skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A thunderstorm had been predicted for the night with a probability of 30% 12 hours before the event, at the go-or-skip point. The government decided to cancel it and postpone to the 27th. The thunderstorm did not happen. The government blamed the meteorologists.

Here are the weather reports for the given time frame:

LHBP 200515Z 2006/2106 33008KT CAVOK TEMPO 2006/2106 VRB14G26KT 5000 SHRA TSRA SCT060CB BKN090 PROB40 TEMPO 2008/2106 3000 TSRA SCT015 BKN030CB BKN060 PROB30 TEMPO 2010/2021 VRB18G36KT 1400 TSRAGR SQ

LHBP 201115Z 2012/2112 34008KT CAVOK TEMPO 2012/2112 VRB15G25KT 4000 TSRA SHRA SCT008 SCT040CB BKN080 PROB30 TEMPO 2012/2021 VRB18G35KT 1400 TSRAGR BKN004 BKN030CB

LHBP 201715Z 2018/2118 34008KT CAVOK TEMPO 2018/2118 VRB15G28KT 4000 TSRA SHRA SCT012 SCT040CB BKN080 PROB40 TEMPO 2018/2118 1400 TSRA SHRA BKN008 BKN030CB

LHBP 202315Z 2100/2124 34008KT 9999 SCT030 BKN080 TEMPO 2100/2124 VRB15G28KT 4000 TSRA SHRA SCT012 BKN030CB BKN080 PROB40 TEMPO 2100/2124 1400 TSRA SHRA BKN008 BKN030CB OVC080 TEMPO 2100/2106 27006KT TEMPO 2111/2119 04005KT

Can be decoded here: http://www.flightutilities.com/MRonline.aspx

Following weather will take place with a probability of 30%:
The following weather phenomena are expected to arise temporarily:
From 10:00 UTC (Saturday 20 August 2022 12:00 local time) at 21:00 UTC (Saturday 20 August 2022 23:00 local time), Wind: Variable in direction, speed: 18 knots (33 km/h) (9 m/s), with Gusts of maximum speed 36 knots (67 km/h) (19 m/s).
Minimum horizontal visibility: 1400 m.
Weather: Thunderstorms Rain Hail .
Weather: Squall .

In 2006 we had a similar "setup". Then the early reports were ignored, and by the time a report with a higher probability arrived in the afternoon, it was too late. The outcome: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5269642.stm
Microsoft is using the code in GitHub to train their machine learning bots.

I guess the idea is that the bots can take over writing bug fixes for Windows.
Technically true, but sql has the ability to induce discipline - every single time I’ve seen folks given the opportunity to do the analysis off a database or warehouse and use pandas/spark, they almost always end up writing bad code, processing one row or cell at a time. Almost always, they could have done it with sql itself and gotten much better performance but this “extra flexibility” allowed them to be lazier.

Sql can also have the same issue with feature creep (snowflakes array columns often invites people to write pathetic sql trying to join on this col for example) but with the right design you can force your users to interact with your data more efficiently.
It was very effective. The money went in, and no-one knows where it came out. BUt you can bet it went into thousands of clean, untainted wallets which were then used to cash out.
Is he off to the Hague next so we can get some clarity on this Global Viral Weapons attack/"vaccine" combo he coordinated, financed and peddled around the world, causing permanent genetic damage to the human race, the greatest redistribution of wealth in history, and profits to the very people with the virus patent?
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>Mozilla can already hire from anywhere, too, can't they?

No, not that I'm aware of. Sure, they can hire someone from EU and fly them to the US to work, but I'm not aware of them having offices in the EU. Why would the EU want to pay for EU devs to be flown to the US and paid inflated US salaries, instead of just keeping that talent at home?

>In any case, I already mentioned in my comment that the EU can pay someone other than Mozilla. The point I wanted to make is that the EU should not fork Firefox, but rather try to get their favourite contributions upstreamed, if possible.

That's impossible. Any time you have a different entity working on a software project, it becomes forked. So either you just keep the internal fork and upstream as much as you can, and hope that the parent org takes these submissions, or you release your fork publicly if the parent org isn't cooperative enough. Either way, it's a fork. Quite simply, every time you clone a git repo, it's a fork.

Anyway, sure, they should try to get their contributions upstreamed, but what if Mozilla is recalcitrant? The EU would be correct to release their own version for EU use.

>In any case, I still think it would be a waste of taxpayer money for the EU to pick winners (ie award the project to someone). Instead they should focus on streamlining bureaucracies and regulation etc so that private entities (companies, or foundations or otherwise) that provide what people want (software or otherwise) can flourish in the EU.

So, just let Google own the browser market? I don't see how this is useful or productive. Streamlining regulations isn't going to magically make it economically feasible for some start-up to somehow make money making a web browser.
The New Yorker recently published an article on the scarcity of refrigeration in the developing world:

"Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration

For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/africas-cold-r...
My son (3 at the time) had phimosis, I took a few pictures of it when a friend doctor asked to see what it was.
I sent the pics to him for advice and then we consulted officially to get a prescription for a cream when je told me it was fixable (to dr: it wasn’t entirely but it helped).

I hope I didn’t overstep some kind of bullshit law where I can’t take pictures for medical advice.. this is ridiculous, and I’m happy that I’m not pushing my pics automatically to google, I might have been banned? I still have the pics somewhere on my phone, probably, amongst others where he’s naked when he was messing with foam in the bath or playing in the garden with water in summer. Isn’t this like 90% of parents?!

I feel that this whole CSAM is a new obsession of phone actors because they feel there’s norhing else they can innovate on.
The songs in the playlist are the first 4 chords of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel's_Canon essentially looped for 47 seconds. I V vi iii appears very frequently in pop music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I. If one were trying to exploit the algorithm...
100% agree.

Both companies are interesting in their own way, but they aren't exactly comparable in my opinion.

Trivia: Christian von Koenigsegg's daily driver is a Tesla Model S :) [1]

[1] https://www.wheels.ca/news/christian-von-koenigsegg-drives-a...
it's funny that web browsers parse Ps in there
> But make no mistake, they're just as fragile as every other Standard Oil that's ever existed.

It's ironic that you chose Standard Oil as an example. It was an unbeatable monopoly that was broken up by govt regulation, not by competition. You're arguing against your own position.

> Pay for an email service, and sue if you incur damages due to them terminating your service.

You always sign away this right when using a commercial email service. Their terms of use allow them to terminate your account with impunity.

> Or run your own email server if you care to.

This is a very 1990s understanding of the email ecosystem. It's almost impossible to start a new email service today because the big players (primarily Google and Microsoft) won't trust you and will silently refuse to deliver your emails. Sometimes you will be blanket banned, sometimes you'll just have a few missing here or there.

Because the email market is dominated by so few players, they have complete control over the ecosystem. Even if you choose your email service, your recipients will have chosen one of the big players 99.999% of the time, meaning you're also playing by their rules.
Government can always respond by taking money back out of the system in the form of taxing wealthy people. You don't have to print money. You can just redistribute what's already there.
It not really all that odd in retail. “BOGO” (pronounced bo-go) is quick to say on the floor and is less awkward than “BOGOF” which sounds like either a franken-portmanteau of “beef” and “stroganof [sic]” or an amateur spy’s attempt at a cover identity.

It’s also used more generally for buy one get one X% off sales and you’ll see lots of “BOGO50” promo/coupon codes. Then marketing jumped on the bandwagon and started plastering “BOGO” all over marketing material so consumers are used to the lingo now
The scientology example tells us the opposite.
Well, that was just a stop-gap to ease the criticism... Also, the included headphones has always been pure garbage. Anything is better, which is of course was the point of the 3.5mm jack - not that it enabled the use of the bundled garbage.

Not sure exactly what your point is. I've used bluetooth for well over a decade and they are awesome. But that doesn't mean they somehow could replace the 3.5mm jack.
> But make no mistake, they're just as fragile as every other Standard Oil that's ever existed.

You realize that Standard Oil was broken up by the courts through the Sherman Act, which is precisely the type of regulatory action you're arguing against, right?
There’s a difference here though. Someone could decide to do something and have it ready to go the next day with a prime delivery and like a hundred bucks.
If it was simply on a brain chemistry level, why does it work so differently in other times and places?

It's an example of bad high-status science suppressing good low-status science. Neurochemists asking, "Why does alcohol make us do this?" without checking with cultural anthropologists if it actually does make us do this, or if it just makes "WEIRD" people do it.

I did not say it was all in your head, by the way. The lower reaction times and slower thinking is obviously real (and present everywhere).
Well, if the wind is at your back, I think it’d just be more efficient to use sails, since it skips conversion losses. If it’s a headwind, well you’re just adding drag. You can’t put wind turbines on a vehicle and come out ahead of sails.
I've got a question for the lawyers here. These photos were for communication with a medical professional. Can't the argument be made that this was a HIPAA violation? Isn't this grounds for an entire whale of a class action lawsuit ?
Nice try, but I'm still not touching Dell devices until their QA and customer support proves to have changed.

Our last XPSs were overpriced garbage.
You can also set up a mailbox at any address and receive actual letters there, no registration required. Needs permission of the owner of the place, but that’s similar with email.

There are many states around the world where you can buy a prepaid SIM card without registration and participate in the public phone network. No permission at all required, cash payment works.

There is no direct connection between “public” utility and “requires registration.” But many public utilities consist in a delivery to a specific place (water, electricity) or want to charge you. So they need your address to perform their service.
I feel like the prediction came true but without any government intervention required.
You don't need to enrich the fuel and you definitely don't need plutonium.

I'm not saying it's all, ahem, plain sailing, but that part at least isn't a necessary risk.
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I wonder how much the WW2 allied atrocities (firebombing of civilians in Dresden) factors into this.
Do you mind sharing which feeds you follow? Asking as a new Feedly user.
lol i wish i know what i was starting man but you'll hear about it when i do
Yea, I was erring on the side of that being OK. U27 was also a suspect so I tried that first. Update here: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/08/23/australian-commodore-64-m...
This is how most modern diesel (actually diesel-electric) trains work.

The issue with a big diesel engine like this actually turning the prop or wheels is the size of the transmission required. The engines are massive and the transmission would also be massive to cope with the power and torque. You also eliminate a moving part so much more reliable.
You're not paying Google anything. You know what they owe you? Nothing.

You pay Company X to host your email, and you enter into a service agreement. They kick your account off. If they're in violation of the service agreement, now you actually have a case against them. They know this. Their legal council knows this.
Again, you know that, I know that, will your average non-techie person know that? This also isn't only about email. Their entire data was on the account.
OK, I got ya. I was thinking stock components, but since the original case was like a "bread-bin", the original components were stock.

Thanks everyone; that was really stumping me. Now I'm still laughing.
How could they conceivably even look at the data to unban the account though? That shit's radioactive, as soon as the AI flags it I don't know how a (non-LEO) human could possibly view it without running afoul of the law. There's no reasonable way to reverse this action.
In Canton Zürich (Switzerland) the parlament argued, everybody has a smartphone today anyway, so for public transport, from now on it legal, the only way to buy a ticket is an App.

Do it without an Google account.

But a postcard is a good example. Even the badest murder / raper in a prison will get a postcard.
> I remember the first time I saw a URL address: http://www.something.something.something. "Ugh," I moaned. "A whole new language I have to learn? I was just getting the hang of Unix!" I immediately resigned myself to the fact that this might be the end of my days in cyberspace. The Net had become somewhat of a runaway locomotive and I was the woman running behind it, screaming for the conductor to please wait! Then suddenly it all came together. A Net guru friend told me about Lynx. "All you have to do," he said, "is type the word 'lynx' at your Unix prompt, and presto! You're into the Web." That weekend I spent about eight hours a day exploring. I quickly found out that you could access all your favorite telnet, FTP, and Gopher sites from the Web, as well as tons of resources you would never find anywhere else on the Net. My cyberlife had changed forever.

Fantastic.
Everyone in YC sells to each other. It's quite encouraged to buy from other YC startups and test out their tech as alpha customers because it increases the valuation of the YC network (including your own company). It's a very interesting model because as a SaaS getting the first enterprises to sign up is extremely hard, yet those add enormous equity value and provide the proof and case studies for growth at scale.

YC can be thought of as a tech startup affinity network. The"shocked-pikachu face" attitude of the author, from being surprised a napkin worked for funding to being amazed that YC-affiliated startups gave him revenue before a product is live, is a testament to the YC model. Either the author is unaware of this obvious inside-network effect or they are pretending it doesn't exist. In the real world no random enterprise cuts you a check for untested, pre-live, alpha software. It is the SaaS cross-selling YC scheme that enables this.

I'm not even saying this is necessarily a bad thing. It's just a very unique model that is a warped inversion of real-world economics, and it decreases the risk for investors provided the whole network can continue selling into each other.
No, the "precise" regulatory action being suggested was not breaking Google up, it was regulating account deletion.
If the founding team can't build the actual product without immediately hiring outside consultants, the whole thing is doomed from the start.
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Was Standard Oil really that fragile? From Wikipedia:

> Its history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was an illegal monopoly.

Seems like it was broken up by the government and not due to competition.
> Well, ok, I'm unsure about the science, but it looks neat. Hey, why not take a picture of Earth? /sarcasm.

Why the sarcasm? If possible, that would be amazing.
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It took me 3 minutes to sign up on Protonmail.

https://www.google.com/search?q=email+provider+service hundreds of options from the same page.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, "everybody" knows that. It doesn't just apply to computers - non-techies are familiar with the concept too. It's common sense.
Sorry, I forgot that doesn't translate well outside the UK. It is a literal box for putting your bread in to keep it fresh and is a similar shape to the original C64. So the original C64 is nicked-named the "bread-bin" in the UK.
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don't use google photos at all. And probably don't have pictures that are even remotely questionable on your phone, even if it's for legitimate reasons.
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Company X sent me the same service agreement as google, that basically said pay us and we promise absolutely nothing and we don't promise you'll actually get e-mail either. The only difference is I pay on top of that.
2 things:

1: No anti glare coating on the screen?
2: that touch pad looks really cool!
Well it kinda matters since Chile is a country. Why use Spanish spelling in English.
I found that more than a little odd. Sailors are universally out to help other seafarers and hope for help themselves when they need it. This was the guys first blue water trip, I guess he wasnt a true sailor yet, and hadn't lived life abord for long enough to adopt the culture.
Thank you. I wish more of the real libertarians would stand up like this. Unions are indeed a positive force in the world to counteract private power. Freedom to assemble is a right that's nearly extinct. It's government that is responsible for union busting, not libertarians.

There are so many charlatans and corporate barons who rise to some brief level of recognition with the libertarian label that I felt forced to stop using the term to describe myself about 10 years ago. Ideology is driven by Internet defined politburo which is why it's difficult to spot libertarian themes in public online discourse. As fascist undertones are evergreen, libertarian principles remain difficult to defend and vulnerable to ad-hominem attack. But I digress.
Huh? I don’t follow. Parsnip is a tool to highlight and surface unknown words to directly enable easier extensive reading and comprehensible input. One of the key parts of it is a reader app.

Just because we can’t see the steps needed to build the primer doesn’t mean we shouldn’t create anything.

It seems like you find something about my idea distasteful, but I’m having trouble understanding what, if anything, your objection is?

Is it too “mechanical” of an approach to you? If so I hope you realize what I’m describing is “how the sausage is made” not what the user experience will be like. Computers are here to enhance human experiences not make us more mechanical.

Also, Duolingo and quizlet are both billion dollar companies, so I believe that proves VC interest. Language learning is a nearly universal desire, but most people give up on it in their teens.
I like the approach how the introduction attracts the conservative readers and then completely turns around at some point. I just hope they read on after the introduction.
What I meant by "regulatory action" was "law passed by legislature and enforced by courts through public/private rights of action"
Yeah. And there should be many comparable alternative businesses that do sell communication devices that don't opaquely Zucc legal albeit questionable content. The people who play apologetics for this and think this sort of service is in any way comparable to pizza have every right to keep hanging out in their auto-modded environment eating their thin crust diavolo, swiping their oily fingers all over their device's controls, as long as there's a reasonable habitat for the rest of us.
sad - one country its not available is India, one of the only countries where Desktop Linux penetration is far higher than OSX.
Turn off Google's auto upload. The entire photos thing has long been a way to get images to train ML, and since they actively use these images you're not in a position of power here. i.e. you're doing Google a favour by using the auto-upload.

Either find a service that you're paying for, or if you want to trust a big corp maybe go with Apple. Not perfect, but best of the lot from what I can see. All of the logic is on-device, so they're less inclined to peek at your photos. There was a big hubbub a while ago when they tried to do unsafe photo detection on-device, but they backtracked.
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Find Company Y then. There's literally thousands of email providers to choose from. Take your pick.
FCA (Dodge) and PSA (Citroen) merger was started in 2019 so it's after the vehicle (2009) was sold.
> install git

> setup git credentials

pretty much every developer job requires this nowadays, but of course the setup git credentials is often more complicated today than it was a few years ago with generate new ssh key and write in form field.
I worked in an office next to an Uber clone that was clearly unsuccessful. Yet they had a significant Series A from a Russian oligarch, then got bought a few years later at something like 10x the Series A funding amount by a different Russian oligarch. There was a press release and a news story about how wonderful this was.

This scheme was so clearly a laundering play, but everyone pretended it was some amazing exit. I'm confident the tech industry is full of these shenanigans, but I've never seen anything like this uncovered.
> Email account deletion and recovery should be regulated by law.

I think the problem goes even deeper than that. No non-state actor, who holds no democratic mandate of any kind, should hold the kind of power over citizens that Google holds.

Regulation is a ship that has kind of sailed, in my mind. The kind of regulation that we now recognize we need would have had to be in place 20 years ago. ...mostly antitrust stuff, but also specialized things like privacy / data protection and "due process" for things like account suspensions etc.

If such regulation had been in place, it would have prevented the formation of an entity such as Google in the first place, and we would instead have a healthy system of smaller players competing on who does the best job at providing the kinds of functions to society that Google provides.

Now that we are in the unfortunate situation we are in, I think it might be necessary to consider nationalizing the whole thing and putting in place governance with a democratic mandate.
The people on the Asahi team explained this into great depth, but basically everything before macOS (bootloader and etc.) is capable of handling a different OS. However i would dispute their and OP's interpretation that Apple "supports" other OS. It's more of a "fitted for but not with", where Apple leave the technical possibility but don't do anything actively to help anyone trying to do so. The Asahi team has to reverse engineer pretty much everything from scratch with pretty much no documentation, which is an amazing feat and hats off to them. However claiming Apple supports what they're doing is a stretch, and there's no reason why Apple wouldn't just pull the rug under them - it's not like they've said it's OK (like with Bootcamp) to run Linux on Macs.