skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Newsom has been governor for two years, and you expect that all power lines in fire-risk areas could've been buried in that amount of time? And in national forests controlled by the federal government, not the state/Newsom?
If there is a safer and healthier social world I don’t know it. Much of what I see has only made me more cynical of society.
It is what it is. Part of leading the world's sixth largest economy is that the scale of your disasters is also bigger.

I'm surprised it wasn't done before this as you really don't want to have to do evacuations of tourists on top of your evacuations of residents.

However, most vacationers/tourists are done as school has restarted in most places (for better or worse). So, this isn't likely to impact voting much.

As a side note: early ballots so far have been high. Lots of Democratic voters are pissed about this recall (it's costing a couple hundred million dollars for no good reason) and seem to be pretty motivated. That's probably good news for Newsom. However, don't take it for granted--go vote, dammit. Because the idiots behind this recall sure will.
Probably more effective to mandate less flammable construction, and stop forcing insurance companies to cover homes that have burned multiple times.
Because it’s a horrible mess of confusion between copyrights and patents, and even says so, so it’s hard to see what the author was thinking even posting it.
Since when is Facebook a convenience? Regarding a cell phone, I don't commute and I don't have even the tiniest bit of need for one. Linux is better than Windows, and it's my opinion everyone ought to use a VPN.

Finally, you have to be a real conspiracy nut case to believe not having an Facebook account or cell phone would get someone `red flagged` by a shadow overlording spying agency.
See fclones mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Seems like a better & faster tool from a quick glance.
So any system that has required >= 2,000 devs could have been engineered to need less than that many? Seems like a pretty lofty goal: a hard cap on any system you could imagine.
If you happen to have a RealSense camera, I wrote a virtual camera for Linux that blurs your background using the actual measured depth map.

https://github.com/dheera/bokeh-camera
A: "We are agile here"

B: "When was the last time you met with a customer?"

A: "Never"

"Customer collaboration over contract negotiation" used to mean something.
"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, 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. Sure, the management of the empire requires critically talented minds, but how many roughnecks know what C++ is, and how many executive vice presidents know how to operate an oil rig?

Don't do what you love, do something that allows you and your family (or you and your community if you're not up to the task of having a family) to build resilience, and then love your life outside of the work you do to provide for it. If that's making 200 Gs per year for 10 years slinging Javascript and then getting out of debt with the bank, do that. 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.
State & national parks won't be too far behind. Some of them are in very close proximity to the forests.
> how much of your code do you actually fully understand vs how much is just copied from somewhere?

100% is fully understood. Every single line. A very small percentage is copied from somewhere (usually adapted in some way), but even then: I understand every single line. And I expect the same of everyone on my team. If I'm doing a code review and someone says "I don't know; I found this code online" it does not go over well. I might have them delete all the pasted code and re-write it with me. If they keep pasting in code they don't understand, I may remove them from my projects.

I'm obviously a lot less strict about understanding libraries we import (although it's still important to develop a strong understanding of what they do, and their limitations, over time). The main difference is that someone else is supporting that code, while we have to support code that we pasted from "somewhere online".
> Regarding reducing the fuel load, in an interview four months ago, Newsom said that there are “Hundreds of millions of dead trees” in the state and that it cost his father $35,000 to clear “a small little patch of dead trees” on his property.

> Newsom didn’t admit it, but the outrageous cost to remove a few dead trees from private land is a consequence of California’s Byzantine environmental regulatory patchwork.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/25/wildfire...
I'll put it this way: in popular culture, the controversy over the use of atomic weapons by America goes beyond purely what can be proved, and has instead become a proxy war for other contemporary political issues. (This is not a new phenomenon, and the history of Hiroshima discourse is a fascinating subject in itself.) You will no doubt find some 'mainstream' pundits—even NY Times op-ed authors—willing to carry water for the notion that the use of the atomic bomb was unnecessary, and furthermore known to be unnecessary by the principals at the time.

The evidence, however, does not support it.

EDIT:
To respond to your edit, statements of opinion made by American military figures after the war are not considered convincing. A lot of our war scholarship used to be based on statements made by participants after the war, but we have become increasingly skeptical of this approach, for good reason. For example, our narrative about the German invasion of the Soviet Union used to be largely based on the postwar testimonies of Nazi generals. However new examination of primary sources—i.e. records, receipts, transcripts of meetings (some of which were previously buried in Soviet archives)—have shown that their testimonies were often extremely inaccurate, misleading, self-serving, or else calculated to produce a political effect in a Cold War context.

For the same reason, what figures like Halsey—and particularly Douglas MacArthur, an unreliable narrator worthy of "Pale Fire"—have to say about whether the atomic bombs were decisive should provoke skepticism at best. And this is not just because they were political figures and seasoned inter-service warriors, jockeying for position in a postwar hierarchy, but because they weren't there. The best way to determine whether the bomb was decisive is to examine primary sources, both in the American and Japanese context, some of which have been posted elsewhere in this thread.

By examining those sources you cannot really make the case that the bomb was not decisive, nor can you claim that the decision to use the bomb was primarily motivated by factors other than the urgent need to end the war quickly. While some people may indeed make that argument, they are relying on questionable postwar statements of opinion, with no convincing evidence to support them.
Cool, thanks, I look forward to trying this out. Been annoyed ever since my company moved to teams and I can't do all the cool background effects that my windows and mac coworkers have access to.
> I for one am not a defeatist that will let global warming beat me.

Thinking about it in terms of victory and defeat isn't very helpful IMO. The reality is pretty clear: humans need to adapt to climate change. We are already past the point of no return, and in places like California the effects of climate change are mounting at a faster rate than we can realistically mitigate them.

> We need to think of solutions to fires like this. 1. We need to apply Phos-Chek from ground based units. 2. Building codes need to be updated to only allow fire resistant structures in wildfire prone areas. 3. Inhabited locations in fire prone areas need need active fire suppression infrastructure around them (agricultural level irrigation at the ready). 4. Forest management around inhabited areas need to reduce forest fire fuel.

I'm an advisor and investor in a company that serves this market and while all of the things that you mention can help, they are not "solutions" per se. For example:

1. "Fire resistant" structures are not fire proof. Many rural homeowners in the most vulnerable areas don't have the income to make significant upgrades to their homes. A lot more funding for retrofit subsidies would be required and then you need adequate man power to run inspections and perform upgrades.

2. California already has water problems. "Agricultural level irrigation" in every rural community simply isn't realistic.

2. Forest management could definitely be improved, but it's costly and labor intensive. Where are you going to get the labor?

The sad truth is that a lot of places in California (and the Western US in general) are becoming uninhabitable. Lots of people will need to relocate, or they'll eventually be forced to.
It doesn't matter what you call it, people won't change their feeling about it whether you call it Global Warming or Climate Change - it's kind of like the people who said they were waiting for FDA approval before they'd take the vaccine. Now that it's been approved, many are still saying "Well, it was rushed, I still want to wait", or "it was a political approval, not based on science".
That's the best insight ever, made powerfully sharp by being correct.
"reeks".
Do you think that smokin' a joint is really enough to set off something like this? Because it's clearly a combination of things that are required to create a fire of this magnitude.

Sure a joint could "start a fire" but a lot of other things could too.

Maybe we just don't like to admit it but climate change is here and it's here for real.
1. Phos Chek is probably better than the long term effects from a wildfire. I would recommend looking more into consiquentalists ethics. 2. The mountains have excesses of water in the spring which could easily be sequestered for wildfire season. 3. I own land and live in a wildfire prone area. I will not be moving out to live in a human shit ridden city. I am prefer nature over close human habitation.
What does impending mean to you?
No malice is needed. Just incompetence at hiring and defaulting to the kinds of measures that don't actually determine if the person has any aptitude.
It's a bit of a haul but you could head for CO and do part/all of the Colorado Trail (485 miles, "the most beautiful trail in the USA"). Probably too long for the 20 days.
Is it even illegal to crack software? Cracking copy protection is not the same as software piracy.
I've noticed a lot of registrars try this where they select a multi-year option as default.
To be honest gas is an ancient disease
US Constitution had to be ratified by a minimum of 9 states (out of 13 total) before it went into effect. In practice, the Continental Congress made it operable with 11 signatures; the remaining 2 happened after that.
Glacier NPS is sweet and so is the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Both have a section of the CDT.
Except that the actual global atmospheric warming is minimal, 0.14 C/decade. [0]

The actual problem is climate change in the western part of the United States, coupled with higher population density, poor forest management, and poor power line maintenance.

[0] https://www.drroyspencer.com/2021/08/uah-global-temperature-...
I'd love to hear about the FCC seeking out and serving fines to anyone not ' licensed_' and transmitting with.. Several watts.

How dare you do this with hardware from Amaz0on .. That you bought for this purpose and tried to make a difference..

Its unreal that we still think laws mean anything when the g0v cant keep anything running when its needed.

Oh but take our test, prove you know the bands and Ohms law.. Then save people.
Trust me, you're not hurting those folks. You're hurting those who have legitimate uses to lease domain names.

It's like saying you want to raise the price of housing to keep landlords from buying up all of the properties and forcing locals to rent.

You're not hurting the people abusing the system by doing that.
Nope, Netflix blocked us pretty quick. Geo-blocks are the worst.
Coding with IIFEs
Lobbying is a beautiful mechanism of democracy. Anyone can register to be a lobbyist. Any organization's members can pool money together to form an association which represents its interests to legislators. I worked as a Congressional staffer on Capitol Hill and saw firsthand how it works. We met with lobbyists on both sides of every niche issue you could possibly imagine.

There's no perversion of government caused by lobbyists. On net balance lobbyists are beneficial - and sometimes they're all that stops a 20-something Legislative Aide from drafting a terrible piece of legislation which the Member only faintly understands.
That quote is about privately-owned land, not federally-owned land. You and the post you're responding to are both correct; the state is responsible for some areas, and the federal government is responsible for others.
These fires can jump a 10 lane freeway - the last one by our house did this. So you would need a pretty wide moat.

But it would probably still help. It doesn't have to be perfect to help firefighters out.
Fdupes does that too
One is adding something (school), the other is taking something away. Further it takes a leisure activity away which is (to your point) performed exclusively outside of school. A more pointed discussion that still allows the benefit of government policy is why mandate a limit rather than mandating a system that allows parents to usefully set the limit? A related discussion would be if I claimed that TV and fiction novels are worse for kids than games, so we should allow unlimited games but limit all fiction books and all TV to 3 hours a week for everyone.
Moats are good at preventing barbarians from attacking your city not stopping a wildfire.
So you're more of a "Let's sacrifice the fish before I'll sacrifice my lifestyle" person?
It's pricey but I like it. I like the archived performances too. It does let you play some content offline. It has let me feel a bit more cultured when locked in a garage for a year and a half working on a startup during a pandemic!
Just offer linux, and let them figure it out!
Okay, I'll take the troll bait.

First, California seem to be dealing with the idiots that are the MAGA anti-vax crowd better than most. California isn't currently having people dying of things like pancreatic stones because it takes 6 hours to find an ICU bed. See: Texas and Florida.

Second, California has quite a bit more of its population covered by healthcare because it went all-in on the ACA and Medicaid. See: Texas and Florida

Third, California actually disbursed assistance that was supposed to go out--both unemployment and rental assistance. Contrast to: All Southern red states

Fourth, in the middle of all this, California managed to run a surplus. Pretty good for a state that Republicans always claim is in the middle of meltdown. I really wish some of those Republicans would put their money where their mouth is and leave so I could buy a house.

California sure as hell ain't perfect.

It's easy to bitch and complain. It's easy to tear things down. It's really fucking hard to build shit, and, in some areas, California is trying. It needs to do better, but Democracy is, unfortunately, slow as shit.

So, go pound sand with your talking points rhetoric.
Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – lesson in data privacy
The "problem" with EverQuest wasn't the game, it was the people.

It's just like real life. You aren't supposed to be the hero. You aren't supposed to have all the best everything and a million platinum.

You're just another cog moving through the world, easily replaceable. That's how it was designed. The problem is that, strangely, in a game, people can't accept that, so they'll spend 18 hours a day playing, but for some reason won't spend 18 hours a day working, even when spending 18 hours a day working at something clearly - undeniably - yields better results than playing a game.
> "I don’t belong to a tribe"

Is what everyone says
Wooden Chess Board with Piece Recognition
ITT we eat sour grapes about codebases that are subordinate to cohesive theories.
That's not what a dark pattern is. They want you to watch their tutorial thing and they're going to keep bothering you until you at least open it. A dark pattern would be putting an ambiguous label on an opt-out checkbox for phone-home analytics or something.
Even if it's not out of context, it's still just a moment of someone's life. Maybe they're normally an asshole, but maybe their just having a bad day, or they're drunk, or whatever, and their moment of foolishness is now enshrined in the most unforgiving way possible.

It's also crazy addictive. I can feel myself getting high on dopamine scrolling through, one hit of outrage after another.

I agree, this material is great for "engagement", but there's not much real value.
Unlike right now, where there’s one big namesquatter called “Verisign”. Domains worth over $8 have already been namesquatted. Those worth under $8 are being held ransom by Verisign. Making domain registration cheaper (via a price cap from ICANN or something) would only reduce the price of domain names for people who want to use them.
Is there an argument to be made for just letting the fires burn? Don't the fires have a positive effect on the soil?
Some powerlines are over 100 years old. There's untold miles of lines they PG&E themselves don't even have mapped. No way it could be resolved in 2 years.
In hardest slam since Katrina, New Orleans’s levees stand firm
I think trying to reduce the complexity of error handling is the original sin. Thinking of error handling as a separate case requiring separate mechanisms is the original sin. The structure of your code should not reflect any difference between "error" and "success" cases. They are equal, and neither should be subordinated to the other.
Anyone else enjoy the dissonance in this comment between the consequentialism reference and refusal to relocate?
How does the insurance thing work?

(my broad understanding is that property insurance is a relatively functional market where they won't underwrite a policy that doesn't make sense)
The policy specifically limits to "online games". The only vague area is co-op or LAN games that requires always-online.
> Anyone got recommendations for a last minute 20 day off grid vacation?

Any number of Wilderness Areas in the Rocky Mountain West. Prepare for inclement weather as you might encounter an early season snowstorm.
Design for easy to build one system Chess Computer
Glad that you found this to be useful!

Android includes the Espresso UI testing framework [1]. Essentially, you can specify matchers that compare your expected values or predicates against an actual object identified by an R.id identifier. It's very powerful (since you can write your own custom matchers) but can be cumbersome to use [2].

[1]
https://developer.android.com/training/testing/espresso/basi...

[2] Example Espresso Test:
https://github.com/android/testing-samples/blob/main/ui/espr...

https://github.com/android/testing-samples

Alternatively, Squish [3] is a very polished and more elegant commercial testing tool that lets you record test-cases using a GUI tool and convert them into (ideally modularized) methods that verify object properties or compare (masked) screenshots of the GUI:

[3] https://www.froglogic.com/squish/features/

Demo video (starting at 14:24): https://youtu.be/ElH-3MVHPRw?t=864

They abstract away a lot of the functionality using the Gherkin [4] domain-specific language so that tests are easier to read at a high level (but you can still dig down into the underlying programmatic implementation).

[4] https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/overview/

This is probably too much complexity for your use-case, but may provide some ideas or inspiration for what is possible. Perhaps a simplified matcher-style system might be a good starting point though.
Many people cannot pay their fines, or it requires significant tradeoffs. And it is so easy for things to roll out of control.

Once the due date is past, the fine is doubled or triple. A $200 fine can become 400 or $600. Now its harder to pay, and so it doesn't because your car broke down and the kids are hungry. A warrant is issued for your arrest. They arrest you while at work. Even though you are out again the next morning, your work fired you, and won't give you a good reference. You get a knock on your door. Rent is due. Then two months. You feel fucked. A neighbor offers you relief, a fun night with some meth. You consider, but decide not too. You get kicked out for not paying rent. Now you are back living at your mom's. You feel like a loser, but at least its a roof. But she's an ass. She forgets to tell you of a phone call inviting your to an interview.

But you have to make it to court to plead guilty/mercy for not paying your fines, but your sister calls you right before. She just got beat up down the street, and needs you to pick her up. Your are 5 minutes late, and the judge doesn't care. On the way home, you get pulled over for expired tags. New ticket. I guess you won't pay the car payment this month. Your car get repossessed. It costs 200 +%40/day + $400 in late payments. You borrow some money from the neighbor. He's creeepy but get your car back.

Insurance is due. Tags are not paid. You are afraid to drive. You don't have a job. Meanwhile your creepy neighbor will forgive your debt if you get on your knees. You decide to not pay him, but he grabs you anyway. Rapes you. Police don't believe you. You are a poor slut. Your friend says come over and says let's party. You do. You get high. You keep getting high. You sleep with someone because they have a hit. He says, damn you hot, you could make some good money, and leaves a little for the road. You start jonesing, then take him up on the offer. Next thing you know you are a hooked junky prostitute. You sell your car for next to nothing and a blowjob. Your mom kicks you out. Now you live by the river with Frank. Frank protects you but he's an alcoholic.

I made this up, but this is how it works. THis is how it worked for people I know.
Lets take a step up the value chain: Qualcomm also literally built their dominant position in 3G/4G/5G radios from the ground up. Is that more than sufficient justification for them maintaining as much control as they please? Because I remember Apple being pretty peeved about having to pay a % rake to Qualcomm, complaining that it was unfair.

You could repeat that for any product that has a dominant player somewhere up it's value chain.
Yes, I would sacrifice the Sacramento River Smelt for more water for agriculture and humans. Again, I'm more of a consequentialist. I'm for forest management, which means cutting down some trees. Many modern environmentalist deontologists will call me a racist for suggesting we need to cut down some trees for the greater good.
It solves my problem, which is why I like it as a solution (documentation, examples, and tests), haha!
You need EarTrumpet! It replaces the janky windows 10 sound thing with a more modern (and actually useful) one. There's also a registry hack to just enable the old one that opens mixer, if you'd like.