skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Forest Service does do prescribed burns and the Smokey Bear thing is about people starting accidental fires — Smoky isn’t about opposition to prescribed burns.

Bad policy is a contributing factor to these fires. The Paradise Fire’s destruction and human toll was exacerbated because Paradise implemented “road diets” — squeezing critical evacuation and first responder routes. [1][2]

It’s a problem of policy being made by people that have no concept of unintended consequences: environmentalists opposing proper forest management as well as creating public safety risks by narrowing roads, “calming” traffic without the common sense to realize that roads serve an extremely valuable public safety function and that many so-called environmentalists promote policies that feel good to the simple minded, but actually do more harm. [3] It’s like the people that oppose hunting — they think they are saving an animal but they end up causing greater damage to the ecosystem because hunted species such as deer end up overpopulating and starving to death. You see similar effects with wild mustangs. People fiercely oppose culling herds even when not doing so results in mass starvation and disease that ends up harming more horses. The idea of shooting a wild horse gets “environmentalists” up in arms because they can’t see the forest for the trees.

My point is that forest and environmental management should be done from a position of rationality, reflecting reality rather than some emotional response. Examples: laws against cutting trees over a certain diameter without a time consuming permit process from CalFire. Opposition to logging, even when done responsibly. Protecting of trees when a spotted owl is in the area — even if those trees and associated underbrush become extreme fire dangers. More owl habitat is lost from an uncontrolled fire than would have been lost by properly managing it in the first place. You rarely see this sort of bad policy in other states even though other states do have wildfires. Californians do care deeply about the land — we want to preserve the beauty and majesty of the landscape — but some of us have no idea what we are talking about — we respond to emotional pleas rather than with informed maturity. It’s like having environmental policy designed by well-meaning, but naïve teenagers.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-camp-fire-dea...
[2] https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-paradise-e...
[3] https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/16/misguided-environmental...
I’ve experimented with nootropics and I came to the conclusion that the best way to improve your mental ability is:

Sleep

Exercise

Diet

And then everything else like nootropics

In that order. That is, they certainly work and help but they’re a micro-optimisation so there’s not much benefit if you’re not doing the macro ones first and sleep, in my opinion and anecdotal experience is at the very top of that list.
This is mostly something people repeat on the internet it is only slightly related to reality
It doesn't have to be about work productivity.

The most profound effect I noticed myself is learning passages of music on an instrument (note I'm an amateur, and not especially good!) After not too long trying to learn/practise one evening, I will be noticeably better the next day.
We know very well that well-designed keyboard UI can run circles around mouse-based one in a typical application. If you're a user of a "Kanban board", you're not some aunt with a phone, you are most likely in the office and you can learn to use the keyboard productively in the productivity app you use every day.
Why this 'genius' scholar is mapping out the world's largest jail system
> If these rough edges are "excuses" not to use the tool, then how is that not a perfectly legitimate reason not to use it?

Because it gets a little old seeing people reason themselves into a position where they are stuck with apple and it's the fault of linux as the GP did. If only linux were better I wouldn't have to keep buying apple.

If they aren't willing to jump ship then apple has zero incentive to change anything, so they're just stuck and unwilling to accept any way out.

> In this comment you sound like you're absolutely convinced that linux is the best in every way, and as if linux is a goal, rather than tool to you.

It is, at least getting myself off abusive proprietary software is the goal. I can write at length of the problems in linux, but at least I'm not stuck complaining about telemetry and being too lazy to do anything about it anymore. I've still got a way to go in other areas.
> how is CMake _more_ reproducible than Bazel?

Because CMake contrary to Bazel do not break its retro-compatibility in its options and config every two minor versions ?

> The latter builds in a clean room, Make does not.

Sandboxing should be the concern of the package manager / deployment pipeline, Not the build system concern. That just makes things redundant and painful to debug.
The app is now available to install from the developers twitter account https://twitter.com/of_yarns

There's a link to the apk stored on S3.

I've been playing it a bit, it's an interesting games with a lot of thoughts by the author on branching the story based on your actions.
In Trello, on a card:

Click the "Edit" menu > "move" > select board, column, position.

Not as convenient as drag and drop, but it's possible to do.
With undismissable (without subscribing) overlays on both the top and bottom of the page, I abandoned reading immediately.
Misleading title. Bogus experiment. Comparing VLC written in C++ with web browser written in C++. Somehow second is not native?
Yes, they aren't legally obliged to provide a platform that allows freedom of speech.

Yet they also have to expect a backlash if they don't provide it,as freedom of speech is integral part of our culture.

People expect that, and any defence of type 'but by law we aren't required to provide that!' will just piss their western customers off.

EDIT:
not to mention that in this case the punishment was severe. They could try to stay apolitical by just giving him a slap on the wrist and a temporary ban on tournaments. It would both send a message and work as a deterrent.

Strangely enough Activision-Blizzard soon after that announced their Call of Duty Mobile - designed by Chinese company team responsible for Diablo Immortal.. which was subsidized by CCP.

It was stone cold calculation of: profit loss from hearthstone backlash vs earnings from Chinese mobile market
I never trusted Apple, the problem is that I think they're still the best of the lot :/
I agree, with a caveat: don't do dumb things performance-wise.

The other day I worked with a Lisp code base that used built-in lists for math-heavy code. The result had garbage performance and even looked less readable than proper array-based code that loops on stuff imperatively.
https://formalabstracts.github.io/

Tom Hales' formal abstracts project may be to your liking.
I work for a significant tech company in the Valley and we are in the PG&E grid, but we have diesel backup generators that we immediately fired up when power was cut to a few of our buildings. “Tied” to the grid doesn’t preclude backup power. As long as we can get fuel trucks to our buildings, we can run indefinitely.
That works for me. In the last months of collecting data for my PhD thesis, I pretty much lived in the lab. This was basically biochemistry, so there was lots of "do this, wait some hours, do that, wait some hours, ...".

So I just napped when I could. At night, on the couch in the break room. During the day, on the cot off the women's restroom. And conveniently, there was a shower for staff who cared for research animals.

Now, living in a small apartment, my ~12 m^2 room includes desk, bed and storage.
> That's the good thing of open source: don't like it? Then fix it and send me a patch and stop complaining.

That's simultaneously a good thing and bad thing. It's good because it's possible. It's bad because when everyone is responsible for a platform's software defects, then no one is responsible.

Even if we ignore average users, and just consider developers, the overhead and learning curve is prohibitive. A frontend webdev or even a backend Java dev would probably have a really hard time tracking down and fixing an issue in Xorg or Wayland or in their touchpad driver. The relevant maintainer could likely fix it in a few hours or days if they had the available time and motivation, but the user (who just happens to be a developer in an unrelated field) would likely take many days or weeks.

Even if you match skill-sets -- say a C programmer is having trouble with some GNOME UI issue that would turn out to be a bug in a C library -- you still have a big hump to get over to contribute to a project you're not familiar with. Build system, how to safely test changes on a live system (where the normal software comes from a distro package), code organization and just learning how things work in a new code base, code style, pull request process, review process, etc. -- all of this makes it really difficult to contribute, even if the actual change is small.

I do wish more people would take the time to dig in and scratch their own itches, but I absolutely don't blame them for just wanting to be able to get their work done without having to first fix their OS and tools.

(Credentials: I use Linux as my daily driver, and have gotten frustrated by macOS as a development environment any time I've had to use it as such. I used to be an Xfce core maintainer, a decade ago. These days I mostly do Scala and Java backend dev, and consider myself quite rusty with languages like C.)
You’re not playing the devils advocate, instead of steelmanning his argument you’re coming up with something completely different.

Cook clearly made an extremely specific claim, not a general one about protesters being violent.

>the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers
Your story now reminds me of our new plant manager back in the days of the last financial crisis.

He was newly appointed as the supreme leader at this automotive plant. Uncertainty was high, this being 2007, so people were let go, and costs reduced with any means possible. So he went into production and one day decided that it is too cold in the storage area. He orders his people to increase the temperature with a few degrees since that would save tons of money. People protest, he hears only "blaa-blaa", and his request is implemented.

A few days later, it turns out that barrels upon barrels of chemicals in the storage area needed to be kept under a certain temperature. So the stuff solidified and it was now only good for the dump site. Out to garbage the chemicals went, new stuff was ordered, production was stopped until the new stuff arrived and temperature was restored back to normal after that.
I've heard that Apple engineers helped with the USB-C spec based on their experiences with Lightning.

Why did they opt for a connector with a tongue that could break on the device?

The Lightning connector seems to be superior because it does not have a piece that could not only break, but is a real PITA to fix.
Erdy
That's not the only possible model. You can also have wholly foreign owned Chinese subsidiaries in the free trade zone if you get the appropriate licenses granted. Forgot the details though, sorry. That setup is apparently relatively "easy" for trade with physical goods, our lawyers told us some years ago, but wanting to do e-commerce without selling physical items meant all sorts of additional licenses had to be sought, and since nobody had done that before, it was unclear whether it would go through.

I remember a hilarious 24h trip to Shanghai because the Chinese law firm had found somebody who was well connected and willing to talk to us. It was somebody's cousin. In the day long meeting, the lawyers were entirely tight lipped and refused to give any legal opinion, merely reading the letter of the law back to us (which is not useful at all in China). The only person who was willing to give any guidance (and preciously little at that) was the cousin.

It was simultaneously very serious, with lots of money at stake, hilarious, exhausting, exhilarating, difficult, full of (cultural, not legal) learnings, and very, very frustrating.
So many times I'd be at home in my office, crunching 12 hours straight on a problem, only to finally give up and go to sleep. Without fail I'd jump out of bed an hour later, test my solution, and go back to sleep a happy man.
I feel Luke ta a mixture of context switch and some idle time/downtime. I find walks great for letting my thoughts drift and work through things, same goes for train journeys. I think perhaps as you say, the switch unloads the information into your subconscious and then the downtime let’s it get to work.

I really liked Rich Hickeys talk on Hammock Driven Development which is basically this exact subject: load everything into your brain and then go snooze on a hammock while your mind gets to work.
Select card by clicking, moving it to the destination by clicking to some other specific place.

Advantage of this to d&d is that you can navigate around during the process. You can easily scroll the screen if it's too large. You can for example select a different card. You can switch to different window and do something there.
Notice how the author had looked up how to do his example in Stack Overflow.
I found that foraging through different man pages looking for a specific thing to do only once is just very time consuming. Luckily looking up information on places like Stack Exchange or even different blogs and forums (which I usually land on after using a search engine) is much more efficient.

Yes, the information contained might not be completely up-to-date or accurate, but at least it sets you up on the right path to search further.
I'm a very happy byobu user. I think's it's just a tmux configuration accessible to newcomers. The benefits are:

- Toolbar with windows for visual orientation.

- byobu-enable command that sets up auto-start of byobu on SSH login.

- F1 - F12 shortcuts for most common operations with F1 being very concise help on the most common actions.

It's good enough that I can just install it on servers and most of the users won't need to further tune the config. This way, if I connect to a new server, I get a friendly UI.

Plain tmux requires more effort in the beginning. If you customize the config, now you need a way to distribute it to all the servers you connect to.
The ideas in this article are considerably less irritating than I thought it was at first. Essentially:

* "In 300 B.C., two Greek ambassadors, Megasthenes and Deimachus, resided in [North India]"

* "Did they bring plans or miniature models of automatons and other mechanical devices?"

* Is the origin of a legend about robots guarding the remains of Buddha inspired by these automatons the Greeks brought from the West to the East?

It's still all conjecture, takes far too long to get to it's point, and copy-paste is disabled on the site, but it's not another "Ancient India invented the internet"[0] howler

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43806078
here's the thing: he can't. that would offend the CCP.
From the iCloud user agreement in China:

"You understand and agree that Apple and GCBD [emphasis added] will have access to all data that you store on this service."

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/gcbd...

GCBD, a state-owned company, certainly gives the Chinese government the ability to see all iCloud data. It is technically true that if the Chinese government sends a data request to Apple, Apple can try to push back within the legal system, but why would they send a data request to Apple when they can get unfettered access from GCBD?

As far as who controls the keys for decrypting iCloud data at rest, I cannot believe that Chinese iCloud data would be sent encrypted to Apple's servers outside of China to be encrypted for rest with Apple-controlled keys and sent back to GCBD servers for storage and then sent to Apple's servers outside of China for decryption after verifying it is a user authorized request and back encrypted for the user when the user requests the data (and the same for all operations on the data like indexing). The keys absolutely must exist in China under GCBD's control.
Small chip implant on Cisco firewall
I don't mind if i am given the opportunity to refactor, but if its just piling more tech debt on top of crap code it gets pretty demotivating.
Google bans developers from the Play store all the time. As a developer who builds D2C products - Good luck getting your average person installing an APK.
Yep! It's been hard to ignore the other things people questioned about his attempt though ... I'm leaning toward trying biphasic, but still not sure yet.
German here - I misread the title as Zettelkästchen and thought that the word Zettelkasten was a clever way to work around the umlaut. Looks like I was wrong ;)

A Kästchen is a small Kasten (box) by the way.
Approach to Repair and Fix Corrupt SQL Databases
Can you define ready? The functionality of the library is solid, it's based on code we're using in production. We've not committed to a stable API however.

(I'm one of the maintainers of said library.)
Absolutely. when I cannot, I long for 10/80
> JSON not only mixes key/values and lacks schema; it mixes data and headers (or metadata for that matter) too.

There is no concept of headers in JSON. And neither is there in the proposed Internet Object. The (ugly?) example of https://internetobject.org/the-story/ can be written in any data format (thinking of Yaml) and obviously also in the "Internet Object".

There are reasons to blame JSON for, such as the lack of comments. But the lack of schema is plain wrong -- there is JSONschema and there are validators which can be perfectly used when recieving data over the web, for instance.
I believe the battle of Salamina is covered in the sequel.
For sure. It also help to go to park or nature or go for a swim!
Vulnerable D-Link routers allows remote code execution but will not be fixed
A lot of big state universities are cash starved, or at least are acting like it. Education funding was a big target during the recession and hasn't really bounced back: https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-lost-de...

Berkely has a few generators though so I think these particular complaints are due to cost tradeoff decisions made decades ago and a general lack of foresight to predict the utility power completely shutting down.
You have a valid point. But on the other hand, this is ycombinator news, and so entrepreneurs trying to get that last bit of productivity by doing an all nighter might think more long-term about this.
Interestingly, the Texas grid is independent.
For sure going home is good. I'm just saying instead of staying awake and do bad work, it is better to just let people sleep when they need to.
Collapse of Democracy in Hong Kong, a British Betrayal
He didn't mean don't kill or capture the fleeing enemy, only giving them the opportunity to do so. The idea is that nothing is more dangerous and likely to fight with all his strength than a man who knows he can't get out, but give a man the hope that he can and he will use all his strength to escape.

I'm not sure if it was also Sun Tzu or perhaps Marcus Aurelius who also mention that the most vulnerable state an army can be in is when it routs (this is borne out historically, as most battles with very heavy casualties on one side suffer them during a rout). So if you allow the enemy a gap to flee you have options to either spare them or wipe them out depending on your goal as a commander.
The innovation here appears to be a text based format that consolidates the keys used across a list of objects with a common structure; that seems pretty cool!
There is also an add-on just for Skype: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/firefox-web-skyp...

I use it, instead of different methods, because it's just a few clicks away and for me it's one of the top results for "firefox skype".
'South Park' declares 'F–- the Chinese government' in 300th episode
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020
Show HN: Mindfulness Helps with Pair Programming and More in MindfulDevMag #4
Not to be insensitive, but for a South African this is a kind of LOL moment. We have had power outages mess with experiments and universities since at least the early 2000's. That of course and the arson that burned down auditoriums.

But in terms of experiments, if you want your MSc or PhD then you better make sure that you can go a couple of days without power to the grid.

If you are in a rural area, especially a previously "white" area as the pre-1994 NP government called it, then you need to have your own > 5000 L water tank. The town where I went to primary school had 9 days without water or electricity a year or two ago. Probably half of the town (it's a small town though) never have water between 9PM and the next morning since they simply turn of the pumps (whether there is electricity or not). The government officials also steal water to go sell for $1 per 100 L to areas where there is no running water.

You can think of it as a kind of osmosis between previously affluent areas and areas that had been mud huts. If you think of it that way it doesn't sound that bad, actually, but I think the net position is not the issue, the real issue to me is the corruption and apathy within the government and the rate of improvement. Africa should be ahead of China in economic growth if you look at the youth percentage and potentially massive workforce.

If you want to completely redesign an entire country's power grid and make it 100% solar/wind, then South Africa is the perfect candidate. That is if you could forget about politics for a moment.
This is also my experience that sleep has the most impact. Not only does it impact my mental ability, it also impacts my mood, and therefore my productivity of wanting to work.

I don't know about the order or exercise and diet, but they are definitely on there.
This thread of thought was way more interesting than I assumed from the title: the issue is that some of the same groups that defend Section 230 happen to also be climate change deniers, and so it becomes this question of the morality of single issue politics (which affects normal people as well making decisions at the poll).
Mozilla is developing an add-on called Go Faster that uses WebCompat data to adjust settings in Firefox for compatibility on poorly tested sites.

https://github.com/mozilla/webcompat-addon

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Go_Faster_Addon/Overr...

https://webcompat.com/
On the other hand, while Walker may be right about everything he says (anecdotally I'm extremely aware of how important sleep is day-to-day), I found his book to be very poor evidence of what he's trying to persuade us of. His writing is that of one who has bought unquestioningly into a cult. The evo-psych digressions about "wise Mother Nature" are nothing short of ridiculous; the one that sticks in my memory is that he seriously considers the possibility that Nature gave teenagers an offset sleep cycle from adults so that they could start exploring the world on their own for a few hours each night. (One much simpler possible explanation is that it gave the tribe someone who was naturally on guard duty for more of the night, but of course this is testable by looking at non-tribal animals and I haven't tested it.)