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I wonder how the firefighters feel about risking their lives for art, as opposed to other lives. I'm not saying I wouldn't risk human lives for certain works of art, but I can imagine some boots on the ground feeling salty about it.
I live very close to this university and have had 2 friends relate the same basic story: They each gained a reputation for being discreet (not sure exactly how that worked) and slept with many, many girls who attended BYU.
It has built in RSA key stuff, common hash algorithms, and the ability to encode/decode Bitcoin addresses. Perhaps other stuff too[1].

[1] https://k7contrib.gitlab.io/docs/#shakti-python
No, it's just another BS fad, like the 20+ other plants called "saviors of the planet", "superfoods" etc -- there's one or two every 3-4 years...
Answer: no.

The planet is going to be fine. Whether we need to be saved, is an ongoing debate.

It's hard to take articles seriously when they are introduced with such headlines.
I don't think these firefighters are checking twitter and getting distracted by Trump's tweets or posts on HackerNews.

People are just commenting on what they see.

edit: I'm so sorry HN, apparently I offended people.
Firefighters have said no deaths, which is good. No reports of injuries from a religious official.
Misfeasance is the real issue here. Wikileaks exposed it. I don't care if Assange broke the cited law, if the US govt is up to no damn good as a US Citizen I have a right to know. If the govt is using the law to retaliate against journalists who expose misfeasance I expect 18 U.S. Code § 214to apply.
Skip is way more popular than Scoot in San Francisco
It's unlikely an urban fire department is set up for any significant amount of drafting (pulling water from surface sources), if it's something they can do at all.

You're absolutely right though, if you want big water, that's the way to get it. It's just that "big water" doesn't even begin to approach the scale of the water that would be necessary to directly fight this fire.
I came here to post this. :)
Many of these wooden structures are nearly 1,000 years old. The spire itself only dates from the 19th century.
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Because it doesn't rain tons of water in less than a second.
About 11 years ago, I climbed to the top of the spire of Notre Dame. It was not a place open to the public. (Although this is true, I find my own story hard to believe, so I will understand if there is skepticism.)

We were drunk and it was dark and late. We hopped the iron fence in the back, and scaled the southern wall that runs along the nave, where the flying buttresses are.

To get to the top, you climbed the walls and roof outside the building until you reached the base of the spire, and then you climbed inside the spire up several stories linked by rough wooden ladders, and then you had to get out and climb outside again, on a series of metal hooks, to get to the top where you could touch a metal globe and cross.

There was very little security (just one trap door inside the spire that you had to climb through, where you had to make sure breaking an electrical current didn't set off an alarm).

It was all very old, obviously, and old in a way of places where no one ever goes. Little used, and therefore neglected. Was the wiring on the trapdoor well insulated? I doubt it.

There was a small group of climbers in Paris who knew about this. Maybe a couple dozen people. One of them would occasionally lead a small group of friends: free climbing to the top of one segment of the wall, and then letting down a rope to help up those behind.

Notre Dame is at the center of Paris. There is a bronze marker in front of the church called "kilometre zero," from which all distances along French national routes are measured. From the top of the spire, the city fanned out like petals around a pistil. Paris was made to be seen from that one point, where no one ever went except a few climbers and pigeons, and maybe an adventurous priest.

The climber who took us up to near the top of the spire lay himself down on a rafter in its hollow interior, above the void, and fell asleep. Like I said, we were drunk, and it was all very dumb and dangerous.

When we came back down, about a foot before the last person touched the ground again, his rope broke. He picked it up, stared at it for a second, murmured "C'est mort", and threw it away.
Because they’re undocumented, for one.
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Gilliam's "Brazil" is still my favorite film of all time. If you haven't seen it, you should. Note that there are multiple versions of this film floating around. Comparing them makes a very interesting study in film editing. The story of the making of "Brazil" is almost as interesting and fraught as Don Quixote.

When watching Brazil it's important to keep in mind that it was made in 1985, before 9-11, before the internet, before ubiquitous surveillance. It is one of the most prescient films ever made.
Would only work until the engine is empty, then you have to hold up using the local hydrants (which will likely not be able to supply six fire engines going full throttle)
Is it worse than the cathedral burning down? Because they do it in suburban environments in southern California all the time and no one has ever died from the fire retardant. Fires, on the other hand, have a much worse track record in urban environments. It's so obvious that people hate the idea because Trump suggested it. And frankly, he's making you into close-minded fools.
Nobody is proposing that tax dollars be used to fund a colony. Elon is says he's planning on doing that using profits from SpaceX's other business.

I'm not aware of anyone every proposing that people mine minerals on Mars for shipment back to Earth. I have heard people talk about using propellant made on Mars to fuel voyages further out, Zubrin is big on that idea, but that's another kettle of fish - energy and mass can cost different amounts in different places.

People sometimes talk about mining asteroids and bringing the resulting minerals to Earth. I'm not sure that that is economically feasible, at least right now, but it avoids the big problem of having to launch stuff out of Mars's gravity well. Technically speaking the energy involved in getting an asteroid from the main belt to Earth is steeply negative so I don't think you could say that it's impossible on a strictly energy accounting basis, especially since there's no fixed rule establishing the relative value of energy and matter across different technological regimes.

But right now we spend huge amount of energy lofting satellites into orbit around the Earth. If we could use material that was already in space to build satellites in orbit that would be much cheaper from a strictly energy accounting standpoint. That would, of course, require some technological advances but makes a lot of sense if you just look at it in terms of energy.
Maybe by not war mongering, idk..
Between them, I liked programming in PostScript[1] a bit more than Forth. It had some fun clever stuff that was a bit easier to work with. I often wished for a Forth that was just the language from PostScript with some file add-ons.

1) back when I had a database (Foxbase, not FoxPro, Foxbase), Turbo C, and a PostScript printer, but no reporting tool and a requirement to generate some graphs.
Being a rich executive is essentially a get out of jail free card in America. Only good outcome for us commoners is that they can't screw us in the same way again. They have to invent a new way next time.
What a loss. Absolutely heartbreaking. I spend a good deal of my time in a (far far less beautiful) cathedral, and I can't imagine what it would feel like to lose it, and this is the Notre Dame.
today, the public software allows you to move it backwards and forwards through the application if you're within range of the vehicle
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Being a somewhat complete human being requires an appreciation of the major works in fields other than your own.
There’s art and there’s art. And then there’s the symbol of a whole nation.

I imagine even the most reticent would be jumping in on this one.
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I consider myself a good developer, I couldn't tell you the first thing about keeping a crypto wallet secure.

This comment doesn't make sense.

Also...

>if they get compromised, it's not the employer's problem.

Until they can't pay rent which has been known to affect output, or they try and make it your problem (they don't even have to succeed, just trying is enough to be a hassle.)
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today."

The only thing worse than the "not really enough" emissions reduction plans, is idle comments about how terrible they are without offering any better, more effective solution.

Reducing the UK by 50% is better than not. If every country didn't reduce because they "only" make up X% of global emissions, no progress would be made, period. The solution is to target 0 CO2 emissions, and work our way there one productive step at a time.
When compensation includes stock options and RSU's the lines are somewhat blurry. And isn't this what such financial incentives are for, to align incentives?

But then, you have multiple classes of stock which undoes that somewhat. Incentives are never fully aligned; there are always things like principal-agent problems.

So I agree in substance if not in snark: it is important to understand these things.
Apple's side-loading ban creates ideal conditions for authorities to compromise citizen's privacy via censorship, VPN bans, etc.

Ultimately, having one all powerful gatekeeper is not secure, because that gatekeeper can get compromised or impose arbitrary restrictions for commercial/ideological reasons (such as Apples anti-sex policies)
Generally when it rains you don’t go from nothing to several tons of water all hitting at once.
Where I live you pay premium, let's say $50 a month and then you get let's say $10000 of your damages covered. So that is what you get from insurance company $10000 and the rest is yours to pay. They just look at the probability like "hey this guy is storing fuel, fire insurance for someone who stores fuel is $100 a month and we can pay only up to $20k".

So it is easy to calculate for insurance companies, they don't go over the factory inventorying what you have in factory.

It is your responsibility. (they only go after to see what was damaged, because that i what they care about)

Of course you can pay some insurance expert to assess your assets and tell you to buy more expensive or less expensive insurance but there are no magic super specific algorithms for "if 10 people die we pay $50k if 20 people die we pay $100k". All insurances pay up to some amount based on what is your monthly/yearly payment.
I shot the F9 SSO-A launch with my FLIR One back in December. Visually it was about the same as yours, but what was surprising how well the iPhone picked up the low frequency rumbles. Playing it back on a stereo with a subwoofer was entertaining.

After being to several launches both watching and photographing, I'd advise first timers to watch with their eyes first too. The flame plume is a very bright, oddly "rich colored", orange fire that video just can't capture. 60 seconds later it's all over, it's hard to watch both the rocket and viewfinder.
A reasonable person might think that it did occur to emergency fire services to respond quickly, particularly in a nation and city with a great history in the field.
It certainly seems that there are infinite ways of making tendentious arguments against fixing something that should be fixed.
Ask HN: How do you deal with support for your young project?
We have been working diligently on Scatter (https://get-scatter.com/) for the last year or so. Entirely bootstrapped and fairly successful, but not successful enough to hire a dedicated support team. It sucks a lot of time and energy from us and well, I'm wondering how you guys have dealt with this kind of situation.
Maybe to help them recover their password ?
> Can't even buy refurbs from Apple.

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/macbook-air
Well, you will need GDPR checkboxes/disclaimers and a form to capture email. How is this more user friendly?
There's massive room in the market for a security-first company that offers insurance as a guarantee.

This company would essentially operate as the security team for clients and put in contractually enforced policies and follow through on implementation. If a client decides to not implement required security practices, then their policy immediately gets dropped.

This is the only scalable way I'd see to implement real insurance against cyber-attacks.
Also, is your name a Doctor Who/Ice Warriors reference?
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I can imagine that too. I can also imagine the cathedral being so iconic that a sense of national pride might take over to try to salvage anything possible.
Well. Let's check out the acutal weasel words used in the actual "science paper" : https://www.ucalgary.ca/lmcintyre/files/lmcintyre/hunger%20c...

"Children and youth who experience hunger are more likely to have poorer health, and repeated exposure appears to be particularly toxic. Our findings point to the relevance of food insecurity in childhood as a marker of vulnerability".

No cause and effect proven, folks. Just some correlation. No reason for the government to force feed kids. You think about it and obesity is more of a threat the "hunger and starvation' these. Perhaps our HN Editors can post another "feel sorry for diabetics" post. It's overdue at this point.

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I think nothing of what you just wrote undermines what I just said.

> Cascading deletes of highly nested data structures are similar to pause the world in tracing GCs.

Which is simply difficult for every language. But even then still more predictable than Java "we'll do it when we feel ready for it" approach.
Cathedrals like the Notre Dame were the moonshots of their time, only able to be built by immense societal consensus. It's unlikely with todays demographics shifts that we will ever witness a project as monumental as these were 1000 years ago. What a shame.
Sounds most likely to be an electrical fault, then. That's what burned down the Brazilian national museum too.
Ask HN: What job could you do that you can't get?
Is there a job which you would like to have, know you would be great at, but there is an arbitrary obstacle in the way of you obtaining that job, even though you could perform that job currently?

For example, some people are naturally great teachers, but to teach in certain areas requires a degree.

Or perhaps you have a friend with a better job than you have, but they come to you for help because you are good at whatever it is they do professionally.

If there is a qualification that you think is bogus but you notice it is regularly asked for, I'm interested in hearing about it.

If you have a story about how you overcame an obstacle in being hired while lacking a qualification, please share that too.
You are right- I am thinking of the typical royalties paid to private land owners onshore (either 1/8th or 1/4th).

Offshore federal royalties are typically ~12.5-18.5% [1]

[1] https://www.boem.gov/note07062017/
I can easily imagine there are plenty of people who would risk it willingly.
For some resolution and completeness, certainly. The rest can be inferred. It won't be perfect, of course, but I'd be surprised if it isn't attempted at some point.
Whether or not you're punished for following orders has more to do with whether or not you're on the side that writes history than anything else.
Arcbyte@cousinrickeyshouseofemail.com has a nice ring to it
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Fire retardant might work, but is likely not readily on hand in an urban environment (and is really meant to prevent spread of fire, not to put a fire out).

Dumping actual water would be a bad idea both for the people and the structure, simply because dumping heavy things from high places is generally dangerous.
> A MacBook Air can't survive a 30 cm drop (less than 1 foot)? Most phones can't survive a 10 second dip in a toilet bowl? Is it just me or is technology today weak?

Was there ever a time where you could do this things to your electronics and guarantee that they would work afterwards?
I volunteer as a projectionist at Cinequest, a film festival in San Jose. This movie premiered as one of the festival book-ends this year [2019].

I personally didn't go out of personal preference and I have no regrets over that. I've heard mixed reviews before and after. Maybe I'll see it eventually, but I'm not itching for it.
A conspiracy theorist would expect the police to be covering up the fact that multiple churches in paris have been the targets of arsonists this year.
I bet there are other smartasses in high position in France who also give "advice" or are asking questions and they may be more difficult to ignore. Some managers have the courage to tell these people to f... off but a lot of them don't have the spine to do so so it still may be a problem for the firefighters.

I have gone through this process last summer in my company and it's really frustrating when people spend energy on questioning everything you do instead of helping.
hear, hear
For those missing the context, this is a direct quote from Trump's Twitter account.
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I'm not an expert (routinely get downvoted every time I open my mouth, I'm used to Reddit's style of commenting), but HN's guidelines do say that any topic that might interest a hacker is good and doesn't have to do with programming, startups, etc.

Guidelines also say that one shouldn't post things that don't add to the conversation, I guess your comment is a classic of not adding anything and that's why you got downvoted.

As for the rest, it's completely crazy. If what we know now is true, the fire was started on the scaffolds (I bet a cigarette), just imagine that the company was supposed to restore the thing, and destroyed it.
Even if not, it is extensively photographed.

The Photosynth TED talk uses Notre Dame as an example of reconstructing geometry from a random selection of photos.

https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photos...

Skip to 3:45 or so.
It’s not often I come across a well-written post by an engineer. This one is remarkably clear.
That doesn't look like any single point gets that much force on it. Wouldn't be surprised if you could safely stand under it.
I would expect the fire department of a large city with navigable waterways to have fireboats, though, which by their very nature draft water. Even if the boat's own nozzles don't reach. they can generally be used as pumps for hoses on shore.
It's unlikely an urban fire department is set up for any significant amount of drafting (pulling water from surface sources), if it's something they can do at all.

My understanding, which is probably quite out of date, is that it's mostly harbor firefighting boats which had this ability.

A coworker of mine points out that many of the San Francisco manholes are actually covers for cisterns of water, which exist primarily for fighting fires after an earthquake possibly takes out the water mains and starts many fires. I should hope that San Francisco fire trucks can draft water to use these.
...am I understanding it correctly that their 'punishment' was having to promise not to break the law again? But only for five years??
How much foam loaded up on planes and ready to go do you think they have near Paris? It's not wildfire season anywhere around there right now.
> A concatenative programming language is a point-free programming language in which all expressions denote functions and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. The combination of a compositional semantics with a syntax that mirrors such a semantics makes concatenative languages highly amenable to algebraic manipulation.

This is the reason i hate so many (not all) wikipedia articles - the introduction is an exercise of code golf in human language.

This is devoid of the key quality most readers want from an encyclopedia (understanding from an ignorant viewpoint), intros should not be a puzzle for the reader which attempts to fit comprehensive technical description into a single useless sentence.
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imagine being the guy that accidentally burned down the Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019
If you start using tankers, you have to evacuate everyone from the area (in a larger area than their current evacuation cordon). It would mean all other on-site firefighting operations would have to stop.

Using aerial tankers would be unsafe (flying planes are very low altitudes through a city), and would result in a net reduction in firefighting efforts on scene.
We use cryptocurrencies, works super well. Typically ETH and BTC.
oh, that's older than my repo, and I know that this is possible by design.
Especially at times like these... he's such an embarrassment _sigh_
>No. 100% NO. I guarantee you that the regulators wouldn't care. And if they did care, the 'local competitors' would get AT BEST a slap on the wrist like a strongly worded letter with a time-frame or MAYBE a fine (if that). There would be no indictments.

Unless of course an indictment is the politically determined goal. E.g. that one small Chinese bank that got screwed for the lending bubble that popped in '08.
I think getting around things like age restrictions and parent supervision is an important experience growing up, but I'm afraid kids these days are less adept with computers than their parents and won't be able to.

I know one 14yo who complains about not being able to see restricted content on youtube and also believes her parents can see her history even if she erases it.

Just because you were able to do it when you were a kid, doesn't mean other kids will be able to. You're posting on HN with a "linuxasheviller" handle, that makes you an outlier.
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Their API is not S3 compatible. There are a bunch of client libraries on various platforms for it though.

They have 1GB free of outgoing bandwidth per day. If you put them behind Cloudflare then you effectively get your bandwidth for free. So half a cent per GB per month is all you way. Plus your time building out the integration instead of S3.
> It's unlikely an urban fire department is set up for any significant amount of drafting (pulling water from surface sources), if it's something they can do at all.

London Fire Brigade for example has nine special pumps that can draw 2000 gallons a minute each from river or lake supplies. So that's 18,000 gallons a minute just from them.

And that's a smaller fire brigade than Paris.
I've fallen into that trap on both forth and lisp. It's fun as it is to implement interpreters for both, and it does give a sense of their simplicity. But, when you implement X in Y, you're not really learning X, you're learning how to write an interpreter (or compiler) in Y.

Fortunately, the next step, which will teach you the language, is even more fun: Bootstrap your interpreter.