skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sparks are a major hazard in a lot of industries, to the extent that there is a full range of non-sparking tools made from high-strength copper alloys. They're most often used in the oil, gas and petrochemicals industries, but they're also used in dry and dusty environments like grain elevators and flour mills.

https://www.avensafetytools.com/product-category/non-sparkin...

I have no idea whether this story is the whole truth, but it's perfectly plausible - in extremely dry conditions, a tiny ember can become an uncontrollable fire in a matter of seconds. The speed of a grass fire can be truly frightening. Take a look at this video:

https://youtu.be/F79tkSKstxY?t=10

The fire in that video was started by the heat of an exhaust pipe, but it could have just as easily been caused by a spark or a cigarette butt. If a fire like this started in front of you, how sure are you that you'd be able to extinguish it single-handedly? What if it started behind you and it got a head start of a few seconds before you noticed it? If you were dressed in shorts and sandals rather than fire-resistant boots and overalls, would you even stand a chance?

A moment of hesitation or distraction is all it takes to lose control of a grass fire. Based on the account given, I can fully imagine the desperate and ultimately futile effort made to extinguish a fire that rapidly spread out of control.
For unit testing, I suggest starting with parsers, or any string-parsing code you have. They tend to be nicely self-contained and have lots of edge cases that you can test in a data-driven way, using a loop.

Even if you're just using a regular expression for parsing, it can be worth moving the parsing code to its own function and testing it like a parser.
The canonical genius has to be Albert Einstein, who was known for humility. As to some others, people make history as geniuses for (1) doing genius things and (2) making sure everyone knows they're the genius that did it, so you have to consider the effect of (2) when you try making a list.
Completely understand & I agree. Citation added.
I guess, as a man, I feel the expectation is quite the opposite. Namely, that a female in my position would be excused more often to take care of child duties, while my employer would think I'm just being lazy if I told them I wanted to take extra time to care for my child.

In my mental model (note: this is not what I would do, but what I imagine others would do), a woman saying she needs to go home because her baby needs her would be seen as a responsible woman, because a baby needs breastmilk and its mother provides that, whereas, if a man said he needed to go home consistently, the boss would think he's irresponsible, because -- as a man -- his baby doesn't strictly need him, and thus he is better serving his family at work.

But I understand your viewpoint; it just didn't occur to me. It seemed obvious to me that men, due to male biology, were more likely to be forced to work longer hours in order to be seen as being as responsible as an otherwise equivalent woman. Although, I guess today, formula is quite popular. Well regardless, I'm not always the best at understanding how others would react to things.
Racial discrimination aside, it gives me hope to see liberal/libertarian ideals holding against the ever expanding state in almost every country on Earth. Liberty and self determination are dying virtues, and people don't know what it is they're giving up so willingly.
Developers wouldn’t add it if it wasn’t required, full stop. They want access to your social media presence and personal information.
I've played all three of the Escape Velocities distributed by Ambrosia Software. They're among my favorite games of all time. I first played Endless Sky on steam a few years ago. Its gameplay is very close to Escape Velocity. Its plot isn't bad either.
The older and more confident I got the less I felt a need to 'know everything.' I'm not perfect, but these days when it comes to anything whether it be technical or cultural (e.g. bands or movies) I strive to not be afraid to say "I don't know what that is" and be excited to learn about it.

There's so much out there. I actually picked this up from reading Hacker School's user manual, "no feigning surprise"[1] and of course an xkcd comic[2].

It was a comfort to see an engineer who I highly respect (Dan Abramov) post a list of things he doesn't know[3].

[1] https://www.recurse.com/manual

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[3] https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/
Why are inmates still dying in Brazil's violent prisons?
Just scan the damn thing?
Since the article keeps bringing up that everyone involved is "all white," i.e. a 10% minority in SA, that probably means that they won't be able to keep a good relationship with the SA government if it collapses and they'll probably end up with the military stealing all of their stuff. Too bad they can't immigrate to America, they are clearly smart and entrepreneurial. Unfortunately collapsing states tend to turn on minorities. Really, they should forget about surviving the collapse and focus on preventing it...
Problem being the interstate highways prohibit walking,horse riding and most "not automotive" methods of transportation.

You have to drive a car to travel interstate.
Bringing OpenGL Apps to Metal
"require a signature", quite often, ends in them coming by when the recipient is out. They try 3 times, then ship it back at the sellers expense.

It's not really a great solution.
> latter because it's a vendor initiative not a community one.

You may be right, but I don't think you should be quite so cynical.

18.04 has a ten year Long Term Support, and Ubuntu was first released in 2004.
I would expect soon after, so some people have time to update. Maybe day one. But it didn’t sound like it would be long.
Why should Google know what apps I'm installing?

Why should Facebook?

Why should I have to get accounts for those services just to use your app?

Why should apple list apps that can't be used by users because of they require user's to create accounts with companies that are known to abuse user privacy?

The last point I think is the most reasonable: why should I, a user, be required to use some arbitrary third party just to use your app?

If you are solely using them for login support, and nothing else, then all you're doing is adding one more OAuth provider. What makes it so hard to require an Apple identity if you're already willing to accept google or facebook ones?
> Has anyone figured out how to verify the backing on a blockchain? If that was possible Tether's fraud would have been exposed sooner.

And this is always the problem with block chain. You can't cryptographically verify real life things that people care about like how much money is in someone's bank account.
Apple holding the ID information and all that that pertains is the only company I would like to hold that data. I can see no reason why Facebook or Google or any company that profits on the sale of information should have my data. I appreciate that advertisers want to maximize their ad spends but ad-tech has gotten so creepy ... Apple’s move here I fully support. I look forward to seeing apps using it more often and perhaps eventually all the apps I use as well so that I can move all my logins via it.

Apple sells me thousand dollar phones and services. Until they start selling my data to ad brokers and becoming a Google I’ll support Apple on this going forward.
Yep. That is the system that currently exists. Especially if said player is an ideological adversary.
Tests might make you personally feel safer making changes but they are not Agile(tm) because they attempt to predict needs instead solving an explicit existing need. They violate YAGNI and worse there is work in removing and rewriting old tests.
They are complaining that these app developers are misrepresenting the cost of the "free" app. What it really costs is access to data about you as a Google/FB user. Sure, build an app like that all you want, but don't lie about it.
It wasn't totally random. They were mostly ok with assholes as long as they were good engineers -- my manager and skip-level manager were two of the ten or so loudest far-left types at the company. But both were very good engineers, and my manager actually got promoted even while devoting a substantial amount of time to antagonizing random people on mailing lists and G+.

I remember one guy though who was far-left, very obnoxious, and useless. And he got fired/pushed out a little while after I left.
I am very uneasy with this as well.

Apple has just leveraged their position as the iOS gatekeepers in order to obtain a huge marketshare of the SSO market.
Imagine getting/teaching them to use G Suite accounts, something I've attempted once. I thought it would be the easiest possible transition
Is it unreasonable to believe that companies will block disposable Apple email addresses, just as they do, e.g., mailinator.com emails - often for authwalls intended purely for tracking users?
They’d have been sued out of existence in America because of housing discrimination laws.
> I am thinking you've drastically missed the point of the comment you're replying to.

Nope, youre the one missing his point. The commentor above is accusing the newspapers of Orwellian newspeak, where really they are just responding to the orwellain newspeak in use by the people naming the bill to begin with.

The newspaper is seeking to clarifly the misleading actions of others. Doing so is not newspeak. Its their role in soceity.
Is SA collapsing? News to me.
Not every state border crossing is an Interstate highway having controlled access. In fact, most are not (US highways, county roads, etc.).
I was recently thinking about this as Chernobyl (which was excellent to be fair) quickly became the highest rated TV drama ever.
First of all, iCloud does have a web interface. Second of all they can’t read your email. Reviewing Apple’s numerous explanations of how the system works should make that clear. If paranoia gets the best of you, nobody is forcing you to implement sign in with Apple and you are free to not use sites that do.
I feel like author is missing the point. Shouldn't the recency bias show up in recent votes (while the movie is "hot" and trendy) vs. later votes?
What’s the incentive for vendors to participate? Why would they switch to a less-featured product from ones that exposes all manner of user analytics?
Same thing happened to me with UPS collecting a package

Someone stayed home from Tuesday evening onward, and they didn't manage to come and get it until Friday, despite calling them every morning asking what was going on

The person who eventually collected suggested our bell was broken and generously offered to test it for us - we had food delivered on Thursday evening so knew it was fine

And then before that there was the time I paid for 'guaranteed next-day delivery' on an envelope containing incredibly important documents which was only going to an adjacent zip code. Sent on Thursday and didn't show up until the week after, while UPS pretty much shrugged the whole weekend and said 'maybe we lost it?'
Unknown unknowns.

My coding style hasn't really changed in years - frankly, I don't write a lot of code, I do other things. But I often run into situations where I'm irritated at my own bad code from months earlier, when the shortcomings of the code are actually driven by things I know now that I didn't know then.
"all white" in South Africa is a minority struggling against majority. They can't be "far right". Far Right means nativists which in South Africa continues to be black people and not white.
Not sure if anyone in here subscribes to The Signal Path [1] on YouTube, but he does tons of teardowns (and repairs!) of RF/signal processing hardware new and old. You'll see precisely what jaquesm is talking about. The marquee specs might not look so great on paper, but you'll find absurd levels of craft and attention to detail in some of that older equipment.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog
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Racial discrimination is a pretty big thing set aside. They’re libertarian exactly to the extent they need to be to justify their racism.
In other words, B&N is to be dismantled and sold for parts in the near future.
What completion? The stock REPL doesn’t have that.
Although it's easy to figure out, the apostrophe in the title migrated ("An all-white's town" should be "An all-white town's", as in the article itself).
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But what does getting a real email address do in that case?

If you watch the presentation or read the transcript, they explicitly say that they're doing fraud/spam account prevention.

Do you really think you're doing more fraud/spam detection and prevention work than apple?
It's Americans who are inconsistent with acronyms. Do you write LASER or RADAR? If it's pronounceable as a word, it's written as such. If it's pronounceable as letters, it's written how you would expect.
> You can find a ton of apps in the app store where they do this.

But those do not consistently front-page as well, do they?
I think it's been interpreted as recent movies not recent votes.
If you want global adoption, make it open. That's what Android does. That's what Linux does. That's what cryptocurrency achieves. That's what Facebook wants.
Does 'racist' just mean 'certain groups commit more or less crime and my literal computer refuses to pretend otherwise'?
I try to give good answers to misguided questions, but it can be really hard to do well. You have to guess what wrong assumption they're proceeding from in real time, and then respond with something that addresses that while still being interesting to the rest of the audience. Some people are great at it, through some combination of genius and practice.
Absolute truths passed on by my various line managers:

- Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups.

- The optimal number of people in an organisation is 3. At 4 you start losing efficiency. At 80,000....

- The more you progress in the hierarchy, the more you realise it is the same idiots at every level.
>And this is always the problem with block chain. You can't cryptographically verify real life things that people care about like how much money is in someone's bank account.

There are a lot of problems with applying blockchain to solve real problems. This one is not one of the problems. What this is is people using the blockchain for things it was not designed to do.
in case your curious, "deregulate" is not really an oxymoron. the "de-" prefix usually means something like "remove" or "undo". it just means to remove or relax some existing rules.

don't feel bad though, English vocab can be tricky for native speakers too. for example, "in-" usually means "not", like "indestructible" means "can't be destroyed", but "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the same thing...
redpitaya [1] makes an nice modern SDR transceiver. [1] https://www.redpitaya.com/
Nokia’s strategy for breaking into the US market is to attack the low end
BTW how do you restrict a right without due process or a constitutional amendment ?
Interstate travel is a clear right.

The right to do it as the driver of a car is less clear, given that one can freely move between states in a bus, plane, boat, taxi, or as a car passenger.
> "all white" in South Africa is a minority struggling against majority. They can't be "far right". Far Right means nativists which in South Africa continues to be black people and not white.

I don't think that most people understand 'far right' in that way. For example, are you saying that someone whose political philosophy hasn't changed, but who moves from one place to another, might go from being far-right to not, or vice versa?
That's reminiscent of the nasty version of 20 questions, where everyone bar the subject is told the only rule is to give an answer that is consistent with previous answers.

Never been on the receiving end, but what I've seen you don't want to be on the receiving end.
Alternately, figure out where they will be selling real estate and how to make money on that... lots of it will be in California and NY?
Unlikely. My bar for a "genius" is pretty high. It's actually pretty obvious when you're in a room with one - it almost feels like they're different species. Stuff that's insurmountable to you is easy as a pie to them, and they can explain it in simple terms. They couldn't care less about the fact that you weren't able to understand it on your own.

And some of them present very modestly most of the time, but if you're wrong about their stuff, they won't mince words. Nor would they be humble about things to get along with you, or doubt their knowledge just because it's trendy to do so. They don't necessarily shove themselves into everyone's face.
Readers of this post may also enjoy Oolite, a GPL-licensed space exploration game heavily inspired by the original Elite. But this one is in 3D.

http://www.oolite.org/
Nisour Square Massacre
A two channel logic analyzer seems very inadequate. Need four minimum.
The "due process" is you suing the Government if you think your Constitutional rights have been violated. See 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

Consider attending law school; it's very eye-opening.
I suggest you dabble ... go buy a textbook and have a read. Once you get a sense of what you don't know, it won't scare you as much. Or at the very least you'll know what you don't know.
Sure, doomsday prophecy is a permanent bizarre feature of human culture. It creates its own problem though - the boy who cried wolfs paradox. Not all alarms are falls. You must remember the ozone hole alarmism. We don't hear much about it anymore, but not because it was a false alarm, but because people actually did something about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
Agreed, my first thought when I saw this was of the Toys 'R Us filing for bankruptcy some years after the leveraged buyout in 2005.
Flagged for denying access in private mode. Maybe we shouldn’t allow spam on the homepage?
The story reports that the same company recently bought a British bookseller, and managed to turn a company with losses into a company with profits, so hopefully they can do they same with Barnes and Noble.
UPS is unionized, Fedex isn't. This will play a big role in any suitors.
How do I get back the 5 minutes I spent reading that?
There will always be some organizations that do the minimum necessary to check some sort of "compliance" checkbox. However you can't deny that overall the healthcare industry as a whole has better security and security controls than they would if HIPAA had never been enacted.
> The exercise of such a common right the city may, under its police power, regulate in the interest of the public safety and welfare[...]

> The regulation of the exercise of the right to drive a private automobile on the streets of the city may be accomplished in part by the city by granting, refusing, and revoking, under rules of general application, permits to drive an automobile on its streets

Thompson v Smith
But, how dare Microsoft know people go looking for Python... those damned metrics are all evil, evil I say!
Can u recommend other multi user space/trader games ?

I dont even mind browser games, since mechanics>graphics for me.
I'm inclined to agree with you. It's B.S. when sites allow Google and / or other search engine spiders a full view to get the content indexed, then proceed to deny access and hide said content behind a paywall when human beings discover it via said search engines.

In fact, I thought Google had a policy that sites must show the same content to end users as to the web crawler. Anyone else recall their position on it? Are these policies actively enforced? If not actively enforced, why not?

Archive.is bypass: http://archive.fo/9v3dm

edit: Bypass didn't work out well in this case, the NYT page is too slow to load or render in time and much of the images ended up blank.
For regular users TOTP isn't simple:

* you have to install an app, but you can't tell which app you're meant to use

* you have to configure the app with whatever your signin service is

* If you ever delete the app (something that is generally not harmful) you lose the ability to sign in, and reinstalling frequently does not bring back your old authorizations.

But yeah, SMS 2fa is garbage from a security stand point (and will remain so until carriers can be held liable for costs from transferring your number without your authorization), but it is usable and is leaps and bounds better than nothing at all, which is what users will do if you make 2fa hard to set up.
> Have you seen recent claims

No, I haven't.
I know a shop that picked a 'Z' name so that they would be the last place that a prospective client called, their reasoning being that they would only get interesting jobs (the ones that everyone else said NO to) as a result.
How many $40K ransoms would an org have to pay before it was cheaper to have a security team? The demands might be small to make it cheaper in the short term to pay instead of try to fix the problem. Obviously there are large costs external to the ransom payment, but you don't have to get those funded via political process.

Also, in my experience working for state government, engineers were considered a waste of money. Hiring was difficult because they wouldn't pay anywhere close to the market rate, and techies weren't allowed to earn more then managers. There was a parade of sales people pitching the director to lay off the devs and outsource everything, and then pat each other on the back for "slashing government waste." It seems like most of their apps should in principal should not need to have been completely reinvented from scratch, but having people who don't work here responsible for security causes an agent-principle problem; from the point of view of the contractors who don't care about your security and the bureaucrats who don't understand it, everything except management is just a cost center.

If you do manage to fix anything, the new director will throw it away and start over with a new vendor contract next election. Also, if you are paid by the gvt and are not a cop or a politician, you will be despised as a "useless feeder" and face the risk or furlough, de-funding, re-org, hiring freezes, etc, that make it hard to reliably get anything done.

If the public doesn't want a public sector, why fight them by trying to work there?

I think Schneier was right to point out that security is an economic externality, and that a high level political solution is likely necessary.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/information...

EDIT: A couple of people here have pointed out that a "cyber" insurance industry is emerging. I find this encouraging because it at least seems possible for that to be a politically acceptable mechanism for pricing security; your premiums could be contingent on compliance as determined by the insurer, who has skin in the game to understand security and hire real professionals as auditors. I'm not sure how that translates to actually fixing security, but it seems like a start.
Will Apple be able to read all the emails that are sent to/via the forwarding address?
Amazon's delivery service is a nightmare if you have an even remotely unusual situation. Packages to my apartment are supposed to go to the main office a block away, since there's no way for delivery drivers to get into the building. UPS, USPS, and FedEx are all aware of this and get it right every time. Amazon's drivers have never gotten it right. They either mark it as undeliverable or worse, leave the package right outside the entrance, on a busy street. I contacted them several times but it didn't help, so I gave up and started having my orders shipped to work. (They're not great there either - it's a coin toss whether they'll actually bring the package to our suite or leave it in the lobby.)

There's a real benefit to having regular drivers with regular routes - the drivers eventually learn these types of quirks.