skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoke travels pretty far and causes obvious health issues. The undergrowth due to suppressing previous fires and the additional fuel from dead trees due to droughts result in very hot fires that grow huge.

The Dixie fire that is ongoing is 762 sq miles and is 25% contained. It is the largest fire started from a single source and second largest overall in California history.

If we let a fire just burn, will it just get so large that it can’t be contained and will just burn till there is nothing left? I read about natural fires that would span states and would burn till the rainy season. The fires currently burning in Siberia cover 4000 sq miles. The Bay Area is about 7000 sq miles. Alameda County is about the same size as the Dixie fire.
Your strawman is absurd. Nobody needs to claim any moustache-twirling villain or some narrow conspiracy to see how the OP makes extremely valid points.

We factually know that a number of powerful three letter agencies work in tandem with each other and with other agencies in other allied governments around the world to maintain as much secretive information scooping as possible about the affairs and communications of civil society. This was blatantly revealed in 2013 for all the world to see and nothing has happened since then to indicate that it hasn't stopped happening only with some moderate adjustments to procedure.

If anything, a number of governments are now trying to normalize their efforts to the public enough that they can do it more overtly (see recent attempts at arguing for backdoors on major E2E-encrypted communications apps as an example). The simple inertia of massive state security and surveillance budgets is enough to explain much of it without resorting to any sort of James Bond-type villians, let alone pinning any specific blame on Biden as anything more than just one more president among many heads of state and previous presidents, who supports the status quo of the mission-creeping institutions around him.

This isn't even and shouldn't be viewed as a partisan-politics thing. It happens almost equally regardless of specific party in power. Obama was tacitly complicit in it just as Bush was, and Trump's administration was likely no different either, except for its internal chaos causing certain rather unique administrative problems. What evidence indicates anything sincerely changing under Biden now?

That you could be so condescending about these very established tendencies despite the absolutely concrete revelations of their existence is what's strange and disappointing.
But how will the people that profit from prisons buy big yachts?
Go to being a responsible person. Some of these people are mentally ill. Many others are just content to live a minimal existence, getting high, and not following any of the rules that normal people do. I see no reason to offer them support in that lifestyle.
I guess it comes pre installed on Android, which has a huge market share globally.
"It is still unknown whether COVID-19 Variants are evolving randomly or under the selection pressure generated by mitigation efforts."

Very interesting. My thesis for the new highly contagious variants is they are from the vaccinated because of the virus's escape mechanism. And on cue here we have a mention of the phenomenon in a medical study.

Oh well, postponing all judgement until it's peer reviewed. And while we're at it, how about study on head to head vaccinated vs unvaccinated mutation frequency.
If there were no 'useless knowledge' in the world, it'd not be right to call mere survival 'living'. The mind not free to roam is enslaved. 'Uselessness' is in the mind of the beholder.
PE buys the shares in the now rent seeking businesses the VCs financed, that's how they exit. Many VCs these days are doing nothing more noble than creating more investment vehicles for rent seeking PE.
I have to disagree pretty strongly with this. The early Farmville days were 2009-2010, at which point Facebook was already fairly mainstream (300M users) and trending toward the garbage content, advertising, and outrage bandwagon. For the first few years when it came out (2005-2008), Facebook was the shit for everyone in the demographic groups currently targeted by TikTok.
That is just in theory, the cost to society might be more profound and harder to rebound from longer term.

Bonus: I suggest reading this guy's blog for unexpected outcomes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543527
> https://me.shodan.io … this looks up information in the existing Shodan database - it doesn't launch a scan.

But do you discard the IP or save it for future scans? :p
Regarding racism in the USSR, the answer is "it's complicated."

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

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/black-skin-red-land-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Russians#Early_Soviet_per...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271627743300...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/06/10/the-affirmativ...

https://interzine.org/2021/03/18/was-the-soviet-union-racist...
You know, most societal problems are complex and solutions are not easy, if at all possible. But buying people homes wouldn't literally fix the homeless problem.
The world has 8 billion people. I am pretty sure that there are enough to do the work that needs to be done.
As a non-user, I am genuinely curious about what are some concrete examples of productive contents?
From my understanding, the only format of communication on TikTok is videos with a short time limit. I'd imagine it is hard to convey much to be considered productive.
Meanwhile, San Jose is gearing up to clear a much larger camp at West Hedding and Spring streets, near the San Jose airport. That clean-up, which comes at the behest of the Federal Aviation Administration, could displace more than 200 people — some of whom might move to the Apple camp or other nearby camps.

You could pluck that right out of some dystopian future novel. I think we live in those worlds now actually - it's just unevenly distributed.
How's your land looking now?
They could ease the housing pressure there by going permanent WFH, but I doubt they'll even do that.
>they honestly don't have a place to go

Do most homeless originate from the city that they habitate?
I'm confused, twofold, first of all being that usbmuxd means you need to connect to a computer, second of all being that it seems usbmuxd works on various platforms, not just macOS?
> making home insurance cover the true cost of the risk homeowners should assume for their voluntary decision to live in fire prone areas. Yes, they should pay the necessarily high premiums to live in these areas and protect their property. Why should everyone else subsidize this?

Thank you. It's the clearest solution to this problem and likely the only financially viable one. The years where exurban sprawl into every corner of the redwoods made economic sense are long passed.
I think there is also a similar story told in Chickenhawk, which is Robert Mason's retelling of his Vietnam war experiences. It may be that he presented it as a rumour too though.
Off-topic: I enjoyed Chickenhawk much more than I would have expected from the synopsis. This random person on the web here (me) highly recommends it!
Imagine being so dumb to think some aren't open since there are a handful of employees there or opening a few since there would be homeless there.
There is an entire industry of government funded NGOs who work with the homeless, who rely on these kinds of precepts, like evicting squatters being unethical, being accepted, for their funding. They're the ones who place enormous pressure on others to adopt this extreme compassion worldview.
Btw Amazon actually did this, they have space for 200 a night right in one of their hq buildings in downtown Seattle called Mary’s place.
~500k homeless in the country. [0]

Average monthly rent in the US:~ $1000 [1]

Bezos net worth: $213 billion [2]

Average return on investment for DJIA for the past ten years: 10.6% [3]

Paying rent for all homeless folks is $6 billion a year.

Bezos, if he makes average returns, makes $21.3 Billion a year.

He can afford it. And still e one the richest people in the world.

How do you live with that?

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_S...

1: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-ren...

2: https://wealthypeeps.com/jeff-bezoss-net-worth/

3: https://www.5yearcharts.com/last-10-years-return-of-dow-jone...
How about noise and crowdedness? Everything look (from the picture) so close together, if there are too many people and stuff, things will get messy. Not to mention when there are outdoor activities like musical performances.

I like the concept, I'm just worried when it's over capacity.
I've worked at a hospital, and that video really confused me. The tasks that "administrators" covered seemed quite reasonable.

The first example ("contingencies") rang in my ears due the pandemic. There was no specific department for this, but having a pandemic plan was the responsibility of administrators. Leaving it to the staff would have been a horror show.

Another "contingency" from my experience is having a facilities department that maintained separate power generation. If you were on the the operating table and the power went down, what would you expect? That the surgeon would take care of it?

Another example is "finance". Do you think this function shouldn't be performed? The hospital wouldn't function. Or do you think we should pay doctors (rather than the "scourage" of administrators) to do it? Imagine how expensive health care would be then. Same with "purchasing", "technical", etc. Are you suggesting we have less qualified doctors and nurses perform these tasks at a higher price or that the hospital just dosen't purchase stuff?

"Administrative bloat", as you call it, seems more a result of increasing standards we have for organizations. Everything we expect has to be someone's job to build, fix, monitor, report, etc.

We can get rid of administrators, but the final result is significantly worse outcomes.
Are homes in these areas in the US built with rooftop sprinkler systems, compulsory rain water storage and so on to address the threat of fire?
Not sure “google-fu” translates to the average user
Or.. Build more basements and underground shelters.
I wonder how practical it would be to sink 30 foot deep concrete tube shelters with a ladder and a lid. They could serve as emergency daytime shelters and someone could climb out at night to search for a location with working power or cooler weather.
My point, which seems to have soared over the heads of my detractors in this thread, is that the ultra rich should be taxed at a higher rate, and that money used to fund programs that combat homelessness.

Jeff Bezos and the other dragons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H billionaires have demonstrably too much wealth, to the extent that they can afford dick-measuring contests like "whose CEO can get to space first, for no reason whatsoever".

The measure of a great society is by how it treats its least fortunate members.
Maybe if they'd paid their fair share in taxes, they'd feel less guilty about the ethics. As it stands, they're not exactly helping society fix these problems.
Do seagulls do crack?
Siberia is mostly pine forest. Pine is not the most valuable lumber. Russian Far East have much more valuable tree species.
The property owner in question has evaded paying billions of dollars in taxes, taxes that could have gone to fix the systemic issues in America that perpetuate homelessness.

Think different indeed.
I read this, and my first thought was "what are they supposed to do? buy houses for all these people? Yea, Apple could afford it, but then they'll be sending the message that if you want Apple to buy you a house, all you have to do is pitch a tent on their lawn".

And then it reminded me of a quote from The West Wing, after Toby uses the president's name to pull some strings for a random homeless person he happened to run into:

> President Bartlet: "Toby, if we start pulling strings like this, you don't think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?"

> Toby: "I can only hope, sir."

I know that "solving" homelessness isn't really as simple as just having the wealthiest company on the planet buy homes for people, but... it could be a start.
The biggest hurdle Linux has to overcome is somehow convincing major players to release Linux version of their apps. Making a beautiful skin is not going to solve the main Linux catch-22: not enough market share to have main apps, not enough main apps to increase market share. Excel, Power point (essential for business and school) creativity apps like Photoshop, Premiere, etc. Their are essential to most people work-flows and the biggest hurdle to adoption.

VM's partly solves the problem, but You need to have a decent computer and small technical chops.
agree. we also use recent similar transactions to generate a market appraisal. this is why we are offering an estimate but the real price discovery happens when/if a dealership makes an offer to buy your vehicle. our market value is just a reference price... dealers have a unique willingness to pay for each available vehicle. some will pay above market and pickup your car from your house without an inspection right now while others will ask you to bring the vehicle to the dealership before they will buy it and only pay fair market value after verifying it's condition.
You make a great point and I think it's hard to generalize. Nukes have made large scale devastating wars irrelevant but could potentially end civilization or be used to terrorists to evaporate a city. The single largest improvement in quality of life for humanity came from burning fossil fuels but now we face imminent and dire consequences from climate change and have already made humanity one of a handful of mass extinctions on Earth. Radio broadcasts brought music and news into every household but also brought propaganda and contributed significantly to the rise of Nazism (1). Our similar advances in communication technology seem to strike a similar chord. Even GPS, the internet, encryption, and TOR were only developed as military technologies later coopted for civilian use.

The theme appears to be that innovation brings many benefits and great risks. I would advise appreciation of nuance and thoughtfulness. As we become a Kardashev Type I civilization, we could carefully consider the way we organize our society and the existential risks we create for ourselves. For the first time in our history, we have the ability to pretty much completely annihilate ourselves and we're only creating more ways to do it. Maybe some caution is due.

(1) https://daily.jstor.org/an-affordable-radio-brought-nazi-pro....
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

- Anatole France
Few Jews were allowed to attend Ivy League colleges until the 1950s and beyond.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-d...
>Sounds like an anti-Semitic troll

I'm just now realizing that I sound like this, lol. No, I'm Jewish, just curious about history.
I don't think you understand the link you're sharing or the article.

Undoing desertification restores a pre-existing ecology. All we have in California is a fire-based ecology, there's nothing else to restore. Some part of California are desert but these aren't the parts that are burning, what's burning is poorly managed woodlands that actually need more open space.
Sure you’ve identified the problem but the problem is not the responsibility of the owner of said private property.
I knew someone who worked at a particular office which had a computer lab as the IT person. This lab had a server room that served as an office and had just enough room to squeeze in a sleeping bag.

This person lived in that space for 6 years. I’m not sure if their boss ever figured it out or simply remained willfully ignorant.
This is awesome. I’m telling everyone about this.
I think talking about upvotes and downvotes should be encouraged.
why not have both? I have an external portable battery pack for my phone, why can't I attach a portable rented battery to the tow hook of my car?
Some people having millions of times more than they could possibky need while these people don't have the basics is the cause of the problem.
Fair enough, I agree that the mushroom thing is quite a stretch. The word 'elect' has a bit of a history in Christianity, though.

There certainly were gnostics of all stripes (not only Christian gnostics, but various other purveyors of secret knowledge, etc.). And while the canonical Bible contains an invective against 'so-called knowledge' which seems to be a dig at gnosticism, there were other gnostic sects and works early on persisting for some time even after it was declared heretical.
I believe that you are misreading FooBarBizBazz's point. They were supposed to have eliminated things like this, according to their propaganda. But their history completely refutes the propaganda. That was FooBarBizBazz's point (as I read it).
If Bezos can afford it, the government can afford it. So why don't they do it?
Apple builds tens of millions of products every year that increase productivity. They're not indebted to society, let alone to the US where they are providing billions in salaries and capital appreciation income.
Show HN: HamsterTach, DIY hamster wheel tachometer, uploads data to GoogleSheets
There's a movement growing to build effectively a 9' gravel road around Santa Rosa as a fire moat of last defense. It would be paid out of funds given from the recent fire there.

If you zoom in on tiny communities up in the foothills, occasionally you'll see roads marked on google maps as "Dozer Line" where the locals have built their own crude fire moats to protect the community as best they can. I don't know if these are maintained to any degree, but it's certainly not a new idea.
How about we start by not overcharging exorbitant amounts and gouging prisoners and their families before we increase the 1984 levels in prisons?! The whole US prison industry is so damn corrupt its infuriating.
35C = 95F for those of us who are in the USA.
How do you plan to use AI/ML? Last time I was looking into applying AI/ML cybersecurity I could not get access to any open source datasets for training the ML model. How do you see overcoming this problem?
That's not how it works. Shodan continuously checks all IPs on the Internet. When you visit the website you're checking for existing information in the database. Your use of the Shodan website/ API doesn't change how Shodan crawls the Internet.
‘Dear Hacker': Crypto Platform Begs for Money Back After Losing $600M
> "The compiler can decide to use the inline or extern definition" is begging for trouble.

IMO this behavior seems like the obvious choice, but I've been writing C long enough that I'm sure my perspective is distorted and my sense of what is obvious is completely out of whack.

C++ made the choice that linkers should be able to coalesce duplicates, C made the choice that linkers do not need this feature. If you want to inline, you want definitions in every translation unit. If you don't want to have to inline, you want to pick a translation unit which gets the code.

The compiler is what chooses whether a function is inline, and programmers should not think of the "inline" keyword as affecting that choice.

> "inline functions cannot have their address taken and cannot have static variables" seems so natural and obvious.

Yes, obvious that they should not have static variables. There's nothing wrong with taking the address of an inline function, though. It behaves just like a normal function. Pointers to a function will compare equal if and only if they point to the same function--a function with external linkage is the same function in every translation unit, a function with internal linkage is a different function in every translation unit. Whether or not the function is inline does not matter (why would it?)

This means that you can take functions in an existing C code base, and you can make them inline, without any change in functionality. This should always work, barring... you know... those weird unexpected consequences. Isn't that nice though? Whether a function is inline is a detail that you don't have to care about, unless you're defining the function.

Remember that "inline" does not mean, "this function will be inlined". Instead it means, "the compiler may choose to inline this, or not, at its discretion." Which really just means, "the definition for this function is visible in the translation unit where it is called", because the compiler can generally choose to inline any function if the definition is there.

So, the keyword could be renamed to reflect what it means. Instead of:

// file.h
inline int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

// file.c
int add_one(int x);

You could choose a different name for the keyword:

// file.h
do_not_emit_code_in_this_translation_unit_by_default
int add_one(int x) {
return x + 1;
}

// file.c
override_default_and_omit_code_in_this_translation_unit
int add_one(int x);

I suspect "inline" was considered easier to type.
How the Poly Network hack worked
My wife is a user and I've noticed how incredibly reinforcing it is as a platform. After the first week I never heard her groan, cringe aloud, disagree with, or mock the creator of any video she was watching. Think about that. Even in online communities tailor made as escapism like gaming you still have people that piss you off or challenge your opinions. Tiktok is a perfect echo chamber.
At least regarding San Diego, 79% in a survey reported they did become homeless within San Diego.

https://www.rtfhsd.org/wp-content/uploads/WeAllCount.pdf#pag...
There are many systems of ethics where the right of someone to live on the land where their home is (tent or otherwise, owned by them or someone else) takes precedence over private property rights. I, sure as hell, would love to live in in a world where that was put into practice.
The government contractors are doing it right now. Badly, presumably.
"Study Finds Patients Prefer Doctors Who Share Their Same Race/Ethnicity ;
In an analysis of more than 100,000 patient surveys, Penn researchers found that patient-provider race concordance led to higher odds of receiving maximum patient experience scores"

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2020/novembe...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Could you elaborate on the reason?
> MSH would be able to communicate with orbit directly and would not need rover or lander support.

Does that mean it wouldn't be powered by an RTG like the last few missions? Or do you just mean that the MSH will have its own comms independent of a supporting rover/lander?
> By having this debate we've already implicitly accepted their premise that something bad is going on.

Isn't the electrical waste something bad?
Well, it became unethical after everyone who had huge budgets bought up all the property, displacing everyone who couldn't. In a sense, it's a question of the ethics of owning property being inherently displacing. If there is only private property that nobody wants others on, and public property that isn't housing and nobody wants others on, then you're kind of both screwed and you're subject to the consequences of the system that let you have those things in the first place.
So if someone dying of thirst lands at my doorstep, yes, it’s not my responsibility to give them a glass of water.

Whether it’s my responsibility or not has absolutely no bearing on whether it’s ethical for me to not give them a glass of water. Maybe it is ethical to send them away thirsty. But that would be based on a lot more than whether it’s my responsibility or not.

Being ethical isn’t limited to doing just what one is responsible for.

In fact, often they can be in conflict.