skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might as well say that quebecoi don't want to
learn the language of the rest of the country.

You are conveniently proposing a revisionist view of history.

The word "Canada" has had multiple meanings which have been thoroughly perverted. Technically, Canada is not a country per se, rather it is a federation. Canada referred to the nation of what were later called "French Canadians" long before English settlers came. This [1] map from 1579 uses the word Canada almost 200 years before the English conquest. The process of nation building was underway a _long_ time before any English settlers joined. The English appropriated the name (and the flag, and the national anthem) for themselves and promptly outlawed giving or receiving education in French in _all provinces except Quebec_. Some are still fighting against it _to this day_. These facts would not be disputed by any party at he national assembly because... they are facts.

So did the English not want to learn the language of the rest of the country, even when they were vastly outnumbered? No, they did not (and still don't). Yet for example, they generously split their debt between all of the inhabitants of the federation, at a time when the English were vastly outnumbered yet millions of dollars in debt, and the French were much more numerous yet had budget surpluses!

The Quebecois (Canadiens) have absolutely no lesson whatsoever to receive from anybody. The English minority in the province receives many times more funding than it would pro rata. It is cited by the UN as the world's most well treated minority. You, like a lot of other English Canadians, are merely expressing your disdain for Canadiens. The history of this federation is clear, if only more people would learn about it.

[1]: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017585794/
That's not my view of the market for Go devs. A few decent Go projects in your GitHub profile perhaps? Sounds like you're being filtered by HR. Just mention a few extra buzzwords.
> The report doesn’t identify these “super emitters,” but notes that landfills give off more methane than any other source in the state. NASA’s equipment found that a subset of these landfills were the largest emitters in California and exhibited “persistent anomalous activity.”

Is the problem here that the trash is breaking down, or it's breaking down in a suboptimal way (such as anaerobic activity) that's causing methane to be released instead of a more benign gas?
Major problem with a heavily underfunded understaffed company, they simply don't have the resources to put up any kind of legal resistance to this type of judicial pressure.

Edit, Also incredibly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461957
Hey rayiner, love your contributions to HN. I think you're missing a big piece here that I have very recently started to see myself. I would be delighted to share with you.

Are you aware of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's book "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"? I am just about done reading it. Before I may have side-eyed "criminal-justice racism" "health-care racism", etc. After, it is clear as day how racism in America should be a first-order question when examining any social issue/problem.

I really hope you check out the book!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898216-stamped-from-th...

As for "health-care racism" I even caught that in the news recently.
"Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/24/racial-bias...
I'm quite frankly stunned to be reading this. In my experience in industry it's almost universal that pandas syntax is overall pretty horrendous.

SQL is light years more intuitive in my eyes.
I'm comparing it as a language that is evolving. Not as a point-to-point comparison. I feel like Go has evolved properly and C++ is mutating too quickly for its own good.
Don't forget LiIon batteries only get a few hundred recharge cycles. Is that calculated in this kw-h figure?
The actual reason is that the language lacks the meta-programming facilities required for creating effective ORMs and certain frameworks. (Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is a subjective matter.)
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For a moment, I was worried that someone had found the JSON parser I wrote in Python years ago. My career would be over.
You bring up a good point regarding the relative speeds.

Pluto on average travels 4.7 km/sec or 16,800 km/hr.

New Horizons, on a 9 yr mission to arrive, was traveling 50,700 km/hr as it passed Pluto. So it was going much faster than Pluto, however it was passing almost orthogonal to Pluto's trajectory.

It seems an orbiter would want to arrive using some complex slingshot mission around various solar system objects, and taking a catch up trajectory that approaches Pluto more tangentially to its orbit rather than orthogonally.

That seems more doable than when I first balked at this. Since gravity assist/slingshots can be used to slow down as well as speed up perhaps it zooms out there fast, then slingshots to nearly meet the speed and direction of Pluto, meeting up with it at its orbital path sideways and only needing a small correction at the end to insert itself into orbit.
Publishers have a weird love/hate thing going on with ebooks. They do want the costs savings (printing, distribution, warehouse, returns). They hate the possibility of lack of control. They hate the idea that ebooks might not expand the market for books, but just cannibalize print sales, making print sales even more costly.

Also, for a variety of technical and business reasons, the common ebook platforms (Kindle, iBooks, etc.) are not so great for complex books. Most of the books sold on kindle are simple genre fiction. Just a few minutes ago I had a conversation with one of our sales guys about whether a particular new book would even be practical for ebook conversion.
This is really neat. I cant wait for this to be searchable and have people add their own categories
I think intentionally firing a gun at someone with the intent to kill or injure is definitely morally distinct from irresponsible tool usage.

Using a gun to open a lock is dumb and irresponsible, but it is not violent.
Article flagged, because despite the relevance to a tech community, and the high profile of R Martin, some people in HN can't help abuse "flagging" for things they disagree with.
Another interesting aspect to a globally distributed team like this is how it's inherently uncertain how the business will be impacted by dynamic geopolitical changes/rules across the world.

Here it's about China and Russia. But the next day it could be government pressure on hiring bans in Pakistan or Indonesia or South Africa or Peru based on whatever countries are in a spat at the moment.

What happens to the current employees then? "Sorry, you're fired"?
Exactly. There's not much choice. The best approximations are considered hacks.
Meanwhile, those of us who understand that it is very difficult to tease out natural from man-made warming are very skeptical of the increasing politicization of science.

We're coming out of an ice age after all; I see nothing in the current warming that points to an aberration from what could be natural, asides from the much hysteria about greenhouse gases.
I hope looking at who is overwhelmingly doing teaching, nursing and retail jobs isn't too triggering.
What sets OctoSQL apart from the existing options such as Apache Drill (even Spark SQL for that matter) or future projects such as PartiQL?

https://partiql.org/
https://drill.apache.org/
I've found that people who dislike SQL really just tend to struggle with set-based logic and thinking (not saying that's the case for you). It's an absolutely beautiful and powerful language.
What seems to pass many (smart) people, is that fundamentally an interest-based economy like we have today is going to lead to these large gaps in inequality due to the predatory nature of interest. Instead of trying to patch the situation with different taxes, people should work on moving away from an interest-based economy into a system that is based on risk/reward sharing.
In this case such "employees" are also the ones deciding who is gonna keep running the organization for the next generation (therfor enjoying the exact same benefits); all in all is just a for-profit doing a lot of lawyering play to call themselves a non-profit, a non-profit should be exclusively a term for organizations that barely survive month-to-month, if you are amassing billions you aren't that.
Nah, C++ is hardly mutating, in the sense of being backwards-incompatible. Rather, it is expanding incrementally (these days in big chunks). Anyway... Would you compare Python and C++, then? The goals of the languages are clearly different.
Rooftop solar isn't viable in a large portion of the world, and solar is much better served in mega deployments. Scale matters.

That said, if you look at the total amount of energy consumed worldwide, the grow rate of this energy consumption, the amount currently generated by renewables, and the growth rate of renewables, it's pretty obvious that there's no realistic way to cut emissions 50% in a decade. Absolutely none short of a global war that devastates both modern society and reduces world population by 25%.
> Given that we can't [live forever]

It's not can't it's don't currently.

That's the "hard problem to build a startup around."
Anti boycott laws are a real thing, you can read about them here https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac

I don't pretend to know whether restricting country of residence counts as discriminating on any of race, national origin, or nationality... but at least at first glance it seems very plausible.

Edit: And according to her linkedin she is a lawyer licensed to practice in (at least) Minnesota, i.e. she is (was) part of "legal".
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Interesting, I've observed many teams where the engineers seem to prefer the DevOps work to actually building features. To the point where I think some times we have too many engineers Opsing rather than Deving.
My issue is that I have a hard time putting costs like regulation and overcoming public sentiment in the equation because they're self-imposed. I know they're real but they seem to distract from the evaluation of the actual tech.

I am not an expert at the engineering or physics, but I did work at a leading PV manufacturer for 8 years, and I was amazed at the effort required to coax even the tiniest improvements in conversion efficiency out of the devices in a way that is both manufacturable and a benefit to the cost-per-watt. Then after all that, every PV platform has a theoretical limit anyway. So the whole enterprise seemed like pulling teeth. Especially when you think about how demand will increase in the future.

On the other hand, it seems like with nuclear the potential energy is so overwhelmingly high that the primary effort is holding it back (hence the dangers) - not trying to squeeze out tiny drops. Given this, just intuitively, nuclear seems like the preferable starting point. We can deal with the obstacles as we go. Seems like humans have done a pretty good job at turning what once appeared to be insurmountable risks into things we take for granted. Skyscrapers and air travel come to mind.
That’s a great point. Amazon isn’t a good deal for many things. The example I recall is mason jars. I never had a need for mason jars and had never bought them before. But then I needed some to brew cold brew. Looked them up on Amazon and thought “I guess $5 a piece is reasonable?” At a local hardware store, I found the same exact ones for $1. They get away with higher prices because people don’t know that a better deal exists elsewhere (because they don’t know what a reasonable price point even is).

I don’t plan on adding product types that are a bad deal on Amazon. At this point, I’ve added products that I genuinely purchase on Amazon. (Can you tell that I have a two-year-old that likes crayons, chalk, and Duplo?)
Almost feels like running a code profiler to find the hotspots
I doubt 10 people know the real story behind this. Everyone here should practice the MYOB principle.

edit: DuskStar - I obviously edited this substantially, because I added nothing of value and only served to continue discussion of this submission. Both of the conclusions you jumped to are incorrect, it's a shame we were unable to have a mutually respectful exchange about it.
Unfortunately the most blinding assertive people are usually the ones that never admit to their mistakes.
"The Go community is among the very best."... obviously you haven't joined the "official" gophers slack yet. The Go community is not bad, but is is VERY sjw/alphabet-cetric...especially at the top of the food chain(since most of the top eschelon people are from commiefornia and sand valley)...you know, like facsism that dictates what you can say or think. Beside that, its great. Frankly, I haven' see worse community to this day, and I have been online since like 97 or something.
If in one context someone expresses beliefs I find odious but they do not say odious things or behave improperly in another say tech conferences I think they ought to be able to come to a conference and talk about tech.

I don't say this because I want to help odious people but because I don't want other people judging me.

People have many different beliefs and it ought to be sufficient to respect one another rather than agree on all points.

What if merely not denouncing trumptards with sufficient vigor is sufficient to paint me as undesirable.
It may be that federated electric vehicle batteries become all the storage we need as long as power grids are integrated more broadly.
Unfortunately, one character further is not enough to disambiguate the C++ syntax:

int size();

Am I declaring a function returning an int? Or defining an object of type int and invoking the default constructor?
I have a hard time not believing this to some degree. Amazon is incredibly big and powerful, this would be trivial for them.
Thank you! Do you have any categories that you’d like me to add in the next day or two?
True that. Between the weird "phone home" stuff that Ubiquiti just stopped responding to publicly and some of the odd overlap with their product line. That being said if you own their stock today you were smiling because they're up over 30% at the time of this writing.

With regard to USG the Dream Machine looks to be a kind-of-sort-of successor to the really old USG. I would guess a USG replacement is coming, but the Dream Machine Pro will have 10Gb as I understand it. They do product rollouts pretty horribly IMO.
> If someone says they're going to bomb an event on Twitter should they be banned? Yes, everyone agrees.

What? No, not everyone agrees! That someone should be arrested, but keep his Twitter account. We have laws and law enforcement for a reason, and we don't need companies to play speech police, which, incidentally, in this particular case, would make law enforcement more difficult.

> If someone analyzes IQ studies... everyone agrees.

Unfortunately, you're wrong again. Some radicals would want you banned for merely using the word "race", regardless of context.
sytse is awfully quiet in the comments today... usually he has a reply for everyone whenever a Gitlab/Git/VCS story comes up
>I've always felt like these government agencies

For clarity, the Fed is NOT a government agency[0].

[0] https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/education/teachers/r...
Because it's entirely plausible that most of the warming is natural and not anthropogenically forced. If that's the case, then we're doing real harm to the poorest people in the world by needlessly raising the price of energy.
I'm familiar with both of those. What I've not seen is hanging weights used to generate curves in boatbuilding, which is what's suggested in the article.
My point wasn't from someone who expects the language/environment to "solve everything".

It was from someone familiar with GUI programming, who wants to try doing it in React Native and suddenly finds tons of new concepts to keep in mind (compared to common native GUI frameworks/libs).
> Nuclear cost: ~6k per kW baseload

> Solar + battery cost: ~7.6k per kW baseload (~4k/kW generation, ~3.6k/kW storage)

So nuclear is cheaper than solar + storage?
Nice, much like people would use Pro*C to generate C to talk to Oracle. I think converting a DSL to boilerplate (which should rarely be read and never edited) is key to living with a language that isn't good at reusable abstractions.
The caveat to this is in the first paragraph: all of the data is stored in memory id each row is ~1kb and the table size has some sort of TTL you’ll be good.
sorry I didn't respond earlier. So yes it depends on the client and not so much about the Amount. For example, small/mid sized businesses where the decision maker is just 1 person, we sometimes get them to pay through credit card right away (even amounts like 20K). But sometimes we deal with larger companies and for the same amount, we have to deal with tons of red tape including procurement software and what not. So it is not so much about the actual amount but the type of client.
> Imagine a ... that could comb through your digital life, archive it all

No, and no thanks. Every company already does that. :)

A better idea would be something like a GitHub or Dropbox option that makes your content public after your death.

Unfinished projects for others to take up, ideas you never got to work on, thoughts you couldn't speak out when alive, secrets you didn't dare spill, stuff like that.
If you want to build an iOS app with Swift, the built-in frameworks give you everything you need. Swift as a language, Cocoa Touch (includes Foundation as a kind of standard library and UIKit or SwiftUI for the UI stuff), Xcode for the IDE and build system. There's one source of documentation, Apple, and there's years of third-party documentation all over the internet.

You can bring in libraries of course, but even for a large iOS project it's unlikely (and probably unnecessary) to have more than a handful.
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Thanks, I had not seen that image before. It's amazing that Pluto has an atmosphere. Was this suspected before the New Horizon's mission? I seem to recall it once being presented as considered a cold rock with no interesting features or possible atmosphere.
> It really is inevitable.

Has there ever been an instance of a CoC being used in a reasonable way against an actually unreasonable person? From the history, it appears that CoC’s were designed to stop Linus Torvalds, specifically, but he’s still around (but he does seem to be afraid of CoC enforcers now).
(Merging comment from other thread)

It hasn't been clearly communicated how radical (unlike other languages) a change this is. Although well intentioned, this is going to waste a lot of hours for a lot of Go developers.
If there is any package out there that is already at a version higher than v2, they have to do some intrusive change. Moreover, since "internal" references to packages must also use the absolute path of each package, this even requires module developers to make changes all throughout the source code.

May be this was always a problem, but I find the blog text could use more detailed explanation. This is like the magic time of "Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 MST 2006" for Go timestamp parsing. Yes, it is a very neat trick, but you have to tell the users that you are explicitly doing something different from the norm.

> Starting with v2, the major version must appear at the end of the module path

Here v2 refers to the version of the module, not Go.
What do you mean about version-control unfriendliness? Stored procedures along with all of the other schema objects such as tables, view, UDFs, UDTFs, etc... can be version controlled.
Where my node folks at?

Node + Express + Nginx + Pgsql on Elastic Beanstalk.
Thank you for providing the source.

That sounds incredibly far-reaching.
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Doesn't the ocean floor change often due to currents? Sediment consistently is moved from point A to point B similar to sand dunes?
Even if this is related to just 'bedrock' or whatever more solid mass is down there, doesn't that get impacted by the faults a lot? Or is that around just the fault lines?
Forget the unemployment, there is a much bigger issues at stake with racists governments blaming the immigrants for their failed referendums and resulting in mass business exodus...

This kind of stuff pretty much diminished Montreal and gave the rise of Toronto as Canada business capital...
> he would have to liquidate large portions of $AMZN

Not at all. He'd just have to sell that stock to someone else, with no operational effect whatsoever.
I think they spent many years investing in creating that image for themselves, and did so successfully enough that people have taken it as fact and no longer question it. But it's been gradually becoming less true for years. They're no longer subsidizing purchases the way they used to.

The reason they were so aggressive about forcing Prime onto people was to engineer the behavior into people of buying from Amazon by default. Rather than ask questions about where's the best place to buy.

For something I can get at Best Buy, for example, I wouldn't buy online and wait for shipping, I use their price match (if I need to) and get it same day. And often when I look up the same item at different online retailers, the price is the same or one site undercuts the other by a penny. Not a coincidence, they all have to stay competitive.
I guess you've edited your comment. But FYI:

> Quebec presents $4-billion surplus for 2019-20 amid booming economy

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-presen...

This, even if population growth is less than the other provinces. Am all for debate, but you should update your held view.
It's also clear as mud how things got from a tussle on Twitter the whole content/participation of which is also pretty fuzzy to a ban from a conference that had no apparent connection. (The conference is in about a week so nothing happened at the conference itself.)

The Linux Foundation did do a code of conduct post thread on Twitter which, among other things, mentions you can violate an event CoC before an event although it's also unclear what that means. I'm sure more than a few of the 10,000 people attending Kubecon have, at some point in their lives, done something to upset someone else on Twitter.
Aircraft should be required to be fully recertified by the FAA.
Frankly, I feel like this was a waste of time.
Not really ironic, selling products at a loss to drive others out of business then raising prices on consumers after you have driven your competitors out of business is the definition of anti-competitive behavior.
The joke is that a data scientist is a statistician who works in San Francisco.
That paper has problems.

The red flag that stood out to me is that they show huge increases in tellurium, gallium, and indium demand in Figure 10. Those materials are only required for thin film solar technologies. But according to Table 2, their scenario includes one PV technology: fixed-tilt arrays of silicon PV. Where are the increased demand for tellurium, gallium and indium coming from? It reads like they copy-pasted information from prior studies without paying attention to their own scenario parameters.