skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the CZU fire had jumped jurisdictions (HWY 35?) it would have turned worse because the Evergreen fire had sucked all those resources already.

The governator really needs to return firefighting resources back to normal. There has been a significant drawdown of resources in Cal as other states boost their capabilities but the governator has not countered that and now resources are thin in CA.
Parent just listed two of the most brutal single attack conventional bombings of a city in history.

This could be due to some agenda to shame the Allies for their involvement in WW2, or it could just be because WW2 is really the only time in history it was done on that scale and the Allies happened to win the conflict.

I'm going to go with principle of charity and assume the latter...
Are you sure the sellers aren't allowed to disclose the fees? I believe the sellers aren't allowed to charge more on CC than the cash price. Note that the example above may be a little convoluted if you aren't too observant a reader, but the whole idea is that the total price that the user pays is still the same regardless of the method of payment, it's just that the money are allocated differently, with the user being informed of the allocation.
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Exactly, but I wonder how does affect the mind of a child, being raised for years into believing something that cannot be proved and getting reprimanded (often punished in the past) for questioning it.

Would an atheist be a better leader? In my opinion yes, but cannot prove it.
What I'm sure about is that being educated into not questioning beliefs imposed from above makes people more easy to herd by bad leaders.
I wish someone could do some independent unbiased research in this field, then make sure the results remain independent and unbiased even after publication.
The guys who have been making safety critical automotive electronics since it's infancy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control ) are getting questioned on core competency

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Meanwhile there's the company who took Mobileye's LKA,
which was already in cars with the same hardware but not continuously enabled because of inherent flaws related to non-moving objects... and turned it on all the time so they could call it Autopilot.

Then it killed some people because of the flaws that kept other manufacturers from using it the way they were.

And they're writing the software for self-driving cars? Who's running that ship lol

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In a better world people with experience with safety critical stuff and the culture for it would partner with companies like Tesla to create something like a "plug in" system for SDCs. Where the safety guys could focus on defining a minimal viable envelope of operation the same way existing ABS and ESC systems mesh with drivers. Something like if the car is less than 100ms from crashing intervene separately of "normal" object avoidance

(And before someone nitpicks that's an arbitrary number of ms, yes there's no "isCrashing" variable, and yes it would be hard work to define how SDCs would handle intervention, but people crashing into parked firetrucks is worthwhile "hard thing" to solve)
Certified autoshops are a solution in the same way that Norton is a solution for PC malware. Problem solved?
> and provide better service to people with some culture

If it's uncultured to know what you want to eat then call me a savage.
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> many intelligent people with no morals (or just desperate, threatened etc.).

This comment is somehow bothersome. Only intelligent people are capable of buying and flying a drone? Or only intelligent people should know better?

This is a really basic attack combining techniques and capabilities the cartels and organized crime have probably had for decades with cheap off-the-shelf drones available to hobbyists.

Access to explosives is probably the only challenge here, and that has nothing to do with intelligence.
A “fire extinguisher” company makes many of the fire/smoke/overheat detection and suppression systems used in commercial and military aircraft. These kinds of companies are massive and have a lot more depth to them than you seem to realize.
If you go and read the article you will find that it agrees with everything you posted here, with the exception of your weird conclusion that "banks do not create money out of thin air". The article uses a simple example to illustrate that, using Eurozone M1 definition for money, loaning factually increases the amount of money which exists. Perhaps you are thinking of a different definition of money?
Here's a question from someone who is recently out of school and somewhat new to Go. Is it OK to use Context for request-scoped values? i.e. passing data between middleware? I have started doing this, but is there a better alternative?

Peter Bourgon's blog post[0] about context made me think it is fine. After reading the comments here, I am not so sure. Especially since his post was roughly 4 years ago.

0: https://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2016/07/11/context.html
That sounds excellent! I support you completely, but my support may not be that relevant.

Coding tests; at least Codility/LeetCode style, are now pretty much worthless, as there’s an entire industry devoted to helping folks pass them.

I just love doing what I do. It sounds like you do, as well.

Every hour I spend, practicing for interviews, is an hour I’m not spending, learning new, practical stuff.
I repeat, good god.

I am familiar with the linguistic norms at play here, and if I come across an herb in a grassy meadow, I’ll happily say so. It’s specifically the collision of the dialectal “an” and a slang expression strictly pronounced with a “hard” h that got me. A person is never called an ‘erb, unless the individual speaking is themselves a total herb.

In any case, no offense intended to OP! It genuinely made me laugh. And none intended to you either, this exchange has been very HN in the best way.
That sounds like an indictment of the commercial industry and deep corruption of US regulatory bodies. Its not an indictment of nuclear itself. The new designs are fundamentally safer, but i can see the value in the aegument that its not worth trying in as risky and corrupted a regulatory environment as the United States without significant political change first.
How does this stop the next one? It’s not the first time Russia has done this — and they have done it in European countries.
Thank you for correcting me! I read dam and assumed.
Skripal? There's a lot of contention and contradicting evidence that suggest it was a false flag.
Could you name a couple of countries they burned down because nobody would buy or take drugs?
Everybody has their parenting preferences based on their experiences. I believe educated parents making an effort have favorable results. I can't imagine anyone with your lists of rules not raising intellectually stimulated and curious individuals either.
Actually, no. We had GayBlade up and emulated earlier this year, completely unaware of the documentary. Causal chain is actually: People working with Ryan Best to tell his story at something called RAINBOW ARCADE, the world’s first exhibition on LGBTQIA* video game history at Schwules Museum Berlin. This includes multiple groups of people and museums. That's early 2019.

During that point, the story of GayBlade and Ryan Best become known to the HIGH SCORE production team, and Best is interviewed for it and his story told.

Late 2019, Best discovers some original materials and they are used to recover the game.

Early 2020, Internet Archive hosts a copy of the game emulated, and LGTBQ Game Archive does an extensive writeup on the game.

Mid 2020, HIGH SCORE is presented to Netflix, and a card is inserted into the documentary to indicate it was found. (I'm finding not many people have seen the card.)
California was also considered a lefty-socialist-liberal bastion 12 years ago.
As an applications programmer in a hurry I would do this by using something like

https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/

A desktop application could connect to SQS directly, a web application would need to have a websocket server that catches notifications.
That depends on what you mean. If you mean using a simple system (like a single photon) as a stand-in for Wigner's friend, that has already been done. That's what the OP was about. If you mean using a complex entity like an actual human or an AI that can pass a Turing test, I'll give long odds against.
> Says Rosenstein: "We are, to my knowledge, the two people on earth who have thought the most about the work management problem."

Is Asana really that far ahead of everyone else or is this, as I suspect, just a typical presumption for corporate heads? They really think they’ve thought about this more than anyone else in the last 120+ years of focus on work management?
Maybe you're confusing Chipotle with Taco Bell? have you been to Chipotle?
which firms don't have traders?
Sounds kind of like what certain world powers do with oil and mining these days.
Absolutely false. I didn't know Russian propaganda had reached into HN.

Study Exposes Russia Disinformation Campaign That Operated In The Shadows For 6 Years: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/878169027/study-exposes-russi...
Only if by "western knowledge" you mean Communist Internationalism and its associated obsession with conformity. The change to left to right horizontal wasn't a natural development, it was forcibly imposed during the 20th century by communists. Given a choice people still prefer vertical (most novels and manga outside the mainland are still typeset vertically). It also has nothing to do with "technology". The first Japanese typewriter used vertical typesetting[0], websites in the Mongolian script use vertical typesetting[1]. It's sad to see people use technology to justify a global monoculture.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter

[1] http://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolbi...
Only by 5%. This will soon be surpassed by Islam. One wonders if the "free and open societies that enjoy freedom of speech without fear of repercussion" will continue when the Christians in those areas are minoritized or depleted. Actually, one needn't wonder, one only need review a general survey of human rights in countries where it already dominates.

As to your other point, It is not certain that it is mere tolerance.

If Christians do not allow outsiders to come and diminish them, or they sanction those who do, they are called racist, xenophobic, etc. To a person or entity that knows itself NOT to be racist/bigoted, this is of the highest offense. It is preferable as a country to be called even communist, than racist. So in an effort to avoid being tarred racist/bigoted, they allow people who hate them and the societies they create to come in and undermine them.

This leads to their status being chipped away at, until they are only nominally Christian, or outright atheistic (various countries in Europe), or superceded and replaced. See Merkel-ism, where one invites a million foreigners hostile to your country and way of life, thereby irrevocably altering the country in ways as yet to be imagined.

As far as I can tell, Christianity is the only faith that is called upon to "diversify" and "enrich" itself in such a manner. This disparity in treatment is in itself oppression.

I would posit that you may be viewing this situation from a position of privilege, where the consequences of such disparate treatment are not yet visited upon you. Or perhaps you believe Christians should not be allowed to have countries and spaces of their own, as other faiths do. But as a non-Christian who lives in a Christian area (and who is respectful of their beliefs and does not they to replace them with my own) it is quite apparent.
This is a fantastic page. I just have an issue with one of his points though:

> That banks do not have any special powers in relation to money creation

They most definitely do though: FDIC insured accounts have legal government backing—a random IOU from me can't achieve that, no matter how much anyone trusts me. Put another way, a bank deposit seems less like an "IOU" and more like a "WeOU"—"we (the bank or the government) owe you". That seems like quite a fundamental difference, no? It seems to distinguish "fake" and "real" money (or banks).
https://medium.com/@mpesce/the-great-hack-part-one-attack-70...

"The first thing that happens is nothing. Your smartphone stays black while you swipe at it and press the various buttons. Has the battery gone flat? You could have sworn you left the house with a full charge. Now you start to wonder how you’ll get your car out of the parking structure without a working mobile. That thought hadn’t occurred to you before.
It’s the least of your worries.
Still fussing with your smartphone, you gradually begin to realise you’re not the only one having this problem. In fact, it would seem that everyone waiting at the pick-up area is in various stages of agitation with their own smartphones. Some are pressing odd combinations of buttons, trying to reset the little beasties. Others, who have clearly had rough days now made worse, start to swear at their dead screens, as if cursing might shock them into life.
It’s weird, and almost a bit funny. For a brief moment.
The first smashing can be felt more than heard, a subsonic strike something like a vast drumhead being struck with a metre-wide mallet, but so quick, you barely even notice it until it’s over. The second one, however, isn’t far behind, and it’s a bit louder. That second thump gives away its location — whatever it was seems to be happening quite close by — in the direction of the parking structure.
At just this moment a car cruises through the pick-up zone at full speed, barreling along at least 100 kmh. It’s only because of some very fast reactions that no one gets hurt as it passes by. As it zooms past, you notice there’s no one behind the wheel.
Before you have any time to process that, another huge thump nearby causes a section of the barrier wall of an upper floor of the concrete parking structure to shear off. A pile of rubble falls to the ground not very far away from you."
Much of it is FUD, yes, but knowing that somehow does not help me tone it down.
Yeah, I blame the movie "War Games". I didn't get a modem until I was 12.
Search for the opium wars, fascinating (and terrifying) stuff.
The difference is that the pc is exposed to everything it interacts with including the internet while the car would only be interacting with shops that were meeting their certification obligations. Tying updates to physical locations also reduces the severity of a successful bad actor since most people in a city don't all go to the same auto-shop. A problem like a nation-wide cyber attack on vehicles is only possible if we allow personal vehicles to support the attack vector.
Why then did we shut down nuclear plants and build coal plants?
>HenryKissinger

Username checks out.
Servers also get told to push the "specials" which many times are only "special" in the eyes of the owner.
> Very costly, but the only way to give case-insensitivity.

That is very costly — but it's certainly not the only way to provide case-insensitivity, nor is it the recommended way, and I'd be surprised if any implementation of case-insensitivity actually did what you say.

Normally one would lowercase (or uppercase) both strings, and then do the comparison.

The complexity here usually comes when case-folding various tricky locales.
Is this a roundabout way of trying to associate cryptocurrencies with criminal groups?

In case this isn't obvious, no, there's no trustless way to make an entity distribute its real world profits to holders of a crypto token. We're talking about mafias here, groups which specialize in hiding money streams. Only enforcement from a real world judiciary system can enforce dividend distribution.
> If a bank takes a $1,000,000 deposit one customer, and lends $850,000 of it to other customers, there isn't $1,850,000 worth of money all of a sudden.

Not all of a sudden, as in instantly, no, but there will be. See below.

> There is $850,000 worth of debt held by customers, and another customer with a $1,000,000 balance

Yes, but what do those other customers do with that $850,000 of debt? They either deposit it in another bank, or they use it to pay someone for something, and that someone deposits it in another bank, or...

In short, virtually all of that $850,000 of "debt" ends up as $850,000 of additional bank deposits in other banks. And to those other banks, those deposits are simple deposits--there are no debts (yet) against them on the other banks' books. So there is nothing to stop the other banks from lending out as much of that $850,000 as they can again. Which means the other banks have just turned what was $850,000 of "debt" into $850,000 of new money.

> Fractional reserve banking doesn't create money out of thin air

Yes, it does. I just explained how.

> it's just a system that allows for deposits to be put to productive use

More precisely, it's a bad system for putting deposits to productive use, because it mismatches maturities and therefore leaves the entire financial system open to bank runs, which then have to be prevented by additional "protective" measures. Which will sooner or later fail, and fail all the more catastrophically because the protective measures enable financial institutions to hide the fact that bad investments are being made.

The correct way to put deposits to productive use is to make them time deposits, not demand deposits. In other words, if you have a spare $1,000,000 that you have no good use for, you deposit it in some financial institution for a period of time, say a year, or 5 years, or 10 years, and that financial institution promises you some particular rate of return over that time in exchange for the use of your money to finance productive endeavors. Of course this is just another way of describing a bond, or a certificate of deposit, or a money market certificate, or whatever your financial institution chooses to call it.

But suppose you buy, say, a 5 year bond with your $1,000,000, and then, a year later, you find you need the money? Well, that's what a bond market is for--so you can sell your bond, at a fair market rate, and get cash in exchange, while someone else has now invested their money for the remaining term of the bond. There is no need for the financial institution to treat your $1,000,000 deposit as a demand deposit, withdrawable at any time, while it is transforming maturities by investing that money in other productive endeavors that take time to mature, just to shield you from unavoidable uncertainty about the future. There is certainly no need to expose the entire financial system to possible collapse to do this. The only reason this wacky system persists is that people in power benefit from it, and ordinary people have gotten so used to it, since it has been around for so long, that they don't connect it with the occasional meltdowns that it causes.
This is my own personal experience, and who knows maybe it's not at all the experience of others.

I used to cross at San Ysidro frequently, and would get pulled into secondary maybe 1/4 of the time. This is extremely common if you're crossing the land border alone, and you don't 'look Mexican.'

Even if you don't get pulled into secondary, they're extremely unpleasant to deal with.

I don't think I ever came across a border patrol agent during that time who didn't appear to be actively going out of their way to be mean. They don't even pretend to be welcoming or polite. They are there to make you feel small and under pressure, and in that process they are looking for any excuse to pull you into secondary. They know that you have zero power in that situation. Just try using the bathroom after sitting in the border line for 3 hours and then getting pulled into secondary and sitting in your car for an hour waiting for them to show up with a drug dog.

The Mexicans will sort of do something similar. I've been flagged by their secondary before, but they are always extremely polite. Even the soldiers in fatigues with FALs are pretty nice guys in my experience.

I think there is something in the training and recruitment of US CBP that is incredibly broken. As an American, everytime I cross the border back into my own country I am deeply ashamed.
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Thanks for responding with that clarification. I'd like to clarify, in turn, that my original post was intended more as observation than accusation. No malicious intent imputed!

One thing I would like to add, that I think we would both agree on, is that regardless of everyone's exact motivations and the actual causal chain of events, the post is still, de facto, part of the miasma of publicity for the series. Anyway, I appreciate your work, and that of archive.org.
Ryan Newman was in a wreck again Saturday night at Daytona, but at least the car stayed on the ground this time.
So the depositor put $1,000,000 in the bank and the bank loans $850,000 to a small business so it can buy more inventory. The small business goes to the widget manufacturer and writes a check which the manufacturer deposits into the bank. So now the bank has 1,850,000 in deposits and 850,000 in loans.

The bank takes the new deposits and loans out 85% of it ($723k) to another small business. This small business goes and uses it to pay its employees and they all deposit the money in the bank. Now the bank has $2.573m in deposits.

The employees and the manufacturer can all withdraw the money at any time. So I struggle to see how this isn't creating money.

The fractional reserve system lets the bank loan the same dollar out multiple times. How isn't this creating dollars? If the bank takes one dollar and loans 85 cents to you and 73 cents to me, isn't there more money?
I've always considered data isolation as the #1 priority when it comes to tenancy. Does that mean that the sharding should defacto be done on the tenant ID?
>Since we have identified people with specific regions of their brain with brain damage who exhibit behavior and lack understanding of morality and empathy we can know from this high level analysis that morality is an instinctual in born phenomenon and not a logical one.

How does that even make any sense? You can turn the exact experiment around, there are people who have brain damage to the areas of their brain that let's them reason logically, but they still have intact moral behaviour.

By that logic, logic itself is not logical because there's an area in the brain that can be turned off? Then nothing is logical because practically every function of the brain can be missing.

You haven't shown that morality is instinctual, you have shown that morality happens in the brain, which big surprise as I said is true by definition.

Why is it supposed to follow from the fact that psychopaths exist that morality is "instinctual", or "born"? Rather than that they've lost their ability to reason about moral subjects?
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Hey, author here. Your criticism is correct. Deposit insurance is a fundamental difference between bank IOUs and non-bank IOUs. So it's incorrect for me to say that banks have _no_ special powers (still not even close to central bank's power though).
> The hacker shared the data on the Tesla Motors Club forum, and the automaker seemingly wasn’t happy about it.

> Someone who appeared to be working at Tesla posted anonymously about how they didn’t want the data out there.

> Hughes responded that he would be happy to discuss it with them.

> 20 minutes later, he was on a conference call with the head of the Supercharger network and the head of software security at Tesla.

> They kindly explained to him that they would prefer for him not to share the data, which was technically accessible through the vehicles. Hughes then agreed to stop scraping and sharing the Supercharger data.

> After reporting his server exploit through Tesla’s bug reporting service, he received a $5,000 reward for exposing the vulnerability.

What's the difference between this and what Uber's former Security Chief was charged with?