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> Should controlled burns be done more often to reduce the impact of inevitable wildfires when they do happen?

The forest management servicepeople are starting to wake up to this, although there is a lot of inertia in bureaucracy so reform is slow. But controlled underbrush burns are becoming more common.

Source: father owns a house in Yosemite National Park. We have to take care of our property by mowing/removing virtually all vegetation within 50ft of the house, but there are also controlled burns semi-regularly in our community performed by USFS.
Junk food may be fuelling rise in food allergies, say experts
Honestly, just the apology would be better. I felt I was being tricked. I end up paying each month anyway; it changed nothing for me.
FastMail, ProtonMail, or an AWS server upon which your run your own email can also be disabled by the owner of that service. Unless you run your own on-premise server, that risk always exists. And even then, your ISP could block your server. There comes a point when the paranoia gets unreasonable.
As an American, I'd say your observations are astute.

Americans that live a bit below their means and invest can easily retire in comfort. (Even on a modest salary.) Those that spend every penny they make (and more) are doomed to a later life of financial worry.
Somewhat unrelated, but I really wish we could find a way to not be so reliant on plastics.

I try to shop at local farmers markets (I'm willing to pay a small premium for knowing exactly where my food is coming from), and even in those cases the guy behind the table reflexively reaches for a plastic bag nearly every time. I always bring my own canvas bags or a backpack, but this has become so culturally ingrained in this country. Is it like this in Europe? I used to poo poo attempts at restricting the use of straws and plastic single-use containers, but now I'm warming up to the idea of outright dropping the ban hammer. These things are gross and they end up in the gutters, and make cities look dirty and poorly managed. We survived without them for a long time. We should figure out a way to do so again.
That's very hard to believe; glass is pretty inert.
Are you sure the one online was the same imprint and trim size as the one in-store? Publishers often have multiple different imprints and trim sizes as a means of price discrimination, as well as for stylistic reasons.

Just the other week I went into Barnes & Noble to purchase a book and they had two different trim sizes of the same exact book right next to each other. Both paperback but one was large-and-thin while the other was small-and-thick. The former was about $4 more than the latter.
I wonder if VR would provide the same effect with today's technology or of the upcoming future.
I always respond in layers. The first layer is to say I work in computers. If they want to know more, they'll ask. If there is a follow up question that doesn't make it clear they're tech savvy, I'll explain one level deeper. I work on the website for x company, or I help secure your credit card info at such and such back. It doesn't matter if you're front end, back end, dba, network, sysadmin, help desk, etc. Just something that a regular human might recognize as being a thing. Most people don't know what those job titles mean, but they know people must do something to make websites work and secure credit cards. And so on and so forth until it's satisfied their curiosity.
The only accounts that really matter to me are:

- financial accounts: they would never use a third party login anyway.

- social accounts: None of them are going to let you login with third party accounts anyway.

- work accounts: Again they arent going to use social media accounts. They are going to use some type of ADFS federated account.

- My AWS account: I use Google Authenticator for that.
Almost anything is better than getting spammed by whatever service of the week you signed up for.
Yes! They are!

Git repos are absolutely Blockchains!

People don't understand how simple the concept of Blockchain is.
Which means the problem is likely worse.
A wise person might also be aware that words can have multiple meanings, that "faith" is one of those words, and that equivocation fallacies don't make for good reasoning.
Quirky or bad? Elon Musk: https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-write-any-code-at-X-or-Z...
(not a very good source but I remember it was mentioned in Elon's bio by Ashlee Vance that his code was functional but had to be fully rewritten)
I suspect but cannot prove that iPod touches get heavily used in business settings like inventory management.

I can confirm that they are very often used as POS terminals. iPad minis, too.
It wouldn't surprise me if it will costs me an additional $3000 per year just for the additional gas.
A centralized SQL server isn't public.

Turning it into a Blockchain makes it public, which is a significant advantage.
Faith is a belief in something you can’t prove. The munchausen trilemma invalidates all logical proofs. As such, all forms of knowledge are based on unprovable axioms from which knowledge is derived. If you were to try generalise some of the axioms that form the foundation of scientific knowledge, you might say that ‘empirical evidence is a source of absolute truth’ or that ‘everything we don’t understand about the physical world will either be explained by science, or is not possible to explain’. Any individual might consider those ideas and decide that they are worthy of having faith in, or they might not. But any unprovable axiom has no more or less merit than any other unprovable axiom. To say otherwise is to be ignorant to the limits of your own knowledge. You might say that scientific knowledge is more complex or rigorous than religious knowledge, but that doesn’t speak to its merit either. Flat earthers rigorously promote an incredibly complex system of beliefs, it is naturally more complex than science, because it needs to add additional ideas to explain scientific ideas that conflict with their own. That doesn’t speak to its merits at all.
>Nor do I see any basis for saying that tests attempt to predict needs

The prediction is that the next time you revisit this code your original assumptions will still be valid. In games, which is my background, game rules (our business logic) are constantly changing during development to the point that you're fighting tests constantly for no benefit. Games are an extreme case but you can extrapolate the experience.

You've already admitted that there is a point when tests are not worthwhile when you are iterating. My argument is simply that in my experience you're in that state more often than not. Ultimately user value is the only thing that matters and tests don't predict that.

And I'm not saying you're not allowed to write tests. If something helps you do it. I'm arguing against code coverage and test enforcement.
The haasoscope mentioned earlier does https://www.ebay.com/itm/Haasoscope-open-source-4-channel-ex...
There will probably never be an open source equivalent.

That may be a little pessimistic. QUCS development seems to have stalled, but they were certainly on the right track.

Given the kind of sponsorship that, say, KiCad enjoys from CERN, I would expect some pretty awesome RF engineering tools to emerge.
Depends if autocommit is enabled. If it is (and on many DBs it's the default) then you're telling the DB that by the time the increment completes, it should be written to durable storage. That's a minimum of one seek, which on a hard disk is about 4ms, which = max 250 TPS. On a SSD you might get 0.1ms seek times = 10k TPS.

It's possible to kill your performance very quickly with databases if you request features that you don't actually need.
Vote 3rd party, participating in the 2 party system is contributing to the problem. I realize there can be issues with some of the candidates but if none of the main 2 do what you want, vote for someone else. I rarely vote for one of the 2 major parties, I would guess 1 out of 10 times I may.
Honestly, this is usually a good sign. I'll code at the edge of my current skill. Six months from now, I hope I can look at that code and consider it primitive from where I hope to be then.
Most of them have sections of games and toys that used to be book shelves. The former nook area is taken over by diary/journals and artsy stuff. Twenty years ago, all of that was books.
The general meaning of the word is belief in any idea that you can’t prove. Belief in scientific knowledge requires no more or no less faith than belief in any religious system.
As opposed to Google and Facebook that convinced users to install apps that went around the App Store so they could record everything that you do with your phone or Facebook buying Onava (a VPN provider) with the express purpose of spying on you?

Apple could in the future become evil after 40+ years. The other two companies are actively evil.
Wow they've really jacked the price up!

No disrespect to Saleae's Logic as even their 1st gen product was indeed outstanding value (and may still be at the current price point; software front end is well executed). But to be sure, there's still a significant hardware gap that sets it apart from "the real deal".
Under current policy, threats to US industry are threats to national security

Certain industries. Usually industries that are critical to the functioning of the economy, or that have been concentrated in hostile or semi-hostile nations without alternatives in friendly countries.

Policy, like everything else in life, is a lot more complicated than the internet likes to portray.
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That is not unique to California. Most states have a lengthy eviction process.
and b) we don't know

If the claims of consumption are true, then people have been ingesting plastics for a long time and there have been no observed ill effects attributable to it, and I'd say it's more like "we have plenty of evidence that it's not really harmful" than "we don't know" --- but of course, the latter makes for more sensational reporting and fearmongering...

This somewhat reminds me of the paranoia surrounding radio waves and non-ionising radiation --- surely there would be some obviously noticeable negative effects by now, after well over a century of use, but the evidence strongly says that beyond known effects like heating, there's nothing else to worry about.

It's like those articles that claim (and likely are true) that people ingest X insects/spiders/other-disgusting-thing every year; it's sensational, but not really something to worry about (personally, I'd rather ingest the plastic...)

I've noticed there's a bit of an anti-plastic movement going on lately, with plenty of FUD articles like this being spread (not just on HN, but elsewhere), and I wonder if there's an ulterior motive...
This is not hard to determine. E-mail messages have headers, and the app will send registration e-mail to the cloaked address. So all it takes is scanning the e-mail headers of stored mail.
I am sure users would simply love that. The point of sign in with Apple is that I don’t have to give out my real email. If you ask me for it anyway, I’m gone.
What makes you think people would bother with your service rather than using Apple’s service?
As I understand the original commenter's position it is that:

1. when your business is on the app store it can be difficult not doing whatever Apple wants you to do because not doing what they want you to do can come close to destroying your business. This has often been compared to being a hostage of Apple.

2. If you suddenly decide to stop paying the Apple tax or if Apple decides to ban you - cutting you off from new business - it can certainly be problematic and can kill many businesses but you could theoretically keep going because you could have a customer base you inform of your decision and tell them to download your app from your homepage instead of the app store etc.
In short - in the event of Apple not liking you anymore you can communicate with your customers.

3. In this new setup if Apple does not like you anymore you cannot tell your customers hey Apple doesn't like me anymore.

Thus Apple increases its ability to hold your company hostage and thus I do not believe it is the same logic as Google controls Gmail unless when selling an Android app Google only allows you to do so if your customer has a Gmail account.
Interesting, UI/UX is fine on iOS (iPhone XR). What's your bad experience?
Ditto. I've never seen WhatsApp in the wild. I've been asked if I have iMessage and Venmo more times than I can remember, but nobody has ever asked me if I have WhatsApp.
> I really wish we could find a way to not be so reliant on plastics.

Aluminum and glass. We have ways, we only need the political will to mandate their uses and discontinue plastics over a short period of say 10-20 years.
This would be a customer action — it affects one person. Unless you’re implying they’d disable the phone of every user of a certain app or something to that effect.

With these emails they could trivially, and surgically, cut off a developer from every customer. It is a one-to-many action that also has no obvious other side effects (unlike bricking users phones).

Not sure where I stand with this, but wanting to point out that the added powers this gives Apple are very real and different from the ones they had before (again, maybe this is a good thing, but it’s undeniable that it is a different thing).
And yet customers abandoned the taxi industry like it was radioactive, about five nanoseconds after the first flawed, dubiously-legal alternatives started to appear.

Only an industry that is doing almost everything wrong could have suffered the fate of the taxi industry.
Barnes & Noble online is run as a completely different business than the brick and mortar stores. The prices are not posted to match on any items. Brick & Mortar stores will not honor any online posted prices because of this strategy.
The reason it got so "creppy" is because that is how Google makes money; meaning that if this Apple-sign-in or anything else truly messes with their revenue Google will stop accepting Apple email addresses (or any kind of circumvention to their tracking), and they are fully in their right to do so.
So does using an alphanumeric passcode instead. Especially if you include capital letters and punctuation that you can access with a swipe starting at the shift or number key (so you never actually tap the key that produces the input).
Those who know don’t talk, and those who talk don’t know.
>It shows Apple actively ceding an opportunity for exchanging marketing data in favour of user privacy.

This is not a new thing.

For example, when the iPad launched and digital versions of magazines began to be available, Apple allowed a subscriber to provide the magazine publishing house with their email address, but also required that they be allowed to refuse to provide it.

The new thing here is to give the user a way to shut off abusive spamming of an email address they have chosen to provide.
The ad networks don't seem to want to reduce fraud much. Possibly mostly because reducing fraud comes at the expense of denying real users, and the eventually-CPA-adjusted auction model means that the fraud should just be "factored into the price" and in that sense it's not a problem, and so they'd rather not deny 10 fraud clicks if it means accidentally elimininating 1 real click. But whatever the reason, they mostly view it as an issue advertisers should deal with.

On the advertiser side, fraud has a small impact due to idiot brands bidding up prices and also another small impact due to the fact that you need to cull all the worst placements/domains when you first start using a network or launch a campaign.

On the publisher side, each fraud penny earned is a penny directly taken away from legitimate publishers.

Fraud is much more a problem for publishers than for advertisers.
That's a third-party site though. If HN did a very simple thing: publish some data in RSS feed format, then an RSS reader (e.g. one living in your browser as an extension) would provide a notification interface.
Well, maybe if Google didn’t do stuff like trick users into installing privacy invasive apps by using developer certificates that were only suppose to be used for internal apps you might have a leg to stand on....
If we are taking a historical view

We're not. People on HN like to rehash the past to bolster their arguments about the present, but they rarely mean anything.

It's like how any time someone mentions Chinese IP theft, someone bring up something about steam engines from 200 years ago. The sins of the fathers ought not be visited upon the sons.
It's a pity the software is distributed in binary form only, which in this case means no RPi support.
So Canadians get strapped on for a ride on the Canadarm2? /s
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Also, this is probably ment to further lock users into the Apple ecosystem.

It's not like you can ask Apple to forward emails to your own email server if you decide that you no longer want to use Apple.
What tool makes them, and what's the tool made out of? You go back far enough, someone had to write code for something. You're not wrong though but it sounds like a domain specific thing too. Vending Machine as a service essentially. Still, as long as people are writing code it'll be because there's no choice but to write it for their use case.
actually before 3 and 4 you can scale reads which often is the bottleneck and most major databases can scale reads pretty good these days.
If they are developing for iOS, they are already “forced to use Apple’s tools”.
Huawei would be reticent to include backdoors in their products, because they know that that would destroy their credibility overseas if discovered

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-...

In that sense, Huawei is no different from an American company. It's simply a different government applying the pressure.

So, it's OK to do it then? The U.S. should pretend they don't exist?
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I'm saying each fake click brings no value and so advertisers lower their bids because at the end of the day they are looking at sales generated and bots dont buy. Professional performance-based advertisers don't really mind the fraud in the market, because it doesn't affect them any more than it affects any other advertiser, and it's a competition to convert best. In fact if you're better at detecting fraud placements, for example, it can actually be your edge over others.
We survived without them for a long time.

We also survived for a very long time without refrigerated food, running water, sewer systems, electricity, computers, or sterile medical procedures.

Personally, I feel sad about the plastic waste too, but more because it's a waste of a perfectly good material with some very desirable properties. Definitely against a ban, but definitely for more reuse and recycling.
> Why would we set them that way?

Growth? Short-term profit? Whatever, we don't even have to set them up that way, they could also end up accidentally in control. This would be all the more easier now that resource extraction (farming and mining), logistics, resource transformation and firepower are all being automated away.

Re. UBI: There are two prongs to power: construction (economy) and destruction (military). The latter is necessary to secure resources to power the former.

UBI is about numbing people down to the fact that they are being stripped of their economic power (the only one they still have at this point). I don't see why capitalism would waste resources by feeding billions of idle meat bags.
Besides that, I’m downloading an app from the Apple App Store. They already know which apps I’ve downloaded. They aren’t getting anymore information via “Sign in with Apple”.
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I wonder if this will impact game archival efforts. Companies may be less likely to permit release of old source (or more likely to take action against those who do release source) knowing legal issues like this may be inside. Is there a statute of limitations here? Could the owner the violated code sue? What happens it they succeed, monetary compensation?
But in this case it actually sounds like more regulation, rather than less.
It's quite amazing that Apple is doing this at the exact time the government is investigating them for anti-trust violations.

Essentially what Apple is doing is creating a new gate as they've done before with forcing developers to use their payment processing system for digital goods that costs 30% of the total fee.

Facebook Login already supports users blocking sending sites their email, as I disable that all the time. They even have published guidelines with what a site should do when they think they need that piece of information. So I'm not sold on the privacy story here. Go on, give it a try the next time you are signing in for the first time. You can even go back and remove your email permission from the security page in FB.

Apple did do one thing though, they created a bigger market for junk email services and made it easy to send those to services you expect to get notifications from. Still, this is something Apple could have built into iOS just like they did with password managers. It's not a feature that needed to be forced on anyone for any reason. As a user of the device, I can just pick, get me a junk email and presto, it's done.

I get it though, I can imagine the scenario last year right after news broke with Cambridge Analytica. This was enabled from a shady 3rd party developer using FB single sign-on and execs at Apple were pissed. They probably hastily demanded someone at Apple create something to circumvent FB's position. However, this doesn't just affect FB, it affects Twitter, Google, GitHub, Microsoft as well.

Yes Apple has good-will in this community, and its to their competitive advantage that they continue to build out more privacy focused features. However, I still do not appreciate that Apple gets the final say. This should have been a bigger conversation across the entire industry. Why didn't Apple come out and say, we are investing in the Oauth organization and then published papers on best practices? It would have been a much bigger win to get Microsoft or Google on board from the start and launched together. Hundreds of researchers all over the world would have jumped on it. Instead now we're left with another moral authority move, shoved in developers faces at the whims of Apple Execs.
Each part is owned by different countries. For example Russia used their part for commercial purposes for many years to bring in paying tourists.
Not just "anything". Patton did say a "good" plan. A bad plan can tank you just as much as elegant design that isn't used.
Well that's precisely what I have issue with.

No I don't think a "blockchain" is merely a public database nor that git is a "blockchain". The term "blockchain" was initially defined as the proof-of-work data structure that Bitcoin uses to store transactions and its definition was later slightly expanded to describe that same data structure used in other cryptocurrencies. If it now just means "public database" then we've lost a useful word.

> Git is a Blockchain. Do you think that git is useless?

Git also uses merkle trees but the similarity pretty much ends there.
I wish it allowed you to supply an email “formula” (for example “apple-sign-ups-${supplied-unique-id}@my-domain”). I understand this is a particularly “pro” request, but I’d still like it.

Again, from a customer angle I’m not 100% sold on this. I don’t want to miss an email because Apple servers are down, and if Apple decides to kill an app I don’t like, I also want the ability to disagree. Separately, I want something that wouldn’t be a pain to use on non-Apple devices.
what's the consequence if someone's product violates GPL ?
Speaking of Hantek, has anyone tried their handheld oscilloscope/function generator?

https://www.banggood.com/Hantek-3in1-Digital-OscilloscopeWav...