skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see a source for these statements, because it directly contradicts what I've seen in the Fire Smart BC (https://firesmartbc.ca/) materials.

I won't claim to be an expert, but am a local volunteer firefighter who has gone through some wildfire training. Forest fires create their own weather, including winds that drive burning embers ahead of the blaze, raining firebrands all over everything. Having numerous houses between the fire and your place just means the firefighters are already busy. The response to this is a combination of building material selection and landscaping.

Basically, you want to keep a 10m zone around your house as free of flammable materials as possible, and try to thin things out beyond this priority zone. Don't use bark mulch in the flower beds beside the house, and don't run that wooden fence right up to the house. Clean your eaves troughs of dead leaves. Wherever leaves and junk collect from the wind, burning embers will too.

I also have a couple of these mounted at the peak ends at my roof, with hoses I can connect and leave if needed: https://waspwildfire.com/products/gutter-mount-sprinkler-sys...

A department colleague used to fly fire suppression missions all summer long. He was able to spot the fire-smart places easily, because the massive fires appeared to "go around", and the homes were still there.
Its good with dark night to be able to watch the stars and our place in the universe. Also remember seeing stars as a kid just walking outside the house on the country side.
Consciousness is literally the only thing which can't be an illusion, because it's through consciousness that illusions are perceived in the first place. Cogito ergo sum; you can doubt what you are experiencing as much as you like, maybe it's a dream, maybe it's a simulation, maybe there's an evil demon deceiving you through magical means, but you can't doubt the fact that you are experiencing at all, even doubt itself is part of the experience.
A fundamental problem is that OpenCASCADE, despite being the most advanced open source CAD kernel, does kinda suck. It's single-threaded (FreeCAD has it on the main thread so any long operation blocks the entire UI) and it's… rather buggy.

Recent fun example I've encountered: doing a fillet in two places at the same time can result in either an unhelpful "resulting shape is invalid" or a crash inside OpenCASCADE, depending on the selection order (!) — https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/issues/202
Or dial 0118 999 881 999 119 7253

IT Crowd reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

If you filter by "New Offers Only", you'll see a pretty sharp shift in the trend starting around October 2021.

Same with Uber, a notable uptick starting late last year: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Uber/salaries/Software-Engine...

The top of the band has probably gone up more than the median offer, and most companies didn't increase their bands by that much (yet). This is definitely a case of "the future is here - just not evenly distributed yet".
I'll be very interested to see if Linus bites at all.

This is probably the most sympathetic I've been to the Kernel breaking userspace programs that rely on bad behaviour, but Linus has been pretty clear on the matter in the past.

> WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
I live in a rural Australian city and can regularly see the Milky Way from my back yard on clear cold nights. We do get light pollution from the city around me if there’s any type of moisture or even the tiniest amount of cloud but that just makes the Milky Way itself blend in and the stars themselves are still incredible.

I moved here from a big city so I never get sick of it, regularly just lying on my back on the grass and staring for a bit while taking the bins out at night.

Despite being a big fan of the idea of Starlink etc, I do (literally) see the concerns about their sky pollution though. It’s very jarring how many more satellites you see moving around the sky in the last few nights and they’re bright enough to cause you to require a few minutes adjustment afterwards until you can see the dimmer stars in the areas they’ve passed. Eg they basically “wash out” anywhere they’ve been for a while.
The embedded fun fact here is that by the 13th century China was already exporting small goods like children's toys to Europe! til my knowledge of trade doesn't go any deeper or further back than "Marco Polo traded some things some time ago".
It could have one on employees too IMO. If I was the poor soul assigned to the long term maintenance of a legacy project, having to pass by Limbo, Hell and Jail everyday might just push you over
This made me almost spit out my tea, well done :)
I think that will be extremely unfair to the manager who is just acting on stupid company policies. Managers have a very difficult job of walking a tight rope. Why single out one person and ruin their career?
OpenSCAD is very lisp like. It's basically just a series of functions that operate on primitives. I tried it out and didn't like it very much. Mostly because debugging your model this way isn't super efficient.

CadQuery should be better, but they refuse to just release a standalone pip library, instead everything is distributed through anaconda which just breaks my existing library setup. Technically you can use miniconda I guess, but in reality if I'm going through that much trouble to set up software, it's probably just best to move on.

I found FreeCad easier to install and use frankly -- especially the RealThunder AppImage version.

https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases
It's not even the largest open world game, not by a long shot.

https://youtu.be/3TwjUk4ReZo
Ever walk around in a bad area at night with few lights?

My experience. Was waking in what I thought was a decent area. As soon as sun dropped sketchy looking character were everywhere. Just standing around doing nothing. I assume selling drugs. When I got back to an area with better lighting they were all gone.
> The applicant can show their monthly income is equivalent to 1,000,000 ISK, or 1,300,000 ISK if applying for an accompanying spouse, cohabiting partner, and children under the age of 18.

1M ISK is 8k USD, 1.3M ISK is 10.4k USD. That excludes, what, 99% of the world's working population, or basically anyone outside of tech/biomed/banking/etc in very rich countries?
^ This! At least here in New Zealand almost all perks of "extended" warranties are useless, as pretty much all things you buy here are already covered under our consumers guarantee act.
Isn't that the whole point? They can only make that money because they build the phones to begin with. They also invested in building the entire platform, literally from scratch. Isn't this just a return on their investment? Aren't they perfectly entitled to it? Why can't phones be loss leaders into mobile app ecosystems, just like razors are loss leaders into razor blades?
As someone who lives in New Jersey, fuck you and you're 100% correct.
You can show an online ad on any platform to acquire a customer. Apple is greedy grabbing 30% of sales.
No, but buying stuff makes me happy.
Amazon is the "foot in the door" for many junior engineers. They start there, and they leave for greener pastures at some point (probably before two years). The sheer number of engineers that they hire (due to sheer turnover from people leaving) means you have a better chance of getting hired there than any other MANGA.
I refuse to participate, on account of the overwhelming America-centrism. I realise that by doing this I'm skewing it even more, but
> Trains lack competition regardless. Is someone going to build competing tracks?

In the UK, the tracks are owned by Network Rail (publicly owned) and the trains are private, who get to bid on the services.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail
FFXV was good, except for the whole train-ride thing in the second half. Good overworld, good though occasionally annoying dungeons, beautiful monsters and locales, fun gameplay. Now FFXIII was total trash.
We considered doing something like this but it would be very hard to ensure no false matches which could result in security compromises.

We also considered placing the session id in the url for the checkout, but again decided against due to security concerns.
Google and Amazon have a pretty big showing in Denver/Boulder area and Apple's expanding an engineering office here.

Denver's also a big telecommunications and defense hub. Both industries employ armies of developers
Yes, but what's the _point_?

Is your position that it at least slows climate change so that we have more time for the technology and political atmosphere to catch up?

If so, fine, that makes sense. But without some endgame it kind of just feels as if you're ideologically invested in the concept of personal responsibility.

I don't even think we disagree, I just find it bizarre to call reliance on other advancement an "excuse". It's a hard requirement, you can't not rely on it. The personal stuff is a bonus.
It is in no way different, and that's the whole problem. If you condone extrajudicial killings/violence, you condone all of them, because your position is that people should be able to take the law into their own hand, using their own judgement, even if it's flawed judgement (how can you know your own judgement is flawed)?

You can't both agree that violence without due process is acceptable, and then disagree with how someone applied their own set of morality to a situation that resulted in them using violence.

It's either/or, because the alternative is for you to have a say in their violence, at which point you're just re-creating a criminal justice system.
>consumers could, if they decided in mass, do literally everything the government can do

this is kind of an aside, but i keep noticing this weird dissonance that keeps cropping up in conversations about regulation where people seem to assume:

consumers organizing to exercise power normally allocated to a government is somehow preferable to the existing government exercising power according to civil mandate

in a representative democracy, the latter is presumably the ideal. in the former situation, any context, you're talking about dual power, which is not politically stable, to put it mildly.

when people say "it's not my personal responsibility" to make all the personal choices necessary to reduce carbon output, they are stating an expectation that a responsible society would systematically account for these externalities and other obligations.

there is a bit of reason to this already discussed. markets by definition are not able to account for externalities, it's not possible for individuals to gather enough information to make these decisions reliably, etc. this political choice is an organized consumer choice, asking the socially approved bodies that have this information and power, to surface the results in a way that consumers can understand and react to.

when this political/consumer choice is undone or blocked, or dismissed as irresponsible in preference to individual consumer behavior, it encourages individuals to organize dual power and take direct action.

you can see this organizing developing through pipeline resistance and train sabotage and the like. sure, people could theoretically just buy gas from the least evil gas station or whatever, but once you've got enough people thinking about consumer choice to be effective, you've got enough people to literally just go and take apart the thing you don't like.

so this dismissal of regulation is necessarily combined with repression against people advocating for organized action.

i'm not sure everyone talking about this understands it or will like where it leads.
Thank you for stopping at Bangor, parts of Maine south of there are Northern Massachusetts!
Grew up with electric and much prefer using gas ranges now that I have the choice.

I just prefer gas stoves and I don't think that the article or discussions in this thread are going to dissuade me from that. Also, my baseboard _and_ steam boiler in my house (old and new additions to the house) also use gas; it would be very expensive to shift and I have a feeling that I never will short of needing to do so. Gas is very common here in upstate New York.
That reminds me to open the beer! Lucky I voted first though.
Central Oregon has some amazing night skies. Went to Hancock Field Station as a kid for astronomy camp and it was incredible.
Shouldn't you be more worried about why the academic institution is causing these mental health issues?
Slack messages are how most of this works. It doesn't change the point.
Amazon has a way to generate a lot of infrastructure with code templates. So I can push out a ton of infrastructure code in a short amount of time by simply running the generator script. So then I just need to plug and play functionality code. He could be factoring that code in with the count.
Pro Tip:

Use the Realthunder version of freecad in an AppImage container. It seems to be more stable.

https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases
the game isnt accepting input. =/
This is such a terrible take. Drag and drop page builders produce terrible HTML. Completely unsemantic, and they will always fail Google's core web vital metrics.
I think it was pretty evident that computers were going to continue to get smaller, handheld, wearable, what have you. Apple didn't invent the space, they just made the product that got people to adopt the new form factor en masse. That's no small thing. But, I don't think they deserve near full control and a 30% tax on all revenue transacted on that form factor as a result. We wouldn't have tolerated it if Microsoft had done it on the desktop environment. We wouldn't have tolerated if Microsoft forced all purchases through their platform.

We've backed ourselves into a weird spot. It's essentially impossible for a new platform to develop in the computing space. Google did everything it could to kill off Windows mobile. Mozilla took a crack at it and failed. There's an illusion of choice, but it's quite difficult to get by without an Android or iPhone. That became very evident to me with the pandemic. Virtual doctor visits, check-ins, mobile passports, and so required a device running one of Android or iOS/iPadOS. My wife isn't fond of smart phones, but we had to get her an iPhone to participate in society. Companies don't want to support web sites for mobile and Apple's support for PWAs is pretty bad, forcing you back into their app ecosystem. Moreover, switching platforms is quite expensive and often impractical, in no small part because your purchases are bound to a particular platform (desktop licenses, on the other hand, often work across operating systems or charge a nominal fee to have licenses for macOS and Windows).

That's a very long-winded way of saying, sure let's start with opening up the App Store for iPads. I think we should do it for phones, too, but I'll take what I can get. For many people, their phone is their "computer" these days as well and as I said, I think that result was inevitable. We can argue about whether smart phones are general computing devices, but I'd argue the only reason they're not as "general" as desktops is because Apple won't allow them to be. Microsoft and Samsung both had interesting technologies (Continuum and Dex, respectively) that could turn your phone into a portable desktop that showed promise for what the space could be. But, people make do with the restrictions placed on them, if for no other reason than switching is expensive and hard.

Regardless, smart phones a completely different class of device than video game consoles. People run many of the same tasks on phones & tablets that they would on a laptop. Despite that, video game consoles are more open. I can buy video games from a dozen different stores, get them on a secondary market, and I can lend them out to people. But, let's open up the consoles too if that's what's holding us back with Apple and Google.
@dang

This needs to be pinned for at least 36 hours at the top of HN to make it as accurate as possible. Can you do it, please?
Or maybe the documentation for the one is better than the other.
I don't think anyone was curious.
Thanks for the additional info. Where did you find out about this? Is there a good book or something? It’s all very interesting.

As far as rallies flying the Gadsden, they’re also flying the America flags.

I get what you’re saying, and I’m not one to make overt politic statements IRL in public, like flying any flag besides the US and maybe state.

Again, to me and a lot of people the Gadsen represents rebels against tyrants. It even represents that to the objectionable people who use it. However, the idea of rebelling in order to upheld human rights is fundamental to the US.

I am not willing to throw out the ideals or the iconography just because I disagree with the current (and confederate) rebels. I certainly agree with the flags original use when the US gained its independence.

So while I won’t be publicly flying the flag because I don’t like to make public political statements, I might just hang it somewhere privately. IRL conversations like these are incredibly valuable to me and I believe in the general sentiment of the Gadsden.
If the manager is "giving in to unwritten pressure" -- particularly when it comes to making decisions that they, on some level, know intuitively to be wrong; and which more to the point, harm not only other people's careers and health, but the company's reputation and prospects for long-term success --

Then by definition, it is the directives of senior management that are at fault.
The first episode of Mad Men alludes to Bernays work. They are trying to come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike and he rejects an idea to base the campaign off of Freud’s research.
Earn IT Act Is More Dangerous For Internet Privacy Than FOSTA
Precisely. There seems to be much debate about consciousness and what it is, but much of it is often unhelpful.
There aren't many mobile apps you can buy from Apple. Apple is primarily a hardware manufacturer. Their entire product lineup consists of devices[1].

1. https://www.apple.com/us/store
Google Doesn't Parse Roman Numerals
So why do I have to learn it on leetcode to work at google?
Incredibly good bet!!!
Congrats all around.
I made the opposite bet (whoops!) but on a much smaller scale. A tiny 300-270 put spread that lasted 2 days. Then, right before the earning, exactly 7 minutes before 4pm, I kid you not, I had a premonition. Something in my head said "Get out get out get out". So I closed out my spread, pocketed my measly gain of $775 and walked out the door to pick up my kid from school. So I'm back home at 4:30pm, I just login to ib for curiosity sake, just to see what would have happened if I had stuck to my guns. Jesus Mary & Joseph I was so shell shocked...would have lost well over 50K if I hadn't pulled the trigger !!! I was so glad I danced a jig & took my kid out for icecream. He wanted to know why, but explaining all this shit...$775 profit over 2 days for pushing a couple of buy & sell buttons & narrowly avoiding a major, major $50,000 loss. Definite icecream day. I just said Daddy is happy lets buy icecream.
Sure. I agree with you here. These managers were lazy and it just means that Amazon internal KPIs reward lazy and use-and-throw management over actually developing talent. How sustainable this strategy is only time will tell.
Really depends, some of it for sure is autogenerated code. I've seen similar situations.
Ah yes, that possibility exists as well. Good call.
>Just over 58% of those eligible to be vaccinated in Israel are fully vaccinated by the Israeli definition, and 67% of those eligible to be vaccinated have received at least two doses. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/once-a-world-leader-isra...

Which was changed to mean double boosted two weeks ago.
My personal pet peeve is analogies that have no basis in reality: “It’s like sleeping on a cloud”. You’re trying to relate your experience to something that no one has ever experienced.
I disagree with the number-every-equation rule (Rule 1). It sounds like the math equivalent to adding extra complexity to code so it will be "ready" for extension in the future.

I prefer to number only the important equations that the reader really needs to know and focus on, and remember. Thus appearance of the equation number signals to the reader "this is important." If I were to number every equation, I'd be losing this communication signal.

In fact I find mainstream textbooks (for undergraduates) to be really overwhelming with the visual elements (colors, boxes, extra emphasis). If you flip through a physics or a calculus textbook you'll see all kinds of boxes that call for your attention: THIS IS IMPORTANT, THAT IS IMPORTANT TOO, etc. one on every page, but in the end when everything is important, nothing is.

In fact every chapter has one or two main equations that you really need to know. Put those in a box, and number them if you want, but leave all the other "anecdotes," derivations, and special cases unaccented please.
> The applicant can show their monthly income is equivalent to 1,000,000 ISK, or 1,300,000 ISK if applying for an accompanying spouse, cohabiting partner, and children under the age of 18.

That comes out to about $96k USD a year. Totally reachable for a SWE-type job, however I know fully remote workers who are far from this amount. I guess they just want people to come and throw money around the bars.
Yeah to be honest he could have probably implemented this as an iOS app for max portability. Wouldn’t get latency down to 1ms like with the FPGA synth but otherwise would have been fine
There is a debian/raspbian based image called Kano OS

It felt similar to the Apple II, but modern at the same time, quite a good little "here's your first computer" approach for a kid under 10.
Last time I used SolveSpace, what I hated the most was how the undo button was near useless.. and https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/91 is still open :/
Are you seriously implying that being LGBT is a mental health issue?

I’m opposed to the restriction of content online that doesn’t inherently infringe on someone else’s liberties or body, personal opinions be damned. It’s asinine to believe that an entire Internet worth of people should have their accessibility to content limited because “I don’t like this.”
I don't think this is true. Archimedes screw is a similarly shaped helix but contained or partially contained in a tube so that it can move substances by rotary action.

Using a helix as a simple machine is an old concept and probably predates writing; that's about as much of a common ancestor as they share.
> I try to work with people competent enough not to walk in front of buses.

Sounds like if you work at Amazon you might choose to walk in front of a bus one day...
Twint's last commit was on March 2021.
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I don't think it is a matter of cost. I think it is a matter of what the teacher knows.

Just to be clear: I didn't say Borland C is still used in Brazil. But you still can find CS courses teaching graphics.h just the same way. Actually, if it is used just for demo purposes I'd see no problem, it is still somewhat adequate for the purpose. I doubt that, though.
I do not know which reality you are referring to. There are various laws in the US related to pricing, price gouging, price controls, etc.
Um, no, cost of doing business affects the equilibrium market price. There's no Apple tax outside of Apple's walled garden, so everyone competing outside of it has lower costs and can thus offer lower prices (outside of the walled garden). If you don't, your competitors will, and you'll lose customers.
dunno what to say. the answer doesn't change.