skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a poor analogy. Besides the distinction that arson is intentional rather than negligent, arsonists burn things that would not have burned otherwise. While PG&E's negligence sparked the fire, the brush in the area would have burned at some point in the near future regardless of their actions. The Twitter thread mentions the fire that started in the area around the same time because a tree fell, or some other inciting event could have happened. While PG&E should be held accountable for failing to uphold legal standards of inspection, the Camp Fire or a similar one was likely even without negligence, so to compare PG&E to arsonists is misleading.
They've been willfully negligent and reckless to the infrastructure they own to service their customers.

In this case we're not even talking about tree trimming, we have a 100 year old tower. It's obvious it will fail soon, there should be an internal maintenance program to replace/update it. There are no such programs, PGE operates in a way that there would never be such a program. PGE should be held liable for predictable out comes of its behaviours. (see all it's other catastrophic failures across the state)

A normal company would not exist after one PGE level negligent catastrophe. PGE is still around because it holds the state hostage to our energy infrastructure. This is not acceptable.

The key recurring theme is negligence. That's the reason PGE faces such high liabilities for the disasters it causes. This is not an act of God.

I believe it's totally possible to operate a for profit utility that's safe and reliable. PGE can't do that, now how can california untangle this mess.
Snowflake is solidly a B2B analytics app. It is, and I don't mean this dismissively, nothing new. They do it very well, and their market performance agrees with that notion, and they are innovating within their field, but data warehousing is complicated, especially at scale and they're not breaking new ground by providing a better solution for that. For a small company's analytics, I can download a CSV file and do all my analysis in Excel. But at a bigger company, when that "CSV file" is terabytes, possibly even petabytes of data, it's going to take a bit more of work to deal with it. For companies who's core expertise isn't shoveling around data like that and loading it into a database, it's reasonable to contract with a vendor to do that. Snowflake is just one among many other vendors who do this.

To answer your question, what's great is that anybody who can SQL can use this, developers and business analysts alike. Developers who want data to back up product decisions will use this to answer, eg, how many customers use feature A vs feature B, and then use that information to choose to build either feature C or feature D. Business analysts want answers about the business, and if they have to write SQL to do it, then they'll partner with someone who can, or more likely, just learn SQL. (This is why "data scientist" is a hot new career path.)

Corporations that are in a place to be giving Snowflake a million dollar contract most likely already have a similar system already in place, either homegrown or via a competitor. (Eg Amazon Redshift.) Thus, their positioning depends on the customer, but for customers that previously already had a million dollar contract just with a different vendor, their focus is on why their product is super-amazing-awesome compared to their competition. (Which, and the market agrees, it is.)

patio11 has a thread on just how unseen some of the niches of software is - https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1235919318329643008

Software is like an iceberg - there's a wild world of software that none of us have heard of. It seems strange that it's possible for Snowball to succeed given that it's "essentially a stream of data that needs experts in order to use it", but the same thing is true about the Internet in the 1980s.
I've been using the beta since they put it up and it's been very solid. Not only that, my phone actually got a lot faster. Plus the new privacy features are huge (eg; restricting which photos are accessed, tracking by apps, etc.)
I also went to boarding school at 13. I wonder if just giving your kids more freedom would have a comparable impact.
This is a really cool resource that contains some magical bits. For example:

> Week 8 July 26th 0400 Realized that the GRIB files I downloaded yesterday were lower resolution weather, and did not rightly show the severity and extent of the weather running along the coast of BC. Upon seeing the detailed forecast this morning, we triple-reefed the main and braced for impact. The weather was horrible. We got huge waves, lots of wind and thick, thick fog. I was very discouraged, disheartened with what lay between us and our goal, yet another monster on the ocean, one my body and mind were just not up to facing. We were both sad, and angry for a while. We sat inside wishing it'd all end now. Then a group of dolphins appeared in the fog. A large group! Devine saw them swimming around the boat, they kept us company for a long while. We could hear them chatting through the hull, like several squeaky toys were being squeezed underwater. Everytime I heard a squeak it made me smile, it made us feel better and gave us the courage to push on. Thank you dolphins for being there with us, as always.

I also enjoyed the philosophical musings at the end.
Wind, ice, squirrels, birds, snakes and trees are going to cause power lines to fail and create sparks so while perfectly maintained power lines will fail less often failures will still occur. If the world is a tinderbox from now on there is a choice to be made between energized overhead power lines and no risk of fire.
> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?

I can't really say it's my favourite audiobook series, but the one I seem to be listening to relentlessly is Winnie the Pooh. The version I have is narrated by Dame Judi Dench, and the characters read by well known actors such as Stephen Fry, Geoffrey Palmer and Sandi Toksvig.
Great article. Loved it!
Big Sur was a huge speedup on my 2016 touchbar MBP.
They do little but do right to secure dominance. Steam Machine didn’t work but Steam and PC gaming industry survived from PS4 and Microsoft Store. They let Oculus and later HTC run with their core VR knowledges but SteamVR/Valve Index is still considered the best platform/headset hands down.
None of the `toonified` images shown on the page looks like the person in the photo.

OTOH I could immediately guess if you've shown me one of these photos: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=leonardo+di+caprio+toon&iax=images...
Sorry, I have little knowledge on Cuelang.

@mpvl is one of my most admired Googler. I promised to contribute to the Cue project, but haven't found time (typical startup employee situation, but it seems there is no trouble to find time surfing hacker news...).
I'm confused and haven't found an answer in the comments yet -- he won't release the audiobook on Amazon because of DRM -- but he is releasing the ebook on Amazon? Isn't that also DRM?

Is he just picking his battles one by one? Or is somehow the Amazon ebook DRM acceptable whereas the audio isn't?

(Genuinely curious...)
Few failures in the real world tend to be a single-source problem. Hence the swiss-cheese model [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
You don't have to go back far (author -> paper -> author affiliations -> sponsoring foundation ...) before you literally find Steve Bannon's face staring out of the page at you.

I have no idea whether the arguments in the paper are credible or not (I'm not technically qualified to assess them) but the source seems to have a very clear political agenda. That doesn't invalidate their claims but I can't take them seriously without hearing from a more independent source.
I agree that static site generators could really use some better quick start features. But i disagree that turning on WordPress is any less complex. There's a lot more moving parts that your responsible for with wordpress than having a folder full of markdown files. The benefit of a CDN is the fantasy it gives you of people reading your blog en mass. And also it's all managed elsewhere and they handle ssl for you easily.

but you know hike your own hike and all that.
Political appointees who have enormous incentives to keep electricity prices as low as possible.
So that means it doesn't have a Blueray Player.

I thought they might have been selling a digital version of the whole PS5. Both stupid of me, but will happen at some point I guess.
That was amusing. I sort of look like I should be an extra in "Braveheart"
I was reminded to think I found "the solution" in the past, "After the lost of 'the feeling for an I' -to clarify my thoughts- a phase of a conditioned ego -also selfishness- began.. Wasn't jesus eating fish ?", -'thoughts'-(crossed out) stimulus came overwhelming, not ? P-:
> Sorry to kind of jump off of you here, but what do you mean by "diversity is good"? Diversity of what? If we have 5 people that all think the same but they're all different races, is that good? Is that better than or worse than 5 people of the same race with diversity of thought?

Some people got fired for framing the problem exactly as you framed it:

https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...

The irony is that the person that was fired was part of that "minority" the ideologues who wanted her head are supposed to support at first place.
A fairer statement might be its a red herring to criticize any campaign for not getting the popular vote when that's not the game they are playing to win.

But you're right -- he might never have actually gotten a popular vote.
> a plucky tech whizkid sticking it to a surveillance state infiltrated by megacorporations

I mean, that's the ‘Little Brother’ dilogy, perhaps with the exception of megacorporations.
No, making unwanted complements on physical appearance is considered harassment. Knowing how to politely comment on someone's appearance is a learnable skill. (granted there's an assumption that certain kinds of comments on physical appearance are presumed unwanted, but I think that's reasonable.)
> In intergenerational households - in Asian cultures at least - it is still generally the older generations calling the shots

I think this is the simplest answer to why most people are opposed to it - they fundamentally don’t want anyone else calling the shots on their lives to any extent.
Was the whole point!

Only jew companies allowed! 2000 year old war we have lost!
At this point bloggers seem to mostly use 0-day to mean: i havez cool 1337 hackorz skillz, regardless of merit.
You can't make them happy, so at least be honest. The lede is buried, and user-blaming language like "We need to eliminate both the confusion and the misuse that exists within our offerings," implying that the users did something wrong, when it was in fact the company that got the pricing wrong.

Not to mention the misleading infographic with the checkmarks (which displays the important information in a more dim, harder-to-notice color and displays old outdated information in bold black which goes top to bottom) or the interstitial with the dark pattern button that says "I don't want to save 40%" in order to dismiss.
The rural/urban divide has existed since the birth of the US. See Jeffersonian v Hamiltonian economies.
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The claimed “objectively” better translator is DeepL.

You need to read like 8 paragraphs deep to get to that and there is no real explanation as to why it is objectively better - just a link to an article where some journalists apparently thought it was better.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
The irony of suggesting cleanup cost here, I just don't know. Cleaning up maintains the invariant. You have successfully put the intrinsic price tag on the externality. Well done.
Here's an example from my field: "The derivatives of the finite-build coils are computed -- with almost no additional effort from the authors -- using automatic differentiation."
Well, what kind of scientist are you, if you are too lazy to take derivatives? /sarcasm

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP20/Session/BP14.32
The idea is to be able to prove to the IRS and anyone else that might care that your finances are totally separate. Our accountant strongly recommended this when we set up an LLC a few years ago.
I get what you mean (I bought sublime text and merge) but

> It doesn't look designed to me — it just looks like an accretion of features placed around

isn’t a lot of programming like (despite our best efforts)?
> The research appears to explain how mammal brains are able to temporarily decouple mind and body – though it's still not clear why they have this ability.

Ancient mammals had access to natural drugs and, with drugs being drugs, used them. What may have started as a small upper eventually became a dissociation, as we sought more and more of the stuff. Fixing your life purpose in the process, to benefit the species, is certainly something that evolution may have selected.
> my SE 16gb space is running out.

If it is music, i found iTunes Match is the solution. Like $40/year.
Why use windows 8.1 today? Windows 10 was a free upgrade and a major improvement.
It's not going to solve all your problems but dhall can fix your first few gripes. I've been using it for several months and it's an excellent way to write configuration imo.
> Even worse, if someone "near" you in an official Facebook VR space blocks or reports a user, even if you're just minding your own business, your behavior (including motions and speech) may be tracked by these same silent, invisible Facebook moderators. That data can be stored on Facebook's servers indefinitely without you being notified.

Yikes
B. B. B. B bullshit!

They've just made the whole world jump when they say jump!

Good goyhim you all are!
They could have but again, why? Each of those companies already have bigger hardware and software platforms and none of them are really behind Oculus in computer vision, so what would Oculus give those other companies?

Google (with Lenovo and the Mirage Solo) and Microsoft (with Hololens) had stand alone headsets before the Quest.
I didn't say America's median population or poverty class was more poor than other developed countries, I said they're just a lot more poor than these statistics let on. Big difference.
Exactly, there is no way ARM is worth 40 B to Invidia, unless they are going to use it to arm-twist their competition.

Just look at ARMs annual net, multiply by 10, multiply that by 2 assuming starry-eyed optimism about you being better at generating value from ARM IP, you’re still far from 40 billion.
glasses mess it up
MacBook’s touchpad is so good that I was not using the mouse anymore just a few weeks after having my first Mac. It happened naturally and at some point I just stopped connecting the mouse.
They entirely rewrote something because apples implementation wasn't good enough, that doesn't feel appley to me.

"Appley" would be living with the limitations of apples implementation because apple knows best, and they tried their hardest to lock you out from any alternative option.
it is easy to figure out passport number in a picture of ticket posted on Instagram
Try ublock origin, I saw no ads on this site.
For clarity: "private disclosure", even to the vendor, doesn't mean anything. At the point a vulnerability is publicly disclosed, patch or no patch, users can mitigate it (if only by ceasing their use of the affected software). "Zero" refers to the interval elapsed since the public, meaningful, disclosure of the vulnerability.

If I find an RCE in Cisco IOS and report it Cisco, who sits on it for a few dozen months, and you later find the same RCE and circulate it amongst your friends, who exploit it, your friends are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability.
How does that make them very different? The latest version of the software is still exploitable in either case. In my opinion, that is why it's useful to call them 0-days until they are patched.
I think you misread my comment like many others. I made no claim we're doing worse than other developed countries. I just pointed out that these statistics don't capture the entire picture and we're worse off than they let on.
The expectations that the blog sets up are in the positive mood. It should really start off with, "This is going to really suck, everyone, and in fact it might be the worst thing you heard about this year. Just kidding, it's slightly better, but...". But instead it builds up positive expectations. Anyone sufficiently jaded just has to fight the urge to believe this fluff while desperately scanning to find the place where they tear it all down and tell you what is happening with the product, after needlessly building up for paragraphs at a time.
They do, when they introduced the precision touch-pad. However ironically it created a lot of problems in software that responded poorly to the high precision events. Chrome being one of the most obvious offenders, took months for them to finally fix it (hence edge scrolling so much nicer then chrome on its release).

These days it just works though.
Not so sure. Don't remember the exact details but it involved a post on the shroomery website and another one on Stack Overflow and he was using the same handle on various sites. It seemed much easier to unravel than exploiting the Tor network, it was almost surprising it took them that long.
Yes it is, but launching it from the system tray icon forces you to use their interface and it is a pain. Like I said, this specific issue is not a deal breaker, but if their other features take a turn for the worse the way this has then it would be time for a change.
In addition, as the original twitter stream says, climate change promoted additional growth of vegetation, which added even more fuel for wildfire. It would be an interesting topic of research to see which one contributed more to the proliferation of wildfire we are observing in the west coast.
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That is a nice quote, but not helpful. This is a scenario that can happen and does happen, and that needs to be taken into account. Running and supporting anything of appreciable complexity and keeping it secure and legal is not free. I self-host a bunch of things and I do feel this pain quite acutely at times. This can be a very strong argument in favor of SaaS snd should not just be brushed aside.
That was interesting. I felt like my face and head were ‘buzzing’/throbbing and I didn’t particularly enjoy it. It does seem to have some kind of effect outside of what I normally associate with an emotional response to sound/music. It’s kind of like a cat purring, as other commentators on YT said.
SolveSpace looks like a dead project though.

EDIT: was wrong, it's still under dev.
Facebook is officially killing off the Oculus Rift line
I think it's been easy to miss a lot of Valve's recent work since they haven't been cranking out games. Here are a few things since 2013 when DOTA2 was released:

* SteamOS, Steam Machine, Steam Controller, Steam Link (2015) hardware, porting Steam, Source, and tooling to Linux (and patching Linux to improve gaming performance). Cross platform and streaming features. Facilitating porting of games to Linux.

* Source2 (2015) wrote a new game engine and ported DOTA2 to it. Neither is a small undertaking.

* HTC Vive VR (2016) hardware, software, tooling, and VR content. None a small undertaking.

* Valve Index (2019)

* Half-Life: Alyx (2020)

In addition, there were a few projects and games that never made it to market and a few I probably missed. I'm really happy to see them trying things nobody else is, even when they fail.
To the best of my knowledge, that claim is not accurate. Police are issued hollow points because over-penetration is a much bigger concern in an urban, civilian area. In a military context, over-penetration is less of a concern, FMJ ammo is much cheaper, and the 1899 Hague Convention (which the US did not actually sign, but most other major powers did) technically forbid it. Special forces have been using hollow points for a while though, and they were adopted for general use by the US Army in 2015 along with the new M17 (Sig Sauer P320) sidearm.
If the forest is so sensitive that hammer sparks set off a fire, maybe no humans belong in the forest - except for the humans proactively trying to manage burns.
That's fair, I guess I'm a bit biased there by the ecosystem I've been using for decades. I was just thinking of this old stack as a nice middle ground, it's so boring pretty much every hoster is good at managing the major moving parts without any lock in.
No comments here is interesting. Massive day for Snowflake and I'm excited. Fewer companies using Oracle products thanks to them.
Understanding end to end (E2E) testing
https://imgur.com/r/TheSimpsons/0F2Kvyu
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That's a very unique nerd-snipe you just experienced.
https://xkcd.com/356/
After declining the trackme consent, the NPR shows a text-only version at https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=913565163

With reader mode turned on that's all I need, thank you!
as we know the oculus platform is a wash with adverts.

all the games we've bought produce accurate and targeted profile that allow facebook to recommend new games with a high degree of accuracy.
> Just to note, it is possible for an academic who is not part of a group to interview many members of the group, and combine other sources of information, and end up knowing more about "the experience" of that group than most individual members of that group.

This is a common fallacy. Statistics don't substitute for qualia. (much as we say the plural of anecdote is not data, it is also not firsthand experience or even necessarily understanding)

Further, "Having experience with the ghetto" isn't what people are discussing when we discuss the importance of diversity. There are still common experiences between wealthy racial minorities and poor ones, that white Americans don't experience. Try reframing this fallacy in terms of say, women and men, or gender minorities. It doesn't work.
> "Every moment needed to be usefully or pleasantly employed."

Personally, the 2'000 year old formulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Poetica_(Horace)#Key_conce...

in which every moment should be instructively or pleasantly employed (the difference between useful and enlightening being roughly equivalent to the difference between working and hacking), is preferable.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Edit: Incidentally, Paul Lauterbur's connection was MRI.
Get a life outside of work so you will come to realize how meaningless it is.

If after that all you still care about is money and being able to brag about having a white collar job at some dumb tech company go somewhere else.
That's just writing-for-commission. I think that model is quite widespread among small-scale writers, of the Tumblr sort: with fanfics and such. At least, I know that artists can rake in quite some monies if they draw in a modern web-hipster style and agree to portray someone's fantasies. Specifically porn fantasies, and more specifically furry porn fantasies.
Here is a technique that is used to uncover hidden services:

1. purchase VPS products at a bunch of providers who accept bitcoin / crypto

2. ddos your target

3. see if you notice any of your hosted boxes go down

4. once you know the provider pop them (they're usually running some shitty WHMCS or similar homebrew solution, old Cpanel, etc. etc. and they're almost always resellers and amateurs) and move laterally to your target

When the feds do it against online drug markets (and they have been for years) they have the bonus of having decent network insight / view by working with backbone providers

There is just no way to hide multi-Gb of traffic