skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While most paid firefighters have to be out the door in 60 seconds, voluntary firefighters usually have 10 minutes to do the same. That's a trade-off that has to be made since not every small town can pay for a fully manned 24/7 fire station, especially when there are maybe 10 alarms per month. Some don't even average 1 alarm per month.

The trick to compensate for that is volume. As many stations as possible with only a few vehicles (mostly a single very large truck with 2000 litres of water), so ways are short. Only when something bigger happens, multiple stations will be alerted. Some stations also specialize by having a ladder truck, a hazmat truck, etc.

Volunteers should not be 10 minutes or more away from the station when on call. They can also cross on red in their private vehicle when alerted.
Some random google results:
https://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2015/06/24/duingt-un...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5a02MzWjE

https://sioenapparel.com/en/references/bullet-proof-vests-fo...
They don't wear bulletproof vests as protection against old people.
She didn't comment horrible things on his website, only a critique of an article. He took offense to that, de-anonymized her by abusing the moderation system and looked for distasteful comments elsewhere.

I won't speak to the legality of it because I'm not qualified, but it's morally reprehensible.
Sorry, which trade are you referring to? The Dec 22 TSLA options?

Assuming yes, the disclosure report [1] says it was 25 calls with a strike price of $500 with expiration of 3/18/22 (so another long dated option). Tesla's share price that day was ~$650 [2] and the value of the 500 call went up (from ~$200 to $400) but has come right back down to ~$200 [3]. They have not exercised / sold the options (visit [4] and search for Pelosi in Filing Year 2021).

[1] https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/202...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/history/

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA220318C00500000?p=TSLA22...

[4] https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/PublicDisclosure/Financi...
Right, but crop selection and farming practices matter.

Replace water-intensive crop with something more appropriate.

Replace flood irrigation with something like aquaponics which is leagues more water efficient.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe she had some expected right to privacy that he violated on behalf of Neiman Labs?

Either that or maybe she can demonstrate how his actions caused her harm without her harming him, but his actions were only possible as an employee of Neiman labs.

I think what will most likely happen is he will be fired and she will get an undisclosed settlement.
BC has no lack of water; it rains _heavily_ most of the year along the coast.

What BC lacks is a water storage plan; as you've mentioned, our glaciers and snow pack are no longer reliable.

And there's the impact from less water in rivers and streams to consider, and how that will effect the ecology.
Google keeps shutting down projects because of internal politics and reward structures.
But "Muh house!"

https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/default/files/files/2017/08/Sc...
You are right... but if I understood the above, it's not the modern amenities using up the bulk of the water, it's the agriculture.
I think the question is how much less water would be used with a modern irrigation system rather than flood irrigation.
Does tweeting constitute critical reporting?
Translation: we are going to get away with it whether we spend money on PR or not, so we are going to save the money. Fuck You.
Good luck getting the Great Lakes Compact broken up.
In pharma, cancer is king
It's true, he didn't actually build the space ship himself...

He knew he didn't have the skills or manpower to build a rocket himself, so he assembled an organization of people who would help him build it.

Then, he risked his own LIFE to be one of the first people to ride the rocket. If that's not putting trust in your engineers, I don't know what is.

Sure, you can hate on him for being rich, but at the end of the day, the man knows how to build successful companies.
> is just testing to see if this type of philanthropy has better results.

The idea of a billionaire spending time minmax-ing their donations seems highly unlikely.
Haha I was going to post the same thing. I'm from Del Rio and Brinkley is still a very well known figure to everyone there.
According to the stats above, modern amenities of life aren't the main consumer of the water:

> 82% of Utah water goes to farmers.

In 2021, we don't need to grow Alfalfa in the desert. Especially not when it's being exported out of state anyway.
We have an macOS version here if you guys wanna try. And feel free to contribute, its open. https://github.com/dwarvesf/sudo-fm-macos
I don't think python is ever going to get rid of the GIL. I haven't looked but there's two things that may speed things up quite a bit:
- Use native types
- Provide the ability to turn "off" the GIL if you know you will not be using multi-threading within a process.

I guess that is my naive wish list for a short term speed up :)
Shoplifters hit Los Angeles area TJ Maxx, casually leave carrying stolen goods
Isn’t the raw data just a list of phone numbers? What would you do with that without further compromising the privacy of the people behind them?
> On the other hand our minds operate associatively.

The mind doesn't just "work" one way or another (certainly in no way that can be boiled down to a single adjective) and does everything it does that one way.

And hey, that we consider a thing a physical object distinct from its environment is a distinction we made with our minds, rather than the other way around, and that I have folders like "docs/images/photos/people/$city/$person" or "docs/images/created/cheatsheets" is also not because I'm used to that it being that way in real life.

The whole point of a taxonomy is for things to belong somewhere in it, roughly or neatly. You don't have to remember the place, you just have to be the same person with the same heuristics. That enables a very fast binary tree search, so to speak, both when looking for a thing and when looking for a place to put it.

That's a positive, not a limitation or baggage from the physical world, that makes it so great and quick. That's why we used them since forever, including for purely platonic ideas even that have no resemblance to physical reality, and way before computers.

And are we really becoming that much more computer literate, or are machines that can read the books for us becoming more widespread? There is a difference between proposing a better way to store and find things, and proposing someone else do it for us (until they don't).

> When we started to build out computer systems we based the UX on metaphors of real-life tool equivalents.

They started out as tools that were sold and learned and used, now they're turning more and more into a foot in the door for companies to capture consumers however they can.

https://theconversation.com/the-internet-of-things-is-sendin...

Taking care of one's own documents and personal affects is part of what makes a person an adult, and if these documents and media get moved into the digital realm, where vast amounts of them can be ordered and re-ordered within seconds, that is all the more reason to think about what they are and how to order them. If that's hard, then that's even more reason to not put it off.

How do you tell the difference between a.) the company gets to be the middleman not being good enough to find what you are searching for, b.) that company censoring you, or c.) you having misremembered that thing existing?
>> (CCP henceforth – it would have been funny to have another C in there, before the P)

Cargo Cult Computer Programming: CCCP.

You're welcome.
Replicating a PostgreSQL Cluster to Redshift in a production environment
seems like desalination parried with nuclear and solar power (because desalination is expensive electricity wise) is the solution. most of our problems comes down to energy, to which fusion power will one day solve. we just need some stop gaps.
Five Powerful Heat Domes are Spreading over the Northern Hemisphere
Never Consent to a Coding Test in an Interview
I've spent hours listening to this kind of ambience while working, but for me it's a little too bland. Video game music on the other hand is perfect for working. I've had this one on repeat for the past 10 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lERcfsqJSk
I used to manage an on-prem Jira installation at $OLD_JOB, the amount of network traffic that the page to view an issue does is absurd. If you have a speedy connection or most of the page cached you won't notice, but switch to slower connections or a congested enterprise VPN and it's painfully slow. Open the browser's toolbox, disable the cache and reload. See for yourself.
Wow, I'd love to hear more details about this if you can share them.
It's seems a bit pointless to publish a protocol with a restrictive license.

The basic purpose of a protocol is interoperability, yet the restrictive license works directly against that.

I also wonder about the reach of this kind of license. It's a license on the published work. So suppose I read this, whole-heartedly agree to the terms of the license, and use it to create a MongoDB Interop framework. I include attribution and release it under BSD.

Am I good?

I did not use the work for a commercial purpose and provided attribution, etc.

Now suppose some commercial cloud provider picks up my framework and uses it to implement MongoDB interop. Aren't they good too? They followed my license. They may not even be aware of the protocol specification, much less have viewed or used it in any way.

So what exactly has the protocol specification license accomplished?

(I am not a lawyer, so I'm sure I don't understand, but I'd like to.)
There's really three different ecozones we're talking about here. Coastal, interior, and northern. Yes, there's lots of rain along the coast, but that doesn't help the interior. And it's pretty damned hard to build the infrastructure for rain storage on the scale we're talking about.

That said, the recent heat wave hit the coast pretty badly, too.
This is honestly the only hope I have that Congress won't mess with with Capital Gains taxes... they win too much from it.
I'm not convinced there's anything rational in suicide by definition. Every organ, vessel, and part of your body, especially your brain, is dedicated to keeping you alive for as long as possible. If it makes you feel the need to end your life, by definition it is not working.

A lot of bad things can happen to you in a lifetime, but death is the worst, without a doubt. To feel the need to inflict it upon yourself is therefore not rational at all, even if it is premeditated. What seems like one irrational spur of the moment decision is really one that in most cases had been considered well before. No one ends their own life before thinking about it beforehand.
Especially considering this is a multiple testing issue. When checking a lot of politicians there is likely going to be someone who is doing really well, even if it's just by chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
Ah yes, the fact checkers have spoken.
The lawns and golf courses are a small fraction of use compared to farming.
Like I said, it was early in my career. I now know how to handle this - ask more questions and work out what the real objective is. Also refuse to let people shout at me ;)
Actually, I've been there and done that. There is a huge difference between the relevance of the problems people are officially targeting and the actual substance and relevance of the research being done. I've seen first-hand that even at top institutions the priority is to maximize PR, often based on number of papers published (in prestigious-sounding venues if and when possible) and to maximize rankings to attract more students and funding.

The reality is that the incentive system is wrong. Impactful, long-term research is super hard to achieve like this.
Interesting, so the AI will filter out irrelevant information that the doctor can then focus on. I think from a social perspective that might be hard, because the patient/doctor has to be freely comfortable with the idea that the doctor was not an expert in that sub-area before, and had to recently learn/come up to speed to be able to help. To me it seems like doctors don't want to freely admit that they don't know something (that they can figure out), and patients don't want to think that is the case.

Slightly related but there's a website somewhere that you can upload your DNA sequence (in a .txt file!) to and it shows you relevant scientific literature. About 50% of those articles for me told me that I was probably going to develop male pattern baldness in my thirties/forties.
I bet you can find this at a better price

https://www.poly.com/us/en/products/headsets/voyager/voyager...

but it is worth it. The sound quality is excellent for music and calls, and it never lets you down the way many headsets do because of attention to detail.

For instance, it has a charging stand so it is not fighting for a slot at a USB charger. It also has a dongle to attach to a computer which means you never struggle to pair it and if you want to switch to another computer it is instant.
You can use OpenGL through libraries like Angle regardless of the underlying APIs. That's what web browsers use to support WebGL on all platforms.
> Also, stunningly, rice is even grown, which requires flooding fields with water.

Flooding fields is not required for rice farming. Its done to control weeds, not because the rice crop demands it.
> People more readily mentally visualize somebody without a leg, somebody with open fractures. Not so much for mind stuff,
> it's not concrete enough to most until it turns physical (i.e. you're a bloodstain on the floor). That's why
> some comments go along the lines of "I can understand suicide for physical pain but not for mental one". I
> would suggest that a broken self hurts more than an open fracture, and lacking certain central abilities to
> stabilize the self leaves you much more legless than if you lost your physical legs.

100% agreed. People have felt physical pain of very wide ranges before so they have some "scale" on which they can measure it. e.g. stubbing toe to a fracture to a chronic pain. But people thankfully don't have similar breadth in the level of mental pain they have experienced. So they cannot imagine a "mental pain" ever being equivalent to getting your leg amputated without anesthesia.

I like how Mike Shinoda talks about it - if you woke up with a bad back tomorrow you might take some rest; if it was worse the next day then you take some painkillers and the next day you might visit a doctor. But we don't think similarly for mental health.

If you are not feeling good you may try to go through the day anyway; next day it's worse so you should think "I should take it easy today"; the next day you might visit the doctor.

Another issue which people cannot seem to understand is that someone not taking mental health seriously and saying things like "you are overthinking", "it's not as bad", "knock it off", "you're a downer" etc end up invalidating the other person's existence (since that's what life is like for them at the moment and people are essentially saying your life isn't real), make them feel like a burden, make them feel that the other person's life is worth more than their own, that they aren't useful and that nobody cares if they didn't exist anymore.

Imagine:

Your leg got crushed and I tell you "it's not that bad", "stop being a baby", "get over it", "you are making a big deal out of this". There is no solution for your leg so it hurts the same every day and I keep saying things like that every day. At some point you'll break. Combine the invalidation with the pain you are already feeling and you'll be like "no one understands me", "there's no one to support me", "i'm a burden" etc and maybe one day you'll be gone.
> Are you dynamically creating a named tuple (a record?) by passing a space separated list of field names? Why?

I believe that's called "procedural record interface" in Scheme and it does have its uses, for example if you need to create records for data the structure of which you don't know in advance.
These narco-submersibles have a much higher entry cost, apparently. And you'd probably need something a few meters long, just to house the motor necessary to fight the currents.

The drone was apparently off the shelves. And the police didn't say if they ever actually got it into the air at all.
Or protect themselves liability-wise, or from guilt.
In all likely hood, she was talking about a subset of Muslims. Possibly the ones with terrorist tendencies. Seems like the full context needs to be examined to cast judgment.
Aren't democracy and communism orthogonal? Admittedly, I'm not a scholar, but it seems to me that democracy is mostly concerned w/ how leaders are chosen. Whereas communism is about how resources are distributed. It sounds possible to have a democratically elected government that sets a communist economic policy.
> The question is how to make more accurate guesses.

I think the question should be about how to maximize the net return on time dedicated to development, which may mean spending less time on (and investing less reliance on) estimates rather than expending unbounded effort improving the quality of estimates.
Zoom will now let you add third-party apps to your calls
I'll explain why that comment almost never makes sense.

Let's say your tax rate is 50% and your taxable income is $1,000,000, so you'll owe $500,000 in taxes. If you donate $100,000 to charity as a "tax write-off", now your taxable income is only $900,000 and you'll only owe $450,000 in taxes, but you lost $100,000 to save that $50,000. At the end of the day, you'll have $50,000 less than if you didn't donate anything.

Before anyone starts with "but what if it drops you into a lower tax bracket!": a) that's not how marginal taxes work, and b) the top tax bracket starts at $518,400 in the US in 2021, and I'm pretty sure Bezos made many times that amount.

"It's a tax write-off" doesn't make sense mathematically. It's not a thing. There's not a plausible way where giving away money can improve your bottom line over not giving it away without having tax rates above 100%, which we don't have.
The southern interior hosts a desert; definitely not a lot of rain there. ;)

We're building rain storage right now, in the form of Site C.
The US imposes treaties, it doesn't follow them, and Canada is a national security threat, so any treaty requirements can be ignored for national security purposes
I’m subscribed to all the current threads and issues relating to WebGPU multithreading. Very much looking forward to trying to put all this stuff together in order to enable multithreaded 3D rendering on the web.

This stuff is right around the corner, it’s all very exciting. We’re really close to having nearly native performance 3D games in the browser.
Different author but definitely worth a read:

https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

https://jepsen.io/analyses

Older discussion for an older version of mongodb:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9417773
I imagine that police responding to a home in a country which is armed to the teeth is quite different.
> understand/ask/bring to surface everybody's actual critical goals

This, exactly. Now I'd be working out what the actual objective is and how I can achieve that.
> average persons dedicating 2 or 3h of their 16h/day budget on negative thoughts about other people's lives, poisoning their mood and ruining the 13 to 14 other hours they have left awake in those days

Does that happen? I think most people that criticize a billionaire don't dwell on it and are onto something else five minutes later. Voicing your opinion is quick and easy, and even if it changes nothing, it's too little to ruin your day.

Only a psychopath would devote that much brainpower to issues out of their control.
Seems the gun is not quite smoking for both...
Tittle of the first paper :
"French plane constructor Airbus in spying probe"

Airbus is not a French Company, it's a European company.
France and Germany States hold each 11% of the shares, while Spain as about 4%. So that is less than 30% in States ownership shares.
The rest is privately owned free float.
True the main production line and headquarters are in Toulouse, France, but that doesn't make it a "French Company". It's as much German than French, with some Spanish too...
Tittle is completely misleading and incorrect.

Other paper is behind a paywall for me.
How do blind trusts operate? Surely you don't put in 4K of APPL shares and a couple of years later get back carrot futures or some thing.
What does this even mean? What does a national water grid have to do with the Great Lakes? Is there some sort of regional paranoia that the rest of the country is coming for "your water"?

If you look at a map you'll notice that there is quite a lot of water available beyond the great lakes. Is there a reason freshwater can't be pulled from the mouths of great rivers like the St. Lawrence, the Columbia, and the Mississippi right before it reaches the sea? Is there a reason why flood control systems can't be built to sequester excess precipitation so that it can be reclaimed?
As a retired person, I used to enjoy driving for Lyft and Uber. I took a break during the worst of the pandemic. My car is no longer functional, so I expected to start driving again with a rental car, which a lot of people were doing before the pandemic. Lyft and Uber ignored me for a year despite my high rating, while they had driver shortages. Finally, Lyft reached out and qualified me to drive with a rental car. However, the suggested rental car options were all at normal rates, which means I'd have to drive 25 hours a week to pay for the rental car and more to pay for insurance. Totally not worth risking my life for.

Now I'm looking for ways to make money off the failure of these companies ("brain dead" as Steve Jobs would say)
Ah, okay, that makes sense. I read the thousand gallons combined with the following 'won't make residents too happy' and assumed you were thinking of individuals.
EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models 42Papers
Because HN + Silicon Valley, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, etc.
Yeah "new Jira" is a big improvement.

I recently had to setup a project and workflow for a new team, and was steeling myself for a configuration nightmare. But then I saw there's a new way to create projects. It is so much simpler to configure workflow, statuses, etc in these new projects. Because they're designed not to be shared across the whole org. The configuration is contained within the project.

So they've created a de-enterprised process for configuring Jira, and made it far more suitable for smaller companies, or for teams that self-administer. All the clunky stuff is still there, but completely separate and you don't have to use it.
"Coastal areas will be flooded due to increasing sea levels."

I don't mean to nit pick, but clarification in this context is appropriate I think.

For example, I live about 500 meters from the Pacific ocean, but my house is in absolutely no danger of flooding, because we're about 100 meters above sea level, and we are at the top of a rise. There's nothing 'above' us, so no rain flooding is possible.

Many costal areas will flood due to sea level rise; many more costal areas will flood even sooner due to increasing storms.

But it's quite possible to live safely near the ocean.
The future of space is NOT "exploration" for the sake of exploration.

The future of space is going to involve a lot of robots, a lot of mining other planets for resources, and a lot of space stations made from those resources.

Bezos is planning for a future where all polluting industry is moved to outer space instead of being done here on Earth. He has publicly stated this on multiple occasions recently.