skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this link pop up as a meme on conservative reddit forums for the past month, but with additional text using it to dismiss climate change.

Keep in mind, Australia is huge and has different climates.

While this isn't the biggest fire of all Australia, it is the biggest fire of that region in history by ~10x (according to that wikipedia link).

This is highly unusual.

And as a result of being in populated areas, it has done the most dollars of damage of any fire. This is what climate change advocates are pointing to: increased fires in areas that normally do not have them.
Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
> "Call it the "jock-ification" of the tech world. It was bad enough when they were in high school, now they've infiltrated the tech world."

The "jock/nerd dichotomy" is a dumb harmful stereotype used by lazy hollywood and television writers. Many of the smartest people I've ever known were also the most athletic. There is NO inverse relationship between physical fitness and intelligence. If anything, there is a positive correlation between the two, as being healthy and well nourished makes you more likely to realize both your physical and intellectual potential.
> can someone help me understand how Casper gets away with selling a $1095 mattress + tax to a majority millennial crowd, who are supposedly cash strapped, and doing so successfully?

Because the mattress sellers in the bad part of town still charge 3x more.
> it's exactly the same sort of debate that is occurring in newsrooms

I'm going to have to contradict you there. Anyone who was following the 2016 Russian Interference campaign, and related news stories, would know that Facebook used to pay people to moderate news stories, perhaps in a manner that was like a news room... But then they fired those people because they were not promoting conspiracy theory news stories, and so conservatives claimed FB news was "biased".

This essentially created the environment where no one at FB was willing to fact check for fear of losing their jobs. When you hear about FB saying they will not fact check political content, it's specifically because if they did, they'd have no choice but to point out all the lies and inaccuracies in Trump's statements. So instead, they simply refuse to touch any of it, which leaves the door wide open to political actors to spread any disinformation they want.

A few related stories, for the interested:
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/09/facebook-...
[2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/facebook-will-reintro...

As the [2] reference says, unless FB has suddenly grown a backbone with regards to standing up for truth over dollars, then any new effort will fail in the same way it did last time. Facebook has never been able to demonstrably prove it cares about election meddling, and you shouldn't believe empty words in their press releases.
Well, we are being introduced to this, so we are all trying to get on here and feel it out. I apologize if this appears to be fishy, but I assure you it's genuine. Most of us are newbies to this site, so just give us time to dig around...and then we won't sound like bots.
Ok, fine, let me tune my example to be a bit more specific. You are not in the leftmost lane, you are in the middle one, but there is someone directly to the left of you, so you cannot safely swerve to the left.
> Isn't it akin to telling lifelong smokers, "Just stop smoking."?

It absolutely is. And I say this as someone who, after 25 years smoking, I stopped one day. I wasn't even really wanting or trying to quit. I just... stopped.

I consider myself incredibly fortunate at the complex, unlikely, and non-transferable, set of conditions that made this happen to me. Despite my success, or precisely because of my success, I am the least valid person to help a smoker quit.
I think it's because they people you normally think of as "wealthy" don't have most of their property in the form of house or car - only the poor or the shrinking middle class that's the case.
The amount of them percentage wise is.
> Not all residents drive.

That's why I bumped it to $10.
Have you tried the alternative dental appliance? Lots of people don't seem to know about it, but I'm using one and it works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22014204

I even heard on Joe Rogan that he has to use one. Not sure why more people don't know about it. I guess it depends on whether your doctor or dentist diagnoses it, but that shouldn't be the case. They should exchange more information!
To be fair, one of the most vocal advocates of higher code quality is Carmack, who has put out a few games.

What I’ve seen is that it’s hard for someone who’s not released a game before and supported it post-release to know where and how you can sacrifice code quality for a faster development time.
Hackers Are Breaking Directly into Telecom Companies to Take over Phone Numbers
Other countries have rules about political advertisement especially before elections. Those include budget limits, content, attribution, locations, and more. It's weird to think the rules are so lax here.
The more interesting thing is the distribution of income. I would happily bet that there still is a considerable gap between women on average and men on average and that the total amount taken home by that majority is significantly less than the total amount for the men.
I know several people that have moved because they got fed up with hyper local governance. They moved out of an HOA.
The companies getting purchased usually don't have enough leverage to get a breakup fee.
> 1. Repetition: If information is required in multiple places (dev and prod environments, etc.), all YAML has to offer is copying and pasting those lines.

Actually, YAML has anchors and aliases, which help a lot when the same thing needs to be reused in several places.
My first vehicle is quoted at 13.3 seconds 0-60; by the time I was driving it (it was made before I was born), I'm sure it didn't even get that level of performance. This was never an issue in driving around the Los Angeles area; the performance was consistent and predictable, which is all you really need.
Really? I’m ugly as hell and I’m doing great. I also wouldn’t say my colleagues are unusually attractive or anything. Silicon Valley feels like a place where appearance matters less than many places to me. Am I out of touch?
Why? In a less costly regulatory environment it would happen way more frequently and it would not be elevated as news

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270290/number-of-ipos-in...

Edit since I am rate limited: yes it is the best comparison. Let the public access more securities investments, the tools to manage risk are numerous.
> I hate how people complain about paying for things that are useful for them. . Software should be expensive. We don’t need unions, we need to change people’s expectations on how much software costs and not drive down prices to $0.

Hard disagree with absolutely all of this.

All people need unions, literally every human on earth deserves a union. If you work for anyone, anywhere, doing anything, you deserve a union. Any employee without a union is in an inherently unfair position, and is being taken advantage of.

Software should be cheap. Software should be as low cost as possible, without committing some sort of evil (sacrificing quality or working conditions or polluting, etc).

And a major goal of all humanity should be to drive the cost of all things as close to $0 as possible, without hurting anyone or doing anything unethical. We should be intentionally aiming for zero scarcity in all things, that's what progress is.

Making software some sort of expensive luxury that only certain people can afford is terrible, and that logic being applied to everything (from housing, to education, to healthcare and more) is the biggest problem in society today.
Sure, if you have capacity to make a choice you should be allowed to make an unwise choice.

People are asking how much capacity a person has if they are addicted.
I don't have data to back this up, but it's something I am now going to try to research. However I feel that there is a slight trend away from your traditional payroll job into independent small business careers (youtuber, blogger, streamer, freelancer, etc..). I'm curious how that affects these numbers.
Data broker-type companies do this already and sell it. They even include stuff like your probable religion, probable income/net worth, probable hobbies/interests, etc.

For example:

>Each record contains entries that go far beyond contact information and public records to include more than 400 variables on a vast range of specific characteristics: whether the person smokes, their religion, whether they have dogs or cats, and interests as varied as scuba diving and plus-size apparel.

https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140
I get annoyed by people driving slowly, but tailgating does not help in any way, shape, or form. Because I can jump forward and pass them considerately, leaving ample space, when there is a chance, even from 10 car lengths back. Because of fast acceleration that is available even at speed.

It's not the catching up that's a problem. The problem is being to catch up while the dynamic, temporary, window in traffic is still open.

Were I to be driving a slow ICE car, that option of passing would not be available at all in many traffic windows that appear, because I wouldn't be able to close the n-car-length distance. This leads some people to tailgate, or follow more closely than they otherwise would, for various values of closely, because they are clinging to that hope of getting through a temporary window in traffic at some point.

(Setting aside the other less practical reason for tailgating, simple aggression / macho signaling).

Perhaps you are an exception. Thank you. :-)
Is anyone here a fan of Darius Kazemi? He's one of the people who I believe has a pulse on the future of the internet. He has a great document on how to roll your own federated social network:

https://runyourown.social/
> in Cali and California

What's this?
Analogies in fiction to the "oil company uber alles" - Technocore in the Hyperion Cantos [0] as well as Phyrexian Unlife [1] in Magic the Gathering CCG.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
[1] https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?mult...
>Have you ridden aggressively tuned bikes like MV Agusta's Brutale?

No, I should've specified that the bikes I usually ride are all around 600cc and below. I am totally aware that the discrepancy between top tier ICE motorcycles and electric ones isn't as massive as between top tier ICE cars and electric ones.
I think the situation that makes the DMV sell their customer data is privatization of the DMV. Why should the DMV have to turn a profit? If they weren't at some point turned into a profit seeking entity, there would be no motivation to make money off their customers personal info.
India, too I’ve heard.
It follows that in any group of people equally advanced in their career, the worst dressed most socially awkward person likely has the highest skill. After all they need to balance the deficit with something to get equally far.
This is someone who gets it.
you can fit a lot more 10-day trips into 365 days than 100-day trips
>> What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

Some are living in their parents basement until they're 30 to 40. It has been hypothesized that with the breakdown of families in the US, men are giving up, and that includes efforts to build a stable foundation for their family. See MGTOW but dont read too much, it can be kind of depressing.
Ask HN: Can we add a save-link mechanic please?
Considering we already have a profile, this should be straightforward. Right now I use chrome bookmarks, but this would be so much better to go across browsers.
Even if we accept "all the bush is super dry and it's very hot means it is most likely that would start a fire anyway", this is still far from linking the fires to climate change.

I am not saying it is not linked to climate change, but to establish scientific evidence to this causal link requires complicated analyses.

Why am I getting downvoted for this? Someone care to explain?
Articles like this are the disinformation campaign, they go on for 8 paragraphs before they admit that it's true that 180 people have been charged with fire related offenses, including arson. If they want to argue that arson isn't an emergency, and isn't the real issue that's one thing. But claiming it's a disinformation claim is just, well, disinformation if there are actual confirmed cases of arson.
Change your life situation?
I guess I've worked 77 hour weeks (11 hour days, 3 weeks on 3 days off). No kids at the time, but still had to make my lunches every day because otherwise you didn't eat (working in the field). Meal planning actually saves you time.
I'm guessing market dominance from years of targeted advertising on podcasts as well as buying/bullying mattress reviewer websites to make sure they stay as the highest rated.

HN from 2017:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15321807

"Casper went to war with popular mattress review site, then financed its takeover"
Please email the mods using the contact link in the footer and indicate that you think Firefox comments are being unduly flagged for inappropriate reasons. They can see and search all flagged comments, in order to evaluate your concerns. We normal users can't prove the negative you're declaring and your concern of a conspiracy against Firefox criticism is offtopic for this post about a zero-day security issue.
Uber to quit Colombia after judge says it doesn’t compete fairly
The other two major parts of this:

Facebook's ad model is built to reward "virality" - meaning being over the top and salacious means lower costs. Even Boz acknowledges that was part of the Trump team's genius - they used the platform, as it was built, perfectly. The Democrats naturally have equal access to this platform, so I don't think its as much a left-right thing, vs a crazy-calm divide.

The other thing is just disinformation / identity verification - making sure all advertisers are who they say they are (and you don't get russians posing as black lives matter, etc.)
But you can have a free sweater and create your company too.
Yes, and this happens to women too. For those among us who are engineers, imagine your typical design review or technical meeting. When your average, male engineer who is young enough presents an idea, he is generally given the benefit of the doubt. An older engineer, or a female engineer, is not given the benefit of the doubt and must overcome an additional level of skepticism before their ideas are accepted. Having done this for a while, I've seen a lot of this. I've worked at two of the FAANG companies, and it was particularly bad there. Things actually seemed more egalitarian in the 90's, I don't think we're making progress in this area.
The typical terms sheet has an 'out' in that any surprises during DD are grounds for annulment without compensation.
Ironic coming from a company with tagline "zoom zoom"
Seems like this would have taken roughly as much effort as a real solution...
Plenty of reason why it's hard to ship in standard library. Here's some off top of my mind:

- Should the library includes its own CA store, or use the system's CA store? These kind of library often include their own CA store (since they changes often), and httpx seem to use 3rd party lib to handle that (certifi). This is hard to do in a standard library for variety of reasons (users rarely update their python installation, system CA store is not always available/up to date, etc).

- While the http protocol itself is pretty stable, some part of it are still changing overtime. Things like compression types (brotli is gaining traction these days, and we might get a new compression types in the future), new http headers added, etc. Security issue also show up all the time. The user will want tighter release schedule than python's so they can get these stuff sooner. The situation is even worse for users that stuck in a particular version of python for some reason since they now won't have access to these new update ever.
I don’t think he means Colombia, just wants to avoid reduplication.
> 3. Without Facebook, this wasn’t already happening.

> Personally, I believe #1 is more or less indisputable, and I’m willing to believe #2. But I’m not so sure about #3.

I think you overstate #3 a little bit. It could have been happening without Facebook, but at a lower scale and not effectively enough to matter.

I think there's also a #4:

4. Facebook ad-targeting allows the influence to be covert, because watchdog group members are probably not part of the targeted demographics.
I think this cuts both ways. I'm getting older, but I get along really well with the fresh meat.

What works for me is to come across as an OG hacker and stay up to date on whatever the hot tech is. I'm also as immature as ever and have a pretty good command of dank memes, which I think helps more than people want to admit. I'll follow the culture wherever it goes, the same as I have since I was a teenager.

I just always try to expose myself to everything so I know what's going on, from 4chan to reddit to HN to NPR to Fox News. IMO cultural awareness is the key to appearing "young", even if your physical appearance is older.
journalists compete with tech organizations for advertising dollars, so it isn't surprising they demonize their competitors.
Do you have a reliable source for the claim that “many of today’s Australia fires are arson”?
Hey, are you referring to the SUAD Device? I am thinking about getting one and curious if there is an alternative. I have heard mixed things about their quality. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
You're right. In my head EC and the nearby Gateway homes + the parks bleed together.
Self-loathing is the justifying warm-up to condescension
The major serious languages get along just fine with IEEE, ANSI, and ISO.

For example, C is handled by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14.

The idea that Rust would need a foundation is making me uneasy.
I haven't read the whole paper yet so I might be missing the reason for this, but I'm surprised that the most significant P2P social networks I'm familiar with and actually use aren't included: Patchwork & Firechat. After a quick scan of the paper, the ones included have some various attributes that are presumably interesting from an academic research point of view, but I'm naturally curious to hear an academic's view of the above more actually useful (personal value judgment) apps, especially in comparison with the ones they included ....
The vast majority of people no longer do manual labor for a living. And food used to cost a lot more. It's also possible that anti-smoking campaigns have had an effect since nicotine is a stimulant (which can suppress appetite) and reduces your sense of taste (making food less appealing), but that's probably a stretch.
Depressed, committing suicide or just doing nothing. But apparently nobody cares.
It is a bit fascinating that using coffee or other stimulants seems to be a 'hack'. I guess there's the "diet pills" market, but I am uninformed about how effective these things are, having never had to try to lose weight. It does seem like such a drug that actually worked would be transformative though.
It's simple. Python was created before HTTP even existed. Since then a lot of things had changed, and once you create an API, it is hard to rewrite it when new use patterns emerge.

It's easier for a 3rd party package to come up with a better api, because they can start brand new. Also when there's a radical change it is easier for a new 3rd package to take over. Httpx is example of such evolution, although not due to changes in http but this time changes in Python, it makes use of new functionality that's harder to implement in requests, mainly adding async support and type annotations.
Florida (counties?) also caps that rate of yearly increase on property taxes, especially for homesteads.
It's pretty wild that he was there since 2002, he's practically a founder.
> 1. Repetition: If information is required in multiple places (dev and prod environments, etc.), all YAML has to offer is copying and pasting those lines.

Actually, YAML has anchors and aliases, which helps a lot when the same thing needs to be reused in several places.
If you accept the premise of #1 and #2, #3 may simply be analogous to how money laundering was possible before bitcoin, but now it's easier/cheaper and harder to trace.

So the argument could be said they disrupted that black market but are a publicly listed company.
Of course conformity is the reason for the suits, but I'd like to point out that if you're wearing suits 5 days a week it would be foolish to not buy a comfortable one. Good materials and a good fit can make for a very comfortable suit.

More comfortable, I dare say, than the casual attire I must wear when working for west coast tech companies, lest I not conform to west coast tech company expectations. T-shirts and hoodies lose their charm when they start to feel like a requirement. Nice silk suit trousers feel nicer than blue-jeans, if they fit well they feel as nice as pajamas, but the looks you get in a west coast tech offices when you wear such clothing are withering.
Really? I moved to the Bay area from LA and all I see are out of shape, badly dressed tech workers. Blame it on all the free food and high-stress lifestyle.
"Favourite"
The depends - in some cases, there are very entrenched rents that mean money that should go to the people actually go to the wealthy. Like US healthcare, or US education or actual rents. And of course, some times the money goes to the wealthy immediately - like when it's spent on missiles that murder people on other continents.

But some parts of the world can somehow make things like healthcare and education rent-free - spent money actually help people and not just add to endless dragon hoards. It's a long uphill battle of course, but it's possible.

EDIT: this is why I think UBI is unfeasible without bigger societal changes - it would end up just subsidising the landlords.
The current bushfire season started 5 September. Very early.

January and February are the hottest. December and March have similar temperatures. The seasonal weather and sea temperatures have delay relative to sun.
I am not sure why a lot of the comments here are very negative. At least for me this was a well-written post that was very introspective and made me think about my own choices and if I was a lotus-eater or a pursuer of Ithaca!
Indeed, that’s probably the bulk of the problem.

Although we also have police depts padding tickets because some of the revenue comes back to them. You put a measure on anything and people will game it.
Similar to a home purchase...and I imagine that even with an immaculate company or home you can always find something to satisfy that clause and give you an out.
This is a social disaster, not an achievement.

Now that the pendulum has swung the other way, will there be an effort to prioritize men in universities and the workplace? (That's a rhetorical question. Of course women won't advocate that college be 50% men.)
Some of us have families that can’t get visas to the States trivially. Lighten up, Francis.
No one expected otherwise. The things it's measuring are fairly easy to measure from the wrist (if you're able to account for noise).
Same thing happen to me. Only it was 2 mil instead of 5 and I did not really have to do any due diligence as I was selling my product, not my company. So other then spending some time and paying couple of grand to have lawyer go over the agreements I did not suffer much.

But boy, was I disappointed ;(
C.C. Myers also rebuilt I-10 after the 1994 Northridge quake. 74 days early!

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-06-mn-42778-...