skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Difficult to say. The Iraq War and the occupation disaster afterwards were both inept catastrophes in so many ways for both the Iraqis and for the U.S population that had to piss away those trillions of dollars. But on the other hand, even the somewhat unstable modern Iraq is better off than it was under the rule of an extraordinarily violent, extremely brutal regime like Saddam's. He wasn't just some soft-touch authoritarian in the style of Turkey's president, for example. Hussein was more like a miniature Stalin (one of his personal heroes) in his sheer ruthlessness towards his own people. Just a couple examples: what his government did to the marsh Arabs of the Euphrates and the Halabja chemical attack along with other atrocities against the kurds in the north of the country.

None of this is in any way a defense of the monstrous collateral damage of the U.S occupation or of the U.S government's reasons for that war, but now that it's happened, the country is better off than it was under Saddam himself.
Because calling it a "naturally caused" wildfire is technically true, but only really if you don't believe global climate change causes extreme weather events.

Two sentences past what OP quoted:

> This past weekend’s extraordinary weather event, with thousands of lightning strikes, wreaked havoc and destruction on California’s forests and communities and choked our air.

Lightning storms on the magnitude seen in the Bay Area this past weekend are unheard of--which caused the many fires you may be hearing about.
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Alphabet's AI machines watch YouTube videos to learn how humans behave
A buddy at work used to work for MWC, and always talks about what might have been. This, among other stories...
Did Skyline to the Sea with my daughter a few years back. Split across two days, it was our first overnight hike where we carried tent, bags, cookware....

I suspect it will be back by the time she has kids of her own.
Great, another fad library to use. That's definitely what we need.
Globally they can’t, there is a tiny program in some parts of California designed presumably for local regulars, where some drivers can influence rates. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uber-lets-some-cal...

Of note the way it’s implemented is actively designed not to be used. Effectively Uber lets those drivers multiply their existing calculation by some number but not for example simply set a minimum charge or actually negotiate individual trips. Further, regularly declining trips is not accepted.
Epic to host a FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes
If you want to carry enough fuel for significant orbital changes plus some sort of docking manipulator then you need a macro satellite, not micro.
The Romans were well aware that Carthage, Greece, and Persia were great civilizations.
> World's Most Wanted Man Jan Marsalek Located in Belarus

Belarus. That's certainly an interesting place to be right now, and a place that has more important things to deal with than a high-profile white-collar criminal.
E.g. https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happine...

Zhang Yiming, the founder and CEO of Tik Tok's parent company, Bytedance, has pledged to use his company to promote "Socialist values" and support the Chinese communist party's "Ideology, political thinking, and deeds."
While that's a tempting view, in the case of Adobe piracy exists to drive adoption.

Most of the time, piracy is used because it's just more convenient then properly paying [0]. Those who still pirate, despite there existing a more convenient option to pay usually can't afford it, and will pay when they can.

In the meantime, the name of your program becomes a verb and an industry standard, and everyone has to deal with it.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/11/25/gabe-says-piracy-isn...
I recently signed up for adobe CC to test out premiere for some video editing work (side note, Final Cut is better) and instead of inputting a real card I used a privacy.com one. When I decided I didn't want it, I just disabled the privacy card. I only have to deal with a few annoying emails from adobe. I didn't even bother trying to cancel. Reading your comment makes me realize how smart that was.
That is not true. It is a talking point that is repeated but has no bearing on reality.
Planning out a type system to match business requirements sounds like architecture level work to me (especially if you use a diagram to plan out those type relationships/hierarchy).

Of course my perspective might be skewed, I have only really worked in small teams.
https://imgur.com/exSaGup

I took this photo not long ago (in Oregon, not California). The burn scars in the background were burned in 2002 and 2003 (https://imgur.com/wBQhXn3). The tree canopies that were there, that now remain only as burnt, denuded toothpicks in the landscape, have been replaced by chapparal, which will burn again just as hotly. In the intervening almost 20 years, there's nothing growing more than a few feet above the ground and there's still a lot of barren earth.

Many species do benefit from wildfires of a particular intensity. The megafires that we are seeing today are so hot, so big, and so intense, that no species are benefiting from them. These fires are simply destructive. There is no magical renewal afterward. For these burn areas -- and there are more and more appearing around the western states now -- life creeps back in, slowly, from the edges, and when you're talking about 50,000 acres of destruction, that takes a very long time.

I don't want to be frustrated at you specifically, but comments like this one keep getting repeated by people that heard it somewhere once. Our forest management practices must change immediately, and the common belief that all wildfire is totally natural and totally good for the ecology is preventing the critical mass of public support required to make that change happen.
With an utterly terrible reputation Don didn't have real trouble, Don got finance. Every single time. After how many bankruptcies? How many re-structurings where his creditors lost?

You and me would have a lot of trouble getting that kind of financing without a hideous reputation. Don has one and got it. Now he's even the president. Bad reputations count for not all that much at all. And I hate that, fwiw.

Buffet's reputation, now that's a whole nother discussion. Yes it deserves to be better than Don's. Coke, McDonalds and buying off-market at huge discounts to support management against shareholders. Obesity, diabetes and legal resdistribution of people's retirment savings to berkshire hathaway. Yes, a reputation too good to be true nonetheless. I agree.
> Leave your phone in your dorm and sneak off campus, it's as easy as that.

To do... what? Without a phone, many will have no means of transportation. They won't be able to sync up with friends or use GPS.

It's absolutely unimaginable that a large number of college students will leave campus without a phone. They're much more likely to have a separate phone to put the app on.
It's not mandatory tool so not a "tax".
This is all typically agreed upon well in advance of signing any kind of contract via SLAs and whatnot. So none of this should be a surprise after you've come on-board.
That's really wacky. do you also have the sidecar file? May be a bug.
They don't need to police anyone. It would be you deciding who/what you choose to mute. They give you the ability to mute channels, but not to mute bots. It should be something they could add.

My company's approach is just that bot posts go in their own dedicated channels that anyone can mute or watch as they see fit. That works ok for us. But it doesn't give someone that option in a company that allows bot posts in any channel.
Similar to safety with fission energy, this is not something where you want to apply financial incentives, because you don't want companies to take that risk ever. People may say: "If it goes wrong, I guess my company goes bankrupt. But it's unlikely enough that'd I'd take that risk." - like they're gambling at a stock exchange or something.

If anything ever goes wrong and something like the Kessler syndrome occurs, humanity will be so monumentally screwed you'll have trouble putting a dollar amount on the amount of damage done. No amount of insurance is going to make it right. It will be a large setback for humanity as a whole.

What you want to do is: Have companies follow the precautions you dictate and ensure compliance before they're allowed to launch.
Blocking people within your own company is just adding dysfunction to the company. If it gets to that point where someone is justifiably blocked by someone else (harassment, etc) HR should get involved and someone should be fired.
I love Big Basin. It is one of my favorite places in the world. The meteor trail is the prettiest trail I've found of the hundreds or thousands I've hiked in the Bay outside of the South Bay / Peninsula. The Berry Falls loops is magnificent - I love the sudden, dramatic change of ecosystem even more than the awesome falls.

People have been reaching out to me about the fires.

I understand why we mourn, but why do we think this is a bad thing?

Fires are part of the forest.

Humans have done harm here, both from preventing past fires (which make the smaller number of fires worse) and potentially from climate change (I don't know enough to know how strong the connection of global climate change to this sort of event is), but the basics of it seem clear: forests catch fire sometimes. Such natural phenomena are what gave us the forests we have today.
We've already had a startup take the Uber/Lyft/Airbnb approach of ignoring regulations and just launching anyways after the FCC denied their application. The punishment a slap on the wrist (6 figure fine, drop in the bucket and probably actually cheaper than doing things the right way)
I still feel like XUL was a bit ahead of its time

But you said that you understand that from a technical perspective they had to replace it. That sounds more like a dead end than ahead of its time, unless there's something more?

IMHO, it was the wrong solution for a number of problems. Most of them don't exist anymore.
Not trying to armchair quarterback here, just speculating for entertainment

> Around this time, Mozilla started paying serious attention to Chrome. Chrome had started with very different design guidelines than Firefox:

> * at the time, Chrome didn’t care about eating too much memory or system resources;

> * Chrome used many processes, which gave this browser heightened security and responsiveness by design;

> * Chrome had started without an add-on API, which meant that Chrome developers could get away with refactoring anything they wanted, without this development tax;
as Chrome introduced their extension mechanism, they did it with a proper API, which could usually be maintained regardless of changes to the back-end;

Was it possible to do this inside Mozilla? Release a new browser with different branding that does not have these handicaps. Then, let the marketplace decide which browser to pick. If it won out, announce publicly that ongoing investment would be on the new browser.
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> "you made that choice when you got an iPhone" or "at least that prevents scamming apps and low-quality apps"

There's a weird dichotomy that comes up in those kinds of arguments, where we simultaneously assume that people are so smart they'll know exactly what phone ecosystem they're opting into and what the consequences are, but also so stupid that they can't be taught to make informed decisions about which app stores to use.

Not to mention that a giant chunk of Apple's user retention policy is to make it as difficult and annoying to get out of their ecosystem as possible, which (imo) makes the "users would just switch if they were unhappy" argument really disingenuous. Apple is now tying credit cards to their phones. You're really going to get rid of your credit card because you're unhappy with the app selection on your phone?

That kind of user lock-in can't be separated from their efforts to force developers to use Apple payments for recurring subscriptions -- it's not just about the 30% revenue. It's also a nice way to make sure that switching from iOS to Android means literally all of your digital subscriptions break, and that it's impossible for you to cancel them or migrate them without going through Apple.
How (Not) to Code a Finite State Machine (1988) [pdf]
Investors don't mind bugs as long as the money keeps rolling. Customer experience is a far second.
> community members are still mad their extensions don’t work

I suspect a lot of these people aren't very familiar with the details of the technology involved, or the tradeoffs involved. The were simply (understandably) upset when suddenly their favourite extensions stopped working. And in the early days WebExtensions, there weren't any good replacements for a lot of popular plugins. Even now, there's no way to do some of the things plugins did before.
What do you mean? They're already operating dozens of birds, and even more if you count their manpower that's on loan to places like the NRO
So you mean fire up an instance at AWS/Azure/GCP/etc that acts as an android-dev vm?

So dev environment is on the cloud? and all the data (working dir, data files, pdfs, whatever is involved during the dev phase) is also on the cloud storage?

That would be expensive, especially if you're a indie dev, and a tremendous waste of local compute/storage capabilities.

Again, I'm really not sure what near-future looks like in this space.
If they ground themselves they also ground any enemies. Job accomplished I would say, no more threats from space.
In this case, I disagree.

This is a private school, and its students are customers. Their school is forcing an app on them that violates their privacy far more than is necessary for contact tracing, and it was developed by a non-software firm with no understanding of security.

The solution here is to petition and protest the school, not just work around the app.
I can definitely tell that typical restaurant food is significantly higher quality than typical US restaurant food when I visited Spain and Italy. Doesn't really say much if someone can't because they might not have the tastebuds for it.
I wonder how to get a beta invite?
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It is absolutely true that the board has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, and many states have statutes specifically protecting minority shareholder rights. Delaware is fairly unfavorable to minority shareholders though.
> isn’t it at least more likely than not that there is relatively normal distribution?

No, because that would make our particular spatial location in the universe special, and that is an additional hypothesis that would require some kind of evidence in its favor, and we have none. The simplest hypothesis is that the universe is pretty much the same everywhere, and that means the average stellar density "now" should be pretty much the same everywhere.
Exactly I've worked at places like this and the cadence is usually set by the people in leadership. If the boss up top is a drunk and boning every 20 year old ( been at one such place ), it sets the tone for everyone else. Also does not help if everyone in the team is young and DTF.
We know exactly what Mozilla said and yet my actual experience before the change Firefox was performant enough whilst having exactly the UI I wanted and never crashed whilst after the change Firefox uses all the memory on my system has crashed several times (also the memory hogging causes swap issues which are as bad as a system crash) AND the UI is worse.

I used to use FF because it was better than Chromium. Now I used it because Mozilla is not Google.
Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering Mysterious Cave at S. China Sea Base
I see a lot of hype around GPT models I have yet to see a use case besides convincing nonsense generator, kind of like those deep net toys generating strange art, but now via language. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” version 3. NLP research has been stuck in syntax for 70 years, but how about semantics?

I mean yeah you gather bazillions of sentences and able to predict the most plausible and grammatical sequence of words that would follow particular prompt by doing a whole lot of trial and error training on massive gpu farms. But it’s just iteration on the least ambitious NLP work in
the 70s and 80s. I’d argue that distributional semantics as in these popular vector space models is still solving the syntax problem. The word ‘semantics’ there is a misnomer.

Are there any attempts to add actual real world meaning, causality and some ‘common sense’ representation to these models, concept graph or something, try to make them less ‘dumb’ for the lack of better word, like in you know, actual ‘AI’, that has a concept of apples and oranges and a concept of people who eat them or throw in a trash bin when fruits start to rot or draw them on paper in kindergarten or use ‘apples vs. oranges’ as a rhetorical device for telling things apart etc., etc.

It seems like the field is stuck optimizing for some artificial toy
benchmarks instead, making more convincing but ultimately stupid chat bots. And I mean ‘stupid’ not in derogatory sense but as a formal definition of their capabilities, as opposed to understanding things like a child would.
These trees have made it through fires before and many of them will make it through again. The forest is a living thing, and this destruction is part of it.

I haven't been to Big Basin since the winter because of COVID -- it was closed for a while, then limited parking, and I just stayed closer to home. I hope I didn't miss a last chance at seeing some of my favorite nooks intact.
Lower spec model is comparable price but higher spec model or CTO option is still expensive. (iMac 27 is exceptional for the display)
$50B is cheap? (that's the number I saw being floated)
Have you checked Chromium Embedded Framework?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework

There are bindings for several languages, no need to write C++.
Isn't it pretty common for early employees to be screwed down the line during IPOs and acquisitions? That's been my experience and that of many colleagues, and has been a topic here on HN over the years, driving the idea that working for a startup is usually not in your interests except for particular cases.
I'm curious about the interplay of (a) this app/policy vs. (b) other measures the college will take. E.g., mandatory social distancing, masks, dorm occupancy, etc.

I could see how implementing (a+b) might yield lower infection rates than just (a) or just (b).

But if having (a) in effect lulls the college into relaxing (b), and some students subvert (a), then I could see how it's a recipe for an outbreak.
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Yup, here is the sidecar file: https://x0.at/uSx.xmp

I think it might be a bug too. Which is too bad, because Darktable is soooo close to the perfect photo editor (except for CA correction and sharpening, but that's neither here nor there)
It's still Ruby :).
This one hurts. I've put in a lot of hours up there camping and hiking. I was just talking with someone about how you used to be able to go up there on a whim and snag a last minute campsite. Even if it was next to some jackass running his TV and microwave it was still fun.

Any area you go into up there shows the fire damage those trees have survived over the years.

I'll miss the old-timey HQ cabin and cafe but I'm counting on a good recovery here.
But the market has spoken

It has? When was the market given a choice?

I, for one, would be absolutely fine with having fewer shiny new features but also not having software I rely on break all the time. The current culture of just shoving everything out, whatever condition it's in and regardless of the consequences of any potential failure, and saying you'll patch any problems later is toxic and quietly causing enormous damage to our society.

The culture of saying you can sell some hardware product with embedded software, or some software product that is hosted online or based on a subscription model, and then effectively force users who have already committed to that product to accept arbitrary changes whether they want them or not, is also toxic.

We don't know how to reliably write 100% bug-free software, but we do know how to write better software than much of what is produced today. Getting a significant increase in quality isn't even that expensive, since the long-term savings from reduced maintenance and increased productivity help to offset or even outweigh any additional costs during initial development. However, it does require hiring people with actual skill and knowledge to write the software instead of just assembling a cheap team of code monkeys. It also requires your leadership team to actually care about quality and plan to achieve it and provide resources accordingly.

IMNSHO, our industry would benefit from having more developers and leaders with these skills and mindsets, but until there is some form of pressure (and again, I couldn't disagree more that the status quo is a result of genuine customer preference) the economic drivers aren't pushing towards training up new software developers to be better and having leaders plan for good quality products in many cases. After all, why waste time and money doing something right if you can do it wrong but cheaper and still charge almost the same for it anyway? I think we're well overdue for genuine competition in the market and/or regulatory intervention to drive standards up.
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"Ultimately, many CEOs and analysts I spoke with said it’s up to company leaders to create a healthy culture and make sure it’s lived out."

That's the key takeaway from that article. It has nothing to do with Slack or any other specific form of communication. The headline is just clickbait. Even the CEOs complaining about it admit that the problem isn't the media, it's the culture that they create and control that's the problem.
Sorry, i should have clarified — i feel like XUL, at a very early stage in the web's development, helped inform what advanced / platform independent interfaces might eventually look like (Facebook JSX -> React -> React Native, svgs, dom parsing, etc).

In recent years, particularly through the proliferation of things like JSX, javascript with XML-based extensions seems to be quickly becoming (for better or for worse) the dominant interface rendering paradigm.

I agree that XUL was, ultimately, probably the wrong solution due to a number of reasons, but its effects are definitely still somewhat visible in the ecosystem today.

What i'm still trying to figure out is how we recapture the freedom and aesthetic creativity that thrived during the early years of the web. We can argue that this was mostly a cultural/demographic shift in users, but I would also argue that, as McLuhan noted, shifting interfaces (particularly through a uniformity of aesthetics) can influence culture.
That's absolutely not the agreement. If the service breaks you will be eligible for SLA credits if the service downtime exceeded the SLA target.

The GKE SLO is something like no more than 3.5 hours of downtime per month.

"I expect to hold them to account".

No - if you are not paying for support you will just be able to claim the credits. You do this by filling out a form within 30 days. That's it.
Adobe subscriptions are sold as annual plans only. You have the option of whether to prepay the full year, or to pay it off in monthly instalments.

https://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud/plans.html

(I'd definitely recommend going with Affinity Photo instead if it suits your needs.)
Luckily most organic compounds you find in indoor air aren't very stable.