skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all too common for narratives like these, i.e., "It's god's will" or "a miracle", because it allows people to dismiss their part of being unprepared since external locus-of-control frees them of the responsibilities of blame and agency. There are no "miracle homes", only preparedness and probability.

In the 2018 Camp Fire, my mom's home was the only one left standing on the block because due to multiple factors:

- Lack of fuel (including trees and debris) adjacent to the structure(s)

- Proper building codes ensuring use of less flammable products

- Distance of setbacks around the structure(s)

- Almost an acre / 4k [m^2] of irrigated lawn on all sides

Firefighters may have helped, but it's difficult to say because there was zero information for months. * When residents were allowed to return, 3 360L plastic wheelie bins were reduced to 1m diameter / 4mm high "puddles" by radiant heating alone. An outdoor shed built like a residential structure was reduced to a toxic crater, including melting steel tools into nothing. 2/3 of a cord of firewood burned near the back leaving a 2" / 5 cm discolored divot in aggregate concrete. Half of an aluminum ladder was left like it had hit lava. Embers left charring here and there but they didn't ignite. The rain gutters were packed full of pine needles that I asked my mom's now ex to solve who kept promising but never delivering.

Also, loggers came in from all over and took trees at random from private and public property without the express consent of owners because of disaster resource harvesting since tree trunks were worth thousands each. Mostly Pacific ponderosa pines that stood since before Washington crossed the Potomac, each with 10k's of holes bored by woodpeckers getting at the damn beetles. Instead, the skyline was transformed into a haphazard, sterile moonscape construction site.

* Like Lele, there was also no alarm and the county sheriff defended his inaction and lack of preparedness. The Amber Alert system could've been used by the county sheriff or the local police department, cell phone service was never disrupted. Also, there is a canard being promulgated by the media about not using the tsunami system in Lele, which would've been pointless. I'm sure they had an Amber alert system too, but it wouldn't have made any difference because their cell phone towers and power grid crumbled almost immediately. Hawaiian officials claim they sent out text messages but the cell towers were already down while it was being sent: so too little, too late. Like Paradise, the power company in Hawaii should've known about the weather conditions and turned off the power in dry conditions with high wind.
I know that California has been burying their power lines (for wildfires).

Not sure how widespread that currently is.
Sure, I've run into this when I went to do some language implementation in Go (dumped at [0]; didn't keep up with it just because I didn't have much reason to do it in the first place). I'd prefer ADTs, but I just frowned a bit and used interfaces. Your strong feelings here aren't because this is objectively inconvenient but because you think it's something you shouldn't have to put up with. If there's a factor you're missing—not saying there is—it's that types aren't supposed to tell the whole story in Go and it's fine to have data that's not fully described by a type.

I don't believe in a single "the light" to be seen. I know something you don't (the ability to create your own array DSL gives you none of the advantages of a particular array DSL developed over decades of hard work), you know something I don't. Go's popular because it got stuff right that other languages in the space like Dart and Swift missed.

[0] https://gist.github.com/mlochbaum/a7c0dcd482bd07f39fffc3332f...
If you make the wavs you can put them on any playback device you like.
Heavy mass walls will keep all but the lowest noises from entering the room from outside, but it will also prevent the energy from your speakers or instruments from leaving the room, causing the room to ring at various modal frequencies.

You can absorb high-end and most mid-range frequencies using broadband absorbers on the wall and ceiling, but they're ineffective at capturing low-end. Treating the low end requires a different strategy.

The most effective solution for absorbing low-end in the room will be limp-mass membrane absorbers that are tuned to the lowest room modes. They'll be up to 18" thick, but they are by far the most efficient way to keep the low-end from ringing inside of your room.
Scrubbing helps fix random errors in the drive data, but it won't prevent correlated disk failure. If a drive fails during the scrub, then you still have to replace the disk, and it's still very likely that another disk can fail in that time. If you just want to eliminate lemons, then you can do a burn-in test before adding it to your array, but IMO even bad disks usually don't fail that quickly.
I think you're thinking of the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The strong version is that language dictates how one thinks while the weak form influences. The weak version is near universally accepted and it should be fairly easy to see why. Most people think in words, but note that not everyone does. That sentence alone should give evidence to the strong being false and the weak being true.
"Also I'll never understand why asphalt shingles are so popular, metal is better in every way."

I generally agree that metal is better, but want to point out that there are fire rated asphalt shingles, but they are rarely used unless required.
A lot of these white noise thread are not just straight up pink / white / brown noise, some of them vary with time to create more soothing effects like wave sounds or sounding like a vacuum etc.

Speaking from experience of trying anything to try get babies to sleep!
Peter Jackson got NLC to give him HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to film the second and third movies back to back. That was an amazing feat.

Cameron has now surpassed that number, almost twenty years later. But for the time that was crazy.
It seems pretty inevitable that there will eventually be a TV series style live action LOTR— in theory that should give the breathing room necessary for the story to unfold over 30-50 hours rather than 8-9.
I do think the original comment was wrong (if they tested in Automatic1111 then ... enough said about it working). However, they still have a point in warning people about AMD cards. There is more risk to these things than Nvidia:

- AMD's support is flaky. The AMD 7900 XTX is only officially supported on Windows PCs (for ROCm). On Linux PCs in my experience there is a high risk of graphics card hard lockups.

- Historically AMD has dropped support for consumer cards really quickly (I don't think they support any consumer cards from more than about 3 years ago). At some point that'll stabilise, but it is hard to tell if this is the generation that will start working long term or the next.

- AMD generally gets second class support in return from the machine learning communities. There still seems to be some chance that you'll be locked out of the latest and greatest if you go AMD.

At some point this will all probably come good and it'll be like CPUs where there is really no difference between the vendors. There is too much interest in machine learning right now for anything else to happen ... but I've been buying AMD for more than a decade now and I've been thinking that for years already. If someone is on the edge they'd be better off not getting seduced by a minor performance improvement and sticking to Nvidia cards. It is uncertain when the long term will reach us. This year? 5 years? A decade? All options where AMDs software drivers are in play.

Although AMDs graphics drivers do seem great on Linux nowadays, I like things that just work. It is a pity they got so out of position vs CUDA.
Yes, most commerce in any particular national currency is domestic. But the amount of capital reserve a treasury or central bank needs in foreign currencies scales with the percentage of their commerce that is import and export. If less than 1% of trade is with external economies, that's not too big of a deal. If 10% is, that's a huge amount of capital that has to be taken out of productive use and put towards purchasing foreign currency to stick in a vault. It doesn't have to he the majority, it just has to be a not insignificant amount to see the problem. And then any significant changes create crises like this, where a government has to scramble to purchase foreign currencies or change interest rates to adjust their currency supply, these all have impacts on the domestic economy such as inflation, deflation, unemployment etc.
That has been true, but the US military is now pivoting to confront China in the Western Pacific theater. This means an increased emphasis on fuel efficiency to boost unrefueled range.
Worth noting that article is from 2013, the year the pattern was decoded, which was two years after the building was finished.
Yes, assuming you can get access to one. Do you think Cellebrite would knowingly sell one to Apple?
Will that be significant 15 years from now? I imagine most work by then using 3d models that aren't based on any particular person, to avoid license fees. I can't imagine this strike ending with one-time payments for perpetual license to use actors' likenesses. However, even royalties based on screen time of AI-generated derivatives of their likenesses won't save their jobs in the longer term.
Similar experience here, and from your name we’re either neighbors or from the same country originally. People from our region usually have some idealized fantasy about western countries. After I moved to the US I was shocked to find out that it is just as corrupt as the Balkans, just in a different way.

My pet peeve is hearing how I don’t understand corruption because I live in a functioning country now.
Car dealership is one of the few businesses I know where I've heard more than one instance of the owners being effectively held for ransom by their (single) admin, for multiple years running.
As a potential heir to the stewardship, Christopher Tolkien was very much alive at the time the movies were being made and was famously opposed to a lot of the artistic choices being made.
64-bit Windows can't use 16-bit executables. 32-bit Windows can.
certainly true, also the increase in vocabulary effects how we explain and remember things.
When we recall things, we try to describe them in words and how we describe it helps in re-remembering things. If we do not have enough vocab to describe certain event we cannot interpret to someone no matter how clearly it is stamped in our memory. And this consequently effects us how we remember things while we revised it in our words.
> you are forced to map multiple UIDs in the child namespace to the same UID in the parent

Is that really a limit or just a thing for convenience?

I don't think besides 0 in namespace being the actual user in the actual system as a good convenience, that there is any "need" for pids per root-pid, and even if that happened it would save "root-pids".

And I find it unlikely as of now that a system would reach the 16-bit limits of running more that 65000 applications on a single system without hitting some other limit like /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max or /proc/sys/fs/file-max first.
I doubt that they are in there by design. Ascribing (or implying through framing) malicious intent to an object of criticism is very trendy these days as audiences are eager for justifications to destroy and rebuild various systems.

In computer science (a field I am admittedly only tangentially knowledgeable in) there is a process called 'garbage collection' in which portions of a zero-sum resource base (memory) are periodically freed up by removing the unused/underutilized processes so that the primary program or series of programs can use them to accomplish a directed task.

One would imagine that if electoral politics truely was designed maliciously it would have some similar function, yet we have the opposite in the form of various social safety nets which actively seek to prevent this.

Humanity most frequently seeks to do good. We fail, surely, but we strive nonetheless.
What really worries me is whether this impulse will doom us in the lifeboat of the climate-ravaged future...
But that's a topic for another day :)
I can't believe FoxTrot is still going.
Note that fire can and does compromise concrete structures anyways, and more crucially, concrete structures tend to be significantly more expensive to build. A standard wood frame house is insanely cheap to build the structure of, and unsurprisingly, consumers tend to want to build a lot very cheaply.

Finally, there are only two types of concrete: Concrete that has cracked, and concrete that hasn't cracked yet.
Complex simple good bad code
My mnemonic to remember tar commands on Linux
Note that a camera (predictably) loses information: working exclusively from photographs can ingrain bad habits to unguided beginners. Furthermore, drawings are often simplified in various ways, stylistically, but not just: trees for instance are more believable, and more efficiently rendered, as vague masses, rather than painstakingly detailed.

For the same subject, a drawing/painting and a photograph contains similar information, but with different (lossy) filters; getting to know "artistic" filters is one thing a beginner wants to practice.

It's not a bad idea to work from photographs, it's actually very useful, and an interesting technical exercise, but one generally will want to compensate for the camera filter, so as to make the end result more appealing.

Incidentally, this[0] was posted a few hours ago, and precisely "illustrates" those points. You also have those "famous" pictures[1] demonstrating how difference focal length distort faces.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WpqmQTmnxs

[1]: https://imgur.com/gallery/kUBPKTy
I’m curious about this as well. Seems similar to Nakama [1] and they’ve got some gotchas that aren’t right up front about payment.

1. https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/
I get it. I was really into fantasy as a teenager, but now I'm on the wrong side of 35 and nonfiction is all I'm interested in. I feel like there is so much stuff that has happened in real life that fantasy seems hollow.
One has to be the ghost army wiping out all impact and meaning from the mortals’ battle and sacrifice in the Return of the King.

I’m in the camp that the quality and faithfulness in Peter Jackson’s movies were an insanely improbable miracle—lightning in a bottle that we should be thankful happened once and you could never hope to capture again. But I’m still flabbergasted at the decision to make the ghost army omnipotent. They were so thoughtful with everything else, especially the changes they made—you can see this clearly in the behind-the-scenes discussion. So what in the world happened here?
Slate is nice, but you've got to make sure your roof can support the weight. In the USA, most homes can't handle it unless they were built with that in mind. I wish I had a slate roof!
It is for instance interesting to see Gaiman’s adaptations before and after he basically had a blank check from studios.

Stardust is… okay. Cute. I need a new Neverwhere. Even though half the reason I gave “Vigil” a shot is because it had the Marquis as the captain.
My personal view is that SCTV was head and shoulders above SNL; shame that it only became a cult classic later.

The "3CP1" (CCCP) spoof episode with Cold War era Moscow hijacking the Melonville satellite uplink and the "Queen Haters" punk rock sketch from Mel's Rock Pile, with its prophetic "I feel sorry for you Lady Di, having a mother-in-law like that" being two of my personal favorites.
Can we count the ways...just look around the web. Start with msn and linkedin which now merrily spin in my browser but never show any content.
> Do languages have limits?

Yes.

Language is itself compression of thoughts. Thoughts themselves are compression of something larger (observations, experiences, combinations of other thoughts, etc). It seems that there is more than one very famous mathematical proof that dictates that systems such as these cannot be complete, or even consistent.
You don't sound like an asshole, but you do sound oblivious.

There are tens of millions of songs released every week. It's literally impossible to find new music you like without recommendations.

In the past, people would get recommendations from people they know. Now we have the help of algorithms. They're not perfect, but most people will find hundreds of songs from random artists they never would have listened to and their friends/family probably have never heard of.

There's no manual way to do that without spending an enormous amount of time on it (which I say as someone who did that in the 90s/00s).
Not irrational if you consider that frequently the land is worth a lot more than the house.
>The bells would go off every few hours or more for the Angelus, the start of Mass, the consecration, and the end of Mass multiple times a day.

I'm fairly sure those had practical timekeeping concerns aside from their religious values. Nobody had clocks back then, so someone had to keep track of the time and announce it far and wide.
IF != TRF

> IF: He stopped doing 3-day fasts once per month and 7-day fasts once per quarter.

> TRF/TRE: restricting the daily eating window.
Magnetic fields fall off with the inverse square law. A tiny magnet can easily be extremely powerful but it's very difficult for a huge one to be. Think of picking up a nail with a neodymium magnet and compare that with the earth's magnetic field affecting a compass needle.

The same rules apply to light. It's pretty easy to construct a light bulb with a filament which is hotter than the surface of the sun and which appears far brighter. But if you compare the sun and the light bulb at equal distances the sun is going to be brighter.
It's true everyone doing anything with infrastructure should be using Kubernetes, it's over, it has won.

But it's complicated.

Game development uses all sorts of red flags throughout all of history.

The people making successful games are talented enough to deal with the downsides of anything.

Nomad specifically is used by e.g. Roblox to orchestrate. Do I think that's a good idea? No. But it doesn't mean it can't work.

With regards to your specific criticism I don't think that stuff really matters, there are tons of people using tons of totally unsupported / unsupportable game engines, open source libraries, etc.
3" of rain in hour - will cause flooding and damage, but is not a rare event.

https://tscrestoration.com/tscnw/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/...
Let's return to a Cold War era. Supporting Ukraine in a proxy war allows us to bleed Russia to death with zero US casualties and fairly minimal expense. We're not sending them any of the really secret stuff anyway.
It makes a lot of sense to invest in a 24GB card for the right price.
Probably not different enough that you could pick one from the other without a lot of practice, but depending on what PRNG you use, there's a good chance there's repeating patterns at different frequencies in the lower bits. Take a look at the visualisation bitmaps in https://www.random.org/analysis/ - I'd guess there's enough structure in that signal to appear in the 'white noise' as an audible whine.
> Using Microsoft Olive and DirectML instead of the PyTorch pathway results in the AMD 7900 XTX going form a measly 1.87 iterations per second to 18.59 iterations per second!

So the headline should be Microsoft Olive vs. PyTorch and not AMD vs. Nvidia.
Paul Farmer
https://zanos.co.uk/news/sustainable-vanillin-from-the-fores...
The original works were not somehow changed by the creation of new works, and so neither should your ability to enjoy them change.

Our experience of art is necessarily influenced by the world; works don't just pass pristine and unaltered from their creation into our consciousness. They can be both enriched and cheapened by the cultural detritus they and we float through on the way; whether it's the mythology of an artist died beautiful and young, or the commodification of something once felt precious and unique.
As Russian and Indian lunar landings near, the moon rush gets crowded
So the argument is that breaking a shopkeeper's window never makes sense even though it creates business opportunities for glaziers because the money the shopkeeper must spend on repairing their window could be spent on something else. Makes sense. But what if that something else is buying a prostitute, gambling or "investing" in stocks (i.e giving money to banks)? Maybe paying kids to break windows to create jobs for glaziers could be "good for the economy". At least sometimes.
I read this as carefully as intended, and I did not like it or feel compelled by the many arguments it tries so hard to make.

What leaves me frustrated by pieces like this really amounts to: in practical and literal terms, what do you want Lorne Michaels to do? Because it kind of sounds like you want him to apologize for existing while slowly lowering himself into a vat of acid, live on television.

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)

There are always going to people who are pissed off that something they don't like appears to be working better than anything else has, before or since. This essay is that. I would bet real money that the author would accept a cast role if it was offered to them; a sort of cynical "hate the game, not the player" shrug.

As for Seth and Tina not speaking out about Sanz: I have a hard time imagining either of them holding back if something was upsetting them. To me, this suggests that perhaps they know (or believe) something that the author of the essay doesn't.
You are technically correct, best kind of correct. But you missed this:

> It certainly seems that way. Earlier this year I was looking for internal 2.5" HDDs with more than 1TB of capacity, and I could only find Seagate drives.
Climate change should be number 1 on this list, and it not being listed is unconscionable. It's absolutely because of climate change. Everything else is secondary.
You can totally do that too.

This is a nice synthetic ocean sound, with "waves":

play -n synth brownnoise synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30

Or with a little more high end, it sounds like gusts of wind:

play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30
That's exactly right Bertie, the University of Oxford Literary circles famously consisted of nothing but straight white school chums who gathered together to butter crumpets placed in toast racks while talking at length of fairies and such things.

Such well adjusted literary Dons were incapable of writing coded tales of unspoken love.
Well the problem is that Automatic1111 is not fast...

Other diffusers based UIs with PyTorch Triton will net you 40%+ performance.

Facebook AITemplate inference in VoltaML will be at least twice as fast as A1111 on a 3080, with support for LORAs, controlnet and such. This supports AMD Instinct cards too.

What I am getting at is that people dont really care about A1111 performance on a 3080 because, for the most part, its fast enough.
And despite not having net neutrality in the US not a single one of the fears came true.

Which is what I said way back then: There's nothing wrong with net neutrality but it's simply not necessary.
This is an extremely insightful and profound comment. Thank you