skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any amount of water you can get onto a fire increases survivability (both in time and number of locations). NFPA 13R is a relatively recent addition to fire code that focuses on making low-rise residential fire sprinklers much cheaper to install and that shows in the price quote you got.

13R allows use of existing plumbing connections. It doesn't require a separate feed from the water main, nor does it require a separate iron pipe network inside the structure. It also doesn't require extensive equipment like some commercial systems do (eg sensing when one sprinkler goes off and using high-pressure to force the whole zone of sprinklers to go off).

> advances in other building materials

Definitely not. You'd think we would require a quick spray-down of boric acid on wood stick construction right after framing. Boric acid (or borax) is an insect repellant, smolder suppressor, and fire retardant when used this way. It would - at minimum - slow the spread of structure fires. It is also dirt cheap. But nope... buildings themselves are just as flammable today as they were 50 years ago. Survivability is worse thanks to so much synthetic fabric and foam giving off really toxic fumes and more or less no requirement to make anything flame resistant.

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If you want to increase survivability in your own home:

1. If you can afford it have sprinklers installed. In most US states the cost is a lot less than you might think, well under $10k. Usually under $5k. Insurance can't replace lives nor keepsakes. Nor can it repair bodily injury. If you worry about water damage I can promise you repairing it is far cheaper than repairing smoke/fire damage.

2. Have working smoke detectors. Get 10-year sealed lithium ones. The day you install them set a reminder in you phone for 10 years from now to replace them. Install them in the recommended locations.

3. Sleep with your door closed. If you need air, crack a window. If your room doesn't circulate enough from a forced air system shave a bit off the bottom of the door. Experiments show even a cheap cardboard core door can provide 30 minutes of protection from a raging house fire. It blocks most of the smoke. It also greatly slows down heat transfer which reduces flashover risk. I'm not joking - you can find videos on the web where the hallway is a charred black hellscape but the bedding/carpet in a bedroom behind a closed door isn't even slightly blackened.
Worked flawlessly for me on linux. The readme should mention 'emcc' and 'wasm3' as prerequisites for following the bench.py instructions, though.
Thanks for that perspective. I wanted to emphasize the difference between this solution and the Aeropress. I went into hyperbole in doing so, and will be more careful about that in future.

Hopefully the clarifying edit resolves your concerns.
I highly recommend cold brew coffee. We make it once a week or so. My wife grinds her mix of beans, into the toddy, add cold water, let steep over night and drip the next day. Add some brew to a cup and top off with hot water. Cold brew will keep for quite a while in the refrigerator. No fuss, bother and filling the landfill with little plastic cups. IMHO too many simple tasks are over-engineered into ready to fail products.
Nope, ogl 1.1 doesn't apply to anything but printed matieral/pdfs... 'books' essentially.
Lots of people genuinely do prefer the cheaper (and thus lower quality) product. There isn’t always such a trade off, and there are other reasons to buys things. But low price is commonly a dominant factor.
I don't think people care so much about a messy address bar as a messy chat/email message after pasting a URL. Shorteners and vanity URLs exist, but that's more friction than just copying from the address bar as-is.

This can be overcome with html, markdown, and other rich text formats that let you specify the visible link text (missing from many chat apps*), but that's also friction to compose compared to automatically linking from just a URL.

*Slack's implementation is awesome: type the link text, highlight it, and paste a URL.
Aww that is incredibly heartwarming to hear about that Mario Kart story. It would be interesting for video gamers of today to leave video recordings for their descendants of their best ever runs on certain games that they love, because the idea of racing against one's grandpa's ghost to learn all his old tricks from seeing him do them is beautiful.
I knew about these, but hadn't made the connection to English words like "strategy" or "island" or "together". That's still a surprise to me.
Yes. Don't "break fast" in the morning. That's enough to get some benefits and very easy to do.
There are a number of games released under the OGL, e.g.:

1. 13th Age

2. Castles & Crusades

3. Fudge

4. Pathfinder

Note that some of these (e.g. Pathfinder) make use of the D&D base rules and setting (System Reference Document, SRD) covered by the OGL. However, not all the games released under the OGL are tied to elements of the SRD.

The issue with the revocation of the OGL 1.0a license is that it affects all of those games.

Then there are all the publishers (Critical Role, MCDM, etc.) creating settings and campaigns for D&D and related systems under the OGL.

The OGL 1.1 license affects video (like Critical Role's Legends of Vox Machina) and other content. It affects people using Patreon for revenue, and possibly (through mentioning pantomime) things like cosplay on TikTok and Patreon.

The full implications are not fully known, and a lot of this would likely need challenging in court. It also depends on how much WotC/Hasbro are willing to challenge/go after.
My conjecture is two folds:

1. There are more well-written books than blogs.
2. New books are more discoverable than new blogs.

There are more well-written books, because 1) there's a longer history of books being written, and 2). books bring money. Popular books bring tons of money. Blogs on the other hand, is much less remunerative. As a result, if you are going to write something with a lot of effort and care, something packed with information and backed with research, why not publish it?

Books are more discoverable, in the sense that they are usually much more advertised than blogs. Authors and publishers will want to push and promote their books, to books stores, to Amazon, to Google/Meta, to book tubers, and whatever ad platforms out there.

Blog writers, even the really good ones, are mostly laissez faire about promoting their own website. In fact, blogs with aggressive marketing are usually shit blogs.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but why can't we just write in MarkDown?
Curious if English is your mother tongue, and if so, which locale?

As a native speaker of en-US, I would write this as "base64 does not have the problem here, iMessage does."
Just because a thing is prevalent doesn't mean it's good. I have a hard time believing all those parameters are completely necessary for the amount of data being displayed. Often times it feels like people just base64encode(page.state) and call it a day.

I think it's advantageous to keep the complexity and specificity of information in URLs to a minimum outside of what's needed to retrieve the data set as it can make backwards compatibility easier - it is valuable (for long lasting tools) to have URLs that users can favorite and share for their common searches.
It should be noted that according to government estimates, 88% of new homes were already built with gigabit access prior to this law (which seems impressive as an American!). The new rule is expected to move that number to 98%.
DRM might be not exact term here, basically "original" cameras had a chip that identified itself to the rPi driver and driver required that to work.

That was because the previous camera was widely copied and they wanted to not put money into making driver for a camera just for user to go and buy cheap copy
It's a bit more complicated than that. Yes, the code that's out right now under the GPL will always be licensed under the GPL. But Facebook can at any time change the license of the zstd project, meaning all future releases will be under a different license. There will be an opportunity to fork the code base pre license change, but those forks are always risky and there's a very large change that the ecosystem won't end up with a de facto standard zstd fork.
people still need to hear about it some way, which would be the marketing side of it.

*Marketing* as defined in the article is specifically about monetizing and generating income from open source in some way.

*This article is aimed at commercial open-source software (COSS)*
The bitstream format for Gzip files (PKZIP's "deflate") was established in 1993. In comparison, the much newer Zstd doesn't represent a different tradeoff between compression time / decompression time / size; it's just better overall. There's a nice graph of the different time/compression tradeoffs both can achieve about 1/3rd of the way into https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-...
Do any of you share the impression that the threshold for what is passing for articles and opinion pieces barely warrants being written down?

The proliferation of blogging, posting and social media seems to have left me with a feeling with slight resentment towards most written content (as it's just noise).

That's okay as I can filter that out, but I found that if I have a message to put out to the world I'm faced with an internal critic suggesting that I'm only adding to the noise, and there's not enough substance in what I'm saying. It's all just opinions, churned out way too fast.

Makes it difficult to do b2b marketing and sales.

Can anyone relate?
Infrastructure costs. So you'd be willing to pay more for that?
Hmm, so no connection at all to D&D? Does this affect them at all, then? What benefits do they draw from using the OGL at all?
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Presumably it's because it works to get more people to the movie a lot of the time.

Especially for action films, there's a lot of temptation to put the "best" action sequences in the trailer.
It has enabled developers to freely use the mechanics that make up much of the DnD - the "game engine" so to speak: the attribute system, levels, skills, classes, and so on - without paying license fees. The consequence of this is that franchises like Pathfinder now have to pay license fees for these mechanics. The consequence is that video games set in this universe [1] now have to pay liceses to WotC.

I assume these games will just slightly tweak the formula: use D30s instead of D20, change some class names, and so on. It's exceptionally hard to robustly copyright and enforce mathematics, but WotC's lawyers probably pose a significant enough threat to scare away developers.

1. for example: https://www.gog.com/en/game/pathfinder_kingmaker_explorer_ed...
The original OGL very much allows video games. KOTOR is for example a game that includes a copy of the OGL. There is also several virtual tabletop softwares that ship with OGL content.
I'm a fan of timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog [1]. It's easy to customize, responsive, uses Markdown, and makes use of SSR.

You can deploy it on Vercel [2] for free and then point it to a custom domain using DNS records in the Vercel "Domains" tab.

[1] https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog#quick...

[2] https://vercel.com/
We need a table top system on GPL or a similar licence, with a full universe and lore. Do you think YC would fund a startup to build it up?
They made it addictive. Bury your nose in your portable device. Ignore the world around you. Lock users in. Push everything onto their servers. Lock out anything that might compete with the path to the Apple Store. It was brilliant from a business perspective, prototyped with the iPod.
> Swimming lessons in the UK are mostly extracurricular, so they start whenever the parents feel like it. There are parent-and-baby swimming lessons for 3-month-olds, for those that want it.

Same here, but those parent-and-baby lessons are more about getting used to water, and not the structured lessons that lead to a diploma. And while regular lessons start when parents feel like it, nearly all parents feel like it between age 4 and 6. There's some discussion whether or not it's better to start early (I think it depends on the child), but starting at 7 would be considered late.

My son is 8, and, partially due to Covid lockdowns, partially due to a lack of talent, still doesn't have his A diploma, and he's the biggest kid of his group.
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Perhaps grab a book on self-control and building discipline (Atomic Habits is good), even if you don't need to write often, it can help you to procrastinate less.

For the other part (over-perfectioning) really try to write a whole document before starting to review it.
You can start small, eg. say to yourself "If i write for 30 without looking back or rewriting any word, I'll allow myself to make edits for 15 minutes".

I know is hard, I have a similar problem (even if not that acute). But is actually much more efficient to edit at the end, than all the time.
How i understand is is Gigabit is two parts: the first part is your home, router, etc supporting the connection speeds. The other is the infrastructure to deliver the gigabit to your home.

I can see a regulation that mandates that you wire any new residences up so they can support gigabit, but how is this going to work if the municipality / ISP does not offer it?

Not sure about what Gigabit rollout in the UK looks like but I know in the US, landlords don't always offer it because the ISP doesn't offer it. Seems that it would put the landlord in a catch-22 where they depend on the ISP to provide a service that they are mandated to provide but cannot because the ISP does not offer it.
Sounds pretty nice on a church organ though; in high school, I played in the orchestra for honors district graduation at the Crystal Cathedral[1], and the organist would play some riffs during rehearsal.

[1] Now renamed as the Christ Cathedral, I assume it's still amazingly hot and stuffy when the sun comes out, ugh, what a terrible venue. :P
My Dyson vacuum cleaner has been exceptionally good for like a decade now.

Keurigs make horrendous coffee and create orders of magnitude more waste. I'm not sure how they're the same.
Does providing a hint to the compiler using the register keyword address the issue sufficiently?
They grant themselves a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to use the content under the new OGL for any purpose and they can revoke your license for any reason provided they give you a 30 days notice.

You would have to be crazy to agree to that. Hasbro can literally tell you you have 30 days to pack then sell your product as their own.
>It is because of hidden and opaque incentive structures that are completely misdirected.

While this is true, the parent is still true too. The issue is that companies make these cheap, easily broken devices and consumers keep buying them because the alternative is living with the inconvenience of not having that class of product. It's not a defeatist attitude, it's the truth. Unless people stop buying Keurig coffee-makers with dual functions, the data these companies are using for marketing and development show that that's what people buy.

The choice here is: If I don't want to support these cheap Keurig junk machines, do I just buy another cheap junk machine from someone else or do I buy a French Press and make my coffee the old-fashioned way in the morning? I'm trading convenience for quality. Despite what you think, that's still a choice that consumers make that fuels the race to the bottom.
Hugo, a blog template, and Vercel.

Example: https://mingos.vercel.app/
Does this mean fiber or will cable be an option as well?
How about if Dang assesses our humanity? That way we don't have to do image recognition stuff and neither does Dang! A win-win if I say so!
Completely tangential anecdote:

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At one point, a little software business/hustle of mine had run its course, and I needed some steady income while I figured out my next move, so I got a job as a retail computer salesperson.

The store was located in Toronto's financial district, and we got a lot of lawyers, bankers, accountants, &c. buying computers and software, which we sold in boxes. Those days are long gone, of course.

One day, some of my colleagues were snickering to each other, and when I asked "What's up," they giggled and told me there was a customer who was asking for me. I was the only employee who owned a Mac, and my colleagues took great delight in sending me Apple customers.

Well, to digress, if a customer was asking about a laser printer for their Mac, my colleagues would ask me for my help, but keep the sale and its commission for themselves. But f a customer wanted a box of 3.5" floppies for their Mac, my colleagues thought it was great fun referring the sale to me out of teh good ness of their hearts.

This was another "goodness of their hearts" referral, for as I approached the customer, I realized at once that there was a personal hygiene thing going on. The customer was also dressed in a very shabby attire relative to the business norms of the 90s, and had trouble making eye contact.

Once I realized this was a prank referral, I resolved not to let them get my goat, so I played it straight, treating them as I would any lawyer in a power suit shopping for a half dozen PCs to automate their office.

The customer was browsing development tools, and so I asked if they wrote software. I was told they did, but I hadn't heard of anything they wrote.

"Why ever not," I asked.

"Oh, I write software for pipe organs," was the reply, "It's a very small industry, and if you know who the major manufacturers are, you probably already know who I am."

The customer actually worked on contract for some European manufacturers, and personal habits aside, was the real deal. After answering a number of questions about text editors—Anybody else remember when it was commonplace to pay big money for an editor? We still do pay for some editors, but it doesn't seem to be a common thing any more, thanks to OSS—the customer spend maybe $700 on tools as they were upgrading their entire development setup.

I never saw them again, but I have also never forgotten that our industry has many, many "niches" that can support independent contractors or even entire businesses. It's not all FAANGs.

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And that's my pipe organ software story.
Exactly. We have special lossless formats for music and images.
> The answer to this is pretty complex I guess, as voting with our wallets is historically pretty ineffective at enacting change. There are a lot of tricks that can be used to make hot garbage a top seller; Amazon is raking in billions doing just this and has been for years, despite constant outrage articles and proof of the garbage-ness of the services.

Yes, I agree, and I think this is a large part of the problem. If I get my neighbor John the blacksmith to make me a plow and it doesn't work quite right, I'm sure he'll fix it for me. That's a very short and direct economic chain, and it's based on personal relationships and geography, two things that humans do very well.

If I buy an over-featured electronic piece of crap from Alibaba, from the merchant who'll sell it for $1 less than the competition -- I don't think I can model or count the economy of that purchase.

And I think that the lack of personal relationships does more of a zap on our heads than we realize. We've not evolved to exist in a pathological environment, where a huge amount of the communication we receive is designed to manipulate us, and to our detriment. We yearn for real relationships we can trust, and over-index on signs of trust in vendors, like star ratings on Amazon. Amazon, who literally employs an army of people to game this as much as possible. It's an awfully asymmetric relationship.
What differences do you have in mind? Zstd is largely compatible as a drop-in replacement for those commands. There are differences, but it's our goal to minimize them.
Swimming parallel to the beach will get you out of it, but it could be a struggle depending on the width of the rip and the size of the waves. Getting past the break first is often easier since then you can swim parallel to the beach and away from the rip without having to deal with waves breaking on you.
Virtually all tenant farmers paid their rent in produce. No one had coinage. Eels are smoked and can provide an valuable food source during winter.

Farmers rents were typically 2 x legs of ham/bacon or a number (5??) x wool fleeces or a number of hogshead of beer etc.
Glad they're trying something but this seems silly compared to "we're going to start a public works project where anyone in England can request their home or apartment be upgraded to be 1G capable."

This law feels like it was written by someone who wanted to do anything except pay for it.

The queue would be massive but that's UK tradition.
It's a fair question, and one I don't really have the answer to without internal WotC metrics. I really think it depends on how we define "game health" (and whether we, the players, define it the same way that they do).

I'd say the game is healthy if people keep playing, the community grows, the meta isn't stale, and there's still interest in the game. By that metric, the game feels unhealthy to me.

I would _guess_ that WotC is most concerned with overall revenue (and potential for future revenue). I would bet that any reduced player counts have been offset by sales of higher-margin product (so numbers probably look decent right now). But, long term, I think these actions have hurt the brand, so the next product will have to have a higher price to make up for fewer sales.

Of course, I'm just theorizing here. I have no inside info and most of my feelings (especially as a no-longer-player) are driven by what I hear from friends and read online (the latter of which, of course, skews negative).
The exclusion zone isn't unnecessary. It's gone. All exclusion zones have been remediated and reopened: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/asia/futaba-fukushima-nuclear...

Nobody bothered to clean up Chernobyl because the whole town's existence was to support the plant and plant workers. With no plant, the city had no value and thus no incentive to spend money on remediation. By comparison, Japan showed us what occurs when places with value are contaminated: effort is made to clean them up. Half of the exclusion zone was reopened within 5 years, and the most intensely irradiated locations were cleaned up in just over a decade.
Are they actually trying to revoke the previous version? I do not know, which is why I ask; honest question.

I observe that 1.0 contains the verbiage:

"Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated
versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to
copy, modify and Distribute any Open Game Content originally Distributed under
any version of this License."

which at least to my open source license not-a-lawyer read says that they basically can't revoke it.

They can relicense stuff going forward under 1.1, and that may be bad, but I wonder if people are misunderstanding and treating it as apocolyptic when it's just bad. It seems like the worst case scenario is the community undergoes a de facto fork and you can stick to a 1.0 world if you want, not that all the 1.0 stuff goes away.

This smells to me like many similar panics in our community when some project goes to relicense and people don't generally understand that the relicense only applies going forward, because in general you can't retroactively relicense an open license. (There are nuances to that statement which I'm skipping over, but I'd say that's the most correct short summary. The thing that people think is happening is not what is happening.) Of course it is still valid to be upset about the relicensing going forward! It just may not be quite as much a kick in the teeth as people think.