skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one that netted US taxpayers $68 billion?
This is the end result of the 'old boy network', where the aged rise to the top on the basis of how many ticks they have groomed off the fur of the silverback's fur, in the USA/Japan, with no fur, it is the ass licks ledger that counts.
Sadly, this is fully operational in the USA military, where billions are spent on old weaponry whose life in a modern war will be measured in minutes when they meet modern drones. (by drones, I mean land based drone attack tanks etc, with costs only 5-10% of the cost of the manned equivalents, air based drones, surface water drones as well as submarine drones)
We see China and Russia unfettered by this old boy network that are allowing their brains unfettered freedom to make modern stuff.
This has happened before, when the blitzkrieg fought horse drawn gun carts at the start of WW2, when allied armies in Europe were prime examples of the old
boy network.

Why do we have it? We have a bribery and feedback mechanism in Congress that quantifies bribery and ass licking to perfection. An elected representative HAS NO SECRET BALLOT!!.
We can all see how he votes, as can all the bribers, who can call him to account.
We say this exists to allow the voters to see that there rep did their bidding YADA-YADA-YADA - we all know it allow the bribery effectiveness to be watched and measured, so you can threaten to cut them off if they do not dance to the briber's tune.
RANT/ How to get a better way? Empower all, with online voting of all eligible voters, in the style of the original Greek democracy. Pay people for their votes, hold back tax refunds for people who do not vote etc. This needs to be fine tuned.
Chance of success = zero, as all the well bribed elected officials do not want their gravy train to end. /RANT
Ministers are figureheads; they take national policy and filter it down through their departments then report results back to the top.

Taking the UK as an example our health minister isn't a doctor and our education sec. isn't a professor. The executive branch of government acts no differently to any other large company.
Hiya! I do have plans on adding a code review service, driven by email on lists.sr.ht in a similar style to how it's done in other mailing list driven projects. Here's an example of how this works:

https://lists.sr.ht/~emersion/mrsh-dev/%3C20180916165820.144...

My plan is to parse these discussions using this library my friend made:

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/python-emailthreads

Then provide a UI similar to Gerrit, but driven by emails underneath.
> The article doesn't mention it, but controlled burns are actually a regular occurrence in the east and southeast US. I always assumed it was some decision by the Californian state government to not do so.

Wait what? California doesn't do controlled burns?

Mother of God:
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-California-not-institute-a-co...

I find this _unfathomable_. I'm from a desert state where during dry times it was illegal to light fires and we absolutely did controlled burns.

California's plan is to let everything burn down and then blame a utility (true or not is irrelevant) and try to collect $20B they definitely don't have? This is unbelievable.
How weird that countries that develop a new technology would test it far more than others who simply copied their work...
Vast majority of California’s forests are fossils. If you burn them they don’t grow back, you get something else. Climate change is reducing the length of the rainy season, worsening summer droughts, expanding the range of bark beetles, and moving snow lines uphill. Under these conditions our existing forests can survive but not become established.

You discuss this issue as if there is some steady-state solution that can be applied. This is not the case. The climate is in now in transition from one state to another, much warmer and drier state. Controlled burns are difficult or impossible to apply under such a transition, with the number of dead standing trees (hundreds of millions in California) and the unprecedented soil moisture levels and evaporative load.
Right, I'm saying that's not necessary, you can just do this:

struct my_type;
struct my_type *my_type_new(void);

This is more common than `typedef void*` in my experience, because it actually provides some minimal amount of type safety.

You can also do this in C++ of course, but you can't use member functions this way. My real complaint here is that the Pimpl idiom in C++ is more cumbersome than a simple forward declaration and free functions, which is available in C.
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Because no true Scotsman would simultaneously claim to be smart while acting as their own saboteur. The two concepts are, of course, mutually exclusive, incontrovertibly.
That is a useless comment. People should not live in hurricane areas, in tornado alleys, etc. But they do. So the infrastructure needs to be designed for it. What people's pastimes are is totally irrelevant and obviously does not inform this type of decision a whit.
>The idea that they need to be on some form of welfare ANYWAY doesn't bother you ?

Unless they want to live on subsistence, they need things produced by other people. They can either do something for other people (employment) in exchange for other people's things (usually in the form of money, which is more efficient than barter), or they can receive some form of charity/welfare from other people. What's wrong with it? Why should it bother me that the universe doesn't have an infinite source of everything such that anybody can fill all their wants without anybody having to work?

>it has been the same excuse forever, if we give rights the market will crash, and yet every time instead of crushing it just keeps blooming... weird.

Just because everything hasn't completely collapsed that doesn't mean things couldn't be better. That's like arguing polluting the environment is fine because the planet's still alive now. You can see this by comparing for instance Eastern Europe to Western Europe; Eastern Europe didn't collapse, but due to bad economic management it grew a lot more slowly and produced much lower living standards for its inhabitants than Western Europe.
Is the Android version on your roadmap?
He simply transcended lowly computers and can now cyber directly. He is now the UUUUSEEEEER!!!
Massive flooding would make sense (many cultures have flood myths), but I don't believe a whole civilization could have sunk into the ocean in the given time frame. There is no plate in the mid-Atlantic that could have been pushed deep into the mantle. The mid-Atlantic is an area where new oceanic plate is created, not where existing plates go down.
Link from raspberrypi.org site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-...
This is amazing! Just what I was looking for! I love this project, thanks a lot for this!!
Add in some sort of tarp, maybe. If you don't have whole rows of houses on fire at the same time, you can actually fight those fires.
I mean, not using computers is the only completely reliable method of cybersecurity.
A charity group for the "police and fire fighters" calls me up and asks me to donate. I ask a simple question "how is donated money spent?" I ask them to send me info on this to research before I donate and I never get any.

If we can't see how the money is spent (ie, audited by an actual CPA as the ultimate) then we are all guessing as to how it's spent and who ends up with the money in the end.

You are guessing unless you have seen the books. Outrage against uncontrolled and unmonitored spending is appropriate.
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While it's true that 100C doesn't have any weather meaning, 0F being "very cold" isn't particularly objective. I just looked it up, and apparently 0F is only about -18C. Whether -18C is "very, very cold" depends a lot on where you're from and what you're used to. I'm Canadian and I certainly wouldn't characterize -18C as "very, very cold". -30C maybe. 0C has a fairly objective interpretation in terms of weather: it's the point at which puddles start to freeze into ice slicks.
But longtime residents of Long Island City are far less optimistic. "It's pure bullshit. They're never going to hire us for these jobs," Raymond Normandeau, a resident of Queensbridge Houses since 1973, told Gothamist. "Only a country bumpkin like de Blasio or Cuomo would believe this shit."

Indeed.
Have you measured this? (I have)
Australian here, our fire danger charts start at 'high' and now go past 'extreme' to 'catastrophic'. (https://goo.gl/maps/FqEpv2MTUnB2 not that you can read the text but consider the fact that red wasn't bad enough and we had to go to stripey for the last segment.)

I think that in some environments, fire hazard needs to become a publicly managed risk rather than an externalized one where the liability is pushed onto whoever fails first. Our last big bushfire where I live was started by some silly bastard using an angle grinder near dry grass. The one before that was pinned on our local power utility for a sparking pole-top transformer (iirc).

Our environmental management agency (whose name changes on a regular basis) conducts regular burn-offs to keep overburden down but even so, it feels like we're leaving munitions lying around. In a country where even the wildlife wants to start fires (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3439042/Birds-prey-...) we need a systematic, coordinated approach.
I've seen people I suspect to be actual Russian "trolls" on twitter too. Generally they're profiles of very generic heartland Americans who post basically nothing about their lives but occasionally throw out support for one political cause or another. There's enough accounts like that that are almost exactly the same for me to think they're fake accounts. I haven't really seen the same on facebook at all, to the point where I'm skeptical that facebook would be a sensible platform at all for astroturfing politics. Most of the nonsense I see on facebook is from clickbait farms. I'm open to the idea that I've just missed the facebook side though.
It seems to somewhat work in the Paste HTML example [0], for which the source is available [1]. I just did a cursory test with some simple formatting, so YMMV, but it may be a good starting point.

[0] https://www.slatejs.org/#/paste-html
[1] https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/tree/master/examples...
That should read "Positive Economics 101", ie. the status quo-legitimising ideology economics students are spoon-fed as if it was some kind of car manual. Postivism is rampant in economics departments where it obscures deeper questions such as the labour theory of value (Marx) and the role of government in creating demand (Keynes). Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is the fiddle that capitalists such as Donald Trump play while Rome burns.
>No, economic roles which are necessary but impossible to fill by private operators, especially natural monopolies, are what government is for.

So there are multiple ways of allocating risk here:

One possibility is to have the entire thing run by the state, that's certainly not uncommon for natural monopolies. The whole risk then sits with the state.

Another is to set tighter technical standards and accompanying higher rates for the regulated utilities and to restrict liability to a certain cap - enough to push investors without making the company unfinanceable - and have the state take the liability for the excess. That insulates the state from minor accidents but leaves it with the catastrophic risk. That's how nuclear regulation works. Of course the criticism of that has always been that socialises the risk while privatising the profit which is a fair criticism.

A third approach is to fine the company per pre-cursor event at a significant level. For instance $100m per fire caused by their assets that spreads beyond their boundary. That would give them a strong incentive to reduce events within their control without holding them responsible for the overall dryness of the state of California which they cannot control.
Creating PWA
This looks cool! I once wrote a series of python scripts to do a similar thing, as the alternative (one tab per trading platform) is way too tedious...
I sometimes do unpleasant work because it needs to be done and I support the long-term goal. My boss talks to me like a human being and makes sure I'm being well compensated in other ways. Unpleasant work != being a cog.
> (by drones, I mean land based drone attack tanks etc, with costs only 5-10% of the cost of the manned equivalents, air based drones, surface water drones as well as submarine drones)

Don't you mean guided missiles and torpedoes?

The whole unmanned weapon concept is much older than toy quadcopters.

> We see China and Russia unfettered by this old boy network that are allowing their brains unfettered freedom to make modern stuff.

What? Are you familiar with the terms "oligarch" and "guanxi"?

> Empower all, with online voting of all eligible voters

Online voting is a bad idea. It's far more easily and cheaply subverted than most paper-based analog voting systems.
Exactly, that's what I'm trying to do ... which is not easy :).

By doing this, I'm less on my phone & less on my computer.
in the same time I delete some time-consuming apps on my phone.

One thing I can add is to focus on the things your are doing and stick to them.
For example : reading a book or an article completely . Sometimes I just read the title and only some of the sentences, thus I don't the get the point or the idea of the authors. (it is one among many others)
> How, for example, would you evaluate whether they tell you the truth about their past project?

How is that any better than hiring a terrible dev that just spent 3 months memorizing Leetcode solutions? Aren't they essentially being dishonest about their skills?

>time-consuming
Phone screens are already several hours over several days and on-sites are typically 8 hour affairs. Is this not already time consuming?

Genuinely confused by the Stockholm Syndrome-like mindset that devs have for Whiteboard interviews.
Ditto to all you just said: Figuring out how to strike the balance between "filling myself up" learning new things - while becoming an expert at repetitive drone work (cough cough documentation) was the hardest thing I've done. Still working on it.

Previously I had no balance - always was at one extreme or the other.
For the architect metaphor to work out he'd need to be a programmer, which I doubt because he'd likely mention that if he was. Also hard to be a programmer if you've never used a computer.
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https://medium.freecodecamp.org/my-journey-to-becoming-a-web...
Not if those channels require U2F to access them.
Imagine the losses to insurers as well.

Will those losses get spread all across the national US base ?
These Are the Headlines You See in a Bubble
"People who take everything for granted" so so true.
Everything that is, was once not. And everything that is, will soon not be.
Intel should lend a hand in getting Thunderbolt 3 on one of these:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/intel-to-make-thunde...

Smaller devices could use a smaller and faster port.
“And it's a beneficial process”
only to an extend. To much volatility result in a net loss for the market and society.
It's not that different from relocation contracts. In both cases the company is paying a large upfront cost in order to hire you and doesn't want you to turn around and work for someone else. If you leave early, you're on the hook for a portion of the bill.
Great episode. I talked to a friend that is an environmental scientist/forester about it. She is doing more and more fire risk surveys for homeowners. She said their portrayal of the situation was very accurate.

Another relevant podcast episode is this one from planet money:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/16/586600540/epis...

They explore wildfire investigations and the legal fallout. It is a great explanation of why PG&E's stock lost 1/3 of its value.
Does a defence minister need to have used a gun?
there's an "e.g." in front of the quote, and the example shown is for reporting to the source domain, which then can decide how to handle it (e.g. inform the user if it was a false positive, or take measures against the user if it was actual spam)
That's only true in some cases. In the recent Tesla occupational-safety case, the statute of limitations ran from time of the incident until time of resolution, so stalling did cancel the government intervention.
That's why I hate being a tourist.

- "Look at this wonderful stairs!"

- "I see them. They are really uniquely same as any other stairs I've seen so far. And after all they are ... just staris."
Well obviously. Still a shitty way to run a company.
Bad algorithms are making racist decisions
>>A house can be thirty feet from an entire forest on fire and never burn down. We learned this through hardcore experiments in Canada where they built homes to test and lit forests on fire nearby.

Fires in CA apparently went as high as 300 feet (~100m) so no, that would not have helped. Heat alone, with zero wind would probably melt everything with xx meters. If they want to build, don't build in forests or clean out a zone and build a 50-100m buffer. If it was not burned today, it will be burned tomorrow.
I’d title it...How to Justify and Frame Your Success as Meritocracy In Light of People Much Smarter than you Not Succeeding Because They Lack Your Connections
It’s lovely when this is the case, but not always (though keeping accounts/keys in sync gets messy)

Unfortunately, for an AWS root or IAM account, the limit is still one per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...
I see what you snuck in there...(last item)

from TFA: `sudo apt-get install nginx emacs`
Founders have an aversion to sales which is killing their startups
lol clearly, he knows what he's doing. Frankly I'm envious.
This quote from the article makes no sense to me:

> Statistically, impacts the size of Hiawatha occur only every few million years, he says, and so the chance of one just 13,000 years ago is small.

If an event happens every one million years on average, for example, it's just as likely that the last one happened 13,000 years ago and the next one will happen 987,000 years in the future as that the last one happened 999,999 years ago and the next one will happen tomorrow. Even the interval can be highly variable.
It does at the moment based on the manifest, but after exploring the source, it's clear that this can easily be changed.
Reading that I can’t help but think most people in the modern knowledge work classes probably identify with a lot of it. Doesn’t everyone have these feelings?

This all seems very normal to me, but I’m definitely the target audience. High IQ that was praised from a young age, hated school but did well with no effort, hated team work all my life, value deep thinking as the solution to almost any problem, successful in my career by objective measure, and I feel like a failure.

I’d argue that everyone sabotages their sense of success by having poorly calibrated expectations. It isn’t easy to honestly assess and accept your own capacity.
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> I don't necessarily agree with your 'simple logic' - there's plenty of stuff that can be done (but not perhaps outright regulated) that can reduce the incidence of fires around electrical equipment.

Your objection to the grandparent's "simple logic" seems right to me.

Inverse condemnation could motivate utilities to seek solutions that have longer-term profitability but require higher capital investment, something that would be difficult to legislate.

For example, PG&E could choose to deliver electricity through underground equipment which would cost more than pole-and-wire networks but might reduce forest fire risk. Legislating such a requirement even for strictly regulated utilities might be more complicated than inverse condemnation.

On its face, inverse condemnation does seem to punish utilities even if they are technically in compliance. Perhaps inverse condemnation could exert market influence in ways that are subtler and less technologically constraining than explicit regulation.
I spent a lot of time looking for Draft like editors that would be simple, small yet have the potential for power. This project nails it! Well done.
What would be examples of such books?
honest question, has anyone ever improved their lives by reading articles of this flavor ? (e.g 10 things successfully ceo's do, 10 ways to increase your chances of building a successful company)
Interesting; I'd not heard of NICAM, but there were several other audio formats that used video tape as a storage mechanism.

The Sony PCM-F1 recorder was probably the most common, and could be attached to either a VHS or a Betamax recorder.

My personal favorite, and one that I still own, was the dbx 700 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx_Model_700_Digital_Audio_Pr...) which used delta-sigma rather than PCM encoding, and produced an NTSC output suitable for tape. (For reasons I don't really understand, 3/4" U-Matic was the dominant recording format, at least that I saw. But it works fine onto a good VHS deck.) The digital format was ahead of its time, although it was a bit of a dead-end technologically unless you count SACD (arguably also a dead-end).

Compared to the F1 it was a joy to use, because you didn't have to leave the headroom of a PCM recorder (it doesn't "brickwall" if you run a hot signal into it). In the days when most audio engineers were used to analog tape and recording very hot, this led to much better-sounding recordings.

You could also take the video signal and send it around a video distribution system (closed-circuit TV, cable, satellite, etc.) and have a very high quality audio feed on a point-to-point link.

Occasionally the boxes turn up on the used market... I still have one, and largely just keep it in the signal loop because of all the neat 1980s blinkenlights and digital VU meters.
Are you suggesting that if they were somehow truly smart they would know how not to sabotage their own success? Because that's some serious fallacious thinking right there.
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"market" does not mean "private". "market" means "competitive, instead of monopoly". They are orthogonal. You can have competing governments, and you can have private monopolies.
First of all, California already expects to (insufficiently) increase their insufficiently small number of prescribed burns.

https://www.arb.ca.gov/smp/progdev/pubeduc/pbfs.pdf

Secondly, if that is what you believe, then the solution is to burn now, not later. You cannot save forests already damned by climate change, and the longer you wait, the worse it will be.

> Vast majority of California’s forests are fossils. If you burn them they don’t grow back, you get something else.

Then how did they get there in the first place? Human-started fires have been a normal and natural part of California's ecology for thousands of years. Waiting for the weather to get even warmer and drier will just result in more forest being destroyed, more homes being burned, more people dying, because there will be fires, no matter what you do. You can choose to limit their fuel now and save some forest, or you let natural fires have more fuel and burn even hotter and wider and lose all your forest.
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There are hundreds of companies that don't use algorithmic interviews, they are neither necessary nor particularly useful.

http://they.whiteboarded.me/companies-that-dont-whiteboard.h...
I thought it was just fine and quite interesting.
Its not unrealistic .. western society has generally gotten less mature, not more. In my 20's I did stuff that none of the kids of today even consider feasible ..