skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SEPA same minute for sure is free for private customers in some EU countries.
I'm allergic to cats.

Pets also add complexity to life, e.g. when you want to go away for any length of time.
The Great Mill Valley Fire stories will be horrific. They are inevitabble.
Sure, and I think at least the headline ("ill-thought-out use of Excel") avoids blaming MS or Excel itself.

Ultimately tools are built for particular things, and if you choose to use a tool for something it's not built for, and it breaks catastrophically, that's on you.
Wow, I guess my whole Jewish republican family has lost their right to be considered self respecting jews!

It's amazing how frequently the attempt to hurl the white supremacy card, is actually patronizing, condescending, and racist in itself.
Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear
Greta Thunberg is, of course, correct – Adam Smith Institute
Huh, an e-ink tablet with Android >6 (or 4.2 which was ubiquitous for a while). I almost lost the hope to see this.

Pity that it's already three versions behind, of course.
I remember using this in 2013/2014 and there were some serious bugs and issues with silos at load.

I'm assuming it's proven scalability? The grain/silo virtual actor model was always cool though the project abandoned it in the end.
I sit in a recliner and project 1080p onto the living room wall from two projectors. Previously, I did the same thing with three 4k 55" TV's.

Both setups are relatively inexpensive (especially for the "wow" factor) and can be done in a reasonable size room.
> Just use mypy

Mypy doesn't work for code that isn't statically available before runtime. Though there are ways to do runtime type checking as well.
If you just need to click a button or two now and then, keynav is great. It’s one of the programs I have in a script to fetch automatically on fresh GNU installs, though it’s no replacement for vi bindings everywhere one can get them (vis, dwm, tmux, Pentadactyl, etc.)
Very fast, statically typed, clean language design with features like LINQ for data operations and fantastic async support, cross-platform, comprehensive standard library, advanced ORMs like EntityFramework and NHibernate, easy deployment including docker/self-contained/single-file, build anything from web/mobile/desktop apps, best-in-class IDE and tooling, Blazor UI component framework running .NET in the browser, solid gaming support with Unity, etc.

There's nothing quite like it, and I find myself coming back to it and doing everything faster. The only downside would be a smaller open-source ecosystem (for many various reasons) so you don't get all the "cool" libraries, although you there are more than enough to solve any problem.
My interpretation of the comment about trusting the randomizer was how do we trust that selection was actually made randomly?
You are an absolute madman! Haha
Hah... Microsoft already built an actor model on top of durable functions: they're called durable entities.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...
And I've cleaned up after many, many shitty engineers, one example being engineers who want to use a sledge hammer to drive a finishing nail and again, that's just one example.

And if you want to get personal to that level they all the same know it all personality who think they write MUCH better code than they actually do.

Pretty sure they cost companies even more money.

Luckily for me, I have the practical sense to know when to use what tool and so far it's worked out just fine. I wouldn’t use excel where not appropriate, so kindly don’t make assumptions.

But more power to you, keep shitting on tools that are more sophisticated than you probably think.

People who half know excel are the worse, they are the ones who know it just well enough to think it doesn't work at all.

Custom solutions are great - but aren't always the answer and with proper process Excel will work just fine in many use cases that you might not expect.

I could blab on about this forever, because, you know, there is a lot of gray area or whatever.
I think when you start pulling on that string you eventually end up at event sourcing because once you are keeping comprehensive immutable history of all your changes keeping the mutable record anywhere just starts to look like a liability.
Sure, but prop 13 guarantees its stasis. Why redevelop your single family home given to you from your parents when it would make your tax burden rise to market rate, which is probably enormous by now?
The issue with is excel is that its failure mode is suboptimal. Programming languages will generally crash at runtime when an unrecoverable
error occurs (index out of bounds, memory allocation failed, null pointer, etc). But excel just throws away your data?
It's all about the use case, man.

Within its constraints excel is great. Depending on the nature of your data and exactly what you are trying to do it can accomplish quite a bit.

The line between when to use excel and when to build custom stuff is not as clear as it seems, is all I'm trying to say.
In the Camp Fire that killed 100 people, the trees in the town of Paradise didn't burn. The buildings did.

Firefighters were shocked to enter the town and see so much foliage unburnt between the ruins of smoking buildings. You can see some of those pictures on the Wikipedia page for Paradise, CA.

While the trees and dry bush do provide the bulk of the fuel for fires, man-made structures are far more flammable than the forests that surround them, especially in the towns consisting of older structures that don't have modern anti-fire alterations.
On a visit a decade or two back, there was a rather sobering history of fire on the mountain (Tamalpias) at a popular stop.

From the about 1875 to 1930 there was a major burn every few years. There has now not been on since the 1930s, a few grassfires excepted.

Houses extend far up the mountain. Streets are narrow, steep, and twisted. Trees grow two, and sometimes within structures. Wood and cedar construction are common.

Yes, the fog helps. But it won't protect forever.
I think maybe you stepped out of .net at the wrong time. Pattern matching, records, discriminated unions (c# 10) etc are here and on they way. Lots of functional features being integrated into C# with every update.
I agree. Grid seemed great in theory, but in practice I almost never find myself using it. The number of use cases that flexbox doesn't satisfy is quite small, and the Grid syntax is a bit more tedious. It's just not worth the trouble most of the time.
Except you can do it if you know what you're doing.

No one is saying to manage millions of records etc.

But you can get more mileage out of excel than people think - and people who half understand it are the worse because they know enough to know that it doesn't work.

Custom solutions are great - but aren't always the answer and with proper process Excel will work just fine in many use cases.
A hunched sitting posture and little physical activity does likely impair the metabolism though. The human metabolism has adapted for things to be upright and moving all the time, not for sitting absolutely still with compression forces acting upon the abdominal intestines by being hunched over for hours at a time.

https://medium.com/@truppr/long-sitting-how-it-affects-your-...
Off by one errors are all alike; every excel error is an error in its own way.
> a) How relevant was your experience (as engineers) in building and growing startups?

Super relevant to building the product. I feel like to be successful, you have to be really, really good at a couple things. For us that was engineering + design. For another team it might be that they're good enough at sales that they can close big deals right off the bat.

Being great at engineering + design meant we could build the best product in our market, with a robust codebase that's free of errors (unit tests, CI/CD) and easy to scale.

> b) Looking back, what skills would you have liked to acquire before starting up?

Hmm. It might have been good to work at an early-stage SaaS startup before starting one. This would have given us a lot of context into pricing, sales, marketing, recruiting, etc. Problems that we kind of just had to figure out from scratch.

> c) How much of startups is marketing and networking compared to product and growth?

Most of our success can be attributed to a) building a great product, and b) getting it in front of people. B is all marketing. Ads, SEO, content, etc.

Now, some startups rely entirely on product + sales, and some startups are able to attract all of their customers with just product (esp consumer). It really depends on your product/market/company, and how your customers want to buy.
In the absence of government intervention, renters/homeowners insurance rates would rise to reflect actual fire risk. This would naturally result in people leaving risky towns.

But the government doesn't allow that to happen by over-regulating the insurance industry.
Oh good, my incessant squirming, leg-bouncing and position-shifting has some benefits!
The only Strongtowns article I've read that was about an area I know personally was factually and historically inaccurate.
How is that 'hybrid'? We've been doing exactly that for literally 20 years. How do you think all the pages like "privacy" or "terms and conditions" or the countless other non-dynamic pages are done?

It's just a website. Doesn't need anything fancy to do it.

Honestly, makes me despair at how over-complicated people make really basic stuff.
Despite one correlation, Betteridge's law of headlines still applies. 1 health benefit does not justify all the other claims made frequently.
Technically you'd have to round to 20 cents, since you can't get 10, 30, 50 etc. cents from 20s.
Gadget Graveyard: The Nintendo Virtual Boy
That's what Filemaker is supposed to be.
I worry that for me the regularity of the 9 to 5 is the problem, rather than what it is I'm doing from 9 to 5. I'm not sure if that is definitely the case, but I feel like I'd be so much better off if I could be in a situation where I worked 3 or 4 days a week, and not necessarily all in a row
Agreed.

However, if even Venice can achieve this given the corruption in Italy, then maybe there's hope for our species after all.
There was also the issue of the insurance companies refusing to pay out claims, paying bonuses to executives, and other shenanigans.
> But the bulk of the gains in the real world come from applying numerical technique on them.

> Most of the people doing research use numerical methods (often from first principles, so almost no analytical approach applied). They basically "won". When you look at the useful results in the discipline in the last 10-15 years, the numerical ones outnumber the analytical ones easily by a factor of 10.

I think this is probably true now in most fields (including fluid dynamics) but it doesn't mean that analytical techniques aren't useful. All it means is that they aren't used. Most people don't even attempt analytical techniques these days.

I've found time and time again people use very complicated (and difficult) numerical approaches where an analytical approach would get the same information faster, and often more information. It might take more thinking, yes, and not be as "sexy", but ultimately analytical approaches have their place.

I gave an example from my PhD in this other comment about how I analytically solved a series of nonlinear ODEs (approximately) to get a lot of insight into a problem that apparently people doing decades of numerical calculations couldn't figure out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683038

I'm planning to publish another paper on the subject that builds on this work, and one point I'm going to make in the paper is that I don't see how someone doing experiments or simulations could figure out the main result of that paper. It's not impossible, but would be far more difficult
Do you know if Sumeet has ever used Orleans? I'm going to need to see a Sumeetestimonial before I commit to a new framework.
North Orange county, too. Up in the Chino Hills and Anaheim Hills area. Family in Anaheim Hills has been evacuated for fires at least 4 times in the last decade and a half.
Awesome story! Reminds me a bit of Groovebook.
There's a difference between what an individual company can do, ceteris paribus, and what would make sense overall.

If people can work-from-anywhere and all such companies reduce salaries in expensive real estate areas, people would leave, then property prices and rents would fall, thus evening out the COL landscape. Both companies and employees would benefit at the expense of rent-seeking landlords.
Plaintiff attorneys don't want a competent judge, they simply want to win. An incompetent judge is fine if the incompetence is to their benefit.

What I wrote earlier, that plaintiffs choose which district to sue under, so they pick the district that they feel will have the strongest likelihood of ruling in their favor-- should not be controversial. This is Law school 101 type stuff.

I believe you when you say you are a patent attorney, but I also fear you are posting misinformation here.

I believe a competent law professor would talk about "plaintiff friendly" courts and what you've posted here, about "respected" judges, suggests you are an untrustworthy poster.
This would be much more convincing if the photo was timestamped (eg. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthenticationBy...)
> The town has a single, two-lane road for access, and nearly every house sits in the shade of oak trees and dry vegetation.

For the road component, this was mentioned in the PBS Frontline episode "Fire in Paradise" about the Camp Fire:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OX1PR2SCM

Basically for an event that occurs maybe once in 50 or so years, it's hard to justify the cost of widening it when it would otherwise receive so little traffic.

Personally, from what I've learned as a layman due to all of these news stories, it should at least be prudent (and feasible) to do controlled burns during the wet season around these types of towns to get rid of some of the dry vegetation.

Other than that, 'clear-cutting' about 30'/10m from houses would probably help a lot as well:

* https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...
McAfee, like Symantec, has a Compliance driven sales cycle. No one likes the software, few think it's useful, but businesses must buy it due to their regulatory burdens.

The name doesn't matter. The marketing doesn't matter. The features don't matter. The performance doesn't matter. Laws and Industry Groups matter.
Agreed; I think the crux of the problem is that CSV is not a format that supports metadata. And even if you somehow created such a convention/standard, it's impossible to upgrade all the existing users with 10+ year-old Excel installs; that ship has already sailed.
Indeed the grid based solution in the article depends on selector specificity in exactly the same way as this.
This page appears to show a graphic-embedded video showing the trajectory. https://www.universetoday.com/148041/video-shows-a-meteoroid...
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Again, though, the houses already exist. The firebreak might be doable, but who’s paying for it?
I read an article and I feel that this is a deflection of a guilt much more than Excel issue.
David Weber's "Honorverse" series of novels - which starts with On Basilisk Station - has the most believable science fiction "false science" approach I've yet seen in fiction.

There's a catch - you have to be OK with long-winded exposition - but the stories are really good, with a fascinating look at technology and culture of a not-too-distant future.
Tornados are comparatively small, short lived, not precipitated by localised human actions (e.g., fuel accumulation, ignition sources, though yes, climate change may have impacts), and don't spread once initiated, as fire does.

Yes, tornados can be deadly, yes, they're violent and sudden. But with alerts and shelter (a strong room or cellar ideally), eminantly survivable. Unlike erathquakes or hurricanes, damage isn't even especially widespread. A few hundred metres, at worst a kilometer outside the track, life goes own, modulo power outages and hail damage.

Floods, hurricanes, rising seawater, and wildfire are far more addressable risks. Arguably drought, heat, and disease as well.
Not super popular outside the cryptocurrency niche but BTCPay (https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver) is a good example and has been around for a while.
The trees were alive and had moisture, whereas the buildings had dead leaves and pine needles that were dry, so when fire brands/embers landed on them they had lots of kindling.

I'm not sure why firefighters would be shocked as the fire scientists at (e.g.) the USDA Forest Service have been doing research on this for many years:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM
Yes, the 'global warming' piece is almost comical in that almost every person in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, year in year out buy the latest iPhone and every tech gadget imaginable. The carbon footprints of these are huge. To then have the argument that we need to do something about climate change is so hypocritical. Just do proper forest management and keep the climate change for a different topic is my opinion on it. Because, if people really cared about global warming by lowering their usage of things, this is the wrong state to ever even come close to doing it.
It would be interesting to know how many acres of land a strong long track tornado 'destroys' in order to compare it to a fire.
I don't want to be overly negative/critical, but an observation: Facebook's decision to require Facebook logins for all Oculus products seems like a very good reason to branch out support other VR devices ASAP. Mandatory Facebooks is a concern for privacy-focused private users, but double a concern for work-related tooling.
So, you're saying, that there was a 100% probability of it working?
I'm sorry but that isn't true.

> Immediately upon his appointment as a district judge in 2018, Judge Albright went on a media blitz, letting everyone know that his court would welcome patent litigation.[149] The Waco Tribune-Herald reported that Judge Albright “let it be known in no uncertain terms that he would like his Waco courtroom to become a hub for IP cases.”[150] He attended dinners for patent litigators and patent owners to extoll the virtues of trying patent cases in Waco.[151] Judge Albright stated that he took the position in Waco because he “‘thought it was the perfect place to try and establish a serious venue for sophisticated patent litigation.’”[152] Most tellingly, he gave a presentation at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association titled, “Why You should File Your Next Patent Case Across the Street from the ‘Hey Sugar,’” referring to a candy store near his Waco courthouse.[153]

[149] Waco’s New Judge Primes District for Patent Growth, LAW360 (Feb. 12, 2019) https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1128078/waco-s-new-judge-....

[150] See generally Tommy Witherspoon, Waco Becoming Hotbed for Intellectual Property Cases with New Federal Judge, WACO HERALD-TRIBUNE (Jan. 18, 2020), https://www.wacotrib.com/news/local/waco-becoming-hotbed-for....

[151] See Scott Graham, Skilled in the Art: How Far Can Judges Go in Touting Their Districts?, LAW.COM(Sep. 3, 2019), https://www.law.com/2019/09/03/skilled-in-the-art-viasat-dem... (describing a dinner hosted by Ocean Tomo (a patent evaluation company) and featuring Judge Albright in which the judge “spread the word far and wide about how his Waco court would be a great place to try IP cases”).

[152] Id.

[153] See Britain Eakin, New West Texas Judge Wants His Patent Suits Fast and Clean, LAW360 (Oct. 25, 2019), https://www.law360.com/articles/1213867/new-west-texas-judge....
Yeah, a lot of trees are pretty fire resistant as well. Not all trees are kindling.
You can leave cats alone for a weekend without an supervision, just a bowl of food and some water.
I had to re-think "desks" after breaking my collarbone two months ago, and spent a lot of time in my make-shift couch lay-down desk. While I had full control over my lower arm and hand, moving my upper arm and shoulder was painful. The only position I could stay in for extended periods of time was laying down, and I needed to find a way to use both hands without shoulder pain.

On day 2, I discovered that I could spend hours lying flat on the couch with my legs propped up with cushions and a laptop on my 45deg legs. In that position, I could use the computer two handed for extended times as if I didn't have a broken collarbone.

Coming into the office to work (as COVID has been eradicated in my part of Australia) was harder since more than 20mins in an upright position (chair or standing) caused my shoulder to ache.

It took me a couple of weeks to work this out, but I ended up using a large upright shaped bean-bag as my office chair. I could mold the beanbag to give my arm support and sit the more reclined position that re-leaved aches. Having an Ikea standing desk helped, as I get into the bean bag and then lower the desk to match.

It's healed enough now to use regular chair and standing desk, but I learnt a lot about me and desk positions.

My main conclusion (after 15years of having a coding job) is that variation is key. There is no magic seating or standing position. Even if there was, it would be become uncomfortable eventually.

While probably the worst seating position for my back and posture, I have kept the beanbag chair at work, because using it occasionally feels good.

And, when at home I have continued to use the lying flat on the couch position, because again, it's different to how I usually use computers.

Which brings me to my main thought on this project (which I love the idea of): It's too permanent. I'm sure it'll feel amazing and comfy for a few days (or even weeks), but at some point for my body, it'd become just as annoying and uncomfortable as a regular desk.
The city and the people who live in it? Municipal bonds? Firezone income & sales taxes? It's like a special assessment in a condo when you haven't been managing your reserves properly and by law / ADA you MUST fix your elevator to make your building accessible for people who cannot walk up stairs.

As to how? Like many other govt infrastructure projects, eminent domain. Except this land nobody will be living on, it will probably just be uninhabited farm or forest land or already owned by the state.
It's easy enough to google, here's one to get you started

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Are...

FWIW I never said it had to be one or the other. But it certainly is the case that one of the two (climate change) is consistently downplayed and dismissed entirely as a major contributing cause. There are of course more contributing factors than just two, such as power lines sparking the fires.

It is not physically possible to manage the amount of forest in CA to the degree that it solves the problem. Help mitigate? Sure. Remember, you're talking something like 30 million acres.

Experts acknowledge that forest management is important and a necessary component. But again...57% is the Federal government and 33% is private.

Logically, there must be some point where the temperature+climate change become so severe that regardless of how much forest is cleared eventually all 30M acres become dry tinder, are consumed, and CA becomes a desert. Global climate change WILL eventually create that situation if not addressed and the amount of change required to cause that situation isn't as high as people might imagine. Some experts think it might already be too late.
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