skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m guessing that income and expenses are pretty separate between the currencies. So You could set up 2 budgets in Ynab, one for usd one for ars.
New Wind and Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal
ah duh, forgot about how X11 works for a moment.
The problem here is typically Canadian: we looked stupidly at the short term usefulness of this immediate technology, saw no real market, and decided to cut it all off to "save money" instead of believing in the value of the engineering culture and technological developments for their own sake. Make and produce the Arrow, use it as a "halo" product, and trickle its technologies down into the other commercially viable models - this is something car companies do with concepts / supercars.

The typical Canadian thing to do is to not believe in our own ability to create novel technology, and to let our tech companies hang out to dry when problems come along. Nortel, RIM Blackberry, Avro, and countless others. Now we have General Fusion and D-Wave and other homegrown tech companies, continuing to push the envelope; how long until we decide once again to not believe in our own abilities and just give up once more?
Then I could see myself trying Snowpack. Thanks for the clarification.
Someone did something like this with a torn-apart 5k iMac, mounting the display in a gilded frame and having it cycle through various images of fine art but only when the camera determined that nobody was looking at it.

https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
"I hate that React needs a server for SSR. Instead I want a simple setup with a server for SSR."
if it's a gamedev language their primary audience is the PC crowd!
I was under the impression that liquid nitrogen was typically created using a compressor. Is it more efficient to produce it cryogenically?
>Bans on tools have only ever delayed progress and caused misery.

It really depends on the "tool"; arguably a great many atrocious weapons are tools, yet it's hard for me to see nuclear disarmament as anything but progress. Technology is not neutral, it is informed by concerns and developments outside of its own instrumental purposes. In the same way that recent (last century or so) tools/technology have brought massive improvements to the lives of everyone, the same way they bring massive improvement is the way that other tools (or even the same ones) bring massive regression.

As for this particular technology, I don't know enough about it to comment - only to say that in general a variety of different concerns should be involved in its design and evaluation - from scientists to ethicists.
What are some typical "Australian Italian" dishes?
Nope. Old Mac software doesn't suffer from scaling issues on high dpi displays.
A slow modem (or indeed no modem!) is nothing like a 30s refresh rate.
Very roughly, Britons were the main population in southern Great Britain (roughly England, Wales and Scotland to the Firth of Forth), but were "squeezed" during the Anglo-Saxon settlement into more isolated pockets — Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall — and some crossed over to Brittany. How much of of the "squeeze" was population replacement as opposed to languistic and cultural change is up for debate.
Can We Build a Sun Screen to Combat Global Climate Change?
I keep wishing for a large enough display I could use it as a digital picture frame. I was looking at eink's offerings just yesterday after hearing about Lenovo's new 21" frame.
> they are NOW finally starting to pursue the signage / label markets

Your statement implies this is a recent development but many large retailers, like Best Buy and Kohls, have had these for well over 5 years, maybe even 10 I just don't remember precisely.
This is a dumb take. Differences at the margin still matter and just because we continue to emit doesn't mean you can abdicate yourself of personal responsibility.
My first modem was 75/300. It was capable of support both 75 baud and 300 when someone started serving that fast.
I skimmed this, and there's some good and interesting data and analysis here. The one aspect that seems to be missing, by its own admission, is how this fits in with the rest of the world. This is looking at the USA in a vacuum, which is not without merit, but countries no longer exist in a vacuum, especially the USA.

As mentioned in one of the last "Fun and Procrastinatey" footnotes:

> The U.S. Left has moved enough that it now matches Europe’s leftness. The U.S. right remains further right of most of the European Right.

Viewed globally, according to this link, the US Democratic Party only crossed to the Left of the median party in the past 5 years. There are very few parties in the world as far Right as the US Republican Party.

This article sounds like it's trying very hard to stay neutral and simply point out the increased polarization. Left and Right are Blue and Red, and are only compared to each other. It neglects to show full context: that US Left is actually Middle, and US Right is actually Far Right.
Its Missiles Did Little Damage, but Iran Has More Potent Weapons
Why SuperConf 2020?
I'd buy one of these for a picture frame, to have changeable art. Sounds nuts (?), but at some point a big one of these would cost less than a painting and you have it change to suit your mood.
The real best approach would be going all in on nuclear but it's not a political possibility right now.

Carbon neutral or at least very close to it is essentially obtainable now, we just lack the political will.
It’s also interesting to compare one food’s country in its one country. In Japan there is local food option ranging $-$$$$. This is not true of France, where $ is kebab or Mc Donalds. $$ is in most cases from frozen food which is a shame, thus I do not count it as a real option. $$$ starts to have meals from fresh food. Of course $$$$ exists as well, yet it may be disappointing quantity wise.

Scale used: $ (<10€), $$ (10-17€), $$$ (18-45€), (>45€).
aka voters
Straight to TV, but it also has Dan Aykroyd in it.
The whole point of this snowpack framework is that if you only care about modern browsers, everything is clean and collapsed. No compilation needed of your application code.
Any reason why not wait for AMD's RDNA 2.0? Or do you need CUDA?

I think my problem with Nvidia is they are ( for now ) hard to loathe. They were like the old Intel where their constant innovation just baffles me. And there is nothing but respect. ( Apart from their part with Apple's dispute ) But I have been an ATI Fans since early days. Still has an ATI Mach and Rage somewhere in my room.
This is why vim is a bad default. Thankfully, there's someone thinking about changing this [0].

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-W...
Well, 'robota' means 'labour' (see German 'Arbeit', it's the same word), 'rab' (slave) is just one of derivatives from it. Another is 'rebenok' (child, baby), so it's not such a sinister as it may seem from this article.

Source: I'm Slavic. )
you’re conflating the act of posting something with posting something you made up without approval from the person in question.
Realistically, the solution has to be to lie and link every natural disaster that could plausibly be related to the climate to the climate.

I hate to say that, but thats what needs to be done if we want to compel action.
I don't think animosity is a zero sum game. Tech companies being hated doesn't mean there is less hate to be allocated to defense contractors, nor would defense contractors receiving more hate take the heat off the tech industry.
Haven't been funny for a long time
> it's hard for me to see nuclear disarmament as anything but progress

Nuclear armament is progress. Without nuclear weapons, we would have had many more WWII-style large-scale industrial total wars, probably with cumulative causalities in the hundreds of millions. You don't need nuclear weapons to kill lots of people. Nuclear weapons have made large scale total war impractical, which means it doesn't happen anymore. Nuclear disarmament would be a disaster, and wishing for it is naive.
> to easily disable the touch screen

The one feature I wish existed in every smartphone and tablet yet it exists in none. Perhaps I'm particularly clumsy but the amount of inadvertent interactions I trigger with my devices is infuriating.
“Sensor fusion” isn’t just a thing, it’s an entire area of study. Kalman filtering is one technique in the umbrella of sensor fusion. There is a lot of room for improvement here.
By the time that happens, we will likely all be dead and it will also be too late
PNG, but yes.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739290
I'm really interested in the technology behind this. Can someone point me to related papers? I know magic leap has something similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBd-egUFV_4
I have the Dasung Not-eRader and it works pretty well for me. I connect it via the supplied HDMI/USB cable and it is recongnized as external monitor on Linux and I can program pretty normally using vim on a terminal.
invest heavily in solutions.

panic isn't always bad and i'm unsure where that idea came from.
Yes. In the 1990s and 2000s Microsoft sold encyclopedia software called Encarta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

I remember some consumer PCs being bundled with Encarta in the 1990s and 2000s.

I also remember Grolier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolier) publishing CD-ROM encyclopedias in the 1990s.
Damn, you're right. I can't believe React took over and the jQuery project was shut down and barred from the web.

Oh wait. That didn't happen. What is preventing you from using only jQuery and "some" backend?

That's right. Just you.
Russian Insider“ Lies about the Spread of Holocaust Denial in Hungary and Poland
In TV show Westworld, early robots are mechanical, but later replaced by biological ones. Does it make torturing early models any less or more bad, considering that they behave the same?
I would have hoped with a focus on security that we'd be moving to front ends that run less untrusted code on the client.

I would use a framework that did the majority of its magic on the back end and emitted either zero code that needs to run on the client or completely gracefully degrades when the client refuses to run untrusted code.

Every day it feels more and more like the web is a tracking framework with the lowest effort content that will keep the cattle clicking than an actual platform that provides real value. Being able to switch off executing remote code but be left with a functioning web experience would go a long way to providing real user privacy, which is, of course, why I have zero hope of it actually happening.
I think this is cool, but it’s hard to do any development in the current ecosystem without a lot of the magic of webpack.

I can’t count the number of times the solution to a problem we had was described as ‘just add these lines of magic to your webpack config’.
But the difference is in reaction. We can emphasize with the horse because - (A) It can show that it's suffering. (B) You can't repair the horse perfectly yet if the damage is beyond certain level. (C) Other reasons for why we consider it living and unique.

If motorcycle is able to fullfil all of them, then what.

Gotta ask what makes machine a machine.
Probably because you couldn't dogfight with it.
Making them full color was a tremendous technical challenge if you look at how they work, for which I have to give them enormous kudos. And they're also pretty challenging to manufacturer... I suspect the pricing reflects the complexity to be honest.

I dunno, makes sense to me that you'd first address something where color and large sizes isn't very important, start making some revenue, do R&D on manufacturing larger formats and color and frame rate, and gradually introduce new products as they can be developed.

It's not like they've been keeping other color e-ink devices off the market with patents -- they didn't exist until today AFAIK. Other things billed as "color e-ink" substitutes that I've seen consume power in standby (and I keep checking from time to time with fingers crossed). I remember hearing stories about how much trouble they had getting from prototype (circa 1996) which I saw in lab to a model ready for production in 2007. 10+ years of process development to get to where it was in the first kindle.

And to be honest I'm not sure another company could just pick up the technology and start producing them in bigger quantities, these things are barely related to other displays at all and I imagine the production lines are super different. Plus patents from 1997 are expired now anyway, so if someone else could do it they are allowed to.

Knowing a fair bit about how their displays work, it's one of the few cases in electronic hardware I can think of that really seems to deserve a patent given how much creativity and time it took to start manufacturing, and how much money they had to spend to get it to the stage where it worked reliably at all. We could very easily be in a world where these displays didn't exist at all, plus or minus a few people making different choices about how to spend their money and time.
That's not what happened here. You're making huge leaps of logic, and while we might do a takedown, we will not "modify" a capture to satisfy a third party.
I can't share anything directly but let me describe a little scenario for you that's close enough:

We have a CRUD app that acts as a CMS with all our product listings in it. There is a team of people who are tasked with curating and maintaining these product listings. So you can go to crud.com/admin/product/<id> and modify the listing, which needs to happen every now and then.

The team of people who maintain these product listings need to coordinate their efforts and so when they need to modify some set of the products they create a spreadsheet with (product_id, link_to_crud.com, Person who is responsible, status). Maybe there's some approval process or multiple statuses or something like that that makes this all a little more custom/complex. Maybe they need to update a few things across services at the same-ish time so there might be a few links per row but it's going to be relatively bounded by what a human can handle.

If our data lived in Airtable, it'd be really easy for this team to make their tables/spreadsheets with direct relations to our core tables (which replace the CRUD app in this case). That team understands their workflows better than I ever will as an engineer. Giving them the power to create their own workflow tools is way better than trying to have engineering build it for them, and that's going to be a huge selling point for me.

I don't think we'd need cell-level links but rather row-level. Right now they use Google sheets, but a more domain-specific tool would be better.
I used to have a Toshiba Portege R500 which had a transreflective screen. It was an LCD that could be used in sunlight because incoming light got reflected back from behind the screen. The colors suffered a bit, but you could even switch off the backlight of the screen to save power. Seems to have gone out of fashion unfortunately..

http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_toshiba_r500.html
But they also frequently lobby the government in order to ensure that they do.

Nothing good comes from having a large class of investors with significant amounts of money tied up in high-carbon power plants for the next half century.
> I however stand by my words that most React/Vue/Angular front-end developers in most companies are absolutely unnecessary and are actively detrimental to the project by introducing complexity to justify their position.

I strongly disagree; most of the projects that I worked on a decade ago that lasted more than a few months ended up with ad-hoc frameworks or conventions implemented in vanilla JS or jQuery that varied wildly in quality and changed frequently through the lifespan of the project. In my experience React/Vue/Angular with their generally well engineered and thought-out principles have resulted in a huge boon for productivity for long term projects in a team environment.

> Most projects do not have any requirements like real-time UIs

Whose "most projects" are we talking about here? Yours?
Sorry but 5kb is absolutely nothing for today's Internet connections, public WiFi or overloaded cellular connection or something else, especially if it's provided by a cdn. Yes, it is absolutely no big deal to be loading 5kb. Come on, be serious.
Yeah, this is the best workaround. It is still slower and more error prone than typing on a standard LCD screen. Also, the benefit of an eInk reader is that it is easier to look at - not looking at the display sort of defeats the whole purpose.
>Even the bad things are good.

This piqued my curiosity. Would you mind elaborating?
People don't value emotional cost proportional to the damage it can cause; they usually do for money
Hire an expensive consultant to tell them what they need to hear. I’m sure if they pay $100k for the privilege of hearing they need HTTP/2 they’ll be more receptive to the need.
Last year there was a discovery where some single cell organisms were extracting electrons directly from solid rock. So I don’t think ice is a barrier.

I do agree that it’s unlikely that life would exist on that planet. But I think the chances of life being slim are more down to the difficulty in the bootstrapping stage rather than the environment being too inhospitable to host life. By that I mean DNA forming (for example) might be 90% of the problem and survival might be 10%. Figures obviously made up but I hope you understand my (crudely expressed) point.

There’s also the point that extraterrestrial life might not mimic the typical examples we see on Earth. In fact in plausible for silicon and/or arsenic to be building blocks for DNA and that’s only narrowly widening our expectations of life.
Nuclear is only expensive due to NIMBY regulation and lack of economies of scale. Look to South Korea to see how perfecting a plant design can dramatically lower cost.

The first thing we need to do is reverse the devolution of local control in the United States. If any random neighborhood council can block nuclear development then we aren't going to get anywhere.
Even TypeScript having to compile down to JS for the browser just feels fundamentally wrong. Why write something in some new, domain-specific language that compiles down to an inferior language to run in the browser?

Hopefully with WASM we see the rise of client-side frameworks that bypass all of this bullshit entirely and give us a clean slate to develop on that picks up the best of the 90s low-code projects and makes them cloudworthy. There's no reason why 99% of the UI that most sites need isn't just assembled from a nice list of stock UI widgets.

Disclaimer, am old and miss 90s desktop apps
They seem pretty orthogonal to me. Snowpack is about builds, CDN is about serving. You could serve snowpack built JS dependencies with a CDN.
I built a similar app, but without the money factor. It just tells me what percent is left of the day, month, year, and my (estimated) lifetime.

I'm just about to hit 50% on the life meter. It's very motivating.
Close... "C-a a" sends a real "C-a", while "C-a C-a" swaps with your most recent window (it's fast and convenient to type).
I think the Kindle Fire makes you jump through hoops to get apps via the Google Play store though and as I understand it, you need to do that in order to get Marvel Unlimited on there, which is something many people really want to have on their comics-reading device.
Explain, why would I be paying for someone else's meat beyond my donation to the food bank?
Ah, yes I failed to pick up on that distinction in your last post. Now I almost want to add "sophisticated trade system" to the list of written language prerequisites.
That might have been horrible and confusing, but it never felt like magic to me.
Fuck off. I've told you faggots to piss off for a long time. Dumbass motherfucker.
Many of the people involved ended up being influential in other ways as well that rarely gets any credit.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/meet-the-canadians-who-helpe...
Because apple happens to start with an a. Ok fine, specifically for apple.com it's almost the same. But that's not really the point I was arguing.
Why would I do all that when coffee
Tilling consumes 2-2.5 gallons of diesel per acre, that results in ~20-25kg of CO2 emitted per acre (~10kg per gallon of diesel).

> If repurposed, the land will be able to store 25 to 50 tonnes of carbon (equivalent to 10-20t of CO2).

Repurposed how? We still have to figure out how to feed 11 billion people. Am I missing something from your argument?
I enjoyed the post. Good links to a lot of relevant, recent stories & events.

Not the article's fault, but it cites the "ClickHouse Cost-Efficiency in Action: Analyzing 500 Billion Rows on an Intel NUC" article that was published January 1. It's a week old, & I kind of feel like I'm never going to get away with it. It seems like a great, fun, interesting premise, but the authors took what is a challenging, huge data-set, and, under the guise of making the data look "realistic" they drained all the entropy out of the dataset, & then claimed they were 10-100x faster.

Well, yes, maybe for some workloads maybe. Maybe the changes they made might in some circumstances be "realistic" for some IoT use cases, maybe.

But I feel like I'm going to see this article come up again, and again, and again. And each time, I'll have these frustrations, about how while they may still be running queries on the same number of rows, they are running queries on many orders of magnitude less data. It's a fun read, & genuinely useful- in some circumstances- tech, but I don't expect to see this nuance showing up. I'm already weary, seeing this Clickhouse article again.
Beef Jerkies.
Identity politic race baiting is a great strategy for avoiding ideological discussion about ideas to govern society. This is just inflammatory garbage that serves no constructive purpose whatsoever. And so far as the article mentions the so-called Southern strategy, it's completely bogus and there are plenty of counter points about the "parties flipping" due to the Voting Rights Act.

Senator Byrd, of West Virginia, a former KKK member and a Democrat, remained in power until he died in 2010.

Al Gore is from Tennessee and carried the state for Clinton, of Arkansas, also blue at the time, in the 90s.

If you actually look at the Presidential elections and Congressional and Senate races, and local legislatures the shift from the solid South as a shoo in for Democrats didn't occur until the 90s.

Reagan, of California, was almost universally popular and won 49 of 50 states in his second run. Reagan did more than anyone in the 20th century to shift the country to the right. Yes, the Californian Hollywood actor.

The voting rights act "flip" is a myth.

The truth is that Democrats stopped focusing on working class people as a voting block, which used to form their base. They lost the blue collar working class and then retroactively blamed the voting rights act, which is complete BS because no one since the 70s in either party has ever run and won on a platform of repealing the VRA.
Reminder that patents filed in 1997 expired years ago. I suspect that the lack of competitors has more to do with the incredible complexity of manufacturing them reliably than due to IP issues. Unlike 3D printers which went wild after Stratasys patents finally expired.