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Forest fires are part of the natural life of forests, trying to stop them is counter productive, the more you delay them the more fuel there is to burn (accumulation of fuel: dead plants, dead trees, &c.)

Not everything has to be fixed by technology and controlled by humans.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/how-forest-fires...
Guarantees? None. I don't want all my traffic routed through some random VPN company's servers. Small companies are probably also judgement-proof, as even if they really harmed you, what could you gain by suing them? Why would I want to use a VPN to enforce access controls my OS can do just as well?
This validates your parent comments statement. Was that your point? The OP is not interpreting correlation correctly.
I'll consider switching when they care enough about Linux to enable proper hardware acceleration.
The Fire Inside: The Great Drunkards and What They Drank
Please don't come up with such assertions, even Taiwanese don't know the exact answers for your statements mentioned above.
Especially (2), it's like saying either parties in U.S. didn't do anything, which will raise a HUGE debate here on HN
Hah great, it appears theres a second step that needs to be explicit:

Apply to all topics
Maybe an item on the checklist to refactor the checklist (as needed)?

Or maybe a checklist for refactoring all the checklists?

/this could get out of hand...
We do the same thing on client side when lazy-loading assets (typically textures) from the disk, cause you don’t want to hold multiple copies of the same asset in memory.
The whole "freedom of religion" thing over here is supposed to keep such nonscientific thinking allowable, but outward religious affiliation (or endorsement) for political actors usually only strengthens the part of the fanbase that condones such thinking. This is usually a significant portion for "conservative" actors who tend to pander to that same set of moral sensibilities and nonscientific rhetoric, since it keeps them popular amongst that portion of their constituency (e.g. any religious statement Cruz or Trump ever made)

However, generally a lack of vocal endorsement of a particular religion is seen as a plus for candidates since it's not directly controversial, except for with religious voters who can't possibly fathom how someone could disagree with them on the topic.
The ability to create Live Tiles for websites, including automatically based on RSS feeds, was a great feature that was a shame it wasn't hosted for long enough that people realized it existed.

I used it to host a couple simple "widgets" such as a NaNoWriMo word counter that would keep NaNoWriMo statistics front and center on a live tile. Doing it via a bit of XML hosted on a webpage, and a couple API endpoints that generated a bit more XML on demand, was supremely easy. It made it simple to write "pull" notifications.

I'd may see how tough it is to rewrite it with "push" Azure Functions eventually, but the raw simplicity of doing it as "pull" website was really easy.
>Could you link some university handbooks you have found about fracking?

That was an example, but books by university presses, or used in classes as bibliography, such as the following will do:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fracking-neighborhood

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-fracking-debate/9780231184...

https://www.wiley.com/en-bw/Hydraulic+Fracturing+Operations%...

>And what makes university textbooks more authoritative than a scientific paper?

That the latter is a random research result, which needs years and years of other studies, peer critique, reproducibility tests, etc, to be considered valid. It's like each random BS research paper touted in the news, only to be found either overblown, misleading, non-reproducible, or wrong by another study later on.

>The university handbook could very well have been written by a single author with a particular agenda - that's not removing bias at all.

That's why I don't suggest reading just one. I say "study the literature" and propose talking to experts and affected people as well. All of which are not hard for a common person -- that cares deeply for the matter and wants to have an informed opinion as opposed "x media said that" -- to do. Let's say it can be done in a month or so.

It's impossible for every subject? We don't have to care for "every subject", or adopt somebody else's stance (we haven't figured out ourselves) just to say we have one...
What's stopping the other candidates from arbitrarily saying they heard a magic deity tell them the same thing?
"There's lots of such stories in the Bible - the message of "shut up and believe what you're told" is clear. "

You've picked some of the best stories that illustrate if god existed, he'd be a moral thug and sociopath...
This is how all async caches are supposed to work. You never want concurrent requests for the same uncached resource to all hit the backend.

For TypeScripters out there, this is what my team wrote for our static analysis framework: https://github.com/Polymer/tools/blob/master/packages/analyz...
Really? Out of the blue like that?
I instituted checklists across team process and can't recommend it enough. Our pull request process reduced subjectiveness in PRs and approval time. It also seemed to improve the quality of what got through the PR process. We also had them for deploy process, sprint planning, and a few other domain specific areas. We had other teams give input, which helped with compliance challenges like GDPR and COPPA.
I didn't really look at the code, mostly because I just found the idea interesting as I hadn't considered it. Kind of surprised that it's not using the history api to replace the hash.
I'd agree in the early days of rapid release, and the previous interface redesign. Extension broke every update, the interface change made the toolbars less customizable, and there was more focus on new features than performance.

Extensions had to be reworked. There was no way to make such implementation-dependent code stable for each release. The current API is much more limited in scope as well, but the performance and security concerns were and still are very valid.

I'm not a fan of the new tab page, and I have generally disliked how the settings have been reworked, but I still think then end product is better than Chrome.

(On the other hand, Opera 12 was the king of resource usage...and I miss it)
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Faith does seem to be a Judeo-Christian-Moslem thing though, rather than something inherent in religion. As far as I can tell, the Indo-European pagan religions were more about practicing the correct rituals, rather than believing the correct things.
But can you build an animated waveform using this approach?
>For typed strings, String[T] the compare operator ignores the generic type and is based on the order of the underlying raw string e.g. both arguments are coerced to String.

Why? What even was the point in making them 'typed' then?

Also, what exactly are the relevant language-level details which BOSQUE contributes? It seems more like a large library than anything else.
It used to just be called "critical thinking" until higher ed was invaded by Cultural Marxists and turned into an indoctrination factory.

My corporation is full of these assholes now. Soviet-style policies and even re-education disguised as corporate culture. But it's all there--the propaganda, even the damn signage.
If a pilot makes a mistake, he'll either die or lose his licence. Either way, his life is ruined.
I'm with you. Some older hardware often not only has a nice aesthetic and impressiveness, but it also has functional details that are lost in emulators/ports/etc.

That said, one can get a lot of neat experience by playing with things like a Common Lisp implementation with SLIME, or even really learning your way around Emacs Lisp development (it's long had some pretty powerful programming tools for a dynamic environment). Similarly, something like Squeak can give you a lot of the Smalltalk-80 dynamic environment experience.

If you want to play with Lisp power of syntax extension and minilanguages/DSLs, CL or Emacs Lisp will let you do that with things like `defmacro`. Racket (which is not as dynamic) has a spin I like even more, emphasizing things like `syntax-case` and `syntax-parse`, along with `#lang`, and a solid integration with the module&phase system.

(A sad story: When I was a teen, one day in the entryway of a CS department, (coincidentally taking an OOP class in C++ and Smalltalk) there were pallets or carts stacked with then-vintage Tektronix machines and maybe some TI machines, like the kind that likely ran Smalltalk and/or Lisp. I stopped and gazed wistfully, but I was super-busy, and didn't go ask the sysadmin how I could give some of them a good home. Now I kick myself, like you never forget that time you realized after it was too late that your crush was interested, and you wonder what might have been.)
> The Medicare for all that Bernie is proposing is a reaction to the inability of Congress to meaningfully fix the issue.

Wouldn't expanding Medicare to all also require an act of Congress? Bernie will have the influence of the White House, which is important, but it doesn't change the fact that Congress is still the body that would need to fix this.

I've always felt like the Affordable Care Act was a bandaid almost designed to point out the breaking points in the existing system, and force something like Medicare for All, to come along and "fix" the situation permanently.
> The article is about the TSA, not Border Patrol. Looking for contraband is not the TSA's job.

You're absolutely right! Do you have a better word to describe the collection of types of items the TSA is empowered to and charged with searching for?
Agreed... though, I'd imagine the mostly us-ascii centric programming model might be harder for some foreign languages. The worst, for me, as an example is when I see a special non-us character for JS examples as the assigned variable for a library.

edit: on the flip side, it's pretty cool for passphrases (where allowed)
Yep, so they'll fill the checklist beforehand just to make sure they're covered...
Just because the technology isn't explicitly designed as a 'single out black people' machine, doesn't mean that it isn't disproportionately affecting them due to how it is being used. Just because this imaging technology can't tell the difference between dense hair and explosives does not make someone's thick hair, or hair covering "an area of suspect density" that should automatically be flagged for more invasive searchs.

It's definitely trying to split some really fine hairs to be saying 'actually, it isn't discriminating against black people, it's discriminating against hair types that are highly correlated with being a black person, and it's totally acceptable that people with those hair types should be considered suspect / subject to further scrutiny', as if that is some sort of edge case that couldn't have possibly be thought about beforehand.

I absolutely don't think we should be defending a tech / procedure that only seems to be negatively affecting people, costs millions, and doesn't seem to have any positives effects,
Sure, I can buy the end revenue stated, just not the implication that 700 million end consumers is the way to get there.
After visiting the site using Firefox the history contains hundreds of those URLs with emojis. Also, the "back" button is completely broken because of this. Interesting way to prevent user from leaving the site.
> people who call these numbers run the real risk of being detained against their will for extended periods of time while running up large hospital bills

Source please?
> pedigree and politics beat hard work and skill every time.

I can't agree with this as a universal truth. Personally I only got noticed and landed a job at NASA because of hard work and skill. I was hired for my current job based on capability also. Places that are capability based have been great to work at. I don't even have a degree which is very unusual in my particular field.

I do agree it is generally true though.
That's one thing that the concept of federalism addresses. The ability for cities and states to experiment with different policies allows the federal government to wait and see which experiments bear fruit before rolling them out nationwide.
The news is a joke!

Here's a quick site I hacked together so we can all make fun of the latest news together. Because it's ridiculous.

1. Click on an article and meme it.
2. Smile because you've made the news slightly better for everyone.
This is hilarious. I love hearing from butthurt HR types about how unfair it is that programmers have leverage at their jobs.
You're grossly exaggerating the effort involved in moving stones from soil you've tilled and laying them in a straight line across a field. This isn't masonry. It's literally a pile of rocks.
> the people of Taiwan, who are more Japanese than Chinese

This really sounds bizarre to me. What are you referring to here? When are/were the people of Taiwan more Japanese than Chinese?
If the machines triggered on hairstyles commonly worn by white men, what are the odds that they would have made it to production? Conversely, if the development teams had a significant amount of black women with hairstyles like these, what are the odds that this problem would exist?

The TSA wants to externalize its discrimination to "the machine", but the machine is a product of human systems, and reflects and captures the biases that already exist in society.
One option is that the feature is built on a plain text .gitignore-like (.gitattribute-like more accurately) CODEOWNERS file(s) in a repository that you could implement support for in whatever tools that you do use.

https://github.blog/2017-07-06-introducing-code-owners/
A lot of people will say "this is a limitation of Computer Vision", but they are missing something.

If these kinds of technologies treat the hair of a certain race as a P1, then the technology (and people who designed the tech and the program) are participating in discrimination.

I'm not saying this to be 'woke' or to 'cancel' TSA. It's just a fact; and once we can all admit it (a lot of people in this thread don't seem to be able to), then we can make changes to fix it.

Editorial: If an aspect of traveling makes you feel like an 'other' in your own country, that's wrong, and I don't think public funds should be encouraging that. Public buildings have to have wheel-chair ramps, and TSA body scanners shouldn't be racialized.
> Yes, people do lose their insurance constantly when they switch jobs...and then immediately sign onto their new plan.

Lets say you payed for insurance, but were healthy for the 90s. So ~10-years of paying insurance. Around 2005, you are diagnosed with Diabetes, so your insurance pays for your care.

Around 2007, the recession happens and you lose your job. You immediately find a new job, but you need to get new insurance. Diabetes is now a "pre-existing condition", so your insurance no longer covers your condition.

Its important to recognize that changing health-plans is a regular event, that shouldn't punish people with chronic conditions. Diabetes is lifelong, once you get it, you live with it for the rest of your life. Insurance companies don't want to pay for that kind of issue. With all talk about "Repeal and Replace", its important to recognize the tradeoff.

As long as "pre-existing conditions" are banned in the USA, I don't think its a big deal to lose employer sponsored health care (at least, compared to pre-Obamacare). We should build a world where it is easy to lose (and regain) health coverage... compared to the pre-Obamacare world where it was a big risk to lose coverage. Hopefully laws of the future make it easier to switch health care plans without problems.
How exactly would I set up my files or nginx config to use the old root?
Maybe browsers should go back not to previous URL, but to previous domain.
The OpenFAM API: A Programming Model for Disaggregated Persistent Memory [pdf]
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>The SAT when combined with the high school GPA (HSGPA) has an adjusted correlation correlation coefficient of 0.56 with first-year GPA, meaning the combined measurement accurately predicts how a potential college applicant will perform in their first year of college 56% of the time.

This is a totally incorrect interpretation of what correlation is.
The difficult solution is increasing the accuracy and “trustability” of k12 assessments. As is, high school educators are not assessing their student in a manner that allows for real judgements of their students’ knowledge/capabilities/creativity/etc. by an outside party. We spend immense amounts of money, time, and effort creating and assessing students in school, but the results are only useful with the context of progressing within those specific courses.

Trustable assessments would go a long way to accurately rewarding merit.
I built an app that's used on thousands of Android devices in an industrial setting. Most of the devices were acquired last year.

Just tested with the new LE root cert and it doesn't work.

LE says "it's CA problem, not a Let's Encrypt problem", but that's disingenuous.

Let's Encrypt chose to get cross-signed by a root that expires in a couple years.

For example, HN's root doesn't expire until 2038.

This is definitely a Let's Encrypt fuckup that will cause many sites and apps to break.
That's a bad idea. How are other developers supposed to type this character (unless they are from Greece)?
Flip a coin, when it's in the air, you will know what side you hope it lands on.
Think the "Checklist Manifesto" addresses your creep and clutter as basically a very bad design. In the book they went over several medical checklist iterations before they struck something sensible that improved conditions and saved lives. Most importantly, they changed culture in places to where a nurse was allowed to tell a doctor "no" without fear of reprisals, and re-framed checklist items to pay attention to a time window for administering antibiotics, not just whether a patient received them. The checklist that's helpful should fit on a laminated index card and it should list critical things. But, it's hard to distill the essence of something and most checklists end up as a loose thought vomit on pages.
This is common in the corporate world, and a form of stack ranking. Top of the stack = promote and give large raises, middle of the stack = keep and give small raises if any, bottom of the stack = get rid of. 4/7 says "keep" to me. Bosses often have a distribution of 4's, 5's, 6's, etc. they have to line up with their staff as per company policy. This means marking up your top performers as 4/7 sometimes to keep them from shrinking your staff.

It's a bit like "buy", "strong buy", "hold" recommendations for stocks, which translate better to "hold", "buy", "sell".

It's only been a month, but this metric is stupid to have, and even more stupid to share with employees. The problem with stack ranking is if you have an all-star team or an F troop in your organization. At some point you're promoting and getting rid of the wrong people. It's a subjective political metric.

Workplace psychology doesn't match with it either. An average Uber driver still expects 5 stars. Give him 3 even if you believe he deserves 3, and he'll resent you. Maybe he'll refuse your ride next time if he finds out.

4/7 isn't an insult to a new hire, just an insulting metric to a workforce.
That will happen anyways.
Some of the top US universities do take far more students, they just don't show up at the top of US News rankings. UC Berkeley, for example, enrolls 30,853 undergraduates and 11,666 graduate students[1], but isn't in the top 20 on the USnoozeAndWorldDistort rankings.

https://www.berkeley.edu/about/bythenumbers

Interestingly, the elite research universities on your list above do enroll comparable numbers of graduate students to Berkeley (or Michigan, UCLA). The big difference is in the undergraduate enrollment. Also interesting is the way the list shuffles up when you consider top PhD programs or top science and engineering programs. Many of the schools in the top 10 on the US News List are replaced by top-50 schools with a much larger representation of public universities.

Berkeley, for instance, by many measurements, has more top-5 PhD programs (a good representation of department strength in research) than any other university, including Harvard and Stanford. Michigan isn't far behind (and keep in mind, Berkeley's med school is split off into UCSF).

Even US News's engineering school rankings, which I do think overwhelmingly favor very small private universities with large endowments, show this trend.

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering...

There are privates on there (Stanford, MIT, Columbia), but now you have Berkeley, Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue, University of Illinois, and UC San Diego and Texas at Austin at the 11th spot.

One thing the US News report rankings don't do is reward scale, but scale does matter. UCLA, for instance, enrolls more low income students than the entire Ivy League combined. Until recently, this was true of Berkeley as well, and numbers are still much much higher there - not just as a percentage, but in absolute numbers.

Private universities receive a lot of subsidies and favorable tax treatment on the grounds that they provide a public good - personally, I'm not enthusiastic about providing this subsidy to universities with massive endowments that enroll a tiny number of students.
Maybe it is our expectation for everything to be fair, straightforward and honest that is broken?

These expectations are the root of the current outrage culture. It's as if now that we have these wonderful technological advances we assume every problem should have been solved by now, and get outraged when we realize we don't live in a utopia.
If it's well maintained, a Nova can be fairly peppy
anti-competitive class action lawsuit required
I'm really disappointed (with my impression) that UW doesn't seem to appreciate what has been accomplished with Sage and the value of a major open source competitor to Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, etc. I hope William and Cocalc are tremendously successful.
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> You know what would really fix this? Developers doing their work. Deeply knowing and understanding the consequences of their work and how everything comes together in the end and leads to a slow website or not.

This is a wonderful idea! It's tragic, then, that nobody has thought to try this for the past several decades...
> Drone pilots can be put pretty much anywhere in the world so they don't need to be forward-deployed, which will probably help attract people.

Unfortunately the USAF likes to put all their drone pilots at Beale which from what I have heard isn't a very big difference in experience from Minot.

Also right now all drones are required to be full pilots and officers. This is a big factor in the shortages problem. No one wants to through the Academy and then sit at a desk flinging a joystick around. When I was in it was asked all the time why not have warrant officers or let enlisted fly drones? Brass always said no.
I think it's ironic that your comment was downoted. The mentality of Americans is warped beyond repair. If you don't think you have a chance of winning, it's not "realistic" or what-have-you, until you get to the lottery...

See the sister comment about voting for HC against DT because it's all or nothing.
>IQ isn't the only correlate of success.

No is saying it is, clearly there other factors that may be much more important but IQ is clearly a factor.
If Bernie wins running with it as his primary issue, it’s a lot easier to get Congress on board.
I think in Japan he would be arrested for corrupting browser's history.