skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the richer countries will have ways to mitigate the effects of climate change - such as running air conditioning on the streets, or just staying 99% of their day in offices and houses. While the people in poor countries can only escape. So unfortunately, it will be the poor countries that will get hit the hardest. India, South-east Asia, central and south Africa.
Ya, if you already have good revenue and revenue growth, why do you need YC? I think YC may be overvaluing their contribution a bit.

If I take on all the risk, blood, sweat, and tears to get a product built and out the door and making money, I don't need your $150k. At least right now in this climate, you can raise much more than that from VCs that carry cachet similar to YC and will be good advisors as well.
thanks for posting this.

“There were ages of darkness, and then enlightenment came.”

we often see those who came before us as savages. Didn’t they have triumphs and failures, families and friends that they loved? Did the think of their lives as ‘dark’?
The depiction of the paschal lamb is interesting. It is roasted whole, with no bone broken, as the Law of Moses demands. Jesus, after all, observed the law to the fullest.

Catholics will be reminded of the third stanza of Pange, lingua.
Even if they got the exchange's order-book they'd probably just see a bunch of orders from some guys named Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. So many of these trades are routed or entered by brokers or other large firms.
Hit the paywall.
The strongest plausible interpretation is obviously that it changed his life significantly for the better. That's implied by the use of that phrase in such a context.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My favorite use for them is when you've got to set a multi-bit field in a mask or register. If the hardware says bits 25-23 have to be 110 and bits 13-10 have to be 0101,

reg = (0b110 << 23) ||
(0b0101 << 10);

is by far the clearest way I know to write that. And since hardware descriptions usually (but not always) give descriptions in binary rather than decimal, it's the easiest form to check against the datasheet or manual.
It should be nationalized so they can fix the problem instead of optimizing for bankruptcy liability or whatever.
A Chinese company sponsored Linux distro? I don't care how good it looks - that's gonna be a no from me. Also what a bogus sensational headline =|
http://archive.is/ra9UL
I never quite understood what the purpose of the blacking out was?
Well, we’re talking about food delivery here. I’d order food much more often if it arrived quickly and thus was hotter when it got here.
FSFE+-+What+is+Free+jackport
Or perhaps a customer owned cooperative.
> The feature bloat makes it very hard to learn D

Not at all. For example, if you know C-style programming, you can be productive in D with a pretty trivial investment in time.

> Rust is probably what D should have been in all aspects

While D will likely get some sort of borrow checking, it will not adopt the look and feel of Rust.
Ubiquity has some nice cameras. They operate on the LAN only. Not sure whether they have any alerting/movement detection or IFTT capabilities though.
The idea looks researched a bit.
Send me over email the database table definitions an we can take it from there. One thing i suggest to donfirst is to spin up a wordpress and use that as an admin interface for your fruends to fill in the data, then we’ll only need to import it and create an api over it.
So you blame a private company for sparking a wildfire which isn't really under their control. What do you expect them to do?
This is still an ACL issue - that Facebook allowed CA to pull data they weren’t authorized for doesn’t mean making API access is a bad idea.

It increases the attack surface but publicly to everyone.
Reduction of legal liability in case of fire.
On behalf of the rest of the nation, no thank you.

What are options for Californians to communicate concerns to state and local legislators?
It's called wet-bulb temperature - it's measured by a thermometer whose bulb is covered by fabric and water slowly drips on it. It shows how much can evaporation (sweating) help to cool us down in those particular weather conditions.

If the humidity is 100%, the wet-bulb temperature will be equal to the normal temperature - because evaporation stops, therefore no cooling effect.

And if the wet-bulb temperature is more than our body temperature, we are overheating. So air temperature over 37 degrees with 100% humidity is indeed potentially lethal.
Running a development environment from an iPad would really catch my interest. It's something I've already done in the past using Emacs over Blink (a Mosh terminal for iOS), but the experience was not ideal.

I'd need to be able to open multiple terminals and install semi-random programs though. It's not clear to me if that's fits in with your vision.
I am not sure i get the idea, can you be more specific? + do you know ML :)?
Brick and mortar stores are going out of business left and right based on the market reality that people are more than willing to wait 2 days for their items if it's cheaper and is delivered to their door.

I think it's an extremely niche market, so I think it'll only be successful if you charge out the nose for the delivery.
That'll still shrink/stretch the header/footer based on window size, which usually isn't what you want (headers and footers usually being a static height). Really, this layout flows from top to bottom, so my instinct wouldn't even be to use grid - just leave the divs as blocks and give them the appropriate height:

<div>
<div class='header'></div>
<div class='content'></div>
<div class='footer'></div>
</div>

.header { height: 30px; }
.footer { height: 20px; }
.content {
height: calc(100vh - 50px);
overflow: auto;
}

Bonus: If you have to support it still, this version works all the way down to IE9.
Reason + Priority + Adapt = Survival
`folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded.

Deepin is incredibly unstable and prone to freezing, though, which limits its appeal. The author probably hasn't used it much.
I'm curious why people would have voted this person's comment down, simply for a mistake. Seems sort of harsh to do that to someone's reputation simply for a mistake.
PG&E equipment is believed to have started multiple fires, including the Camp fire. I don't understand your usage of "under their control".
Thinking about a single ant going 3 kilometers in an hour is gobsmacking.
_100_ is an identifier in D, too. The simple rule is _ can be embedded in a numeric literal, it just cannot start one.
Amazing ... That would make https://www.xkcd.com/303/ obsolete ;-) !
Probably not legal but definitely safer:

http://jammers4u.com/drones-jammer
So much better to have local control instead of ending up beholden to a committee of busybodies.
Yes. We are persistent.
buzzing to a house near you!
Sacramento has that, it's called SMUD. I don't know if it's any better. Are they keeping their lines and equipment free of tree branches? Are they having power outages? Are they blowing up neighborhoods?
The Ubiquity cameras are nice! They do offer remote access, which I used to monitor 3D printers and chickens from afar. I’m not sure if remote access comes with the cameras or requires their “cloud key” device, which we also have.
I have literally 10 emails just from my own Google Calendar reminding me to do things, 6 from HN replies, some from GitHub, some reminders for financial statements, and lots of miscellaneous notifications and mailing list emails... how in the world do you only get 10 emails per day when running a business?
Very helpful, thanks!
The Public Utilities Commission is most directly responsible for these matters. Just need to trace an elected official to there.
You misunderstand me. Multiple blacklists providers allow people to have visibility and force common sense consensus amongst lists.

Eg: adblocking rulesets.

Any government involvement should simple state that blacklist options stay open to consumers (allow interoperability) and force transparency.
I think this is true in the US: insider trading is roughly when you trade on non public information that comes from inside the company (counting cars in carparks on satellite photos is not insider trading as that information hasn’t come from inside the company, even though it is so hard to get as to feel nonpublic). I understand there are other illegal acts that correspond to trading on information which most people would consider ill-gotten.

In Europe, I think insider trading tends to be a more broad classification.
Don't trust LinkedIn C++ quiz
This looks and sounds like the retro back story side sequences in Lost (with the Japanese professor)!

Anyway, awesome work, and amazing to see how long we've been thinking about this stuff IRL
There's a drinking joke in here somewhere.

My question is if it's cheaper to fire-proof everyone's house, or to have everyone go and buy solar for their properties, or to just accept some people and properties are going to burn in a fiery inferno from time to time.

A quick Google shows that there were $7B in insurance claims for the Camp Fire. At $15K per install of solar, that's ~500k homes. Apparently fire-proofing a house has similar costs. There are something like 7M homes in California. Many of those are in urban areas, so let's say there are 2M in fire-prone areas.

It actually seems worthwhile to just pay for the upgrades.
Not sure how nationalization would help. PG&E has a state monopoly right? What if we went in the opposite direction and allowed smaller companies in to start competing, like what we have with ISPs?
Yeah in all seriousness I like that structure for other reasons, but it’s not necessarily more likely to force foresight and proper maintenance. Government oversight and/or insurance companies should be enforcing fire safety here.
"See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," Fisheye says, shutting down the whirling gun.
Given that a great deal of the risk is directly cause by maintenance that PG&E has chosen to defer for years... how is it not under their control?

I can accept that perhaps some other parties should share some of the liability, but it seems completely unsupportable to claim that PG&E has no control over these risks and should be absolved of all responsibility.
> As someone who spent serious time in RPG III in a previous lifetime, I would not advise anyone whose welfare I cared about or was responsible for to go look at RPG.

One of my first gigs was working for a manager who loved RPG III. To the point where I was tasked with making a data collection interpreter using the same constructs RPG III is well-known for.

To this day, whenever someone mentions "RPG III" and what that project entailed, I think of the other one[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade
"The construction costs were almost double the estimate."

Classic Calatrava!
Digital Transformation – A Reality Check Before Biting the Bullet
People expect them to properly take care of the lines and surrounding area which means spend money at the problem but hard to do if you are maximising profit over safety.
The primary regulator is the California Public Utilities Commission, whose leadership consists of five governor-appointed commissioners.

https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/Contactus/

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/
"There are no life lessons or gymnastic skills involved in doing dishes, there’s no underlying theory of housework that will reveal itself after a thousand vacuum cleanings."

This is false.

Doing dishes can involve gymnastic skills at any moment and the deepest truths of life, the universe - and everything - can be found in the simplest of chores.
On the other hand, I like these self-published books, because they can stray from the norm. A lot of published works end up following a similar formula, which is less likely to be the case in self-published works.
DE nick land =/= CCRU Land for anyone new to this area
We can take lessons from flood insurance. Efforts to subsidize can distort incentives such that homes are rebuilt in flood zones.

I really hope PG&E can cut down the time needed for these outages.
I don't even disagree with what you are saying. I just don't know if it is succeeding because of the quality of the solution, or the weight of the author.

My hunch is it is a little of both. Combined with a giant dose of not caring about existing solutions. Which is not to be scoffed at too heavily. Being able to say "I don't care" about existing users is a huge asset that any startup should not discard. One of your biggest assets is the lack of external assets to be liabilities.

Still leaves me sour to see the hubris that there is something intrinsic to this. There likely isn't.
I'm certainly flexible to work with the use cases I see.

Your Emacs workflow is one I'd happily replace with a proper GUI (VSCode, etc).

The current iteration is quite literally a full remote desktop, onto which you can install any semi-random program you'd like. In fact, there's even a "Barebones Windows" desktop available, with no installs, for you to flesh out as you please. Multiple terminals are totally cool too!

That said, the long-term vision is to make the apps you use seem local, so there's no context-switching. I'd like Booste to just be a wrapper around the app - if I could eliminate the desktop on the server end and simply capture the application window, that'd be the most seamless experience for users who are not used to context-switching into remote desktops.
Cleaning up accumulated kindling and fixing up their infrastructure is actually under their control. It's just they never gave priority to it. It's a pattern of behavior for them: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-diverted-safety-...

And why not? If they get hit with a lawsuit, they can just jack up the rates or if citizens get too noisy, just shut them off for a week or two and show them who's the boss here. It's not like the customers can go elsewhere, and they are guaranteed 10% return on the money by the state by ROE rate arrangements, whatever happens. How many other "private" companies do you know that are guaranteed to make money no matter what?
One big con for cloud and software as a service (I didn't see it mentioned in your post, maybe I've missed it) -

Being a terminal machine, you don't own or hold anything.

The Adobe Venezuela case is a good example for that.
So if booste.io needs to comply to some regulation it might break those users ability to access their data.

It is a growing concern as the terminal/main-frame days are getting back at us.
Or, less cynically, reduction of the number of fires.
I wonder what other weird rituals they were doing back then. Even ones not covered in the bible. Their lifestyle should really highlight the massive culturally differences from then until now.

I've been meaning to read up on what the old roman life in Judea around 0BC was like.
Does stripe do the same too?
Possibly, but if you want to learn maths, then the notation is one of the smallest, easiest parts of it, and it's really helpful for the bigger, harder parts.

Code is usually way more verbose than maths notation, so things get a lot bigger and it can be a lot harder to see what's going on. Learning maths notation is like learning the basic syntax of a programming language related to one you know already - there's not much to it and it doesn't take long to be able to read it comfortably. If you can already code then you know the basics and many relevant concepts already.
Reminds me of the algorithm from a Canticle for Leibowitz one of the monks was working on. I do have to wonder if things like this do more harm than good. A guess done by deep learning is still just a guess, the difference being the additional danger of it looking more authoritive and certain than it is.
Nothing like a bug behind a safety feature :)
It's not really appropriate to compare any of the California municipal utilities to something like PG&E — SMUD isn't tiny, but they have a fraction of the T&D infrastructure of PG&E.

Fair comparisons would be to San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison. Both have had selective power shutoffs in the recent wind. Also, note that SCE did not power down some lines and it appears their equipment caused a wildfire:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-18/saddleri...

SDG&E has been using public safety power shutoffs for some time, and has a pretty good system of sectionalizers to make the outage areas more granular than PG&E's. That said, they don't have anywhere near the T&D infrastructure of PG&E.
Such mutations are highly popularized and simultaneously very rare.
I think you're confusing Haskell with the second law of thermodynamics and that the universe started in an extremely low entropy state resulting in the arrow of time which causes the coffee to do it's thing
They are not in road traffic, they will create air traffic. Airspace management is a thing. Since at least 2010 there's been research around drone integration within airspace infrastructure management and I am bullish on software/hardware to keep all that traffic straight. Also bullish on new areas for insurance products...
The emerging risk of virtual societal warfare
Not sure why this isn't handled in some kind of data-driven way, rather than a bunch of one off code.

The truth is, the author is coding an irrational and illogical system, and what this is basically is a big old set of special cases.

But then keep in mind the whole piece is satire.
Maybe random values should not be necessary to boot the system? I remember reading somewhere that systemd needs cryptographically random numbers to start up and I don't understand why.
Yeah, as someone noted, it'll soon be possible to re-compile V in every frame of a video game :)
I also wonder how this will work in large cities. Packages to my condo are delivered to a non Amazon locker in our parking garage, my building doesn't have a spot where drones could even make deliveries safely. Residents lack roof access.

Packages left outdoors get stolen in a few minutes, which happens more often than not with Amazon's gig economy delivery drivers. They seem incapable of delivering packages to our locker, let alone a pile by the mailboxes. They're left outside the front door way too often.
Most ISPs aren't able to start wildfires.

What you'd get is a bunch of small companies competing. And, human nature being what it is, at least some of them would scrimp on maintenance and tree trimming, and hope that they'd continue to be lucky. And some of those wouldn't be lucky, and you'd still get fires.

The difference would be that when Billy Bob's Power Company set off a multi-billion-dollar fire, it would just fold. Sally Sue's Power Company would buy up their assets (but not their liabilities) for pennies on the dollar, and you'd be left hoping that Sally Sue did better at maintenance than Billy Bob.
It's a really fun read, but it's far more satire and humorous interpretation of game design and development than it is a real treatise on those topics.
Not exactly new - https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/ictai/1997...
They were the proximate cause but not the ultimate cause. When the state is that dry, something is going to start a fire sooner or later, and when it does, it's going to be bad.

They are basically being penalized for being the straw that broke the camel's back.

Probably better maintenance would have helped some, but it's not like they bear all the blame for the destruction caused by the fire.
Gang Hacked/Stalked
for over a year my entire life has been harassed from every direction. where do i begin i am chasing my marbles
If anything, you're underplaying it. Beating a rug takes far longer than vacuuming or sweeping. Before the washing machine, doing the laundry could easily take a whole day (which is why people wore clothes far longer between washes)
Interviewed 6 FAANG Employees and Got This
This too. Overtime I think more and more games/services may adapt to this "everything in the cloud" idea and eventually support it w/ their own licenses and whatnot.

Other than that, I've said how the cloud is like a terminal machine (as you've said). Once it's gone, you're left with on-device things to do now... which is a huge con, but there are some pros as I've described in the post. But given the number of pros and cons for both cloud and on-device, it's a hard decision/strategy to make up on what a company is going to do.
I use amazon workspaces and the iOS app works just fine for me. Behaves as a desktop would afaik
Here’s my take on why it’s not intelligence: The hardware has no capacity to independently observe itself or the conditions that give rise to its existence, and given its observations, improvise as needed.

Everything we would label without question as possessing intelligence has an instinctual drive and mechanical ability to improve itself, to beat itself at its own games. To move out of the way of danger if it has the opportunity to see it coming. To improve the probability of its survival.

There’s more to intelligence than building a machine of a predetermined spec to mechanically sort a predetermined set of data. These notions in comp sci seem to completely ignore physical reality. I can conceive of a planet called Krypton, can it exist? I can conceive things like tautology but can physical reality provide an example? I can conceive of a phone app giving me a sense it has intelligence but it doesn’t. It’s not self aware and cannot self replicate. It can’t save itself or beat the odds on its own.

This physical reality we occupy invented what we’d define as intelligence. Our definition ought to very specifically include physical capabilities of independent not programmed self awareness & capacity for self care. AFAIK, that’s what our basis for the concept of intelligence is based on. Why should we accept an artificial intelligence that’s less fully capable of that as somehow on par or better than is given its obvious limitations?
> We actually mock people who are scenesters who do it for the fame/social status, and we mock the scammers who build nothing real and get fake valuations.

Who is "we" here? Certainly not me. I personally am embarrassed for the YC community when I see things like this and also attacks on others on the private Bookface forum. If you have a problem with someone, say it to their face. Maybe they'll learn something. Or spend a day in their shoes instead of being so quick to judge and perhaps say nothing at all. This statement sounds very fratty and secretive, which is my least favorite part about YC. I am very grateful that I got into YC, but 95% of people got nothing but a template rejection email. YC gets the first 100 picks in the draft. With great power comes great responsibility.

Speaking for me personally I agree with the sentiment about making things but the highest value I prize is making something good for other people and then giving it to the world to make it a better place. Not putting so much emphasis on what value you capture; instead focusing on what value you create. That's why aaronsw is my favorite YC founder of all time. I am impressed by folks who build these big companies, but far from the value I prize most.
Sell While You Hire
It's the price you pay for having a declarative language that lets the language implementation pick from a large universe of equivalent ways to actually compile and run the code. You now have to know how to tune the thing, and that requires having either specialist knowledge of the implementation in question, or the skills to find and apply that knowledge quickly.

The value this provides is making development very agile (in the dictionary sense of the word).
I bought a nest thermostat just before google bought it. Returned it immediately because even before the current “smart home” insanity I knew google couldn’t be trusted to not harvest and steal information about you.