skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was elated to read this, and then disappointed at the comments here. It seems to be feeding an argument of “see, fires are natural and these trees are old - Climate Change is a fear-mongering hoax!”

Firestorms are not the meandering fires that have long been a natural part of ecosystems. Ladder fires — where fire leaves the forest floor, up to the crowns, creating a wall of fire that can change weather patterns — are incredibly powerful events. Despite how much fire these trees have survived over their long lives, they dodged a bullet here.

As an environmentalist, seeing that these trees won this battle is stirring. But it’s cavalier to assume they’ll win the next fight, or the one after that.

Fires are becoming more intense, more frequent, more damaging. Part of this is because the yearly burns the Native American Indians did to maintain the habitat have gone the way of history. Part of it is due to natural drought cycles. Part of it is our increasing development of the urban-wilderness interface. And part of it is climate change. The world is getting hotter, and drier. We are in the midst of a mass extinction event. These trees survived today, but will we do anything to help them survive this century?
This fact has always nagged me in context of the breathless stories about the "war game in Persian Gulf" and IRGCs swarm of speedboats. The story of the famous war game is repeatedly mentioned (even here on HN) but rarely the facts intrude to deflate the (imo) implied message: "this is why we haven't done anything about IRI in the past 40 years." This also lets IRI push ridiculous propaganda on Iranians showing them boats circling a mock aircraft carrier. Are IQs really dropping globally?

Sometimes I swear there is a pas de deux going on between these apparent enemies.
I'm mostly going to split hairs here. I mostly agree with you. But I'd say the real destabilizing problem in the USA has been the partisan attitudes in politics. You could almost claim that America is 2 countries, Democratia and Republica. That's how ridiculous our politics have become and why some of our problems, especially the ones you mentioned, have gotten so bad. I think they would always be "problems", but no where near as bad if all of our Congress would remember, "Oh wait, we are all Americas. We should be working together, not against each other."

Edit: Why the hell are you getting downvoted so much?
> I don't want to read a novel

I don't think you're the audience this article is intended for. The article is written intentionally to be like a novella -- it's for a magazine. News/journalism sites are much more "just the facts ma'am"-focused.
Thanks for the suggestion. A Chrome Extension was my solution for this.

I have an MVP and real userbase which I spent time growing. Now I have a platform to experiment with the grander idea here.

That being said, I'm not willing to link to this yet because it's tied to my public persona and not yet my full time job.
strawman; you visit someone else’s server, and therefore they get data about your visit; with kindle, you’re using your own device and there’s no expectation that amazon will be snooping
I support any gang that wants to give developers and users more freedom of choice.

What do you support?
The Doctor Is the Bottleneck
Your point is meaningless in face of the law, and that is what all anti-Apple champions will get with this lawsuit.
At the bottom of the page, it says that it's coming for the web
"It's faster to write."

Totally disagree with this point. Orwell explains how the exact opposite is true in his "Politics and the English Language." Vague writing requires only vague thought. Clear writing requires clear thought (as well as editing), and clear thought takes effort. As a writer, you might have to spend more time actually typing unclear and convoluted garbage, but you can basically turn off your brain and just start vomiting words onto the page. To do that asks much less of you than writing clearly does. (Classic example is the Pascal quote: "I apologize for the length of my letter. I didn't have time to write a shorter one.")
I'd say that actually is my point though. If you're a high-ranking official giving a speech, speaking the same language as the general population will make you well-received and well-understood by using the language of your constituents.

Speaking a language people understand is decisively a good thing, and what people understand varies dramatically by situation. "Plain English" isn't always the answer. (Also hierarchy -- when you're on top, you get to set the tone.)

If you want to be part of a club, you need to sound like a member. Unless you own the club.
> Chernobyl is already a tiny disaster compared to the covid19 handling

(I would love to be able to burn 1500 million of dollars in a concrete sarcophagous, and still have the galls to call it a "tiny" disaster in front of the investors without laughing. That would made a memorable day, for sure...)
I also got confused because Clover is a payment processing company, similar to Square. And also apparently a dating app.
How (and how well) does the docker file generation work? What languages/framework do you support?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

“To identify the location of your resources relative to your accounts, you must use the AZ ID, which is a unique and consistent identifier for an Availability Zone. For example, use1-az1 is an AZ ID for the us-east-1 Region and it is the same location in every AWS account”

So each separate AWS account will have a different AZ name that maps to use1-az1, but use1-az1 is a region-wide constant.
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> apartment buildings permitted

> This is... great news

No. Apartment buildings are rented. Rent is bad.

What would be good would be single family homes being built and sold to people instead of anything being built to extract yet more rent from an already failing middle and lower class.

> albeit without any clear causal connection between one thing and another.

No clear causal connection? How about more capital available to businesses than basically ever before?
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There's the Kyshtym disaster:

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

The Soviets were also even less careful than the US about tests of high nuclear yield weapons.
I do normal two arms pull ups with additional weight. If I could do weighted one arm pull up, I wouldn't have a problem to do them without weight at home.

I admit I was a big fun of bw workouts for 3-4 years. Until I realized that it is much easier to add another plate than dig youtube for more difficult progressions and suffer.

Pretty much the same way I can do a dozen of handstand pushups, but I have no idea how to move to one arm handstand pushup. I am not even sure I saw a video of one on youtube.

Moving through advanced progressions of bw exercises is much much more challenging than increasing number of plates on barbell. That was my whole point. I can see why people do it as sport, but it is a handicap for everyone who just wants to lift more.
Losing his wife (and daughter?) seems like a pretty significant consequence.
In a string-tugging fight between AWS and ARM, you'd bet on ARM?
I support that anti-Apple folks should get Android, Jolla, Purism,...

Apparently voting with the wallet means buying status and then complaining about what one has bought.
> Privacy LARPers

This is an unnecessarily denigrating term at this point in the conversation. It's not LARPing to want to be able to read a book or take notes without being tracked.
> Katrina used to be a once-in-a-lifetime event, now hurricanes of similar size occur every few years

Factually that's simply not accurate at all. The post 2005 era of hurricanes was docile by historical standards until 2017-2018. From 2005 to 2017 zero category 3 (or worse) hurricanes made landfall in the US. Most of those that did, were weak category 1 hurricanes. There was no increase in frequency either.

Texas got hit by four category 3 hurricanes and one category 4 hurricane, in the span of just 22 years, from 1961 to 1983. Nothing like that stretch has been seen by Texas since. Texas also got hit by five category 4 hurricanes in just the span of six years from 1944 to 1950.

Florida went 11 years between hurricanes, from 2005 to 2016, something that is exceptionally rare. They were hit / impacted by four in 2004 and 2005 by comparison.

Katrina also wasn't a once-in-a-lifetime hurricane. It was a category 3, those have never been that rare. The disaster in New Orleans was overwhelmingly caused by people and their neglect of infrastructure.
Thinking systemically is important. The 2003 East Coast blackouts were caused by a "local" problem in Eastlake Ohio.

What are the second-order effects of Houston losing a substantial fraction of normal function? Alongside Covid? Now what if something else happens?

Emergency management seems like a far away thing, until it isn't.
>I did say "whenever they want" didn't I? Oh yes, look at that, I did.

Forgive me for not seeing why how often someone entertains company is relevant. That's more of a personal thing about how you run your life and really has nothing to do with wealth. Some people have friends over all the time. some don't. It doesn't really have to do with money. The idea of a photographer (or influencer for that matter) sharing pictures of your house would just be absurd to the overwhelming majority of these people. The only context I can see it being palatable is if you just had some work done and one of the relevant parties wants to take pictures for their marketing material.

I know it doesn't fit the "new gilded age" narrative you're trying to spin here but these people live much like the professional suburban middle class who live in the Boston and NYC areas. They just do it with stupid high dollar amounts and without having to pick and choose where to be cheap. If they want a $5k status symbol couch in their living room, they buy that. If they don't care they go sit on the couches at some furniture store and pick whichever one they happen to like.

>BTW, I live in Massachusetts. When you assume...

I'm a masshole too and I'm firmly of the opinion that it's not something anyone should be proud of.

If you're so in tune with how things are here than why isn't your opinion better informed? You're coming across as some Lexington Karen complaining about those dastardly Kochs and Kennedys down on the Cape. The average pharma exec or hedge fund manager isn't living in a different world. They're just living in a more expensive one.

>If that's the milieu you're thinking of, you're talking about something very different than what either I or GP were.

So then explain what you're talking about. I used to hang out with these people (and still hang out with the ones I'm friends with). Based on my experience your statements thus far contain overwhelmingly more falsehood than truth.
I think the books you read and your annotations should definitely be protected. Imagine reading about Tienanmen Square in China.
Also an excellent way to ensure that the US will defend Taiwan wholeheartedly if push comes to shove. Geopolitical chess 101.
> I think it's fair to assume that driver's want to be paid at least fair wages – or at least that they don't wish, all other things being equal, to be underpaid.

That is very subjective. Who’s to say what is a fair wage?

There are many people that are willing to drive for Uber/Lyft at current benefits.

And there are others who don’t drive for Uber/Lyft because they make more somewhere else.

Whose problem is it that some people want to drive for Uber and others don’t?
This article is about the prison experiments. The Milgram experiments are a small paragraph at the bottom and there have been a number of people trying to discredit the experiments.

I've watched the original in University with the old black and white tapes. There have been interviews with people years later who said, "I really believe I killed that person in the other room," and furthermore, it has been replicated in other countries by other researchers.

We can argue about numbers and percentages, but the idea that you can put up walls of abstraction to get people to kill others is established in other research outside of Milgram.
I drove 2 hours to get into the path of totality for the 2017 eclipse. I just want to reiterate to anyone with a similar opportunity how worthwhile it is to make the trek to be in the path of totality. I had many friends that figured they would just watch from home because "it is going to be 98% eclipsed here". Let me dispel that logic. Anything less than total eclipse is basically unnoticeable, while the total eclipse is achingly beautiful and unique.

As to the article, I noticed many of the strange animal behaviors. Night time bugs came out and birds took to the skies in a hurry. It was quite the experience.
There is also alternative open source firmware available for Kobo devices:
https://github.com/koreader/koreader
Only until you come into range of any open WiFi which is every public place everywhere
Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1
Looks awesome. I guess no mac games supports FreeTrack?
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Furthermore, "user" doesn't imply addiction. I hung a picture the other day, I used a screwdriver to do it. I'm not addicted to screwdrivers or hanging pictures, I'm just a user of a tool.
Updating the PostgreSQL root.crt file for TLS client auth
This reminds me of arguments against polygamy. Yes, historical examples primarily skew towards abuses of power. But no, those examples do not prove that such arrangements cannot occur consensually and ethically.

The fact that people failed in the past should not result in banning people from trying to do better in the future.
Is your gym app not available on Google store but only as a side load? Because you are imagining that because soem developers are shit then all are shit.

When I was young I could create small apps and games and share with my friends. But the future seems to be "think at the idiots that might side load malware" so our children will need to create developers accounts, provide IDs , buy certificates just to develop and share some games.
Huh? In what way is Steam on Linux in any way similar to Google Play Services on Android?

Steam on Linux is mostly compatibility hacks so people can play the games they bought. Some games have decent Linux support, but the real value I see in Steam on Linux is all the proton/wine magic/hacks to make games work relatively well without any changes, and frankly it's great.

The rate at which Wine/Proton et al., and Linux gaming in general, has improved in the last few years is staggering.

> GPL software can't even communicate with friends on Steam, isolating the open source community and ultimately turning their devs, if they want to be part of Steam's extensive gaming social network, into serfs for the store.

I have no idea what you mean by this, but I also don't see what the GPL has to do with it. You can easily write GPL software that you sell on Steam which uses all of Valve's features.
Lafayette approves apartments after decade of politics, litigation
Ohio had a system where you could opt to go to neighboring school systems (but you would need to provide your own transportation).
Terraform is moving into the k8s space FYI. So you can use HCL instead of Yaml.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/deploy-any-resource-with-the-...
Hurricane season is getting worse with rising average temperaturs, in the sense that storm frequency is increasing, but its also getting "worse" because so many more people and more infrastructure has moved to the gulf of Mexico area in the last 30 years. For example, Greater Houston has more than doubled in size in that time period, while the US has only grown by a third.

Also, as others have noted, COVID is the only really abnormal thing going on- wildfires and hurricanes are annual occurrences. This year is worse than normal it looks like, but largely just part of life for the areas affected. The protests, associated riots and violence are more out of norm.
It depends where the hurricanes hit as well. Here in New York we just got hit with a little tropical storm (Isaias) and that caused a lot of damage and pain because the electric infrastructure is barely equipped to dea with a stiff breeze, much less a storm. Its like how Atlanta descends into anarchy when there's a little bit of snow. On the other hand if a cat 2 hit anywhere in the gulf I get the impression they'd know how to deal with it. Also helps that a lot of the trees down there are nice aerodynamic palms, while the trees here are just begging to be blown over
no they cant. The taiwanese government wouldnt let them buy it. also they cant set up a competitor because the kind of people that can pull this off is limited and they all work for TSMC. The prc government tried this for decades and they have infinite money. there is a good book about it called "hidden dragons paper tigers". Apple is not god :-)
For some definition of "app business", sure. But there are plenty of companies making plenty of money in software without touching any app store. To be sure, Apple's popularity puts them in a really good negotiating position with respect to developers who want to sell certain kinds of software.
And convince Apple to build a fab?
That's not for sure. Low interest rates drive prices up or prop prices up. To find the ideal time to buy you have to know the future: if rates are higher than they're going to be, you can buy at a lower price now and then refinance when rates drop. Of course, knowing if/when rates are going to drop is the hard part.
A generalized version of the while loop was suggested by Edsger Dijkstra. This loop has more than one guard and terminates when all guards evaluate to false. With this construct the greatest common divisor can be calculated quite succinctly as

WHILE a < b DO
b := b - a
ELSIF a > b DO
a := a - b
END

The Oberon programming language by Niklaus Wirth supports the Dijkstra while loop.

https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html#sec9.6
Will you also be updating and noting that the requests to Wikipedia and Bing are for explicit customer-benefiting features?

Might be worth noting that you can opt out of their data collection (on the e-reader, at a minimum) as well. Settings > Device Options > Advanced Options > Privacy or in the device management console in your account on amazon.com
The Fed has already committed to a multi-year regime of very low rates, and on Thursday at Jackson Hole, Powell is expected to signal a major change in Fed policy - they will accept inflation for the foreseeable future as a necessary consequence of keeping rates low.

The reasoning is simple - there is so much personal and corporate debt now that the Fed simply cannot increase rates. The economy would implode. So, as a result, you will spend more on milk and Mr. Powell is okay with that.
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Not the commentor, but I think they're referring to those flood zones that were recently built on that were the worst hit by flooding. To be fair, those parts were disasters waiting to happen because the flood surveys weren't taken seriously when they decided to build on them.
I shiver to think what a IBM success "to secure their golden eggs" in the way Apple does today, would have meant for the world at large. P2P or the browser would have never been invented, you wouldn't have been allowed to install anything without IBM approving... brrr
> In what way is Steam on Linux in any way similar to Google Play Services on Android?

Steamworks.

> I have no idea what you mean by this, but I also don't see what the GPL has to do with it. You can easily write GPL software that you sell on Steam which uses all of Valve's features.

Steamworks is needed for that and isn't GPL compatible. You can sell GPL software on Steam, but can't use many features and are isolated from most social/friend stuff.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading/distributin...

> Which Open Source licenses are compatible with the Steamworks SDK?
In general, permissive licenses that do not put any requirements on you to redistribute your modifications under an open source license work fine.
Or how about shadow banning the user on that specific article? Make it appear their comment was posted, only on their logged in account (and maybe IP address). Rest of the world wouldn't see it.
I would have given Reddit a chance if they were not constantly screwing around with the UI. The new UI is sluggish and really affects the reading experience negatively.

I love that HN has not made any changes to its UI for a long time and a fast and convenient reading experience remains top priority on HN. If there are more HN-like forums, that would be something I would be interested in.
UCL engineers set new world record internet speed (178 terabits/s)
> The experiment was repeated many times around the globe, with fairly consistent results.[6]

Even if there were problems with the original experiment (and I've read Dimow before and doubt what he's saying; there are interviews from former participants who said they really did believe they had killed the person in the other room), it's been replicated in other countries.
For you, my comment is worthless. Perhaps it is not for other people.

The fact that I did not read the entire LONG article is precisely what made me comment on how lengthy the article is, without providing enough context to know how the fraud scheme was perpetrated.
Yes I agree with your comments, I over simplified.
However, regarding "most semi", it depends if we are talking about market value vs # chips.
The CPU/GPU market is really much larger in $$$ than low-power embedded chips. Although it's changing again with AI inference...
> You think companies should loudly advertise something people don’t care about?

It's not what I said.
"Burying the lede" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lede#:~:text=(idioma....
What it it's essential to the life of a relatively small group of users? It seems like the rights of smaller groups like that are the ones that most need collectively bargained, as they'll be in a relatively poor position to negotiate with the organization compelling them to use the app?
> And in the process get a law book.

You're the one who thinks that you need a world-wide monopoly for it to matter to courts in the US.

> Don't like Apple, buy Android, Jolla, Purism, KaiOS, whatever.

That's advice for a user, not a developer. As a developer, I'm forced to go where my customers are and in the US 50% of the users have an iPhone.

If only 10% of the users in the US used an iPhone, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
I've been using them for years; I took a job where I was on the road a lot, and they're way better than hotel gyms. I like them better for arms than weights. Middlin to very good for upper back and shoulders. Buy a chest expander. "The Hook" by Sierra exercise[0] or Samson Cable Set[1]. Then read "Fatman's guide to cable training."[2] Useless for lower body, and they build a fairly different kind of upper body strength; more useful for grappling than picking up barbells. The True Archer Pull is pretty amazing as an exercise and should be considered a standard feat of strength the same way as the deadlift, IMO. They make a great combination with sandbags and/or kettlebells and are now part of my staple exercises (unnatural garbage like bench press are long gone).

[0] https://www.sierraexercise.com/

[1] https://leviticus11.com/exercise-equipment/samson-cable-set/

[2] http://yoga-horizons.com/pdfs/Fatmans-Guide-to-Cable-Trainin...
Simply purchasing/owning a book on that topic would be enough for an oppressive government like China, they wouldn't need to know where in the book you were exactly.
Kindle is just a great reading device. The only feature that I _might_ consider using that requires connectivity is the Wikipedia lookup, and the verdict so far is that Airplane mode is more valuable than that.