skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, basically what I said is true after all?

No?

> You have always had to pay a fee for the privilege of thinking about writing code capable of running on an Apple device

Again, for the nth time, no.

The $99 Mac developer program began in 2010. https://developer.apple.com/news/index.php?id=03192010a Before then, it was $500/$3500, as my previous link shows. [EDIT:] Here's another article from 2010: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/03/apple-reconfigures-m...

On the Mac, Gatekeeper and Developer ID were introduced in 2012. Before then, Mac apps didn't need to be code signed. You could distribute Mac apps before 2012 without paying anything to Apple (other than the price of the Mac, of course, though technically you could compile on a non-Mac).

February 27, 2012 "Developer ID is a new way to help prevent users from installing malware on their Mac. Along with Gatekeeper, a new feature in OS X Mountain Lion, signing applications with your Developer ID certificate provides users with the confidence that your application is not known malware and has not been tampered with." https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02272012a
Or provide a set of steps to generate a client ID and secret to put into their app, right?
Their bulbs don't last anywhere near that long for me but I continue to buy them because nothing else comes close in terms of color rendition.

I find the 3700k is perfect for my tastes.
There are commercial fans but they’re louder and more expensive.

If there’s a belt from the motor to the fan you’re in for a good time.
California already has a pretty good prescribed burn program, but it needs to be expanded, in part because the climate is significantly different today than it was a hundred years ago. There are some obstacles to prescribed burns: smoke inhalation is a public health hazard, firefighters need to be paid, private landowners are worried about liability, etc. Perhaps the biggest issue is that most of California is federal land, and the U.S. Forest Service does not have funding to perform prescribed burns.

The private sector hasn't solved the problem either, in part because a lot of the fuel isn't desirable timber. Californians who are serious about this issue should lobby their federal and state representatives.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05997-w

> Our results show that California and Oregon are the only severe-risk US states to conduct prescribed fire programs that are impactful at reducing wildfire risks, while other southeastern states such as Florida maintain fire-healthy ecosystems with very extensive prescribed fire programs. Our study suggests that states that have impactful prescribed fire programs (like California) should increase their scale of operation, while states that burn prescribed fires with no impact (like Nevada) should change the way prescribed burning is planned and conducted.

> California has historically resisted prescribed burning to control their already big smoke problem

> There are various reasons preventing California from conducting more Rx [prescribed burns], including lack of enough firefighters and 57% of land being owned by the Federal Government which lacks the funds to conduct Rx, especially after recent budget cuts to the U.S. Forest Service

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0451-7

> Academics warned that the financial incentives offered by mechanical thinning may be elusive, given the high ratio of thinning to merchantable timber in many locations. Legislative staff and analysts criticized the traditional forestry model of removing large-diameter, valuable trees and leaving smaller, less valuable and more flammable biomass.
exclusive as in “experience that can only be had in VR”

something that people will look at and think “I need VR so I can play that”. The closest so far is half-life alyx, but that’s really not cutting it.
Strictly speaking, a monolithic kernel is one which builds in all the code to operate: talk to hardware, load programs, perform its services or even include the ability to load drivers/code to talk to other hardware. All of the key functionality is loaded into the kernel program space but that is usually separate from user space or process space. Dumb programs; smart kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_kernel

A microkernel has a much more limited scope, sometimes just the ability to pass messages or data between processes, and may exclude most of the functionality to talk to hardware. The microkernel program space is separated from user space, process space and driver space. Dumb kernel; smart programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
The quickest way to build one, IMO, is using a hot glue gun. It takes quite a bit of hot glue to get it nicely sealed (maybe 10 sticks or so), but it's a LOT faster than using tape & it's more forgiving - you just "caulk" the seams liberally. The non-standard, longer length glue sticks make it especially quick. I feel like my hot-glued results have generally also been a bit faster/easier to pull partially apart, too, for when it's time to do filter replacements.

I personally prefer to use two filters on each side, one as a "pre-filter" (cheaper carbon/charcoal, MERV ~10ish), with better (higher MERV, ~13 if possible) rated filters underneath. You can then replace the prefilters more often, but the filters underneath won't require replacement nearly as much.

I wrote about building them with hot glue on my blog[0] -- shameless plug! :)

0 - https://dantonio.info/projects/10-minute-corsirosenthal-box/
That dense brush, to people in forest management, is referred to as "fuel loading". It's like the tinder that you would use to start a larger bonfire.

The brush ends up being the thing that starts massive forest fires.
What's interesting is that a "good" name would often be reused when a child died. So a former leader of my country had three daughters called "Catherine" (IIRC), but two are buried beside each other in a small gold mining town's cemetery, having died young, the last Catherine living to adulthood.
What change? We got no change. Every single goddamned thing that the article listed was coming down the pike regardless, and we STILL have our bulk unencrypted information sold to the Feds.

Spare me the hand-wringing. The only thing Snowden actually accomplished was a one-way ticket to Eastern Bloc griftsville. Thank you for proving my point for me.
Also the fact the wood would be used for heating and/or cooking too
A single bit flip nearly resulted in nuclear annihilation in 1980
HN types traditionally have a hard time with the distinction between things they SHOULD do and things they have a RIGHT to do.

"Why not respect the site owners wishes ? "

The answer, overwhelmingly with the HN demographic, is "because we don't HAVE to."
There's no such thing as a graphic design marketing. It is oxymoron, like "oil painting marketing" or "woodcarving marketing". Every creative craft has names, not brands (let's left "personal brand" bullshit to lifestyle yoga coaches).
I find smart plugs work best with the dumbest devices. I love these pairings and use them a lot myself.
> Can this be weaponized?

Kinda reminds me of Unreal Tournament's lightning gun, except they use a proton beam instead of a laser to guide the lightning bolt:

> "The Lightning Gun is a high-power energy rifle capable of ablating even the heaviest carapace armor. Acquisition of a target at long range requires a steady hand, but the anti-jitter effect of the optical system reduces the weapon's learning curve significantly. Once the target has been acquired, the operator depresses the trigger, painting a proton "patch" on the target. Milliseconds later the rifle emits a high voltage arc of electricity, which seeks out the charge differential and annihilates the target."

https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Gun
... why wouldn't we use those then?
> So you're telling me, some random game developer was more competent than the US military guys who literally are hired for such analysis?

In the case of the most-cited "Gimbal" video, all the military has officially said is they can't determine for sure what the object the glare shown in the video is from. But everyone already agrees on that point. No one can tell from the video whether the glare shown is caused by an airplane many miles distant or some other object. No one representing the U.S. government has ever said the video could NOT be a magnified thermal glare from a distant airplane. Remember, the pilot never saw the object with his own eyes, it was far too distant to see visually even as a spec on the horizon. All the pilot ever saw was the same auto-tracking thermal video we've all seen.

> I suppose, having coded some "parallax effect" is sufficient in your book?

I don't know what you're referring to but it doesn't sound like Mick West's analysis video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs. Also, Mick only assembled the video. He acknowledges the evidence shown in the video is the work of many independent researchers working collaboratively over many months while iteratively sharing their data for peer review. There are links to all the source data shown as well as the entire open analysis discussion and review. The summary video is concise and only 20 minutes long. I challenge you to watch all of it and respond specifically. Which of the four points evidenced from the on-screen camera do you think is incorrect and why?

IMHO, it's inarguable the detailed analysis provides conclusive and verifiable evidence the object is precisely consistent with a glare from an extremely distant object with a thermal imaging 'halo' artifact around it. The apparent rotation and erratic movement of the thermal glare observed in the highly-magnified video is a combined artifact of a) the Raytheon multi-axis camera tracking gimbal system used on that jet, b) the optical stabilization system, and c) the digital de-rotation system.

If you respond, please at least give a clear "yes" or "no" as to whether you agree the apparent rotation is created by the rotating camera gimbal (which was then automatically digitally de-rotated) vs actual rotation of the distant object. If not, how do you explain all the obvious signs of gimbal rotation in the on-screen numeric data and the rest of the video frame around the center glare (eg the background clouds and sky)?
> explaining that the virus is inactive once it passes through the gastrointestinal tract.

How do they know that only the gastrointestinal tract is infected in this person?
It's not a matter of "could". Apple DID this in the past.

In the mid-2000s, GCC switched C++ ABIs. Apple pushed out an update to Mac OS X 10.3 which replaced the static libstdc++ using the old ABI with a dynamic libstdc++ using the new ABI. This broke C++ compilation under Mac OS 10.3. They did not bother to update the compiler to use a new ABI; they had decided that if developers still wanted to compile for 10.3, their supported path -- compiling using the latest Xcode (available for 10.4 and up only) in its 10.3 backward compatibility mode was good enough. People still using 10.3 who wanted to build e.g., GNU software were just too niche a use case to warrant any kind of support.

Lesson learned: if you intend to build software on Apple systems, always have the latest shiny, or you risk being left in the lurch.
Pedantic note: "lightening" with an "e" is the present participle of the verb lighten.
C++ Implementation of StableDiffusion
“Strictly speaking, you see, it’s prayers that go up to the gods,” said the priest doubtfully.

“As I understand it,” said Moist, “the gift of sausages are offered to Offler by being fried, yes? And the spirit of the sausages ascends unto Offler by means of the smell? And then you eat the sausages?”

“Ah, no. Not exactly. Not at all,” said the young priest, who knew this one. “It might look like that to the uninitiated, but, as you say, the true sausagidity goes straight to Offler. He, of course, eats the spirit of the sausages. We eat the mere earthly shell, which believe me turns to dust and ashes in our mouths.”

“That would explain why the smell of sausages is always better than the actual sausage, then?” said Moist. “I’ve often noticed that.”

The priest was impressed. “Are you a theologian, sir?”
Funny, i get multiple daily notifications for suggestions on subreddits to follow. I'd love if we could just cut out the middleman and get the users following you to follow the threads that get suggested to me instead.
Analgesic isn't a British word, though. It's used plenty in American medicine.
A filesystem breaks by the user pushing a button on their computer and you blame the user...?!
Powermods are a real problem with reddit. Letting whoever was the greasiest nerd in 2007 and registered some common word, phrase, or brand name as their personal domain (including in some cases, commercializing it for personal gain) is an obvious problem, and there is no mechanism whatsoever for removing them. The only option is to try and restart the community using another name instead - hence the proliferation of real_x or true_x subreddits. And you will never do anything about the newbies who just search "kleenex" and get the sub with the powermod instead of the true_kleenex one with the actual community.

you have some mods who are notionally in charge of dozens of subreddits - and reminder that one of those powermods was most likely Ghislane Maxwell lol. And at that point you have to be getting some financial or personal benefit from it, because at that point it's a job, you can't moderate a dozen major subreddits in your spare time. So you either make a deal with the brand, or you do it to shape public discourse, etc.

In some respects that's what's going on here too, is powermods see an actual threat to their power, and would rather take their subs dark and raise a pitchfork mob than go quietly. But something has to be done about it sooner or later.

It's this awkward compromise where powermods do a ton of unpaid work for reddit, but they also are not entirely a benevolent force either, there are a lot of them that are really shitty and are kind of namesquatting on important turf. But there's nothing that can be done about it without them all taking their subs private, and if you just eject them then you better have a system in place to replace them afterwards. And you better be ready to replace all of them because they'll all go dark in "solidarity". The usual problems of a coup, really.

The real answer is that you should use Lemmy and if there's two r/kleenex's then oh well, let search optimization direct people to the "good one" and the powermod can be king of the bad one. But Lemmy can't be commercialized for (pinky in mouth) one billion dollars! and SEO doesn't work properly inside a single domain like this, so this is the status quo.

I'm sure there's some lessons there for founders... if you are going to rely on unpaid labor you need to do the 4chan thing and make it clear they're janitors and not stakeholders in your platform, and hammer down any significant power-centers that start to form. Because at this point the reality is they are de-facto stakeholders, whether Reddit likes it or not.

The month before you sell the company is just the absolute wrong time to pick a big fight with your union. And I’m saying this as someone who is not a fan of this particular union.
I got a smart health cube that looks really nice but the filters are a bit expensive.

Next time I’ll get one with washable prefilters even if the final one is disposable.
A go mod download equivalent would be nice so that we can actually reliably
cache dependencies in ci.

What's wrong with caching the target and ~/.cargo directories?
It's not about the ads. I wouldn't mind seeing ads in my third party app of choice if it kept reddit "free". The problem is, the official app is horrendous; unusably bad. It's equivalent to comparing the web redesign with old.reddit.
Honestly this just makes me wanna tip them even more. Even if it's a Hallmark card with a handwritten "thanks, no strings attached" with beer money. But I respect that ability to walk away guilt-free. It's a magical thing.
You are lying. Don't deliberately spread disinformation. https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire
I looked around for AI specific benchmarks. Seems Openbenchmarking.org has quite a few. The 7940 is just making it's way onto the market, so I chose the closest desktop equivalent with a similar number of cores and memory bandwidth figures. Notably, the 7700 _does not_ have the AI acceleration cores of the 7940, meaning the 7940 will post much higher performance in that area.

https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Apple+M2,AMD+Ryzen...

Sure seems like the M2 is very far behind the 7700 in performance in all areas. Farther than can be explained by the difference in Mhz or package power.
> swore an oath of allegiance to modern day Hitler

Any proof to back up this wild claim?
While I agree that the claims are hyperbolic, I think you are approaching this paper from the point of view of someone who knows a lot about sorting. Because of this, its normal that the claims of these guys who probably don't know much about it are grating for you.

But, at its core, this is really a RL paper. The objective is to see how far a generic approach can work while understanding as little as possible about the actual domain. After AlphaGo exceeded expectations, the question becomes: "What else can RL do, and can it do anything actually useful?", and this paper seems to suggest that it can optimize code pretty well! I'm really not sure they are self-aggrandizing in terms of impact. The impact of an approach like this could potentially be very large (although I'm not saying that it actually is, I don't know enough).
Yes, which is why I said that if you don't, the 4090 is irrelevant because it's just turned off.
Lemmy looks to be the main contender currently
Flatpaks reduce the system dependencies, you may still get burned by kernel changes but hey. Inb4 someone also mentions nix.
There is no required cargo.toml equivalent for go. You put all dependencies at the top of your source code in an import statement. There are other things you can do if you want to lock a specific version of an API.
They don't seem like it.

Levoit filters are advertised as lasting 6–8 months and cost $23 each.

Meanwhile a set of four filters like the one in the tutorial cost $70 and looking up comparables online at that price point indicates they're good for 3 months.

So even if using 4 at a time extends to 12 months, that's still more expensive than the up-to-2 Levoit filters you'd use in that time.

I see zero cost benefit here over Levoit -- it seems to be more expensive actually?
Multiple HVAC techs I've talked to have recommended against installing good/high quality filters in a forced air system. They've explained that high-MERV filters reduce airflow which causes the fan to wear out faster and may affect the performance of the cooling/heating. I'm not sure how accurate that is, researching it seems to suggest a MERV 10 to 12 is a good balance, but I've been told to use a MERV 3 filter.
The translator apparently did not, and it would probably have been fine if it was actually called Speach.

that was the entire point of the comment
LEDs released->electricity bill reduced->money freed up->wages increase->price of everything else increases

It's nice to see these efficiency gains aren't entirely eaten up in this way and the is some ultimate benefit for humans, $1 2023 >= $1 1990 as far as lighting, and wages are up. You can have the lights on more and keep the same quality of life in all other regards. But this can be used to mask growing inequality, just take some but not all of the gains, e.g. by artificially limiting housing supply, QoL still improves so no revolution.
Not as far as I can tell. My dealer is still getting them in.
The author opines to the "top online resource for discourse on corporate governance" that a major source of funding of technology businesses, ICOs, is not, in fact, a securities transaction, provided the issuer is careful not to make explicit contractual promises.

This begs the question: why would a non-security technology trinket be germane to corporate governance? Why express the opinion at all in that forum?
The Music app's default screen is nothing but a list of ads for Apple's subscription services. I just switched to a third-party music app because I was tired of constantly getting that shoved in my face. The same subscription options are listed as first category in the settings app too.
"If you flag the bad comment, that alerts moderators. In egregious cases, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at it sooner."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179759>
There are scripts written by mod devs, and curseforge (the platform where mods are updated) to detect it, so that's useful.
When the creator gets caught I hope he uses the "in minecraft" defence.
Copy over all the dependencies and then run something like this:

https://blog.benj.me/2022/04/27/cargo-machete/
> 111 male early-stage investors are shown video of the same start-up business idea presented by a conventionally hot actresses and one who is more plain

Is this one hot person to represent them all? Seems like not the world’s best experimental if so

Also maybe attractive (/charismatic?) men do better too.
1) he never says what bad practices are encouraged. A crate can have many source files, so what's wrong with big crates? It's better than npm with tons of stupid small dependencies.

2) what if 2 modules in go share a common dependency? It's not clear to me how that's handled in a file system hierarchy. But thats beside the point anyway.
not just overall latency, but to keep the animation of the text appearing as it is generated. the response becomes recognizably "undesirable" not immediately, but from a particular token, and that token is the point where it's moderated away
What do you need for a 700sqft space built tight?

So its going to make the minisplit work harder but to what extent at 30 and 40 degree air outside?
Yep. But then, I'm paying $0 to host a 10,000 strong community, so you know, swings and roundabouts.
Yeah unclear if one hot lady and one plain lady or many of each.
Ah true. It'd be more of a structural thing I guess.
Many smaller mods updated quickly. This is a) because this is not a very large update, and b) because Minecraft has pre releases and release candidates which are practically the same as the final release, so the mod can be updated before the final release of the version.

Also, many mods are necessary for performance reasons, due to vanilla's performance being questionable at times.
I'm on my cell so im not going to be a good help with info on this, but lighting induced fires are actually very common. So you're not talking every 1000 years, but closer to 10 or so. This leads to a much more patchwork design in the forests that leads to natural fire breaks.
If you want them to call you and ask "Are you really not a business?" after you tick the box that says "I'm not a business", that also costs them money. There's no way around the fact that they operate this at global scale, if they start making it free it will inundate them with spam and useless work. This isn't a local poetry magazine.
This is something I think about a lot. We have societal issues with critical severity that are effectively marked WONTFIX. The latest innovation in consumer tech is only going to feel more and more absurd.
Former Chief Scientist for Air Force Space Command Vouches for UFO Whistleblower
In a show of support, Jim Shell, the former Chief Scientist for Air Force Space Command (now known as the U.S. Space Force), has lent his voice to the integrity of former senior intelligence official, David Grusch, in the wake of his recent astonishing claims relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
"I've never seen creators so pissed," said Jake Lucky, creator of streamer-focused news show The Gamer Update. "Not even kidding, this could be what ends Twitch or really starts turning the tide with Kick and YouTube."

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/twitch-bans-stream-sp...