skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s already like that. Most houses in the Tahoe area that are surrounded by a certain amount of trees are insurable only via the California FAIR plan.
Laws will vary worldwide. For the US I believe the DMCA makes circumvention a crime. This was why the DeCSS number was illegal.

There may be b2b contracts in addition to what the law says, but I believe the DMCA has an interoperability exception. I'm curious if "getting it to run on new hardware" is enough for that to trigger.
Climate Change is only a small contributor of forest fires in California, there was a pretty lengthy discussion on HN last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122867

Direct source: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/08/09/how-wildfire-restored-a...
Humans have the technology to build structures that can withstand wildfires. It's like saying we should not live in cold climates before we had good insulation. I can build a concrete or metal structure that would be fine in a wildfire. Mountains have access to tons of water during the winter. They just need to retain that water for wildfire season.
Instant verified electronic money transmission is difficult. There are not many options here. MC, Visa, PayPal, Crypto… gift cards?
Be flash flood aware when canyoneering out here, though...
Why not make it clear that people building structures in fire-prone areas are on their own, and should design appropriately?
The distinction that I would make is that Christians view miracles as an intelligent being choosing to temporarily circumvent the laws of nature. That is in contrast to rituals or magical substances which are believed to directly influence the laws of nature.

From a theological perspective (which may not be the same as how a given lay Christian thinks about things) prayer is simply asking God to perform a miracle for you in the same way that you might ask a human to do a favor for you. Similarly, Christian ritual is seen as intended to help humans have faith, not as having any magical properties in of themselves.
Draw some circles and arrows in PowerPoint
Then two years later claim to have built everything
It is. Very nice. Is it enough for someone who's got 20 days? I don't know how far east it goes.
The FS is not likely to try to actively patrol any and all access points to FS land. But they will put up barriers and signs, close facilities and so forth. If you are determined, I am sure you could get into most parts of most forests, but "forest closure" was never meant to imply otherwise.
They do. Many species of conifer seed don't even begin to germinate until exposed to the heat of a wildfire. Fire's are a part of the natural lifecycle of a west coast forest. Unfortunately the over suppression of fires over the last 120 years has over fueled these forests and we are witnessing the consequences now.
I agree with this. They know most of the parts, what works smoothly and what needs more love, and they talk to people. Then they can give an informed advice with a few UML diagrams and a few code examples.
That’s 1.5 C per century.

Where I sit, there was ice a mile thick 15,000 years ago. We are still coming out of the last ice age. Besides that, we have just come out of the so-called Little Ice Age, at the height of which people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice in New York Harbor.

1.5 C per century is inconsequential. Not only that, but I predict that humans will stop emitting CO2 in a few decades, in any case.
I agree about high end items.

We started some home renovations recently and used FB Marketplace to get rid of everything. We got rid of a vanity, toilet, light fixtures, oven, skill saw, media center, and more. We usually list it for ~$20 (except the oven) and if the person doesn't do anything weird we give it for free. It's way better than throwing things out.
...is it possible for it to not be unified? I.e. are opposition groups free to run for office and oppose the CCP in china? If not wouldn't describing it as unified be a bit ironic at best, and disingenuous (but still ironic, for a different reason) at worse? Is it possible to get honest opinions online of the CCP? I.e. if someone thinks Xi is the worst leader to ever hold office in China, would they be free to say so publicly and on the (online) record?
Actually, one of the reasons Genshin is lauded by it's player base is that you can clear the hardest content with free to play characters. The 5 stars have way flashier looking abilities and get more face-time in the narrative, and are generally a bit more meta, but are not leaps and bounds stronger. So Genshin has at least proven that "selling broken OP characters" is not a necessary ingredient to making a $2B hit. That said, other gacha games are definitely all about selling that power.
Can anyone explain this?

"So early on, Newsom identified some key wildfire prevention projects, and that includes things like forest thinning and prescribed burns, and they were meant to protect some of the most vulnerable communities in California. And he claimed 90,000 acres were treated, but we found that's not true. The state's own data shows that, in reality, it was less than 12,000 acres, so just a fraction of what Newsom claimed. And looking at the bigger picture, not just those specific projects, we also found that the state's fire prevention work overall dropped by half last year, which was the worst wildfire season on record for California. And during that time, Newsom also slashed about $150 million from the state's wildfire prevention budget."

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1010382535/gavin-newsom-misle...
That's the main reason for DevOps, as I understand it: one team develops and operates the product. And in the case of DevSecOps, also secures it, rather than a separate team doing so. Some individuals will specialize, but a cross-trained core team ties both (or all three) of these functions together throughout the product's life cycle.
GoLang isn’t exactly a “hot new thing”. It’s battle tested. Maybe the maintainers feel that it’ll be easier to work with in the long run?
> it does seem that charging people is just wrong

The point of the license is to make sure people are treating the spectrum well, not generate revenue. I will point out similar fees are assessed to get a license to operate a car which is probably more important in an emergency.
That is actually done by the developer. The fixer washes away the remaining unexposed silver ions that were not reduced to metallic silver by the developer.
California also has government sponsored fire insurance for property owners that can't obtain commercial insurance. While this is good for individual property owners it's not really fair that taxpayers have to subsidize them. We're not allowing the free market to efficiently price in risks.

https://www.cfpnet.com/
A moat is not a horrid idea.

When Paradise was burning I was thinking if I lived in a fire prone envionment; I would have sprinklers on roof of my home. It would be a simple 1/2" copper pipe feeding a few sprinkler heads on the roof. Maybe a few mercury switches placed around the property, or remotely controlled through the phone line, wifi, or sat phone enabled? Nothing too elaborate. It wouldn't protect everyone. It might save a few house fires that were started with embers though?

I know there one company selling roof fire sprinklers. I know of one small city who's experimenting right now with roof sprinklers. Hell, I wouldn't mind firing a bunch of Firefighters, and seeing that money go to Roof Sprinklers. (I haven't quite figured out exactly what Firefights do all day, with the hard exception of Paramedics. Buildings in cities don't burn like they used too. Wood stick homes in the country are another story.)

I heard one guy say that there wouldn't be enough water pressure if everyones roof was on, but that doesn't make sence either. Not everyone's roof sprinklers would be going off simultaneously if properly implemented, and designed. Firehouses could be in charge of which houses sprinklers go off?

Right now in CA, if you live in a fire prone area, Insurance (Property) is not suspose to be higher. As much as I despise Insurance companies--this provision needs to be nixed. (I don't think it will happen because Insurance companies use it to raise our city insurance rates, and politicians have northern cabins.
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Well, it was definitely present in the USA in 1911:

> "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too"

> What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist – the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bread_and_Roses

Or in the 1930s when Keynes was speculating that advances in productivity and machinery would reduce the work week to 15 hours:

https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we...

Or on 1906 in Our Riches on Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgrpwwN8zM0

So that covers the begining of the 1900s on the USA, England, and Russia.

Other more direct examples would Paul Lafrague's 1883 The Right to be Lazy or the 8-hour campaign that got us the shorter 8-hour work day we have today. ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eight-hour_day )
Yep absolutely. What I wrote for someone else who had the same thought:

> Totally, putting some small patches into the binary would definitely work in the case of just wanting to get rid of the licence validation. The goal of my project, though, was to get to a state where the software could be used in its original unmodified state, with a "real" licence. Just felt more authentic! So the process over the 3 parts of the blog series is guided by that final destination.
> They should figure out how to rework the regulations to limit bandwidth, not baud.

They seem to have literally said that. The new higher baud protocols cannot use more spectrum that the 300 baud version they approved.
>I think there should be a re-evaluation of whether or not to let people build or rebuild in especially fire-prone areas.

I expect large swaths of the Sierras will soon be uninsurable for all practical purposes. Anybody with a mountain home with a mortgage will be SOL.
That video is produced by the Epoch Times.

From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

> The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong new religious movement.

> The Epoch Media Group's news sites and YouTube channels have spread conspiracy theories such as QAnon and anti-vaccine misinformation. In 2020, The New York Times called it a "global-scale misinformation machine".
That is certainly true! Doesn’t mean he’s wrong, though.
I saw this map of roughly the last major fire in California:

https://projects.capradio.org/california-fire-history/#6/38....

Looks like it's missing after 2019, but what sticks out to me is the difference in scale of past fires and current fires. If you imagine where the Dixie fire or last year's August Complex would fit in, they take up relatively huge amounts of the map.

I'm sure at some point in the next 10-20 years, we'll have burned through most of the available fuel and wildfires won't be as bad. Of course, that's a pretty sad end state.
> What if the NYTimes had journalists that described the news in their specific prose or worse, poetically.

Eh, I think the news landscape would be improved if there was a news source providing it in poetic form. I wouldn't want everyone to do it that way.
Sometimes you pay a really crappy lawyer because you can't afford better.
While that's true, assault is also very commonly not reported. I don't think I even realized before the age of 25 that I could report someone for hitting me. If something broke then I would think of it, but if it just hurt then no.

With that being said aggravated assault accounted for 68.2% of violent crime in 2019 according to the FBI.[0]

[0]
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Regarding hard-to-cancel subscriptions:

I always thought this should be the credit card company's responsibility. High-end credit cards like AMEX and Chase Sapphire already have so many cushy perks, what's so hard about also adding something like "We'll guarantee you can 1-click unsubscribe from anything <=$30 month and underwrite any risk of these going to collections"?
Nope, no GPU yet :(

Right now SelfieSegmentation is just a thin wrapper around the selfie segmentation solution provided in https://google.github.io/mediapipe. It operates on RGB frames, so that's why I need the conversion. The model inference is also done on the CPU. Interestingly, there is a GPU mediapipe graph available, but I haven't looked into what's needed to use that yet.

And yes, Boxfilter is just a wrapper around opencv's boxfilter. This is probably the lowest hanging fruit that could be moved to use GPU.
Directly north of Thoreau is Chaco and Bisti badlands, which is worth a visit too. For whatever reason it is locally pronounced “Thu-ROO”
I think that example was interesting because he basically described BitTorrent (a more general Napster that's not just a push-button music player) as the potential brainchild of astronauts, but that actually was really useful to millions of people. So maybe the astronauts do have a point sometimes.
The Calendar bits of Chandler were just fine, it seemed to me (but I would say that, I wrote a chunk of it).

We just didn’t figure out what we wanted to do with Chandler until it was too late. The actual final release had the bones of a pretty great organizational system, albeit mixed with the carcass of half a dozen other things we’d tried.
You absolutely can.

Murder rates don’t include “justifiable homicide”, because police departments are not required to report officer-involved shootings or killings to the federal government, nor the outcomes of any investigations into them. Which can also be gamed.

I’m not saying that radically transforms the statistic—I have no idea. But it’s a factor.
[ I made a serious error here by forgetting the semantics of how cron uses day-of-month and day-of-week. Deleted to avoid misleading others. ]
there are 7 condescending, mean, negative posts. ~4 neutral posts. this is one of 2 positive, happy posts, and by far the happiest. you deserve a god damned medal.

it's shocking what a bunch of sad sorry sacks there are about. everyone's a critic, conservative & afraid of change, unwilling to see uses. what a terrible crowd here.

yes, this is exactly for setting up a file server for Windows/Linux/Mac, without the AD part, without samba. i wish your positivity had a little stronger basis to it, knew a little better what you were excited about, but hey, given the pick of these negative nancies and you, mercy, i'd take your innocence any day.
I'm not certain you're wrong, but not for those reasons. There are still threads for all the long tail of synchronous operations. It's easy enough to do from Tokio or other async frameworks. However, the go approach of making async look like sync code is certainly much easier to write and read code for. I'm skeptical that async is really superior to that.
That's why I like the idea of scoped executors rather than trying to have a global executor do everything. Libs should provide their own executors and manage their own async event handling while allowing the user to provide their own implementation if needed (e.g. for single threaded test code where performance is not a problem or e.g. in a production environment where you can heavily optimize the executor if your requirements demand it). If you don't call any of the async overloaded functions in a lib, then you don't get any of the async code compiled in, including the runtime.
Wildfires can start from something as benign as a poorly managed manure pile.
This is why I don't use Peruvian Airlines: air travel should be global but these wiseguys only want it to be Peruvian!
A major consumer of async needs those seams. You often need the coloring because in many situations you want explicit control of what will yield execution. You might want to hold on to a UI thread or a specific OS thread for interop. A choice of all sync or all async is not good enough either.

There might be some better syntax with scopes but Kotlin hasn't been able to do away with the off the UI thread problem.

I won't say we'll never solve it but I don't think the solution is here yet.
"we also found that the state's fire prevention work overall dropped by half last year"

that is utterly not true by any stretch of the words .. it is literally political theater hit piece. see for yourselves...

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/04/13/governor-newsom-signs-land...

https://fmtf.fire.ca.gov/press-publications/

the claim is that a particular State of Calif, Dept of Forestry perhaps, program was supposed to thin acreage and had not done more than 12,000, and that is proof of the entire effort failing and unfunded?

this seems to be the kind of writing that relies on a complete lack of history and context on the part of the reader, on the subject timeline and any previous events

The State of Calif. has been very, very, very active along with a hundred high tech partners and the state resident academics. Huge volumes of money are in play as the State is rich at the moment. It strains the credibility of the printed word to pass on these rumors and tortured phrases for some backroom purpose. amazing
Speaking as a — now former — architect, I’d agree! The best use of my time always turned out to be dealing with scope and feature risk, areas of ambiguity, and governance. Part of this is because very few software projects hinge their success on complex and elegant solutions to thorny conceptual problems, but also because competent developers generally don’t need an architect doing much more than sketching out the broad contours for them to get in and design/build the system; what they really need from the architect is client alignment, well-defined feature scope and dependencies, locked down RACIs, realistic team sizes and schedules, and just enough governance to keep everything on track without overmanagement. A successful architect, in other words, is technically-competent enough to figure out what has to go into the solution (which crosses many disciplinary boundaries) and what the overall project size roughly looks like, but the second they try to create detailed technical plans they’re wasting time and money.
the last few lines are worth a read regarding the iPhone:

> The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.
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> "Doing what you love" is a total new-age garbage scam, only possible because we (most of us on HN) collectively live in the wealthiest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen

You seem to be implying that living in a wealthy, powerful society somehow invalidates the opportunities that affords.

> and nearly all of the important work (food, defense, fuel, manufacturing, etc.) is done by lower class citizens who don't know what an API is.

such work is important but it's not true that this is "nearly all of the important work". Our modern world couldn't exist without, for example, so many of the decades and centuries of developments in the various branches of mathematics and science. Think of how much of the modern world is dependent upon our understanding of Quantum Mechanics, for example.

> Don't worry so much about "loving your career", I promise you no migrant farm workers harvesting your berries love their career, and yet I doubt they wake up with internal mental crises because they haven't achieved self-actualization at work.

Some people actually do love what they do for work. All things being equal, it's better to be one of these people.

One reason you can love an area of work is because you think it is important or valuable, and contributes something meaningful to society. Whereas some forms of work don't appear to contribute much to society (and I think people tend to hate these sorts of jobs). So that is a good reason for doing what you love.
The indentation of submenus is too small. You should try something more similar to usual menus.

It would be nice to be able to export this as a docx, xlsx and pdf file. Importing is perhaps impossible, but exporting should be doable.

> The way I write, I think things and then I think ABOUT things.

I don't understand. You are talking about writing a book? About writing an internal memo for your team?
> Android OneDrive app is excellent

If only they would actually sync files outside the app data dir like they do on desktop.
It's specific to the context of discussing Miroslav Tichý's art, which is what this thread is about. Street photography is great, not sure where you mistook me
Unfortunately I hit a paywall. Is this about the board members who shut down the only school with merit based admissions, tried to ban the names of historical figures from schools, and posted racist things on social media?
Yes, fire is an essential part of these ecosystems.
It's so incredibly useful to be able to bring up pictures but you don't remember the exact time or date that you took it.

Google photos has come in so clutch when you're searching through 50k photos.
Did Norvig then favor the current Leetcode interview in response?

(Which would then seem like the most dysfunctional example of institutionalized playing to the metrics that our field has ever invented.)
Yes, I get the specific instance isn't a good example. I'm working in a space with code which was written to very old Perl with CPAN, and we've emerged into a state where the CPAN dependencies actually can't be made exactly the same, and the old perl is not workable on the new platform.

You're arguing the specific, I'm arguing the generic: it is possible to wind up in a place where your old code won't re-compile, or run.
I feel like at some point we should upgrade to something more human-friendly. Like the nice descriptions they have here https://github.com/agenda/agenda
And no I am not saying people should use that specific thing. Just that the human-readable scheduling is a good example.

Maybe in the 22nd century.
> REFS mirror deciding to “mirror” my corrupt drive to my working drive

REFS has an option for integrity checking, which (unfortunately) might be off by default.
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The complete inability of the United States to deal with the pandemic suggests that the US is unable to mobilize itself to solve large problems effectively.
This was the breakthrough my wife had when we were discussing this: there was no way she could do that for a living. She likes experimenting, and that's not part of a chef, except for some very high rated people.

I am one of the lucky people that love its profession (software development) and it is also my hobby. I'm not sure how to identify the non-coding parts, I enjoy those in the profession too, but more because I like to do very well and being good at those other parts is an integral part of it. To be fair, making a team more effective goes also to my benefit, where I can do more interesting work.
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The iCalendar RFC doesn’t specify this, but the CalDAV specs work just fine.

It’s not trivial, but it’s also not especially difficult to implement. There sure are a lot of productive implementations of clients and servers out there!

Admittedly scheduling is hard, and frankly the iTIP model is just not that well suited to most people’s lives.