skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently no documented megafires occurred in California before 1970, according to NASA:

https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2830/six-trends-to-know-about-...

While yes, the earth is unpredictable and humans should aim to be adaptable, if we have identified trends that look dangerous then ideally we want a political and value system that rewards steering away from them.
The cost of this fire was $85b. If this sort of event could be avoided or mitigated by disincentivising the behaviour that caused it (by putting the occasional exec in prison for negligence) I guess it's likely prison would be quite a bit cheaper overall.

You do go on to agree that there should be disincentives for antisocial behaviour, so I think mostly we agree. Only that perhaps I would consider incarceration a reasonably cost-effective disincentive for such behaviour.
In my opinion, you don’t understand the Rubik’s cube if you don’t know how to solve larger ones. I’ve never held a 5×5×5 or larger in my hand, but I know I can solve it or any larger one easily.

Variants such as dodecagons can be a little trickier, as knowledge doesn’t transfer as easily, but if you understand the cube, you still should be able to solve them reasonably quickly.
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As someone who obviously cares about open software, how do you feel about Apple's increasingly consumer hostile actions and their walled garden ecosystem? Haven't they "embraced, extended and extinguished" Linux in a very real way?
At some point there's going to be a lightning or something and the fire will happen anyway.
Isn't that true of any building though? Where I live most houses have ceramic roof tiles, and even though they are supposedly long-lasting, after 60-80 years they do need replacing (most home-owners replace them much more frequently, every 10-20 years). I've replaced tiles on my grandparents' house which was around 60 years old, because they became brittle and started cracking after hundreds of temperature cycles, hailstorms etc.
Maybe just a sign you can’t even give RDR2 away for free ;)
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stdint.h, inline, real booleans, designated initializers, snprintf etc...
> To me, the Go approach takes your approach to major upgrades - reserve them for when you do something like rewriting the API. That's to me isn't a good assumption to bake in, I'd like to change a single function signature without having to copy my entire library to a new folder.

Then make a new function within the same folder that works in a new way. If necessary, mark the old function as deprecated. An exception can be made if the function never worked to begin with, but that should really have been cought by tests or people using a pre-release version of the library.
The original too!

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag
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I've never seen a difference above a few hundred bucks a pair. It's diminishing returns above that.
I also had the beta for a few months and work exclusively on TS development for work.

Nova is a great editor but the hard thing is taking a step back and realizing that Microsoft has clearly designed VS Code to be the Typescript Dev tool in the same way that XCode is the Swift/SwiftUI development tool.

The leaps and bounds in features JUST for TS is incredibly hard to replicate mostly because it’s almost Microsoft’s exclusive goal with VSCode development.

I imagine if one doesn’t work in TS that Nova is far more competitive, it is not a bad IDE at all when judged on what IDEs prior to VSCode meant.
Oh yeah, when I say non-split I mean fully rectangular layouts where the left and right hands are perfectly parallel. If you have clearly separated left and right sides that counts as split for me, even if they're within the same case.

That being said obviously you have more flexibility if you have fully separated sides, but it does tend to make the keyboard harder to carry around.
i get plenty of ads using the old site too. How do you know they increased engagement?
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It's interesting because this looks at inflation from another angle. Some of the central bank money does eventually circulate in the economy but since the money goes to assets first, consumer inflation will always lag behind asset inflation and therefore we have a redistribution effect from the poor to the rich. Unless central banks adopt policies that distribute money evenly among the population they are going to keep distorting the economy.
South Africa’s downward spiral since 1990
Gotta love the XXI century.

Here I thought Google was the most ridiculous: if you post too many emojis on a YouTube livestream, you'll lose access to GMail, Google Drive, and all other services that are quite likely running your digital life and are important for your livelihood.
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Windows has a fsck equivalent called chkdsk, and as far as I recall it's available from command-line only safe mode, or whatever that thing is called from the boot menu.
No, I mean "almost indistinguishable" on a good network. I did use it once on a network where the Quest would occasionally drop down from a 5Ghz connection to a 2.4Ghz connection, and in that case you could definitely tell by the additional latency.
Let's just define Spec(R) = Hom(R,-) and call it a day.
I haven't updated yet, but I sure hope those "address bar pills" are editable ... That's one of my major peeves in webmail clients, which means a typo in the email address requires me to retype the whole thing.
Also documented in this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RWgnOFycA0g
I picked up a Clojure project I wrote three-four years ago last month and upgraded it to all its latest dependencies.

No breaking changes.

The HTML-based applications I've written going back the last six years all still work on modern browsers.

The few apps I've written for Android didn't work across all Android versions even when in active development. Android really is the best example of how miserable development can be when backwards compatibility (or really, just compatibility) isn't taken seriously.
Very good timing, six days (23/9) before the European Web Accessibility directive becomes effective for older websites. :)

For those outside Europe: websites of public sector bodies will have to meet WCAG 2.1 AA.
I know a couple of ex-AWS folks who sort of say the opposite. us-east-1 is supposedly less stable because they roll out updates and new services there first.
A giant planet candidate transiting a white dwarf – Nature
Fourier reportedly applied his eponymous series in verifying the vernacular architectural choice of 2-3 metre depth for cellars.

For a modern presentation, see
https://topex.ucsd.edu/geodynamics/HW3_2010_presentations/C_...

Autographic notes might be found in the vicinity of https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9061905f/f9.image.r=f...

The closest to a cellar discussion I find in his 1822 book is: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1045508v/f43.item
but in this book I only find him working out the zero variation depth, not the depth for six-month temperature lag. Anyone have a title for the cellar paper? (just before giving up I found Mémoire sur la température du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires, which mentions that one would need a good sampling of local reflectivity and plenty of computation to derive global heating due to insolation.)

related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth#Radiometric_datin...
It's not about in which part the net is fast, it's about that the biggest economy in Europe is sleeping.
Netdata versus Datadog: root cause analysis with metric correlations
Excellent read, if you are going to be using Tor and want to stay off the grid, ie. journalism, keeping sources hidden - you need a laptop (netbook that has no personal info, pre-loaded with your own bridge node as first hop) and a wifi stick - only connect from remote wifi sites and don't create any patterns in visiting your physical locations nor sit in front of security cameras. Swapping the wifi stick between each use will make you virtually invisible.
I can see the inline images. Perhaps it's blocked on your browser?
Dust May Have Controlled Ancient Human Civilization
It wouldn't surprise me to see it appear as a standard feature at some point, but it'll take a while for them to tune it to properly cope with all the awful wireless access points out there. Virtual Desktop can get away with occasionally having problems connecting to your computer, or latency introduced by being on a bad network, because its 3rd party software which requires a bit of technical knowledge just to be able to get it installed with SteamVR support. That filters out the people who aren't going to understand the concept of network latency somewhat, but having it as a standard feature would mean anyone with £300 to spend on a Quest is going to expect it to work perfectly everytime.
Who would have thought that systemic racist public policy
would have such profound long term consequences.
If you haven’t seen it, you may be interested in https://youtube.com/watch?v=q6AsllXpKBU, which combines solving Rubik’s cube with juggling (1 minute, 41 seconds per cube)
TL;DR: ~copyright law~

Fixed as per PinguTS: trademark law. D'oh.
Tor relays are publicly known so you don't need traffic pattern analysis to know if someone is using Tor. Or were you referring to something else?
Got us reading so that's good
Moore's Law vs. Quantum Computers
This is simply absurd. Please stop things making up.
I think the lesson is you can't rely on the experience of traditional house builders to build a robust underground one.
GM level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning (2019)
I think that's a very poor argument, for a few reasons:

1) We are talking about criminal negligence, saving money is not a good reason of not dealing with crime.

2) we are talking about parts not being replaced in 100 years, the OP is not asking for some crazy level of maintenance thats going to break the bank.

3) once you take into account collateral damage and potential punitive damages, is it actually any cheaper?

4) whats the point of having cheap electricity if ut's inreliable, and ready to fail at any moment?
There is no such thing as a "felony" in Europe. Besides, not all European countries are part of the EU, so they wouldn't share the same legal framework.
I still don't understand why Facebook management has allowed Instagram and WhatsApp to exist where they pretend your account is a separate entity to Facebook and just makes do with having it linked via shadow profile.

Yet with Oculus they're being so hard and forcing it into the FB infrastructure at the most critical point in it's lifespan. Most tech critics of it are all perfectly happy using Instagram, I just don't understand why Oculus accounts couldn't have just remained the same as that other than some executive being judged by some poorly thought out metrics and using this to meet them.
Like the idea of using music but since we have to take into account that the participant's mind acts as the "gate" to the entity it makes little sense to expect the entity to be able to repeat a pattern that has not entered the participant's consciousness.

One way this could work however would be if the same entity revealed itself to two participants. Then it would be quite straightforward to see if information/music/other shared by between one participant and the entity could be accessed by the other when participant when communicating with the entity.
I wonder about the CPU&GPU performance of Quest 2. The biggest pain point of Quest 1 was low detail in the scenes in supported games, mainly due to low spec. I know it's a compromise when you are not hooked with a cable to a PC, but I wish they could use Apple's fastest ARM CPUs :)
If the difference in performance of CAS vs TLS is a concern, you're likely better off using a thread per cpu and using 10,000 fibers with carefully managed stack sizes which doubly reduces that memory concern.
Its harder because experience is not generally there - people usually don't live in a cave.
I am using TBSync for Office 365. It only works one way. Events in my O365 calendar show up in my TB calendar, but not vice versa.

RSVP doesn't also work right now from the TB calendar. Author claims he might fix it by the end of the year.
So much for "Freedom" tower.
Nope. Not copyright law but trademark law.

It seems, you didn't even read until the end of the article:

> Therefore, the most likely answer is that the distinctive shape of 1 World Trade Center is either trademarked (although I could not find it within USPTO databases) or is so recognizable that it is easily defensible via a common law trademark and the game developers were unable to secure a license to use the trademark before their deadline.
The proactive indexing sure does require a decent CPU and a good bunch of RAM, but most developers have both these days. I've noticed on Windows that anti-virus is a major bottleneck for Jetbrains editors, even with a decent CPU and plenty of RAM.

In my experience, the lazy autocomplete takes less resources at start but the result is that autocomplete suggestions are loaded in as files are being parsed. The larger projects grow, the slower this process is.

I suppose slower CPUs like the i3 series and low i5 series Intel chips will probably have a lot of trouble with the indexing. You need a laptop with a decent sustained core speed to do the work (which can be a major deal breaker in cheap Windows laptops and the lower tier Macbooks), but the few seconds wait you get on a professional machine when a project gets loaded in is well worth the wait to me.
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The inverse point of view of this is that security, as everything else, is easier for stacks that are commoditized.
If you define man as human and we have open events to let people determine who's fastest, it's totaly reasonable to assume he is actuality the fastest man alive. On the other hand this isn't packaged as some sort of scientific claim and has a lower burden of proof.

I don't think anyone beyond an anecdotal context is explicitly claiming hawking was the smartest and either way, it's not measurable and so is inherently subjective.

Delicious, subjective opinion.

All of these are reasonable statements, it's clear up front that they are subjective statements of opinion or their scopes keep them within validity.

Saying a magnetic field is the strongest in the universe based on a measurement in defined units is drastically different type of claim than the ones you mentioned. In this case it's an invalid claim so we should probably stop saying it.
Couldn't someone set up a "business" that proxy-buys for a large number of people? There's obviously a decent market for non-facebook-login version of the Quest 2.
> You’ll see that they are acknowledging the trademark holders, NOT the copyright holders.

In the end Steven guesses its a trademark issue
Kubernetes clearly, obviously and rather openly IS the application server of the current decade. I am saying this as a dev who has seen up close: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Tomcat and enterprise WebSphere.

Now you can have all this complexity even in other languages than Java.
Thats huge
It seems absurd to me that buildings and things you can photograph in public are copyrightable/trademarkable.

You can't remove a building from your daily experience. Buildings have permanence. They seem cultural at a more fundamental level than movies or music.

How is this going to work with all the photogrammetry developments for games? I guess we're forbidden from the wholesale reuse of anything in public eye?

Has this been tested in court?

At some point the tech will mature to a point where it's more work to remove things than to scan them and leave then as is. Can we argue that these laws are an unjust burden?
Classic knee-jerk reaction. Don’t use Facebook and they literally can’t do anything with their data. I’ve stopped using FB beyond messenger and I doubt my data helps them in anyway shape or form.
Why swap wifi sticks? Why not just change the MAC address via the OS between each use?
Seems like their biggest problems are with the Arkansas climate. Like if you said "give me the closest thing you can to Cambodia, but at the 3th parallel" Arkansas would be tough to beat. Building the same home into the side of a hill with proper drainage at a more northerly latitude in a drier climate would likely yield much better results because it would demand so much less ability to shed moisture from the house.

Also it seems from the construction details I can infer from the article that the concrete serves as not only the structure keeping the earth out but as the interior walls to which everything that shouldn't get wet is attached. This seems dumb. Floating construction, if only on pressure treated spacers and foam, would likely work much better. If you really wanted to go all out you could have an air gap between the concrete and everything else i.e. Titan 2 silo.

Also, why the hell use drywall? Subways and tropical countries tile the crap out of everything for a reason. Sure it's cold but that's a better problem to have than damp drywall.
It's clear enough from the text.
Unfortunately it’s slim pickings in the Android world for small phones too, unless you pick up something like the Palm with no software updates from launch and an atrocious battery.
I'm not sure whether I'd consider Nova to feel that much more "Apple-y", especially when that meant something. BBEdit does that, this just feels a bit too MacOS/iOS convergent.
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the debate would not need to be about the morality of issues but on identifying the problem to be solved and evaluating efficient ways to do it.

For example in some cases the best solution might be too reorganize company values.
That is not even close to being reasonable.
See also: tattoo artists wanted a cut of the video games that depicted NBA players with “their” art.

They lost.

https://www.si.com/nba/2020/04/06/nba-2k-ruling-tattoo-artis...

The concept of intellectual property is a blight on our society.

Did you know that Apple can notify you that they have revoked your iOS license at any time, without cause, and, under a strict interpretation of copyright law, make it illegal for you to then use or power on the phone that you own?

It’s really crazy how the copyright cartel has consolidated the power over the software and songs and stories and art that belong to every member of our culture.
I see no links between infosec and functional programming.
That is what I heard as well, but I still don't grasp it. Infinities have different sizes too, right? I imagine something like this: the probability of subatomic particle of a functional whale appearing due to quantum fluctuation drops faster and faster with each additional particle, while the additional space of infinite universe increases only with d3. I am no mathematician or physicist though.
> ... but it can often be some specific third party program, service, extension, or hardware...

Which was often also the reason people didn't upgrade Windows. (or try MacOS or Linux)
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You are basically Amazon's ideal and loyal customer! Only consume things within Amazon's world.

Fortunately, Cory Doctorow is an esteemed author that has enough avid fans who would buy his content even though it's not on Amazon.
There is another aspect as we go to more and more realistic worlds. In Google Maps I can ask to blur my house. As we go to more and more detailed worlds, can I ask Sony to blur my home too?
Right! D'oh.
With the right drainage from the high side it wouldn't be, but without proper drainage it can pool together there and cause problems.
Unfortunately that is the case. There are certain buildings in the US, or the Eifel Tower in Paris at night, you are not allowed to reproduce without obtaining a license from the according copyright/trademark holder.

Here is a comprehensive list with their restrictions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/known-image-r...
You had a look at Textmate lately? It's still getting updates and works as nice as it ever did.
Odd, a recent Firefox update must have removed it because I've had it installed for ages and it was gone.
> the only meaningful failure here is repeated lack of maintenance

The proximate cause of the fire was a broken hook.

The other failures were:

* Hook was not maintained

* Tower was not adequately inspected

* Record keeping was insufficient to recognise the need for maintenance

* Power lines were built in hard-to-maintain, fire-prone places

* Nobody within PG&E sounding the alarm about this the hook problem specifically, or the lack of maintenance more broadly (or not sounding it loud enough)

* Lack of controlled burns (or equivalent forestry management) that would have reduced the spread of fire

* Homes built in fire-prone areas

* Low population density, with higher per-capita costs of infrastructure maintenance

* Dry conditions, due to climate change, due to energy policy(?)

* PG&E's bizarre blend of the worst parts of public and private business, and their perpetual bankrupt-but-still-operating status.

* Lack of political leadership able/willing to come up with and enact a master plan to stop wildfires
Researchers discover effective pathway to convert carbon dioxide into ethylene
What does Microsoft Flight Simulator do?
Maybe because the audience on Twitter and Hackernews is different?
Agreed. The main problem here appears to be the location not being very well-suited for underground housing. So, if this is a v1 underground house for the area, a lot of unintended oversights are to be expected, especially if the construction cost settled around the median for the area.