skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had better luck with this map: https://tinyurl.com/sonomacountymap . Found via the Sonoma/Napa CalFire twitter account: https://twitter.com/CALFIRELNU .
I’ve noticed the key is lots of zoom one on ones. It’s so productive and fun, and you don’t feel lonely. Also, meditation helps a ton - it’s easy to feel lonely in a crowd if the inner experience is out of whack, regardless of the external situation. Shared whiteboarding software is also great.
As far as I know, the French are not shutting down nuclear plants.

The Germans did shut down operating plants, for political reasons, with the excuse that the capacity would be made up in solar and wind. When that fantasy failed to materialize, they had to fall back on burning more dirty coal.

Lose-lose.
Re: Concorde forum link: what a treasure trove of information!
The vitamins in multivitamins have to come from somewhere. It's much cheaper & easier to engineer an organism to provide these vitamins all in one go, rather than having a whole suite of plants and animals that produce these different things.
YouTube is not useful when you need muscle memory. You can learn how to type on a keyboard with YouTube, but you will still be useless.
Absent patent rights, none of that would matter. Patents are grotesque rent seeking and responsible for all these ills.
I don't want to talk about my own experience in detail, but I just got to say paranoia is a disease that eats your mind from the inside. If you've never experienced it I envy you.

>Effective criminals are sociopaths who don’t experience fear the same way as most people.

Strong disagree. The effective ones still feel it, they're just confident they can win in the end. The paranoia makes you put way more thought and effort into it. The ones that don't feel the fear are the ones that will be lazy about op-sec and get caught.

Also being reckless and just barely escaping is itself an addicting feeling. Like going to Vegas but the stakes are for real and the club is more exclusive.
I always thought of it as the Ames/War nerd thing; everything else attached to it was pretty worthless. I don't recall them ever breaking a story, or publishing anything of note and won't miss them at all, as long as Ames republishes his work somewhere else.
How many of these Golden Rice pushers are eating it as their regular staple ?

Case Closed!

These morons develop solution for Africa and Asia because when their silver-bullets blow-up these morons are thousands of miles away from the blow-back and happily move into "mosquito sterilization" or some other fancy shit.

Unless you are feeding your SON golden rice for the past decade - do not tell any one including the poor to eat the "fraken"-rice.

Precautionary Principle!
I forget which book is the source of this, but I recall Smullyan writing about (I hope I have it roughly right) asking a child whether they could prove something they knew about mathematics or logic, and the child replied "What is a proof?"

Smullyan said that this was--if you took it literally--an incredibly deep question.
If that were false, DHL would raise prices and get even more profits.
Mighty god odin bless you for that link. Thank u so much
And that's obviously your choice. I personally chose this path since I'm at the beginning of my career - maybe I'll give remote working a shot one day! However, nothing seems worse to me right now than mixing home and work life. Physically separating them gives me a mental barrier between them.

BTW, commutes aren't 'fun', but it gives me a chance to read/reply to my emails, plan my day, or do some reading, so on balance I do save non-negligible time.
Can you point me to any reading or resources on this topic?
You should share design specs between client teams and allow each of them to implement them within the parameters of what's expected on each platform. Don't force them to have the exact same UI at the cost of platform-specific idioms. It hurts customers on both platforms to take that approach.

Your business logic should be, to the maximum extent, implemented once on the server. Your client implementations should simply display what the server has computed, once. Caching it is fine, rendering it locally is fine for the most part, and you get a clean, well-fitted, elegant UI for it.

Any limited amounts of business logic that must be correct and truthful should be implemented as a Rust (or if you insist, a limited, well-defined subset of C++) library with C linkages and idiomatic wrappers for iOS and Android. If this can be shared with the server and/or web front-end (via emscripten for instance), it should be. It's usually painful to do this, but there's usually only a small part of your codebase that should fall under this section.
postgrest for those who dont know.
Two have been manufactured for flight, one for aerodynamics testing.

I imagine they fly one and perform refurbishment and re-equip the second one while the first is flying.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
Patents are very important for wealth creation. Investors need returns on their investment, otherwise they will not make investments in the research and development necessary to develop the product.

Without the limited time monopoly created by patents, investment cannot be recuperated and there will be no funds available for creating and productizing innovation.
It’s not significant, you’re not missing anything. Pando never really took off or did anything. It launched with a big boom because of the relationship with TC but never got any traction on its own.
Can you point to the last time one landed? May 2017 is what I'm tracking, so a few months before this one launched.

There are 2 known X37Bs, but I don't think they've been up at the same time.
True, I guess a code repository link is common and even more useful than just a code snippet.
I figured they were all scams.
> why should we pay them so much money, it’s the computers that are doing the work.

Why should we pay the blacksmith so much money? It's the armor doing all the work. Why should we pay the stone mason so much money? It's the arch that's doing all the work.
A user gateway. I need a product that can help me process user registration, login, session and other user identity logic. Than I can add my own user experiences using programming languages.
The present user processing tools are too complicated and makes non sense.
Here is the latest from WaPo that changed the headline on its Al-Baghdadi obituary from "Islamic State's terrorist-in-Chief" to "austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State". Religious scholar, my ass. So much for solid journalism.
This NASA safety video from the Apollo era is incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2TeNfcmKA
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And being non-white doesn’t make you a thief.

But sure, focus on the fact that a contractor took two bikes home, and not on the disproportionate response.
Patents expired by now. Greenpeace needs to be burned to the ground.
"There have been five X-37 orbital missions. The spaceplane's first mission, USA-212, was launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth in December 2010. A second X-37 was launched on mission USA-226 in March 2011 and returned in June 2012. The third mission was USA-240, which launched in December 2012 and landed in October 2014. The fourth mission, USA-261, launched in May 2015 and landed in May 2017. The fifth and latest X-37 mission, USA-277, was launched on 7 September 2017, and broke the record for the longest X-37 mission, after 718 days in orbit, on 27 August 2019, finally landing on 27 October 2019 after 780 days in orbit."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
They made similar promises about GMO cotton shit that got lot of Indian farmers killed!

Google BT Cotton!
Xamarin (C#) and Cordova (JavaScript) are the usual suspects for such multiplatform endeavours. You should not use three languages in production if one is enough.
Also see iodine supplementation, enriched flour, fortified milk.
You might be surprised! Contrary to popular belief, nuclear energy is among the safest forms of energy production we know. Yes, this includes short and long-term deaths from Chernobyl (50/4000), Fukushima (0/<=1), and Three Mile Island (0/0).

The "Chernobyl" of hydro, of course, was the Banqiao Dam failure, which killed up to 230,000 people. For some reason, very few people know about it, and there are no HBO specials on it. Go figure.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dam-safety-statistics-risk-o...

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

Considering that fossil fuel kills about 4 million people per year via air pollution, year after year, both hydro and nuclear are really safe. Nuclear net saved 1.8 million lives by 2013 (and counting). Hydro probably has a good number like that too.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3051197?source=cen

Graphical comparison of nuclear safety vs fossil (not hydro): https://twitter.com/EnergyJvd/status/1183663682552827904/pho...
Several traits or indications I mostly come across with junior engineers is that guidance from seniors or on-boarding might be slightly more involved for them to bring them up to speed. Usually, they have less experience in working with production-grade environments or have some internships under their belt to make up for the entry-level experience gap. I would say that "years of experience" isn't enough to define/assess if an engineer is "junior" but my definition fits in with their ability of communication and critical thinking.

I would regard a "new grad" as "experienced" if they can objectively explain their choice of technology with evidence on their decision and if they can reason with the team with a proposal. Repeating this with good feedback and a ROI makes them experienced. Some projects in the open-source world are meritocratic, with a number of significant patches == commit access which makes them a trusted maintainer.
Maddow and Don are opinion. Fox is propaganda. Do not wait for an answer.
You are such a racist!!
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Slides, for anyone who wants to read them separately from the video stream: https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/slides/23%20years%20of%20softwar...
If that's true, this is the real problem.

Is there legal precedent for this? I can't imagine that there were cases in the pre-GMO world where seed suppliers claimed that they owned all of the seeds grown by a farmer, but I could be wrong.

Would love to see some direct sources -- licensing docs from the vendors, legal cases, that sort of thing (e.g., not a link to a news article).
No, you're going to ignore them anyway, since you're clearly not interested in the science. So why do it? They are better off using tools and resources in the short term to amplify their position and try and effect change.
California is destroying itself. 100,000 homeless is not the gold standard other states are looking towards. No other state will implement California legislation because it is harmful. This is uniquely a CA problem. We have corrupt politicians.
There's very limited appetite for introducing JavaScript on any client platforms. Your iOS app has to introduce a garbage collector, bridging, and yet another language that nobody on your team knows. Android has to spin up a second garbage collector.

C# has all the same problems for core logic, and is all fine and good but you can't really get a native enough interface out of it.
For all the promises mentioned around this crop, this was surprising to read in the article:

/quote

As Stone and Glover point out, it is still unknown if the
beta carotene in Golden Rice can even be converted to
Vitamin A in the bodies of badly undernourished children.

/endquote

Given the advertising as a solution to the issue and all the surrounding hullabaloo, the fact that it is still not proven to do what it espouses--is pretty damning.
Sure, but their article was approved at the editorial level i.e. Lacey and/or Carr.
Yet golden rice was made mostly through state funding - patents aren't the only way.
sremani's comment seemed inflammatory to me, but not racist.
I can't imagine why I would place a lot of trust in any government. It takes a special kind of cunning, controlling person to even want to be a politician. Let alone become successful enough to attain a high position in a government. So I don't trust any government really. All I can do is guess which politician's incentives could be the most aligned with mine.
The fear is not inherently irrational either. Its clearly a very powerful field on the confoundingly complicated biological domain, and with more power and complexity comes greater potential for serious error. It can be fair to disagree about the safety and wisdom of various GM applications, but the charge that it is all irrational is really just divisive rhetoric.

I don't approve of novel GM in agriculture, I encourage naturalistic development for mass production in the environment and especially the materials we routinely put into our body. Poor nutrition is caused by poor politics, culture and economics over and above all of the existing foods which are already available to solve it.

I think GM will best be limited to acute medical challenges and containable research and emergency uses, until we have actually developed a strong command of diseases and natural (evolved) systems. Our agriculture should be as contingent as possible with natural history and existing species in our already very disturbed sphere of ecology.
You can trust corporations to do what they are designed to do, and nothing more.
The patents on golden rice should begin to expire next year. Not only will farmers be able to propagate it without running afoul of IP restrictions, but hobbyist gene hackers will be able to create new varieties.
I mean this discussion of IP from the Golden Rice Project's website is ridiculous! [1] How can this page of legalese compare to having a the seeds in your barn?

[1] http://www.goldenrice.org/Content2-How/how9_IP.php
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I'll tell you more. The vast majority of the users of this site, even though they're abundantly informed of climate change and like to grandstand about it themselves will not even spend _negative_ amounts of money to reduce their environmental impact by canceling their travel and yearly vacations thousands of miles away, to which they go by burning kerosene. I'd be also willing to bet most of us here drive gasoline cars, leave our computers on 24x7, eat meat, and don't look twice at where our food comes from.

So it's going to be _hard_ to argue that more informed customers or shareholders would have made different choices, particularly in the absence of severe negative consequences so far.
European calendars are typically Mon-Sun, UK/AUS/US/CA etc typically Sun-Sat. Just as the more-common-in-Europe 24 hour times have been seeping into UK for decades, perhaps you're seeing the Mon-Sun calendar doing the same thing?
The title says “live” but the page itself says “updated at most twice daily”.
Seriously, does anyone in the US or outside the US, in government or outside of government, anywhere in the world trust the US government? I seriously doubt it.
I always assumed it had an ability to relocate. I guess sustained movement in a 2y mission is hard, you have to budget for non-replaceables to make thrust work, ion thrusters consume stuff too.

I kind-of get it, that for a sufficiently timed orbit, it sees all places.. eventually. Being able to relocate means you can be where you want to be, without predictable periodicity.
These countries are riddled with corruption at all levels. Any enriching agent would be taken by the person tasked with enrichment and sold, the poor would get nothing and suffer the deficiences.
This way the color tells the tale. Greenpeace, Bryce and all his cronies need to be tossed into a pit full of mambas.
Audit Greenpeace very throughly, remove their deductions and track the officers and strip all the other lairs of these crooks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bt_cotton#Controversies

Wasn't that debunked? The claim was that it contributed to suicide, but the farmer suicide rates have, by numbers I've seen, declined over the relevant period, which would not be surprising since cotton productivity has skyrocketed.

Now, maybe the numbers are doctored, and I'd believe that about India, but I'd want some proof other than "Google it and trust the first negative story written from WhatsApp rumours.".
I hear you man. I still remember the nestle infant formula fiasco. Some people should have gotten the chair for that one. No one did though.

It's always, "Were juuuuust editing a couple genes here. Why do you idiots hate science?" Meanwhile, their higher-IQed classmates can't go two weeks without breaking the frigging build.

Unfortunately, this is a tech board, and Lamettrieism runs wild.
Having more helps too!
I'd say the only alternative is another Mac. An iMac is a fantastic work tool (I use this for work), but if you need portability, go for any of the Mac laptops. I had the 13 inch MBP (without Touch Bar) and it was the best combination of size, performance and power. Only problem was I needed the dedicated video card so I had to upgrade to the 15 inch which has the touch bar that I hate. I don't recommend upgrading to Catalina unless you are sure you won't use 32 bit apps. I have Sid Meier's Pirates, Civilization VI and SimCity4 Deluxe and now they don't work. I have to wait for the developers to release a patch, if they ever do. But yeah, I did the research, tried out different laptops (Dell XPS) and none compare to even the lowest level Mac laptop. The fan noise, the display, the touch panel, the OS, all are inferior experiences to a Mac. And, if you want to use Windows, only Macs have Bootcamp built-in, allowing you to boot into other operating systems. Its kind of sad, but there just isn't any viable competitor out there.
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Damn you! Whenever there's a link to the Digital Antiquarian, I lose at least an hour of time!
CalTopo (my favorite mapping software, and originally made for search/rescue/fire [1]) map with overlays: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.59058,-122.75299&z=11&b=m...

[1] https://caltopo.blogspot.com/2011/12/launching-caltopocom.ht...
For someone unfamiliar with Pando, what were their big scoops that brought such heat?
Well, how does selectively letting third world people suffer deficiencies look to you?
That is what they are doing:- harming people from their WASP bastions.
White House senior infosec staffer quits over highly concerning lack of security
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Where have you been all my life bro! Nobody gets it any more -- precisely the attitude needed in this industry; we need to turn the tables and take our craft back in-house
There's also the small issue that every minute that passes is another potential minute an attacker is stealing sensitive data, PII, and email/IM logs from your company's internal network, and backdooring other servers, installing ransomware, etc. That requires far more than a wipe and restore to deal with, and could potentially result in a massive financial and reputational loss.
This is about intent and responsibility.

Under what circumstances is one responsible for someone else's acts. Just because you hire someone to do something illegal, you are not responsible for all the illegal acts the other person might commit.

The mere fact of putting something in motion does not immediately mean one is responsible for all the outcomes of all actions in the chain.
It's hard for me to imagine a positive outcome from this for either Exxon's shareholders or the public at large. I imagine it will translate pretty well into higher prices at the pump for everyone.
Trust me, in 20-30 years, after the apocalypse, someone needs to turn on a water filter and npm can't download the correct package... and they die of dehydration... just write the Black Mirror episode around it!
I'm sorry about that
Cryptocurrency has some pretty interesting security implications. There are threats to individual keys, as well as threats from hackers who find flaws in smart contracts.
"We can't afford it do right the first time, but we can sure afford to do it twice when it fails" - Me, a week ago.
It's not an accident really, dynamic dispatch is slow but expressive, static dispatch is fast but restrictive. Julia (as a language trying to solve the two-language problem) is designed to be approachable to Fortran programmers, so writing it like Fortran will work (and it will be just as fast because static is fast), and for Python programmers (which will lead to slower but highly dynamic code). Idiomatic Julia is actually a middle ground though, you always program at the highest level possible (you don't assume types, you assume behaviors, as the language is fundamentally duck typed like Python). The difference to CPython though is that the Julia compiler will generate one optimal static implementation for each possible argument combination that is used, instead of one dynamic implementation (as long as each implementation is not so expressive that can't be represented through a static code, which usually means depending on runtime information).

About the third point, it really won't matter in most other languages since in this case the Julia compiler is actually optimizing beyond those thanks to the multiple dispatch paradigm (in some cases it will even replace the function call directly with the result if it can solve it entirely with compile time information). And global variables in general can't be optimized by the compiler since they can be modified at any point, so it can't make any assumptions about it.
Trump wants to make a deal with Exxon or others to tap Syrian oil
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We distribute senior titles to people with three years of experience. We task junior developers with setting up and managing critical cloud infrastructure. Management has no idea how it all works.

It's kind of like we're asking for it.
As a meta comment, I am enjoying the QI posts appearing on HN occasionally. Don't think I used to see them a lot, though maybe I wasn't paying attention.
> Lots of good content a few years ago

I'd dispute that. I followed for a few months but the incessant valley navel gazing dried up my interest pretty quickly. It wasn't a great publisher in the great scheme of things even with Lacey's TechCrunch credentials. And to be honest I'd also stopped reading TechCrunch et-al back around 2012/13 even before she left. Maybe at the age of 52 I've outgrown this kind of tech "journalism".