skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only other military fire brigade is Marseilles "Marins pompiers"[0] that are a branch of the french Navy but I believe it to be standard practice in all fire brigades in France of which almost of all them are civilian.

Morals aside, it kind of make sense from an economical standpoint: a single guy dies, that's sad. A father of four dies, that's sad and the community has to support four orphans...

Controversial opinion: making that call to save living creatures is fine in my personal moral compass. Make that call for a building, be it symbolic and of rich cultural significance, not so much.
As long as nobody is in danger, do everything to save it but if it burns to the ground, it can be rebuilt.
A lost life and its consequences cannot.

I was, honestly, furious, when I heard the commander chose to send his men into the northern tower simply to save a pile of rocks....

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_Naval_Fire_Battalion
Until you need to carry something with you - like luggage, or a baby.
Wasn't it just a couple decades ago that we thought computers would never beat humans at Go?
1. Counterexample: if I were to become an arms dealer I should have more money with which to educate my children.

It is not narcissistic to give nonzero weight to the greater good. Inevitably one attempts to achieve that by implementing the conception of the greater good to which one subscribes.

2. The author strictly speaking isn’t doing what you call narcissistic, and doesn’t seem to be advocating that either. What is noted is that the result of many parents’ seemingly individually innocuous actions is an overall injustice. The author does not send the child to the worst school mentioned and does not therefore prioritise “ideology” over children. Moreover the author is not saying that this is the obviously correct course of action to take. It is merely noted that to take this course of action is part of a collectively regrettable pattern.
With GDPR's 'Right of Access,' companies hand over private data
Interesting. Although it is on the lite side. For example, it doesn't talk about chaos testing, defining effective and comprehensive metrics (KPIs), alert noise or running services like databases in an active-active (hot-hot) mode.
Possibly, but there's this part of the 14th amendment:

"and subject to the jurisdiction thereof"

The child of a foreign ambassador is thus not a US citizen. The situation seems similar for an unauthorized person, if not more so. The fact that we currently award citizenship by birth to unauthorized people does not mean that the 14th amendment requires us to continue doing so.
This is lead gen and is a big business. People will build generic white label websites and rank them for certain cities. They'll then put a toll free number on them and then contact legitmate contractors and charge them either a monthly rate or a fee per each call.

There's also companies like RingPartner that are referred to Pay Per Call networks and give you a unique phone number to promote and you get paid per call.
It’s not just how the game is played, it’s whether you win or lose
> but that does NOT mean that it's helping. Most likely those links are just there to hide the...

it's not only that they don't help, they could ( and afaik used to ) damage reputation/ranking. But maybe this changed in recent years.
Yes as someone who has used Baidu, I am making the argument that using Google is better than using Baidu, at least Baidu as it exists today. It's possible that once Google enters China, Baidu would get better. But we won't find out now.
True, I agree with how hard it is, but if users say a feature that is an integral part of the tool is broken, that should be priority or if you don't have time/interest just give it to people that can take care of it.
I am not talking about a company asking for a new feature, I am asking for a bug that makes your popular PSF-recommended tool do unexpected stuff. (see the https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/1554 as an example)
The use of #theworldiswatching by her friends kinda undermines that point.
My first read was similar to another reply, that a phrasing "anyone who owns a car" is pretty much a "let them eat cake" moment. But ignoring that for a moment....

It's funny that cars are implicit in your comment. I have always felt that car culture itself contributes to obesity in a big way. I've never been low-income, but I myself was obese for much of the current decade, until I drastically reduced my car usage a few years ago.

So I think for some people you have a bunch of factors re-enforcing each other: low income / multiple jobs, stress, car culture, but importantly, if you have that last one as a hard requirement, you get additional stress and increased income requirements from needing that car. i.e. Imagine a situation where you need extra hours at work or another job to pay for the car to drive to get your food, and you need extra time and stress for all of this.
No offense taken, there's a large city's worth of people at this company. I definitely have nothing to do with the TLS governance board's policies.

There are so many competing, parallel efforts to solve problems, that generally everything is a bit mediocre in terms of what is available.

It requires a bit of a forced-optimist persona to remain creative and upbeat. On the other hand, when I go back to a small company, the sense of technical freedom should feel remarkable.
Creating a Sustainable Food Future
Ironically I found the typeface of this post to be poorly rendered, distracting and less pleasant to read than the usual web fare.
> Should we not share those videos?

When the incident is ongoing, the person affected is free again and clearly does not want a public debate? Yes, you should respect that, refrain from doing so and weigh in when it is discussed after the fact. I believe you when you say that harassment isn't your goal but a HN discussion will neither solve any of the underlying issues, nor is there even a remote chance of being helpful to the actual victim.

As the deleted tweet shows she clearly has a network in place to let you know when actions like this might be helpful. Days after, that's pretty doubtful.
It is between her and her country which from all indications she loves

That's an interesting claim to make considering absolutely nobody is claiming otherwise (except perhaps the police).
> The fact that US is the holdout in including China shows whose being childish.

I'm trying to understand your position. Is it that having ethical reservations about UN resolutions is childish, and the mature thing is to treat UN resolutions as ethically authoritative? Is it that resistance to treating Taiwan as a Chinese possession is childish? Something else entirely?
Yikes. A little more than half the estimate. I’m pretty sure that is the worst miss the company has ever had.

With recent news that reruns like the Office and Friends are leaving next year, it would be really funny if a large chunk of Netflix subscribers are literally subscribing just to watch decades old reruns. It could be a bit of an Emperor Has No Clothes situation for them.
These later exhibitions seem reminiscent of "CowParade" (established first as Zürich's "Land in Sicht" in 1998), which was ultimately developed into an exhibit not specific to one city, but appears to have inspired at least some similar city-specific exhibits including the Seattle Pigs (three years after the first "cow parade" debut, and entitled "Pigs on Parade" in the same fashion as a 1999 Chicago "Cows on Parade" exhibit). There's much more related information at the CowParade Wikipedia entry[1], with a long list of similar exhibits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CowParade
No, it is very clear in the Bible that sexual immorality is a sin. It is not my opinion. CES is an event which takes place in America, a country built off Christian beliefs.
It is absolutely intentional that TurboTax Free is not free and that Turbotax Freefile (which is free in return for the government's promise not to launch a competitor) is noindex'ed.
>Food deserts are overhyped

According to Blue Zones, who have a clear agenda around removing unhealthy choices versus adding healthy ones as well as a meal plan to sell.
Very disappointing to hear that Debian and some other distros enabled CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU.

I'd rather not be relying on Intel hardware to do something so important correctly.
Ambassadors have special immunity against US jurisdiction. Unauthorized persons do not; in fact they are routinely arrested which is very much 'subject to the jurisdiction'?
BMW ReachNow car-sharing service shuts down following joint venture deal
I’ve had docker take 5 minutes to start on a cloud server due to entropy starvation. Iirc it’s somewhat kernel version dependent between the later 4.x kernels and the older xenial default kernel.
Netflix’s Letter to Shareholders [pdf]
It is hard to comprehend a large timescale of four thousand six hundred years. I wonder how much of our current software would last that long.
Aurora hypersonic sucessor to SR-71 'revealed' in UK defence ministry report
I picked up a 2G Pi 4 yesterday and did some basic thermal testing using the onboard thermal readouts.

None modified Pi 4 running the latest Raspbian will idle at 67C in a room that is 22C.

Pointing a small 30cm 5V fan powered off the GPIO header will reduce this to ~50C.

Placing a heatsink on both the CPU and RAM reduces the temp to 50C.

Modifying a Pi 3 heatsink + fan combo to fit the Pi 4 results in a 42C idle temp.

The life expectancy of the board may be decreased due to the higher idle temp. IMO I would say a heatsink is the bare minimum for running a Pi 4 and a heatsink fan combo is required for anything process intensive such as 4k video.
AI learns to solve a Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds
Let's not forget camera running out of juice or switching to the second battery mid-way through the write operation.

[happened to me on day two of a three-day destination wedding... ahh, my stomach still remembers my reaction when I see "Err" on camera... :O]
I don't speak for her and neither should you. No one should want someone else to take individual risks to defend your or anyone else's opinions that you claim they represent.
And they don’t even stock the products on the shelf themselves. It’s usually the distributor of the product (coke, Pepsi etc) that will come in and stock themselves. Even do the awesome displays you see when you enter the store etc.
Warning: Opinion

I’m a little conflicted, Amazon as a company has enabled an even greater level of wasteful consumerism. Bezos seems to be trying to solve a problem he has helped accelerate.

I just don’t know how many other ways you can try to take on a mission like Blue Origin without building a massive fortune off of current unsustainable practices.

Kind of seems like digging a bigger hole and using profit off of dirt sales to fund an experimental dirt filling business.

Plus, how much impact could someone like Bezos have in the reversal of desertification and expansion of practices like permaculture? That would seem like a way to extend the timeline for space exploration while helping preserve what we currently have on Earth.
Yeah, right. So we can't afford to feed, house and cloth a large percentage of the world's population yet we're somehow going to send them all into space?#@% Sorry, does not compute. As far as I'm aware no-one has discovered oxygen on either the Moon or Mars so, again, does not compute.
I've been hearing rumors about 16" the longest time. Don't get your hopes up
I hope that ultimately we are able to hear the full story, and that it's something more interesting than embarrassing.
I agree that they should not exploit the problems and fix them, but saying that they should go broke is not a solution, as it will often do more harm than good.
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NYC Apartment Building Sales Plummet with New Rent Law Scaring Off Investors
These all seem obvious now in hindsight, but that's always the way of things. People, even educated, intelligent, and earnest people are very bad at user interface design. Good UI design comes from experience, not foresight.

For example, the aviation industry has standard terms for things. "Takeoff Power" means full power. Can you guess what happened? A pilot needed to abort a landing, and yelled "takeoff power" to the copilot, who promptly chopped the power, an accident ensued. This phrase was then changed to (I think) "Full Power".

The Air Force didn't learn from that civil aviation incident until it happened to them, too, then they fixed it.

It seems obvious, doesn't it? Everybody missed it.
I don't speak for her and neither should you.

Oddly enough, I'm not.
It is a little bit of a shame that it doesn't seem to be under active development anymore. For personal projects, it would be fun to be able to write up little DSLs
What exactly is this resource extraction you're referring to?
Oh wow, you must know my mother in law ....
Actually large hospital systems tend to hire one or two systems engineers to be part of the QI department. But yeah, most QI is front line staff.
No sshd needs to generate nonces and session keys.
Yeah, I don't understand what's so cryptographically special about booting. If the system hadn't been turned off and on, it wouldn't have had a problem, right? Sounds like the real problem is some part of the system can't be bothered to persist its state. Either that, or the problem should also come up during normal usage, in which case there's a security hole somewhere.
I've a Pi3 with a CPU heatsink, in case. I have not seen it throttle after adding the radiator.
Rhinos Come to the Bond Market, and Other Species May Follow
The fight for Mauna Kea and the future of science
Show HN: Launch “led-projector killer” app
Hello HN!

Let me invite you to my new project SecondStream (http://garaninapps.com/secondstream)

It’s new way to communicate with local(!) audience and show additional and detailed content to mobile devices.

For example show slides or desktop to student’s devices in classroom by few clicks.

Ultra-low latency. No audio. Works without Internet.
No mobile app needed. Viewer just scan QR code for view video stream.

// in some cases it’s “led-projector killer” app.

Any feedback is welcome!
For virtual systems it shouldn't be, Virtio has an RNG provider that's able to use host entropy:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virtio_RNG

For embedded systems, many have inbuilt RNGs, have a look at your SoC docs.
True, building any sort of backlinks are aganist Google's ToS. But that doesn't mean legitmate don't do it. You just need to be smart about it and make sure it looks "natural" to Google.
This is basic logic.

The "Freefile" product is only supposed to be free for lower income people, so when Intuit misdirected everybody to the (non-free) product which they named "Free", they exclusively harmed lower income people, as the higher income people were never entitled to free filing.

(that entitlement is due to an agreement with the IRS, where the IRS agreed to limit competition in the tax filing industry in return for the development of free file products).

edit: also note that it is absolutely not an accident that Intuit used these names which make it almost impossible to talk about their non-free product which is named Free, and their actually free product which is named Freedom and Freefile.
Brave New World (An 80s Movie)
We often remove names from titles, because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

A nice fix would be if github.com/username could appear to the right of the title instead of just github.com. That's on our list, but not implemented yet.
> Paid membership grew by 2.7m, less than the 5.5m in Q2 a year ago and our 5.0m forecast.

> Much of our domestic, and eventually global, Disney catalog, as well as Friends , The Office , and some other licensed content will wind down over the coming years, freeing up budget for more original content. [...] From what we’ve seen in the past when we drop strong catalog content (Starz and Epix with Sony, Disney, and Paramount films, or 2nd run series from Fox, for example) our members shift over to enjoying our other great content.
But your password is NOT one of just 477 known passwords. It is one of 2^(8*11) possible passwords that share the same first 5 bytes of a 16 byte hash.
Is this because there is 0 entropy available at boot and therefore even /dev/urandom is unavailable? Or is this because legacy tools are still relying on the concept of being able to "drain" the entropy pool? I'm not sure which the "getrandom()" call is related to.
Healthy lifestyle reduces dementia risk even in those with genetic risk factors
"Buy this and you will be able to put any code you want into any project that uses Requests and doesn't carefully audit the changes in new versions" is potentially a pretty huge problem, yes.

Similar issues have already happened with people buying or otherwise taking over popular NPM packages.
systemd isn't using the right interface for adding the entropy in the seed file, so the kernel uses it but counts it as zero bits of entropy

edit: but i guess that's on purpose to handle disk imaging
You could statistically test whether your data matches the expected distribution with automated tests.
Oh, 100%. Those are some of the "dark patterns" I reference. It is a little shady, and it is a bait-and-switch. I'm not defending that at all.
> I was, honestly, furious, when I heard the commander chose to send his men into the northern tower simply to save a pile of rocks....

No one entered that building against their will. Quite the opposite, I'm sure (speaking from personal experience), the crews on scene would have been frustrated had they been told they had to stay out.

If it helps, consider it an extreme sport (in fact, firefighting is quite a bit safer than many sports). Firefighting often amounts to people engaging in what is arguably "optional" activities, for reasons that aren't necessarily clear from a purely rational standpoint. The actual reasons are a combination of many factors. There is certainly a desire to preserve property (especially when that property is irreplaceable), but there is also the adrenaline rush of working inside a burning structure, the camaraderie among the crews, etc.
"Takeoff power" -> "Take off [the] power".

Interesting.
Maybe Inequality Isn’t What’s Making People Mad
>> but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

I'd say that's why. To deter dislike bots
Totally. Digital equivalent of buttered popcorn.
Mr. Robot Season 4 Teaser
So you're actually just saying that the government has to tax to exist, and using the word "monopoly" wrong.

I actually don't know of a government that has a money monopoly. That would mean making a government-controlled currency the exclusive legal currency in the country.

If you don't agree with that definition of the word "monopoly," that's fine, but I don't want to discuss it. It's a word that has a valid meaning but is most commonly used in a way that is self-contradicting.
I'm so happy I've stayed with Gentoo and never had to bother with this systemd thing that everyone is talking about.
I've lived in SF before— this is so accurate to my experience. Went to SoMa a lot and actually never visited the Golden Gate bridge.
And the roof was not part of the original structure, it had been completely rebuilt, yes a long time ago, but still completely rebuilt. My guess is that if they had access to modern materials at the time, they would have opted for that.

Also, the tall spire was added (historically) fairly recently. It was not an original part of the roof that burned. So apparently, earlier people were not "afraid" of altering it.
Please add more payment methods, credit cards are kinda rare where I live.
USDA expected to lose 2/3 of research staff in move to Kansas City
I immediately unsubscribed when they said they would endorse pro abortion policies.
I encourage every conservative to do the same.
Asteroid mining most likely
This immediately follows:

> I am considering this an unlikely and rare situation. Only serious offers will be considered, and money won't influence maintainer-ship decisions.
> Adding Qt to the base system wouldn't just be a compromise on our principles, it would essentially be a complete abandonment of them.

And I guess this is where our priorities on principles differ. To me, the simplicity of singe-file or single-folder applications is much higher. Let's say Haiku starts to take off in the next few years --and honestly I'd like to see that just so Linux Desktop isn't the only non-proprietary choice--, I'll bet that you'll still be dragging around that QT dependency for the foreseeable future. People will wonder why it isn't just installed by default because of its ubiquity.

That's ok, you'll say, because the package manger takes care of it and so users don't have to think about it. But at that point the distinction between being part of the base system and just being a nigh-mandatory package is pretty moot.
The idea is to keep the app as simple as possible - without management of users and authentication/authorization methods. This can be accomplished with an auth proxy standing before the app or a similar method.

HTTP Basic auth is considered secure when running over TLS.
I imagine at times like this a small USB-3.2 device which is a RAID-6 array of 20 or 30 microSD cards, probably a small FPGA to provide the 30 port SDIO device that can do 100MB/s per channel, a two gigabyte static ram with battery backup (coin cell) for holding open stripe state, and a SCSI or SAS export point for reporting out as a drive. Device is probably the size of a deck of cards, maybe smaller, consume or feed data at a GB/s all day.

That would be pretty freaking amazing.
I just ran through the page after seeing this comment and was also confused. To me the phrasing and styling of the "Email me my footprint" button makes it feel like the end of the process and that I need to click it. It didn't immediately occur to me that I should keep scrolling down. In my case I happened to scroll so that the "Step 3: Offset" was just out of view which made it feel even more like an "OK you're done!" button, but I think even if I saw there was more I would've wanted to click the button expecting that to be the way to see my results. Maybe the two of us are outliers but it might be worth it to explore some small design tweaks here. Love the concept!
We'll partner with PornHub of course.
You don't need to send them all into space. You just send the 1% that actually has the power to make a difference into space because: “Everybody who goes to space says they come back a little changed and they realize how beautiful this planet is and how small and fragile it is. Something that we can’t see when we are down here, but from up there it becomes obvious.”
Mimi, Wren co-founder here. What payment methods are most convenient / common for you?
This is inadequate with a commercial font: You aren't allowed to redistribute it at all. What you are speaking of is just an issue with open source fonts: Usually open source fonts have different licenses than software, and your license info needs to detail both.
> drown the whole structure

My house has a fire sprinkler system. Each nozzle is heat activated, in that the heat from a fire melts a plug allowing the water to flow. Only the hot valves activate, not everything.

The contractor told me which would I prefer, a sprinkler spraying some water around, or a firehose through the window?
Its pretty easy to get decent fonts that are cc licenced.

Toomuchtodo you are not an acidental violator after publishing this comment on hn :)
getrandom blocks until 128 bits of entropy have been collected since boot. It doesn't have the concept of "draining" the pool after the pool has been initialised.
I'm a subscriber, but there isn't much to watch now that i'm done with 3%, stranger things and moneyheist. Still they have word party, which is excellent