skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the trees in CA evolved in environments with regular fires. Some, like the sequoias, require fire in order for their seeds to open.

A fleet of 100 tanker planes is just a few $B investment with couple hundred $M/year maintenance.

Each DC10 tanker costs about $120 million. The newer 747 tanker starts at $140 million and that's before customization. A fleet the size you are suggesting would cost more than $12 billion dollars and would take years for manufacturers to build.

And that's assuming you could find sufficient freshwater sources to fill all of those planes. If that amount of water was available, CA wouldn't be in a megadrought and the fires wouldn't be as bad.

None of what you suggested is rational.
i see misinformation from BLM etc every single day on twitter. how come now one cares about this misinformation or gets upset or writes articles about it?
Then perhaps a better example would be the UAE:

https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/middle-east/duba...
This depends on the semantics of the word "same".

With modern technology, let's say you have a car with a higher trim package, and for a simplified example, let's say the upgrade is the radio. A manufacturer can and will make a new plastic trim piece with different buttons, but install the exact same radio behind it in all cars. The difference will be in a software or firmware switch that makes the radio behave differently.

To the customer, it seems like a different product, but to someone who understands how it's done, who is selling it, it's not really.

I think people find it useful to classify this as price discrimination.

This is an example that comes to mind, by the way, because I once bought a (base model) car that used exactly this method, only the switch was misconfigured so the buttons acted like the expensive trim.
It seems obvious to me that they didn't mean economic value. Clearly ads make money. People don't pay for them recreationally.

As for 10x more ads if they get less effective, that doesn't make any sense. Advertising supported media isn't showing the minimum amount of ads needed to cover their costs out of some sort of altruism. They show the profit maximising amount. Any more ads will cost them more eyeballs/clicks than they currently get.
You call it "stagnation", I call it "stability" --- something that seems to be ignored or even actively discouraged by a lot of these "modern" trends.
1. "Back in the day" people actually were forced to work on computers to get anything to work (much like boomers had to work on cars to have them run). Now for many kids it's a passive learning experience, they can just say "Siri give me Youtube" and then hit whatever recommendations it has. They don't even need to learn how to spell, let alone configure a modem.

2. More broadly, while children (and young adults) resent restrictions and rules, was Rousseau really right about nature being best? Rousseau was a guy who put his own children into a French orphanage (it's unknown whether any survived) rather than raise them himself, not sure if he's got a lot of real-world experience. And even cultures that have had time to get things right (unlike our rapidly developing society with lots of scary new risks that we aren't evolved to handle) generally seemed to have a lot of rules to avoid behaviour that was risky (either in the short term, or creating long-term bad habits).

3. The internet is a distributed race to create the most "engaging" content possible, powered by evolving AI. Letting kids play on it unrestricted these days is like letting them loose in a red light district with drug dealers on every corner giving them unlimited money and thinking it will end up well.
Yes but where does this observer come from in the first place? Some theories do presume the thermostat experiences the temperature, just in a less-sophisticated form of consciousness. If an "observer" is nothing more than neurons firing in response to stimuli, then it's not fundamentally different from the thermostat.
Ohh I see, yeah. I usually draw diagrams or write pseudo-code out on paper (or both combined) when trying to grasp something difficult but "notebook-style" exploration also sounds interesting.
% help
zsh: command not found: help

Well, it kinda works. Just not in the way you might have hoped :P But the output lets you know that you are running zsh.

And to find out the version:

% echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.7.1

(Assuming no-one has been silly and overridden the value of said environment variable in their zshenv file or something. But if we assumed that to be likely then we should also assume that someone using bash had aliased 'help' to something else too, so I think it is fair to assume that no-one had done that.)
I hear chef celebrities say the same thing but frankly, these kinds of restaurants usually disappoint me, and precisely because of the paradox of choice.

Good chinese restaurants are the literal opposite of that philosophy: multi-page menus with hundreds of choices.

I don't want to pick between a meat I want but cooked in a way I don't care for vs a meat I don't want as much but cooked in a way I prefer. And that's why the chinese restaurants with large menus excel: they pretty much have every possible permutation and then some.
In practice, I've seen both shared app, shared DBs, and shared app, separate DBs. "Shared / separate DBs" is not actually so black and white. I recommend making your system configurable so you can dedicate DBs to a specific tenant (or group of tenants) if needed. Most of them probably won't need it...
Node is the new IE.

No support for fetch. Has its own non-standard APIs. Doesn’t implement basics like atob.
It will certainly kill anything users wouldn't normally want. If my business model depends on stuffing a shit sandwich into my user's pocket without them knowing, and then something changes so I now have to ask them "Would you like a shit sandwich?" my business model will be in big trouble.
It doesn't sound negative to me at all; just a factual way of stating that the policy is only supported by one party. Perfectly normal figure of speech here in the states.
It is a great thing to see, California is described as some sort of lefty-socialist-liberal bastion today but like you said it was only 12 years ago they (unconstitutionally) voted in a ban on gay marriage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_...
My idea is to force internet routers into delaying routing or config change update application. In other words, there will be temporary routing tables and configs that will be reverted if they are not confirmed by the engineer. Traffic flow will be simulated based on the unapplied rt/config for a period of time with appropriate alerts in place.

I get that routers are expensive but settlement free ISPs(tier 0) and any router that can directly affect the global routing table should be considered as much a critical infrastructure as core power grid substations.

With everyone working and learning from home, internet outages will bring the global economy to a halt. I am not opposed to legal regulation of security and engieering practices when it comes to the global routing table.
This is very surprising as this an Elon Musk company and he has never in the history of his companies every tried to rush a timeline of a product.
It's a common trick to use building footprints for the basic shape, elevation data for the building height and prevailing colors for estimating roof and wall structure. It's still much better than having all buildings flat. They likely trained their ML algo on many different building photos from the orbit to output e.g. roof type, wall type etc.
in short, grab a task. make it work, and never look back to make anything right.
Very deep. Should have ask for and a 8” Wang word processor Disk and where is my 5...

But the real surprise is the Docker image. Can we have pdp-11 and Ibm 360 one? Tired of firing the dos mode version.
I think that Chrome is different for the web than IE was, but I'm still wary of Google having such a heavy influence over the web as a platform.

Google have consistently shown they're great at data, struggle to build platforms, and approach product development by throwing stuff at a wall. They have a heavy cultural bias towards developing and shipping new initiatives over supporting existing products.

None of these attributes are good things for supporting an open platform. Google does a good job at firewalling their data gathering tendencies from Chrome and web standards, but over the last ten years they've consistently pushed new standards and experiments that no one has asked for: Dart, GWT, Angular, Web Components, AMP, Service Workers, notifications, payments, DRM support, web bundles, etc. The actual innovations that have helped the platform grow have largely happened elsewhere.

Some of the stuff they do will be great, but there is going to be a long term cost to the platform from this relentless push to use the web as Google's personal playground for innovation.
I used to be an advocate for nuclear energy but over time I've become it has no future because:

1. Even if it's safer by any objective measure (deaths/kWh for example) the failure modes are much, much worse. A fossil fuel plant just can't make thousands of square miles uninhabitable for decades. This isn't an exaggeration. The Chernobyl absolute exclusion zone is currently 1000mi^2 [1]. This is like how people are afraid to fly but not drive when flying (on.commercial jets at least) is undeniably safer;

2. Processing of fuel creates waste we just don't have a good way of dealing with (eg UF6);

3. Spent fuel creates waste we just don't have a good way of dealing with;

4. Decommissioning nuclear power plants creates waste we just don't have a good way of dealing with;

5. The above three costs seem to be borne by governments. It's still unclear to me if companies who run nuclear power plants are paying the true costs;

5. I just don't trust companies to manage nuclear plants safely long term;

7. I don't trust most governments to manage nuclear plants long term; and

8. Many nuclear power advocates will bring up coal as the counterexample. That's a false dichotomy. Wind and solar costs continue to plummet. Natural gas, while still a fossil fuel, has way less negative externalities than coal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone
If Google had succeeded we’d be using Dart (yuck) instead of ES6 (yum).
They really don't. That's one problem.
If there is minority of population with low BS threshold they will only matter if there are only two parties and the rest of the population is also closely split.
Would it still be considered safe in a world where flooding becomes much more commonplace in the next 50 years?
> How would one go about implementing case-insensitive path lookup against a SMB share containing a few million files from userspace?
>
> It must be in the kernel. Else implementations of stuff with human-derived semantics should move out of the kernel, but moving SMB into userspace would of course be ridiculous

Case-insensitive path lookups on SMB happens in the server (usually samba), in user-space. The client is also usually in user-space through FUSE or the client libs, but CIFS of course exists as a kernel-mode alternative.

And as I have written elsewhere, sure, "music" vs. "Music" is simple when you live in an ASCII world. Trying to be smart with user input only causes trouble for the rest of us. Hiragana and katakana is also logically the same, and on a kana keyboard a similar typo. Simplified and traditional chinese is also logically the same.

> Every popular desktop operating system supports it

Doesn't mean we should break stuff here as well.
> More recently, f2fs has started to support this feature as well, following the Ext4 implementation and framework, thanks to an effort led by Google. Most, if not all, of the information described here also applies to f2fs, with small changes on the commands used to configure the superblock.

I'd guess that the f2fs changes at least are motivated by sdcard emulation on Android: sdcards were FAT32 in the beginning, so once they started being emulated with a backing store on the regular (ext4, then f2fs on pixels) data partition, case-insensitivity had to be emulated (first via a FUSE daemon in userspace, then via sdcardfs, a stackable FS in the kernel written by Samsung).

(I work at Google on Android, but I don't have any first-hand knowledge about this.)
Liquid-Mirror Telescope
Fukushima were BWRs, and older and far shittier than the PWR in TMI.

TMI is how such an accident "should" look like. And of course there are improvements on that in newer generations.
Quite a bit of sloppy reasoning there. If I add a DIV to my page and it stops your video acceleration, that's because your browser engine sucks.
I'm not in the energy field, but I do have hopes that we can find a way to make nuclear fuel use more efficient, thereby reducing the amount of waste: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-let...

But as long as we have this kind of rhetoric there will be no incentive to solve the current problems with nuclear power.
> - anything else that is legally obligated to be backdoored by the ministry of state security (wechat, alipay, tiktok, etc)

Does that include everything by PRISM participants, or just foreign states?
Man, I have a lot of parallels to this. Been on a scrip for that stuff for as long as I can remember, and I had a similar experience at school. Hearing your story really gives me hope for myself; so, thanks!

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work are you doing now? Any tips for your past self?
Psst, the thing that drains your battery on news sites are the ads, which Google is 100% responsible for by encouraging an ecosystem of third party JS.
AMP is nothing like a walled garden, period. Anyone can host it.
awesome indeed. Any plans to support more Vim navigations, something like 'gg' and 'G' would be useful IMO. As well as the ability to use a custom 'ESC' mapping to leave the scroll mode.
It depends on how much original creative effort went into it. Copyright is fuzzy on purpose.

Copyright vests automatically and immediately in the creator of a creative work. This can be assigned or licensed to another party in part or in whole, at the discretion of the copyright holder.

Whether a work is creative, and therefore protected, by copyright is open to interpretation.

Facts cannot be protected through copyright. A creative representation of facts may be protected. E.g. a specific map might be protected, but this wouldn't prevent someone from making another map representing the same places
>> it seems like price is really driving renewable adoption at this point.

Another article fresh from Wired about the aging solar panel mess and the toxic waste they're leaving behind:

Solar panels are an increasingly important source of renewable power that will play an essential role in fighting climate change. They are also complex pieces of technology that become big, bulky sheets of electronic waste at the end of their lives—and right now, most of the world doesn’t have a plan for dealing with that.

But we’ll need to develop one soon, because the solar e-waste glut is coming. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects that up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels will have reached the end of their life, and that the world will be generating about 6 million metric tons of new solar e-waste annually. While the latter number is a small fraction of the total e-waste humanity produces each year, standard electronics recycling methods don’t cut it for solar panels. Recovering the most valuable materials from one, including silver and silicon, requires bespoke recycling solutions. And if we fail to develop those solutions along with policies that support their widespread adoption, we already know what will happen.

https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die...

People seem to think solar and wind and electric power don't come with equally damaging aspects to the environment.

Remember in the 1970's and 80's when people thought plastic was the greatest thing on earth? We can save the trees now!! People started using plastic for everything. People stopped using paper bags at grocery stores. People opted for Tupperware instead of glass bowls and containers and on and on. We all thought we were saving the world by using plastic for everything.

Apparently we were dead wrong about plastic and not look at what we've sown? Huge plastic floating islands in the oceans. Plastic debris washing ashore on distant islands, killing the entire ecosystems.

Price is all good and fine, but the long term ramifications of renewable energy we still don't know about.
As a non-Christian observer, Christianity does seem to be the only religion that it is acceptable to mock, deride, and make a scapegoat of.

A CNN commenter blaming America's problems on Christianity would fit right in and go unremarked upon, other than perhaps by the targets.

The same commenter blaming the problems of the Middle East (or more locally, Dearborn or 'Little Mogadishu') on Islam, would likely be censured and be forced to apologise, if not fired outright. Recall that even after the Islamic terror attacks of 9/11, George Bush was forced to refer to Islam as a "religion of peace" lest he be tarred by the media as a bigot.

And if that commenter should remark negatively on Judaism? One can't even describe the outcome, because to do so has itself been labeled as anti-Semitic, which is a career-killer in many fields.

But any and all attacks towards Christianity are on the table. It seems those evangelical Christians may have a valid point.
> Unfortunately, this simply isn't true.

It quite literally is. I like mountain biking, if I go to Pinkbike (largest MTB news site), all the ads are for mountain biking products. If I'm there, I don't want to see ads for cloud services, or toasters, because that's literally not what I'm interested in at this point.

> The value of a vistor to a 'sports site' may be considerably more for some other product or service.

Like what? Probably less utility to the user though.

> The fact is, people are considerably more likely to opt for ad-based products than pay-based products

Many products are advertising only, and there's a strong culture (pushed by the advertising industry I might ad) of ad-supported above all else.

> The 'ill effects' of privacy are negligible...Nobody is harmed because of what FB is able to discern 'out of network' vs. what it already knows from what you do 'on network'.

In your opinion, sure. So what, we should all just have to put up with it, just because Facebook thinks it "deserves" to make money. Phillip Morris and friends argued that cigarettes didn't harm anybody as well.

> There are definitely considerations, but in reality, no harm.

The previous American election and the well documented effect of troll farms would indicate otherwise. Targeted advertising, enabled by invasion of privacy and amplified by the ill-effects of social-networks literally enabled that directly. The "chilling effect" of constant monitoring on culture is a well documented effect.

> Ads are not going away, better ads are better for everyone, we need to figure out how to deal with privacy.

"Ads are here, who cares about privacy, we want to make money". We have a right to privacy, advertisers not have right to make money, and when rights and advertising collide, I don't see any reason beyond "let's just endlessly feed people to the machine of capitalism" why the latter should be allowed to win.
Sean, the author of this book, is an awesome human being. He is so passionate about helping and teaching others. He is also far too humble, he works on Amazon's C++ WebRTC implementation for AWS services, and then rewrote everything in Go to create Pion, an open source community around WebRTC. If you want to join the community, check out the #pion channel in Slack!
The standard is open, the code is open

"standard" means nothing when Google is churning it every day. It coined the completely idiotic term "living standard" and has basically used its propagandic powers to drag everyone else along.

Its idea of "progress" is the exact opposite of what the web needs.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961613
Firefox could be a fewer compromises option if the end goal is more security (I am tempted to say no-compromises but that is my own bias, because for my use case Firefox is a perfect chromium replacement, but it might not be for you). Rather, Safari seems to be nice from an integration standpoint if all your ecosystem is apple based.
In other words, this type of behavior can be summarized as: Instead of waiting for other people to exploit your program in C, why not to execute some shellcode and pwn yourself while you're at it... /joke
All of that shit JS is Google related. They don’t write it (all) themselves but they absolutely are responsible for creating the platform for it.
> example in nature or science, of cellular automata

Skin scales of ocellated lizards:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22031

edit: more accessible article about the above paper, with pictures: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.7369/full...

My intuition is that a lot of embryology is also related to CA: cells have to build larger structures by using only local rules and state.
> Not sure it macOS has as much info in /proc?

macOS does not have procfs
Not scared of an open-source engine ruining the Internet. Not gonna happen and I'm fine with Google doing whatever they're doing. My experience with the Webkit gang is that they're obsessed with the consumer and privacy and all that stuff. So much that they won't entertain any adjustments to permit adtech. That's enough for me to be convinced that browser engine development is sufficiently separate from Google's main business.

The real problem is when things like EME make it into the standard and you need to use Widevine and friends to see things.

Also, I hate having to stand with people who rail against everything because then no one takes you seriously when there is a thing that needs railing against.

Given that and given that my life is short, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this.
From a purely pragmatic perspective as a citizen and resident of a five eyes country, I consider it a much lower threat to myself and my career, political life and financial life to have my data in the possession of the NSA than the MSS.

I've also previously held a security clearance and worked for a large defense contractor in a network engineering role, so I have some inside perspective on how the sausage is made.

It would not be unreasonable of me to assume that a Chinese domestic citizen could hold exactly the same positions but in the inverse. The main difference being that even if they desired to go all-in on cloud based computing services from a US based firm (google, icloud, azure/office365, fb messenger, paypal, etc) they would be prevented from effectively and reliably doing so by the great firewall.
Not just worst case scenario "rates", but the scenarios themselves. What is the worst case scenario from a completely unmitigated core meltdown versus whatever the most extreme failure mode of, say, a coal plant?
>Have coal or gas plants ever created a Chernobyl-style exclusion zone?

Coal extraction has created far more land where you can't drink the well water and probably would be unwise to eat any plants or animals raised on the land.
> Good lord, some people here are definitely on the spectrum. FYI that was an attempt at humor. In case you want to mimic human social behavior in the future: you don't _disagree_ with a joke, you either find it funny or you don't.

Maybe he was disagreeing with your entire assesment and that your joke was neither funny or unfunny, but incorrect
Given Tesla's track record, I find that statement hard to agree with. I have no qualms necessarily with most nuts and bolts part of it, but the entire self driving division reeks of rushed compared to what the project actually requires.