skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year, when SF was posting photos of the orange sky I was driving up I5 in the Willamette Valley at 11am with my brights on because smoke had turned day to night.

Last year 4.4 million[1] acres burned in CA (~4% of the state), and 1.2 million[2] in OR (~2% of the state). These are huge numbers. Similar to CA, it's not just the acreage significantly increasing in recent years but also intensity and damage. The Almeda Drive Fire destroyed over 2,000 structures between Ashland and Medford, in highly accessible terrain with firefighting resources nearby.

Right now, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon is over 150,000 acres with 0% containment [3], putting it within the top 20 largest fires in state history at present and likely to grow.

From my layman's perspective, it seems that the brief window when CA's ideal climate moves slightly north has already come and gone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_wildfires
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Oregon_wildfires
[3] https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7609/
Crowley Planning Zero-Emission Electric Tug
it always shocks me when someone says that channels are not immediately intuitive. they make so much sense to me, and they did from the instant I read about them.

combined with goroutines, channels are absolutely one of the best features of this language, to me.

async & await, on the other hand, still confuse me and trip me up today, even after using them for years, because of very weird implementation minutia and edge cases that I always seem to stumble into.

I wish async and await would disappear from the face of the earth and I wish coroutines and channels were in every language I use.
Buying Turnips every week made me a better Manager
I don't think this is what's happening, but I think this is the model.

I have a super Mario cartridge. I also have a lot of drugs (or whatever) that I'd like to sell, but I don't have a distribution network, so I have to sell at a wholesale price. I put up the proxy object for auction. You bid far more than we think anyone would pay for the proxy object, and you win. We've made separate arrangements for the drugs (or whatever) so you already have them, or will get them soon.

Now I have a pocket full of legitimate cash. I think there's some biases stuck in American minds about Al Capone. He was a bad guy that did lots of illegal things. But his downfall was tax evasion. This approach gives me a reasonable explanation for all that money, and I can pay taxes on it, so I _appear_ to be an upstanding member of society.
I don't understand what people see in this. What does this
prove?

==>“For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they don’t like, they put in the trash. But we don’t throw out the trash. After three months, I only take the ideas from the trash can. I don’t even look at the ideas they liked. Because the trash can is a treasure trove of things they’re afraid to do.”

huh? Maybe they are just bad ideas? For that matter, maybe the good ideas are bad too. But she doesn't even look at them, so how would she even know? Seems a bit presumptuous. Can she read minds or something?
For some scenarios channels and mutexes are both suitable for, mutextes are a bit more performant than channels. If you do care about the performance penalty, just choose mutexes. But the for scenarios mutextes are incapable of, still using mutexes is surely not a good idea.
Sources please. Peasants visited markets in nearby towns, church, went on pilgrimages. People were mobile.
‘The backplane for advertising’: Amazon plots big step up for APS
I would think tech is now at the point to undermine micro-exploiters who extract punitive payments from people who feel that there is no viable alternative provider (e.g. a specialist who requires completely unnecessary monthly visits, gives a cursory glance, keeps treatment unchanged and charges hundreds in the process).

What do you think? - Is this something tech CAN do today, with an open source application and publicly available data?
Make no mistake about it: these have been assembled using slave labour. Check out the soldering job if in doubt.
I can't tell if the above is a parody or not.

It's like reading about how great Marxism is, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Microsoft agrees to buy security software provider RiskIQ
Looking down the list I started assigning R's and D's to the points and...it's about equal. Does this mean both parties are inching towards fascism, or does one party need to have more points than the other?
Yes, it's infuriating isn't it? And it's not even true.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-china-the-main-climate-c...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/16/next-chin...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/01/worlds-largest-solar-...
It it actually selling something? It takes me to a shopify link...
viper, which nicely handles env vars, also can watch for config changes: https://github.com/spf13/viper#watching-and-re-reading-confi...

if you're rotating creds or need to open/close the DB, this will typically just add another select case to your main method, where you also block on e.g. signal catching to cleanly shutdown the app
The Mythical Man-Month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
No one working for BP asked to spill 5 million barrels of oil either. But they did ask for oil to be extracted, and we all asked them for it so that we could put it in our cars, busses, trains, delivery trucks etc.
It was a rare case where breaking the interface segregation principle IRL causes product failure.
Jira is fine, but only if you have someone on staff trained to use Jira properly. Jira has way, way too many configuration options that lure companies into creating overly complicated workflows and adding new complications until everyone gets sick of Jira.

A better starter option might be something like Asana or even a shared Trello board. Your priority should be to keep it as simple as possible and resist complexity as long as possible.
Never ever?

You’d think so, and yet it’s come to light Crown Casino in Melbourne was doing just that, knowingly maintaining relationships with known crime organisations, and was actively enabling money laundering.[1]

I argue politics and big business is a front for bad behaviour, as evidenced by the endless stream of corruption news pouring out of the Australian federal government.

I find it difficult to believe the the other G20 nations[2] are markedly better.

1. https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/five-bombshells-th...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20
Exactly. The entire society had to shoulder the weight of the consequences of bad habits of some.

Were the costs not socialized, there'd be a bit less of a point to tax cigarettes so much: you want to get lung cancer and you are ready to pay for it, go ahead and smoke three packs a day! But this is not how it works today.
> boysenberries

Boysenberries should be able to tolerate 100 degrees, too. Portland is way north for them.
How are they different issues? The problem with getting and renewing a license directly stems from the requirement to have licenses. It is an inevitable part of it.
This pretty much. Farmers don’t usually deny climate change but they also want their guns and independence.
Even if it did, Teams still isn't suitable – it performs so much surveillance that I doubt Microsoft could remove it all.
Ah yes those pesky companies that exist for no reason, how dare they drill for the oil we demand from them. Nobody is culpable for climate change except “the companies.” Certainly couldn’t blame America for wanting to live in suburbs or their obsession with beef and trucks.
Yup, I hope the title gets fixed to not say that Concoda is how the movement is destroying itself :)
Awesome. I wonder if, in future, ESP8266 chips will be replaced with this one since former is WiFi only.

There really needs to exist an alternative WiFi chip from another manufacturer. It would significantly drive the price down due to competition. Currently there's no competition to Espressif in this segment. Maybe Raspberry Pi should come up with RP2040 WiFi chip. That would be amazing.

While we are on this topic I did a lockdown project based on ESP8266 thought I had share :p

https://www.ankshilp.com/monitoring_solar_panel_output_over_...
I think the simple truth is we simply eat too much.

Possible the worldwide most known modern food product is the Big Mac. Named Big Mac, not Best Mac, think about it.
And it doesn't stop there, large pizzas, pizzas with a lot on top, XXL Schnitzels, All you can eat Chinese.

A lot people make quantity a priority over quality, guess what happens :)
Why? The only reason Pichai's comments are important is because he works for a company that is dangerous for internet freedom. Their only use is in predicting Google's business strategies and defending against them.

This might as well be a place to talk about Google in general, or Pichai in general irt "internet freedom."
> Most offices would look down on someone who wore shorts and a T-shirt to work too

I understand that some offices are business casual, but you're saying they would allow t-shirt and shorts, but judge you for exercising that option?
"oops.. my startup diverted funds that could have gone to actually effective charities"
Broadcom in Talks to Buy Software Firm SAS
> but was criticized for not solving more pressing issues

Sounds very much like a fallacy of relative privation to me.
Cheaters Drawn to the Opportunity to Cheat
The article states, "Among the participants in the study, 50 percent refrained from cheating entirely in the experiment; around 30 percent did not hesitate to lie at all, and around 20 percent of the subjects, who had actually opted for more honest earning opportunities, nevertheless seized the opportunity to cheat when it presented itself."

This makes me wonder -- Do we live in a world in which 50% of the human population is inherently dishonest? Regardless of the actual percentages, I also wonder to what extent a predisposition for dishonesty may be heritable.
Don't forget the ZANO mini drone, the OLO smartphone 3D printer, Peachy printer, the $100 resin printer and Blocks, the modular smartwatch.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomou...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olo3d/olo-the-first-eve...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-pr...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2106691934/blocks-the-w...
Pardon my ignorance. I thought the way to deal with csrf was csrf tokens. It seems like you would still have to ignore the headers and rely on the token in your logic if ever they disagreed. I’m not sure how to use these new headers
That ElliQ banner video is something special. I love the reactions.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2679/2074/files/banner-vid...
Not by any means a Jibo replacement, but Peeqo may be of interest for some of the social aspects.
https://peeqo.com
Energy sector value will get coupled to crypto. It will eventually be one industry. Crypto will become the way for energy producers to capitalize on excess renewable energy.

We don't have storage so it's not enough to get to 100% renewables. We need to get to 1000% production so off peak production will fullfill all our needs. And they need to have a way to get paid for the excess.

Price of energy will be dictated by price of bitcoin, and government will subsidize energy sale to residential consumers so they can afford energy. Commercial ventures will pass the additional energy cost to consumer in prices of goods.

It will all land at equilibrium where mining is only profitable when done with excess energy.
Amazing website design. Need to bring this aesthetic back.
Monocle is a universal, personal search engine
I live near Salt Lake City, in the US. We hosted the winter games in 2002. Much of the infrastructure required for a Winter Olympics is still available. So, the powers that be are trying to leverage that to host another Olympics in 2030 or 2034.

I believe a number of locals are excited about that. Getting to be that intimately involved in everything the Olympics offers is a unique experience.

That said, if it came here every four years, the novelty would be gone and the harsh realities would set in. It would be great for tourism-related businesses but quality of life for locals would suffer.

Perhaps the Summer Olympics could find a permanent home. I am not sure any one locale would want to perpetually host the Winter Olympics -- outside of those who believe they could build wealth upon it. It would start destroying the very reason you want to live in the mountains.
Its a common HN low-effort trope in two parts:

1) Assume there is a huge body of activist climate-deniers controlling society

2) The moment we all merely believe the same thing, the climate will begin rapidly healing itself

HN does not believe in actual sacrifice (since the typical HN reader is in the top 1% of polluters), only ideological conformity
City boy here with no knowledge of farming.

When you say "indoor" are you describing large greenhouses? Or growing crops using artificial light?
Weekly US Drought Map
Move Fast audiobook now available for free from the software_daily podcast
They could have been a much more powerful primitive, but not having generics means tons of boilerplate; all basic channel patterns involve a lot of copy pasting.
>It would also be nice if those who oppose licensing suggested credible alternatives.

Credible alternative: don't have licenses. They're not a gift from god. Businesses existed before them and continue to exist without them. Can there be a quality problem? Sure, but consumer protection laws will apply regardless of licenses.
Thresholds of Artificiality
Although Negroponte is an angel investor these days according to Wikipedia, so he did become wealthy somehow. I'm not sure how much OLPC helped that (although leaders of seemingly noble non-profits can do quite well for themselves in general).
Hydro grown plants are often more susceptible to pests and problems because they lack the natural fortifications provided by soil. Large scale living soil can still be done indoors though.
Sweet, there is only approximately 300 million acres of cropland in the United States alone.

Sun == free, rain == free

How does indoor ag plan on scaling up for anything other than super high margin vegetables and spices when their competitor (outdoor ag) has no cost associated with sun or rain? Not even to mention soil.

edit: I like indoor/vertical ag a lot (when applied correctly) When people try to propose producing things that have no chance of succeeding in our current Kardashev scale, it makes me think they are arguing in bad faith or with a fundamental lack of understanding of the problems faced in food production.
Please have an even more xenophobic, imperialistic take on this. Go right ahead.

Seriously, you maybe might want to consider the western world has been forcing american/latin standards on cultures which need far more than those to communicate, considering them second class citizens and killing some of the more peculiar / original languages because they're "not worth supporting". (= Not enough eyeballs for the ads you'd be printing)

Now you have the cojones to complain about Japanese communication features seeping into the west? Fucking PLEASE.
AFAIK Amish people consume less alcohol and tobacco than the average American. Could this be a factor in their lower cancer rates?

Also - who diagnoses Amish people for cancer? Can there be a higher "dark number" of undetected cancers among them than among the general population?
You make a privacy-first service → You get banned on Google
Islam and the Middle East, not a monolith
Does this create a class of senders with authentication unavailable to the rest of us? And are we embedding corporate marketing in Internet standards?
Thanks, I updated the title to be more clear.
Rome Gigapixel Panoramic View
A fraction of the donated value is still much bigger than the actual value you paid for the art. The important part is to get an appraisal far above the actual value.
Hooking and Hijacking DirectX 11 Functions in Skyrim
PRISM is simply the NSA’s internal designation for data that is sourced from FISA warrants. So, probably not.
Did you press 'F' to pay your respects though?
This would be a good thing to add to the reference.
I'd love to see what about hard to repair e-waste dumped on teachers with minimal training was supposed to lead to making the internet more accessible for kids.

https://books.google.com/books?id=v4y5DwAAQBAJ
Bad old farming: put plants in sun

Good new farming: put solar panels in sun, connect lightbulbs to solar panels, put plants under lights.

(Although it's not totally as daft as I make it sound, because it's theoretically possible to do frequency conversion in a way that makes all the energy of sunlight available to plants instead of everything but green.)
> I guess this is one critique of exclusive remote working: it’s pretty easy to end up ghosted by someone in the approval chain for something.

This! If you've never worked in a very large organization, it's a huge pro to working in the office that can be overlooked.
Right now, it's a bit like using Firefox instead of Chrome. They both render the website but some devs exploit Chrome only tech that Firefox hasn't yet implemented workarounds for and those won't work.

If you're ok with that, you can officially replace windows with Linux.
Most wine today is fake and terroir isn’t as important as micro-aeration or various additives like oak chips or
mega purple.
That's her "thing", she is an eccentric artist who likes to push boundaries of her own body, mind, but also of the public's taste, and the opinions of people on what constitutes art and what is beautiful, disgraceful, shocking.

You like her, hate her or are indifferent to her, she does a thing in any case.
Are these mutually exclusive?
>Calling them "precious" feelings sort of belies the idea that you're just talking facts in a forceful way.

Feelings shouldn't be precious. They should be disregarded. When communicating a point, if disdain is felt it should be presented. If it is not felt then it shouldn't be presented.

>If you struggle to separate your disdain for people who disagree with you then that's a chance to grow, or a chance to dig your heels in.

I hold disdain for certain people. But not for all people who disagree with me. Clearly what you're saying is completely false.

Growth to me is not the ability to separate disdain from disagreement. Growth is the ability to not hide your disdain. To express it when it's required.

To you I am not expressing disdain. You only perceive it as such because you disdain what I am saying. The reality is, I'm the same as you. I'm quite well off. The difference between us, is that I don't twist reality or morality to justify my sins.

I knew you were rich and well off, because I am rich and well off. Why would I disdain someone like me? The only difference between us is that I don't lie to myself.
Look at Agenda. You connect your calendar locally (with optional iCloud or Dropbox sync) and then you have a note that’s attached to a calendar event and a project (client name, coworker name, whatever.) Each note has a to-review/to-complete status and you can save searches to keep on top of your notes and plan ahead. It’s a really smart model and saves me a lot of time.
> By doing the easy stuff?

The machine is doing the easy stuff. Why would anyone pay a human to do it? If I am not being paid how will I get the resources needed to be able to spend time working on the easy stuff?
I heard some years ago from someone who used to work there that Cisco simply refused to bother doing business with New York State - simply would refuse to bid - because they found the entire process to be literally not worth the business.

(no other verification, no info on the current status)
If you wanted hosted and paid look at contentful and prismic.io

Have worked with prismic and I love it
How do I move, I tried AWSD, JIKL, arrows, ... and I didn't move.

Sometimes it's easier to get traction here with a technical post. What is the tech stack?

Edit: I think I found a bug https://imgur.com/a/DKrsNS0 If a Sun Strike is casted and a round ends, then the partial circle appears in all the following rounds. (Moreover, I can't move, so I was very vulnerable to Sun Strike :( .)
If they included failed 3D printer startups the Elizacherubs would grow old by the time you reached the bottom of the page.
Maybe it’s our biases but I happened to assign more points to R’s. I felt D’s didn’t get enough to be fascists.

Also this isn’t about any party - I think the test should be of the country at the moment.
If there is little overhead, then the game is cracked easily as the checks are rare and easily found.

For the DRM to hold up the checks need to be frequent, hard to pin down and in practice that means in performance critical, complex code that can behave in unexpected ways.
On a side note, I find writing and drawing very useful when I tried to get through some algorithm questions or similar things that need a bit of thought. Writing and drawing weed out the edge cases pretty effectively and I can better cut the question into pieces in that way. I also found that if I can't sort out my thoughts in written forms, there is no way for the code to work.

Somehow it's a lot easier to setup mental barriers (to focus or to reduce problems into pieces) when I'm writing.
What criteria (crop type, geography, etc) are required for the benefits you outline of indoor ag to outweigh the energy cost of artificial lighting?
or… this is the result of cut-cut-cut politics. When we continue to cut funding, while asking our govt workers to do more, of course the quality of service is going to suffer. This isn't a problem in other countries.
Oh yeah, you probably would. or trust the cert in your OS. but there wouldn't really be a point, unless someone is intercepting 53 requests in your local network
What a ridiculous leap of logic. This is just an observation I've made about how people as individuals interpret things on the internet, intuited from a long history of chatting online. I'm not implying there is some rulebook for internet etiquette. Some people read into it, some people don't. Is it really so hard to imagine that? Some people think the power of your handshake says all there is to know about you, some people think smiling without showing your teeth is rude. Humans are weird, it's just a nuance of text chat some people write and read and some people don't.
I'm usually a fan of MSCHF's parodies, but it's a bit disappointing to see reflexive tech-hate using the usual examples, Theranos and Juicero, on the HN homepage.

It's not kind or curious. It's just a bit boring.
To the (small) extent that it was Jeffrey Epstein’s money I think I prefer it being lit on fire to whatever else he might have done with it
I use the BlockSite extension for precisely this- preventing me from opening social media on my work profile
I agree - I find Go's error handling encourages subtle bugs.
An event only accounting for 1/10,000th of global emissions doesn't mean it is asinine to worry or complain about it. That very much depends on how easy it is to cut it relative to other sources. If it's easy, it's absolutely worth complaining about: if you can find a thousand such events to eliminate, that's 10% of global emissions (I know, there aren't a thousand olympics :P)

I'm not saying this particular argument has any merit, mind you. Just that it's legitimate to care about smaller sources of pollution if the effort required to eliminate them is proportionately smaller.
I am not a lawyer but I would assume that in a case like that, the court would bring additional penalties equivalent to the profit made using the stolen property.
District council declares Germany's first-ever 'cyber-catastrophe'