skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, the controlled burns so far have been miniscule and error-laden. There was a control fight between CalFire and other agencies over every detail. Multiple, massive fires occurred in the intervals when they were arguing about it behind closed doors. The past-Chief of CalFIRE was terminated over this and other issues; his immediate successor was given more than 10x the budget that CalFIRE ever had. Money is a problem in the woods. Firefighting is genuinely harsh and dangerous, the people they have to run it are largely military culture.
This looks really good! Installing right now.

As an aside, I had just started working on a tool to do that since all I want is to have natural scrolling on my trackpad but regular scrolling on my mouse. Will have to take a look if this goes with the a11y route or the custom driver path.

Edit: looks like this modifies CGEvent
Most games don't need to change screen resolutions anymore which is the expensive bit since not only do you have to wait for the hardware to settle, you have to throw out basically everything in GPU memory and reset it all
Two week old dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246309
> with not particularly stressful usage

You are doing something to your cables. Even my cheapest of cheap micro b cables have lasted 6ish years. I don't think I've ever had a premium cable fail on me.

Are you overly bending them or coiling them too tightly?
The explanation in the article didn't really click for me, and I still don't fully understand why, according to the author, programming is so special compared to law, medicine, etc.

I do of course understand why a given request from the client might be impossible to satisfy, given the abstractions that are currently in the code, but at least in some cases you can feasibly tweak the abstractions or build new ones. OK, that's not always possible, but ... so what?

So, as far as I can see, the only conclusion left to draw is "Abstractions of a given subject can be mutually exclusive." OK ... and? Surely that's Logic 101. After all, they're abstractions and by definition they remove some information that's present in the subject itself, which means that information that's present in some abstractions of the subject won't be present in different ones.
Any brand recommendations on the ice cream maker and breadmaker?
Reminds me of the starcraft 1 main menu mixed with sc2 a bit for the background, cool
Thanks, that helps. I think I have some trouble distinguishing formal from archaic. I do find it much easier to parse the modern versions you made.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted but your satirical take is kind of exactly what I’m talking about. We might end up reverse engineering an immune system to make it work at scale, because contamination resistance actually is one of, if not the primary problem at large scale.
> Emissions from burning carbon based fuels also include pollutants that are hazardous to human health.

Which do get released into the environment in quite large quantities!
Yeah, a blade coffee grinder. For sure don't run salt through your expensive burr grinder!
I would never eat processed manufactured meat. This is just another food category being converted to processed foods. Processed foods make you sick, weak and takes your life. Want a short unhealthy life? Eat processed foods. Pharma will be there for you to speed up your own efforts.
1) What's irrational about taking your money out of an insolvent bank?

Sure SVB collapsed immediately from the bank run; but whose to say it wouldn't've gone bankrupt 5 months from now (it's not like 2% mortgages are worth any more now than then!)?

2) It's not like the Fed didn't warn them quarters ahead of time that SVB wasn't hedged against rising interest rates. The Fed does not need to give banks advanced notice of what they're doing; the bank should be hedged for w/e the Fed does so that they don't become insolvent triggering a bank run.

Sure it would be much better if the VCs had gotten together and agreed to either loan SVB money or etc so it would be paper solvent. But my original point is, don't be blaming the Fed for SVB's collapse. SVB had a duty to manage their risks and they did not.
But you may not care about possible future when I can not grow some chicken legally for my own consuming, but I appreciate eating animals as one of the most natural and beautiful things in my life.
You’re missing another variable here. In your case it may just be the thermal interface material (TIM) isn’t doing a good job of transferring the heat from the processor onto the heat sinks that the fan blows over.

I’ve had temperature drops of over 15 degrees c by opting for Liquid Metal, everything else being same.
I think we've had our fill of "states rights".
Why are people putting a phone number on things to be shipped? I never understood this, and I've never gotten a call or a text about a package. So in recent years I've taken to putting bogus phone numbers when a site insists on one. I still get all my packages.
Isn't this the entire sales pitch of Beano?
> There was a reason putting your cursor on a progress bar to track whether it was moving was a thing.

The reason it's not a thing today is because those progress bars got replaced by spinners and "infinite progress bars". At least back then you had a chance to learn or guess how long slow operations would take. These days, users are considered too dumb to be exposed to such "details".
> From my experience, the benefit of Markdown is that it eliminates the need for WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG is awful to work with.

For most users, the opposite is true. They understand WYSIWYG well and that is how most things work.

For developers, WYSIWYG is difficult because it is usually tightly coupled to very complex formats which require very complex data structures to represent. Markdown seems an nice, limited format that would make for a nicer, saner WYSIWYG for developers (except the inline HTML part of the spec).
Always interesting when Sanjay Ghemawatt has his name on a paper…

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593856.3595909
Is a little bit of umami taste really a significant part of your quality of life? When other parts go or die (health, friends, meaning), one can easily realize how little that actually matters for one's happiness.
Coming up, trolleys with eye trackers
In the past when someone asked for something impossible, I offered up the closest possible work arounds, and let them choose. I give them all the detail they need (but no more) to understand what the limitations are if they ask why it's impossible.

They have jobs to do, that were possible before things got automated, they should remain possible afterwards.
What happens when the roundtrip time isn't consistent?
My 2000 Ranger has just about all of those. Those clearly aren't the features that are causing QC issues in 2023 models.
I use SteelSeries Exactmouse for years. It seems the most reliable.
Stone: Dropbox's Language to Define APIs
I remember a HP machine (@600Mhz) which my company bought circa 2001 that came with an install CD that had both NT 4.00 and Windows 2000 and the user could decide to install the one or the other, a few machines had initially NT 4.00 due to some accounting software that did not run (for whatever reasons) on Windows 2000, while some had 2K installed.

Of course the NT 4.0 was a bit faster, but not that much with "common" programs (Office and similar).

The occupation on disk of the OS was however 3x (NT 4.00 was around 180 MB, 2K around 650 MB).
They use it to define their developer API, https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-api-spec
Even if it was clearly against the law, the most they'd probably get is a letter in the mail from the government that says "Pretty please, with sugar on top, could you write us a letter telling us at least that you will try to break the law less?" The US treats lawbreaking megacorps with kid gloves.
I'm sorry, this is propaganda. These animals have not lived happy, full lives, and the mixed farming is about using their excrement. Nothing to do with animal well being.
I have a few Anker cables that seem to be fairly durable. The C2Cs and C2lightnings have lasted for years at this point. Whatever come with the Pixel phones are also okay. My A2Cs are all fairly old, too, mostly brand-less, but still working.
Dear estebank, even the nicest words cannot convince anyone to eat less, drive less or anything of sorts.

I am venting. The things I complain about have been bugging me for decades and I am under no illusion that my occasional rants can change anything, nicely worded or abrasive.
Do realize that you are a justifying these late-in-the-contractual obligation parts being expensive because they might have to provide the parts for a long time?

If the fact that they will have to provide them for a long time is the reason for a high cost, then that is why they charged $300 per trash can back in the day. That cannot also be the justification for $56k per trash can today. It's a circular argument.
Funny you mention fish; there’s no such thing! So is a cigarette a fish? Might as well be. [0]

You have quoted the fact, which is the definition of the Gish gallop. Your opinion is that it does not apply here, and I disagree. You do not hold authority over how to interpret English, so you cannot therefore declare factually that I am wrong, only that you disagree.

As for taking something seriously or not, that’s got nothing to do with right or wrong; you need credibility to be considered, and without credibility the “rightness” of your argument never makes it to evaluation. Happens all the time in the legal world [1], and certainly not at all related to the innate properties of the person who makes the argument.

[0] https://www.techinsider.io/fish-do-not-exist-2016-8

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/on_the_merits
It's starting to look like github is slowly arriving to its own funeral. Lots of pointless site changes that hide or change location of important functionality. New twitter like feed that tries to recommend you all sort of crap you don't care about and now this. It's shame as github actions is not half bad.
I’m vegetarian and I’m the same, I guess I don’t really see it as food and I don’t have any desire to eat it
It's amazing that if you had a site where 3rd parties uploaded copyright materials for download you would be held responsible.

But Amazon can freely and in great measure host counterfeit trade mark infringing goods for sale and profit from it.
VentureBeat also just published an article on React Jam:
https://venturebeat.com/games/react-announces-its-first-game...
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you completely missed the relevant part with the "1999" part. The relevant part is the "2012" part.
Things used to get better, do more, and faster.
The last 15 years, the "do more" part has been less and less useful, and the "faster" part has turned into "slower" in a number of ways.
Software engineers are relying on an increase in hardware performance to pick up their slack, and that line is running out quickly, and there will be many years ahead where we're cleaning up over a decade of laziness.
My current client-issued contracting laptop has a 230W power adapter. Runs cool and silent'ish during Laravel/TypeScript webdev. JetBrains IDE barely manages to spin the fans a bit noticeable before it goes back to smooth sailing. So a 180W adapter no longer causes me to react much.

But I bet it would run pretty hot and loud if I toyed around with stable diffusion and a bunch more containers.

And then there are aboslute units like the Razor Blade 18 with 330W power adapter: https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-18 (13th gen i9 with RTX 4090)
Misunderstood or intentionally misapplied "wisdom" like "premature optimisation is the root of all evil".

Programmer comfort, unified frameworks, higher level languages over user experience.

Focus on end users instead of professional users.

Stupider programmers and programming through "good enough", "everyone can code" and "salaries are too high, hire someone cheaper".

Computers getting cheaper, therefore users buying new machines to run software faster, instead of programmers trying to get stuff running fast on current hardware.
Even if it isn't we are very good at filtering materials from exhaust gasses. Something like a wet electrostatic precipitator is probably overkill, but would do the job without having to care about magnetic properties.
A trash can is slightly less essential to a vessel's operation than its control surface.
I just bought a high end Anker multi-port USB/PD brick and a collection of Nomad USB cables (C-C, A-C, and one that's C-C but includes C-A adaptors for both ends). To be fair, the only places I've consistently had issues with cables are the [shared] kitchen charging station the whole family uses every day (laptop, ipad, phone, watch, kindle) and in the car for Android Auto & Car Play. I've never had a cable fail on my desk. The new stuff I bought is to upgrade the brick in the kitchen with higher power delivery on multiple ports, and to replace a failing cable in my car. As a guy using a 16" MacBook Pro, having a multi-port adaptor that can adequately charge the laptop while also charging a phone is helpful.
This is great! The example page on official d3 is a bit dated and certainly has "grown" over time. I also particular don't like that d3 is too much of a "one tool for everything" approach. I.e. the data calculations and the drawings shouldn't be done in the same framework (thats were React comes into play).

My biggest pet peeve with D3 is the lack of TypeScript friendly-ness. I not only mean the lack of official typescript .d.ts bindings, but the API itself is completely not designed for strict typing. Functions are heavily overloaded/polymorphic, take all sort of different types of parameter shapes, and change their return values on what is passed in etc. My experience was always, once I got my code "properly" typed, the next update of the .d.ts bindings would break again, and this would repeat every couple of weeks.
Would you believe that this topic is actually more complicated and nuanced than it seems based on this clickbait headline?

If anyone wants to see a proper non bullshit breakdown explanation of this topic from professionals I would highly recommend this video:

How Procurement Destroys Armies - Requirements, Risks & Development gone wrong https://youtu.be/bBQVR4epfBQ
If we were speculating what UIs will look like in the future and came up with something good, why wouldn't we just do them right now? As soon as you do it's inherently no longer "the future."
IME Anker cables didn't work that well with frame.work throwing it into a power negotiation(?) loop. Basically udev was eating 100% of a cpu switching to and from battery if it were to discharge below 80%.

Apple macbook air cables have been rock solid though.
I think if the subsidies for meat are stopped or reduced this becomes much more interesting - kind of like synthetic fuel is stupid today, but when most cars are EVs synthetic fuel becomes a good idea for car enthusiasts.
180W isn't as bad as it seems. I have an ASUS Zephyrus 14, which ships with a 180W charger (and has a full Ryzen 9 5900HS + GeForce RTX 3060, 40GB of RAM) -- under normal use, it doesn't get particularly hot at all. (it never draws more than ~60ish watts)

If you stress-test everything to the max (Turbo Mode CPU+GPU, max power draw, while playing a game at 120fps) then yes, you can draw 150+ watts and it's too hot to safely have on your lap. But you can set it on a table and still use it comfortably. (The keyboard/trackpad never gets hot)

Notably, being able to choose which mode you want anytime is super useful. (I can turn this into a respectable gaming rig at a moment's notice, and it weighs less than a 16' MacBook Pro. I can also flip a switch and it's basically an ultrabook with 7 hours of battery life and silent fans -- or I can run it all day off a tiny 65watt USB-C charger in the office in that mode)

Having a high-watt charger means you have the option to use that electricity, not that you are required to do so.
Braided USB cables are robust in my experience, you might try those. With respect to DC barrel jacks, it's a mixed bag. My old ASUS Eeepc had the barrel jack get loose and make poor connections after about a year or two and I've heard others say they had the same sort of problem. On the other hand I've never seen nor heard of a thinkpad's DC barrel jack failing in any way. Those have a tight snap fit even after 15+ years of rough use.

I hate to blame the user, but if all cables are failing then maybe you're being too rough with them? I hate to suggest that because I've had cables fail despite receiving no abuse; Apple's old magsafe cables were notorious for this and the fanboys even more notorious for always blaming the user. It's possible you've had bad luck with cables and weren't mistreating any of them. It has been my experience that some cables deteriorate despite not being abused, but other cables put up with a lot of abuse.
I too have delved into a variety of fancy geometries for roguelike, rts, etc. And still do.

My friends tell me, "no. Just use square grids. Nobody's brain wants to process that stuff. It's too complicated".

But I'm still looking. Maybe the hyperbolic. There are definitely advantages. It beautifully combines the efficiencies of top down view and wide-view perspective.

Maybe it could be rendered more prettily.
Buy name brand cables from places like Cablematters, Belkin, Monoprice, Anker, Club3D, etc.
/r/DPH is a bleak and troubling place. Seems to almost exclusively be teenagers, a lot of them fully aware how neurotoxic this drug can be, but it seems like loads of them are taking it every day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DPH/comments/y1bu65/took_too_much_f...

/r/trees is full of teenagers too but they generally aren't ending up in the hospital. There are kids posting on /r/DPH about their daily hallucinations and are being pointed to /r/HPPD - kids!
Perhaps they’re better than sugar, but so far isn’t the science showing them to be also detrimental?

After quitting soda and sweetened beverages for a while, my tastes adjusted and now soda of any sort is insipidly sweet and syrupy. Basically the entire history of humanity was spent drinking unsweetened beverages, all of a sudden our species can’t abide to drink plain water?
> MS owns Bethesda now so the next generation of Elder Scrolls and Fallout will be Xbox exclusive.

nah. those franchises will die if that happens, esp. since modding and community is a big part of their continued success.
I thought the thing to optimize for is "largest contentful paint", which is one of the weighted factors used by https://pagespeed.web.dev/
GPTrolley
I think many commenters here are unaware of exactly how forehead-slappingly WTF it is that these lawyers did. Even if ChatGPT were replaced with a well respected human legal expert saying exactly the same things, they still cited case law that they couldn't verify the existence of, let alone that the context of the ruling was actually helpful to their cause.

Then when a judge told them "hey, we can't find any of these cases, what the hell is going on?" they doubled down. They're basically saying "trust me bro, these rulings totally happened and they totally say we're right".
It's not a euphemism for corruption.

Quite literally a bank is not required to make you a business account. A bank is not required to give your business a loan. The list goes on.

SVB was much more willing to do things other banks wouldn't for startups; this is what people mean.

Now, there are a bunch of claims that SVB gave startup founders discounts on personal mortgages for having their business accounts there. This is just gravy on top of the fact that SVB may have been the only bank to accept the business account anyways.
Building an ML Training Pipeline with MinIO and Kubeflow v2.0
You just need to eat beans for two weeks - then your flora is used to it and you don't fart (in my experience).

Will go away if you stop eating beans though.
Thought it was going to be about a decked out Mac Pro!
If you're back to relying on the same verifier, what does switching to WASM accomplish? I don't understand your "tech curve" point at all. If Rust programs compiled to WASM had to be BPF-verified, you'd be in exactly the same tooling pain you are now with eBPF. The hard part of writing eBPF programs isn't eBPF bytecode, which nobody uses (virtually all eBPF is either C or Rust now), it's passing the verifier.
The main related subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/

They've put in a significant amount of effort. Most of the guesses in this HN thread have been debunked already.
Whenever I read these type of news I am reminded of how many animals are tortured this way for science... poor creatures, I get there's not a better solution but still.
This means that either you don't get to see what your document is going to look like while you write it, or you have two copies of the document open at the same time (one showing the preview) and move your eyes between them, and neither feels good.
You have a gap in your understanding of the physics here. Even a 400W laptop can be cool to the touch.

A laptop is hot to the touch because it has hot components (eg a processor running at full throttle) and fails to dissipate that heat correctly.

That is mostly divorced from it's power consumption.

If you ran a large robotic arm off your laptop, you'd be using a lot of watts but making only a bit of heat.
I have been saying this for a decade. Technology is getting worse as a whole. Hardware is continuing to improve, but the software is getting worse at a faster rate, making the overall product suck more.

One of the reasons is the whole "software is a gas" thing. As long as there is faster hardware, more memory, more storage, software will get slower, more bloated, and take up more space, just because a gas always fills its container.

But another reason is there's more people in tech who don't know what they're doing. More people who took a bootcamp and jumped into a job, or came from some other career and barely know how to use a computer, never used Linux/UNIX. Some newer roles have very specific niches, where they don't know much about tech, and then they're asked to write code, which they have almost no idea how to do. I've recently worked with colleagues who were contributing code, and getting in the way of building the product, who shouldn't have been within 10 miles of an IDE. And when the senior developers don't know how environment variables work, I weep.
I don’t really know, but it might be okay for them to not focus on that knowledge.
Could be anything from a SPA that has to be reloaded entirely to loading a ton of 3rd party JS to work with all those login with options.
I think, the most important factor isn't so much the CPU, but loading binaries from disk. And that (I/O) improved quite massively over the 1990s. (And anything written for spinning disks will start nearly instantly using solid state storage.)

To illustrate the CPU/disk-access ratio: There's a reason for scripting languages becoming prevalent for web backends in the 1990s. Loading a script source from disk and precompiling it on the fly was still faster than loading a much bigger binary from disk – which had to be done on each CGI request. (E.g., with Perl, you could have your normal script, but you could also produce an executable binary from a core. But nobody did the latter for the exact reason.)
We've made it pretty abstract, so it should play nicely with langchain etc. We're all open-source and using open protocols like OpenAPI.

You make a good point though. We should write a langchain plugin to our API.
The point of bringing it up is because one of the natural questions is "why did we stop doing controlled burns?". If you don't address this, people will think there was a good reason when, in this case, it doesn't seem like there was.