skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an expert, but have done a lot of reading and some writing on wildfires, fire resistant structures, etc. I live on a hill that catches fire rather more often than I really enjoy and spend a lot of my spring cutting firebreaks.

Any sort of structure, wood or not, will withstand a huge radiant flux of energy before catching fire. Well, well beyond what will crispy fry a human, the siding may be charred, but it won't burn. Even wood siding tolerates a lot.

What lights houses on fire are firebrands - "burning crap from the sky." Trees, mostly, embers, other houses... that's what catches things. Typically it will light some small stuff near the house first, or in the corners of the roof (pine needles are a common enough fuel source). At that point, you've got a far harder problem - direct flame impingement. If you get to that point, you are usually screwed.

You can build fireproof roofs - I fully support pretty much anything in any areas requiring a Class A fireproof roof, which doesn't really mean much more than "being careful what you build, and not using wood shake." An asphalt shingle roof can often be Class A fireproof, and that tolerates a 2' x 2' bit of burning brand on the roof without burnthrough. The roof may not be in great shape, but an awful lot of "stuff on fire" can land on it, and if it's a properly constructed Class A roof, it won't penetrate to the building.

The landscaping around the building is a harder problem. Within 30' or so, it generally has to "not burn." This can be from design, or from sprinklers, or... whatever. If the landscaping within 30' of a house is on fire, the house is likely to follow. If you keep that from lighting, the house stands a pretty good chance.

... yes, this means that in suburbia, if the house next door is on fire, you're screwed. Don't live in such tightly packed spaces.

The next major problem are windows. If they fail, the house usually goes. They tolerate a lot, but in high wind storms, random debris can break the window, and then firebrands get in. Whoops. I would like to see some good studies on shutters, because they seem like the sort of thing that will make a very real difference on window breakage in storms, but they're not a thing anymore and probably won't come back.

But look at the debris patterns when you find the news articles of the burned out neighborhoods. Almost always, you'll see intact lawns and vegetation around a burned out foundation. It's not a "wall of flame" marching through the neighborhood - it's the firebrands, blown by the wind, that you have to defend against.

Unfortunately, when it comes to wildfires, when you've got things like 80 gusting 100, you're also just screwed. :/
Miners make a profit, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. If you can suddenly double your hash rate without changing your power consumption there’s no reason why you wouldn’t do that. You’re incentivized to maintain or grow your power consumption to make more or the same amount of crypto per kWh.
They took the apple route and decided to just go ahead with it after a few months of testing. Like the fiasco of using flex cables for their macbooks. They would crack from opening and closing and would cost $800 for a new screen plus labor.
For a very limited set of apps perhaps.
Seek to find a thread thru the full stack, sand to simulation. Get at least a cursory grasp of silicon-based transistors, binary representations of data, basic binary logic, 4-operation CPUs, simple memory & storage, a toy operating system, C programming, object-oriented C++/Swift/Java programming, memory-mapped I/O & graphics, TCP/IP networking, HTTPS protocols, then pick a major example vertical (PC, Mac, iPhone, Android) and work up to a publishable (if simple) product.

Having seen computing grow from before the IBM PC, my primary lament is new developers rarely have a view of how everything works (however simply) from the very bottom to top, from basic semiconductor electronics to getting something onto an App Store. Most pick a layer and live there, largely unaware of what's happening below or above - and so don't know why things work, and more importantly why they don't.
I managed to get a copy of IP2Location DB3 database dated back in February 2009 release. This release should be good for IP addresses used in January 2009.

Based on the results of IP2Location, the location of Satoshi's IP address was in Los Angeles.

You can download the IP2Location database and query it locally. The IP address 68.164.57.219 is equal to IP decimal 1151613403.

"1151610368","1151617023","US","UNITED STATES","CALIFORNIA","LOS ANGELES"

IP2Location DB3 (Feb 2009): https://mega.nz/file/HvYRiK5C#SteI9S38YYuQDCavc9rcBF9VVG_YV4...
It depended on which brands of floppies you bought. Some vendors were more profit-oriented than others and would skimp on the binding agent or just the amount of magnetic material without which the signal can become so weak they could become corrupted by being the the same room as a Wooly Willy.
Ugh, I can't believe I made that mistake. Yes, just the V8 engine is included.
America accepts failed ventures, not individual mistakes. A business that collapses is a learning experience. But, while they are operating, a business must never admit to wrongdoing impacting customers or the public. There is great respect for failed business judgment, but very little for weakness.
How so? If there is no price transparency, couldn’t they sue them for violation?
IIRC, Pocket uses Amazon's TTS service, Polly. It is quite impressive. I stopped using Pocket because their web app was updated in a way that doubled the margins, sometimes resulting in lines with just 3 words on them. But before that I used it all the time both for reading and listening.
Hard is not a useful term
++ for an article that mentions Jack Cohen.

If you want to understand wildfires, read everything he's written. He's basically the single handed Mythbusters of wildfire understanding, and has done things like "instrumented crown fires of test stands" to better understand radiant heat flux from actual fires.
So a fresh out of residency eye surgeon should get paid the same as a 20 year old doctor who has done 1,000s of the procedures?
> Please do share your experience then. Because it's been working amazingly out of the box since years.

Until you need to install a driver, support a piece of modern hardware, use an nVidia GPU for anything serious, and more.

> to get it to a level comparable to a similar Linux/GNOME installation

They're not comparable systems, so I can't give you a comparison. That's sort of the point.
Interesting, thanks for checking it out!
What was your heuristic for deciding if a crate is too big or not?
Someone probably nicked them thinking they were novelty coasters shaped like save icons.
“The Squad” seemed pretty happy to stump for Biden despite it being clear their interests barely overlap.
My understanding is that it can be repaired for the same approximate cost, but it requires a different technique (welding)?

So it’s a training opportunity for the workforce to earn slightly more per hour and open up new job opportunities with the same margins.

Also consider they are foreseeing a world with fewer accidents, specifically accidents with Teslas.
Interestingly, there's an older discussion on the t-mobile subreddit that goes into quite a lot more analytical detail and is much less reactionary than HN is. What a role reversal.
Relevant conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

Turns out .xyz domains are regularly blocked by carriers as well. I'm on T-Mobile and I can't send my own personal blog, because it's a .xyz. (I really need to change that...)

In my experience, T-Mobile also blocks messages over ddosecrets.com. They also block leftist sites such as Jacobinmag.com or itsgoingdown.org, so it'd be an interesting study to see what the cause is and if it's biased. (I confirmed these three and my own site just now.)
> I experienced an ISP with a less than second inactivity timeout on TCP connections to our servers

I had meant to write less than 10 second inactivity timeout. I don't recall exactly how bad it was, but I don't think it went down to under one second.
What's your elevator pitch on how google is one of the most evil organizations? How did you become convinced?
Yep, agree on all fronts, the last point being especially painful when working on software you distribute to end users whose systems aren't in your control.
I thought .com .net .org are the cheapest ... They're like $9 on NameCheap and I think I've seen $3 elsewhere
I'd like to think I've gotten better about focusing on a relevant goal. I'm working in industry now, although still doing physics R&D.
So much for fomite theater.

Early on at least one cruise was tied up in Japan while the passengers were confined to their cabins while the HVAC system spread the virus around.

Yep, it's aerosols and I'm sure happy I have had three shots. Hopefully the shots and vitamin D will get me through omicron which will likely come to all of us.
I’m not sure this changes a thing unless you also want a permission popup for tracking when text is even selected. And at that point you’re getting permission to be aware of basic DOM events.
It's an euphemism for "we don't want to make it obvious how much we overcharge".
Wouldn't the steel stud just structurally fail, rather than also becoming more fuel for the fire to spread to?
I recently tried out my wife's Kindle Paperwhite and was surprised how lousy the resolution is. I would have believed it was from 5-10 years ago, but it is less than a year old.
This is why we don't use `*` in production SQL. It's also why we try to avoid NATURAL JOIN. USING is OK if you only have two table sources, but you don't always get to have same-name columns on both tables.

This syntax seems pretty clear and explicit, but with an indirection. Indirection != implicit. The intent is quite explicit.

Using ON also is problematic in that you might think while reading a query that the JOIN is on FOREIGN KEY columns, but... maybe not -- without looking at the schema, you can't tell. JOIN FOREIGN has a similar problem: the intent is crystal clear, but now you have to go look at the schema if you want to know which columns that refers to. Normally one would write a comment on the ON, but comments can rot.

Now, making SQL more expressive isn't necessarily a good thing. SQL is already very expressive. But making it more expressive in ways that yield clearer queries is definitely worth considering.

One very nice aspect of JOIN FOREIGN is that because RDBMSes generally require corresponding indices on those columns to optimize ON UPDATE / ON DELETE constraint processing, seeing "JOIN FOREIGN" in a query instantly lets you know that there must be an appropriate index, while ON might be causing a full table scan or query materialization and you'd have to examine the query plan carefully.
Just don't use SMS.

I deprecated SMS 12 years ago in favor of e-mail, because it's carrier-agnostic and my e-mail address doesn't change even if I switch providers or roam to another country and change SIM cards.

And bonus -- no censorship.
Same. Don't know what I'd do without beets, can't imagine using Picard.

The rich set of plugins are equally amazing. For instance, I use the Playlist plugin, and whenever I update any metadata on a music file that results in a file name change (thus changing the song path), it'll scan my MPD (a completely separate program) created playlists (.m3u) and update the paths for the effected songs. Just one of the many things it automates for me, besides metadata.

Although not the fault of Beets, I wish there was a decent source for Japanese albums. Between metabrainz and discogs, it only gets me 70-80% of the way there. The new Deezer plugin helps with digital only releases but it's not as accurate. Unfortunately I don't have the time to contribute to metabrainz, as that 20% missing is quite large in the context of my library.
What the freak is a "brodozer?" I've never seen that term used before and I can't tell what you are really talking about. Are you talking about large 4x4 trucks that are high of the ground (kind of the opposite of what a bulldozer is)? These 4x4s have been around for ages. Nothing new. What is new (in the last ten it so years) are the SUVs and cross overs. These are larger than a sedan, but I wouldn't call them a brodozer or anything else.
I had originally typed the Pinto as the example, but changed it after thinking the memo in question was related to the Nader book. Regardless, the point still stands. From your link:

“The general misunderstanding of the document, as presented by Mother Jones, gave it an operational significance it never had” and that the memo

“explains in part of his Mother Jones article that Ford employees wrote this document as part of an ongoing lobbying effort to influence NHTSA (24, 28). But his readers have relied exclusively on his other claim, that it was the "internal" (20, 24) memo on which Ford based its decision to market the dangerous Pinto and settle the few inevitable lawsuits”

That’s what I meant by it not translating to actual policy.
MIUI 13 launched next-level privacy to come with system-level anti-fraud
IIRC, SMS on Fi is handled like gvoice. I'd be highly surprised if TMO had much interaction at all with the message.
> Many companies have learned this, which is why you see things like "Unlimited Vacations! Free snacks! Company provided lunches!" etc, offered as perks.

In countries like India, the supply of daily wage workers is almost limitless and companies don't have to care much about their retention as they can easily be replaced. What you're asking may be the efficient way of doing things for businesses in countries where there is a labour shortage and workers have more options than the employers.
It should have been 'Don't be so naive'
For those curious Facebook does the same thing in private messages

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Facebook-censoring-private-mess...

Politicians have been supportive of censoring text messages

https://nypost.com/2021/07/12/dnc-biden-allies-want-phone-ca...
Don't group $50 device and $2000 device as "Android".
The intent is more explicit. Indirection != implicit.
I did blind testing on myself and found out that I couldn’t see a difference between 72 and 144 FPS.
> Here's one way. Does a country build walls to keep people in, or keep people out?

Ok, so this basically amounts to using average life satisfaction as your measurement for success of a country. You could easily use any other measure, though, if you have a different goal... for example, my first thought was that "continued existence" was the measure of success, and whichever nation lasted the longest would be considered the most successful (a sort of Darwinian measure)...

Look, I personally agree with your measure of success. I am a child of the enlightenment, and I do believe that state authority rests with the will of the people. However, that is not an a priori fact... not everyone agrees with that as the criteria you judge a civilization, and it is not some natural fact that everyone is equal and deserves liberty, etc. Natural law is "whoever survives survives".
Has Larry Page made any public comment about Google's surveillance capitalism at all since retiring?

Has any journalist asked him lately how he feels about "Don't be evil" in the context of his Alphabet stock holding?

I'm not commenting or judging on Page - just curious to hear his contemporary thoughts about the company he founded. I've heard nothing at all from him since he retired from the organization.
You can't predict how things will evolve in 50 years but, as you have suggested, there are various (often simple) ideas and concepts that are timelessly useful. So develop a personal system for storing knowledge, keep adding to it, and use it to review continuously.

Here's a counterintuitive idea you won't hear often: reading on its own is futile. You'll eventually forget almost all of what you read or even learn if it's not reinforced. In fact, knowledge that isn't being actively recalled or applied can decay shockingly quickly.

The only way to combat this is to have a system. A simple and fairly informal system might be Post-Its and notes in a book that you review sporadically, whenever you happen to remember to do it. A more sophisticated system might leverage spaced repetition, practice problems, and tools like e.g. Anki and Obsidian/Roam Research.

As an example, let's say you didn't want to forget how to differentiate (most) functions. This might sound ridiculous from where you are now, but keep in mind this is about thinking longer term. So how would you achieve this? Well you might have some flash cards with concepts and some graphics and then some more with practice problems. How many problems would you need to do a year to recall differentiation properly? Maybe 50? Add flash cards.

Now differentiation is a poor example insofar as you might never find practical utility for it across the entirety of a software engineering career and you don't necessarily even need to remember how to do it manually (e.g. just use Wolfram Alpha). It can suffice to spend 5-10 minutes a year making sure you recall the most critical ideas.

Broaden out and think about what could be useful for you. Mental models, data structures/algorithms, systems design, etc. Consider what would be needed to retain that knowledge and then extend your system to make it happen. Focus on ideas that are disproportionately useful (or could be) but that you encounter infrequently (so e.g. perhaps you might include 'distributed systems consensus' and not 'git fundamentals'). For most concepts it suffices to have a good high level understanding and assume that you can deep dive and relearn the rest, should the need arise.

You'll be amazed at the surface area you can cover spending even 5 hours a week doing this. It's one of the easiest ways to remain an effective and flexible thinker.
Yes. Instead of a sliding animation with a one second duration, I get a crossfade animation with a one second duration.
> require providers to publish a uniform all-payer rate schedule for emergency/urgent care

What I described is just laying out a bare minimum for some semblance of sanity. Your laissez faire straw man fantasy extrapolates as if I am pushing this as a complete solution, but I am not.

In one complete solution most everyone would still have insurance (actual insurance) for such catastrophic events, either purchased themselves, packaged as part of auto insurance, bought through the government as a provider of last resort, supplied as part of a minimum social safety net, etc.

Alternatively, keep right on pushing for Medicare for All! It's orthogonal because there are many things that wouldn't be fully covered by M4A, even in the emergency context (eg a single occupancy hospital room).

The point is that there needs to be some market dynamic to keep prices "real" and allow for straightforward competition between different providers, regardless of who is paying.

(FWIW you could also do some research ahead of time about local urgent care providers, or hear recommendations from other people - for most urgent situations you would not be unconscious and could choose where to go.)
It probably all goes into a black box ML model nowadays, so the model will conflate it if we don't.
AFAIK T-Mobile was the first carrier to implement STIR/SHAKEN to verify caller ID.
I'm not sure what you heard on Fox News but the average time for a Canadian to go from initial consultation to actual treatment by a specialist was 3 months in 2020.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

It's common for Canadians who can afford it to travel to the US (and other countries) for more rapid treatment.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-08-...

Since demand for healthcare is effectively unlimited, all healthcare systems have to ration care. The US system primarily rations based on ability to pay. The Canadian system rations by restricting supply and forcing less urgent cases to wait.
I’d love to hear what’s good about Windows Explorer. I used Windows for many years and never found it (edit: Explorer) satisfactory.
It doesn't enforce foreign keys. It uses foreign key definitions to simplify the query. It clarifies intent, and because FOREIGN KEYs generally are required to have appropriate indices, it makes it clear that there must be at least one suitable index for the JOIN.
> and surprisingly, we see more copies being made on questions without accepted answers than we do on questions which are accepted.
> Nukes are only good for war, hence you probably shouldn't have them.

Hold on. I thought you said that freedom was the ability to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. Now you added rule #2: You only have the freedom pick from things somebody else (the government?) have decided that you can pick from. That sounds exactly like the system we have in most countries. So if the government decides to make education and health freely available then you should be happy with that right? It follows your rules perfectly.
We are both exposed to more of it, more likely to be accepting of it.
Mother Nature sucks on occasion.
Why do you think it's opaque? They declare relations between tables. That's structure, intent. Making intent clearer is generally a good thing.
How Much Does Universal Pay J.K. Rowling for the Harry Potter Theme Park Rights?
I have always been a huge fan of Redshift, which extends to Anurag Gupta and the team that delivered it. Redshift has always struck me as one of the real breakthrough products the history of analytic databases. It collapsed deploying data warehouses from months to about 20 minutes.

It's great to see the current team is on the move again, as the original ParAccel architecture did not scale very well. There was an excellent talk on Redshift in Andy Pavlo's Vaccination Database Tech Talks, 2nd Dose. [0] It's by Ippokratis Pandis and worth a view. It covers a lot of the recent improvements, which are likely to disappoint the many critics who have counted Redshift out. (Prematurely in my opinion.)

[0] https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2021-dose2/
I wasn't making any claim about the lives of people in Saudi Arabia... my only claim is that it is an absolute monarchy, it is still around and not close to collapse, and is an ally of the US. All of those things are objectively true. It isn't only democratic countries that have survived.
Is there some other law requiring no data retention? It doesn’t logically follow that the revocation of a data retention law means that an ISP can’t still retain data.
Remember that bit in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial about image resizing?
Epstein was actually controlled by telepathic dogs, not extortion. And I have just as much evidence to back up my theory as you have.
It's not about the software, it's about the distribution of the software. Signal distributes through Google as man-in-the-middle. So if you trust Google, you're OK. But if you're using Signal because you don't trust Google, it doesn't make sense.

In case you don't trust Google I really suggest OpenSSH or WireGuard, to establish a secure tunnel; and then run IRC, Jabber, SIP, or mumble (as needed) over the tunnel.
That article just links to the wikipedia page. The main criticism paper[1] reasonably successfully debunks NPS as uniquely valuable, but more or less shows it as of comparable value to other measures of customer satisfaction.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20200716065914/https://pdfs.sema...
What makes something a right, then? You keep talking around it, and saying things which you believe are rights, but have never said explicitly what makes your set of rights somehow objectively rights where others aren't.
Could see it 8 miles away, from my house near North Table Mountain about 3 hours ago.
Your suggestion would definitely be more efficient. I’d split the difference and just say the server could just abort startup if it can’t validate its own cert. Letting servers indiscriminately connect to the internet isn’t great security practice, something that was substantially reinforced with the recent log4j issue.