skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is a pox of a product. I’m in the process of buying a house and any listings with Nest products I just skip. I know it is negligible, financially and physically, to remove them, but why even bother when there are plenty of options that don’t come pre-equipped with dysfunctional spyware.
DoD releases new IP strategy that is more flexible with industry
It's a consideration. Certainly more portable. Thanks for letting me know it's of interest!
Wow... talk about a mean-spirited article!
Airbus A380 sustained a catastrophic uncontained engine failure due to a Rolls Royce flaw. Landed and everybody went home. Maybe they can help.
os.system2('curl -s -L -o "$out" "$url"')

is not an acceptable thing to do.
>Why are companies so intent on turning this planet into an auditory hell hole?

Their leaders are looking for ways to get off the planet or secure themselves in fallout shelters in New Zealand, while their companies fuel rampant consumerism through data capture, the employment of the world's best behavioural economists/psychologists and marketing leading to pollution, grand destruction of our ecosystem and inequality.

Makes you think.
What government run entities are well managed? The federal government runs a deficit every year. State schools are always screaming for more funding and yet US children lag behind the world in math. The same incentives that exist while private will exist if public: avoid punishment and avoid losing your job at all costs because it’s just a simple infrastructure company with a monopoly to be a utility.
Yeah basically complaining that WIP features explicitly marked as WIP are not ready and that the first public alpha release is not stable.

Focusing on the fact that the language is written 100% in itself from the start? Nope!

Mention that it builds itself in <1 second? Nah

Graphics library, DOOM's p_enemy.c translated to p_enemy.v which can be compiled and replace p_enemy.o, safety features? No.

The language can be bootstrapped with "cc v.c" without any dependencies? Who cares!

There's a temporary one-line os.system() hack? VAPORWARE!
It's the same in the record business. See "The Wrecking Crew" about how the studio musicians turned the raw material of the artists into hits. (Often the original bands could neither sing nor play their instruments very well.)
I think I will make the `How it works` page the homepage. Thank you :)
I mean, you could add a new computed column to a table and index that... It's really effectively the same thing, just more visible. Still requires a table scan and storage/maintenance of the index/column. I guess technically it may require additional storage but it's not radically different. Either way, still requires some foresight to implement it before your queries require it so neither is a magic bullet.
It was to soften up Californians in preparation for a legislative push towards insulating PG&E from liability.
It was so stiff, that would have been an upgrade!

The worst, that you can't appreciate on the photo, was the controller, that allowed only one key to be pressed at a time, and key repeat was a Separate Key. scary!
>>Tony Fadell probably wouldn’t like how google transformed his product.

as if Google was a paragon of integrity and privacy when Nest was sold for billions...
Researchers unlock potential to use CRISPR to alter the microbiome
Smartphones will warn Californians of an earthquake seconds before they are felt
Which was fixed almost right away. In fact there's no libcurl dependency at all right now. OpenSSL/SChannel are used directly.

Nitpicking one liners like that from a huge one man project that has just been released is ridiculous.

Luckily the language continues to grow at a rapid pace despite all clickbait vaporware articles.
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There will be no GC, see my reply above.
Putting temporary code in a WIP project is perfectly acceptable.

Ripping on a WIP project is not an acceptable thing to do.

Even the title "V is for Vaporware" is just oozing bias and condescension, and makes me lose any respect for the author.
If you can't even learn the syntax how will you ever learn the semantics?
net income

2014 1.45B
2015 888M
2016 1.41B
2017 1.66B

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/pcg/financials

Maybe they could use some of that to a) not burn down california and b) provide their customers with reliable power.

The weasel words like 'fact', and 'aging grid' and 'whipping boy' stand no water here.

PG&E needs to be dissolved.
Holy crap this is beautiful on my phone! Great job!!!
I'm honestly shocked that anyone here would take that Vanity Fair article seriously. It made no attempt whatsoever to link the trades to one another. The events in question were diverse, and would have required access to many very disparate sources of insider information. And most importantly, the article made no attempt to establish that these trades were unusual. How common are trades of that magnitude? Such a basic question, left completely unaddressed. It's mind numbing that they would think it's acceptable to publish something that lacking in critical thinking.
It's 100 feet as long as you adopt smart building practices for the roof (use tile, composition, or metal instead of wood shingles; cover all vents with mesh; clear gutters and other accumulations of dead plant matter). Tile roofs do not generally catch fire from embers.

https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-re...
As the Ukraine probe heats up, Trump and Giuliani are sticking together. Mostly
We can take lessons from physics: economics are nothing more than the ideology of politically advantaged humans.

We’re under no political obligation to keep enabling the private control of our collectively built and maintained communities.

When do the hand outs to these screw ups stop?
Vanity Fair didn't prove any evidence though. They just said "trades were made". Were those trades of unusual size? Unasked. Is there reason to believe those trades were made by the same entity? Unasked. They just insinuated things without actually trying to establish anything.

That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
While it's yet to be bourne out, I do have to agree with others in hoping this will actually be quieter overall than cars and trucks. The footprint can be much smaller as well. They don't need huge road capacity and all the construction that goes with it.

But we will see I suppose. Maybe a few hundred drones canvasing the sky above a busy city will be a horrible sound. I hate hearing drones in nature but must admit they tend to get pretty easy to ignore once off the ground and cruising.
Regather the table statistics. If it was the same data I'd be shocked, but this isn't that surprising.
Personally I found it pretty captivating and actually have been friends with the trainer for years now. That part didn’t seem relevant but now it does. I think he was probably the best teacher on the subject I’ve ever met and was very entertaining to me.

I just think the audience wasn’t into learning. That might have been a culture problem at that company. It is hard to imagine something similar happening where I’m at now.

Also not sure why you got downvoted. I think it was a fair response.
You need to stop making up deadlines for yourself when things will be ready. Similarly with your IM people lose confidence in you if you are not delivering what you say you will. Just say you are working towards something until it is ready, to avoid this.

Good luck in the future. You clearly have a lot going for you.
Good thing a truck can carry >100x as much stuff.
Why only .io? Then you would need to check all, especially .com. Except that’s not feasable..
What nobody tells you about documentation (2017)
Relativity is a model. Yet it is settled.

Still 'wrong' though.
Why would they merge X before the text games?

I hope they're real complaints and not i.e. we need install menu changed from "install xserver [x]" to "how u liek the xserver? now[ ] never[ ] now with extra firefox, please[x]"
Asking because you are a city it has been trialed in, but how does it handle a multi-tenant house deliver? Like a two story unit block. Does it just drop it on the sidewalk? How do they handle busy sidewalks or parking lots?
I expect PG&E to find a way to deliver power without causing fires.

We shouldn't have to choose between having blackouts or having wildfires. I can't think of any other first-world country where that happens.
TBH the main criticism seems not to be of the language itself, which seems like a cool and worthwhile project, but of its "marketing".

Clickbaity rhetoric like "V Language Released" with no source code and many missing features, and now "compiles itself in stunning 0.09 seconds" without a rigorous dataset or accompanying list of features that said compiler supports are likely the source of the backlash.

My outsider advice, as someone who has never made a language (so, props to you for that) is to lower the hype level, and instead focus on posting news like deep-dives into design decisions and implementation stories, which people in the PL community are more likely to appreciate.
> What if we went in the opposite direction and allowed smaller companies in to start competing, like what we have with ISPs?

So, multiple competing electric distribution systems with the total fire danger being worse than that of the worst maintained? That would be...very, very bad, strictly worse than the status quo.

If you mean basically competing retail providers using PG&E’s distribution infrastructure, then that doesn't change anything relevant from the status quo.

Make it a public service run by the California Resources Agency, answering to the same cabinet secretary as CalFire does, then you've got both the Agency Secretary and the Governor who have a pretty strong incentive to ensure that: (1) deferred maintenance doesn't cause massive fires, and (2) deferred maintenance doesn't require blackouts to prevent causing massive fires.
Aha, thanks for sharing!
People love tearing down other people and their things on the internet.

I never understood that mentality without having some personal connection to the topic or a deep understanding of the topic.

I see the [wip] progress labels all over the site now, I guess some people need it to be explicitly labeled before the give a full break down of what you've made!
> Additionally, and I think this is non-debatable in the USA (though I'm up for debate, and to be wrong), C-levels have their primary and sole obligation to shareholders.

No. Shareholders have a residual claim. Corporations have to obey the law, pay their debts, and pay their other obligations first. Shareholders may only claim from what remains.
2,200 viewed Germany attack before Amazon’s Twitch removed the post
The motivation behind the idea seems reasonable enough but, as always, the devil will be in the details. Obtaining one of these permits could be as simple as posting a cleanup bond for the case your company fails. Or it could be a giant bureaucratic maze of red tape. Or it could be a ban by another name.

There’s also the question of identifying what is and isn’t “emerging technology”. Arguably the scooter companies could already be liable under well-crafted littering or public nuisance laws[1], or maybe something like incitement to litter. Uber relied on differential rules for street hailing vs. pre-ordered rides to avoid buying taxi medallions in the early days, using only already-licensed car services. Tech companies’ private bus services were/are controversial, and use no new technology at all: just internal combustion, human drivers, fixed routes, and a regular timetable. Which of these would have needed one of the new permits, and would they be able obtain one?

1) I have no idea if today’s version of these laws is capable of this or not.
Three feet per second is 2 MPH, or 3.6 KPH.

Elderly humans can walk faster.

Meanwhile, I think some flying insects can hit 90 MPH. Actual speed. Scale speed is like Mach 4, above and beyond the SR-71.
I feel exactly the same (thanks for compiling the links for reference).

Last time I did not write, but I also was kind of confused by some of the claims.

This time I'm actually quite blown away. The author seems to have managed to write a quite cool PL incl. an ecosystem of libraries, package manager, community, ... - great stuff!
I'm writing software documentation at the moment, and having watched this will I'm sure make it 1000x better. It could be called "How to write good documentation - everything you need to know". Thank you Daniele! and to HN for mentioning it.

webpage here: https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/
Agreed, that is much more idiomatic.
That's my point. An article would explain why the claims hold true and summarize what is actually known about the organism. What's linked is a couple of paragraphs that seems to regurgitate some copy from elsewhere. It isn't reporting, and it is isn't an article, where they present a story of interest.

It's just a press release for the museum, seemingly copied, and ought to be identified as such.
This is the result of trying to hold the power company in total responsibility for every fire for which it was the proximate cause.

While PG&E has been somewhat deficient in maintaining their network they have no control over the weather, winds, firefighting budgets, or forest policy.

Yet it alone is now to be held in total responsibility for all fires that originate with its equipment? thats absurd.
They could just put the lines underground and be done with it.
It took me till my late 30's to realize this is the power of a graduate degree. There are lots of people out there who understand programming, and there's a tier of programmers who understand research as a fundamental part of it.

You don't need a graduate degree to understand it, but conveying that you understand it on your resume is hard to do in any universally meaningful way without that degree. The words that would grab the attention of the tech lead, the PM, and the HR are all different.
Anyone decided his major after applying to it?
What do you mean no source code?

I think 0.09s compilation is pretty cool, I worked a lot to make it happen, and I'm excited to share it.
What happens with Nest if your Google account gets locked out for any reason? You can no longer heat your home?
You probably want year round low humidity and relatively low temperatures following the seasonal curves.

Oregon's High Desert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Desert_(Oregon)) is a good one.

Apple and Facebook have data centers in Prineville, OR.
Google has a GCP data center in The Dalles.
Amazon has at least one in Port of Morrow and one in Port of Umatilla.

In fact they can be all lined up on a 236 mile stretch. https://goo.gl/maps/inGGCCk2qBb8Bg5z5

Back in 2011 Facebook published about the efficiency of Prineville data center, mentioning 100% outside air direct evaporative cooling https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/designing-a-very-effici... and efficiency of water use https://www.opencompute.org/blog/water-efficiency-at-faceboo...

...Now in 2019 we have data centers in various locations across the world but efficiency goals are no different if not more ambitious. So something more flexible was developed and now in production. https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/statepoin... IIRC it doesn't mean we high deserts aren't special anymore. They still are.
It got my attention. And I'm VERY picky.

I read through the documentation, and I can't find anything that triggers my bullshitoemeter, or that I disagree with (with the exception of throwing compilation errors for unused things, but that's just a nitpick).
They're on the hook anyway. Be it with rate increases or with discharging of debts in bankruptcy.

At least elected officials can be replaced.
They of course would be, if they were held to the same standard as PG&E.
How unpredictable work hours turn families upside down
I think it's unfair to sketch it as such. Isn't it clear that the parent is unhappy with the side-effects, rather than the project itself?
Thanks!

By the way, it's actually a warning now in debug builds :)
And your electric rates would reflect the multi billion dollar investment to do that.
It's really cool! People seem to be ranting just to rant.
Is it poor management or exactly what Google wanted to do with it all along?
> Your just using your preferred frame of reference.

No I am not. What I said was that they should have left it as just that the Earth rotates from West to East (no frame of reference). I only talked about how it would look like from above the South Pole to show that the described anti-clockwise direction of motion was relative to the frame of reference that was being, unnecessarily, assumed.

The Earth has two poles and they are equal, just like with any (approximate) sphere. If you are going to describe how the Earth's rotation looks from above one pole then you should also describe how it looks from above the other. But once you describe it from both poles it becomes obvious that you're not really imparting any useful information because, while it looks clockwise from above one pole it looks anti-clockwise from above the other. Better to not use any frame of reference at all. We know that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West. With just a little thought it is then obvious that the Earth is rotating from West to East and that is all that needs to be said.
I think what VW did with dieselgate is much worse considering how (a) they willfully effed up the environment (b) actively sought to cheat the very entities i.e. emissions testing facilities, set up to regulate them (c) the scale and sheer assholeishness of their cheating and the cherry on top (d) pretending that "clean diesel" is a thing.

Pollution's effects are cumulative (as per whatever I've read online as a layperson) while a plane crash is more visceral and scary but personally, I think the dieselgate scandal has left me mistrusting any subsdiary owned or any initiative launched by VW.
I would be skeptical that an electric mail truck on a route is less fuel efficient than a hundred drone trips back and forth.
I guess I'm one of those people who consider VCs to be mostly negative. For example, I'd argue that the single most important tip for getting into YC is actually "attend Stanford".

But arguing against this type of content on HN is a losing battle. Better to just vote for the stuff you do like and call out VCs on topics that actually showcase their problems. There are many people reading HN who are genuinely interested in this content, and the tone of the content is one of attempting helpfulness. So making a show of shooting it down just because it's inane YC stuff won't really win any hearts and minds. It's going to fizzle out on it's own because it's a narrowly scoped subject and VC interview advice is pretty easy to find online already.
> This is the result of trying to hold the power company in total responsibility for every fire for which it was the proximate cause.

Yes, otherwise they'd just keep burning down the state because of their preference for extracting profits over safety maintenance like they did the last two years, instead of blackouts to prevent fires. But, bad as the blackouts are, the food are worse, so insofar as the blackouts result from PG&E coming to grips with the liability impacts of causing fires, they are a good thing.

A better thing would have been PG&E not underfunding maintenance for several years, but that would have meant less dividends for shareholders.
Then start with the appointed officials on the CPUC who failed to effectively regulate them for decades.
I hope that doesn't mean removing the GC in favour of borrow checking or manual memory management.
Seems like a pretty creative use of the word ‘settled’.
> What government run entities are well managed?

The National Park Service.

> The federal government runs a deficit every year.

There are many reasons for that, but it doesn't matter in deciding who should control California's power system.

> State schools are always screaming for more funding and yet US children lag behind the world in math.

Change "and yet" to "because" and I'm right there with you.

> The same incentives that exist while private will exist if public: avoid punishment and avoid losing your job at all costs because it’s just a simple infrastructure company with a monopoly to be a utility.

A publicly traded company is legal bound to motives ulterior to what is best for the people of California.
I’d love to hear the connection explained.
> many empty promises by the creator which V simply wasn't able to deliver on.

Seems like this trend will probably continue with regards to the "1.0 release in December 2019" claim advertised in the Github description[1][a], since things like memory management are not implemented yet[2] and the December 2019 deadline would mean going from "first public alpha"[3] to 1.0 in less than a year.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v

[a] depending on what 1.0 means, I guess

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296992

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297051
Instead, the electric rates reflect the multibillion cost of the dividends PG&E paid while not safeguarding it's lines properly, either by burying or clearing trees, etc., around them. You are paying billions of dollars either way, the question is whether you are getting safer electrical infrastructure or richer power company shareholders out of it.
> I’m in the process of buying a house and any listings with Nest products I just skip.

That is incredibly foolish. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face. A thermostat can be replaced for under $100.

Instead you choose to miss out on options that might be desirable. You're not teaching anyone a lesson here.

This sounds exactly like something RMS would say.

Be pragmatic.
You are right and we all know it. It's just painful. Let us believe that childhood is magical please.
OMG absolutely perfect!

I was afraid I'd have to do another https://github.com/kstenerud/go
100 feet or roughly 30.5 meters. Maybe, if you are in around the middle of residential area, your house will escape. Meaning if your neighbor's tree or house burns, it will not ignite yours--if you do all that's required. Next to the forest? Not a chance. A little wind and you see how fast flames move.

Also in a community, not everyone (or maybe, very few) has a 100 feet room to clear and maintain.

Edit: Even if you do have 100 feet to maintain, go on a two week vacation and see how many leaves gather.
> It’s things like this that keep us paying $millions for SQL Server Enterpise vs. Postgres.

Using these millions to better design your applications is better in the long run.
You can totally live without those with a good schema and better queries.

I think features like column store and always on are worth more that those band-aid features aimed at pleasing ugly ERPs.
> People love tearing down other people and their things on the internet.

Indeed.

These [wip] labels were there before this vaporware article :)
Technology exposed Syrian war crimes over and over again. Was it for nothing?
CVE-2019-17436 – GlobalProtect Agent Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
The GC, although often maligned, is highly useful and will stay.
Can you refer to any sources proving you are not being contrarian in bad faith?
Many features were stolen from Golang
One story I've heard is that adult content payments have a very high rate of chargeback, claiming it was fraud after the fact as a way of saving face when someone else (like a spouse) sees it in their transaction history.

But as you say, adult content isn't the only high-risk business but payment processors seem to care much more about it than others.

My guess is that it's just exactly what it looks like - a squeamishness to be associated with activities that culture targets as "non-respectable". "If people pay for porn with Paypal, then they'll think of Paypal as a porn payment provider and not want to use Paypal to pay for normal things".
I'll add Ra by Sam Hughes (qntm.org) https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Hughes/e/B07M92WWT7/ref=dp_byline...