skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appendix of last year’s IPCC report contained a list of potential solutions. Repairing damaged soil was high on the list. Trees are an obvious thing; we should be planting large numbers of trees. Large scale reforestation as well as everywhere else we can fit them. But soil holds the potential to sequester an enormous amount of carbon.

Degraded soil lacks microbial life. If usually ends up that way from conventional farming and poor land management. Repairing it would mean moving away from conventional monocrop farming towards rotational grazing [and other alternative practices]. A good reason to eat mostly local food from small organic farms, and if you eat beef to at least make sure it’s grass fed, pasture raised. This also cuts down on the carbon cost of transporting food halfway across the world in trucks and planes. (Those transportation costs are not factored into the EPAs estimates for how much agriculture contribute to climate change. Neither are the emissions generated in producing all the chemicals used in agriculture. They also don’t factor in how much carbon would be sequestered in all the acreage currently used for conventional farming, if it were to be replaced with practices like Silvopasture and agroforestry, or healthy pastures.)

The issue of climate change is a systemic one. A centralized food production system that relies on fossil fuels for both inputs and outputs (petrochemicals as well as transportation) has resulted in a society of sprawl. You don’t have to have a farm down the block anymore, and you can drive 30 miles to work. It’s all connected.

One idea is we can move back to a model of small local farms, keeping communities more tightly knitted and less sprawled. That would limit food choices more towards what’s in season, or has a long shelf life. Arguably, while limited by seasonality, the food would taste better since these days we engineer for transportability over taste. Another option would be to keep with a centralized model but rapidly decarbonize it; electric trains, agroforestry, etc.

I personally think the decentralized model has the potential to be very beautiful. But we should be pragmatic and take whatever the best elements are of either path and just start making changes.
I'm an avid reader of The Guardian and donate 50EUR a year.

Of course it's partisan on Brexit (as is The Economist, btw) and of course its general direction has a leftist slant (and why should it not?)

That said, I think it's one of the few remaining quality papers in the UK, which provides overall accurate reporting.

What makes me gag sometimes is some of the writers in The Opinion section. But that's fine too. If it's too crack-pottery I'm alsways free to ignore it.

Their Long Read section[1], though, is fantastic long form journalism and that alone justifies my yearly donation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

EDIT : Slight clarification
>If you can brush your teeth, comb your hair, tie your shoes, and iron and fold clothes but choose not to then you aren’t autistic.

"Choose" is an awkward word here. There are autistic people who will do alk these things, have a slight road bump on life, and it will all fracture apart. Then they will self-isolate for awhile and eventually emerge and try it again. There's a sort of category of people who can do these things, want to do these things on a genuine and honest level, but can only manage them with great difficulty.

I do agree with the general notion that todays conception of autism was generated out of thin air due to the hypercompetitiveness of society. The entire concept of a "spectrum disorder" is a bit odd. I also notice how nobody seems to be correctly measuring if this new paradigm is actually helping the patients. The amount of stigma that exists now that did not exist in the 80s towards the exact same kind of person is incredible. Many of these people would manage, with difficulty, completely unassisted.

I sometimes wonder if the mental health field has damned the people they call autistic while believing they're helping them. The insistence on labelling peoples psychological quirks as a "disorder" it hurts people in profound ways.
It’s impossible to have actual non-determinism in a deterministic system. Non-determinism is emulated in software using random number generators. If you know the seed (the ‘x’) and the definition of the random function (the ‘f’), you can predict all outputs, analogous to my f(..(x)..) universe above.

There’s no programmatic random number generator that is truly random. (I mean random in the sense that it’s entirely unpredictable; not in the sense that the distribution of the random number generator covers all possibilities uniformly over many calls.)

Hardware random number generators are truly random (like the RDRAND instruction in x86 CPUs which is seeded by an on-chip entropy source). But if you’re relying on physical entropy, it’s not a deterministic system anymore. You simply can’t emulate non-determinism in a deterministic system.
Because otherwise Waze doesn't work.

You can also imagine the other sub-rosa reasons for this.
This seems like a good way to recognize the extra time put in to support OSS projects - and I like the thoughtfulness about not making it an incentive to spend even more hours working, by capping hours and keeping the bonus amount low.
This is an interesting project. Is there a way to save the produced model, because I didn't see anything in the examples?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

There is a nice table that shows, that Americium-241 has low power density, but it's half-life is 432 years. It also mentions that the real reason, why this is interesting, is because Am-241 is a byproduct and a pure isotope that can be used without refining.
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2005 is also the same year that AJAX browser apps started displacing desktop UIs at a no doubt alarming rate for MS.

Microsoft created AJAX - it was originally and ActiveX extension that only worked in IE.

Even today, GSuite is not that popular among big corps.

By the time MS was trying to push windows phone, their windows only development stack was a huge part of their problem. They needed developers to write apps for windows phone; especially developers already successful on IOS and Android. Only problem: all the IOS developers were on Macs (because Apple). And many of the Android developers were too (because they were pretty awesome). A windows laptop was a really hard sell to developers at the time because, well, they kind of sucked. Google was actively trying to compete with MS and still best friends with Apple so, the two of them created a developer friendly ecosystem outside of the MS bubble.

Developers go where the money is. It’s not the tiny Indy developers that are making most of the money on mobile. Windows Phone didn’t fail to get apps because developers didn’t want to program on Windows. They didn’t see any money in it. Heck even MS Office was available for iOS before Windows.
My girlfriend asked me for them a pair. I bought them. She finds them very comfortable when reading. So it served its function.
The NYTimes ('paper of record') just tweeted the OK symbol hoax. WaPo stated Louis Farrakhan is a right wing figure yesterday. Where are good quality newspapers?
1860 was also the first year of a brand new two-party system. The previous decade was unilateral Democrat rule while the Whigs died and Constitutionalists, Know-Nothings, and Republicans fought over the scraps. It was an unusual time.
Not sure if you actually read this article. It’s excellent, especially its narrative stitched together with first-person, you-are-there, accounts.

Rather timely also since Amazon announced this week that it’s working on one day deliveries for Prime customers.

And those in the know will tell you that same-day (even 2-4 hours!) deliveries are on the roadmap for Prime customers in major metro areas.
> If any of my readers are aware of any real lawsuits that came from application developers who believed they were getting a SERIALIZABLE isolation level, but experienced write skew anomalies in practice

Doubt this ever really happened. Can hardly imagine debating serializability in a court of law Oracle v. Google was bad enough.
Please, I genuinely would love to see some examples of some of this "so crazy and hard to believe" stuff that has been peddled by Alex Jones that has been proven as true.

Edit: I would also ask, if you could, to let me know which portions of this article struck you as particularily biased. Considering half of the article is conveying the statement from Facebook, and the rest of the article appears to be stating the facts (Media announced a ban, the ban actually happened after the media, heres what FB had to say about it) I'm having trouble seeing the intense bias you see.
Mike Burrows keeps a very low profile but he was actively involved in the creation of Chubby along with the more... subtle... aspects of synchronization primitives. He also co-invented Burrows Wheeler encoding (bzip2 uses it). Google would not have been able to build its empire without his contributions.
But pretty bad for Europe overall (?)
It usually does result in tragedy, though. It's just reported as "bad luck."
I've heard a bunch of people use the Z in person and on recorded talks.
Charter cities are things that exist conceptually. Most famously Hong Kong and Singapore “special administrative zones”, but there are increasingly initiatives on the horizon trying to help fix institutions in countries lacking them around the globe: https://www.innovativegovernance.org/
Survivor bias in civil disobedience makes some people think that “on average” it produces positive results, especially when the cause is “just” (which every violent extremist does, of course). Anyone even casually familiar with history would blush at such arrogance.
The saying goes, "complex systems fail in complex ways". Check out some of the cloud provider postmortems here for a few fascinating and detailed examples: https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

You could say certain failures only occur and cascade under Special Circumstances. :)
You sound like a great friend.
I subscribed to the NYT and a few other places.

Hell if my subscription made it possible for others to read it for free and that was sustainable, i'd be 100% ok with that.

That's how it works for public radio and public TV, I feel like they're a thing I want to support, but at the same time share as much as support.
I'll give you a clear-cut example:

Whenever anyone calls on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party to support a second referendum, they will publish it on the front page of their website. They are trying to amplify those voices which agree with their position - to reverse Brexit, or at least engineer a soft Brexit. They do not give those voices in and around the Labour Party which oppose a second referendum a hearing.
Oracle treats NULLs very differently than most (all?) other RDS. So, for example, the Postgres best practice about NOT IN doesn't apply to Oracle.
Maggie Haberman and one other guy whose name I forget.

And their editorial page has problems aplenty, which are evidence of who their owners really support.

Finally, one of these days, someone is going to have to call Trump precisely what he is: an inveterate liar.
I agree, the Guardian is highly partisan. I look at it most days as it has a very clear position. What I find surprising is that many people who share the Guardian view of the world think it is impartial, where in actuality they are crowd funding an echo chamber of belief reinforcement.
I feel the quality of their writing has gone way down in the last few years, with far too many judgmental opEds dominating.
They are normally elected and yes it is like the Speaker of the HOC though normally a bit more crunchy that the old softy that's currently in the position.
Microsoft drops password expiration policies from Win10 1903 security baseline
From my experience it’s close to impossible to have a 100% bullet proof contract. If you try that you end up with the typical government contracting style where you spend a lot of time with specs and requirements upfront but it falls apart as soon as it touches reality.

In the end you need to pick suppliers you can work with productively no matter what the correct details are.
The extra copy alpha tryptase trait is may very well be involved in a large number (perhaps majority) of cases of autism, but it's very early days re that trait. Here, "involved" means a necessary condition (for those cases) but not a sufficient condition. PS - melanin (a tan) is more effective than chelation in sequestering mercury.
Term limits in congress aren't really a good thing though. We have term limits for President because the President is uniquely powerful, they can almost unilaterally bend the aparatus of government to their will. If allowed to rule for too long, a president can easily become a dictator. The same is not true of a congressperson who weilds 1/535th of the power of a branch.

Besides, if the people want to put someone in office, shouldn't they be allowed to? Isn't that Democracy 101?
At some point, you have to have hard lines. It's entirely reasonable to dictate what a sexual partner gets to do with and to your body.

>can't tell you how many times I've been pressured or refused or looked down upon for refusing non-condom sex or not going on PrEP myself.

Seems like a great social signal that those aren't people you need to bother with having in your life.
Thanks for sharing. I guess the difference is that none of these stories involves crossing the border (or maybe I missed some details, that was a lot to read :). Still positively frightening that the system could so badly fail.
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These (Americium RTGs) work pretty good in Minecraft (specifically Enigmatica 2 Expert Mode). Reliable, decent power output, zero maintenance. Not got as far as orbit yet, but I expect to take at least one of these with me to power the spacecraft.
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Would not the call for a referendum maybe be a bigger deal than the status quo?

Just for arguments sake here.
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Woah that's my go-to, I had no idea I wasnt the only one doing this.
As I understand it its good compared to France and Germany - maybe Switzerland would get you more but Switzerland is expensive

It is less than a train driver gets for a 4 day week though :-(
Forgive me, when I wrote "lack of cooling water", while there might be water, but you cannot use it for cooling because of the temperatures of the river. But the consequence is the same.

Yes, France exports power, but not TO Germany. It exports ACROSS Germany to other countries. The power gets there using the German grid, but not consume in Germany.
The French power isn't needed in the German grid - the only time French power is used in the German grid might be short times when there is surplus production which needs to be absorbed in Europe.
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Another thought is medical applications. Imagine if we get good enough to shoot a beam of them like a chest x-ray or a mri.

The wave collapses everywhere except inside artery blockages or tumors, and you have non-invasive treatments and therapeutic imaging.
The right to be in the country. Either they are detained and the case is processed or they are deported immediately. You seem to have no answer to where else to put people who cannot be in the country legally.

The backlog is a resource issue. Precisely the kind of thing that can be helped with better software.
Glad to see to see this post on HN. I'm the author and happy to respond to questions in this thread.
It works the same way in Oracle - i.e., it is case-insensitive. What RDS are case-sensitive in terms of things like table/column names?
Not too good for london
I fundamentally" believe in democracy and think that the way forward might be to experiment with these at the local level.

Either city/state elections or your own political parties.

If they REALLY work we would be HIGHLY competitive.

For example, instant run-off / ranked choice (or other voting systems) could be used in the Democratic primaries WITHOUT having to convince Republicans.

If they really work the Dems will have much better candidates better representing the people and should win more elections.
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Do you have an example of them being toxic? I read it a fair bit and there's some pc/lefty silliness but it seldom sees toxic.
These are great resources, thanks so much.
4chan doesn't exist to make a profit though. It only needs to get enough money to keep the lights on.
> Not sure where your data comes from.

I literally linked a 150 pages book with both data and examples in my previous comment.
Females in particular, are badly underdiagnosed.
Read the NYTimes and ignore all the political stuff. They do a ton of reporting on every other subject.
"Things that should not be in the SQL Standard, but are." FTFY
The thing is they can use it to understand superconductivity because there are vastly fewer variables involved. It could lead to room-temperature superconductivity, assuming it even exists.
> 1) Don't use timestamp (without time zone)

The problem with this one is both timestamp and timestamptz are problematic:

* timestamp will implicitly discard input timezone information
* timetamptz doesn't store a timezone, it converts everything to UTC and stores that; furthermore it assumes any data without timezone information is in the "timezone" system parameter and converts from that on input and to that on output

Storing everything as UTC is problematic because it's completely unreliable for all future events e.g. it's plain broken for calendaring and reminders.
You are correct. But, the biggest projects we all use (apache, linux, php, etc) all have many paid maintainers through large companies.

If these people weren't paid, I don't think we would have any of the quality software we see today.
When I went to buy my first car, years ago, I opened the shiny brochure and asked "Can I get X with Y and maybe Z?", and was told flat out "No, we don't sell option X at all." Just because they advertise it doesn't mean you can buy it.
"What's the smallest power of pi that spells your name when encoded in base64?"
I used to spend hours and a lot of money there. But that was when I still bought paper magazines and books.

These days, I don't really buy technical books any more (plenty of online docs), I get audio books when possible, and I don't bother with magazines at all. On a side note, given how much money I would have saved, I would have totally loved Apple's News offering back then, but with my reading habits today, it seems like a weird idea to me.

The only time I go into the local Chapters/Indigo these days is if I'm craving a coffee and they're the only place around.
I'd suggest the Guardian has more of a neo liberal 'slant' rather than a 'left wing' one. They completely ignore that the Labour party has always been very sceptical about the EU for example and are all in on retaining the status quo around the current EU organization. There is no critical writing about it there. They also ignore the left of the Labour party. 'The Full Brexit' for example.
https://www.thefullbrexit.com/about
Oh yeah, there's definitely concerns in general. It's not as easy for shippers of proprietary software as say the BSD license, you've got to keep a clear interface separation between your proprietary code and the GPL code etc.

You might also have lawyers who are lazy about it and don't want to deal with the liability, "we heard Apple banned GPL code..." or "the FSF sued Cisco...".

But there's no license reason for why you can't use that GPL code in some way, and everyone from Google with Android to Oracle with Oracle Linux and their DB bundles GPL code that's directly used by some accompanying proprietary piece of software.

But what I was more going for is that there's also a non-legal aspects to it that go beyond the license, which is that some maintainers of free software are actively hostile to their software being used as a smaller component in some proprietary product.

The GCC project is probably the most famous example of this, I think this has changed somewhat in recent years with LLVM+Clang, but they used to jealously guard things like their AST format. So e.g. someone with a proprietary editor (or Emacs for that matter...) could never hope to use GCC for spewing out parsing information for some C code.

I think it's fair to say that the Git project isn't like that. If someone maintaining proprietary software needs some plumbing interface to hook their stuff up and is willing to submit patches it'll be received as well as any other change (subject to review, maintenance & backwards-compatibility concerns etc.). If they find it useful it's likely that other people will too...
> Young people from poorer families are badly underrepresented in higher education. That risks exposing them to a lifetime of reduced earnings and undermines the foundations of wider economic growth. What can be done? Economically disadvantaged students benefit from a mix of grants and loans in third-level education, but they also need better support from the earliest years of their school careers.

http://www.oecd.org/forum/education-for-all.htm
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Good point, thanks.

My assumption was that since the slope looks fairly flat, this was still a nonstarter for most applications - 86% after 2 months is good progress, but commercial standards are 80% after 20 years. Even so, it's a big step up from the material's past of failing outright after short spans.
> What makes me gag sometimes is some of the writers in The Opinion section.

Absolutely. Opinion pieces in a newspaper are not meant to represent the view of the paper, or even to pretend to be objective; they are by definition opinionated and form an essential part of the public debate.

A lot of people don't seem to understand the concept of opinion pieces and letters from readers.

A good newspaper balances the opinion pieces placed, and will leave out obvious falsehoods.
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A efficient legislation would be to ban chinese made electronic ... Not sure how realistic this is
I agree. I submitted the story because it's a huge feature that's going to make me much more productive. There are many hacks for vs code already to do something similar, but this is truly unique. What's odd, is I've seen other topics related to vscode for small features that have gotten a lot more feedback.
This sort of folk-argument is common vs depression, too, and works just as well - yet there is such a thing as clinical depression, and it's just a different animal than a reactive funk.
Within a caucus I think this makes sense.

I do worry about any wider use though. California has shown with its proposition system that issue voting can get really messy / absurd. A political caucus can maybe recognize that voting to (just an example) dedicate %60 of all revenue to X while understanding that they can't then dedicate ... %60 of all revenue to Y too. The general electorate is not so inclined or consider things past step 1 of governance (or really think about governance at all).
I think by "examples" GP meant examples of "obfuscation" as you call it, rather than just names.