skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on some of the other commentators, tens of thousands of gallons per minute sounds doable. One mentioned a single truck can do two. Get ten or more of those trucks (which I assume Paris has) and that seems like a decent amount of water.
My Poe's Law sense is tingling, but I honestly can't tell these days.
Sending good vibes your way.
>Software will become as stable as medieval architecture

No chance. Software gets abandoned all the time, and mostly for economic reasons.
Wait, you're actually serious? This is the man who tweeted 'covfefe' you're talking about...
Just ban the internet already England. You're 75% there already.
Why is there no good open source enterprise architecture management tool
My company decided a few weeks ago, that we need to start working on our IT architecture. At the moment everything is documented in excel and visio sheets, which is pain in ... to work with. Therefore I reviewed some EAM - Tools (Open Source and paid ), but without success. Either the tool is very expensive (i.e ardoq, Enterprise Architect) or the tool is unusable for users (i.e Essential project, iteraplan lite ) or the tool misses some functionality.

Is there any good open source EAM or is it time to build one?
It's one of my all-time favourites too. The Criterion Collection edition I believe contains the final directors cut. The ending is superb, it beggars belief that Hollywood tried to butcher it.
If you want to go really big, here's a 747 one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/747_Supertanker
> hover over the structure [...] as well as reducing its access to oxygen

Wouldn't the wind from the rotors increase the amount of oxygen?
Ok folks, i think we found the guy that started the fire in paris tonight.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19666991
This comment is not constructive and paints a false narrative.
I have no idea what you're talking about.

The facts stand, as have been reiterated in the thread above:

- Firefighting airplanes can effectively spray in a way that doesn't harm trees (by releasing the 12,000+ gallons over a very large area)

- Buildings are fine in extended substantial downpours (which is significantly less water per second than an air-tanker dump)

To your thought's end:

- Spraying a building with a plane in such a configuration would not collapse it

Yes, it's possible to spray the cathedral with water in such a way that it will not collapse it, but that configuration is that very little water gets on the cathedral, and is instead spread over pretty much the entire island in the Seine.

At this point in time, however, it likely doesn't matter. Since most of the building has collapsed already, due to the fire. Like we said it would.
Exactly.

I don't think people really understand the gravity of those fortunes.

Jeff Bezos could now (in theory, at market prices) buy Tacoma, Washington.

As in buy every piece of real estate, private and public, all utilities and infrastructure.

A town of 200,000 people. One man could buy it all. The assessed property value for 2017 was just over $105B, including government-owned, plus wiggle room for other properties.

That "should not" be possible. Buying (or being able to buy, rather) a "mid sized urban city", as an individual.
> If your morals tell you that the way your company makes money is okay, then your morals are in alignment and the article doesn't really apply in your situation.

Yep, this is the point I was making. I think a lot of people are in this situation. It’s not that they’re cogs in an amoral machine, it’s that they are actually morally aligned with their company and striving to make the world a better place (in their vision).
To risk their lives to save things, though? That's what's at issue here.
Incredible piece. I have lots of thoughts about US foreign policy and the government's hypocrisy, but on a lighter note, this passage jumped out at me:

> "Wood suffered a splitting headache from caffeine withdrawal. “Out here, I’m probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day,” he told me. (During the layover in Casablanca, he had drunk a Red Bull and twenty-two shots of espresso.)

That's an insane amount of caffeine!
Wow. Some of those kids would have been in diapers less than 4 years earlier in the West.
It’s not nearly the amount of an annual bonus, which is typically about 15% base pay. This is the order of a spot bonus (e.g. the director wants to thank you for working double time to make a product launch happen in time for a conference). Or it’s the price of 1-3 successful referrals to a company.
I don't know - love him or hate him, you have to agree this is a pretty anti-Trump list. Whether he's actually corrupt or not, this is evidence that the media is stacked against him - history will show if they were right or not.
I tried signal, much more inferior to WhatsApp in terms of functionality and usability
Personally I don't see how anyone could possibly come to any other conclusion...
Assuming you're American this is the most hilariously ironic comment I've ever seen on HN.

Americans are some of most obnoxiously nationalistic people I've ever encountered. Note: I've lived both in Paris, and also NY and California (14 years in the US). Only in the US do you hear mobs of nationalistic folk chanting "USA USA." I've never been in France or the UK and seen similar things. Think about things like Americans boycotting French Fries and calling them "Freedom Fries" when France decided not to join the illegal and immoral Iraq War.
Agreed, i think the title is a bit misleading.
Am I saying that? No, but the GP specifically did.

It only matters when you have something like a monopoly. The issue with Microsoft was that they leveraged their operating system monopoly to create a monopoly on desktop office software, and part of the way they did it was by using secret, private, undocumented, proprietary, whatever you want to call them, APIs or features built into Windows for Office. A company is not allowed to give itself an unfair advantage when they have a monopoly to spread to new markets. That constitutes abuse.

Not sure about your question about private functions, because that’s a feature of OOP and not really relevant.

When Microsoft comes out with a new version of Office that works with a brand new version of Windows using features of their competitors did not know existed, I think it’s pretty obvious why their competitors are unable to have a product on the market in a timely fashion using those functions. Again, that’s only relevant if they have a monopoly on a market. Of course, a company is not otherwise required to help competitors do anything.

See: http://lowendmac.com/2008/rise-of-microsoft-monopoly/

“I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likes of Notes, WordPerfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage . . . We can’t compete with Lotus and WordPerfect/Novell without this.” - Bill Gates, 1994
Someone could, someone did, and this was the result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Is the company responsible still in business? Assuming it's not, who else would be expected to pay for this if not the government?

Edit: According to Wikipedia the company is still in business, but it's owned (50.11%) by the "Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electric_Power_Company I would assume based on the name that that corporation actually might be involved in this project somehow?
Because that definition of complex opens tons of doors to companies that are leading tech industry?

My background has always been in Enterprise software (healthcare, insurance, BI, etc, almost a decade). At some point I felt that translating complex biz reqs are no longer interesting.

I find dealing with scalability (and hopefully build my own system library) is more interesting and challenging that the Enterprise market.

Consistent Hashing algorithms, Distributed Systems, System programming, build your own programming languages, maybe build my own messaging/background processing?

YMMV.
Out of topic, but what does "stuffing on tips" mean? (not a native and google didn't help.
The airframe according to reports has some stability issues at the edge of its flight envelope. That could have been resolved by requiring additional simulator training for pilots -- but Boeing chose the MCAS system to avoid the cost, and the revenue hit (reportedly $1million / plane by Southwest alone).
Are you talking about the 2010 adjustment or something in more recent years. I don’t remember this.
Can you phrase that question in a way that takes relativity into account? In particular, what do you mean by ticks being synchronized between two observers, when there's no such thing as objective simultaneity?
very nice, added to my projects list
The "rogue engineer" they presented wasn't just an engineer, but the head of the entire division at VW.

The entire "rogue engineer" meme is ridiculous, and this person is absolutely not innocent.
Great to see the South Florida Sun-Sentinel win its second Public Service [0] award (considered the most prestigious of the journalism Pulitzers). Its first Public Service award -- a 2013 investigation of speeding cops [1] -- is still one of my favorite examples of database-driven journalism; a combination of clever public records requests for metadata, and math, to prove something that technically didn't exist (i.e. cops are usually the deciders of who is speeding).

Its 2019 series about failures by school and police in the Parkland school shooting is also excellent. It also features among its public records work an milestone fuckup by officials in terms of PDF non-redaction [2].

[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/204

[1] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/sun-sentinel

[2] https://www.cjr.org/local_news/redaction-sun-sentinel.php
> We haven't seen the nicotine equivalent of fentanyl your "risk ladder" model predicts.

Only if you're looking at that end of the risk ladder. On the other end are vaping products like Juul that (while not perfect) are far safer than smoking. And, what do you know, there is increasing pressure to ban them as well. In the interest of not going off in the weeds, I won't even approach the deficits of government nutrition policies or soda taxation attempts.
I was actually inspired by this blog post: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2fwy1y/a_web_s... (page appears to be dead but the conversation is still interesting).

I figured that web servers tend to be pretty fun to write and if someone else has figured out how to do one in PS, I would be clever enough to build one too.

I guess I was wrong about that because I didn't get very far.
Yeah, that's what really irks me about people making direct death comparisons over air pollution, especially when the QoL factor is excuse enough. Calculating the decrease in life expectancy of at-risk patients and then somehow suming them up is much more honest than implying the death of an elderly lung cancer patient a month early is a life destroyed by pollution.
now all the creeps will have to lie and pretend to be under-13 when they want to befriend or send gifts to your daughter :(
You know, this, and you see this in the way the super-rich politicians elected to represent most of the country act.

"We want to grow the pie, rather than redistribute anything, so everyone can live the American dream" -- when in reality, the pie is plenty big but verrrrry badly distributed when you're among the working poor.

There was also a great video making the rounds recently about Rep. Katie Porter grilling Jamie Dimon about the base wages at his bank in Irvine, CA. She got out a posterboard and did the math on a hypothetical single mother working full-time as a teller ($16.50 an hour). After some very straightforward math, the hypothetical single mother is in the hole $587 every month. She kept pressing Dimon for how he expects that role to be filled, and he had no answer (repeating "I'll have to think about it.") Obviously, on some level he doesn't give a shit, but I think it's the sort of thing where he's also simply never confronted with the reality for someone who doesn't make $31 million a year plus whatever other non-cash he takes home.
And of course not just German industry: “ICCT and ADAC showed the biggest deviations from Volvo, Renault, Jeep, Hyundai, Citroën and Fiat.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
Another one recently finished:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Licheń
I really strongly prefer the p-style syntax because it doesn't overload the meaning of `{}`, but a lot of other people in the community use c-style.
If desktops had batteries the size of their PSUs, I guarantee I'd have blown one up by now. Probably more than one. Heck, I made a set of peripheral speakers explode once.
That wasn't so bad - the damage was concentrated on one of the transepts (the short 'arms' of the cross-shaped floor plan) and took out the roof but not the walls. The damage was repaired in four years at a cost of only a few million pounds. This is much worse.

Also, York Minster (like, I suspect, Notre Dame) has world-class stonemasons and glaziers with expertise in medieval building methods, which certainly helps with the restoration.
There are real tradeoffs between functionality and usability that any "more secure" chat service would have to deal with.
Shoot, you're probably right, and I fell for it. I guess the unintended consequence of my strict "ignore" policy over the last 3 years, is that I'm still a novice 3 years later. (Rarely do I see those brainfarts, but this one was unfortunately quoted in an article.)
Sécurité Civile, the guys who operate water bombing aircraft, have tweeted a couple of times that the dynamic pressure of water would present too much of a threat to the structure. https://twitter.com/SecCivileFrance/status/11178749242683760...
Will Sweden Become the World's First Cashless Society?
You appear to be making some unjustified assumptions. Namely that I’m defending my habit of touching strangers.

In fact, I don’t touch people in social situations because I have a tendency to shyness. I do, however, find hugs and casual physical contact from other people pleasing and comforting. It’s a perfectly normal form of interaction.

It would lessen the enjoyment I take in spontaneous social interactions, including physical contact, if it were codified and tabooed in the way you seem to prefer. Thankfully, the people I have asked about this in person seem to agree with me.
The science behind the art of Jeff Koons
No, you really don't. Debunking "claims of self-made wealth and reveal[ing] a business empire riddled with tax dodges" isn't anti-Trump. Neither is "uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign". That's just the normal job of investigative journalism, and those make up all of two out of fifteen categories.
It's probably a typo for "stiffing", i.e. not paying the tips at all, or paying too little.
Put effort into improving usability of Signal then? I don't understand.
Well if you think a driver is somewhat similar to a front-end implementation to begin with then it's OK. If "wiping the floor" means what I see on a day by day basis comparing JVM based UI's versus the same thing built in Swift you're probably talking about something different to begin with.

I'm talking about predictable performance and guaranteed minimum performance. I don't think you're speaking about the same thing.

The video seems to be interesting anyway, so thanks for that.
They were much greater: the people who designed them were dead long before they were completed. For better or worse, we can't build cathedrals now.
Well, the part where it says:

> Arthur Whitney's k and its derivatives have served a small number of highly skilled programmers

Doesn't exactly start off with an inclusive tone.
Just because Planck times are the smallest possible measurement of time intervals doesn't mean that time progresses in discrete Planck time chunks. That's obvious enough, but maybe seems unmeasurable ... and so what difference does it really make?

A bigger way to think about it is ... is the a universe like a movie where each still image lasts a Planck-time (or some other smaller chunk)? Is the entire state of the universe encoded in stasis for that instant, and then boom ... it's time for the next "Planck frame".

It's really hard to resolve that kind of universal time chunkiness with the ordinary time dilation effects that can be observed at relativistic energies. Whose frame of reference counts? We do know that space-time can be warped ... it's harder to imagine that this kind of warping and curving is discrete. That's one reason why many believe it's a smooth flow.
I am sure glad I switched to ProtonMail.
I'm sure it's not universal, but I was super picky growing up and I turned out to be celiac. The food was messing up my body and I think I knew in some way. I wasn't in any way selecting the correct foods, but food was an issue and I was hesitant to try anything new.
For those that did not know, YPLL=Years of Potential Life Lost. Commonly used when estimating pollution impacts.
I think for anyone for whom this theory is at all relevant, it's already clear that this is a theory, not a proven fact.

The fact that its theoretical is mentioned in the article for anyone that bothered to read past the first few paragraphs. For the rest of us, it just makes for interesting party conversation whether the theory pans out or not (which couldn't be proven by actually transiting a wormhole within any of our lifetimes)

So no harm, no foul -- anything that makes theoretical science interesting in the popular press is a win in my book.
ItaloDisco / Eurobeat
This is the same as saying "I can't understand how people are overweight. Everything has a calorie label and 10 minutes on youtube will tell you how to figure out how much you need". You're ignoring the externalities - not knowing how to cook (sure it's easy, if you were shown. Otherwise, where do you start? ), not having (or properly prioritisng) time - shopping, meal planning, cooking, cleaning up all take time that these people currently can't see a way to get.
> There isn't a better, more effective solution. Maybe 25 years ago, but it's almost certainly too late now. [0] Even if we cut emissions to 0 tomorrow using magic, the ice caps would continue melting from the CO2 we've already released.

Please propose an alternative solution that does not involve time travel.

Yes, Climate Change is going to have a negative impact on the world regardless of what we do today. But if we don't do anything, that impact will be even worse!
> I don't see a single stream of water hitting it in any of the live streams.

I saw on the live stream a couple of water jets, from aerial platforms, at the corners (probably as close as they could get with the trucks). But my guess is that most of the firefighting is happening on the ground level (some of it inside the building), out of sight from the distant cameras.
It's like these people don't understand how these charges work.
OT: This is one fast-displaying, well-designed static site blog. Wish there were more like it.

Deetails on the First Post page -- Hugo based, Indigo theme (modified):

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2019/first-post/
I don’t think McCarthy had reference counting in mind when he coined the word garbage collection. I think it’s more likely that people say garbage collection when they actually mean the more general term of automatic memory management. No one would ever mistake arena based memory management as a form of garbage collection, for example, even though it is obviously a form of automatic memory management.
Which of the two award-winners that explicitly feature Trump do you feel is unfairly rewarded?
When Should the Network Be the Computer?
Thanks for your reply! I'm happy to know that others have had similar success.
Perl 6 small stuff #17: a weekly challenge of Big Pi’s, Bags and modules
And the foreign companies that employ them bombarded from space with a mass driver.
But its doublespeak as usual, talking points with no demonstration of desire to actually help.

Its like telling a kid with a skinned knee to stop thinking about it,
and when you [kid] lose awareness of it then its just as good as gone.
> I don't think it being in the cloud or not makes a difference. Applications that aren't in the cloud can still be broken into.

So if the attacker has already broken into our corporate networks and can access the internal applications directly, what's to stop them from just examining the environment variables directly to get the secrets from there?

I don't understand the added value of Vault. We have secrets committed to internal GitLab where you need an LDAP account to even view/clone the repo. The secrets are used for internal applications that make calls to external APIs (like a weather service). If the attacker can gain access to the GitLab source, surely it's equally trivial to just examine the environment variables of the internal application itself since the secrets will be in plain text.

And if the secrets are not in plain text (i.e. you are passing the secret encrypted), then surely the attacker need only examine the source code (which we've established he has access to) to see how to decrypt the secret from the environment variable.

Seems like an impossible chicken and egg problem.
You have a great story (albeit with a touch of sadness).

I would think that this type of event would bring the French together in a way like few other events could. I'd expect Gilets Jaunes movement to subside quickly.

Yes, today we are all French - and expect that we all want to see Our Lady rebuilt. Faster, better, stronger, and much more fire-retardant than in the past.

The Windsor Castle fire of 1992 was refurbished in 5 years, [0] and although a national treasure, it was not at the level of the Notre Dame. But it was rebuilt, and was even completed ahead of schedule.

The cost doesn't matter - it will probably be well over a billion. But you will see concerts, TV specials, and all sorts of fund raisers to rebuild her.

And in this you will see the best thing of all - the French (and even people like me who are only French on occasions like this) showing our love to rebuild her.

This is the message you should hold in your heart today - one of love and empathy, and dare I say, the grace of God that she was intended to foster.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Windsor_Castle_fire
Not sure what made anybody think otherwise. There are strict laws such that any owners or upper management (CEO) if responsible for criminal offenses will be privately fined. That means their own fortunes are at risk here. This isn't the US. VW was already fined. They're done. Now Winterkorn and the others are being charged and any fines demanded by the court will be paid from their private fortunes. Also, there will be jail time and fines involved if they're found guilty.
Islamists aren't enough. They might start the fire, but to stop proper efforts at putting it out, you need... socialists.
Sorry for the late reply. The template is more formatting than anything else. The core questions:

1) What is in this doc? What decision do we need to make?
2) Why is this important?
3) Who is the customer for this solution?
4) How have others tried to or solved this and how were their solutions insufficient?
5) How are we planning on solving this?
6) specifics
7) What options have we considered and thrown out?
8) What resources are required?
9) What are the one-way doors in this plan? (meaning: what decisions cannot be undone)
10) Timing?