skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running a Rails 1.2 app sounds... dangerous. Have you plans on upgrading it? (Probably at this point easier to start a fresh Rails 5 app, write some tests + copy/edit stuff over as needed).
> So, is speech in USA "freer" than in the EU? Yes. But in both cases free speech is recognized as a right.

True, but also trivial. Everyone pays lip service to free speech, even the most serious violators of it:

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

Article 67 states: "Citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, demonstration and association. The State shall guarantee conditions for the free activity of democratic political parties and social organizations."
Why not converting JSON from/to BLOB?
There is a host of literature on the subject from many authors but I'll surmise the problem: schools reward behaviour like being quiet and attentive in class, sitting still for longer periods, not goofing off and following instructions which is far more common in girls than it is in boys while punishing typically 'boyish' behaviour (which more or less comes down to the opposite of the former). Outdoors and practical activities - which are more aligned to the way boys learn - are limited to a minimum or even taken away completely while indoors, formal classroom-based teaching based on literacy and numeracy is the norm, an environment tailored to those aforementioned traits which are more common in girls. Boys do better when they have positive male role models but male (and here it is important to realise I'm not just talking about sex but also about behaviour, i.e. 'typically male') teachers and assistants are as rare as hen's teeth in the primary and increasingly also in the secondary school systems. Continuous assessment plays a larger role in setting final results, again favouring girls as they are essentially being rewarded for having the earlier characteristics while boys are being punished for lacking them. In some school systems - the Swedish being one of them according to the teacher's union - girls get higher test scores than boys for the same performance when the tests are scored by the pupil's teachers [1]. A study titled "Grading and gender : Equality or discrimination?" [2] arrives at similar conclusions.

[1] https://lararnastidning.se/pojkar-missgynnas-i-betygsattning...

[2] http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1205...
maybe that should be: Exa Megs And Constantly Swapping

or Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
Eh... Delivering multiple cars over a short distance by loading them up on a flatbed or car hauler just doesn't make any sense. Tow trucks will always be more expensive than calling a taxi. Especially given that this is basically a textbook example of the travelling salesman problem. And I don't mean computing a route is hard, I just mean that in practice while there's overlap between destinations for a sparse set of e.g. 10 destinations spread evenly over some area around a hub it's not like being able to go between destinations directly makes it 10x shorter. Trucks are expensive to maintain and operate, much more so than a regular passenger car. Trucks also can't deliver as easily or to as many places as a person driving it. If someone lives down a dead end road that's extremely inconvenient for the truck whereas it's a non-issue for someone driving.

Car haulers don't make sense for sparse local deliveries.
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If not a good idea then it seems to me to be a very practical one (despite it being censorship).

As nowadays no matter how carefully one chooses one's words or how innocent one's thoughts are about such matters, someone somewhere will misconstrue them and take offense.

Shame, but that's the way of the world these days.
No, the goalposts have definitely moved. Playing chess used to be a sign of intelligence, and for that reason, game playing has always been a big focus for AI research. Search algorithms in general have always been part of AI research.

They may not be self-learning, but not all AI is. And modern chess and go AI is self-learning and scarily good at it.
I see the sample chapter has an autoconf porting example. Is porting a CMake based project covered anywhere in the book?
But on the internet almost everything is on someone else's private property, unless you run your own website on your own hardware running on your own network and using your own DNS.
It's a little off IMHO to argue that energy storage affects fuel usage only in electricity. The most visible company in the business right now is Tesla which primarily goes after transportation. Together, electricity and transportation account for 56% of US emissions:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Another large chunk of emissions come from burning fuel for heating, at least 11% (commercial/residential heating slice) but probably about half of the industry slice as well comes from local energy generation. This tends to be harder to replace with batteries because of the form of energy desired, e.g. you can't replace an acetylene torch with electricity.

If we very generously assume that most modes of transportation excepting airplanes and snowmobiles can be run on batteries, and gas heating can be replaced with electric heat pumps, the proportion of emissions affected by these two technologies could be around 60-70%. That's not a complete fix, but it is a big piece of the puzzle. However, the technology turnover is extremely difficult and expensive, which I think is the bigger problem hiding behind "renewables".
I love zotero, and would never switch to Mendeley because of the lock-in problem, but the lack of any mobile apps is a real problem. Reading and annotating on an iPad is a key ability, and the 3rd part PaperShip is buggy and no longer under development.
Is it just me or is the site not loading for anyone else?
Can Smart Contracts Solve the AI Limitations Problem? Clause Thinks So
You don't let them normalize their conduct. You loudly tell them how intolerable they are to society. You watch them at all times and make sure they don't harm anyone.

As someone who was on the receiving end of attention from pedophiles as a child and who has spoken to many of their victims, you do not want these people isolated in their own communities. You want to know exactly who they are.

Letting them speak, which at least where I live is still their right, is NOT tolerance.
> assuming student size held constant

It did not: https://pages.github.berkeley.edu/OPA/our-berkeley/enroll-hi... During this period, the undergraduate student population grew about 20%.

I was at Berkeley during most of this period. The undergraduate population swelled at the same time that the university was dealing with difficult budget cuts. The growth was significant enough that many students had, and still have, difficulty signing up for the courses they needed.

(I believe the cuts and the student population increase were related: admitting more students, especially out of state students, brought in more revenue. But there could have been other factors, like more students wanting a college degree after the financial crisis.)
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Great interview. Really sounds like for the next 25 years (where China will increase energy capacity by 2x and India 4x) better nuclear fission plants will be the only viable choice for a source of energy that doesn't increase co2 emissions
Problem 3: Vanity counters
This is the “vanity menu”:
The thing with vanity metrics is that there should be just one. One metrics is simple to understand and focus. Two or three split attention, making everything weaker.

Each one of these metrics is important to me - I judge a project by the numbers in each of these, and they have very different importance depending on the size of the repo. Please don't "simplify" this.
Your overview page appears to have two copies of the same image.
Google might not be ready to make it's own social credit scoring system public just yet...
Don't forget space heating also.

There's a lot of things that can be electrified, that currently aren't.
What's the deal with their lack of support for the Pixel 2 and 3?
Maybe, and just maybe, if money was not an issue, research would also be more open.
I have 15.1 on my OP3 right now, I highly recommend the Google camera, it is sooo much better than the lineage stock camera. So much so that I will first investigate if Google camera is already ported to 16 before switching.

Chrome casting my screen never worked sadly so I do feel compelled to upgrade...
An experiment you can reproduce in a vehicle driving on a dirt road is a bit easier than measuring global climate change.
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It's the classic induced demand phenomenon - when roads are expanded, people drive a lot more, and congestion remains the same. Same thing with transit - people ride it up to the point where it's miserably crowded.

Both are signs that our infrastructure in either form is unable to service the maximal demand society places on it, so people ultimately decide not to go places because of the cost of doing so (in terms not just of cash, but also comfort and time).

I think people will use rideshares only to the point that congestion is precisely miserable enough those who choose to rideshare to tolerate it.

So what might happen is that mass transit remains equally as congested, just more people are taking trips than they were before because the capacity of the whole system has increased.

It's also the case that, unlike self-driving car infrastructure, trains are far more scalable - in places that actually invest in their mass transit infrastructure, I think mass transit can compete pretty well the more the municipality invests in train lines and stuff.

But to assume that self-driving cars will save cities that don't have transit infrastructure—that might be true for very sparsely populated, small cities, but for all the American cities that lack public transit infrastructure, I think the situation will only change marginally.
Popular forum software (discourse, phpbb) have good mechanism for comments moderation. For example a comment from every new user can require approval before it becomes public. YouTube doesn't seem to have such mechanism, so the moderator would need to continuously monitor the comment section.
Unlimited physical access is a "game over" scenario for phones. Consider supply chain attacks - just pwn the device before the user gets it. You might swap in a digitizer that logs all input (also works later). Etc.
That was a rough time to be in a 7 series. Bunch of new tech with horrible teething trouble.
Well, I already know that my short-term memory is somewhat hosed. So for stuff that matters to me, I leave myself notes. And for stuff that doesn't matter to me, I just forget. And that's actually better, in a way, because I'm more focused. And less distracted by guilt or whatever.
US transportation agencies ban lithium-ion batteries in passenger aircraft cargo
That's a bit stupid, really. We can substitute many GG producing activities with carbon free electricity.

Some examples:

- Heat pumps for space and water heating, instead of gas, heating oil etc. Cooking on an induction stovetop instead of gas.

- Electric transport (cars, buses, trains.... maybe hyperloops to substitute for airplanes)

- Electric heating for furnaces, kilns etc

- Production of industrial chemicals via electric processes, eg hydrogen (hence ammonia, methanol etc) by electrolysis instead of steam methane reforming

etc. etc. With electricity, you can even reform CO2 into useful products (eg methanol, synthetic hydrocarbons, dimethyl ether), replacing current CO2 producing processes with ones that utilise CO2. (And if you are interested in supporting this, I would like to hear from you as this is my current area of work).
I could have sworn you can get to FT articles by googling for the headline and using outline
Then that factors into the reporter's evaluation of the source.

You're arguing a straw man of not checking out the sources sufficiently and just going off of surface impressions, when GP is arguing that digging into the sources is their job.
Postgres 11 doesn't follow the standard at all (as per your link). A third party implemented the standard [0] which was submitted on pghackers[1] very late in the Postgres 11 cycle[2] (at 75k gzipped the patch is pretty humongous). A quick googling doesn't show any information pertaining it being integrated (in part or full) into pg12 so IDK.

edit: apparently https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1471/ has been "Waiting on Author" and bumped from CF to CF since early 2018, and https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1472/ and https://commitfest.postgresql.org/17/1473/ pretty much the same with no "waiting on author" but I don't really know how CF works and I see no comment or requests or reviews so…

[0] https://obartunov.livejournal.com/200076.html

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/00531c7e-f501-b852-9b6...
The End of All That's Good and Pure About the Internet
Do you also get a replacement car for the time you can't use the one you bought?
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Well if renewables become cheap....

I understand what you're saying, but it's acceptable to take a stand against sweatshops, child labour etc. Why not against pollution?
From the article:

The json1 extension does not (currently) support a binary encoding of JSON. Experiments have been unable to find a binary encoding that is significantly smaller or faster than a plain text encoding. (The present implementation parses JSON text at over 300 MB/s.) All json1 functions currently throw an error if any of their arguments are BLOBs because BLOBs are reserved for a future enhancement in which BLOBs will store the binary encoding for JSON.
My experience with test drives is that you immediately know if you like the car or not. Reviews have never really made sense to me, most reviewers seem to talk about stuff I just don't care about.

The only problem is that dealers usually only have cars with the most popular engines available, so you often can't actually try the car you want to buy...
It doesn't make sense to assess the learning curve of a language when you're also intermixing learning to code...

It's like saying a plane is "harder to learn to fly than other planes" just because a beginner can't learn to fly it quickly.
This question came up the other day in #lineageos@freenode. My reading of that is that there are a lot of good options but the most common issue is that they're EOL or becoming EOL.

And this might not be an issue for everyone but fact is that in my own circle of friends I know of three Nexus 5X phones that have died to hw failure. And one that is acting strange.

But I personally still have my old 5x with LineageOS and no issues at all. I love it.

What I would go for is one of the phones that came with stock android 2-3 years ago. Buy it used it perhaps from a re-seller that still has one in stock.

Pixel for example has a really nice feel in my hand and is pretty cheap.
learning cliff I'd say
> Cooking on an induction stovetop instead of gas.

Congratulations, you have banned Chinese food. I’m reasonably confident most professional chefs and a lot of amateurs would be very, very angry if you tried to ban cooking with gas. People aren’t actually willing to make sacrifices to their own personal quality of life to fight climate change as we’ve seen many times with carbon taxes or with the yellow vest movement in France.
Angular vs. React: Who wins the front end battle in the enterprise?
This gets to a conflict of values between different environmentalists - a lot of people are willing to accept local environmental damage in order to counter climate change.
I wonder when a newspaper will try pay-as-you-go. $10 gets you 20 additional article credits in your allowance. Or maybe a cheaper lite subscription with a higher article limit or just A-section or something.
Your example is not necessarily contrived, but it is not very representative, either. Throw in a couple of proper lambdas in there, and suddenly python won't look as nice.
Might be an interesting terraforming project: bring some water along with the electrical infra, plant drought resistant shrubs and watch as they start covering soil, capturing moisture and so on...
The article reports on the conflict between and claims of two parties. Doing research into claim validity has its place (investigative journalism) but not in an article that is just reporting on a conflict, in fact including such research would very likely be unethical.
Project Drawdown [1] deserves a mention in any discussion in this field. They are a substantive research enterprise trying to map what can (technically, not politically) be done to reach the point where CO2 ppm start to fall in the next 30 yrs. Good thing is: it can be done. Bad thing is: the incentives aren't there right now. Bill is right, energy isn't the largest component. It's food and (delta) people that need to change the most. Step away and we need all measures to work and succeed in concord, including energy.

There's a podcast for you to have a taste for the quality of the modellers and what they are up to in the next fase. [2].

My 2 cents is a CO2-tax would align incentives quite painfully. All we get in return is the drama of creating an artificial pool for a unlimited 'resource'. The cost of all measures is quite affordable, on a global, long-term scale.

[1] https://www.drawdown.org
[2] http://www.thedrawdownagenda.com/about/
Another really interesting conference [1] about energy, economics and physics. Bill Gates is right and the path to reduce our greenhouse gas emission won't be easy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA
That is not a good analogy. When a car breaks down, it cannot continue working. If Windows forces an upgrade, it could continue working, but refuses to.
scrolling and mouse is probably not important in that culture; that said .. text input delay is super sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I
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> The seller personally delivered them in a van on a four hour drive

> ... after personally delivering a few of them several hours away.

Heh, and the cycle continues.
1) The leaked location is just "datacenterlocally", e.g. westcoast USA or northern europe.

2) There is no guarantee that traffic IS NOT routed from another region to handle traffic peaks.
AWS chief Andy Jassy says it's 'easy to cut prices'
Just look at the barn. Pigs are smart creatures. How can a creature be happy in that barn? I had some of the best pork ever in Kauai where pigs roam pastures. Isn’t that a better solution?
Poverty for all! Smaller houses and apartments, heated less, wearing more clothes in winter and less AC in summer, all combined with a collapse in international travel. That’s a real vote winner.

Technological solutions, megadeaths to reduce consumption or dealing with climate change. These are the only realistic options. China and India aren’t staying poor.
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I had an interesting conversation with my wife's friend's son who is a buyer of natural gas for a large electronics company in Japan. He told me that they generate all their electricity on site with gas. The main reason is that they need gas for heating furnaces and things, they need the waste heat from the generators and they need the electricity. While they could replace quite a lot of the things they have with electric alternatives, it basically means rebuilding the entire factory from scratch.

It made be realise that it's going to be a bit of a long haul for getting industry away from greenhouse gas producing energy. BTW, this also largely explains why Japan's auto makers didn't have a massive problem when the nuclear power plants shut down after the Fukushima disaster. It's a bit depressing to think about it...
I once tried a website (or browser extension maybe?) constantly opening random links on weird topics to mess up your browser history.
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HR experts share the skills they say employees will most need in the future
Most software in the 90s were highly customizable and a joy to use because of that. I don't remember customization adding a lot of complexity to desktop applications (having worked with classic VB6, VB.NET (WPF) and Qt4).

The complexity today comes from the fact that there is much more focus and priority on getting the application to match designers' vision. Its extremely complex to offer the user customization while still ensuring pixel perfect UIs. (Emphasis on complex, its not impossible).
I don't understand what you mean by "associated". How are chromosomes associated with behaviour?

Also, what are "behavioural traits"? Is picking one's nose a "behavioual trait", for example? Is that associated with one's chromosomes?
What about less dense social poles ? it seems history liked to have big poles for jobs or industries that everybody would migrate to, especially since we have cars and highways .. Maybe a more organic + local mindset..
It's a reasonable concern.

Many apps we won't be able to handle at first can easily be handled by our approach with more work.

For some capabilities, we will have ways of filling gaps in the platform. We have some easy-to-use and fairly flexible hooks where you can add a lot of UI customization. We've also discussed mechanisms for catching events in dry and triggering external code developers can write. But that's almost certainly not going to make v1.
Replace “blockchain” with “database” and everything you said still applies.
Yay! So many beautiful and fragile places will be saved now! People don't realize that our local deserts are "biodiversity hotspots" and there are thousands of species plants and animals relying on that desert to remain intact and in balance. Exactly like Amazon rain forests and our oceans, you can't just clearcut or poison them and expect everything to go along just fine. People may look at a dry lake and think "dead wasteland" because they don't understand that fairy shrimp and different plant seeds lie dormant in that soil for years until there is water, then they all explode into life, providing food and water for local critters as well as migrating birds, etc. Mother Nature did not make a single square foot of wasteland.
All that stuff about the big-5 personality traits sounds about as accurate as horoscopes.
One thing I like is when getting data from multiple tables.

Let's say you have a product with multiple labels: usually you'll get one line per (product, label) tuple so you'll have to do some job application side if you what to get one [product, labels] object per product.

With the json aggregate function you can get a (product, json array of labels) tuple per product and just have to do some json_decode in your application code.
> Because error handling is boring, and when my wife says "what have you been up to today" there needs to be more for me to say than "well, I wrote this converter".

I want to hire this guy. I need to build a company first.
I'd be happy to hear more about these use cases you have in mind, either here or over email.
Extensions are profile-specific.

Solution: change profile to launch another browser instance without extensions.

Go to "about:profiles" in the address bar, or configure shortcuts in your OS to launch browser with different profiles: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Mul...