skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These percentages are largely irrelevant because coal remains the only non-intermittent source that Germany can rely on (in the absence of nuclear), and it's so much more carbon-intensive than the rest that the average figures are still terrible.

Because of the intermittence problem, there is simply no chance that Germany can catch up with the best gCO2/kWh results (France and Nordic countries) without an hypothetical breakthrough in battery storage for renewables. Its electricity's carbon intensity is currently 5-10 times higher. Pretty much only Poland is doing worse.
I got “stallion,” as in, a horse.
To be more accurate, Teen Vogue has done some of the most consistently and aggressively anti-Trump political and cultural reporting over the last few years. (They've gained quite a following online for it.) Which is why this caught people's attention in the first place - it's pretty much the exact diametrical opposite of that. A soft-pedalled fluff piece like this about women in tech doing important and powerful things would be right on brand for Teen Vogue's traditional role as a magazine for teenage girls, but that's not their audience anymore.

For additional context, a lot of the folks who like Teen Vogue respect the New York Times less despite their investigative reporting because they're just not anti-Trump enough. In particular, there's a lot of resentment online over them pushing back against that bizarre conspiracy thoery about Trump's DNS-based secret communication channel with Russia that was obviously nothing of the sort. Not even particularly strongly - they just responded to an incredibly viral tweet by Clinton's campaign demanding the FBI investigate it by reporting that they already did and concluded all the evidence pointed to it just being ordinary mailservers processing ordinary hotel mass marketing emails - but that was enough.
I'm not a big hardware nerd, how do this and that $16,000 one from earlier this week compare? They're both roof top, spinning sensors it seems but at very different price points. Is this one not as far distance as the other?
I got into some super serious trouble as a kid in elementary school for turning on the computer while a substitute teacher was there, and messing around with the built in encyclopedia. Even before we had reliable internet, it was amazing to me that there was this just wealth of information on this tiny little CD-ROM.

I wonder if that sense of wonder is lost in the modern world? It's such a joy to stumble on some fascinating new relic and descend however briefly into the depths of its madness. I hope we can still find new ways to inspire that joy now that most of the world's information is available through a device in your pocket. Which... looking back on the last two decades is kindof an astonishing leap.
How do you decide the ordering of the 5 books?
That's whats so cool about this: Unlike Create React App or other "starter apps" that try to hide complexity from you, Snowpack actually removes that complexity entirely. If you didn't want to use a single other tool, you could use Snowpack to build a fully modern web app by shipping your source code directly to the browser (cue the "View Source" nostalgia :)

Luke Jacksonn is someone who's done some interesting work in this space with zero-build-tooling sites: https://perf.link -
https://github.com/lukejacksonn/perflink

https://www.pika.dev is built with Babel and TypeScript, so it's not technically "zero-tooling", but we still get almost instant iteration by skipping a "bundle" step during development.
https://www.kickscondor.com/
Can't believe no one has posted this yet.
We have great weather here in the Bay Area but are often confined to offices to get our work done because of sunlight glare on our laptop screens.

I've always thought more people would choose to work outside if their laptop had a decent e-ink display that performed well in sunlight. Perhaps there'd even be outdoor co-working spaces complete with gardens, fountains, and grassy lawns to sprawl onto.
The articles around this are pretty funny.
Apparently the founder didn't know that the "Chamber of Commerce" wasn't part of the government tax apparatus.
This is still in kick-starter phase, but if you don't mind waiting a few months it has a lot of potential IMO:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6
Not surprised that Facebook initially denied it. Planting news stories covertly has been part Facebook's PR playbook since the beginning.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-lies-2011-5

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/612424/facebook-is-being-...
It's not proselytization, it's a restatement of the central doctrine of Christianity, undergirded by the doctrine of the Trinity which is pretty germane to relationality, and most commonly argued for from John, especially chapter 1.
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In the described case robots are indistinguishable from biorobots. Does type of hardware make any difference for ethic problems?

Btw, the original robots [0] from which the name originates were made of flesh and blood, not mechanical parts.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
If you actually have diskettes from that era that you care about, you might want to image them using a low-level magnetic flux reader - the devices are actually quite inexpensive, and this would ensure that the data is preserved for the foreseeable future.
Maybe you do but I don't. I spent a week learning Webpack four years ago and it's been paying dividends ever since. 99% of my job is building features, <1% is fuddling with tooling and configuration.

If the hard part of your project is setting it up the tools you've picked are too complex for the problem you're trying to solve.
Not meant to sound like a complaint - just an explanation that I'm trying to use my next role as a spring board to my ultimate path. I generally enjoy working.

By properly develop I mean actually make a commercial version, I'm currently building a functional prototype on my own, but I don't have the expertise to release a proper-public version without help. I've tried getting freelancers in before, but it hasn't worked (due to the nature of the project). I really need people who are able to work on it full time.

I'm saying I don't have enough capital to go out and rent office space/hire full time people etc. I'm trying to bootstrap my startup and not use external capital.

Yes, I currently work on my startup in my spare time.
The web at 2400 baud was slow. Really slow.
I'm curious if there is any work in fuzzing that could be applied here.
500,000 hrs is a reasonable approximation of the waking hours in a human life.
Had a quick look, and can't figure out what this post is about.

The cartoon at the beginning makes it appear this is about the decline of the US.

Then there's a bunch of meta background I don't care about.

Then this:

> 1) Seeing in 2D. Getting to know what I see as the core human struggle: the tension between our genes’ will to survive—a primal flame that burns brightly in everyone—and the human capacity to override that flame when it makes sense to do so, with rationality, self-awareness, and wisdom. ...

Huh? Is this written by an AI? It's an honest question.

I kept scanning looking for something - anything - concrete. Nothing.

Apparently, the author has a following, but I can't understand why.

I shouldn't need to read the last 8 chapters to figure this out. It's not my responsibility as a reader. It's the responsibility of the writer to ensure that when a reader jumps into a chapter, there's enough context and substance to figure out if it's worth reading.
TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era
I and others applaud the effort.

We are just saying that we'd appreciate something that removes the need for webpack et al.

I'd personally kill for a much simpler (and faster!) webpack.
not if they are bound with a circular ring
I'm a Technical Writer
Of all the bundlers and build systems, Webpack has been the most productive for me by far. We had a heck of a time with a couple of bundlers we were trying out a few months ago, and when we switched to Webpack, all of the things we struggled with on the previous bundlers came together seamlessly in less than half an hour.
Ants have very simple language. Sure they communicate danger, but how to choose among two dangerous options?
I mean, that's one way I've been thinking about it, yeah... whether how many religiously observant Jews would think about it that way or not, I don't know. :)

But Jewish practice generally/traditionally is really big on "community" as a focus and priority, and religiously observant Jews would agree that's so, in general, I think. They would of course probably say that the reason they do things the way they do, though, is because God said so, the end.

But as outside "sociologists" or "anthropologists" we can have our own interpretations, although perhaps it's rude.

But then, for some interesting additional anthropology, I know increasing numbers of atheist/agnostic Jews, not from Orthodox communities, who I think have attitudes toward Jewish practice along the lines we are talking about...
We've already done it albeit slowly with all the plants we eat. Also dogs.

I think the problem is not really ethical but simply that we don't really know the consequences an immediate change in the DNA would have. We programmers know that changes in complex projects rarely turn out as expected and nature is the most complex system in existence.

I certainly would have loved that my parents had altered my DNA to not need glasses and not have a skin of almost vampiric sun resistance. AFAIK DNA is not related to personality traits but if it is I would have also liked a couple of changes there too.
Are you sure you don't mean seven-segment displays or similar? I've seen many stores in Sweden use electronic displays, but they are usually LCD seven-segment or similar, not e-ink.
> If the hard part of your project is setting it up the tools you've picked are too complex for the problem you're trying to solve.

Sure, but what tooling choice do we have? Webpack is pretty much a standard and is expected almost everywhere, with rollup and parcel used here and there.
Before there were Web Components, people made reusable web components.

But, probably good to disambiguate
What if you're 24 years old with a two person family and limited commitments, except for your drive to see the mountains on the weekends, to watch the sunsets during the week, to keep up with your old friends online and read history in the evenings?

I've seen the hypothetical comparison above made elsewhere, and it seems to imply choosing one category of "ephemeral stuff that has no bigger meaning to you" (the kids and the family) over another (work til 3am).

Not to denigrate anyone's joy of parenthood at all, much less the notion that people feel as though they're driven by it! I just wish our culture could foster more appreciation for the ecstatic joy of sipping a cup of tea at 6:30PM on the patio. As it is, I frequently wrestle with self-doubt that my mindset is out to lunch and I may inadvertently restrict myself from the greatest joys available in the future, including the joy of personal professional success, by not spending more evenings coding til 3 in the morning. But that's just a couple hours away from brewing the morning coffee to watch the sunrise! That's the time I have to read about the longitude problem!
Original submit, 200+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303540
Unpopular opinion: It isn't that bad. If you understand the purpose of a bundler and you understand the purpose of a transpiler, it's not difficult to understand how to put two and two together. You, for example, write ES6, you use babel to transpile to ES5, and webpack collapses all the require(...) calls into a smaller set of files (maybe even a single file, depending on your configuration).

It's all well documented, so if you need further details, there's nothing magic about these tools.

If you really don't want to be bothered with it, just use create react app, vue cli, or angular cli. Some people aren't that interested tooling, I get it.
Glaciers NP is replacing signs saying its glaciers melt by 2020 (they won’t)
What can I do with Snowpack that I can't with a CDN?
Is that true? Maybe I misunderstand how powerful people typically use media, but I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that Sheryl Sandberg has an assistant who's allowed to post to her personal Facebook.
That is arguable. People pay higher price for human made products even if there are better automated counterparts at a cheaper price.

There's already a trend of putting AI and human produced product next to each other with later being highly priced emotionally manipulating some people into buying for the humane touch while others can go for cheaper ones.

Although, I am not sure about limitation androids will face like natural aging, growth, self healing, evolution?
Some of that may be cost prohibitive compared to a biological piece of ball.
Look at it this way: maybe this show of insanity could cause further frustration and ideally help newcomers realize that avoiding vim altogether can be preferable for their future.

Sarcasm aside, I fully agree with you.
Here in DK, every price tag in every super- or hypermarket use them. A big hypermarket will have in excess of thousand in use, plus replacing lost/damaged ones. Even a small supermarket has hundreds.

Electronic price tags are a huge business.
There were "digital" encyclopedias before Wikipedia? Using VGA graphics and tiny little CD-ROMs (700MB each IIRC, no double-layer tricks or anything) even? That's amazing.
It isn’t true in any profession that working weekends is indicative of performance. Somehow they managed to dup people in technology to think that’s okay.
From the wikipedia link:

> In Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands and is derived from rab, meaning "slave".
Summarized: by untying word piece embedding sizes from the hidden layer size + sharing parameters between layers, the number of parameters in the model are drastically reduced. They use this headroom to make the hidden layer sizes larger and given that layers share parameters, they can also use more layers without increasing model size.

This summary is wrong.

It's true that they use parameter sharing to reduce the number of parameters.

But for any given "class" of model (base/large/xlarge) ALBERT has the same size hidden layer and the same number of layers.

If you try to compare by model size (measured by number of parameters) then ALBERT xxlarge (235M parameters) has less layers than BERT large (334M parameters) - 12 vs 24 - a larger hidden layer (4096 vs 1024) and smaller embedding size (128 vs 1024).
Seeing them a lot in Best Buy.
Oh come now, if it updated oncer per day, that's 25 seconds of flicker per 86,375 seconds of viewing. And you could set it to update at 2am when everyone is asleep.

(Computer vision would be cool though, imagine if it was different every time you left and re-entered a room?)
This does! :D
I never said the authors of big JS projects weren't smart. In fact, anyone that manages to keep their sanity in that environment is by definition smarter than me.

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.

Most projects do not have any requirements like real-time UIs that would justify a front-end app and will be just fine with a "boring" backend-rendered UI with some HTML, CSS & forms and will automatically avoid a horde of problems like syncing authentication between your backend & frontend, having to manage a separate build pipeline, server for SSR, etc.
>Then Nvidia tried to sue Samsung+Qualcomm when the iPhone came out (because apple used GPUs from these companies) claiming patent infringement.

Apple has always been using PowerVR for iPhone since day 1. Even the recent so called self designed GPU are pretty much 80% PowerVR with all PowerVR proprietary and patented features.
How much additional labor is it to stick a new label the few times the price changes or the few times the location of items are changed, relative to programming those new prices and those new locations in a computer?

And would that add up to needing to hire even a single new employee, considering that most retail stocking is done by regular employees during their down times (it’s not like stores are gonna reprice and rearrange products on the fly during busy times).

And it’s not just the cost of a single eink sticker because they will get damaged or break down more frequently.
Your choice is to not build an SPA. There's nothing wrong with HTML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. I'm fairly convinced most JavaScript fatigue is the result of trying to build very simple web pages with tools designed for 10k+ LoC SPAs.
How does long term UV exposure (sunlight) affect pigments in a product like this? It seems like a cool idea for large format signs, but how long until everything looks like burnt green-blue?
I think if something is made of electronics and material parts the ethics are different. It's be like asking if someone bashing their motorcycle is the same as someone bashing their horse.

And, while an interesting footnote for the English word robot, that in Slavic languages whence it's deriven it can refer to worker/servant/serf/slave is beside the point.
Yes but the point is converting coal plants to burn methane - even if fracking results in some leaked methane - is still a significant net gain.
Ahh, I only read the one post. My bad.
Salesforce

Good IDE/keyboard shortcuts
> I'm surprised remotely reputable journalistic outlets get into.

They don't. They may have been reputable before they do this sort of thing, but that reputation is toast once they sell out.
> write ES6, you use babel to transpile to ES5

If you have the luxury to only care about modern browsers, do you need to bother transpiling? Every modern browser supports ES6 natively.

> and webpack collapses all the require(...) calls into a smaller set of files

Also less of an issue if you're using http/2 or http/3.

Is there a "preview of the future" framework out there that people can use if they want to see what a world looks like that doesn't have to work around old browsers?
To be more pedantic, the thing you celebrate yearly is the anniversary of your date of birth. Your birthday is the same as your date of birth. Plus, "date of birth" is a pleonasm IMO since "birthday" is shorter.
Have you worked at Apple or Netflix? Since that’s what we’re talking about.
Rails and React are in no way comparable. They solve entirely different problems.
Sorry, which tool? Snowpack?
It's not a stretch.

Look at the main contention within the party right now -- every candidate except one is pushing to prop up a for-profit healthcare system. The idea of the ACA was okay, but ultimately it left in place the systems which were the real problem, and unsurprisingly it's gotten worse since then.

> Obama was kind of underwhelming

That's a stretch! His healthcare plan was underwhelming, and while that was being dragged through the republicans, he was deporting immigrants at a rate we've not seen since and ordering hundreds of drone strikes. He was not progressive.

Now we're trying to make sure the same type of candidate doesn't fool everyone again. Most of the "dramatic" restructurings we're pushing for aren't "radical" anywhere outside the US.
Finnish PM calls for four-day week, six-hour workday
The Kohl's near me has used eink for years. They are easy enough to read when next to the item. For drawing your attention, they use hard copy signs.
Pretty much this. I don't think greg has read any economic theory, let alone introductory microeconomics where you would see the idea of 'marginal analysis'. I mean his reply suggests that demand is entirely static, or inelastic, which would be interesting to study, but certainly shouldn't be assumed, and is likely completely false.
To put things into perspective.

The US Navy currently has 83 (known) active watercraft that are nuclear powered. Across all the reactors the Navy use and have used, they have amassed over 5300 “reactor years” without reactor incident.

With adequate processes and training, Nuclear is incredibly safe and green.
Yup, from the tl;dr on the site:

> TL;DR - Snowpack removes the need for bundlers (Webpack, Parcel, Rollup) in a traditional application build process by leveraging the ESM syntax you're already writing. Keep using your favorite web frameworks (React, Preact, Vue, Svelte) & build tools (Babel, TypeScript).
It seems unethical if you do it by gene drive. But what if you add some natural randomness to the process and other desirable objectives. Imagine a dating service with a DNA database and you can match up people whose offspring could potentially be very subservient.

What if the full effect is expected after matching 5 generations of people?

What if the real goal is to create a fraction of people more attentive to minding about the environment and total blissful subservience is just a bi-product? For the good of the human race!
Goddamn patents are broke as hell.
How odd. One would think with an estimated 1.8-1.9 million civilian deaths due to German occupation [1], and the uncounted rapes during the Soviet occupation [2], Poland wouldn't need to resort to hoaxes to paint themselves as victims. On the other hand, this little wikipedia dive is almost the only time I've heard of these 1.8-1.9 million, so perhaps they're not wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_Pol...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Soviet_occupat...
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There are people making applications with requirements where we have to support the legacy browsers, unfortunately. That's how Enterprise goes (but even large consumer-facing apps have the same requirements too, I would be shocked if Facebook "didn't work" on IE 11 today).

In my particular case, my infrastructure team will not, and has no plans on, enabling HTTP/2 in our upstream servers. The joy of application development at scale. You can't get everything you want, unless you control it all. Things are too distributed for me to practically sell the team on HTTP/2.
Yep. I assume that any "news" story that fawns over Facebook is a PR plant.
In all fairness, this does follow protocol as established by the ICAO. At this point the primary responsibility to investigate the crash would be on Iran and Ukraine.

Boeing would formally come into the picture if equipment failure is deemed a likely contributing factor in the crash.

This does not mean that the investigators won't share data or consult with the manufacturer during the cause of the investigation.
Part of the time you're right. But I do like to dabble with JS again -- after being backender only for years -- and I want to future-proof my work (if at all possible in the JS land).

And I throw my hands in the air every time. Stuff like React or Vue generators seem to work fine but then I am left confused what do all the files do and why don't I have a stricter control over what gets pulled inside the project.
> how do you expresses your dependencies?

By writing all code from scratch so that it doesn’t require any dependence’s from aging frameworks.

If everyone wrote their own kits then the web would be a more of a mature place.

Downvoted without any reasons? The web once before didn’t rely on frameworks.

PHPNuke wasn’t a framework.

PHPBB wasn’t a framework.

E107 wasn’t a framework.

If you wanted something. you coded it yourself.

/shrug

maybe it’s just me that feels the web is now polluted with Mb’s of wasted code. And even now it’s seen as bad practise not to use framework.
The problem is not climate activists, the problem is NIMBY.

I'm a "climate activist" and know plenty of others and they are by far the staunchest supporters of nuclear that I know.