skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responses to 2020 (or subsequent) Wildfires in California & the US West by HOGWARTS HOUSE:

GRYFFINDOR: Hop on Nimbus 2000, cast "Aguamenti" a heroic and potentially effective number of times until suffering the effects of smoke inhalation, get rescued by friends.

HUFFLEPUFF: Check on friends and neighbors close to fire. Volunteer for group castings of "Accio Pluvia" and "Venit Inber" to bring rain, possibly "Defodio" firebreaks. Teach each other bubble charms for easier/safer breathing (also handy for airborne illness outbreaks).

RAVENCLAW: Read all 120 pages of thorough California governance report on Forest Management[0]. Try to organize herbology faculty, students, and community members into task force on controlled burns and forest restoration, begin research into long-term climate magic.

SLYTHERIN: Invest in private goblin enterprises specializing in lucrative airdrops of large amounts of fire-retardant potion. Circulate prospectus for wood-clearing companies. Talk angrily to anyone who will listen about how terrible political opponents are at fire management and how it just goes to show they should never be in charge.

[0] https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...

(Please read the report!)

EDIT: can someone explain the downvotes here? Fire response/management and the politics surrounding it are going to be very relevant to the topic and an inevitable part of the discussion, and while I may have made some pop-culture whimsy a part of my comment, it's done hand-in-hand with serious observations about how politics play out, not to mention a link that contains a trove of essential solid information about policy considerations.
This. It’s bad philosophy. Non local, non physical, these are the concepts to get comfortable with before attempting to understand the quantum in a coherent way, unless understanding the nature of physicality and locality isn’t your goal. Looking at the quantum world as a bunch of tiny objects will only lead to an infinite regression, where new even smaller objects are continuously discovered.
That's a bit disingenuous though, it's like saying YouTube got 99% of their accounts post acquisition, knowing that the majority of these were merely Google accounts who through the associative property of acquisitions were delegated these accounts by the purchaser.

In my opinion Instagram sold a bit early[0], but coming from an app that existed merely as the first widely used iteration of phone-camera filters, I can't necessarily blame them. Who'd have thought that Instagram, and also Giphy to an extent had -any- form of business model or potential for profit? I sure didn't.

[0] - sidenote: (in the financial and growth sense, not the chronological sense)
This looks like a great tool. I might use it !
I'm going to repeat myself here.

read the post again.

It's there, that you cannot see it is neither a damnation of the point, nor a refutation of it. If you cannot find a way to respond to the actual point being made there is no discussion to be had here.
The early framing of it was that they usually offer this as an alternative to a laptop for certain use cases. In that context including the price of the keyboard makes sense.
>EU has tariffs on foreign made clothes - yet multiple examples of child labor were discovered in multiple clothes retailer supply chains.

Maybe the tariffs aren't high enough!

Or perhaps a government of the people and not of profit would outright ban merchants such as Nike and others that source slave labor.
Sure, what we are doing is not magical. There are a bunch of CLI tools can do that as well, which can easily manipulate the EXIF data.

We just make it way easier for everyone outside of IT!
I find the "true believers" tend to be the only ones (if any) who are promoted from within ...and it's almost always because of the little flourishes they attach to their work

I'd also say the work ethic of both types of workers is often identically-sampled (ie there are "hard workers" among both camps): the "mercenaries" just happen to cut their day off when they're "supposed" to far more often than the "true believers" will
I did, but it required taking a 4 month bit of self-exile and then starting a new place within the industry (different vertical) such that there was enough familiarity for me to not feel totally un-moored, but enough newness to make it fresh and engaging for me to figure out new problems.
So essentially go back to dev style error messages?

A UX person telling us not to do what the previous UX person thought was cute.

Thank you sooo much! Ask PM for a pat on the back.
Source code for X-Road: https://github.com/nordic-institute/X-Road
>There is no overseas country to deal with.

There would be if you ended the act and all local shipping manufacturers shutdown so the country had to buy all their ships from Norway.
This is just painting a lipstick on a pig. BEVs are expensive cars with expensive fuel (no most people won't be able to charge at home) and miniscule range. However they will be forced down the throats of consumers regardless of their inferiority.

It is like going from cars back to horses and pretending that it is better.
> Really useful messages might contain a lot of details about the tech stack you use (giving a nice hint into which CVEs to try).

Nope. Useful messages contain details about what your software does. Anything about your tech stack is redundant and can be removed.

> The best solution is to aggressively log errors AND prioritize having dev teams push that error count to 0.

Many errors can only be replicated talking to users. And on the cases your dev team is not all capable enough to remove all errors, you will still want to provide customer support and work-arounds.

> The next way to solve it is simply a report button.

A report button is good. But neither session ID nor any data that you can reasonably add to your logs will be enough to let dev know what went wrong. Besides, your report button will have errors too.

And anyway, anything that you said applies exclusively to people that create web applications. Many other types of application exist, and everybody writing them are better off not following any of your recommendations.
"time of use" tariffs will be important to keep things balanced. People who want to minimize their power bill should have the option to pick the "time of use" pricing and shift some of their consumption off-peak. Others can choose to pay more for the convenience of not having to worry about all that stuff. How much more, that can be determined by market forces.
I could have possibly milked it for a couple weeks, but that was about it. (And, yes, I wouldn't have felt good about drawing a paycheck when there was no office to show up at or product to work on.)
Tell me you're old (at least Xer age) without telling me you're old.
Ok, I edited it. By the way is the original title from USA Today: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/10/18/califor...
Process gates are part of repeated process. Otherwise we'd call them "special one-time checks that we absolutely won't make part of our process."

One-shot checks are a thing and have a place, but that's not what the article is about.
I don't think that's the take away as much as "were doing a shit job at forestry and that's just as important as green initiatives".
> Your bias is showing...

No, I think I'd be significantly angrier if they'd collected actual money and withheld it from its originally intended recipient and instead put it into a fund that they used to grow their business. That was actually more offering them the benefit of the doubt. Crypto tends to cloud a lot of judgement and relax the definitions of 'financial fraud.' If it were done with actual dollars they might already have met with the DOJ.

> Nothing is held hostage. The only legal way that they can pay someone is if the person goes through KYC.

So what you're saying is, you can't get it unless you sign up even though they'd already solicited the donations on your behalf. Got it. So exactly what I said. This wouldn't be an issue if they had people sign up first, right? Then they wouldn't be soliciting donations on behalf of unregistered individuals and the whole point would be moot.

> This is false. Contributions were going to the user pool. Now they are returned to the original donor.

Right, the marketing budget. They stopped after they got called out for it.

Exactly what I said.

[edit] Side-note, if they'd done this on the websites of charities, it may actually be illegal in a number of countries.

> Charity fraud is the act of using deception to get money from people who believe they are making donations to a charity. [...] Charity fraud not only includes fictitious charities but also deceitful business acts. Deceitful business acts include businesses accepting donations and not using the money for its intended purposes, or soliciting funds under the pretense of need. [1]

Now I'm no lawyer but soliciting donations that people think are going to a charity and instead putting them into your 'user pool' if 'unclaimed' sounds a lot like [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_fraud
GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Without a doubt, a baby can be formula-fed and thrive.

It also seems certain that there are advantages to being breast-fed. Exactly how strong these are is hard to stay -- as far as I know, all the research is observational, and so it becomes hard to tease out what is the effect of breast-feeding and what is just coming along for the ride (correlated w/ the type of person that prioritizes breast-feeding).

It's still a worthy goal to have a society that makes it easy for women who want to breast-feed to do so.

(And I hear you on the moralizing, which is obnoxious. Let the parents decide what is best for their baby and life situation; it is not anyone else's business.)
I think you're right. Part of the ML algorithm used to drive lifts is to guess and learn when elevators predictably need to be where (eg morning commute or lunch time), but ML is horrible opaque and everyone thinks they could do better.
Very good read.

Process gates are one of the favorite tools of "successful" managers.

Imagine coming up with action items during post-mortem. Drastic measures are easy to understand and have good optics. Narrow gates look like half-measures.

As a manager, you should be proud of process steps you eliminated, not steps you added.
I swear most of these are quoted elsewhere as good practices and used very well in certain scenarios. I agree with the article to the extent that blindly adding process has costs and if you don't reap the benefits, it's a net negative.

When all of these benefit massively is when there's large information/knowledge asymmetry, but the right questions and review usually doesn't get to the right person. E.g. junior devs architecting things poorly and then wasting time to implement a bad idea. Devs pretending to be designers and coding a UI that's just bad without consulting the designer when they should have.

Does just telling them "you devs to consult the designer more" work? I haven't seen it work. With the right steps to review design, architecture and so you could easily save more time later than you invest upfront.
I'd say that plugging in a car should mean - charge it enough to get me to a hospital. Beyond that wait for the optimum charge time. However there should also be a screen that overrides this if you are going on a trip or something.
Really puts the energy density into perspective, doesn't it. And nuclear powered steam turbines typically run at 5-10% lower efficiencies than diesel engines too.
Celsius exec joins JPMorgan as director of crypto regulatory policy
Curious: will the regrowth of the burned forests have an opposite effect? It will take a while, but it should be capable of growing just as large, right?
The solution to this is going to be have customers enroll in smart charging. Keep your car connected to the smart charger when not in use and during times of excess power charge the car for a few cents per kw.
I made a joke on twitter at the beginning of the pandemic that we'd see a baby boom because of quarantine. Someone dryly replied to me that it'd be entirely among families getting their first child.

I went looking for this line in the article, and sure enough... "The increase in birth rates was more pronounced for first-time mothers..."
> Are you sure about that?

No. But I'm curious what you're suggesting. The article mentions that the last 2 were built by the Fins. The rest appear to have been Russian-made. Are you suggesting the Russians didn't build any? Or... well... I'm not sure what you're getting at.
When you hire the Pinkertons, you're hiring legendarily cruel people. That's the brand.
That would be a downgrade. SteamDeck already has a linux desktop and chrome browser. Can always pin replit.com website to steamOS homescreen.
Oh, really? https://www.railway-technology.com/news/wabtec-union-pacific...
Take a look at Headscale if you want to self host. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
Actually this may be related to wikipedia as well.

If I enter "voxel", the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th are all duplicates of the wikipedia image.

The 2nd and 24th are copies of that doomguy image, but that's not nearly as severe.

Looking over a couple other searches, it seems I was wrong - it really is mostly wikipedia cropping up in the "images" tab over and over.
To be fair, I did tarnish the simple explanation with an opinion on why the lower classes are worse off. I knew the risk I was taking when I added that.
Because your biology doesn't determine your destiny within society and the interests of liberty is not in tying you to it. For instance; a woman is entitled to choose not to have children, for any reason or for no reason at all. While it is a biological fact that only women can have children (or indeed can breastfeed), it does not follow, as a fact about how we conduct our society, that women are uniquely capable of raising children, or that it is their role within our society to birth & raise children. When we structure our society in an essentialising way, we create injustices for both men and women (to say nothing of trans and nonbinary people, who are erased by these essentialized framings, which for instance can lead to them being discriminated against in the adoption process), though women bare the vast majority of them.
Quite the opposite, limiting myself to ~80 characters per line improved the readability of my code. Shorter lines mean less complexity per line and more labelled values, which then again reduces the need for comments.

Expanding to 120 character lines means I can only have one column of code on my laptop screen at the same time and only if I maximise the window. It also means I can't have 3 columns on my desktop screen. And no, horizontal scrolling or line wrapping is not an option, it's a nightmare.
We've taken the bit out of the title that was sapping people's ability not to make obvious jokes. Let's discuss the interesting bits now please!
We have corrected this oversight! Thanks for noticing. It's now under the About menu.
Counties don't want the price of housing to go down because they collect taxes at (typically) 1% of the listed market value, basically collecting rent from residents but in a quite inequitable way.
I live in apartment. I can't charge at home and together with me many other people.
When you have nested exceptions being caught by other exceptions, how do you determine what level is correct to show the user? Especially when it's a service class or something that is used by a lot of calling code.

It's implied that it would be the upper top-most exception handlers in that code path but those are gonna be more generic in their messages, and anything more detailed has to be manually wrapped to add useful description (that's not some internal developer exception).

Error codes may be the least bad solution, to fallback on.
The US has continued to export emissions to other countries, as we export more and more manufacturing.
I wish more people start holding politicians accountable for their promises.

All these sacrifices that residents of California have had to make under the premise of a better environmental future, banning straws, forcing a specific complex fuel mix forcing refineries in state to go out of business and thus people at the pump paying a lot more for this imported complex blend etc . . . all of these are decisions that have consequences.

The premise thus far has never been challenged that the "Good" outweighs the "bad" in these decisions by the legislature in California.
Oh yeah I wouldn't want to do anything serious on a phone period, well with the caveat I find it weirdly easier to write rough drafts of poetry on my phone and I have no idea why.
This is categorically not true, as per https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-en....

The only practical issue raised by https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/ which we didn’t already fix is the question over whether servers or clients should control group membership. Our position is that it’s okay for the server to control it as long as clients are warned if malicious users/devices are added. Fixing it properly is Hard: for instance, if you are chatting in a room and it turns out that a remote user kicked another remote user, but the kick was delayed in reaching you, you could keep chatting away encrypting messages for a user who is no longer in the room and theoretically should not be receiving them. Is this a security flaw? Or is this just how causality works? So we’re dealing with problems similar to that; hopefully we will be able to switch to client controlled membership by end of year.

tptacek’s derision is not very constructive.
Why are error codes a terrible solution? I rather have an error "bad request f12793b2" than a "bad request". Obviously I prefer a "bad request, 'expiresAt cannot be after 2022-12-19'. Code f12793b2".

Having a unique ID to be able to search in documentation or even source code is -IMO- preferable. It's still rather technical and helps only those who can search such docs, but at least it gives something unique to google/search for."
Unable to signup. Stripe checkout error "A valid Importer/Exporter Code (IEC) is needed to present in USD. Please contact contact https://support.stripe.com/contact/email if you have any questions."

I'm using US AMEX which works fine on all other Stripe checkouts I use.
> Our priorities as a society have been inverted in this area.

No, they have not. The states that protected abortion rights are also the states that offer paid parental leave and paid disability leave to new moms. And the states that restricted abortion rights are the states that offer zero parental leave.

A significant portion of US society supports helping new parents, and especially mothers. It does not have enough votes in the Senate though.
A person waiting for the elevator doesn't put anything into the queue.

The loop for challenge 1 is:

q: []
idle -> enqueue 0, 1, 2 --- q: [0, 1, 2]
go to floor 0; (noop@floor0)q: [1, 2]
go to floor 1; q: [2]
go to floor 2; q: []
idle -> enqueue 0, 1, 2 --- q: [0, 1, 2]
go to floor 0; q: [1, 2]
...

It doesn't matter if anyone wants to go to that floor who is in the elevator or wants to get on the elevator at that floor.

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/documentation.html

And then you get into the events... something like this would likely be interesting/chaotic.

elevator.on("floor_button_pressed", function(floorNum) {
elevator.goToFloor(floorNum, true);
})
Then everyone‘s charger decides „now is the time“ and the grid gets overloaded
Here's some more information about the congressional hearings:

“The United States Cannot Afford to Lag Behind
Russia”: Making the Case for an American Nuclear
Icebreaker, 1957-1961

https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol31/tnm_31_31-6...

Its not surprising Eisenhower vetoed it. He vetoed 39 bills in 1958 alone.
That's fine, I wasn't sure if you were making a relative point or if you were implying that equipping planes was trivial in some absolute sense.
I mean, we're fighting wildfires about as good as anyone could.

What CA doesn't do well is manage forests.
And in the same period of time being considered, California's population got 18% larger. Perhaps the takeaway should be "be wary of non-per-capita figures when trying to measure the totality of a problem."
WideVine stuff is probably marked private in Monorail (or maybe not filed there at all).
Computational Physics for the Masses with Julia
Taking your criticism further is this analysis.

https://www.allencheng.com/starting-a-business-around-gpt-3-...
> There’s an open source Android browser (now seemingly abandoned) that implements ad-blocking functionality

> The problem is that this browser has a very serious flaw. It tries to download filters updates on every startup, and on Android it may happen lots of times per day. It can even happen when the browser is running in the background

EasyList should be offered as a version-controlled copy you grab once, that then gets bundled with an app, rather than offering a download to be called from an app: https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt (Currently down as of writing).

The only caveat is such a list needs to be updated, so then a version system should be implemented for EasyList and you periodically bundle the new version via app updates. It would save a lot of bandwidth doing this.
Covid gets in your blood and causes systemic issues all over your body. Remember “covid toe” early on in the pandemic? Nevertheless, the facial rehabilitation facility I went to (that now works exclusively with Bell’s palsy patients) has seen a significant uptick in cases immediately following a covid infection.
Mismanagement of forests.
hot take:

You are not your children, spend time on yourself, lest you find yourself suffering from the empty nest syndrome.

hotter take:

Not even your children want that.
>I'd like to get a specific example of something economically useful that the Jones Act forbids.

The Jones Act obliges some pretty absurd contortions and workarounds to construct offshore wind, of which many many gigawatts are planned to be built in the future off the coasts of the US. This directly increases risk, cost, complexity, and uncertainty compared to offshore wind development in other countries.

The highly specialized vessels which are capable to do this work are in very limited supply globally, and exceedingly few are (or will be) US-flagged and JA compliant. These are the heavy crane vessels, jack up vessels, precision rock placement vessels, cable lay vessels, etc of which practically nothing suitable exists in the US-flagged fleet. Some US vessels are being built (Dominion’s turbine installation jack-up or GLDD’s fall pipe vessel), however, these are absolutely insufficient on their own, and vastly more expensive (and uncompetitive elsewhere) compared to the rest of the global fleet.
or coordinate them so that doesn’t happen?
The only real tool for managing wildfires is controlled burns. The problem is, California isn't burning often enough [1].

The question is, if these areas were managed properly, with controlled burns, what would the greenhouse gas emissions be? I imagine proper management wasn't included in the emissions goals.

Related, we have some endangered pyrophytic [2] plants near where I live. I imagine they'll be extinct, within my lifetime.

1. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-s...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophyte

edit: perhaps you had this in mind with "managing wildfires".
hack-n-patch worm? I recall a white hat doing this for some IoT annoyance.
James Webb Telescope spies 'Pillars of Creation'
Brian sounds like the drag on the company, not Bob.

Bob is simply offering a deal that is in his best interests. Brian is the enabler, and I'm surprised HE wasn't fired.

Developers are expensive to recruit and train. If your department keeps losing them, because of the environment, then maybe you need a different environment.