skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most valuable (or at least: the reason we're still paying them) service academic journals provide is being able to categorise academics as having published in those journals. There are plenty of journals that provide perfectly fine peer review, but that are not as important as other journals because they don't have their brand name.

In other words: for many disciplines, the potential replacements providing peer review, archival and distribution are already there. The main thing a replacement system will have to find out is how to determine who to give grants, tenure, etc.

(Disclaimer: I'm working on a project that hopes to achieve that.)
This implement of Language Server Protocol is pretty neat. I really like Qt Creator and wish it had more language support, but we still only have Python successfully implemented.

I am wondering if they might now make it easier to incorporate new alternative languages into Qt Creator? I am guessing this is just for C++, QML, javascript and Python but it would be nice if this was expanded.
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Rock on mate - I came from the same place 40 years ago. But. no language is ever complete for me unless I canz Space Invader. I guess your now onto lisp? Do the Space Invader first in your Forth.
Chuck is a god.
As a site owner, how many of those should you handle?

Already do special handling of acme-challenge for Let's Encrypt/ACME but that's a given.
Wait... would this also apply to foreign developers who travel to Australia for their vacation?
...despite the gray hairs lining my chin.

What is interesting to me is that before reading this part I assumed you are a man even though there was no hint before this line that you are. How many people thought kwamenum86 is a man from start of his writing?
> That hasn't stopped me from building a career I'm proud of and I don't lose sleep at night. But I'm an outlier in that regard.

Why do you think that?
Until Mozilla gets the performance problems under control

Performance is 1/2 of the reason that I prefer Mozilla. As one of those people that typically has 50-100 tabs open, the Firefox model for memory management is vastly superior.

The other half of the reason is TreeStyleTab, again because I'm one of those zillion-tab users. Vertically-stacked tabs in a sidebar is the only way to manage that mountain of tabs - horizontal at the top just doesn't work. And Chrome doesn't have any extensions that support this.
I am wondering if the new S2 geo indexes are downwards-compatible and can be used with existing data from previous release. Do you see any obstacles for upgrading to 3.4 coming from an older release?
The real problem is that every single site needs its own separate password.

(Even worse are products and services where you need a separate password for different features.)

The better way to solve this is to push for better account portability. We already (kind-of) have this with websites that let you sign in with your Google or Facebook ID. (Unfortunately, these systems still have privacy problems because they share your email, or the web site fails if you don't want to share your email.)
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The UX for self driving Uber === the UX for Uber now

The only theoretical differentiator is price. At the moment VC subsides are removing that as well
Good point.

I don't practice Catholicism anymore and must confess that I've reached the limits of my Catholic school education, so I'm not even remotely qualified to speak to that. I know that Thessalonians would be one of Paul's (the apostle, not that Paul from my first reply) letters and Paul has always struck me as the world's first growth hacker, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to do more than express a simple opinion.

I'd give anything to have access to some reasonable Catholics who I could ask questions like this. Alas...
>A self-driving taxi company is going to look a lot like a car dealership that doesn't sell cars, or a lot like a taxi company that doesn't have any drivers. They're going to have a huge number of cars, parking lots to store cars that aren't in use, and technicians to service, clean and fuel vehicles periodically.

No? You'll need charging stations to charge vehicles and will have enough to meet typical demand, when a large event is expected you have vehicles come in from other areas (Indy 500, Superbowl, etc). If vehicles aren't driving people or charging you use them as courier vehicles.

Yes you'll still maintain some in parking structures at some hours but with no driver needed you can pack considerably more into the same space as a vehicle that would require a human being to enter and exit the vehicle to move it.

Kids in their teens and early 20's are losing their desire to drive, individuals are getting their licenses much later. This is already a sign that a carless society is a very real possibility. These companies know that, they're working on taking the human driver out of the equation, they're building brand recognition, they're getting people comfortable with using a driving service (a large portion of the population has never used a taxi or even public transportation, yet within a few years hopping in a car with a stranger became normal) and they're collecting more data on driving and human movement via vehicle than ever before.

>Meanwhile, they're blowing through most of their venture capital selling rides below cost.

They are investing money in collecting data. The data alone they are collecting is worth the money they are burning through. You can't go buy that data from someone because it has never been collected and there's many ways to exploit that data to generate revenue both now and in the future as technologies become available like autonomous vehicles.
I accepted that life is unfair, the solution to this is what you already said, try to be more powerful, smarter, stronger, 'better' than them, in other words, force them to respect me. That's the only solution. Likewise, I admit I to sometime discriminate or being racist to other people. For these people, same solution, they have to force me to respect them.
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Trying to get in to add some testers to testflight and it keeps stalling after I click the icon. Tried switching to cellular connection and got the same behavior.
That's why I said both.

Some groups are making hard stands for calling for equity, and others are calling for equality. I'm refraining on making a judgement call on which one is better, given I'm a tall white male. And the groups demanding this are African Americans who have been wronged by various state policies. I'll refrain from interpreting their meaning, and repeat verbatim.

I also think it's disingenuous to claim what "equity" is. This is a common tactic to define a word, and then destroy the stated definition, thus demeaning the original word. And bringing Marxism is guaranteed for a shitstorm..
Would it be possible to have a small hello world example in the README?
Personally, I'm more worried about the potential for a foreign object(eg. a fly) being present in the booth and becoming merged with myself as part of the teleportation process. scary stuff!
Note that the amounts are in AUD dollaridoos, it's $48m USD for saving $29m USD.

The savings are because you can use the energy generated by green sources to charge the battery if you can't use it immediately. That's free energy you'd otherwise throw away.
I worked on software for trading energy/transfer/balancing capacity in EU market a few years ago.

EU is pretty good in that regard, it demonopolized the energy market, so if you build this battery yourself on your land you can just entered the market and start selling balancing offers. You will easily outcompete traditional producers and consumers on that market if the article is right.

The widespread rule of thumb was - batteries on grid level don't work. Seems this isn't true anymore.
During the IE-6 dark ages of the early 2000s, Mozilla's browser (the Mozilla suite, then standalone Firebird, finally renamed to Firefox) was positioned in a similar way: it was the niche browser for people who cared about an open web. It stayed that way for quite a few years, slowly gaining traction by implementing features—tabbed browsing, popup blocking—not found in the dominant IE browser.

I could see a similar approach working again. Mozilla could focus on user-centric features, while Chrome has to also serve the needs of Google's business interests.
If your name is Misha Ivanovich, you're working out of Moscow, and you've got an American flag avatar, post mostly about US politics, and go by the name @johnsmith2009 on Twitter, I'd say it's clear you're doing some deliberate misrepresentation.
My problem with this article is the entire strategy for delivering data. A JSON file? That's probably the worst way I could think of: a CSV file would have been better. Part of the reason why databases exist is to handle exactly the problem the author is posing. There are already tools in place in SQL databases that track diffs for TB db's, and the authors could simply export patch files which would be far easier to analyze for inconsistency.

It really bothers me that the article is like "wow, check ou this awesome utility that helps us with a huge problem" instead of really thinking about "how did we get this huge problem and is there already a solution."

It just reeks of inexperience.
Algerian or Moroccan? Typically North Africans are said to be White, but it never really feels like that when your'e surrounded by whites...and are the odd sheep in the group.
I love the generic function aspect of this, where there aren't necessarily specific inputs or outputs. This will make code reusable by factors. A simple use being not needing to define both `toRadians` and `toDegrees`, just definite the relationship. But I believe this can be taken to the point of getting backpropagation for free once forward propagation is defined in neural networks.

Not to steal any thunder, but I've been prototyping a language very built on this idea.

https://git.kyleperik.com/kyle/judo
> "to seek shelter from the tear gas"

Of course they would say that.

You can clearly see the restaurant wasn't open by the way the sliding doors were being pushed open (0:06), and a "fermé" sign on the door (meaning "closed") at 0:16. No employees visible anywhere.

To get away from the gas, why not run down the road the camera man was chased down by the cop? No gas there, no resistance from police and much easier than breaking & entering a restaurant.

In fact if you look on a map, the location of that BK is on a roundabout with no less than 10 roads branching off it.

But yes, those are my guesses based on the information available and I may be wrong.
At least in Switzerland (Swissgrid loco), this is not true at all (for AS and frequency control)

The complete process is documented end to end, free to see, and the enroll process in documented and "cheap" (~150kCHF, 100kCHF being for the warranty). You can start playing in the ancillary services field with 5MW, which is not that much.

PS: If a company in CH needs help in that field (process approval or swissgrid-compatible IT systems), let me know !
If you have json line formatted stuff (or csv) and an aws account, you can do some nice things with Athena and SQL. We have a few simple backoffice tools that I've implemented around simple sql queries on data dumped from various systems that we have in json format. Awesome, if you want to do some quick selects, joins, etc.

If you are going to process this amount of data, don't load it all into memory and process line by line. Also do that concurrently if you have more than one CPU core available. I've done this with ruby, python, Java, and misc shell tools like jq. Use what you are comfortable with and what gets results quickly.

One neat trick with jq is to use it to convert json objects to csv and to then pipe that into csvkit for some quick and dirty sql querying. Generally gets tedious beyond a few hundred MB. I recommend switching to Athena or something similar if that becomes a regular thing for you.
IME it's a marketing scam, for 2 reasons (at least where I am - CA, USA):

1) Peer pressure from your boss(es) and coworkers who will tell you "now's not a good time to take time off" - it's actually never a good time for you to take vacation, work will keep coming through the pipeline, deadlines will be scheduled, and you'll continue to feel pressured to not take a vacation, no matter how hard you've worked or how productive you've been. Has happened 3/3 times I've had a job w/ "unlimited PTO"

2) Employers use unlimited PTO policies as a way to not pay out PTO when you leave your job. With fixed PTO, employers have to pay you for that time if you don't use it when you leave. With an "unlimited PTO" policy, there is no longer any "leftover" time you get credited for. In conjunction with point 1 above, this ends up saving them money.

For CA: "Earned vacation time is considered wages. Vacation time is earned as work is performed. (Cal. Lab. Code § 227.3; Suastez v. Plastic Dress-Up Co., 647 P.2d 122, 128 (Cal. 1982).)"

PTO laws by state here: http://ask.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.info/cc-nto-vacatio...
Where it links would be up to the website. The password manager doesn't know if you are already logged in or not, just that the user requested an intent to change their password at example.com. The password manager should just open the URL in the user's default browser. Then it's up to the website itself to redirect to a login flow if need be (they don't have a logged in cookie on that browser), including the password reset flow if necessary.

If a website has more than one account type that the user might want to change the password for, it could add some sort of flow to ask which account was meant. If the user has more than one account at the website, that becomes up to the user to make sure they signed into the right one that they wanted to password change. If the website is aware the user may have more than one account (such as Google's account switcher), they could present the options directly then.

It seems easy enough to do the right thing in most cases, given how simple this proposal is.
Although there's intersection, enjoyable and useful can be quite distinct. Case in point: facebook and messenger apps. I don't enjoy using these but they definitely provide value. A lot of my friends back in my home country do status updates on FB, it's nice to passively catch up with these every 2-3 weeks.

OTOH, I use Messenger every day to talk to my mom and relatives, again back in my home country. We could also use Whatsapp or some other video calling app but they are mostly old and it's very hard to get them to use another app, however easy its use may be.
I haven't looked into Brave in years, but the original idea I remember was that the trend of having the web be free for the public and funded by advertising (mostly the single entity, Google) was bad for the general public in terms of privacy. Therefore, it would be better if people financially supported the sites they visited and benefit from, so as to extinguish the need to give so much power to the advertising industry. In order to do that, they were modifying an existing browser with a system that would make a payment to the sites you visited that supported accepting such a payment.

Is this what you're against, or has Brave done something else that deserves being dismissive of them?
Entering a piece of metal that can uplift you is a calculated and well-known statistical risk you can evaluate if it worth being taken for the service it provide.

Indiegogo seems to not have such statistical intelligence.
This is literally only being talked about because its bitcoin, and everyone loves to jump on the "Bitcoin is dead" bandwagon. Options expire worthless all the time.
I think it is definitely interesting, but doesn't South Australia have a particularly screwed up electricity system (and I say that as an Ontarian)?
> It's not "Orwellian" to say "hey, that shit hurts people, be conscious of how your actions affect other people." It's polite.

I think it is Orwellian to declare certain words or phrases "dog whistles" and suppress their usage based on that.
Maybe, but that literally makes no sense - there's no BTC price at which the (sell BTC + buy options) trade makes more money than the (keep BTC) trade (unless I miscalculated something, which is also an option).
> [exit bash to clear environment]

Wat? just deactivate before you rm.

Please do not talk about things you clearly don't know well enough (which is patently the case if you can't rememer freeze and deactivate).

> Out-of-the-box cognitive burden is several times greater

You got any stats on that, or is it just your opinion? Because to me, the completely counter-intuitive --save parameter is much more painful to remember.

The venv/pip workflow is not perfect, but what you've described is not the problem.
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

Though I think he will need a more convincing marketing site if he intends for people to try it out.
In which the proprietor of The Centre for Computing History (hosting this thread's target webpage) had a cameo.
I believe the full term is "ride-hailing app[lication]", which does fit these services, specifically because they can't be used without the apps. I agree that the shortened version doesn't fit.
Could it be a geographical thing? Every company I've worked at has hired engineers over 50 while ive been there.
Hah yeah we are talking about a place that has “polish” separated from “white” on their census

The American condition doesnt have a way to relate to that
> and you need the right geography to help.

That's true of things like pumping water upstream, but I was thinking of something like this: https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris...

I'm curious how much real estate it would take with that approach to equal the energy storage capacity of the Tesla battery.
NZ actually took inspiration from our (Australia's) fibre-based national broadband network back in 2010 or so (before the current Australian Government got in and turned it into an absolute farce - instead of a new fibre network it became an upgrade to the existing old copper network, which is basically a few years off end-of-life, with the change supposed to save billions but that somehow managed to cost just as much money in the end).

As a result you can get gigabit fibre in places on their UFB network for a similar price we pay for 50-100Mbps.
That is not a problem at all. Whenever you have a centralized oauth service, there will be a possibility to track its user. I don't see a way how any company might guarantee that it doesn't track me so I'd believe it.

Therefore I'd prefer to have an alternative to oauth with old school account creation on each and every website with separate login/password pair.
It's an interesting question. At the start, it would be somewhat chaotic, also depending on how you define "existing publishers". Currently, many funders/universities determine who to give grants/tenure/etc by looking at the journals researchers have published in. They will still be able to do that for a while.

However, for academics, it wouldn't be entirely clear what to do. For example, if you choose to only disband paywalled journals, they will likely simple submit their works to open access journals, and over time some of those will emerge as the new "good ones".

Which is an interesting parallel, because that is sort of what Plan S tries to do. Except that it doesn't really have the power to "break up" paywalled journals, but only to deny them the ability to publish work they fund. As more and more funders join (like these Chinese funders appear likely to do), the closer this will get to "breaking up".

If you were able to disband all journals, but not preprint servers, then researchers would probably start publishing their work there, new servers would emerge for disciplines that don't have one yet, and some new system of determining "excellent" work will probably emerge. (Disclaimer: I'm working on one such system.)

If also preprint servers were disbanded... I don't know - nobody would be able to publish any more? Would you allow new publishers to be created?
We really should have public keys that we can give away to these sites, and then there should be a challenge/response phase that our private keys (stored safely!) are used to sign the challenge.

Of course that would mean you carrying around a physical token that needed to talk to your browser(s), phone(s) etc.

Passwords should GTFO tbh.
I submitted comments during the review period, but I just got an automated response asking me if they could publish it -- long after all the "town hall" discussions. They clearly didn't give a fuck what the Australian public wanted.
This nonsense comes up every time anything related to a password is mentioned. Google & Facebook login are evil. And people end up picking stupid Google & Facebook passwords anyway.

Every single site needing its own password is a feature, not a bug. Educate people about password managers instead.
I read on Wikipedia quite the opposite: we don't recycle Lithium it because it costs 5 times more than freshly extracted lithium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling#Lithium_ion_...

If my math is correct, the battery needs to last at least 10 years to break even if you factor in the cost of recycling the lithium.
I disagree. There is absolutely nothing wrong with users saying:

"I have enjoyed this use case that is currently allowed. I dislike the fact that this use case will be going away. If it does happen, I am much less likely to use the site. I think you should reconsider your decision."

Tumblr, of course, is free to disregard this feedback, but I cannot see how there is anything even slightly wrong with concerned users providing it.
The first comments are often thoughtless noise because commenters can skip reading or thinking about the article, or typing something more than a one-liner. The thing to do is wait for the thoughtful ones (more of those will appear, but it takes a bit of time) and engage with them.
I used Chrome and Samsung one and Firefox. There is no perceptible difference in speed of the browser, only in speed of mobile internet. I switched to FF a year ago as a main mobile browser and it works just fine.
It's DNS Jim, but not as we know it
Absolutely, here's my email kwame@magnetic-inc.com