skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the US as a whole is the right comparison, since not all areas are equally prone to wildfires. Each of the West Coast states is above 1% of their land area burned, with California and Oregon pushing 3%.
Julian Assange is being targeted by US 'to protect President Trump's image'
Yeah, the weather forecasts for air quality have been quite inaccurate. Since Friday, the projections for Oakland CA have constantly been, “it’ll clear up in the next 24 hours.” Only now, Tuesday morning, has the AQI dropped below 100.

It seems like it’s just a harder problem than regular weather forecasting. Nobody has much experience with giant smoke clouds like this one. So I can forgive the weather service some inaccuracy. Just don’t rely on the AQI forecasts for much.
The lead Viners demanded to be paid while Twitter completely failed to monetise it. https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-t...
You can also listen to a podcast interview with the author here: https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/theneanderthals
Unfortunately that is far outside my expertise. The study here used a diet that is supposed to mimick the effects of fasting by having a low calorie/protein diet. In the discussion, they say the effects on a growth factor can be measured in blood plasma after 48 hours of fasting, or 48 hours of this diet.

My layman guess is that the best schedule is probably the one you can adhere to.
The Racism Rooted in Cities
Opendoor merging with Social Capital Hedosophia
Google Faces $3B U.K. Suit over Use of Children’s Data
They actually changing the full top case with battery and trackpad included.

Makes sense? No. Costs more than £70? Yes.
Study the role of hubris in nations’ Covid-19 response
Not entirely related to this discussion, but one thing I know about Yandex: Their web crawlers are ruthless. They hammer my sites to the point where I need to specifically throttle them based on their "from" header (they seem to ignore 429s - they simply make requests with a different IP).

This is only a problem because I have a few sites that are like "search engines" in that they have basically an infinite number of pages (one for each possible search term), and so they just keep crawling the "related searches" links. It's probably not a problem for most sites, but it's a pain for me.

Google seems to more strategically crawl pages based on search terms that they know are popular, whereas Yandex just crawls every possible link it can find.

All of that said, I'm quite happy to deal with it for the benefit of having another competitor to Google - the more the merrier. Hopefully one day they add some more "smarts" to their crawlers though - starting with respecting 429s across all their IPs, perhaps.
Seems a good feature for [0], and I am trying to not ignore this good feature, and still noted it down on my Apple Notes.

Although it seems to be a tough question as well. :p
I can’t even this math.
Turnabout is fair play, but I guess at some point we better get off our high horse about China copying everything.
Many, many people who follow fasting/ketogenic diets report heightened energy and focus, myself included. This usually comes after the carb/keto flu phase once adjusted to the low carb intake and after the body has gone fully into ketosis. You have to be careful to get enough salt while fasting or eating very low-carb, though, as your body can struggle to hold on to water without those carbs you're used to eating. Consuming too little salt can definitely contribute to feeling sluggish.
Boston Dynamics CEO talks profitability and the company’s next robots
I don't know if it's just my Chrome browser but this website doesn't load at all for me and just hangs on a black screen. The only relevant extension I have is uBlock and uMatrix.
party pooper.
Huge nostalgia wave. 25 years later, I've recently bought an analog synth and am revisiting the big beat, ambient and electronica bands on that soundtrack, who were the backing tracks to that entire period. It was at the decade mark about 10y after cyberpunk and 10y before social networks.

Funny how back then hacking was about how to get into systems, and today it's more about how to get out of the omniscient panopticon we all contributed to building in one way or another. Maybe it hasn't changed that much at all, just less rollerblades?
Chinese virologist claims she has proof Covid-19 was made in Wuhan lab
When I fasted I remember the feeling of energy kicking in around day 2-3. I had moments of supreme clarity but also moments of fuzziness. The energy boost was real though. I continued to exercise quite heavily so didn't't see any muscle loss. I'm quite a big guy so there were a lot of fat reserves to melt—my skin became very greasy as if I'd eaten a very fat-heavy meal, I could even taste the oil in my mouth.

I wonder if, if you are not a big eater, then the difference might be less than if you tended to be full of food, digesting away all day and night. Similarly, if there's not a lot of fat on you maybe, rather than burning fat with an energy boost, you end up burning muscle and feel tired?
During SSBN development. The test rigs for submarine missile are essentially floating barges that are sunk beneath the water for testing. So someone though, why not just have the barge sit on the bottom until needed? It can then float to the surface to launch. That is cheaper than building a concrete silo.
>Does the power consumed by pumping tons of air 24/7 offset the ecological gains by the system?

I was thinking along the same lines. I'm guessing it would be cheaper to concentrate all the plastic close to the source so it can be easily collected. Compared to sending N boats out to M garbage patches that exist, I'm thinking this will be more efficient.
The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities [pdf]
U.S. Fire and Smoke Map
Everybody's Google results are different these days. They put you in a bubble. Hence, saying "if you Google you should see result X or Y" isn't necessarily true.

I would say for acronyms containing 2, 3, 4 letters these are all going to be taken at this point.

What matters is how much do the acronyms overlap. Pepsi (food & drink) has nothing to do with PDF editors (tech).

pEp (or p≡p) [1] on Android is a nice K-9 fork with material design and GPG support / opportunistic encryption. Its not very well known though.

Worst would've been if there's a PEP directly related to PDF.

[1] https://www.pep.security
Thunderbolt 3 dock plus 2020 MacBook equals crash
This article downplays Latimer's contribution, presumably (and ironically) for the same political reasons it derides. Latimer's filament production patent made Edison's lightbulb viable as a mass-produced product. As with Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano and their advancements with production of high-brightness blue LEDs, they did not "invent" blue LEDs, nor the numerous products enabled by the existence of blue LEDs. However, their contributions did indeed make the LED revolution possible in a fundamental manner, in the same way that Latimer's contributions (which did not end at the patent but included further research and consultation for fledgling electric lighting projects around the country) made the electric light revolution possible.

The three Japanese men above received many accolades for their work, including a Nobel prize. The crux of the controversy is white America's perennial reluctance to give just due to black innovators. Hyperbole becomes necessary to counteract their reticence. It would obviously be easier to simply be forthright about black contributions, but here we have yet another example of that not happening; characterizing Latimer's work as a "footnote" reeks of the aforementioned reticence.
Ask HN: Books on Entrepreneurship for Children
My son is 9 years old. I want to instil in him an interest about entrepreneurship.

Can you kindly let me know any good recommendations that he can read? It could be stories on entrepreneurship or anything like that.

Many thanks in advance.
I don't see the suggestion as a viable replacement for Jenkins in its entirety. They identified that the Free aspect of Jenkins leads to its popularity, and they both compliment and criticize the plugins ecosystem. Their don't appear to have an open solution, and while they claim you won't need plugins, but part of what makes Jenkins so popular, is that if the default functionality doesn't work, you can find or make a plugin. This is lacking in the proposed solution.
Watching an alcohool fog chamber is such a cool experience.
Really? God, even cheaper android phones I have bought recently have charger cables that support data. Isn't that kinda required for USBC charging, since the charger and device have to negotiate power delivery w/ each other?

I don't own any Apple devices; the only time I've encountered a USBC cable that wouldn't support data was a cheap charger cable from a gas station. I took wire cutters to it when I got back from my trip, I don't want that potential fire hazard around.

Edit: I'm sure the apple cables are safe, they do test them. However, a no-name cable that won't support data transfer? For all I know, it may possibly report itself as high power capable, and melt when I try to charge my laptop.
Store your bounced email notifications from AWS SES in an S3 bucket
Hello.

We recently setup AWS SES at Inato and I had issues getting information about bounced emails. As i figured out how to do it, I ended up writing a complete guide on how to store the notifications provided by AWS (for bounced, complaint and delivery notifications) in an S3 bucket, using SNS and lambda. You can follow this guide to store the notifications anywhere you need, only the lambda's code has to be updated.

Find the article here: https://medium.com/inato/store-your-bounced-email-notifications-from-aws-simple-email-service-ses-in-an-s3-bucket-c47c1b05ed93

Hope it helps!
Sure, the ARM ISA is old, but a few things have happened in microarchitecture since then. I wouldn't be rushing to use a 10-year-old ARM over a newer one. The Cortex cores are pretty great compared to ARM9 or whatever.
I’ve never done the long term fasts, but my anecdotal experience also confirms this - I definitely have significantly less mental clarity on any type of fast I’ve done, to the point where it definitely affects my productivity even by end of day 1.
This was a pure joy to behold. There are several current modeling features approaching this level of interactivity, but none this fine. Add mesh denoising and subdivision and this is a production workflow quality tool ;)
Ask HN: How do you know if your coworkers are sincere to you?
I feel everyone is on their best behaviour at work. How do you figure out if someone is really sincere to you at work?
There's a story, propounded by someone who wrote it into Wikipedia 16 years ago, that the Norsk Data ND-505 was the world's only 28-bit computer, made so in order to avoid CoCom regulations then covering 32-bit minicomputers.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/7310013

Unfortunately, the story doesn't agree with the contemporary marketing literature that still exists, that calls it a 29-bit computer; or with the CPU reference manual for the ND-500 CPU that was used in the ND-505, which says that it used 32-bit logical addressing with 5 domain selector bits and 27 address bits, and 41-bit physical addressing with 2KiB pages and a 30-bit page number.

* http://sintran.com/norsk-data/library/libpdpi/ND-505CX-A1-EN...

* https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_norskDataN00ReferenceM...

* https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_norskDataN00ReferenceM...
Worth reading Li Meng Yan's wikidedia page as a first stab at untangling this mess.

She is a Chinese[1] viral researcher who published on covid[1], who fled to America when she felt her life was in jeopardy[1] for saying that China knew about human-to-human transmission of covid much earlier [1].

And lead author of this paper.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_Yan
Months After Recovery, Covid-19 Survivors Often Have Persistent Lung Trouble
Google+ had a network problem in my usage at least, and FB back in 2011 wasn't plagued with the problems it has today. Also a video broadcasting platform where video is not limited to your circle, wouldn't have the problem as long as they can get a sizeable mass which being YT they should be able to.
Users on metered connections might not thank you.
The likelihood of people being crowded in a park is much lower though due to inherint lower density. All the parks I saw closed their choke points (bathrooms, water fountains, etc) so I feel like being outdoors in a park is still much safer than staying indoors, going to grocery stores for example. But people were acting as though you could get it by just going outside. There was/is alot of fear mongering around leaving your house at all.
Countdown to Mars: A Story of Perseverance
I have a feeling this is going to be an increasingly common theme.
My understanding (and experience) is that this clarity is usually just about the lack of all the crap that normally makes you feel awful. Things like sugar, dairy, and processed grains plus preprocessed foods. I've always found that after 10 days, you start to feel amazing and do so for around two weeks more before your body starts to adjust.
I have a very similar progress, but my favorite loop-genre to work with is grindcore. Highly recommend Magrudergrind: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB290E30AC7EEFAFB. I have listened to this album many hundreds of times by now.
I think we're 75% in agreement. I think things are way too complex and should be simplified, but there is a hard limit on how much can be stripped away.

A nuclear plant isn't simple. There's a reason why they require more than 1 person to maintain and that they have only existed for 0.00000000001% of human history. Conceptually they're simple if you black-box abstract the majority of the plant which is loaded with technology from the structure to the cooling structures, sensors, waste disposal, regulatory structures which prevent another Chernobyl...etc etc. You're abstracting all of that necessary complexity away (just like we do with modern tooling) and calling it simple when it isn't.
If it's a low protein diet, couldn't the lack of certain aminoacids which promotes cell growth (and by that, also cancer growth) also aid slowing cancer?

Layman here, just popped into my mind.
I don't think it's reasonable to characterize political comparisons we find offensive as "misinformation". More generally, standards of intellectual engagement that require you to import political battles into every other topic are destructive and unhelpful.
Prawn was considered and IIRC unfortunately it has very limited styling support.

It looks like there are only commercial and quite expensive options for programmatic generation (Antenna House: XSL-FO, Prince: CSS). Apart from that, the one option that works appears to be Apache FOP. It’s built on Java and uses XSL-FO, which is somewhat limited and seemingly on the way to becoming outdated.
ok but let's distinguish smart things that were done to workaround past blunders
from smart things that you would have done anyways.

Both are "craft", but only the latter is "necessary" and would thus survive the "total rewrite" posited in this "thought experiment".

For example, the x86 is fully of crap; layer upon layer of smarts have been added to deal with design flaws that it was impossible to fix without breaking backward compatibility.

Backward compatibility was practically important, because of network effect (and indeed competitors lose the battle because they were not compatible with x86, or even with their past selves). This practical constrain caused smart people to build smart tricks on top of that foundation.

Sure, it required a lot of smarts to do etc etc but how'd you call it when you end up tunnelling a SCSI command inside an ATA packet wrapped in another SCSI command?
Teddy[1], already mentioned in the comments, has a Unity version
[1](https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/modeling/teddy-9...)

hope it helps!
Some devices have greater power demands than others. So there are two design choices that can be made: (1) require all chargers and cables to support charging all devices; or (2) allow "lesser" chargers and cables.

Choosing (1) would have meant that everything would work as you expect, but then even the cheapest devices would have to come with an unnecessarily beefy (and therefore expensive) chargers.

Choosing (2) results in potential for the situation that you described. Lesser chargers and cables cannot charge more demanding devices.

I'm pretty sure (1) would simply have not been practical. It would have been wasteful and the expense would kill adoption. So they went with (2).

Seems reasonable to me.
Reading through the description of the project I see what its aims are but I don't see a list of specifics of what it changes from baseline emacs.

As a long-time emacs user (dear god, it's been 28 years?!), I'd like a more concrete description before considering trying it. Exactly which curated third party packages and UX? Or at least list the major ones.

Otherwise, nice effort. IMHO baseline distrib of emacs has made some odd choices that I think put some people off who might have given it a try.
I always find it funny that fasting comes up so often, but a ctrl-f almost never turns up someone mentioning Ramadan. Nearly 25% of the world population fasts for an entire month, but it's almost invisible to the western world. While I don't agree with all of the details of the fast (I drink water), I think it is an admirable holiday, it's way healthier for the world than Christmas or Thanksgiving.
> Prehistoric fires are believed to have been much larger than the current ones.

Sure, but humans weren't a) burning a hundred million years worth of fossil fuels and b) siphoning off all the water in the area to grow almonds at that time.

Fire size in acres isn't the only variable, either; the article I linked states "The fire was so intense in some places that it burned up all organic matter needed to help the soil retain nutrients and moisture required for trees to grow."
Vine was delightful. A lot of funny stuff on it all the time.

I think Twitter was incompetent when trying to make it a business.

It’s the Minecraft effect. Just because a person or organization hits it huge once doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing and will be able to repeat success.
If this is the main idea, move it further up on the page if it doesn't break your design goals. I skipped the initial text and went right to it.

https://thegreatbubblebarrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03...

Great idea.
Has it been tested?
The FMD in the article was approximately 200 calories per day for 3 days, using a standardized set of allowed items (broths, etc.)

This was done in preparation for each chemo treatment.
Con - It would have to be a drill with a lot of torque. The handle on the crank is approx 6". That's adequate for manual, but less would take significant effort. A knob would be tough (and would take too long). Of the drills I own, I'm not sure any of them could do it. But I also do not own anything super-duper top of the line.

Pro - Yes, the hand crank is removable. The socket the crank sits in is maybe a 3/8" hex (female). That is, getting the drill to interface w/ the socket should be straight forward. The concern is the drill being powerful enough.

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What if the crank was larger? Say 12" or more, like a wheel? Would that help you? Perhaps the drill could leverage that somehow? But my recommendation would be - if you are physically able to use it - to extend the crank to 2 feet (or more). That should help.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
...the argument I was trying to make was: remote work with no geographical adjustment of pay could be a force for good in the world economy to bring about a non-ridiculous market equilibrium.

Ridiculous is what I call the situation where wealth creation done by tech companies and tech workers ends up in the pockets of Bay Area landlords instead of in the pockets of the people who take the risks and do the work.

Ridiculous is what I call the situation where other geographies invest heavily in getting their young people top-notch education (like in Europe), and instead of earning a return on that investment for themselves see their young people relocate to the Bay Area and contribute to the tax base there.

Ridiculous is what I call the situation where you're a top-notch tech professional and in order to earn money commensurate with your value you have to go through the hardships of the immigrant situation and be part of a culture / economic system that you may not like, subject yourself to political leadership that you may not approve of etc.

Shall I continue?

The good news is that the market will eventually sort this out: Some remote companies will be doing geographical adjustments to pay. Some will not.

The best workers in low-COL areas will end up with the companies not making adjustments. So making adjustments will leave you stuck with the worse workers. So you will end up getting what you pay for: If you pay little you will get low-quality work even in low-COL areas.

People in high-COL areas will figure out that there's an opportunity to have more disposable income by relocating away from high-COL areas and taking remote jobs with companies not making adjustments. The only people who can't do that is the people whose work is so low-quality that they actually can't compete internationally so that their high-COL postcode actually is their only viable argument when it comes to negotiating high compensation. So paying higher compensation to people in high-COL areas will become detached from the narrative that those also happen to be the best people. It will come to mean nothing more and nothing less than making donations to those poor needy Silicon Valley landlords, and I doubt that this is a cause that many tech companies will be getting behind, as opposed to using their money to do actual tech.
> It wasn’t a problem everywhere. It was only a problem
> where people used GET in an unsafe way,

this is technically correct.

> which was a minority of sites.

I don't think those were minority. Minority of sited got hit by GWA, but before thad not many cared about what method was used either. PHP rulled the web back then, and I doubt security practices were much better. Heck, even Google's own Blogger was hit by it, iirc.
That makes Rails prominent was that 37Signals were very prominent at the time, so everything Jason F. or DHH said was heard wide. And while you are right about following the spec being the proper way, implementing a quick fix to block GWA may be quickier to deploy than rewriting the app to use proper methods.
These admin interfaces should have been under HTTPS anyway, and GWA did not follow HTTPS links. All those mistakes no web apps side do not mean that GWA was a good idea anyway, because it caused other problems which had nothing or little to do with idempotency: infalted traffic stats, messed up caches, etc.
Does Facebook sell that list? Where is it?
> I've gone as long as 12 days with nothing but water.

This is dangerous and please don't encourage others to do only water fast.
Pure water fast is dangerous beyond 4 days or so.

You need to supplement minerals while on per-longed fast.
Salt, magnesium and potassium are vital to regulatory processes in your body.

When your body uses up all reserves it will not be able to sustain those processes. It is serious business so please read up on the subject while trying anything longer than 3 days.

> feeling of dying and lying in bed shivering on a 5-7 day.

This is body telling you something is wrong, ignoring is outright stupid. Like ignoring that you are bleeding.

> I have fasted 100 lbs away
Congratulations
You'll be able to spot Uranus without a telescope this week