper to see it killed and hire the engineers as they came available. Acquihire, government style during the Cold War.
I'm not sure that these guidelines make a distinction between a call to install a codec on-demand versus a call to download and run (and even cache) a minified Javascript library.
http://archive.md/i4iuG
That's all irrelevant. The world production of nuclear power is basically flat for the last 30 years. 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.

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 like the US with electricity from 100% renewable are looking feasible.

Since there has been almost no expansion of nuclear in the past 30 years on a global scale and everything looks like we will see a long and slow decline for nuclear, it's easy to see that it's the wrong technology and its further contribution to reduce carbon emissions will be likely zero or less.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Will try out
According to a recent study, the privacy properties of the lighting Network are weak.

The problem with lightning privacy is that to get good privacy you need more than about 2 hops. The problem is that every hop locks up money equal to the amount transferred: increasing the cost of the transaction.

The study also finds that the LN is currently subsidized, and based on the capital costs alone, fees should be comparable to on-chain (BTC) transactions. BCH transactions are currently subsidized as well, but not to the same extent (I estimate 3cents/kB would pay for processing and storage).

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/01/bitcoins-lightning-network.htm...
I think I've seen this maybe a decade ago? I'm not sure. I'm talking about Spain though.
Fall of NOSQL?
Guide to a Remote Year as a Developer
http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Caesar:_Epic_Battle_...
At work, my desktop has tmux, but the servers we deploy on only have screen.
We're possibly within a few orders of magnitude of the saturation point, wielding the resources of a single planet.

Which leaves the obvious path forward...
This doesn't actually refute anything in Mike Hearn's posts.

And isn't Shenandoah included by default in OpenJDK 12+?
This -> 'most books, for most people, don't need to be absorbed or understood in their entirety.'
> this was a dumb move by vogue

No. This was a dumb move by Advance Publications, who owns Teen Vogue. If companies want the benefits of owning half the market, then let them share the stink of their corruption as well.
It’s not your phone, it’s you
It's bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
It would indeed be a bug, which is why any self-respecting operating system should include uninterruptible vi in the kernel /s
your anecdote seems to support the case for stronger more populated unions with better negotiation outcomes.
4.2" (Which sounds like it's too small for your needs): https://www.adafruit.com/product/4142
The submitted title was "Teen Vogue story on Facebook prompts sponsored content fears, vanishes". That was a decent attempt to squeeze the title down to HN's 80 char limit, but we've replaced it with the article's first subheading, which seems more factual and neutral.
There are reasons to care about metabolism besides a desire to lose weight.
This is thinking based on anecdotal evidence, and is not supported by scientific evidence.

LCDs do not inherently cause eye strain. Specific implementations of any display technology can, but not in general.

Some LCDs have backlights that flicker to reduce motion blur, and some people can be sensitive to this. Most panels do not have this technology. Avoid low-lag 144 Hz gaming displays if you're affected.

Low resolution LCDs can cause eyestrain due to the apparent blurriness of the image making the lens of the eye "hunt" back and forth looking for the ideal focal distance. Simply upgrading to a 4K or better fixes this. It did wonders for me, and now I refuse to use anything else.

People tend to sit at different distances from screens depending on the technology. People sit meters away from their TV, approximately 50-100cm from PC monitors, and within arms-length for handheld displays such as phones or eInk displays. For anyone with vision problems such as myopia, the displays that are held closer tend to cause less strain, but this has nothing to do with the panel technology.

Brighter displays cause the pupil to shrink, which improves the effective focus sharpness for people with astigmatism. There is an actual benefit of eInk displays in that they can be used with high-lux external illumination such as daylight. However, HDR LCD panels can hit an eye-searing 1000 nits sustained, and even the default 300 nits of a good quality panel is more than sufficient to reduce the pupil size to the minimum. Just turn the brightness up and sit in a reasonably well-lit room instead of darkness. The new hotness of dark themes flies in the face of the science of this. My eyes start to hurt within minutes from reading text on a dark background!

Glare from screen coatings also reduces contrast and the glass layer is often 1-2mm closer than the image surface. This can also cause "hunting" of the focus and eye strain. Avoid glossy screens, and clean your monitor regularly to get rid of smudges.

Most of the above is technology-independent. You can simply turn the brightness up on you LCD screen and sit closer or further depending on whether you have myopia or hyperopia.

I once had the pleasure of working with an 8K Dell monitor, and I can tell you from first-hand experience that it's amazing. It's like looking at an animated glossy magazine. Zero eye strain. Unfortunately, it strains the wallet, but the new 8K video "push" might bring some competition and lower prices...
> Drop the "the" - just "facebook".

Why not just rename it to js. An homage to its origins, but simplifying it to what everyone calls it colloquially and in chat messages now anyways.
In this same vein I've leaned to ignore those on the edges of the distribution curve. They likely got there by luck.
This is scapegoating. The employee worked for Amazon. Amazon watched customer video. You shouldn't get to use employees for responsibility laundering. I don't care what your policies are anymore than I care whether any criminal "didn't mean to" hurt someone. Your policies are your internal details. I care about your behavior.
Pretty much any study of the past century and any projection from reputable sources says that populations reach equilibrium and stop growing as the level of education, in particular education of women, rises.

This is a non-problem that has always taken care of itself in any developed country and we have no reason to believe it will not take care of itself in the developing world as well.

The UN for instance does not believe there will be 10 billion humans on earth ever (where "ever" means "as long as projections have any value").
> The USA didn't want to see this tech fall into enemy hands

I've heard this preposterous story several times and it never makes sense. If the US doesn't trust Canada to defend North America then explain NORAD (and the 5 Eyes for that matter).
well merkel basically ruined our energy marekt.
not because the shutdown of nuclear. (btw. I hate nuclear)

but because the market did bid for a merkel win, where he extended the nuclear energy marekt (or she wanted to).
so our energy industry betted that they save money if they do not be active by going renewables. their bid was good because now we subsidize our renewables heavily.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...

the eeg started way diffently than the 2014 eeg version and it got worse overtime, with all the newer versions.

also the csu (bayern party) actually dismisses on-shore wind power completly 10-H-law, besides no sane reason. merkal and the cdu/csu are not PRO renewables they just want to keep their power, which they would quickly loose by making turns. also merkel mostly did "rushing" things in the past because things that should've been done 10 years prior, weren't done. see our car industy. (which will be rushed by going all in electric, because we lost 10 years on the run)
Coopetition for sure.
Can confirm the same. There was always some one-person “company” who was the prime contractor simply because he was a disabled-Alaskan-native-owned-small-business, who did nothing but skim a little $$ and pass all communications back and forth between the government and the actual contractors who were doing all the work. Nice work if you can get it!
Only if you're a web dev :)
The distraction here is exactly the issue. It actually removes the urgency of climate change. Companies greenwashed us into thinking that all it take is buy a upper-class Tesla to save the planet (Yes I'm reusing this example because I see it every single day in the bay area). This is not the solution, you are marginally polluting less with a Tesla but you are not solving the issue at all. you are only making yourself feel good.

Even worse, as you say it creates two class of people based on money: The ones that can afford the green-washed toys and the ones that cannot and are now blamed for "polluting".

Real change is going beyond single occupancy car for example, or reducing over population on the planet. But those are mainly economical changes that nobody wants to conveniently talk about because those are actually hard. Buying solar panels, walking to work or taking shorter showers are conveniently nitpicked easy metrics for feel-good effect.
Yes, human like FOXP2 variant + dogs.
Haven't we been trying to genetically alter entire species to wipe them out already? I thought the plan was to make mosquitoes genetically sterile or infertile and wipe them out forever?

"Let's Kill All the Mosquitoes"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536074

But I suspect livestock, pets and humans would be the most likely candidates for "entire species genetic modification".

If we could genetically alter humans, pigs, etc to be resistent to the flu, wouldn't we do it?
Yep, tbh it is kind of wasteful to just go into Thucydides...like you read it, and 95% of it will go over your head (that is a particularly good choice of example because it is at the nexus of sp many important subjects...if you just come in without anything...it is just a normal book).

And, imo, dipping between books is far more effective. Even at university, you are given a few sources and you move between them but it isn't natural. Going between sources naturally at your own pace and based on your own interest/understanding will build far more actual knowledge than trying to shortcut your way there (and yes, Wiki is great for that). It is a shame that doesn't fit into some kind of formal education system...definitely in a subject like history, the end result would be far better work from academics.
Can’t we assume at this point that Sandberg likely has someone posting on her behalf? Someone who likely is in PR/marketing working “next to” the person/team that spearheaded the article.

This is particularly ironic because there are likely rules against account sharing that Facebook PR does not in fact follow.
This is why legitimate companies vest quarterly or more frequently. Your 0.01% equity stake is does not make you a powerful investor.
Why? The rule is absolutely stupid, and pointless. It's about as meaningful to airplane security as TSA. In other words, none at all.

I mean if rules say you need to report your fellow Uighurs, you should follow them because other will?
Does it download 200MB of tools? (Seriously asking; I've contributed to some React apps but have made one from scratch never).
This is exactly right.

> In “Der Atomstaat” (“The Nuclear State”) Jungk quotes the Austrian scientist Helga Novotny, who back in the day worked at the IIASA (International Institute für Applied Systems Analysis) in Vienna/Laxenburg. She said that “the opposition against nuclear energy roots in the resistance against those who profit from the increasing economical and scientific focus. The opposition is directed against large-scale industry that makes common cause with big states and big science. It is the resistance of those who feel powerless and small in the face of the developments” (Der Atomstaat, 1977, zit. n. Ausgabe 1979 p. 77ff). This finding is still relevant today and still undermines democracy.

https://jungk-bibliothek.org/robert_jungk_english_2/
I write react professionally, but for my freelance projects or any personal projects I came to a similar stack when it comes to simplicity.

Laravel
NGINX
VanillaJS/WebComponents (toying with Svelte right now)
MariaDB

Fast prototyping, simple deployment, almost no time spent with tooling.

A recent example with too much tooling I had was with Root's bedrock+trellis+sage. They do make working with WordPress management for a developer (a lot less clicking that with normal WP setup). But the frontend setup, webpack, backend, browserify and all of that is so complicated and slow. I was able to set it up on one machine, but failed to git clone the same project on two others. Scripts would be missing, things wouldn't load etc. Nightmare.
The 50% of the population who are blue collar workers aren’t going to retrain as particle physicist or theoretical computer scientists one they get their UBI.
I can sympathize with the game assets argument, but this problem is just the result of trying to stuff a square peg into the round hole.

Build artifact caching is a different problem from source control, with very different requirements:

1. As you mentioned, the artifacts tend to get huge.

2. The cache needs to be easy to bypass. From your example, it needs to be easy for the C++ engine devs to do builds like "the game but with the new engine" to test out their changes.

3. The cache needs to be precise, so you don't end up with mystery errors once it finally does trigger, or people wondering why their changes don't seem to apply.

4. The builds need to be exactly reproducible, so you don't end up with some critical package that only Steve Who Left 5 Years Ago could build (or Jenkins Node 3 That Just Suffered A Critical HDD Failure).

Git either doesn't care about or fails spectacularly for each of those points. In particular, #3 will be very confusing since there will be a delay between the code push and the related build push.

Nix[0] solves #2 and #3 by caching build artifacts (both locally and remotely[1][2][3]) based on code hashes and a dependency DAG (for each subproject or build artifact, so changing subproject X won't trigger a rebuild of unrelated subproject Y, but will rebuild Z that depends on X). It helps with #4 by performing all builds in an isolated sandbox.

#1 is solved by evicting old artifacts, which is safe as long as you trust #4. If the old artifact is needed again then it will be rebuilt for you transparently. Currently this is done by evicting the oldest artifacts first, but it could be an interesting project to add a cost/benefit bias here (how long did it take to build this artifact, vs the amount of space it consumes?).

[0]: https://builtwithnix.org/

[1]: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Binary_Cache

[2]: https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-sharing-packages

[3]: https://cachix.org/
Here in the US, Kohl's (https://www.kohls.com/) uses the e-ink price tags in their retail stores. They are a terrible application of the technology. They're not bright enough to be legible from a distance, and even up-close their legibility is not great. They just look washed-out and dingy.

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.
Intercooler looks neat. I couldn't find anything on their site about supported browsers though.
Everywhere that values human productivity. Many Countries in Europe paying fair wages to those working in Supermarket has been using them for years if not decades.
I thought this was going to be an article showing you how to build modern websites without the cancer that is /node_modules/ but it's Yet Another Webpack Killer. Imagine my face as I wince at the JS ecosystem as a whole.
Thanks.

That's what I meant about archive.org playing nice. If sites ask them to update captures, they do. I'm not criticizing them for that. It's sort of a "right to be forgotten" thing.

But it means that they're not a reliable source for anything too controversial.
If you don't mind power consumption then you can also use reflective LCD display's.

Brand like Pixel Qi offer those. They have 3 modes: backlight, reflective, and a combination of both.
But to be fair the reflective mode always looks monochrome to me.
> Those prototypes were also cancelled.

Could you please name the program? AFAIK the 1954 interceptor program [1] was not cancelled, but perhaps you're talking about a different program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-201
You're putting words in my mouth, I didn't say "people who are culturally sensitive" - that wasn't my euphemism.

Arguing over meat-related naming is exactly the kind of "alternative viewpoint" I have no time for, i.e I would say it's completely wrong.
You have just been arrested on suspicion of wrong-think. If this audience loves Vim and you don't, you have landed on the wrong planet and committed a thought-crime.

You don't have to say anything because the HN jury has already found you guilty on multiple accounts of high treason with a thought-crime and the maximum penalty is a lifetime ban.
This hypothetical also assumes that the surveillance state would be competent, rather than merely oppressive. I think at this point we into a vanishingly small set of possible worlds.
I feel like many experienced developers I know have gone back to defaulting to SQL databases again, because it turns out the trade-offs of NoSQL (schema-free, horizontally-scaled-but-eventually-consistent etc) weren't worth the trade-offs.
I was hoping Beacon to do that, but instead in China they now uses QR Code For it. Which is slightly worst in UX but I guess is much more cost effective.
Is your shop still using it? Most NoSQL systems I've seen in the wild are pretty much just used as a caching store .. fancy Reddis really. All the big shops I've worked at still use Postgres for persistant storage. If they need speed; they'll add Elastic Search or Spark and have indexing services to make sure they stay up to date.
I've been using ALBERT (the HuggingFace port) for a few weeks. It works fine on GPUs, and it isn't noticeably slower for inference than other large models on CPUs.

It's worth noting that TPUs are available for free on Google Colab.
And it pulls hundreds of megabytes of shit behind the scenes with god knows what vulnerabilities & backdoors, the resulting browser bundle is hundreds of kilobytes of crap the browser has to download & parse (instant on a fast machine & internet, less so on a cheap Android device on crappy underground subway Wi-Fi), etc.

This complexity is out of hand. The worst is we now use yet more solutions (for example server-side rendering, which now needs its own Node server and it's yet another thing to deploy in addition to your main backend) just to try and dig ourselves out of the hole we dug in the first place. Imagine if we suddenly decided concrete isn't cool anymore and everyone should use duct tape. Given its obvious shortcomings we now waste time trying to make tape work, going as far as making concrete-reinforced duct tape and calling it the best new thing of the day... instead of just using the "uncool" concrete in the first place.

This guy has a point, for 90% of projects, you don't need React (those who tell you otherwise are trying to justify their career and position because from my experience most React/Vue front-end positions at companies are pointless and just add unneeded complexity).

War story time: a client was building a complex financial product (includes real-time automated trading, etc). The backend was finished but we couldn't test it because despit several months months the React front-end still wasn't ready and days were wasted on basic things like a signup form, displaying the 2FA QR code, user onboarding wizard, etc. Let that sink in for a minute: we could successfully decide when to make transactions worth millions of dollars automatically, but dug a hole so deep on the front-end that we couldn't do basic things that even the first iteration of HTML forms could do just fine 20 years ago. The powers that be didn't want to lose face so they still kept at using that trainwreck of a front-end instead of ripping the whole thing out and rebuilding it using HTML forms in a matter of hours. I didn't stick around to see if they ever finished the project.