skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps one of the most ironic Nazi lies was the last planned Nuremberg Rally, entitled the “Rally of Peace”. It was planned for September 1939 but was cancelled when Germany invaded Poland:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally#Rallies
Vim is far from dated, and comparing Vim to wordstar shows how little you understand it
Well, you got me one line of a five paragraph post! Congrats.

How did that work out for you? Were you able to write meaningful programs just by seeing what text was matched by the parser, without knowing what that text did?
The obvious, that it was "too expensive" like Israel's Lavi program: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/avro-iarro...

But there was the idea that the CIA didn't trust Canada to not sell it to an enemy of the USA. If the Arrow had existed under P. Trudeau, that was a justified fear.
E-ink advantage is not about price/motion/colors. Is about how close it is with printed paper, where external light like the Sun helps the visibility. It’s also interesting regarding energy requirements, as you can keep the image displayed without the need of power.
Honestly I really hate being forced to use any particular piece of software and I love vim!

I'm really happy my algorithms professor let me use Makefiles and vim even though the standard tool at the university was (blegh!!!) visual studio.
Hey gd1, your comment is dead so I can't reply. But here is your BOM citation (it also has your requested timeseries data):

Australia's driest year on record

Nationally-averaged rainfall 40% below average for the year at 277.6 mm

The national total rainfall for 2019 was 40% below the 1961–1990 average at 277.6 mm (the 1961–1990 average is 465.2 mm). This makes 2019 the driest year in the 119 years since 1900.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/aus/#tabs=Rainf...
They're using a different process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_energy_storage Not particularly efficient, but doesn't seem to be as fundamentally broken as compressed air storage.
"Buy notebook with keyboard without Esc key."

So now we see what Apple was trying to accomplish with the Touch Bar.
> There were executives in expensive suits, young men and women looking unaccountably dressy in ripped jeans and, according to James, a disconcerting number of people wearing hats.

Can anyone explain the significance of the hats to me?
‘Rogue’ E-Scooter Company Go-X Used Fake Permits to Operate Illegally
There is still a slow cross fade animation.
Yeah, maybe. But like in tech, it's easier to acquire or destroy a competitor than catch up.
This startup is stacking concrete blocks as a 'battery'

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...
This is not limited to Silicon Valley. Every predictor since before Nostradamus has used this to their advantage. Those who haven't lose their audience, because predicting the future in concrete terms is really hard. So hard that nobody can do it regularly. Which causes people to stop listening.
This is fascinating. Are there any cases where the queen was encouraging the move? Or do they always opt to stick with the flooding home until the end? I guess what I'm asking is if it's dependent on the specimen or an instinct.
Top Dating – Chatting apps that can help you make new connections in S.Korea
This is really exciting to me. I've been meaning to try and get my head around how to start using ES modules with modern JavaScript stuff but it's tough because pretty much every tutorial assumes you'll be using Webpack. Snowpack looks like it might be the tool I've been missing.
In other news today, water is wet
What would Jesus do?

He would -> "...transferring and reclassifying assets. The effect is to shrink the pot of money available to clergy abuse victims."

There is much more to be said but I will abstain since I would get banned otherwise.
I want a thunder-cougar-falconbird
You probably want the Sony DPT-RP1. It's not cheap but that's basically the use case it was designed for.
Automated Acceptance Tests is one use of Firefox inside docker.

We do that both for Chrome and Firefox.
>Use mouse.

OMG I use pretty much the default settings in vim but set mouse= is one of the only 2-3 things I put in my vimrc!

The macbook pro and old thinkpads are the only laptop computers with decent built-in pointing devices, all the others always end up coupling with my palms and randomly munging my code!
Donald Trump speaks about Democrats in a pejorative manner. Sometimes it's even using "Democrat" as a noun in the grammatically correct way. Film at 11?
I'm probably stepping on a landmine here, but I'm not sure who it helps for dioceses' to have to literally sell off parishes to pay out sex abuse claims against people who in many cases are no longer even associated with the diocese.

Forcing dioceses to close and restart from square one doesn't really even hurt any of the people responsible as much as it hurts all the parishioners who now have to bootstrap a brand new diocese. At least when a company files for bankruptcy, the owners' equity is severely damaged. What does a bishop lose? After bankruptcy he probably even retains his position.
Good thing Stadia uses AMD GPUs then :)
fwiw the sony letter-size monochrome e-reader is amazing

reading PDFs on a device that doesn't burn out your eyes and can't receive notifications or produce audio is like a digital detox

all my favorite devices recently are low- and no-connection (voice memo, yubikey) and work fast with limited UX
The EIA has a great chart of energy consumption and sources.

The "historical primary energy consumption from 1950 through 2018" chart shows you how the US energy sources has grown over the years.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
>To people in general, what improvements are you making (not your country, but you personally)? Not something you've always done - what's your latest new eco-project, big or small?

I'm installing air filters to remove the smoke particles from the fires and I'm building a hydrogen cooled suit for 50+ degree days, once I have the prototype working I can completely isolate myself from the environment to the point I could take a stroll in the middle of a forest fire.

At this point it's being comfortable for the next 50 years until industrial society collapses.
It sounds like James was making a joke and the author quoted him verbatim to give a sense of the kind of person he is.
I'm not sure what this means… sqlite isn't available to use in any browser. Not to mention, it has nothing to do with JavaScript on the web.

Snowpack is for bundling ES modules to build web applications. Nothing mentioned in your comments works to build a client-side web application. If this your comment was some sly remark, it's totally lost on me.

Also, what's RPS?
There are lots of ways to get better efficiency for this process. One is to store the heat of compression in a gravel bed for use when evaporating the liquid air again.

Another way is to use waste heat from an industrial process to evaporate the liquid air.

It is also possible to use the cold to increase the efficiency of a combustion carnot process such as a natural gas turbine.
This would be the main reason I would buy an eInk monitor.

There are already a lot of reflective LCD displays. For example in digital clocks and watches but they are all monochrome.

Pixel Qi promised reflective displays but I believe the reflective mode is only grayscale.
Factual accuracy isn't enough to make a comment substantive, and the point about "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché. We're looking for thoughtful discussion here, not throwaway lines.

I've posted thousands of comments explaining HN moderation—probably tens of thousands, in fact—so I'll have to differ with you on it lacking "any sort of transparency". What would you like to know?
Hi,

There is already a separate 3+ hour bonus section where we build a RESTful API driven app (a 2nd app from the main course).

It doesn't use Vue -- instead it uses jquery + jsrender but you could totally replace the front-end to use Vue without needing to modify the back-end.

That app covers all sorts of things like API design, token based auth, websockets, etc..
Pumped hydro is by far the most commonly used utility-scale energy storage in use today. Efficiency is in the range of 70-80% so it's a lot better than compressed air in that regard, the main downside is that you just need a really large amount of water and a place to put all of it.

Lifting weights for energy storage is not really very conceptually different from pumped hydro (both store gravitational potential energy), water just happens to be vastly cheaper per ton than pretty much anything else. Concrete is something like $50 per ton and water is more like $0.50.
Oh sure, never say anything without a lawyer, but also don't give them more reasons to harass you.
The price tags would be neat if they allowed you to swipe for additional information.
I checked it a while back, and the key patents aren't due to expire for several more years. I recall 2024, but with einks patent moat, it will probably take until the 2030s to see real alternatives in the space.
The joys of the javascript ecosystem: (1) creating complex solutions for problems no one has or (2) creating complex solutions to fix the problem of complex solutions that didn't need to exist in the first place

It is an endless loop.

The first dot-com bubble resource wastefulness was spending so much money on networking gear. Every one had oversized expensive Cisco gear.

This dot-com bubble resource wastefulness is so many hundreds of thousands of engineering hours devoted to mega super over engineered Javascript solutions.
this is awesome. One feature I'd like is the frozen column of airtable:

https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/203312065-Cha...
I really enjoyed react when it first came out and there was little fussing with browserify (3-4 years ago).

But now this tooling is out of hand. I threw up my hands and found sanity again in simplicity (my username namesake).

* Django
* jquery
* intercoolerjs (https://intercoolerjs.org)
* plain old docker

It is like war-games. The only winning move is not to play.

Now I deploy apps with no more than 100 lines of JS.

Again, not prescriptive, just my own journey.
The GP is probably thinking of low-end TN panels, which really do have poor contrast, combined with significant variance in off-axis brightness and color reproduction, further exacerbating the problem. These were extremely common until only recently, with even Apple's pre-Retina MacBook Airs using them.

A modern IPS panel, however, can offer much higher contrast than most e-paper displays, and should offer a comparable experience to e-paper if set to an appropriate ambient brightness and color temperature. This last part is key, because otherwise, you end up with a harsh, bluish cast in residential lighting scenarios.

Most TVs and monitors can have their color temperature set manually, but the only OEM I'm aware of that is doing this automatically right now is Apple with its "True Tone" displays.
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The middle aged social media marketing person, responding in the faux speech of a 14 year old to shrug it all off:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENxrpCCX0AATVYd.png:large
Some people consider it rude to wear hats indoors. I personally haven't heard anyone younger than 60-70 complain about it though.
Much better!

Now, if there is a failure to understand your answer the reason why lies with me :)
I saw a video quite a few years ago where they dump some ants on a platform, with a string leading to another platform with an area that (apparently) seemed like a decent home. (the below is according to my fallible memories)

One ant wandered to the good area and checked it all out. She then marched back to the others, and bodily lifted another and took her to the good area. They both inspected the area and each repeated the trek to pull in another ant. This continued until "enough" ants were in the new area and they shifted into "build a nest" mode.

It felt very oversimplified for TV viewers, but nonetheless was fascinating - a breakdown of just HOW some simple models can lead to more complex emergent behavior. I just tried to find this video without success (on the bright side, there are a ton of OTHER fascinating ant videos out there)
The US was offered the chance to "acquire their competitor" and declined. So was the UK.

Meanwhile, American firms were testing prototypes that were faster and carried similar armament. Those prototypes were also cancelled.

There is no conspiracy here.
I'm assuming you mean *readership rather than leadership? It would be kinda weird if they had even 10% teens as their execs.

But yes, I've also heard it's a bunch of creepy older folks
For current values, check by switching to the country tab: https://m-transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGenerat...
Eh to be fair there were plenty of NOTAMs out warning against the routes MH17 was on. However, the amount of garbage in NOTAMs makes it incredibly difficult for people to parse and take appropriate action. There are some great efforts by folks like Ops Group to try uplevel this space but it's difficult when people are overly broad with warnings for the sake of covering their ass legally. Then there are the situations where two countries are arguing over airspace boundaries, etc.
Very inspiring rhetoric. Should encourage any curious soul that seeks to expand the knowledge base.
I think you have an extra K on there! I do remember my 36 kbps modem though, but the web was optimized for that speed. Webpages had "image warnings"!
I recall that another fortuitous concurrence was that when Ebola arrived in Lagos, the Nigerian megacity, a nightmare scenario was avoided thanks to the containment skills of the polio eradication team that had been recently trained using Gates Foundation money. Here's one link I found:
https://fortune.com/2015/10/14/polio-surge-ebola-gates-found...
Yep, definitely a bit steep. I saved a little ($~100?) by going for the refurbished model though.
I'd say we're both right to the extent that nature and nurture both play a role.
Grocery stores here have had those e-ink price tags for a few years already, so I guess at least those are not expensive in bulk. Not sure if the same economy of scale applies to the larger screens or if there are still technological difficulties at large sizes.

I wonder if there are any noticeable economical effects of being able to update prices live on the fly with those price tags, or if it's purely a matter of convenience.
I would also check out es-dev-server[1] from the open-wc.org project.

It's basically just a static file server that can automatically rewrite bare module specifiers using Node module resolution. It's the minimal transform you can apply to npm-installed JS modules that import dependencies via package name.

Yes, you get a waterfall of loads during development, but I haven't had this slow things down in practice, and once you get to development you can use Rollup to bundle modules, but unlike Webpack, it can bundle to standard module output.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/es-dev-server
Huh? React tooling options have never been simpler. Literally one command and you're ready to go.
Ok, we've narrowed the scope above.
> Germany is heavily investing in solar and wind. Why do you bring up coal?

Because coal is what Germany really relies on in practice, making it one the worst industrialised nations when it comes to CO2 emissions per kWh. Check for yourself, right this minute : http://electricitymap.org/

> it's just the same trap as burning fossil fuels. Why would we want to make the same mistake again?

Because it's not the same mistake at all.
Nuclear waste is stored in highly stable geological layers, and the volumes are orders of magnitude lower.

As I wrote here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996751), a year's worth of nuclear energy for running France's whole fleet of trains produces just 200kg of nuclear waste. Since the beginning of the nuclear programme, the cumulated volume is 3650m3, or an olympic swimming pool's worth of it.

Don't get me wrong, renewables are a worthy long term goal, but we might never get there in the first place if we don't tackle the climate change and emissions emergency first.
But if it's the right tool for a FAANG company surely it must be the right tool for my use-case /s
>here was a lot of conjecture that for the first year or so AirPods were sold at break even.

Oh hell no. That was started by DaringFireball John Gruber. When we talk about margins it is important to note most would refer or implies this as Gross Profit Margin. Which is without the R&D and Marketing Cost, since these are fixed cost, i.e They are the same irrespective of how many unit were sold.

All the Audio Gear ( Or Accessories ) sold on the market has some of the highest Gross Profits Margin. Much higher than iPhone or Mac because they were never meant to be sold in huge quantities. Beats, and Apple AirPod were the only two Audio gear that manage to sell in volume.

I would be surprised if the BOM cost of AirPods is higher than $20. ( You could get a replica of AirPod without W1 Chip from Shenzhen for less than $10, $8 in thousands of unit, so I am already add lots of headroom in my BOM estimate. ) The major cost is developing W1 Chip and Speaker R&D. Which needs to amortised over unit volume. And AirPods did that spectacularly well.
Really interesting thx. I feel a little bad for complaining about the speed after what she went through. I could understand them wanting to drop the fX chip version, but they used slower ram to save on 50 cemts a cart. I appreciate the optimisations she put in but at the end of the day, it does suffer from slowdowns. Again, maybe an emu can address them.
I haven't had any experience with cheap current generation CPUs. Have you any experience with ones such as an Intel Celerons that are about $30 on Amazon?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...
Original discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21994173
You realize this isnt true anymore right?

If you disable update via policy (which is the only way you can do it now that about:config method is removed), then going to "About Firefox" doesnt give you any options regarding updating.

Check your facts.
The experiment would never have been done without the theory, and a long line of experiments suggesting that Nature and the theory had a lot to do with one another, first. We knew that gravitational waves, or something very much like them, happened due to the binary pulsar work by Hulse and Taylor in 1974.

Einstein's advance was quite spectacular, and early.

Source: Am gravitational experimentalist.
You're more than welcome!

I aim to be sceptical when taking on new ideas or information, and all the questions people have are very reasonable.

It's hard to even imagine the size and ferocity of these fires.

The problem is when being sceptical twists into being dismissive. It's actually really easy to do a bit of research and contact professors - but it takes time.

When I first clicked through to the University of Sydney's statement, and clicked on Professor Dickman's profile, I was left reeling by the sheer volume of research the man has done on exactly these problems. In our emails he had an anecdote about jumping over fire fronts while researching them when he was younger.

The scariest part is that the estimates given were for less catastrophic events. They are a low bound based on previous understanding, and this is a far worse event than ever seen before. I highly recommend people reading the linked article, and follow the references therein.
If you're ever in Ottawa and have a few hours to burn, I recommend checking out the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. They have the nose of an Avro Arrow on display, which I understand to be the most substantial surviving relic of the plane. It's a pretty good aviation museum in general and have various other interesting planes and relics as well.
There is a complete difference between a light emitting screen and a light absorbing screen. Even backlit Kindles are much nicer to read on than iPads of the exact same "brightness".
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in...
NLP Year in Review – 2019 – Dair.ai – Medium
It was cached correctly when I posted it, but it’s certainly gone now. Sorry that I can't update the URL...
This is just wishful thinking.

The facts are:

1. The United States has a first-strike policy, and has invested billions of dollars in making sure that it can actually carry it out.

2. It adheres to it on the basis that its command staff believe that there is some moral calculus under which a first-strike is not genocidal or unlawful.

3. A first strike is not even abhorrent to average Americans. Around half of American citizens support a nuclear first strike if it results in saving American lives.

4. There are morons that believe that a nuclear war is winnable. Some of those morons become politicians, while others become generals. As far as I'm aware, there is no anti-moron filter on either occupation, that keeps those people away from positions of power.

You may observe that your moral hangups, and the international-court legality of a first strike has zero bearing on any of those four points. And those four points are what will drive people to act the way they will act.

Let's recap:

* A first strike is not illegal under American law. It is a heavily studied topic, on which hundreds of thinkers, paid by the Pentagon, have produced thousands of documents that argue about when it can be used, and how it can be best used.

* A first strike is not ever going to be an out-of-the-blue-POTUS-woke-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-bed event.

* It is going to be a decision that is made in the middle of a geopolitical crisis, after weeks, or months of threats, escalations, and counter-escalations, and the occasional shot, or shell, or conventional missile being fired. It is going to be a dramatic, but possible decision to make in that context.

* Because it is permitted by law, and because it has been argued for so exhaustively, and because the military has deliberately implemented procedures for carrying it out, the people who will be arguing for it will not have the same moral revulsion that you and I hold against it.

* Those people also happen to be convinced that there is such a thing as a winnable nuclear war.

In this context - when a silo operator receives the order to fire, when they know that there's a military and political crisis going on, and people are dying, many of them are going to follow their orders. After, they will have plenty of time to ponder whether or not the International Crimes Court at the Hague is going to hold their decision against them.

What we need is a modern "Day After" moment. It's been a generation and a half since that film. The new crop of armchair generals, politicians, and office holders, who grew up with no memory of war, need to be reminded of its horrors.

If a media mogul who owns a national television station is reading, I emplore you to consider broadcasting that film on the next Fourth of July. Or, alternatively, after the next State of the Union address.
A ton? Carrefour (I believe they're the second largest retailer, after Walmart) has had electronic shelf labels for well over a decade.

I haven't seen them in the US, but they're not exactly uncommon in Europe and Asia.
> devoted to mega super over engineered Javascript solutions

Hey now, let's not discount the rise and fall of NoSQL, reinventing of data analysis except using python and spark cause SQL is too boring, or discovering linear regressions using a fleet of GPUs under the banner of Machine Learning!

It'll be nice when people get back to solving real business problems.
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Wow, didn't expect that kind of background! Do you consider yourself in competition or collaboration with Jonathan Blow and his Jai language?