skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a bird being able to start a fire, there must be a minimum of flammable material under the lines (typically placed in a firebreak or a road).

Firebreaks are maintained and often de-soiled until bare rock or mineral soil, and asphalt is not flammable by default. Thus, even if eagles can be a problem, there must be more factors involved here. Are we neglecting the firebreaks?

It feels (again) like hunting for excuses to blame nature. Local politicians said just today, to the furious people complaining for the low number of firefighters movilised in Zamora, that "nature is the problem".

This is not an acceptable answer anymore, specially not by the same people saying publicly a few days ago that "environmental laws are unfair and we refuse to obey them". And a few days later a wildfire eats a beautiful area with a large reservoir of water in the middle, a fair amount of wild herbivores eating flammable material, oak forests, and that has not burned in decades. Now the problem of culling wolves to appease greedy tools is solved. By fire. God answered our prayers. How lucky we are.

Politicians wave the racing flag of "environmental laws are a joke and now all is allowed" and wildfires answer the call. Every-single-time. Burning millions of euro. Curious. Really curious.
Because it's a living document about one's experiences. This is a potentially great future document, and a good knowledge base, if the whole information extracted and grouped under sections.

Also it shows the progression of feelings, and how things done in a relatively less used operating system.

I don't think we need to put frames around what is interesting and worthy and whatnot.

Lastly, the perspective got me by surprise:

- Ah just edit this file, then use this convoluted command and, you're on the internet. Ah, static IPs doesn't work, but at least DHCP works.

Just this perspective shows how we as humans get fixated to our ways and don't see the complexity inside the things we do. Also, it highlights how many cogs we align to make a system work, and we just underrate the required effort as "Just spend 4-8 hours to set this up properly, eh?".

I think I can go for more, but that's enough.
> Military is a necessity for a society

Citation needed. It's highly dependent on the country ( e.g. the Maldives sure as hell don't need an army, but a navy/coast guard is important), it's circumstances (nobody is endangering the US or Canada in any way).
I connect to the same external monitor everyday in my office and both are restarted daily - my primary laptop as well as the secondary monitor.
Never has the audio been captured in this setup.
The “boom/growth” of smartphones was very fast but in the last 2/3 years there aren’t big “new things” (features I mean), there isn’t a new App Store, or a Retina display, or a lightning connector, or 3G (5G is not as breakthrough as it was from 2 to 3G) and so on… the “next big thing” I think will be on the battery that’s still the same technology as it was in the beginning.
> Ie. can a function be copyrighted?

def print_harry_potter_book_1():

print("Chapter One")
print("The boy who lived")

print("Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were")
print("proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank")
print("you very much. they were the last people you’d expect to be in-")
print("volved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t")
print("hold with such nonsense.")
print("Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which")
print("made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, al-")
print("though he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin")
print("and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which")
print("came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over")
print("garden fences, spying on the neighbors. the Dursleys had a small")
print("son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy")
print("anywhere.")
[...]
When I was in school I was interested in film--and was part of a film (watching) crowd that I still stay in touch with. I even went so far as to sign up for a film course once.

But things were just moving past casual amateurs shooting on Super 8 film--which in addition to low quality got expensive in a hurry. Video cameras were huge things with big battery packs. I quickly decided the whole thing was more trouble than it was worth and just stuck to 35mm still photography.

"Just" an iPhone and modern editing software would have been a revelation.
I’m amazed how everyone here are acting as if these prostitutes are entrepreneurs of some kind. They are being manhandled by a pimp and forced to do this shit. Most of them are runaways and are being exploited for their body, and end up overdosing on drugs eventually. Holy fuck people here are so out of touch and have no street knowledge.
Along those lines it's interchangeable with other sources like nc or ssh or whatever, with no changes to sort/grep.
Psychological 'specialness spirals' can make ordinary items feel like treasures
This is one of those arguments I can see both ways, but I ultimately side on the early return side of things over the else branch side of things.

In my opinion, if the function is done its job, it should return. That's what return is for. As the function grows, the else side of the branch gets longer and longer and it is error prone to leave the first branch of the if statement reliant on it.
But these days, we apparently can't trust 'society' to make responsible choices about anything.

Instead we're supposed to trust ever-bigger governments (controlled by ever-bigger corporate interests) to make those choices for us, and restrict those scary dangerous freedoms that people once had.
That's the facts and of course the comment is getting down voted.

People want to talk about their beliefs and feelings without having to know what this stuff looks like in real life. The abstraction makes it all palatable.

This might seem like a good idea abstractly, but it means more pimps can make more money and they aren't good folks.
When I see people use it in this context I think it just shows a lack of understanding.

To be fair I probably wouldn't disagree if someone said UST was a actual Ponzi scheme. Holding UST had no real utility compared to the alternatives. The only incentive to hold UST was the 20% APY. Deliberate or not it was a classic ponzi scheme.
Most of the money generated here is going to a pimp. These women are being abused and exploited for their body. You support more of that?
I'd be interested in seeing some firmer categorisation of that. Not naming names, but at least indicating what portions of the community --- browser devs, Web devs, clients / shops, users, ... ?
> fincial freedom tool for billions of people, the likes of which do not browse Hacker News.

Citation needed (to put it mildly). How is Bitcoin improving on e.g. M-Pesa?

Is there much adoption compared to M-Pesa, outside of fantasy?

If you're not familiar with M-Pesa, then you don't know this subject at all.

> Those people get Bitcoin instantly.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/jay-z-bitcoin-...
Yes, this makes so much sense, true earned insight, thanks for sharing
I wonder how this naming scheme continues and why are they skipping over half the numbers given that this set will soon run to 0. 7nm - 5nm - 3nm - 1nm. What’s next?
Firefox is one of the example of what happened to open software during the last decade, user experience wise it stagnated.

Really close to gnome 3 spirit, it continuously removed user features and personnalisation.

Gnome 3 really epitomized that but it's a general trend of linux on desktop catching up to proprietary os in first 2 decades culminating with the bonus coolness of compiz fusion.

And then the 2010-2020 were most of the time was spend changing the technologies (removing XUL,going to system-d,wayland) and the user experience suffered.

I think open software has a special responsibility to empower users not only through programming but also through their interface, it can be extension or extensive settings but it has to.

It ends up making more practical, feature reach software and open source needs that because we don't always all the resources to make the most polished software.
How do you do this chăt if there's nobody to talk to? Other users are kinda essential too.

Reactions and images aren't essential for the strict interpretation of the word, but as everyone is used to them now you're not getting very far without them.

Nobody wants to play multiplayer notepad in 2022.
OBS ships with rnnoise, which is like NVIDIA Broadcast, but works on any CPU. See also NoiseTorch and EasyEffects if you're on Linux.

It's pretty great, works decently, but the sad thing is the author put it out a few years ago, trained it on proprietary datasets, wrote a paper and then moved onto something else, never to be seen again. Now it's pretty much unmaintained since it requires some very specific ML and DSP knowledge to hack on.

https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

NVIDIA Broadcast in my opinion is better, but rnnoise will do if you can't run it.
To repeat the oldest point in the book.. should we ban alcohol too then? Or does that not affect people depending on the circumstances?
The real-time building of the app was an hour and 10 minutes. I posted a screenshot with the recording below. That recording contains also some setup on my part, it's not just actual coding on the app.

https://share.cleanshot.com/hPUskT

The 10x speed-ups were actually data-entry which definitely nobody wants to see in real-time or would benefit from.

The 2x-3x speed-ups were for the generators and slow typing speeds.

I know the tendency is to exaggerate things, but I'm not for that. I like honesty because it's not complicated. When one lies they have to keep that in memory for the next time :P

So yeah, the video is sped up, but the message is correct.
A few years back, John Oliver did a piece on FIFA and Qatar [0]. This will probably be the first World Cup that I don’t watch.

8 years ago! I’m getting old.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
From the article:

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Nasser Al-Khater, chairman of Qatar's 2022 World Cup organising committee, has said that all World Cup attendees will be safe regardless of their sexual orientation or culture.

In December 2021 Al-Khater did confirm that "homosexuality is not allowed" in the emirate, but promises that LGTBIQ+ fans will have the right to travel to the country and attend matches.

"Qatar and the region are a lot more conservative," Al-Khater told CNN.

"And this is what we ask fans to respect. And we're sure that fans will respect that.

"We respect different cultures and we expect other cultures to respect ours.

"Qatar is a tolerant country. It's a welcoming country. It's a hospitable country."

---------------------------

Al-Khater seems to define "tolerant", "welcoming" and "hospitable" differently than I do.
So, yes?
> The chromium-only web is not google’s fault. It is a symptom of a body of web standards that has grown wild to the point of being all but unimplementable.

what exactly is the benefit of having a byzantine set of standards in the first place? Like why not just have a standard and not dick around with it?
There are many, many other activities in life that can demand time and not be related to family, working, drinking and TV watching, not sure why these are the poles you chose to compare to.

It's depressing to see someone working because they enjoy it, my dad is like that to this day and visiting him after living away just makes me depressed.

My work doesn't give me meaning, not at all.
My fitness watch can record SpO2 levels during sleep, that should be enough to tell you if you possibly have a problem. It is a fitbit sense.
Bringing change by strengthening economic and cultural ties has been tried for a few decades now with mixed results. Be that the United States–China Relations Act of 2000 during the Clinton administration, or Angela Merkel cozying up with Russia during her chancellorship. In one case, it didn't keep China from abusing its Uyghur citizens, in the other case, it didn't keep Russia from invading Ukraine.
Servo seemed to have pretty much got rendering working. I'm no expert but I feel like the hundreds of JS apis contribute a lot to the complexity. Just looking at the list here looks like it would take decades for a single person to complete https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
Most countries on earth simply cease to function as they are doing now with alternative eco-friendly energy sources.

Applying alternative energy sources where it doesn't make sense to do so ends up throwing billions of dollars on having solar panels where they can never generate the energy they theoretically could (Germany, I'm looking at you)
for sure. due to this improved experiment design, we should now have the data to perform paired analyses rather than just looking at means.

what test do you use to compare variances though?
Perhaps check out Douay–Rheims as well, which was produced around the same time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay–Rheims_Bible
> The only reason they disallow Chromium and Mozilla is they want their users locked into their environment and they want to leverage that substantial locked-in user base to dictate terms

That's one reason, but not the only reason. Security is another big one in that the WebKit process is running with privileges that Apple does not want to award to any other app process on the platform, much less a third-party one.

They also want to make sure that if they fix the next security flaw what will undoubtedly be reported in WebKit, that all the apps with an embedded browser will get the fix and won't continue to be vulnerable due to them not updating whatever version of Chromium they were embedding.

Of course, between sandboxing and not allowing JIT compilation, those vulnerabilities couldn't do do much harm, but that embedded Chromium also wouldn't be much fun to use.

Which means, if you let me make a prediction of the future, that when Apple is forced into allowing other browser engines, articles will be written about how Apple is complying by the letter of the law but not the spirit by "seriously hampering 3rd party engines" compared to their own by now allowing JIT compilation.

If they had to then also allow those 3rd party engines to do JIT compilation and bypass the sandbox in means that browser engines need to, then we'll be in a much worse position security wise.

We'll see how this is going to play out, but I'm pretty sure exerting control is not the only reason for Apples' stance.
I consider both anti-features for _instant_ messaging since it's easy to misuse by hitting enter first and then editing their message for half an hour. Which people do a lot and is quite annoying since it breaks the flow of conversation.

Talking to a person also has none of those features, yet it's still as popular today as it was 300 years ago. And I view IRC just as the text-version of talking in person. So my expectations are that it has more or less the same feature set.
You rather not be married if you are to be raped I guess? Do I read the rules correctly?
How does your team use it and how would you rate it?

My CEO wanted to introduce Gather with the idea that everyone would be in it working all day. He wanted to be able to "stroll by" whenever to see what people are up to. The team unanimous voted against this so we didn't get it.
so it turns out that optimization is also tco (tail call optimization). that said, i was previously unfamiliar with continuous passing style, thanks!
Not all static analyzers use abstract interpretation (they should though to find all issues) because they may implement a rules based approach of checking against "common" bugs, or they may use model checking, or they may use some other form of symbolic execution, or do concolic execution.
Agree, you're basically adding another middleman which now also has all your data.

> Same with GDPR. I often ask companies to remove my data, and legally they should, but I highly doubt many of them do indeed scrap all my data

Anecdotal: When GDPR came, the companies I worked with/in took it REALLY serious and spent huge amounts of money and resources to change ALL of their processes to label and clearly isolate data with customer-identified and identifiable content. Not necessarily because they had a change of mind about privacy, but because the risk and the penalty if found non-compliant was so high ("up to €20 million, or 4% of worldwide turnover for the preceding financial year – whichever is HIGHER (!)", PER incident!).
Some level of user-data privacy was already in place, but suddenly all understood the risk of not sufficiently isolating identifiable data (data which in itself is not personal information, but could be combined with other data to identify the user)

So at least in my direct experience GDPR caused a huge shift in many company mindsets from "let's store now and review later" to "wait, what is this data?", and all departments which store data from the field had to start answering to a data protection entity within the company about all the data they have or intend to collect.

It literally forced companies which always played with the idea of one day utilizing harvested data to create some undefined value in the future to challenge themselves. And many companies concluded "we don't know what type of data we have, it's too risky/expensive, scrape the servers and delete it".

Those were all large international companies though, maybe smaller companies acted differently. And for sure your typical data-collecting companies (FAANG) are a completely different story.

But the complexity for a small company with smaller processes to become GDPR-compliant is much lower, with the penalty risking to not just hurt you but immediately send you into bancrupcy. So for a small company especially in Europe it would be plain-stupid to not have GDPR-compliant processes...
I’ve never AOT compiled F#. It’s just slow in normal, iterative mode compared to Go. I’m on Linux, though. Maybe it’s better on Windows?
Technology Connections recently had a video about the subject: "Why don't Americans use electric kettles?" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c).

His main conclusion: Americans have less use for kettles since they don't drink tea (as much).

He also observes that electric kettles turn out to be faster and more efficient than other means of heating water for other purposes that are not obvious at first sight, as you also mention.

Not all European electric kettles are faster than American ones BTW. Mine is 1200 W (I think) which is in the range of what American ones can deliver. There are more powerful models available too of course.
Today I learned that mobile connectivity issues are another thing I love about IRC.
you still need the passport to enter anywhere else, even your home country
China sends dozens of warplanes into skies near Taiwan
Everyone’s trying to justify the response when the honest truth is that no, Rust doesn’t solve the problem of abstraction layer impedance mismatches causing ownership to be dropped only to be reacquired at the next level. On a sufficiently large/complicated code base, the problem will arise.

As others have mentioned, various kinds of string types are baked into the language which makes it ergonomic to do “the right thing” from the get go, but hard to say. I would be skeptical of claims that it would make a difference, especially in the interim where you now have an added impedance mismatch with C++, Rust, C.
But you could write a C++ class with a manual .copy() method and a deleted copy constructor (and other conversion constructors not implemented).

Doing that seems a bit easier than integrating a whole new language into your project (although I know Rust would have other benefits).
Yes, they intersect in features.

The barrier that I'm trying to break and push through is that the result is not a hidden away admin panel where only a small number of core team members go to update some record. The result is a beautiful consumer-ready interface that you give to your user.

Avo is your app. Not a part of your app. Avo is the UI your users see when they go and interact with it.

Thank you for the message.
It's the power of money that demands that we turn our efforts -- and therefore, ourselves -- into commodities. When money becomes a force in and of itself (separate from the people wielding it) then it begins to mold society in its own image: cold, liquid, and homogenous. Competition isn't in and of itself a bad thing, but when we allow money complete control over our lives, we strive in ways that benefit people farther and farther removed from us, and therefore, become more alienated.
Ukraine: Could it join the EU, and how might Russia react?
On Android, but this hadn't occurred to me to do! Thank you so much (although still frustrated I have to take the nuclear approach)!
Ah, Memories of hours using the Palace Chat come up again.
Hours of editing Avatars and hanging out with old friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program)
Is this full duplex?
Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cost over $10B
Most teenager say stuff like this.
Even Mike Novogratz who's a professional investor in this stuff had Luna tattooed on him:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/novogratz-says-luna-tattoo-is...
I am currently using ProseMirror in my project. It's the best rich text editor I've used up to this point. It's a headless text editor that's pretty flexible and extensible. It's not a drop in component like other text editors, but it's certainly been the least painful to integrate. I am using a wrapper for Vue called tip-tap, that project has also made a React wrapper with similar architecture.

What does Verbum do differently than ProseMirror?
What an amazing story, thanks for sharing.
Explainer: Why is there a worldwide oil-refining crunch?
See announcement : https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-en...

Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as its first customers;

allows new customers to self sign-up for free trials

By Wikimedia Foundation • 21 June 2022
I'm not sure Brave can go against Google's most fundamental interests, without not using Chromium.
A blockchain-free protocol is not a protocol with "no you can't do anything blockchain related on this" restriction. A blockchain-free protocol is one where the protocol itself does not involve a blockchain. Like HTTP, or FTP, or Gopher, or IRC, SMTP etc.
Default list for 1Blocker
Yep full duplex
As some one who has some color blindness I find colors pop more in dark modes. That's my main reason for using dark mode for some purposes e.g. IDE
DSLs were capable of at least 8Mbit/s speeds close to 20 years ago. I worked for a small ISP and where were more than 100 meters (theoretical limit for cat5) between residential buildings, we were setting up 8 modems on a single UTP cable. With home internet speeds back then it wasn't a bottleneck.
Thanks for the writeup. For a minute there I thought you were creating a WYSIWYG editor from scratch, in which case, as someone involved in a high-profile project of this sort in the past, I would have to urge you to refrain from doing it - it's not worth it.

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I know you're reading this, Wiktor. Say hi to the team for me.
> “many in the Chromium community are arguing for a Chromium-only Web.”

This is why I'll use firefox until it's gone. Considering the push for mv3, I'd rather have a functioning ad blocker that actually blocks ads instead of having pages 100% work 100% of the time
No calibrator, sorry, but from a totally layman perspective, the panel is very nice and has good colors and viewing angles. Wouldn't say it's quite comparable to a P3 gamut panel, but I switched to this from a 2018 MacBook Pro, and those are known for having good panels.
Of course, this panel is a bit smaller and lower resolution, but 1920x1080 at this panel size is still very nice and crisp.

I had a look online, and there are similar compatible panels from innolux that have a glossy finish, which might be a mod I'll do in the future.