skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corroborating the sister comment here—you are unlikely to be charged unless you do something grossly negligent—something like ignoring explicit warnings not to climb Mt. Whitney in adverse conditions and going unpermitted.

I can’t speak for what the policies are worldwide, but at least in the US (in particular California), you are very unlikely to be charged for the rescue services (medical costs are a different story). Usually the county is responsible for the SAR operation, which is typically carried out by volunteers. If you’re in a National Park, then it’s NPS. Again, they could fine you, but my understanding is that this is rare. Volunteers will even come looking for you for years after you’ve disappeared (https://www.climbing.com/people/vanished-the-mysterious-disa...).

Anecdote: I knew a (European) PCT hiker who was airlifted out of the Sierra. They were diabetic and had suffered a cut that for a healthy person would have been non-threatening. They were not charged anything. It would have been a shame if they hesitated due to fear of getting slapped with a bill.

Old but useful threads (and great forums in general—the HNs of backcountry travel):

https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/14464/

http://www.highsierratopix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=893...

> The vast majority of searches I have been on have no medical component whatsoever - in fact, none of the searches in the past several years, whether I have been on them or not, have involved medical intervention. A few have involved finding remains, which allow families closure and to make claims on life insurance - a community service that makes creeping through manzanita picking up bone shards worthwhile. If my family was depending on the income from life insurance and I vanished - I'd hope search teams found what was left of me. Some searches are related to law enforcement activities and locate evidence. Some searches are urban, and locate Alzheimer's sufferers or small children lost in town. None of them costs anyone a dime, and we don't appreciate the perpetuation of the myth that anyone is charged because we don't want to see anyone delay getting help when it's clear someone is missing.”

> ”Which is why our search team has never and will never charge anything. We are a self supporting nonprofit organization. We buy our own gear, pay for our own training, and raise the funds to replace team gear. I just wrote a grant proposal to get us new gps units and will shortly submit another. Madera, Merced, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo and other counties are all independent agencies, nonprofits, and do not charge a cent.”
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Optimizing Compilers for Parallel Computers, lecture by Frances E. Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv-wXcUxrmE

Frances Allen, 2006, ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture, "Compiling for Performance: A Personal Tour"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoU-MjCws4
We're excited to hire Mike in part because AWS has been one of the very best examples ever of simultaneously selling to the largest companies in the world while not giving up on a strong self-serve product. So many B2B companies end up with homepages for which the only CTAs are annoying variants of "read case study", "download whitepaper", and "request a call". All stock photography; no product imagery.

Stripe's growth thus far has been fueled by individual developers and founders signing up and growing with us to billions of revenue. As we scale, the "impatient developer" will remain the focus of our product development.

Over time, however, we've been increasingly finding that large organizations (like Zoom/Atlassian/Maersk) want to adopt Stripe -- Stripe now has a lot of functionality that they can't get elsewhere. So, we're very eager to continue to grow this side of our business with Mike.
This is very valuable for languages to get right. Tcl had it for a long time and I envy them: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/VFS
Wechat is in no way a competitor to Messenger or WhatsApp.
I think it’s so that all the configs float to the top and get out of the way. Agree that it’s annoying though.
Why Bertrand Russell’s argument for idleness is more relevant than ever
Nah, it's far too common for tools to automatically update config files. A unified file would be asking for corruption, lost comments, trivial formatting and ordering changes, and more.
If that's your goal, you can make it happen!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Blocked by the courts, and now moot as the census has happened.

He also needed two bites at the apple to get 13769 legal; the first two are overturned executive orders.
Account creation is so damn outdated. With device fingerprinting you don't need an account to know who is who, and with algorithms pinpointing interests you don't have to ask anything about age / sex / etc. You can figure it all out in a few sessions.
The more that people use self checkout, the fewer employees the store can get away with. Opting out slows the process of automating jobs away.

As for my car... most often I'm either by transit or walking. Anyway, I could be wrong but I don't think stores offer help out where I live. I've never heard it in the decade that I've lived here.
Their A/B testing results are most likely due to chance.

Using the technique from https://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html

N = 14626, sqrt(N) = 121

T = 45

C = 34

T - C = 11, far below the 121 required to declare the change a success with 95% probability.

T + C = 79, also below the 121 required to declare no winner.
Even on ten year old hardware single digit ms latency in Java server apps wasn't very special. Java (JVM) is an extremely performant platform so I always find odd how a meme has somehow built up on it being otherwise.

True that one can end up writing terribly inefficient Java code, but one can write terrible code in any language. If I need to write server code where performance is particularly important and I don't want to deal with the cost (in debug time and dev expertise) of C or C++, Java would be my first choice.

Also I'm of the school of thought that performance always matters. Autoscaling in cloud providers sure makes it easy to scale horizontally to make up for slow server code, but once you reach certain size, go have a chat with the finance team about the AWS bill.
i much prefer them to be hidden by default. i know they are there, but rarely do i need them. especially in something like `for i in $(ls -1)` type of commands. if i need them `alias 'lla = ls -la'`, 'alias 'la = ls -a'` are faves to now see what i'm looking for quickly
Unfortunately I can't find a direct reference on any Valve official channels, but I'd say that typing on a Steam Controller is quite good; I'd even go so far to say that it's going to be hard to beat it for keyboard input on a controller.

Anecdotally, most people hated the Steam Controller's touchpads, and I'll admit I wasn't a fan at first either. But the ability to remap them to be: sticks, trackballs, d-pads, bring up (multi-level) radial menus, etc. is an absolutely killer feature.

I think one of the reasons they "failed" is because they absolutely were not plug-and-play, because to truly utilize their full capabilities, you had to configure them per game.
I'm using .config when I find it but for the last 15+ years on new projects, regardless of language I'd been making an `etc` directory and putting config in there.
How new tech raises the risk of nuclear war
It also can't separate dev vs test vs prod dependencies, for example. Maintaining separate files for those is not exactly a convenient solution
sure. make sense. if someones works twice as much and the output is twice as much he shouldn't get more than the other guy. You are right. Obviously once you all unemployed because you're competing against people who go beyond you'll blame the politicians
Seems like for a hazardous commodity like ammonium nitrite after some reasonable period of time the port authorities should be able sell it and put the money in escrow.
>> money supply has increased sharply
> velocity of M2 has decreased sharply

I don't think M2 takes into account money going into derivatives, does it??

I'd propose that most of the stimulus is going directly into propping up the US financial market.

My take is that bubble might burst when markets realize that the situation is still getting worse i.e. earnings and GDP continue to decline winter 2020/spring 2021.
There's another company that has a bit of an earlier start doing this: ProdPerfect (www.prodperfect.com)

"Reach new heights with weightless test automation. ProdPerfect is the first autonomous end-to-end (E2E) regression testing solution that continuously identifies, creates, maintains, and evolves E2E test suites via data-driven, machine-led analysis of live user traffic."
For web services, one sad way to handle it is to proxy through Cloudflare. IPv4, IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS at the cost of selling your users out to a budding monopoly.
I wonder if they use IG because there isn't any alternative.

Let's say that someday there is a new "teenstagram" launched, and they paid some teenager influencers to drop content there and some cool kids to use and promote it.

In my experience as teens, "it's uncool to use a same platform as the one your grandma use".
Not "a" requirements.txt file, sadly. I've seen packages with different requirements for building, installing, and testing. All with their own damned txt file. Oh! And don't forget the duplication in setup.py -- you'll want to put your requirements there, too.
I'm not sure I'd use the word "threat model". I don't think Panopticlick is making the world more dangerous. What I'm getting at is that just because Panopticlick says it can't fingerprint you, that doesn't necessarily you can't be fingerprinted anywhere, because the audience using Panopticlick is different than the audience visiting many other sites.

So something like disabling Javascript might mean that that you blend in on Panopticlick because a lot of users disable Javascript. But on a small news site or ring of nontechnical blogs, it might help narrow you down because very few people disable Javascript.

The other thing I want to get at is that privacy isn't just about fingerprinting, it's also about the effects of being tracked, and what specific information that you're leaking. So what you bring up -- that not having Javascript makes a user less useful to an ad network -- is true. Not having Javascript makes it harder to show you flashy ads or to guarantee that you're looking at them. It makes it harder (but not impossible) to set up persistent tracking that works over longer periods of time and across multiple devices. It also makes it harder to detect and circumvent adblockers.

Disabling Javascript doesn't address threat models like using your location to change the content that you get served, or sticking information into cookies, or doing some screwy things with image caches.

But that's... sorry, it's just a kind of complicated question. I'm not sure I can give a short, concise answer about how good you should feel about a low Panopticlick score, I think that's dependent on what sites you visit and what kinds of tracking you're trying to prevent, and what other measures you're taking. It's just a very broad topic.

> why not just disable (HTTP) redirects?

Unfortunately that would break a lot of sites, so it's not feasible as a default setting in the base browser. That being said, I believe that what you're looking for is `network.http.prompt-temp-redirect` inside `about:config` if you want to disable it for yourself.

I'm not sure I'd advise it, and I suspect that it's a kind of superfluous setting if you're already invested heavily into other privacy settings, but maybe there's some benefit. I haven't played with that setting to know for certain whether or not there would be non-obvious downsides or caveats.
The iOS demo is amazing and I’m shocked no one is saying so! Thanks for making it.

Is the code up anywhere?
I would assume all these tools to support a —-config or —-file parameter to specify where my config is. Couldn’t that be specified in package.json directly? That way you can move your config wherever you want.
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Might simply be due to IG's popularity vs Blue app... If there's ever an exodus from IG I don't know what they'll do (probably try to buy the other company).
His arcology sketchs was fittingly published in a huge 19x12 book. My university archive had an even more version, maybe 30 inches+ in the oversize department. I got to reference it for research, good times.
Thanks for clarifying,that sucks! Society should really get rid of this had practice where individuals are always seen through a "race" lens.
ah, perfect. yeah this is what I had in my head: taking the word list and making a big trie and walking it as I read the input. I figured there was some prior art here but was struggling to google it. thanks!
I'm using a similar extension which allow to see comments and threads.
https://github.com/doublemarket/hnpopup
I'm guessing because it'd be expensive and have a low power output. That'd make it uncompetitive for a power plant, but fine for a deep space mission; you'd need very little fuel, so as long as the device itself isn't too massive, it'd be great.
Hiring Mike Clayville to Stripe is a huge deal, and a loss for AWS. This is one of those deals where both Stripe and Mike come out better for it.
Arcosanti architect Paolo Soleri also started a gallery for bronze and ceramic arts near Phoenix that is still open:

https://cosanti.com/
+1000. I work for Google, but I'm not American. I cannot understand why pharmaceutical companies are allowed to advertise medications.

1. patient sees ad for drug promising them a normal life full of beer and children, and ample slightly serious sport/exercise.
2. patient calls doctor and excitedly informs doctor about awesome new life changing drug.
3. doctor tells patient why drug is not appropriate.
4. patient gets revenge for crushed dreams by leaving horrible reviews for doctor everywhere they can.
5. oh right it's a business, society tells the doctor, not health care.
6. doctor accepts stupid reality, and prescribes medication.
Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA are both open source and Eclipse has been around for 18 years. This is not a legitimate concern.
Thanks. Same as the poster. But some “horrible” memory did meet me as I did math stat. Within 1/2 hour the lecturer tried to do a proof of central limit theory using an assumption that one can draw sphere to fill up a 3D space. Reading this does frighten me to a great extent at the same time appreciate what humanity have reached for doing such apparent “useless” things. Public goods are hard as it might look useless but unlike private goods it can be consumed and reuse many times. And some may find use of matrix in AI, number theory and geometry in encryption ... all because it is a public good that can be shared.

The trick whoonearth waste their life to create the first and develop later such “useless” things.
Interesting. When I read "5d chess" I thought it would be a game where each
dimension is represented by a different chessboard giving you a different view
of the game. So for example, in the first dimension, the white king is in 1a
and a black rook is in 2b, whereas in the second dimension the white king is
still in 1a but the rook is in 1b, thus threatening the king. So everytime you
make a move in one board, the piece you moved moves on all boards, but in a
different, but relative, position. So the point of the game would be to make a
move in one board that crated an advantage on another board- if a piece is
captured in any board, it's captured on all boards and if a mate is threatened
in any board it's threatened on all boards (and yeah, that's totally cribbed
off the kernel trick in SVMs: map a lower-dimensional space onto a higher
dimensional space to find a separating hyperplane that doesn't exist in the
lower dimensional space). I guess that would get very hard to play very
quickly though, certainly for a full game on an 8 × 8 board, but it could
perhaps be played in end games like KRK or simplified chesses like hexapawn
etc.

Btw, for anyone who likes time travel paradoxes, do watch Dark. It's up there
with Primer, but does your head in more because of how many characters there
are.
I think Windows has them hidden by default as well (in explorer).
A Lebanese friend told me of a link. This explosion came 3 days before the UN tribunal's verdict on the murder of the former prime minister Hariri in 2005. "Everyone knows" the port is controlled by the Amal party, who is allied with Hezbollah. That party is led by Nabih Berri, who has been Speaker of Parliament since 1992, and who fought the formation of the tribunal in 2007. And anyway, just several hours ago, the UN has announced it is delaying its verdicts on the assassination trial until the 18th. We'll see how that goes.

Well, it could also just be an accident likely due to negligence/incompetence. The port probably wasn't run to the highest standards before the coronavirus, and the ongoing primary and secondary crises from that may have just been the final blow needed for something bad to happen.
Congrats, Patrick. The VMware + AWS experience is certainly a big plus for a company like Stripe.

I would dare to disagree on, or at least to challenge, the "simultaneously" that you mention, though - in my experience (ex AWS, ex VMware) these two are completely different sales motions, made possible simply by the product itself and how it's discovered and consumed... Despite (yes, despite) what enterprise sales wanted to do. In a way, it's as if AWS self-serve were one entity, and AWS enterprise sales were another one.

In many cases, sales teams were completely not aware of certain things happening, or certain accounts becoming huge overnight, or certain developer behaviors. Some salespeople were handsomely rewarded for having been randomly selected as the sales rep for accounts like, say, Dropbox or AirBnB.

It's hard to describe properly, I know, but it's not as harmonious as one might say at first glance. And I think that the sales team still hasn't a good idea of the other side of the coin.

In a way, AWS' merit is to not have let Enterprise Sales screw up the self-serve part, and I think that's mainly because AWS was, and still is, so much more metric-driven than any other business I'm aware of. Enterprise Sales happened gradually, without interrupting a very addictive self-serve machine.

Anyway, this could be a long conversation with lots of platitudes, so I'll stop here and try to think of better ways to explain what I have in mind.
I'm actually quite surprised GCC's isn't also a bare ret. It of course is if you replace the atomic_int with a regular int, I don't know why that wouldn't be hitting the same optimizations. Yes it's atomic, but it's still an unused local that doesn't escape the function.
>This is one of those deals where both Stripe and Mike come out better for it.

...is hiring not usually an event where employer and employee both benefit?
Excellent write up, I’ve been looking for an excuse to upgrade my WSL install.

Minor nitpick:

> Another limitation is that WSL 2 does not currently support snap packages, so make sure you use deb or AppImage versions of whatever app you need.

I’m gonna call that a feature
Yes, particularly ammonium nitrate (or another nitrate) without enough fuel to consume the excessive oxygen released when the nitrate decomposes. Nitrogen dioxide is that deep red-orange. It's the most common oxidizer in hypergolic rocket motors (though, they pressurize and cool it to get it to largely dimerize dinitrogen tetroxide). The other oxides of nitrogen produced by ammonium nitrate decomposition are basically colorless. Hot nitrogen dioxide would have pretty much instantly oxidized any fuel present, releasing more energy and dramatically toning down that deep red-orange color.

This is good evidence against an intentional detonation. Even if it were arson, it probably wasn't an intentional detonation. It's inconceivable that anyone with enough research to successfully cause an ammonium nitrate detonation wouldn't have run across the fact that any of a number of cheap organic fuels increase both the power and reliability of ammonium nitrate explosions. So, it's very unlikely this was an intentional explosion, unless they were trying to make it look like an accident. If they were trying to make it look like an accident, then the objective wasn't to generate fear in the populace / political change, and any conspiracy theorist then has the problem of having to figure out what the specific target was, since we can rule out the general populace. This should put most conspiracy theories to rest, at least without silly statements by the tweeter-in-chief.
Surely it would be an RFP that insists on SLA guarantees, generating profound confusion at Hellman’s and Kraft.
The number of companies (big ones, public ones!) where I can't for the life of me figure out what they sell from their website is truly astonishing. I understand that 1) if I can't understand it I'm not in their market, and 2) they probably want to be vague so they can sell their prospects whatever they ask for [1] but I still feel that they could gain a lot in the long term through brand awareness and people like becoming or meeting their target customer (but not having had any idea what that company did) by making a clear articulation of what the hell they do.

[1] Funny story, I was at a market in India and asked a guy selling toys and things if he had any fireworks. He asked me a lot of questions about what I wanted, but I couldn't see any evidence of him having such a wide variety of stuff. Then he sprinted off and asked his neighbor vendor to watch his stall. He came back 5 minutes later with a ton of fireworks to my liking, I bought what I wanted and then he went back to the fireworks guy with his leftovers. I assume that in a split second he negotiated a deal with that guy where he borrowed the fireworks, sold me what he could, and took the rest back. I don't know what he marked me up but I hope it was a lot.
It's amazing how dense old cities are, despite having buildings usually less than 5 stories. Far less resource-intensive and human-scale than 50-story buildings. The density is essentially free, they just don't have room for everyone to have their own car. That's a good thing though. Personal cars, even electric ones, are unsustainable, and walking or cycling is healthy and fun.
Is there any benefit to having the content stick to the left side of the screen and not sit in the middle?
How come /usr/etc/ didn't become popular?
I think you have to account for the fact that this is a creative writer and they exaggerated from the headline onwards (everything went wrong, etc). There's every chance he threw one piece of wood. His description and photos show that what he could describe as "woods" are right beside the house.
Facebook came out with the Oculus Quest last year which is hugely innovative.
Yes, the world certainly hasn't yet nailed this playbook. AWS has, I would contend, objectively done an incredible job in this synthesis. (How many other businesses have grown to $40B+ of revenue with self-serve product adoption front-and-center?) But I'm sure Mike (and anyone else at AWS) would be among the first to agree that they also have things to learn and improve.
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> Anyways, if Hebzollah wanted the ammonium nitrate for their own use, surely they would have found a way some time in the past five years to remove it

They did find a way -

"Lebanon's LBCI-TV reported on August 5 that, according to preliminary information, the fire that set off the explosion was started accidentally by welders who were closing off a gap that allowed unauthorized entry into the warehouse."