skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically web SQL is a thing but is depreciated and not supported by FF. OP was talking about sqlite on the server side.
I got the Boox Note 2, which is 10.3 inches. It's just large enough to be useful, but not so big to be unwieldy.
Not tryna be flippant here but probably not. See comment history for other arguments ive made on this.

I am incredibly skeptical that the engineering ethics / practices of any organization currently in existence adequately surpass the requirement for large scale genetic editing.

Im not against the idea in the abstract, but we live in a world full of fragile, profit-motivated institutions that are oft to skimp on engineering best practice and ethics in the pursuit of profit.

Something like NASA circa 1970 maybe could but they arguably had their own problems with ethics re: Wernher von Braun, aerospace engineer responsible for great contributions to the US Atlas V rocket system and the Nazi V2.

In regards to all that and the content of the article using malaria and mosquito editing as a potential argument to do this, consider also that mosqutios are a critical base source of food for many species. Unintended long term consequences are the name of the game when it comes to thinking about if we should do this.
Text from link: "In isolation the process is only 25% efficient, but this is greatly increased (to around 50%) when used with a low-grade cold store, such as a large gravel bed, to capture the cold generated by evaporating the cryogen. The cold is re-used during the next refrigeration cycle.[8] Efficiency is further increased when used in conjunction with a power plant or other source of low-grade heat that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere. Highview Power claims an AC to AC round-trip efficiency of 70%, by using an otherwise waste heat source at 115 °C."
Personally I'm partial to the theory that it was cancelled to free up funding for the Diefenbunkers, because Canadian politicians preferred to hide underground and leave the plebians to get nuked.

It's probably not true, but it seems plausibly cynical.
Hadn't heard of it yet, will check it out.
I'm sorry, but why would you run a model like ALBERT on a CPU in the first place?

It's pretty common to run inference on CPUs. There are lots of operational and cost reasons why this makes sense in at least some cases.
I've seen small lcd pricetags at superstore in Canada. But I've never seen e-ink price tags, or e-ink anything other than when I see people with e-readers.
If tools keep getting better, the barrier to entry for simple CRUD apps goes down, and you have a new class of journeymen programmers who do simple work not unlike construction.

The specialty jobs still exist. Planning is still another pay grade. But the average labor cost goes down and the volume goes up.

There are so many apps that could be written but the profit potential is too low to be worth it.
It depends on jQuery and if you use history support it will need localStorage, so pretty broad browser support.
I suspect you have a very warped view of Thailand -- and of course Thai people are not going to order vastly overpriced pad Thai at the best hotels in Bangkok, because they know where to get better versions for a tenth the price.

I used to work at the HSBC tower on Sathorn, in the heart of Bangkok's financial district. There was a simple open-air shack just outside that served (IMHO) the best pad Thai I've ever had at 25 baht a plate, and the place was packed every day with everybody from suited bankers and lawyers to tuk-tuk drivers. I don't think I ever saw another farang on there though.

Also, proper pad Thai is not spicy, like all noodle dishes in Thailand it's supposed to be served with condiments (chili flakes, phrik kii nuu in fish sauce, sugar, ground peanuts) so you can tweak the flavors to your liking.
I think we are stick from a policy standpoint. We have some climate engineering ideas that might work, with the certainty of side effects. Those might keep civilization chugging long enough for fossil fuels to become scarce enough to price themselves out of existence. Even alternative power sources have waste heat, so we have to taper power usage no matter the source, but that is a much longe term problem.
Because it's likely to cause discomfort and negative attention from the other passengers who will worry it could jeopardize their flight, and not using your phone for a little while isn't a big deal. It's not so much about following a rule or not, as just being socially responsible.
I always thought Kohl's used LCD price tags.
You might try reading the article before responding to it.
It's the Atomstaat which works against the democracy.
Gene drives with the current method is way too sloppy.
What happens when the gene in the gene drive is corrupted.. it only has to happen in one sex cell and it will spread through the population. Then you you have two competing gene drives.
You're just focusing on the wrong metric.

Because coal is so bad in terms of carbon intensity (800 gCO2/kwH), Germany's greenhouse gas emissions figures are still terrible on average.

"Why Aren't Renewables Decreasing Germany's Carbon Emissions?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent...

"Why solar and wind won’t make much difference to carbon dioxide emissions" https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/solar-wind-energy-carbon-dioxid...

"German electricity was nearly 10 times dirtier than France's in 2016" http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-e...
Although I've contributed to some React projects, the last time I had to do user-facing web frontend stuff was with the original Angular. Looking at this, I'm really glad I don't do frontend anymore.

I've touched some vue.js too, but I just hate the direction everything is going. These projects are just insanely complex. Component frameworks may be easier to develop with, but they add so much damn bloat and crazy amounts of tooling. I get frustrated enough with Jekyll and that's just a static content generator.

I really miss the simplicity of plain old jQuery and some backend.
Kuwait Receives Letter All US Forces to Withdraw in 3 Days
there's no way someone could've posted this on her personal FB page without her knowledge
Wow that one also has a 25s refresh rate
So does ViM :)
Vast size.
Create-react-app is pretty heavy, because it includes support for things you may not need or want (css modules, typescript, etc).

Putting together your own light-weight system isnt hard if you are familiar with the problems these tools solve, but unless you have a site so simple that it shouldn't use react anyway, you'll want the power and features that these tools can provide (automatic source splitting for lazy-loading code on route changes, sane management of language files for internationalization, extensive linting rules for even non-js things like accessibility features in html / jsx, automatic image optimizatuon, etc).
I was once working on a small tool that I tried different iterations of using a small variety of approaches; I tried implementing it in bash, perl, python, ES6 JS (classes and more), and a few other methods (I think at one point I even tried a LibreOffice spreadsheet).

But I kept getting mired and "stuck" in how I should architect things, or what framework to use, or this or that. I eventually decided that I wanted it to be a browser-based app of some sort (thus the road of ES6) - but then I started to wonder what tooling to use there. Lots of questions, etc - and I never got that far with it.

I eventually wised up and realized that it didn't matter what I chose - what I needed was the application to work. Who cares about frameworks, requirejs, css frameworks, etc - I just wanted something working. So I stepped back...and decided to chuck all of that away.

I ended up with a basic webpage, with a script tag and the code inside that - nothing fancy, purely procedural, old-school javascript functions, tied to events. Bare bones, basic.

...and I made real progress for the first time.

Basically, by regressing to the relative simplicity of Javascript back from the 1990s, I was able to get my tool finally going, without having to worry about the last two decades of cruft around that language. Now, I could have also done it using Python or anything else, in the same manner - but again, I wanted it to be browser based.

As you note, my own journey, and not something I'd tell anyone else to do (and certainly not something meant for a production environment!) - but for myself, and my need, this fit the bill. I'm still working on it; I figure when I complete it proper-like, I can go back and refactor it to something more respectable. Or maybe not.

After all, if it works, why try to break it? In the end, I want the results from the tool - who cares what it looks like under the hood, so long as it works.
Never-before-seen virus may be behind mystery outbreak in China
you seem to have gotten negative feedback, but I agree with your sentiment.

It is kind of silly to think we are "altering" species. We would be creating new species or breeds using existing ones as a template. Unless there is some agenda I am unaware of to go out and kill all existing members of a species after we create our own version of it?

If nothing else, isolate the artificial species into controlled habitats. I know a primary use-case often discussed is regarding mosquitoes where that wouldnt be the case.. but imagine editing the genetics of zoo animals so that they are much more easily acclimated to zoo life. Less negative effects of poor temperature control, a broader dietary selection, reduced reaction times for dangerous animals. And there is no risk of environmental impact since they are in isolated enirovments
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What do you use in Chrome Dev Tools that aren't in Firefox's?
Artificial gills for humans could become a reality
To be fair thinking people "just like you" neccesarily have your interests in mind is also a dangerous and potentially fatal mistake itself, those trying to convince you are potentially engaging in misdirection themselves. Just because others are like you doesn't mean they won't also screw you over whenever convenient. Nor do differences guarantee that they will be bad. There are no guarantees, period.
Researchers have done black-box capacity testing. It can process around 7,000 transactions per day. Even BTC can handle that volume on-chain.

https://blog.dshr.org/2020/01/bitcoins-lightning-network.htm...
Maybe this will help? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21994976
I have no more interest in religious authoritarianism than I do with "progressive" authoritarianism. Fundamentally, its the same problem from a different direction. If your faith (religious, political, vim/emacs, whatever) requires me to do something, things aren't off to a great start.

Authoritarianism leads to tyranny, and it doesn't particularly matter who's boot is on your neck in the end.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21994173
I was being pessimistic about their claims. Theoretically you could likewise capture the heat from compressed storage, too. Plus, it didn't seem fair in the comparison to compressed storage to include efficiency gains from using residual heat from elsewhere during expansion as technically that heat is input energy.
I get framework and tooling fatigue, but it seems misaimed here. This project is an attempt at minimizing complexity, not adding onto it. There's a fundamental problem with writing JS for the browser: how do you expresses your dependencies?

jquery-era code solved this by just putting the dependencies in the README of a project (e.g. "this project requires jQuery and jQuery UI version 3! load them before loading this script!"). It worked, but it was error prone and manual.

More recent code has solved it by writing code that used abstract specifiers, like require('jquery'), which meant that you needed to use a complicated and often hyperconfigurable bundler to run in the browser (because the browser can't go searching the filesystem to figure out where the code for the 'jquery' package is)

With ES modules we're almost there, browsers can import files now, but they still need a bit of additional info to tell them how to resolve underspecified modules like 'jquery' (as opposed to './utils.js' which they can handle with no problem). You can write your code with fully specified imports, but the difficulty is that that code doesn't travel well, e.g. if you write `import '../node_modules/jquery/jquery.js'` that won't work if someone uses your package as a library, because jquery.js will actually be at '../jquery/jquery.js' because your package lives in the node_modules directory.
Video I saw looks cool, but 500 bones! I'd be concerned my handwriting would be too small or illegible to be an effective primary notepad.

How do you use it?
I recommend the TV series "I Claudius". Of course, you can read it as books as well, but I enjoyed the series. The books I have not read. Of course, it only covers a limited period of Roman history, but one that is quite famous.
DIOL (Do It On LAN) has been an acronym in online games for a couple of decades now, for good reason.

Though I've heard now it's possible to load your USB peripherals with cheating software.

https://hackaday.com/2017/07/29/injecting-code-into-mouse-fi...
Sorry I mixed up Franks and Gaulois, which are two different things altogether.

The part I had in mind is the old “our ancestors, the gaulois” which is not taught as is anymore, but still stays very present in the minds through an almost exclusive focus on Gaulois’ side when depicting that time period (not just fantasy depictions like Asterix, but also a lot of documentaries and reconstitutions funded publicly)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nos_ancêtres_les_Gaulois
The belief that world population will self-level at some point does not mean that it will self-level prior to resource exhaustion.

The fact that we're cooking the planet with ~8B does not bode well for what even 10B looks like.
In the rest of the universe, going to the beginning/end of the line is mapped to the Home/End keys (fn+left/fn+right on Macs), and I do prefer it when my thing does things in ways that roughly correspond to how the rest of the universe does them if there's no compelling reason to do otherwise.
14.4kbps checking in.
Suppose the story was marked as sponsored content - what is Facebook's motivation for publishing it in Teen Vogue? Presumably Facebook shouldn't have trouble reaching people. The only sensible explanation is that they had hoped the 'sponsored content' tag would go unnoticed, so that readers would mistakenly attribute the story to Teen Vogue. No matter how you look at it, the aim was deception.
In my experience (.NET, including mobile and embedded) when handled with care, GC is often fine even for audio and video.

The trick is not loading the GC too much, neither in terms of allocations/second nor bytes/second (for multimedia it means recycling buffers as opposed to creating/destroying), also having enough RAM so you don’t need to use 80% of installed memory.
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Preact is like 5KB.
Creepy by virtue of being older than 20?
People who are immunocompromised or who have an autoimmune condition may get serious complications from vaccines. It is, in fact, a well known contraindication.

Some people do not know they are in one of those groups, and ARE likely to experience harm. These groups (unaware immune issues) are statistically insignificant compared to the entire population, of course.

But ignoring them is in fact contributing to the antivax movement; primes are statistically rare but if you told people they don’t exist, you would be working for the antimath movement.
THANK GOD. Now I can 95% swap to Mozilla Firefox for work as well.
I was speaking more about when you have to conform to Nintendo's Switch build system (whatever that looks like - NDA) and you can't control much of that.

If you do have more control then you're in a much better situation, but crossing language boundaries can still be tricky.

Generally you end up having to write "wrapper" code to make those language boundaries palatable. There are code generators like SWIG to handle those things, and some languages like Zig handle importing of c headers, but if the C++ library your trying to use is returning a std::shared_ptr then that's not going to be a very pleasant construct for you to attempt to work with in any language besides C++.

If you can split your code sections into simple and clean C-like interfaces then the job becomes much, much easier.
> What would you like to know?

What are the actual rules? You are the most arbitrary and least transparent mod I've ever dealt with. You wield the word "unsubstantive" as a cudgel. You seemingly only hold the goal of stifling discussion that might be against the accepted HN positions. The result is board that yes, does mostly lack flame wars. It's also bland and processed and almost impossible to contribute to, and I lay the blame on that squarely on you. The very poor downvote system does not help. Restricting downvotes to high karma users just lets a handful of people dominate discussion.

> "wage slavery not being much better" is an empty cliché

7 million+ working poor. Millions more one unexpected expense away from financial ruin. "empty cliche".

Also could explain to me why this

> > We live at the absolute _extreme_ of capital power over labor power.

is fine. This response

> No we don't, that is called slavery.

is fine.

But my post reaches the bar of unsubstantive flamebait.
It's not compressing the air, though, it's liquifying it (presumably only the nitrogen), and then using the force of the expanding gas as it boils later to drive a turbine. (I don't know why the author uses the strange phrase "freezing to liquid").

There's not a compressor. Well, there might be one in the refrigerator that "freezes" the air, but the air that is being used for energy storage is not, itself compressed.

In any case, as with any other energy storage, I don't think they're claiming it's lossless, but rather that the liquid nitrogen has a much higher energy density than compressed air. It sounds plausible, given that the gaseous to liquid volume ratio for nitrogen is something like 600:1, but I don't actually know. Might still have very high losses, I guess.
Going back to Turing, the argument was for true, human creativity.

That's not true. The Turing test is that one can't tell the difference between a human and a machine intelligence by communicating with it. That's it.

The claim was that there is no theoretical reason a machine cannot write a compelling sonnet.

And that's absolutely not true. I can't write a compelling sonnet.

If you are a non-technical person who has been reading popular reporting about ML, you might well have been given the impression that something like GPT2 reflects progress on the sonnet problem. Some very technical people seem to believe this too? Which seems like an issue, because there’s just no evidence for it.

I work in the field of NLP and I believe it does reflect progress, and I think there is evidence for it.

The gods are they who came to earth
And set the seas ablaze with gold.
There is a breeze upon the sea,
A sea of summer in its folds,
A salt, enchanted breeze that mocks
The scents of life, from far away
Comes slumbrous, sad, and quaint, and quaint.
The mother of the gods, that day,
With mortal feet and sweet voice speaks,
And smiles, and speaks to men: "My Sweet,
I shall not weary of thy pain."

GPT2 small generated poetry.

For the youth, who, long ago,
Came up the long and winding way
Beneath my father's roof, in sorrow—
Sorrow that I would not bless
With his very tears. Oh,
My son the sorrowing,
Sorrow's child. God keep thy head,
Where it is dim with age,
Gentle in her death!

GPT2 1.5B large generated poetry.

Both samples from https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2
> I'm really pleased he chose to perform an offsite backup of the plans ordered destroyed...

So am I. It's bittersweet that this is so appreciated now, when it could very well have been treated as espionage at the time.
The progress towards digital paper has been really slow. Sometimes I wonder if there is an alternate timeline in which we pursued eink-like displays earlier on. It would be amazing to watch a movie on this kind of display if the refresh rate could permit it. I wrote about this on my blog http://stephanango.com/the-elusiveness-of-digital-paper
Singing Mozart in the MRI shows how overtone singers can hit two notes at once
Sure, done now.

You can get quicker responses on this by emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com. We don't come close to seeing everything posted to HN, and I only saw this randomly now.
I live in Southeast Asia and have been to Thailand many times. Pad Thai is well known to every Thai person but it is not seen all that often on their plates (or in their plastic bags, where takeaway food is conveyed). And indeed a lot of Thai restaurant menus do not list Pad Thai, or if they do it's far down the list, like "chicken fingers" in an American restaurant.

In tourist hotspots (which abound in Thailand) you'll tend to see picture menus and Pad Thai will be on them. But there are much, much better dishes to be had outside these areas. One issue is they don't all have consistent names, e.g. when I asked for a recommendation and was given an absolutely amazing dry curry crab noodle dish with egg, I asked for its name in Thai and translated it was "curry crab" which would never get you a similar dish in another restaurant. Even the venerable Pad Kee Mao, which I think is always a noodle dish in America, is sometimes a totally different rice dish in Thailand.
I think there are probably quite a lot of production Mongo databases out there from companies founded around the peak of the (bootcamp-driven) NoSQL hype train.

No one's bragging about it, probably everyone regrets it, and most companies will never practically be able to get off it (because, when your data is an unstructured mess it's a huge project to try and figure out how to get to structure, not to mention maintaining consistency during the migration. And you have that home-grown "relational" layer someone wrote for Mongo when they realised that they really did have relational data after all, and which is now coupled to everything...)

(If you thought I was describing the primary database at my day job, well...)