skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of it is fuel, though that's increasing due to both a century of near-total suppression, which began around 1910-1920, with an "out by 10" policy -- the idea that any fire should be completely suppressed by 10am -- explicitly stated by 1935:

https://www.shraboise.com/2017/09/91317-10-m-policy-u-s-fore...

Other factors are compounding this:

- Diseased forests. Largely beatle infestations and factors such as oak blight. These and similar affect much of the West.

- Monsoon/drought cycles. These both lead to more fuel (monsoon) and drier fuel (drought).

- Weather is a factor. Low humidities (in the past week, down into the teens) and high winds. Disruption of the Jet Stream may be exacerbating this.

- Climate: Shorter wet seasons, longer dry seasons, and more variable weather cycles (heavier rains, stronger winds, lower humidities) don't help.

- Human factors: encroachment on the wilderness interface, ignition sources, building codes, transport routes, etc., effect both frequency and impacts. Many fires are of natural origin, thought that's only about 15%. How much that percentage has changed since 1930 I don't know.

NB: general information and perceptions, though they should stand up.

LA Times lists several of these factors:
https://www.latimes.com/local/wildfires/la-me-g-california-f...

This wildfire fighter veteran gives fuel and weather principally:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nde4/a-veteran-firefigh...

That's similar to a long conversation I'd had with a retired forestry worker in 2007. Chance encounter on a road trip, he talked about the idiocy of total suppression policy at the time. Unfortunately, not citable, though it was a very memorable discussion.

Ignition sources:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-29/how-do-w...
I didn't say any of that. JSON is a tree structure, that isn't an opinion.
FWIW, a lot of people join SpaceX (and Tesla) for 2-3 years to work on cool stuff, get the experience, vest some options, then move to other aerospace companies with much better work-life balance. It attracts a lot of smart people fresh out of school and people who are passionate about spaceflight, it's just not a place to work if you value time outside of work or a low-stress job.
The urban shepherd of Paris.
> Really? I personally doubt users would prefer Skeuomorphic buttons.

Have you tested this assumption, or is it simply something that you suspect? There's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but don't mistake it for an analysis!
It is pretty common for cell towers to have backup power. Not all of them do, but many.
Very good questions and I don't have the answer. I was mostly trying to respond to the concern that it's just kicking the can down the road.

But if we're speculating... with cheap launch capacity and cheap/efficient solar, we could start talking about building solar farms in space.

Also - again speculating - if the shade has limited coverage, there should be a temperature difference on the edge of the shadow. That may cause increased wind, which could benefit windmills.
Using https://www.deepl.com/translator I get the following automated translation:

First quote:

> After a judge decided to block their web addresses, forcing their managers
> to migrate domains and look for new hosting, it has now been GitHub, the
> service owned by Microsoft since June 2018, which has ended up blocking
> access to the repository that hosted the web and application platform from
> Spain.

Second:

> Although the free software service was among the objectives of the
> authorities to give shelter to the independence platform, sources from
> Microsoft Spain have confirmed to Teknautas that they have not received any
> request from the state security forces to close the Tsunami repositories so
> the decision has been taken at the international level.
Interesting but off-topic none-the-less: lots of the regional governments in Spain is using open source software for their offices, like LibreOffice. I know both Valencia and Catalan governments are vocal about using and developing open source software.
Here's what I see for the MVP:

1) simple SVG editor
2) timeline and tweening
3) simple logic creator (when user clicks this, do this. or this action finished then do this)
4) outputs to some file

It would be a browser oriented and cross platform editor. The first targets could be tutorials, slide presentation creators. Then simple animation.

Anyone interested in joining in, holler.
It's similar to Brexit. No matter what the government does, 50% of people will be utterly pissed off.

But the biggest problem is that, unlike the UK where Scotland was allowed to hold a proper referendum in 2014, the Spanish government is not only not allowing holding a real referendum that would settle the issue for the next few years, but also prosecuting those responsible for the 2017 referendum with extremely harsh sentences (13 years, that's on the upper range for murder in Germany, for comparison!) and repressing the pro-secession movement brutally.

Fuck the Spanish government hard for this.
When I first learned and took up Python in 1996 I didn't adopt it because it was elegantly designed, but because it was pragmatic and the only reasonable (to me) tool for a job that most people used Perl or Tcl or shell scripts for, which I didn't like.

Since then I've watched people use it as an application or systems programming language and I don't really get it.

To me it's a great Swiss army knife scripting language.

But yes, I think you're right. There are far more "elegant" programming languages. I never got the sense that that was Python's niche, though.
As opposed to json:
`{"number": 12345678901234567890}`

What does that look like when you parse it?
A thing which costs trillions of dollars will probably not be overpowered -- so I presume at no point will it be able to dim the light by 10%, wouldn't that be overkill?

Probably this will be governed by the UN.

There could be some interesting implications if you do have active control -- like "should we cool this area to move this huricane".

"Yeah, but we can't make it turn back over water, but instead of it hitting country A, it could hit country B".
Did you notice this: "He has already put into motion the conversion of the Dropbox server code from Python 2 to Python 3." Even the company that hired Guido is still heavily dependent on Python 2, and it doesn't surprise me at all; my own employer still has a lot of it in internal tools.
A more than deserved retirement. And I'm sure there will be plenty of free time coding as well.

Given the impact Python has had on my career I'm nothing but grateful for it.

Thank You
Obviously complicated metallurgical alloying processes takes a lot of baseline, but fabricating pure metallic elements might be tractable. And I was under the impression that pure aluminum and magnesium were actually pretty useful structural elements if you don't have to worry about oxidation?
That’s exactly what happened, and no, I didn’t lose my status. There are internal metrics for showing individual moderators’ activity but — at least while I was a moderator —these were purely FYI, and not used to enforce activity. I eventually resigned because I was aware that my inactivity was causing backlog that created more work for other moderators. I don’t remember exactly what happened next but since moderators are elected yearly by the community I suspect that new elections were held. However, I need to emphasise that I was relatively inactive for more than a year, and completely inactive for many months.
I understand the pessimism. I feel it deeply myself these days. But people do care. Labor fought like hell in the second half of the 19th century & early 20th century. Sometimes literally fought with workers being beaten or gunned down or falsely imprisoned. But in the end, they won much of what they wanted. Ended child labor, got 8 hour days, two day weekends, workplace safety, fairer pay.

Other causes have had similar successes. The cause of abolition (or at least unease about slavery) was enough to elect Lincoln in 1860 despite Lincoln not appearing on the ballots of the entire South. Which, of course, started the process & war which ended slavery. Abolition won, albeit in a very bloody way.

I think it's not a case of people not caring. It's a case of people care enormously but they feel powerless and they feel alone in their caring. This goes on until that day when they realize they're not alone.
Specifically page 10. Still wondering where the original quote came from. Who was this person talking to? Presumably "you" refers to FB, but what was the situation that an NSO employee was complaining to FB?
"alternative vote"

If you mean switch from FPTP to some form of RCV for executive positions or proportional representation (PR) for assemblies, then I agree.

For RCV, I strongly prefer Approval Voting, which best balances fairness and simplicity.

But we'll get the most benefits from PR.
Thank you very much for the response. I assumed it would be way more.
> Thank you Guido, after learning Python, I never looked back

That matches my experience. All the pros and cons that in principle apply to any language, whether newer than Python or older, mean nothing to me in practice. Python is the one that feels right, the others feel like a chore. Since I started with Python 10 years ago, nothing has changed that.

There's ways I'll insist that Python is the best at [x], and ways I'll concede some other language is better at [y]. But it never amounts to anything close to a debate about what language I should use.
What about geothermal and tidal? ;)
An editor alone would not do. We would also have to add logic ie when user click this, do this...
Of course increasing supply lowers the equilibrium price, relative to the case where supply doesn't increase.

https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1325...

> This suggests that new construction reduces demand and loosens the housing market in lowand middle-income areas, even in the short run.
Wolfram's Symbolic ERP Project
>It's neither impossible nor unlawful though, they just need the rest of the country to agree with them leaving.

Why do they need the approval of people living elsewhere?
Regular ice works too, just take out your crisper drawers, put them on the top shelf and then empty the bagged ice into the drawers. If you can find it (good luck), block ice works best.
You are quoting from the English-language Wikipedia.

Contrast that with [0], which states "El Gobierno es el principal pilar del Estado; ... ejercicio del poder ejecutivo del Estado", the latter of which links to [1], which clarifies, "el poder ejecutivo es una de las tres facultades y funciones primordiales del Estado".

[0]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobierno

[1]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poder_ejecutivo
Mallorca in October Is the Ideal Time to Explore – Magenta Yachts
Wind Turbines Just Keep Getting Bigger but Theres a Limit
I think you mean lack of static type checking. Python is more strongly typed than e.g. Perl and JavaScript.
> A bunch of non-lawyers taking a tiny chunk of law in isolation and speculating about whether something "seems illegal" based on it is really, really useless.

To me, this is rather a sign that the law is far too complicated and should be radically simplified.
Yeah, that is a good point. It does seem to come up a lot in regards to data formats, that of how human readable they are. So I don't think it's without value, but shouldn't be what they are optimized for since it's usually software doing the reading most of the time, and not human eyes.
Yes. Output could be an HTML5 element or something similar.
Watching your Github profile I see you are from the US, time to get back to history classes and time to fight for the freedom of expression on your own country, which is ranked on 49 on Press Freedom Index 2019 https://rsf.org/en/ranking next to Senegal and Romania.
That was probably a Sun machine. I used it them at university and liked the copy/paste-keys too.

I had a PC keyboard (Kinesis Freestyle 2) for a while which had this setup with copy/paste as separate keys. Unfortunately for me, these keys were macro keys which sent "CTRL plus the key at position three on line two" etc, and since I use dvorak layout, the C,X and V keys are mapped to Ä,Q and J, which meant "cut" became "quit" (CTRL-Q).

I don't know how Sun handled this, if the edit-keys sent some specific keycode that the program interpreted like "cut" and not just "CTRL-X"?
A launch escape system from a lunar ascent module would be kind of silly. Where would you escape to?
While I think x,y,z will be an issue, I think the bigger problem is orientation.

Any sort of station keeping is going to add significant mass, complexity, and cost.
The Danube and Rhine river froze over in times my parents can remember. A strong contributing factor to why rivers today don’t freeze any more is that we’re using them to cool power plants and similar.
This reminds me of the rock climbing story from yesterday that made the point that just knowing someone else had successfully climbed a route makes it far easier to achieve again. Elon Musk could become the Alex Honnold of space entrepreneurs, blazing the path.
Taboola, A9, industry brains, outbrain are a few.

Take a look at the list of providers on the google amp-ad tag..

https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-ad/
China investing heavily in RISC-V
I run a forum and there's no shortage of people who would happily volunteer for a mod role.

You have it wrong though: they get plenty of compensation through reputation, clout, and a feeling of power over their peers and being heard and helping out in a community that they love (or some combo of these). That's why they do it. Why is that not a fair trade without money exchanging hands?

Growing up, I used to mow an aging neighbor's lawn because he was basically couch-ridden. It made me feel good to help someone else out. Was I being exploited and should I have demanded payment, or was that just a fair trade that I volunteered for and could quit at any time?

Or look no further than HN. Participating on this forum writing content and enriching YC's coffers is "labor". And our compensation is procrastination and venting and feeling some satisfaction for scrawling our opinions online. If we didn't like that deal, we wouldn't be here.
I agree. Utilities should be billed in a way so that more expensive distribution costs for more remote areas are borne by those who live in such areas; if that makes living out there while connected to the grid infeasible, then people shouldn't do it.

I can understand subsidized infra for rural farms as a matter of food security policy[1], maybe. But these home aren't that, they're more "cottage in the mountains" kind of deal.

[1] That is, not endorsing it, but considering it credible enough to file under "reasonable people can disagree".
This mindset is a huge reason why so many people are skeptical of the climate change movement.

It’s not that climate change isn’t real, or even a question of whether human activity is the root cause. But faced with a solution which doesn’t require massive societal change of a particular sort, the solution is rejected out of hand.

Just because it doesn’t force a specific set of political changes which up until now have been punctuated by the threat of nothing less than Armageddon,... we cannot actually reject a cheap solution that takes Armageddon off the table, just because it may make the other goals harder to accomplish.

It is morally unacceptable to let the Earth burn rather than be left to solve issues of pollution and clean energy independent of the almost unfathomable toll of a 3°C future. That to me is frankly an untenable position when you contemplate the actual number of lives in the balance.
Interesting in the context of Dropbox, as they ship the client code as obfuscated and encrypted pyc files and a custom runtime that's pretty "clever": https://anvilventures.com/blog/looking-inside-the-box.html

Edit. Yes I get the difference and the reasons they do this. The wordplay crossover (cryptic, clever, etc) was notable to me, and reminded me of the link I posted above.
Agreed WSDLs are the only thing I love about SOAP and they are missing from REST. Most tools can import a WSDL and generate the code and structure for you.

Sometimes even getting a sample of the expected JSON format can be hard. If you’re not versioning you’re APIs you can break everything if the schema changes.

I used to debate this with the SOA manager. Swagger looks ok but never dealt with it in production or saw it in the wild with our customers.
> very obviously buttons

They might not be to some non-tech-savy people... If you don't understand the concept of a virtual button that thing might just look like a rounded, blue rectangle with text in it. Nothing hints that it is supposed to be touched, it might as well just be some kind of highlighting.
thanks!

nice video, seems like gibraltar is getting a lot of action
The Career of Mountaineer Fred Beckey
You wouldn't say that Redhat is generating money from Linux?
System.Windows.Forms works in the same way (the UI is serialized to code). WPF was designed many years after that because it allows different disciplines to work together.

Designers would most likely be familiar with XML given their HTML background, but they wouldn't necessarily know C#.

If Swift UI expresses the full fidelity of the API in the designer (e.g. expressing custom states and animations, keyframes, etc. on a custom button), then my point doesn't apply. If the full range of designer responsibilities cannot be achieved without dropping into code, then Swift UI isn't a real counterexample.
The music animation code worked something like this:

1) Each of my pixel shaders was driven by let's say 32 parameters (do not remember the exact value)

2) The code would generate first set of said parameters and the second set (values were random) and start transitioning ( lerp ) between 2 with the length of transition of about 60 seconds.

3) Upon completion of the transition the first set would
be replaced by second set and the second set would be replaced by freshly generated third set and an infinum.

4) Seps 2 and 3 allowed for non stop fluid motion.

5) Lerp value the degree of transition between sets for each parameter would be modulated by sound (one FFT band for each also passed through synth like attack / decay.

6) Finally there was beat detection part which upon detecting a beat would invert lerp direction

There were more steps and various tricks to make it more interesting and non repetitive but I am not writing article here ;)

The end result was quite artistic. The visualizer was part of much bigger enterprise grade media playback / management / delivery /scheduling platform I've developed for hospitality industry
Not the parent poster but I'd say it's very realistic. I've written a few applications that target both JS (web browser) and binary (server) and it works very well. One example of this is https://picheta.me/snake/.

I'm also working on a game that I haven't quite moved to iOS/Android yet, but that is my plan. So far targeting the desktop with SDL and HTML5/Canvas with the JS backend works very well.
How would one prevent the cloud of sunshades from clumping together due to gravitation? The effect on a single disk on the outskirt of the cloud should be equivalent to the attraction of a 16 million ton mass at the center of mass of the cloud.

Would we need to spin the cloud? (perhaps forming a galaxy-like shape)
To answer your conspiratory rhetorical question: Yes it would.

There are some good news from research reported, like "Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level" feedbackshttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6444/eaav7908

Just because there is less good news than bad news, does not make science biased.
Are you suggesting systematic bias in climate change publication? If so, would you like to point at any evidence that this is happening?
I'm afraid my Spanish isn't any better than Google Translate's.

As I understand it, the first paragraph says that a judge blocked access to Tsunami Democràtic's domain names (literally "web addresses")

But according to the second paragraph Microsoft Spain denied having received a takedown request for the Github repository from the Spanish security services. It also says that the takedown request must have been made on an international level, but I'm not sure what that could refer to.
Wrote one just this weekend.

Not a chatty variety though. Keeps an eye on new CVE vulnerabilities being posted and forwards them to me.

https://github.com/apankrat/cve-monitor
A former coworker and I used to do friendly red-team/blue-team challenges with each other. He tunneled traffic through a test DNS server and my goal was to limit the usefulness or block it. Blocking it was very difficult. I had to limit window sizes. Unbound can do this native. With bind I had to use iptables. Both Unbound and Bind could limit the packet rate. Unbound had the most granular controls around limits per domain/tld/ip.

Tampering with window sizes would most certainly break some things, like DNSSEC and zone transfers.
"There is no Catalonia issue"

I beg your pardon, are you gaslighting Hacker News?

I saw videos of protests. Were those fake?

I have friends from Catalonia who tell me there is an issue. Are they lying to me?

Whether you agree that Catalonia should leave Spain or not, whether you agree that Spain should jail the leaders of a movement to leave Spain or not, there clearly is an issue. There clearly is some dissent, some controversy, something going on.

As for referendums... Seems to me there was a referendum a while back, and the vote was declared illegal. I saw video of law enforcement preventing people from voting.

Was that fake? if not, do you count it amongst your evidence of the people of Catalonia refusing to leave Spain?
The design considerations for a new tunnel for a post-LHC collider at CERN
> They used this app to organize violent riots, taking advantage of the pacifist demonstrations organized by the pro-secession political parties.

They also used this app to organize non-violent protests, but why say that when you can tell half the truth to tell your story? I'm sure Whatsapp, Telegram, Messenger good ol' SMS were used to organize violent riots, but we won't close those right? I'm sorry but your argument is as week or worse than the one used to take down HK's map.
It's a thing of beauty. Simple, functional, information dense, logical layout. I don't use craigslist, but pulling it up, it is immediately obvious what needs to be done and how to do it.

Hero images are eyesores.