skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point is exactly you can block because blocking is cheap with virtual thread and can have 100's of thousand block calls with exhausting all system resources. VT takes few KBs of memory instead of few MBs of memory, so plentiful of VT is a feature. With this one can write plain blocking code get benefit of async scalability but with simple APIs structure and debuggable sync code.
> Not mentioned in TFA is that the owner saturated everything with water prior to evacuating. Note his large yard full of vegetation didn't catch fire, that alone put a huge buffer zone on that side of his house.

The article says the owner was was in Massachusetts during the fire. So not sure how the owner saturated everything??
Executive Function Theft
A mirror resilver is a relatively linear and sequential rewrite, so its very fast. Raidz resilvers require lots of random reads and writes across all the drives, and requires waiting for all drives to read data before it can be written to the replaced drive - "herding cats" sounds appropriate here.
IIRC you don't even buy them they're all subscription based.
We had the forest service roll up and spray gell on our roof. If I was still there I would buy some.
When I entered college, my first Pascal course was on an SVR3 Unix system, and I read every manpage that I can find, because it was fantastic that I had access to that. Previously, I had read every shred of documentation of the Commodore 65xx systems, which generously included every technical detail possible. I mean, I had basically started on this in fifth grade. Reading manuals is how I gained my technical literacy.
I didn't say that. The question was, what's the difference between the relationships between the Nazis and the contemporary nation of Germany, and the Americans who committed crimes of imperialism in the 20th century and the contemporary nation of America. That's the difference.
This article claims "Millikin, who was on a trip to Massachusetts during the Lahaina fire", not that he evacuated. Perhaps a different fire? (Edit: thanks for the other article link; misunderstanding that someone who evacuated from the home wasn't the owner makes sense)

From the wider angle shot[1], there's some other nearby land with small greenery and no structures that also appears mostly unburnt. (On the left hand side, on the other side of what looks like a major road). Perhaps the other land was also saturated with water, or perhaps the absence of large trees made it hard to catch or some other reason.

> Also I'll never understand why asphalt shingles are so popular, metal is better in every way.

Metal roofs cost more, can be more dangerous to work on (making anything else that happens on the roof more expensive), significantly louder in rain and hail. They certainly have the potential of lasting longer and they're more difficult to ignite.

[1] https://d1l18ops95qbzp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/2023/08/111...
No, the B-21 is generally considered to be a flying wing.
Mom's house in Butte county was built around 1985 up to whatever California building standards existed at the time. The first owners weren't mechanically included but appeared to have a mix of professional repairs where it mattered and confused DIY otherwise. What helped saved the structure were American city habits of high-water lawns and pushing back the wildland-urban interface.

Coober Pedy is a completely subterranean town around the opal mines. These days (not in AU), I'm looking at semi-underground housing structures to cut heating and cooling costs and avert some classes of risks associated with conventional housing. 40-45 C summers for 4 months & -10 C winters will increasingly become too expensive for conventional structures. Plus, there's wind, hail, lightning, tornadic, and wildfire risks to consider. Flooding isn't a problem if building on high ground.
I managed a group of very intelligent programmers with the highest clearance available, including taking polygraphs regularly.

They know it's just part of the system, and the routine.

These folks have a slightly different mindset, and, I think, view procedures as important to weed out people who might cut corners, lean into their ego (how dare they make ME take a polygraph), or be careless with information. A nice side effect of this process is it selects for humility, openness, and conscientiousness.

And they view the work they do as hugely important for the security of their nation. Including those who laugh at them for their chosen profession.

They were some of the most professional, conscientious, diligent, and excellent technologists I've ever worked with. Definitely on par with anyone at FAANGs or startups that I've work in.
F-16s already touched down in Ukraine – Head of Ukraine's Air Force
That is not the same thing as systematically eradicating the institutions of power that allowed the atrocity to happen.
If you follow Qnap you may be aware of their security nightmare in recent years.

And HERO OS is only available on the Enterprise range of NAS, not even Prosumer class NAS.
Astronomers just saw a star eat a planet (May 2023)
See if you can turn on EPR where it lets off the pressure during an exhale.
Syntax matters.

Sure, you can learn to read and write what superficially looks like line noise, but the market has spoken: very few people want to.

Look at the success of Tensorflow and PyTorch. They’re also tensor / array programming systems. They’re wildly popular, with at least two orders of magnitude more users each than all array languages put together.

The difference is that they’re built on top of Python, which is famously user-friendly in its syntax.

More importantly: they were parallel and GPU-accelerated from the beginning.

What’s the point of an array-based language if it’s slower and harder to write than the equivalent in mainstream languages!?

Their current niche of “quants analysing time-series data” is tiny and shrinking all the time.

There was even a chap here advocating the speed and terseness of his preferred array-based language.

Meanwhile the equivalent in Rust was something like a thousand times faster and not much longer!

Array-based languages have been infected by a particular style largely unique to certain types of mathematicians: brevity over clarity, obscure syntax over English, idioms instead of identifiers, etc…

They’ll never be popular while they remain purposefully niche, appealing only to the type of developer that uses single-character file names: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363844
Well most people think in words, so very clearly they should have influence on the way we think. Nearly all of us have thought aloud or produced thoughts while thinking. But some 1 in 5 or 1 in 4 people do not have inner speech. It would be hard to argue that speech dictates thoughts if one does not think in words (but this does not exclude influence).

As far as I'm aware, the question isn't about if the weak SW exists, but how much influence language exerts on thoughts. I'd be surprised if it was close to zero but I would also be surprised if it was above 50% (whatever percent means here).
People in the cities with "normal" yards are not thinking about wildfires, not being contacted about it.

I think they were referring to people in the middle of nowhere, where yard work is more like forestry work. Every year I get some mail from the state about taking a class to learn how to manage my land/trees. It touches on healthy forests and fires. Areas more like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zPqNbX4142vobyMP7
Love to see noise cameras all over the world.

Even more, similar to air pollution maps, it would be great to have noise pollution map, at least over cities.
>Note his large yard full of vegetation didn't catch fire, that alone put a huge buffer zone on that side of his house.

I kept waiting for someone else to notice this.

There is clearly more to the story here.
AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge
I remember when I was a kid, I really wanted Converse All-Star shoes. My Mom said “no,” and that was that.

Oh, I should mention that I survived the remarks about my K-Mart knock-off’s. I didn’t like it, but oh well.

Kids don’t need iPhones. They just want them. “No” is a very good answer.
Exploits.
I'm especially interested in how much damage ChatGPT has done these authors.
WHy would we need the entire grid to be back up to not starve though. Obviously we would prioritize things and critical infrastructure would be first. What would actually be damaged though. WOuld an individual generator, batteries, actual appliances? Is it just transformers on the grid. Are the wires still good. Also would it hit the entire world, or just the side that was facing the sun at the peak or something?
They spend similar %GDP as the US does on military on their own internal security. Huge money sink.
They develop them in-house.
> The 6502 was great for it's economy and simplicity. But it wasn't some architectural marvel compared to it's peers.
The evidence from dual language speakers (primed language changing the task performance) suggests it is in fact about the language spoken - these are actual controlled experiments.

Small effect sizes and not super interesting effects IMO unless you're doing deep neuroscience stuff on memory and attention, but it's pretty clear language plays a role.
Panama Canal Has Become a Traffic Jam of the Seas
Where would they put the code to do this? How would it function if Cellebrite put devices in a Faraday cage before transport?
Specifically, Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs)
I’m paying spotify $15 a month or whatever to manage my playlist. That’s an advertised part of the value proposition.
Hollywood recently came up with something called a "reboot". It's where they take a movie that was successful in the past, and remake it with modern actors.
Flash mobs invade luxury L.A. retailers with brute force, overwhelming numbers
I have wondered if there are matches between different people in DNA databases and, if so, how often is happens.
I'm interested in niacin, especially for it's effects on lowering LPa, which it seems to be one of the few ways to do so. However, I thought the common concern is that it promotes insulin resistance. Even though it seems to be a bit of a miracle drug for cholesterol numbers, on paper, it's effects on actual longevity are non-existent, proposed to be due to the IR. Have you read otherwise?
Maybe, but I don't play video games, and I had heard of Henry Stickmin. The only reason I was interested in Among Us is because I knew it was the Henry Stickmin creator.
> It saddens me that the Lord of The Rings was commercialised.

You might note that the author worked hard with Allen & Unwin to have it printed and offered for sale.

If you have the official ‘60s paperbacks from Bellentine you’ll see the back cover is a letter from Tolkien complaining of the unauthorized Ace editions and telling you you should buy only the authorized editions (Ballantine or Houghton Mifflin).

It’s been commercial since the day it first went into print.
And yet people vote in politicians who back it.

More basic issues clearly need to be addressed before politicians can repeal rent control and still get reelected.
https://archive.is/OiYcX
On the whole it's negative. The more it's done the poorer we all become. And any indirect benefit (preventing infidelity or gambling through distraction/destruction) is so unreliable it's not a functional framework for progress.
Not enough IPs, and HTTP has the "Host:" header which decouples the IP from a domain.
That would be incredibly wasteful. It can use many IPs per host when using geographically local endpoints, and relatively few customers are large enough to need IPs to themselves.
One wonders if planned obsolescence is just economic value being "created" by more windows being broken.
to sibling:

> They were some of the most professional, conscientious, diligent, and excellent technologists I've ever worked with. Definitely on par with anyone at FAANGs or startups that I've work in.

such a shame they choose the most absolute evil actor to use those qualities for. which brings me to

> conscientious

yeah.... I think its pretty much impossible not to know what evil lives openly in those places
How a WWI Biplane Works [video]
Not cheap! Just checking on Trade-A-Plane and they're like $1.3m USD on the low end :/ https://www.trade-a-plane.com/filtered/search?s-type=aircraf...

A 2021 DA40 with Garmin glass is around $625K https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+...
Enough to get the votes, apparently!
The BTRFS raid1 feature is very badly named, its best called two-copy. Skipping some details, two copies of data are written to the two drives with the most free space. So you can have multiple mismatched drives.

However you get no striping, and data is only read from one drive, so performance is limited to that of one drive for reads and writes. Plus with mismatched drives, smaller drives go unused unless you write enough data.
This. Old fogey over here too, and I would have stopped listening to any new music 15 years ago had it not been for streaming and recommendation algorithms.
Can I also interpret this as: 'AMD's pytorch support is so abysmal that inference is 10x slower than it should be'?
The treatment of Sam (and the Sam/Frodo friendship) in Return of the King movie, and the treatment of Faramir as a character. I kind of get what they were going for, it just went way too far overboard imo and probably shouldn't have even been attempted. I'm assuming a bit of knowledge in the unpacking of these below for brevity but hopefully it is not too unclear for those who may have only watched the movies.

In the books, Faramir was pretty much the one redeemable part of the house of stewards. Yes, the ring may be tempting, but I think that was already sufficiently shown throughout earlier moments in the movies and there was no need to throw Faramir under the bus. He was already a relatively minor character in the books, why do him dirty like that? Everyone, both the characters in the book and the readers outside the book, looked up to him. One of his men broke a rule (punishable by death) to save him in the books and from the context you can imagine most of his reports would have done the same, but if all you knew of him was what you saw in the movies, it gives a very different impression. He came around in the end but at the very least he should have done the right thing sooner than he did in the movies.

As far as the Sam (and Frodo) thing goes, admittedly it's been a year or two since the last time I read the trilogy and it's easy to confuse the books/movie in my memory, but I don't remember seeing any signs of contention between them the way it was shown in the movie, and certainly if there was, it was not even close to the same degree. Among other things, I think the movie was trying to show the darker side of the ring's effects, but again, it's already been shown multiple times throughout the movies and they just went overboard with it. Frodo pretty much had the highest trust for Sam (even in the movies this is basically true outside this incident), and would Sam really give up and abandon Frodo that easily because of a few crumbs? Tangentially, I don't remember Sam being particularly cruel to gollum in the books, and that's really the root of this breach of trust in the movies. That entire aspect of Sam shouldn't have been there to begin with, and if it wasn't, the staircase scene would also make no sense to show that way.

The reason I find these two particularly inexcusable is that I simply don't see how they added much to the movies in terms of story or character development. There's an argument for it but it's just weak imo, Tolkien had it figured out just fine thank you very much. I also don't see how it would have helped in terms of budget, reducing film length, etc. I can excuse other omissions or slightly weird things if there are budget/time constraints, you can't reasonably ask for the impossible, I just don't see it in those two cases.
Article felt off to me. Was curious about author, not much on his site. Then this: https://cris-italia.medium.com/seth-simons-is-not-a-journali...

Explains what I picked up
Most of it is pretty toxic, so might not be my first defense, depending.
401 then 200 is part of kerberos/ntlm. You can watch it if you use curl -v

401 indicates it should send it's kerberos ticket.

Kerberos verifies it should send a ticket, then sends it.

200 cause you are now authenticated.
That's the question I'm asking myself too. I live in Seattle, where you can't walk two blocks without seeing a new (wooden) residential building going up. I'm sure that newer buildings like these take more precautions than the historic ones in Lahaina, but it still makes me wonder, since Seattle isn't historically prone to wildfires.
Not that bad, it is underlayed by thick felt.
Conan has been cringe and terrible since he got a TV show. He wrote a few decent Simpsons episodes.
It's really simple. It's a big ship with a small rudder. And maybe you're the best but you're just one guy. There's hundreds of thousands of people invested in the ship, you can try to push the rudder but you're going to hit resistance no matter what.
> Now i have to make sure I watch a channels playlists because I wind up in Hitler territory every other video if I don't.

Godwin's law
>How cool would it be if we had a great GUI for ZFS (snapshots, volume management, etc.)

I believe that was something built into the file manager in OpenSolaris, and then into illumos OS's. OpenIndiana has it in their file manager within their themed MATE desktop environment.
Ok, so I assume they have a short life. I worked on the exploits business for other platforms/apps and you need to invest a lot for finding one. Once they are alive and 0-day discovered the vendor fix them.

I assume the advantage here is the Apple difficulty to access these devices?
Definitely. It has been my goto for white|brown|pink noise for a year now. Even the animation on the terminal looks a bit like "waves". [1]

Could you please share any other examples of commands?

[1] https://ibb.co/GVG0Rdf
He filmed all three together, not the second two. That makes it even more insane, especially at the time when no one had done this and fantasy movies were far out of vogue.
Not gonna lie... Pro-renter policies in my state definitely dissuade me from renting. It's scary to think you might not be able to get your house back from a dishonest renter without going to hell and back.
Why "same day" and not same week or month? If it's not the same instant, then you're hypothesizing some kind of back-propagation (where alternate futures in which you die influence the likelihood of current events)[0]. Under that hypothesis, it would only matter whether some event would cause you to die sooner than you otherwise would.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919

[edit] FWIW, I actually corresponded with one of the authors of this paper back in 2007, and from what I could tell, this wasn't an attempt at parody, although now it might be dismissed as one. Personally I'm not willing to declare my (non)commitment to the theory either way.
It's way dumber than a PR stunt.

Plenty of Signal users live in totalitarian dictatorships, where the law doesn't care if you're actually guilty. Even in democracies you can't always rely on the courts. "We're planting incriminating evidence on your phone" should lead to mass uninstall of Signal.

Except nobody really believes they did that. Signal would be banned from all App Stores, and moxie would go to jail on so many charges. It's one of those nerd law ideas where 'you can't 100% prove it' is the golden defence except it isn't really - the law can call a bluff, especially when millions of users and multiple app stores already did. It says reasonable doubt, not any doubt.
I've found digital works to often display more creativity than non-digital ones. My pet theory is that digital tools remove so many constraints over traditional mediums: infinite undo, no color mixing, a full chromatic palette, "liquify", layers, etc. that artists have more room to experiment.

Finding a balance between tradition and novelty is perhaps the most comfortable position: tradition brings experience accumulated over many lifetimes, it's foolish to reject it. But it's equally unwise to systematically reject novelty either.
What on earth is this linked piece? Bizarre behavior.
Most probably care more about their families and irreplaceable heirlooms than their houses. Houses can be rebuilt. Insurance exists now (but maybe not for much longer).

Most (but not all) Americans are intensely ignorant, and some are proud of it for tribal reasons. I know because I visited Paradise in 2018 and lived there 2019-2020. Not a single person I met amongst thousands took even partial personal responsibility for losing their structure: it was all somebody else's fault or an act of divine intervention.
It isn't that it isn't bad, it is that it is not a rare event.
> To be clear, I have always sort of assumed that Lorne Michaels is a crazy asshole who I would not enjoy spending time with. However, my strong suspicion that he's also a savant at picking talent has been repeatedly reinforced by listening to Dana Carvey and David Spade talk to former castmates on their Fly on the Wall podcast. (which is great listening, btw)

But from Fly On The Wall (yes, a great podcast), you also learn that Lorne is not actually an asshole. He's intimidating, cold, unapproachable, and sometimes snarky, but I don't think a single story on that podcast casts him as actually mean. In fact, a lot of them say how Lorne picked them up when they were down, with just a few on-point words. Like, when Dana Carvey was worried he wouldn't be able to get back into the game after a long slump, Lorne simply said to him: "Dana... everybody knows you." And that gave him the confidence boost he needed.
...then you'll need to use a slightly less convenient way to pay? Not sure what you're angling at here.
Let's not mention the Mitsubishi Pajero.
The argument seems more “is this the guy we want running the plurality of American comedy” not “what do we want Lorne Michaels to do?”
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 – What we learn from it?
Considering many of my prints are multi day, this is just silly. I can’t stay home for days. I put my printer in a place where it’s free to burn completely. Any other way is not safe. Safety is about prevention, not attention.
Maybe those aging homeowners in San Jose, CA with Prop 13 or recent transplants with lots of cash who buy them out, but is that the majority of homeowners in America? I think not.
While I mostly agree, it’s hard for me to imagine a better adaptation of LOTR than Peter Jackson’s trilogy. Last I checked, 3/3 are in the top ~15 movies of all time on IMDb! It isn’t perfect, but it’s damn close.
> https://game.ci

I don't recommend it.

Game CI has been in development for a long time. It only really supports GitHub Actions. It can't correctly build il2cpp Unity projects. The licenses needed to run it are more expensive than Unity Build Automation / Unity Cloud Build. If you want to automate Unity builds and you don't want to learn the Windows Containers ecosystem, Jenkins and/or Tekton, you should use Unity's service.

CI/CD is a bad choice for most developers, on most platforms, for most clients. That said, it makes sense to do for your backends.

> or (as has happened to us with different game web service/API/middleware providers) they may choose to abruptly deprecate the service upon which you built.

Which service was that? GameSparks? That sucks.

> with inappropriate cloud dev tooling

Well everyone takes their own journey to discover how shitty Lambda, Cognito, CloudFormation and related are.

> with basically any datastore other than Redis you will run in to issues matchmaking

Matchmakers do not have to be complicated.
His voice is very personal and very unlike the standard writing on SNL.

At first I couldn't figure out why he was cast. But once he started doing his material on Weekend Update about his own life, it was clear that he brought something new and different.