skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, sure when you exaggerate what I'm saying into 'exhaustive' conversion and a 'complete absence' of megafires it sounds like romanticism. I guess.

The population density was considerably higher before the arrival of in particular smallpox, for one thing. Other posters were kind enough to link you to some references, so I won't bother.

But yes, West Coast natives in fire country absolutely set fires and managed the forests to make it easier to hunt and prevent as much conflagration as they could. They had 12,000 years to get good at it, that's a long time.

The romanticism was thinking of North America as a "wilderness" when it had been inhabited for, again, 12,000 years. Humans shape their environments, the indigenous people of this continent were not an exception to this.

This looks quite different when hunting is the main source of protein, rather than animal husbandry.
.. and soon local mafia may ransom their families without worrying about American government protecting its elite. It'll be a good day for organized crime. Wealthy people have the most that they can afford to lose.
Interesting perspective. Thanks
> This is completely unlike Unreal, who has always released games using their own engine.

I wonder if the Unreal Engine team's testing includes recompiling and retesting shipped Unreal games to make sure engine updates don't break backwards compatibility.
The US has a lot of tax treaties with many countries to prevent double taxation. Does your country not have one?
Here in Canada there's a ton of shops that look like normal dispensaries but are just unlicensed ones. Their product selection is usually way better and includes co2 extracted vape products (which last I checked weren't legally available yet and IMO the future of weed consumption) and candy/drinks/etc. They also have better websites which cheap same-day delivery, usually within a few hours.

The municipal governments try to shut them down with daily fines but they either eat the cost because it's so lucrative or shut down temporarily and pop up somewhere else.

At least one shop had large bricks put in front of them at multiple locations and they just put someone outside with a square tablet and sold it there.

https://globalnews.ca/news/5369230/cement-blocks-illegal-mar...

I highly doubt the underground/grey markets will go away.
Google Nest introduces battery-powered cameras
It makes sense to impose restrictions where vaccination rates are low and ICUs are being filled up (or will be filled up due to continued growth in cases over the coming weeks in the absence of restrictions).

That's not the case in the SF Bay Area where vaccination rates are very high, keeping hospitalizations and ICU use low, yet mask mandates were reimposed here. We have plenty of ICU capacity.
The other day I got angry at my dog food bowl when I kicked it in the dark— and I'm the one who left it in the wrong place!
Imagine an email program that isn't built with web technology. It could actually display all the items in your mailbox, with a normal and usable scroll bar, without "infinite scroll". I distinctly remember applications being able to display lists in the before-times.
The Pentagon Is Experimenting with AI That Can Predict Events 'Days in Advance'
Our system does not support people without smartphones, which is why we are addressing companies that are mobile-first or generally have more tech-forward userbases with ~100% smartphone adoption. For mobile-first platforms in particular, our system helps them flesh out a "WhatsApp-like" auth UX, which is industry leading in our opinion, without a long development cycle.
>The reason Unity doesn't do this is pretty simple, and it's the same reason people get really angry when Amazon begins to manufacture high margin products themselves and pushing other sellers out of the game.

I think you do not understand why people are angry with Amazon. Say there is a dude that discovered that he can make money if he sells coffee cups with black cats painted on them, Amazon then runs an SQL query or run some ML and find all profitable products including the coffee cups and they then find where the dude buys the cups , negociate a better deal with the manufacturer, make tons of money and the dude gets frustrated.

Unity making 2 games would not upset the developers, they could make the game "open" for all customers so anyone can learn from them.
accepting PRs would have the downside of generating additional work for maintainers of the repo to review PRs.
geraffes are so dumb https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8aqjh/awww_this_is_ju...
I'm currently planning to attend a couple of scaled-back in-person events in the fall. Hard to say about re:Invent. It's normally such a big event. And Vegas? I'd probably bet on it being virtual in some form. Maybe some scaled-down in-person component.
Big brother is here. No to Csam but this stuff will not work obviously there will be immediate work arounds.
We might be.

But we also might not be. However we might be getting into dangerously personal territory there since we're approaching remarks on belief systems and people get pretty touchy about that kind of thing.

I'm curious how think that taking things to their logical end means morality is arbitrary.

My understanding puts everything onto a pretty firm plane that leads me to understand that anything I do to others I'm doing to myself. That's enough to guide my actions accordingly.
Nothing beats the nimbleness, simplicity and speed of SQLite, but it is not a client/server database engine (although it is often used for that purpose due to its speed).

Firebird can be used as a proper client/server database engine. It supports static data types and stored procedures (unlike SQLite). It sits somewhere between SQLite and PostgreSQL. So it may be worth evaluating if you don't want the heft of PostgreSQL but need features missing from SQLite.
I don't think they do. That case is about whether certain political donations should be allowed or not. There is nothing about the decision restricting forced disclosure of such donations.
What are you even trying to say. You're not any better when you leave bait in every single thread even remotely connected to open source. Now go on a tangent like always and watch me not reply.
The V2.00 ROM in my 1987-dated ADA MP-1 guitar pre-amp(Z80 processor) isn't going anywhere.
Sad, more spyware masqueraded behind "think of the children."
What kind of DDL migration are you thinking about that would take 10+ hours? Adding a column is instant, even if your table is multiple TB's large. Same for dropping and renaming columns.
Which is exactly the point I was making in my comment. And also:

> if you don't disclose your US citizenship to foreign banks then that information is not going to make its way back to the IRS

I would not assume this to be true. Certainly not without researching into any specific case more.
The headlines are marginally misleading. They won’t see actual images but hashes. They probably have a database including hashes of child abuse imagery which they will compare/try to match to the hashes of the images on your phone. If you take an image of your child’s bathing time to send it to your parents so they can see the little bugger during covid, it most probably won’t be a problem. It’s an important distinction in my opinion and it’s happening on a lot of cloud services already.

The breach of trust and going for the images on my personal device however is not acceptable for me. As a non-US citizen living outside of the US I’d refuse to use any Apple devices anymore. It’s contradicting their own privacy talk as well which, looking at some parts of the world, is evidently “talk” to some degree. Child abuse is probably the worst crime there is, I agree wholeheartedly, but this will create a back door like situation for every government on earth.
If you don't want to get vaccinated at work, it's perfectly reasonable to require you to wear a mask, and to produce two negative COVID tests a week, on your own time, at your own expense.

Employers routinely ask blue collar workers to piss in a cup, or undergo medical examinations. I don't see why white collar workers should be treated much differently.

Those of us who are vaccinated have done our part. Now, it's up to those that aren't to do theirs.
I don't know where you get this idea that delta is going to hit blue states after red states. Blue states are open. I haven't worn a mask since before I started hearing about delta.

Delta is here in my blue state and the neighboring ones, cases here have gone up, but people aren't dying. Because of high vaccination rates it's not news here the way it was last year and we're staying open.

You're inventing this "dishonesty."
Agreed. However, as you can tell from the downvotes, that will alienate a lot of people who believe that by using a Chromium fork, you're somehow giving over control of the web to Google. Which is ridiculous, as Google has lost control of the Chromium project due to Brave and Edge butting their ugly heads in. It's now the Linux kernel of web browsers. Prove me wrong.
Maintaining productivity while WFH comes at a huge personal cost for some people: family, lack of space, destroyed life/work balance etc.
That's quite the commute!

A tesla model 3 long range can certainly do that sort of trip, but it's somewhat expensive ($50,000 USD).

The standard range version MIGHT be able to hit it, but it'd be close.

This is where I wish more work garages would prioritize having charging installed. It'd also help with people that live in apartments.
My bad, I read it as traveling nurse price is too high because the latter work their butt off, implying the others do not.
Star Wars Edit
Just for what it's worth, `goimports` has done this for many years:

https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports

It's how Emacs handled inputs before there was lsp-mode, and presumably is easy to link into other editors too (it's just an implementation of gofmt that manages imports). I agree: it's an extremely nice feature to have.
Nice implementation. I especially like the curved directory titles.
Amazon Corporate. And Amazon's website people. But Amazon is not a website. It is a warehouse and delivery company. The vast majority of employees, those working in warehouses and delivering things to customers, will likely not ever be able to work from home.
Which platform is Unity Pro the only way to ship apps for?
Vaccine rollout went so smooth it turned around my pessimism for 3-6 months, but now the last 2-3 weeks have me quite pessimistic.

The breakthrough cases (quantity, severity) plus ability of vaxxed to spread, anecdotes of everyone knowing people getting sick, where we are with cases vs last summer, plus % unvaxxed in certain demographics within cities makes RTO seem quite untenable now.

Vax seems to protect against hospitalization & death from delta, but can very easily be laid up a week or two sick and have non-trivial respiratory issues.

Went into office last week 1st time, stunned to see 2019 style maskless floor with full density occupancy of desks. Attendance is being centrally coordinate & desk reservations required, so this was no coincidence or accident...

I go 18 months without eating indoors, shopping for groceries w/o mask, getting on a plane, etc and now I'm gonna sit on a crowded open office floor at 100% occupancy maskless 5 days/week? WTF.

NY offices seem to be ignoring that even if 80% of white collar staff they employ are vaccinated, the outsourced/building services staff are not. Not to mention the place you pickup lunch, coffee, and the cross section of people on public transit.

Some actual numbers from recent NYTimes/City official stats for even having 1 shot yet:

* NYPD 45%

* Black Bronx residents ~36%

* South Williamsburg ~35%

* MTA subway & bus staff ~45%

* NYC teachers (whose union demanded to be front of line but refuse a mandate) ~60%

* NYCHA ~38%

NY seems to be dragging their heals on this, some combination of BdB - Cuomo feuding, Cuomo busy with impeachment defense, return of in-person schools, and the Commercial RE/Bank/Dining industry pressures. As soon as City/State put an indoor mask mandate in place, it puts indoor dining, schools and offices into question all over again. So the tail is wagging the dog, as they say.
Which would still be on the front page given how many upvotes it had if people hadn’t, for some reason, flagged it.
Depending on your definition of "fork", Firefox has been forked in cases like the Tor Browser or IceWeasel. But starting a completely separate organization that could keep its isolated Firefox fork competitive with Chromium would require a massive amount of resources. Mozilla employs hundreds of full-time engineers (although that number is declining).
Entrepreneur Left Nike to Found a Startup with VF to Fight Climate Change
Why This Entrepreneur Left Nike to Found a Startup With VF to Fight Climate Change

Steinfeld is working on a new venture with VF Venture Foundry, the startup incubating arm of VF Corp., which is the parent company for The North Face, Vans, Supreme and Timberland, among others. The Denver-based program encourages founders and entrepreneurs to develop and launch startups with capital from the company. VF has invested in Steinfeld’s Foundry project, a platform called Wild Scout that helps parents discover unique outdoor experiences for their kids
ASR works pretty well these days
(you seem to have been shadow banned, might be working asking dang why - I couldn't see anything in your history from a mod)
Be warned that techrights is ... not always what one might call entirely reliable. They published a bunch of Andrew Lee apologia when the freenode debacle was in full swing.

(and the whole "concerns are growing" thing is IMO a rhetorical dark pattern, even if I -do- worry for the future of my preferred browser)
Do the in-browser storage services help this? Usually you need extra apps and some don't even have them. It would be nice if they didn't continue fragmenting. I suspect a large number of users don't know that it could even be mounted to their FS.
Yep. To be clear, the real problem where I shot myself in the foot was a column declared as an int, and stored hex strings. No one noticed the issue, because 100% of the time SQLite left the strings alone, or the string->int->string conversions where safe. Then came along a case where the hex string was all ints, and had leading zeroes that were dropped. Those leading zeroes had meaning, so wacky things happened.

And yep, it's all my fault for the column definition. Still an annoying surprise, esp since in this specific case, the surprise happened years after I screwed up.
Can I just buy the hard cover, bound paper book?
I would be surprised if that were the case as the secretaries in tech square were using it on the PDP-10.

But its very possible -- I never interacted with any non-programmer Multics users.
Apple says it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images
Why don't you go ask for your old job back? Worst case they say no.
Interesting! A hypothetical question...

If you were to find out that software you wrote for a UAV was responsible for murdering an innocent civilian, would you still "feel 0 guilt"?
Right people say that, but here in the real world we usually define some sense of sufficiency. Just adding more "security" by burning up all the worlds coal at some point has no meaningful benefit. This is just a nice narrative. Security is good -> more security is better no matter the externalities is a terrible way of looking at the current situation.

We don't make seatbelts out of titanium 8 inches thick with their own airbags when they're mounted in a go-kart.

When the hash rate dropped what, 75%, off the back of the China exodus literally nothing happened.

tl;dr: Same transaction throughput, same security, just less efficient.
Xiaomi beats Samsung to lead the global smartphone market
>At least those of us who prefer permanent wfh don't impact other people's decisions.

Sort of. Once you have a cohort back in the office, they probably should be meeting over video because having a group in a conference room and a group remote in their home offices doesn't work well. Of course people in the office mostly won't do that and communications will be worse than fully remote.
Briton detained in Singapore mental hospital after refusing to wear mask
The old package system definitely sucks. The new system has promise but until it works for asset store assets it's a bit limited.

You can actually use F# quite well in Unity, I've done it, you just need to develop in a separate visual studio solution. Debugging is a bit of an issue too but it is a reasonable experience overall.

You can also develop native plugins and doing so with C or C++ for certain things isn't uncommon. In this case you mostly want to avoid interacting with Unity APIs though and just write standalone code that Unity code calls into.

There's lots to complain about with Unity but it's not all bad.
> These efforts will evolve and expand over time.

I have no words.
Communication is certainly part of the problem. But nothing comes for free. It takes time to properly update the patient chart and brief the relief shift. Plus there are things that can't really be communicated effectively. After monitoring a given patient for a while, an experienced provider will start to pick up subtle cues about their condition. How would you even communicate that?
Viruses don't 'mutate' up to a death rate. They mutate to a low death rate in one host, then sometimes cross, and happen to cause a higher death rate in the new species.

Can Sars cov2 cross to another animal, mutate, and come back to humans with a higher death rate? Certainly, but that's not what we're talking about with these variants.
> Unity making 2 games would not upset the developers

See Epic v. Apple.

Making games is a huge liability if you’re a game engine. Making a game store even more so.

Unity has made plenty of “demos” as you’re suggesting.
I didn't introduce the philosophical notions myself. The author makes plentiful use of them, but inaccurately.

That's worse than not using them.

It's like pasting

rm -rf /

in an article about Fun Bash Commands. People who know enough won't be harmed, and either find it funny or moronic. But those who don't know enough can be injured.
I'm running Waterfox, and I've heard good things about Basilisk for people who want/need to keep the old XUL ways alive.
Is there any tax break that doesn't benefit the rich/middle class? That's sort of the nature of tax breaks.
He was not happy when the UT administrators decided to switch to Java under pressure from donors.
Don't shit in my hand and call it chocolate ice cream.

"We're going to scan your photos, on your encrypted device, to look for badness. Right now, we're going to claim that's only for the really icky people that nobody is going to defend, but, hey, once the tech is in place, who's to say we can't scan for dank memes and stuff?"

I think I'm done with Apple. Sad, really. I was hoping that their bowing to China with iCloud wasn't a sign of what's to come, but apparently it was. They had done such nice stuff with privacy too.

Demote my phone to a house phone and go without, I suppose.
Just anyone making flowcharts. Large cos often have to coordinate lots of people, so flowcharts can help. My main use case is for project mgmt and roadmapping.
We did the same thing a couple weeks ago. Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I'd bet money that will slip, too.

If you're waiting for 'normal', I think you're already soaking in it. At least for the next 18 months or so, which is effectively forever in terms of flexible change.
Not to correct, but to affirm. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusio...
Very cool! Reminds me a little bit of gource.

https://gource.io/
Idiot Coin
The real amateur move here was to have the CTO decline and then change position. Of course you already lined up a new job, have no loyalty to your current employer, and will tell anyone who is willing to listen. They are now going to have others shopping for remote offers and giving their 2 weeks notice just to get the exception.
Why did you just change the subject? And attack me for something that I didn't say rather than what I did say?

The topic was to what extent the current problem is the result of past forestry policy. It wasn't how to get out of the current problem. It *certainly* wasn't about the wisdom of large scale controlled burns in populated areas.

Can we go back to the actual topic? And have you answer whether or not you now understand why people say that past forestry policy is the fundamental reason why this problem exists in the first place?
I gotta say I read the article and it didn't make much sense. It seemed to make a lot of loosely connected accusations without any external evidence to back them up. I lasted three minutes into the video and heard just more of the same.

I bet Mozilla does have a ton of problems. They're a non-profit that has been around forever and has more reputation and influence than its undersized user-base would imply. That's going to make it a weird organization. But before I would go so far as to believe that "Firefox cannot be trusted" I'd need to see some harder evidence.
If only iCloud backups were encrypted…

Also this is US only? What about other children?
Who's denying Americans the right to use hospitals if their insurance is denied due to a pre-existing condition of being unvaccinated? Freedom isn't free, they should have done their cost/benefit analysis a priori instead of trying to shaft the rest of us with the bar tab. Sounds like you want Medical Marxism to me.

And if the hospital is filled to capacity maximizing revenue already, why can't a free market entity preferentially treat the vaccinated who will pose a lesser danger to their employees and thus result in lower employee burnout and sick pay not mention higher gross margin?

This leaves the insurance companies free to pursue their mission of maximizing profitability as much as they possibly can to deliver shareholder value and we all win, no?

It also leaves entrepreneurial sorts like yourself the opportunity to open a bespoke hospital for anti-vaxxers and mask-deniers who, if they have the money, will pay top $$$ because the alternative given they are at your door is an eternal dirt nap.

Seems like an American Success story in the making to me.
The NSA Can Help Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters
> your behavior is atleast as, if not more abusive towards your end user than Apple are being

My behavior? You have no idea what I do. I don't even develop for Apple platforms.

> Why should your user have to use an anti-privacy 3rd party like Facebook to use your app or service?

I would never use anything by Facebook. Not sure where you got that from.

> Where is the users choice other than to not use your product?

That is choice.

> I amazed, but sadly not surprised by the level of entitlement on display from a very small but extremely vocal set of developers

As a dev shouldn't I be able to have control over my application?
The best tool I found for exploring code bases and navigating large projects is https://www.sourcetrail.com/.
I'm ready to just give up entirely on HTML/CSS/JS on HTTP when that happens. Fuck monocultures.
There should be some colloqualisms around this to recognize that there are valid positions across the spectrum. I'm a hardcore WFH'er, an introvert with a dedicated office in a beautiful spot in the woods and no colleagues at my work location which is a 45 minute commute each way.

On the other hand I work with extroverted young folks that are sitting on the edge of their bed all day in a stuffy bedroom with one window so they can work from the top of their dresser in an apartment with three other roommates.
I was going by the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Individ... but it’s entirely possible that it’s incorrect.
That is absolutely not something the found in the clinical trials.
Yeah and the future is a monolithic browser stack controlled by one one of the largest corporations in the world.