skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wildfires are inevitable in a lot of the American West. It's a question of how you manage them--what you allow to burn and when, controlled burns, etc. "Not having wildfires" is not actually an option barring some specific fire causes like improperly maintained electrical equipment.
I remember that John McAfee was a strong supporter of prostitution. In one of the Libertarian party debates he said he is the most qualified person to support this issue because he married a prostitute.

McAfee represented the old west styled "good outlaw" stereotype. Sadly, their times has passed away.
I had no idea this was a common keybind. Tried this on my own laptop and it worked. What is the advantage that people feel it gives? Closer to the home row?
Actual blog post from Nvidia: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/06/23/studio-canvas-app/

Product page for Canvas with download: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/
He probably deserves it for his tech contributions, but unlikely in this day and age due to the sordid nature of his final few decades
John McAfee Reportedly Dead from Suspected Suicide in Spanish Jail
>What is something the rich have done with the intent to destroy the middle class?

Vigorously target labor unions. Lobby for substantial decreases in state and Federal taxation, reductions that have in turn necessitated major reductions in education spending and substantial tuition increases that hit middle class families [1]. Attempt (so far unsuccessfully) to privatize social security. Strongly oppose healthcare reform proposals that might reduce out-of-pocket spending.

PS The above examples are a very small part of the story. It's honestly shocking to me that the question even gets asked, or has to be answered.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-hig...
I agree that it's both broader and more complicated than what I wrote. At least in some states in the U.S., a neuropsychologist can diagnose ADHD, but can't write prescriptions for medications to treat it. Meanwhile, a psychiatrist can write prescriptions for a patient with ADHD, but might only do so after he reads a diagnosis from a neuropsychologist. Your experience may vary.

Also, diagnoses for disability accommodations (e.g., in education) are a whole different and complicated thing.
LTE but you can download music when on Wifi and keep it stored on the watch.
These environments are getting so hot and dry that it's very possible the forest will not be renewed after a fire: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2196213-forests-are-bec...
At least he doesn't have to fulfill that promise, albeit late.
We aren‘t two engineers anymore, we are seven. We still apply the same processes. I‘ve worked with huge codebases where you often you can’t know the entire system. Focus on what to build and do it well. If you touch something new, collaborate with others who know the part of the codebase. Either through PRs, pair programming or anything else that gives you confidence.
I assume this relates to the viral video on Reddit with the guy waving his hand across a stream of molten lava
Leaflet started because openlayers was very clunky. But since the major rewrite of openlayers v3 it's become a great choice and the author of leaflet has stated here on hackernews hat it's probably what you should use these days
Yeah right. https://unusualwhales.com/
Storage on the blockchain is too limited and too expensive to put the actual media files there. Afaik that's because the verification nodes need to have a copy of the current state of the VM, which contains everything ever stored on the chain / by smart contracts.
I don't mind being wrong and I will correct the article if needed. That being said, I'm interested in debating this, what if the PS1's GPU had implemented some sort of sub-pixel precision and edge antialiasing? Do you think the lack of floating-point vertex coordinates would have been noticeable? (I'm assuming the 'jitter' means the sudden jumps when polygons move slowly).
>Capitalism has all the murders and atrocities you can think of.

It's not even close to the combination of mass purges and economic failure-driven mass starvation under the Communists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

>It’s just not attributable to a single entity, but hidden behind ideas like „not profitable“. Ebola vaccine anyone? Tuberculosis? Cobalt exploitation? Climate change. Peak phosphorus. Pollution. How many annual death in the US are preventable with a better welfare system?

Agree with all of the above, no argument there.

>I shiver when privileged Americans talk about social darwinism like it’s a good thing,

Agreed, it's the ultimate form of self-back-patting complacency.

>And GoFundMe campaigns for cancer treatment…

This is certainly a modern absurdity and indictment of US healthcare. I suspect single payer would be a net savings on healthcare for society, along with some reforms like requiring healthcare providers to publish prices for procedures and services, instead of having some back office financial engineer figuring out different prices for different patients based on how much he can squeeze out of their insurance plans.

>Most academic economists don’t believe in the whole unregulated free market fantasy, anymore.

After the deregulation of the 90s, and resulting wealth concentration, instability, and resulting Global Financial Crisis, more and more Americans don't believe it anymore either. In hindsight, the post-Great Depression Glass-Steagal regulations seem to have effectively applied the generally desirable principles of decentralization and separation of concerns to the financial system. It would probably be a net win for most of society to reinstate them.

All that said, as problematic as capitalism can be, let's not be in too much rush to forget how much worse other alternatives have been and are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_of_European_Memory_an...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial_...
I agree that our political system is a train wreck, but I don't see why the political positions of the people you're suggesting amend the Constitution wouldn't be relevant.
Like listening (15 years ago) to a spoiled ASP developer whine about having to support browsers that don't have ActiveX.
I agree with you guys... but this dude's accomplishments are few and purely self-serving.
There are a lot more straight male rapists than non-straight male rapists, just because there are a lot more straight people. Yes, there is also situational homosexuality, but trans women change the situation.
Ah, thanks for the link; no need to split the discussion.
The point is clearly that we should discourage folks from undertaking any permanent life alterations while they're still in the "it could be just a phase" stage. To use your analogy, we're dissuading the person from tattooing "I hate broccoli" on them until they've reached age 18 or whatever. Nobody is saying we should deny them their self-image outright.
I'm assuming it is accurate, it is still misleading. It makes it look like she should be breaking records and crushing the competition, when in truth she is doing neither.
Not to mention it was deleted in June 2020. I have to imagine many researchers had already downloaded the data by then and that there are a number of local copies that could be shared out if there was compelling reason to do so.

If it was a coverup it was a rather poor one. It’s hard for me to think this was nefarious, unless the intention was just to delay (in a plausibly deniable manner).
There is no single max total URL length. You probably shouldn't enforce one other than to prevent DoS.
To be fair, hardware vendors are forking the kernel, not Android (as much). The AOSP is very close to mainline Linux, with some config knobs turned differently.
‘Don’t generate offensive content’ is an essential requirement of any generative model.

If a photo tagger tags a photo of a bowling ball as ‘fried chicken’ that is acceptable as long as errors of that general type happen at a low rate. (Maybe 5%)

If it tags a photo of a human as an ‘ape’ you have a problem, even a Homo sapiens really is an ape.

I lost 10^4-ish dollars because of a screw up of this type and I’m not the only one.
All I'm saying is that your statistic does not disprove the allegation that Google's hiring processes might favor white workers. You're making an apples-to-oranges comparison, and drawing a conclusion that isn't demonstrated by the data.

I'm also not saying that these numbers prove that Google does favor white workers. Only that they are not sufficient to disprove the idea.
Where is this ideology that "gender dysphoria = trans" pushed? This is really bizarre -- could you give me some references?
My interaction with McAfee was in the pre-internet '80s. I was called when a nearby international school got hit by a computer virus spread on floppy disks. Looking for sources of info, found the "Computer Virus Industry Association". Called, got a little bit of generic advice, and he mostly asked me to send sample disks. Turned out that the "CVIA" was basically a pretext of McAfee trolling for people like me to send samples for the anti-virus software he was writing.

Sure, mildly clever ruse, but I always felt that the way it was done was a bit off - could have been more straightforward. I guess he thought people would not help him if he didn't use the pretext.

Somehow the rest of the story does not surprise me. Making his millions seems to have given him no peace either.

RIP
The sadly honest answer is that we don’t justify it. The people in power like punishing people.
We don't have to go any further than the tweet that started this thread: McAfee claimed to be "getting subtle messages" from officials in the American government threatening to kill him.

He was a clearly unhinged individual.
You’re right. But many-body can also turn into statistical physics, which is quite complicated conceptually (basically when entropy and ergodicity become important). Then you have the best of analytical Mechanics, statistics, and quantum mechanics if you fancy.
Emmm. Most of this is from my college courses, with Wikipedia for recalling names and dates. From a quick Googling, this seems like a good overview: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147642277.pdf

If you're interested in a really deep dive into related Eastern European examples (not Russian) of the limits and successes of land reform, I'd suggest this textbook: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=372

And yup! The reversion of Cárdenas's reforms was not complete; reformers in positions of power do make some difference, even if it's less than you'd guess based on short-term results. Though note that many ejidos owned by the intended local peasant's collectives are de facto controlled by a large landowner or business. (The political elite of the early-/mid-20th century was a subset of the landowning elite, not its entirety.)
That "firmware" which is being replaced by open equivalent is a GNU/Linux system prepared by Quectel running on the modem itself and providing services like AT command or audio routing daemons. The actual baseband-y stuff is done in Qualcomm's DSPs which stay as closed as ever.
It's not an acronym, it's a prefix, like "trans" but the opposite.
I feel like there are some obvious problems with celebrating successes without making room for what the person did to achieve that success.

As an example: it would be odd to celebrate Amazon's financial success without mentioning their labor practices. Agree or disagree with them, they are part of how Amazon is able to make money.

If people are more than the worst thing they have ever done, then they are also more than the best thing they ever did. Talking about either in isolation is deceptive.
This is just awesome and the experience from my Phone felt like I went back in time. Any possibilities of releasing as an Android App, I would actually pay for it
I never asserted that Amazon's performance management system was effective.

(although I worked at a place that never fired anybody and I'm not sure I recommend that either)
US Citizenship in reality is an IRS trap.

Now Biden wants to hire 87,000 more IRS workers to harass americans.

This used to be a great country.

Times long gone.
Patent law has evolved into that - but it was designed for independent creators to stand up to giant corporations that want to steal their stuff.

It is terrible as it exists today but some form of device patenting needs to exist.
The key to great writing? Assume nobody cares
You are of course right factually, but fear of sexual predators is not based in stats and facts, but in feelings. When people think about rape, they imagine a stranger in a dark alley, whereas ~90% of rapists are somebody the victim knows.
> He had enough charges lined up (up to 5 years for every count, IIRC) that he would likely be imprisoned for life

Usually, without aggravating circumstances, federal sentences would run concurrently, though thr multiplicity might push them up within the range permitted. So, lots of nonviolent up to 5 years per count crimes with no particular extreme factors likely adds up to...about 5 years.

Which at his age might still be a sizable fraction of his life, and he wouldn't be the first person to act based on an unrealistic estimate based on what is theoretically possible rather than likely.
Do you have evidence for this? My impression is the opposite but I have no evidence that I'm right or wrong. It's just an impression that I have.
We are already so far into hating men that we’re fine with basically saying the desire to rape is evolutionally wired into all male brains? No complaints about sexism or anything?
Ah thanks. No “scumbag” implications? Because not traveling in outdoor circles I think of “dirtbag” as a guy who sleeps with teenage girls and sells stolen property out of a van.
US indeed has draconian punishments. However 30 years is a starting/worst case scenario to encourage a plea bargain.

Plea bargains are horrendous and really should be banned or made extremely rare.
If you have a license to the photograph, why not just send proof of that to the troll and threaten them with Rule 11 sanctions if they sue you? I have to think anybody with a brain would just drop it at that point.
Hello, author here (I edited the bio on github to show). Don't know how I missed it on HN, must have been the grey link.

First I'd like to say that right now this is just the first release, and it's a bit raw so far. That's why I was hesitant to post on HN yet, expecting a more harsh but merited critique. I am reading through the thread for bugs and suggestions. Thanks for that.
Here I thought I was underachieving because I was reading HN comments instead of doing anything productive. Now I see that the world, or at least subsets of the population I’m allowed to blame for my problems, has wronged me, which appeals to my petty sense of envy and bitterness and assuages the guilt I had about not actually trying. Perhaps this inequality is actually a grand conspiracy. I wish the press, academia, and the boards of basically every major company were woke to this crisis.
I'm a Node user and agree with many of the points here.

For the REST API, my work is 99% writing queries and business logic. I use Fastify because it includes sanitization/validation out of the box. I use Fauna as the data layer because it solves authentication/authorization out of the box too.

> URL parameters are a scam

I agree with the author that URL params do not solve all problems, but OTOH they do cover +90% of use cases for CRUD stuff.

Also, most routers I know of, specify routes with URLs. Defaulting to using URLs with multiple query params can get pretty messy.
You're not free to not pay your taxes

(take that as an abstract comment, I have no view or knowledge on McAfee and his personal tax affairs)
Yeah. Unsurprisingly it’s been published in a lot of places.
"Sadly, this only works on Chrome Desktop" when clicking the sign in to Spotify on my iPhone. definitely doesn't have that "it just works feel" in that regard. However, driving the click wheel is fun. I did instinctively click on the buttons that would pop up in the menu by clicking them directly the first time rather than spinning the wheel to get to them. Just shows how much more powerful the touch screen is.
https://gitlab.com/neo900/ee-full
DNS Nameserver Hijack Attack Exposes Businesses, Government Agencies
I'm sadder about this than I expected. :-(

He was most likely a drug abusing criminal. But what a special mind to lose.
The issue isn't whether auto mechanic satisfies some platonic ideal of a professional, the issue is how one is treated by society or by their employers. I know little of the experience of auto mechanics, but I don't think its a stretch to say that society treats them as interchangeable cogs moreso than, say, doctors or lawyers.
I sympathize with your overall point and agree that it's shameful how America treats diabetics like an ATM, but I think you're very far off-target if you envy the way transgender people are treated. Lots of anti-transgender people do just fine in our society. A person who actively fought against trans rights in California is currently the Vice President of the United States (though she has gotten much quieter on trans issues in the meantime). We have several openly anti-trans members of Congress. The fight for trans rights is so defensive that covering the insane medical costs isn't even on the radar. A lot of transition-related expenses are rarely covered by insurance, and they cost as much as a luxury car. Yet when you hear about "trans activists," what they're fighting for is not to have their ability to use the bathroom taken away.
The State of Progressive Web Apps Adoption by Developers in 2021
Good questions. We were using SGI workstations which ran at 250Mhz if I recall correctly — so ~8x the PS1 CPU.

It was admittedly nearly 30 years ago but my recollection is that the only way to make anything fast on that hardware was to keep everything in registers and avoid touching memory except when absolutely necessary. It was definitely many cycles to access memory.
Good one, thanks. It conflicts a bit with the "assume good faith" guideline and sometimes I find it hard to figure which side should win.

(Note: in hindsight of course a comment that suggests mass murdering people is a troll post and not written in good faith, I'm not sure what I was thinking. I'm not debating that, just saying that it's hard and appreciate the nudges)
AFAIK U.S. is the only country that makes you pay tax even if you are tax resident of different country.

Ironically it does not apply to corporations that fail to pay billions in tax.
While I'm not a pro by any means, I've been playing with this use case for a bit now. The jack interface "just works". If you're running an RT or full pre-empt kernel, the delays is really minimal.

It's silly how much easier it is to setup. No changes needed and your qjackctl / Carla / ... will show all applications. You can connect your browser, guitarx, ardour, reaper channels as you please - whether they're jack-aware or not.
Hard to know how Ancient Aliens on the History channel fits into this.

Documentaries like money?
Apple prevents iOS app sideloading with 'think of the children' defense
Others would know more, but surely this is poking the Apple legal department bear? I once tried to have a company print a single ping-pong paddle with the name iPaddle and they refused.
Counterpoint: The Oculus Quest 2 costs $300, and I have yet to see a headset come close to it's level of adoption, let alone it's price. AR will be wildly expensive for the foreseeable future, and by the time we've fully democratized it there will be some new computing paradigm right around the corner.

Sure, more people will likely prefer AR to VR in terms of comfort, but you need to manage your expectations. A "light set of glasses" isn't going to come within spitting distance of the resolution, FOV, contrast or brightness of even the earliest VR headsets.
I’m going to need a reference to support that claim. I did some searching and the closest I could find was a 2019 Georgetown study that said it was better to be affluent and in the bottom 25% of test scores than poor and in the top 25%.
> Why should someone "come out" as anything?

Because the choice is either to hide important aspects of yourself, or else come out, whether that's explicitly by saying something, or implicitly by your actions.

In my case, if I didn't explicitly come out as nonbinary / trans, the change in my wardrobe and appearance was going to "out" myself regardless. It seemed healthier and emotionally safer to be upfront about it with the people I know.

In your example, a person doesn't have to "come out" as heterosexual, they can just introduce their spouse, or mention who they are dating. Maybe in an ideal world that would be the case for everyone, but it's not today.
It's a good question, and I really believe the answer is just that they've been given social permission to gouge (at least, if you're not big or savvy enough to work out a fixed-fee arrangement) that other professions don't really have. Everyone expects a law firm to nickel-and-dime. And, of course, you're really wary of that when you take calls with your lawyer.
Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee dies in Spain by suicide
But how can anyone _possibly_ deny the first part? How could anyone contradict an individual who states their own gender - on what grounds can you claim to know how someone feels about themselves better than they themself do?

How do you define denying the first part?

According to my child's world view, I need to ask them every day what their pronouns are today. And any accidental slip-ups on any adult's part are a demonstration of transphobia, which justifies a raised voice and lecture.

While I'm perfectly OK with making an attempt to treat people as they wish to be treated, at what point does the inconvenience and stress that your constant demands make on others become an unreasonable ask of them? (Which is a question that every parent of teenagers winds up asking at some point, for some reason...)
I read it as "DNS software changed, that worked fine, but it turns out we sometimes generate a broken database - not often enough to see it hit during canary, but devastating when it finally happened"

GP also notes that this database changed perhaps every 30 seconds

Just a few guesses.. if you have a process that corrupts a random byte every 100.000 runs, and you run it every 30 seconds, it might take days before you're at 50% odds of having seen it happening. and if that used to be a text or JSON database, flipping a random bit might not even corrupt anything important. Or if the code swallows the exception at some level, it might even self-heal after 30 seconds when new data comes in, causing an unnoticed blib in the monitoring if at all

Now I don't know what binary pack does exactly, but if you were to replace the above process with something that compresses data, a flipped bit will corrupt a lot more data, often everything from that point forwards (where text or json is pretty self-syncronizing). And if your new code falls over completely if that happens, no more self-healing.

I can totally imagine missing an event like that during canary testing
RIP John, the world will miss you.
You surely lived a full life.
Good to hear. But I still use Venmo, Slack, Zoom, iNaturalist, and my bank app. Along with plenty of open source android apps that I will pretend can be automagically ported or reimplemented.
I think in 10 years we'll look back at what is now contemporary discourse as a reaction formation[0].

Essentially the left-wing version of homophobic closeted Republicans.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation
No, that's correct and so is what they're saying
How high is the US income tax? And is it progressive?