skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone's focused on the barricades (orange cones from the sound of it) but this caught my eye at the end:

> “The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” Cuevas-Reyes, 38, told the AP. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”

That kind of gridlock is why we have all of those giant stroads everyone loves to complain about every few blocks in California. A few years ago my house was one mile from a wildfire in SoCal and the two lane road was overwhelmed during the evacuation despite only supporting a small exurban population. Now at my new suburban house, the neighboring development recently got halted after only building out 20% of the units because the fire marshal calculated that our surrounding roads wouldn't be able to support the traffic in case of evacuation. The developer is trying to get a new freeway on-ramp approved atm, otherwise they'll have to switch from dense 5-over-1s to single family homes in the rest of the development.

This is a reminder for everyone to download and print out the evacuation routes and tape them to the inside of your door! When done correctly, they're carefully designed to allow as many people to get out as fast as possible without causing gridlock while still allowing emergency vehicles in.

Unfortunately this is all carried out at the state and local level so it takes a tragedy like Lahaina for people to really start investing in proper (sub)urban and emergency planning.
Are there any legal impact of closing the source code considering people have contributed to this project and they are very likely using those contributions?
I have a Python script on my mac that detects when I press-and-hold the right option key, and records audio while it's pressed. On release, it transcribes it with whispercpp and pastes it. Makes it very easy to record quick voice notes. Here it is: https://github.com/corlinp/whisperer/tree/whisper.cpp

I was working on a native version in the form of a taskbar app with customizable prompt and all. However I quickly realized that the behaviors I want the app to do require a bunch of accessibility permissions that would block it from the app store and require more setup steps.

Would anybody still find that useful?
> One example:

Your example is a minor but quite useful piece of syntactic sugar, which was introduced a few years in following a similar construct being successful in Swift. You can read the entire reasoning at https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0160-if-let.html
ngl I read this as "open source house plants" and immediately had some future shock
Sony has also created LDAC for Bluetooth. It supports up to 990 kbps at 32 bits/96 kHz. While the encoder is open source, the decoder is proprietary. [1] Latency also appears to be high. [2]

Bluetooth has its annoyances and I would like to see major improvements or a competent successor, but I'd prefer it be an open standard instead of proprietary from Apple or Sony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDAC_(codec)

[2] https://nasilemaktech.com/audio-latency-test-sony-ldac-vs-qu...
Binaries absolutely should go in version control. The fact that Git is incapable of efficiently supporting that workflow is a separate topic.
of course you are a "year behind"

...because a year will have elapsed between now and a year from now :)

I started programming in the early 90s around age 10

And I was 10 years behind everyone who started in the early 80s. And 20 years behind everyone who started in the early 70s.

...and 10 years ahead of everyone who started in the early 00s

That's just math :)

If ChatGPT 5 comes out in a year, and you wait to start til it's here, you will be behind however long the developers of ChatGPT 5 have been working on it

AND you will NOT have a year of experience on ChatGPT 4 while waiting for version 5 :)
I'm familiar with GiveDirectly. It seems like a good organization on the whole, but I've only seen a few studies related to it and (due to modifications in evaluation criteria) it's no longer recommended by GiveWell.

>I think that over-simplifies this type of wicked problem

I disagree. It's acknowledging it's a very complicated problem. As such, we shouldn't get fooled by thinking that if we just focus on this aspect (housing), it will lead to a sustainable solution. You may have to address proximate causes, but you absolutely have to focus on the root cause if you want to make a lasting improvement. Otherwise, it is likely to just turn into a bottomless pit to dump resources. This is like practically any other complex system that needs improvement. There are rarely simple "hacks" to solve the problem, and they take an understanding of the entire system dynamics. But that's not to say the focus shouldn't still be on the root cause.
Your incorrect assumption based on what I wrote and low expectations of others saddens me.
Tropical Forests May Be Getting Too Hot for Photosynthesis
> Shouldn’t we be looking to solve what’s causing the inflammation in the first place?

I agree with that theory, but so far we haven't been able to figure out what really causes many auto immune diseases or how to heal them. The current treatment methods involve nasty drugs that turn off parts of your immune system entirely, but also have various other side effects.

If we can adjust the inflammation threshold, we can fix the symptoms while we're looking to solve the underlying problem. Fixing chronic inflammation will probably take a few decades at least, until then I see no reason why we wouldn't treat the symptoms better, especially if it can be done with cheap and relatively non-invasive devices.
Agreed....I'm more so suggesting something along the lines of having an AI ingest HN comments, and then using that to construct virtualizations of the participants here....with that, you could then theoretically generate a system that can predict the responses (in general, or individual members) of people in this (or other) forums for any topic of discussion.

Even without a technical solution like this, it is not terribly difficult to draw lines around 75%++ of comments and produce decent theories about what motivates each individual to say the (particularly incorrect) things they say...and it is even easier to predict what their responses will be if their claims are challenged (the algorithm/workflow seems amazingly simple, there are perhaps ~20 distinct categories of responses that cover ~90% of scenarios).

Interestingly: humans are able to easily see this phenomenon clearly when they are dealing with children, but if the same suggestion is made regarding adults, opinions tend to change, and amplify in strength of belief (particularly among relatively intelligent people in my experience).

Note: I am pulling these numbers out of my ass, as humans do! But the underlying idea is fascinating to me, and I will make a bold prediction: humanity will be grappling with these ideas within 20 years, likely less.....I think it is unavoidable now that AI is in the wild.
I have just one thing to say to you: Casio F105W.

SmartWhatevers will come and go, but the Casio will stay.
That's pretty easily fixable if you train a LoRA or similar so that the model has a specific likeness in mind. (You can look at - and despair at - Civitai if you want proof.)

It's harder to do at inference time without training, but I wouldn't assume it'll be impossible forever, especially with the existence of ControlNet.
> Avoid Writing (and including) Code.

What's your thoughts on no code platforms, such as:

-bubble.io

-airtable

-power apps

-nintex/appian/etc.

I find myself looking at these platforms because the client server model we all have been been doing, still has a lot of boilerplate that needs to be setup.

At least with these, the selling point is we can focus on the logic and look, which is all the paying clients really care about.
It does have the whiff of familiarity. Perhaps our simulation is running on an Alpha and one of us observed this exchange in a surprising order ;-)
> The duality is interesting serious Indian scientists doing great work and a politician on the screen for no good reason

One can say the same about President Nixon talking to the Astronauts who landed on the Moon. At least here ISRO comes directly under the Prime Minister of India while NASA does not come under the President of USA.
Why would lognormal distribution necessarily need of serve a purpose rather than arising as a result of some fundamental biological process? That would also explain the same.
Apologies for the OT, but it's "hear hear", not "here here" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear
I was super confused while I was reading the story posted here yesterday regarding ID theft via credit reports; it's a quality piece but I couldn't stop asking myself "where the hell did 404 Media come from?"

Excited to see where this goes.
Intellectual Ventures holds the patent. You can build one yourself though.

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

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202101.0412/v1
The money used on these programmes doesn't burn up, it gets recirculated. As an Indian I consider this a pretty good use of tax payer money.
https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization

This project has been alright for transcribing audio with speaker diarization. A big finicky. The OpenAI model is better than other paid products(Descript, Riverside) so I’m looking forward to trying MacWhisper.
NHK has some good videos on Esophageal Cancer in their Doctors Insight Program:

1. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2086027/

2. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2086028/

3. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2086029/

4. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2086030/
I think rsync has a --checksum flag and also supports incremental backups, so probably based on your situation you can understand a logic that represents your access patterns. That is, if you know for sure you personally will not touch the files after 20:00 and no one else will, it's _fairly_ reasonable to assume that if you start rsync after you're done working, then schedule an incremental pass a bit before you start working, anything that was "copied" to your new backup has likely changed in an unintended way, and the list should be pretty small for you to check each morning, if there's anything. Keep in mind stuff like OS deduplication may mess with this (Windows' Dedup would undoubtedly break this schema as it may show that the files are modified after the Optimization job runs)

Alternatively, consider just using a file system that does periodic integrity checks. I know ReFS has integrity streams, and I am pretty sure XFS has something almost exactly the same or better. It won't prevent corruption, but it will give you something you can monitor for when the filesystem reports an issue.

Some combination like this should work.

Similarly, you might be able to come up with a fast trick using stat; with some quick testing on a dummy file in MacOS' ZFS shell, you can do something like:

stat -f %m somedir/*

and compare the resulting value by passing it to sum or something. I am not super familiar with stat in general, so likely I am missing elements that make this unreliable, but I'd consider looking into it further unless someone tells me it's 100% the wrong direction and explains why.
I can't think of any other space mission that devoted one of the control room screens to projecting the head of state's face throughout the landing...
There are still terms of use, which can dictate how you are allowed to use a website. And there are watermarks in the corners.
There is a great library that has support not only with OpenAIs whisper but many others that also work offline. https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition
How are "bricks" different from bricks?
I don't, sorry. The short story is that I use Docker Mailserver [0] with some customised config for SMTP relaying, spam filtering and Gmail fetching with spam filtering. I also have a Roundcube container.

Underneath though, it's a pretty standard Postfix + Dovecot setup and there are plenty of those around.

[0]: https://docker-mailserver.github.io/docker-mailserver/latest...
I'm Canadian, and when road tripping through the states, coming up from California, I was struck by how suddenly white Portland was relative to all places south of it.
Why would that be true?
If you haven't already researched them, you may want to investigate Plan9 and Erlang, both early systems embodying a distributed and networked philosophy of computing.
Yeah, I don't claim aphantasia is the reason I don't find them generally useful: it's just that what some people might get (work back from a diagram on their mind to relationships) is not there as one potential benefits of diagrams.

But no, what I am saying is that diagrams can't capture what a textual description can (for me[1]): like I struggled to accept that anyone can find diagrams useful for years, believe me that a diagram defined with a nice diagramming DSL works better for me. Or, you know, bullet points: I can put those into my working memory and work with that.

Maybe it's my history as well: started with DOS and reluctant to switch to Windows having only used 3.11 for Internet, so after a short stint in NT, moved full time to Linux, doing everything with DSLs: printer escape sequences, AT commands, plain TeX for typesetting... — this is all early to mid primary school.

[1] Obviously, as there are textual representations of diagrams, they are an equivalence class.
Isn't the carbon already locked away in the coffee grounds? Why spend energy and hence more CO2 emissions on charring the grounds?
I agree, but ideally, the high fee should be proportionate.

Cement is about $130/metric ton. A 30% surcharge seems comfortable. A 100%, I won't squirm at. An 800% surcharge feels punitive, rather than good policy.

I'd like far more surcharges for consumer-unfriendly and environmentally-unfriendly actions, but mostly in the 1-5% range. That's enough to impact most margin-constrained firms, but not so much as to avoid innovation or distort strategy.

Examples:

- Make products repairable

- Provide service manuals and full schematics

- Provide parts at no more than e.g. 2x cost of the product (e.g. if I wanted to buy all the parts for my washing machine to build a new one, it might cost $1000 instead of $500)

- Provide long support lives for e.g. security updates and parts

- Make firmware / software open-source (consider my air conditioner, rather than Microsoft Office)

- Use standard batteries and chargers

- Avoid plastic

- Minimize packaging

... etc.

In a commodity market (like basic air conditioners), a 5% surcharge is way more than enough to influence behavior. On the other hand, if I have a genuinely better battery, or something super-confidential in my firmware, I can still keep it secret at modest cost.
I don't know of any dumbphones on the market. I help people out who are on parole and they are not allowed to own smartphones. The best we can do is try to trick the parole agents by buying them flip phones, but even the most basic stupid flip-phones for Grandma still have Alexa built in and have some form of Internet access.
https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/ and https://www.rtings.com/ are two more awesome review sites for outdoor gear and electronics, specifically TVs and monitors but now also things like cameras and headphones.

I love that REI largely doesn’t sell any junk — even the cheapest thing in a category that they sell probably still works fine. Backcountry and MooseJaw are similar. We’re lucky to have so many good outdoor brands in the US.

The same cannot be said for home goods and things like appliances. Most of the market is disposable single-use junk. Reddit has r/BIFL (“Buy It For Life”) but there are some things, eg electric toothbrushes, where the best-functioning brand (Sonicare) do things like plastic weld their handles shut, so when the li-ion cell in there dies after 2 years, you’re meant to buy a new handle. Replacement battery kits can be found, though typically they use low-quality cells, require soldering, and have a high likelihood of damaging the case and waterproof seal due to the design of the thing. This is just one example, but I’ve found that more likely than not, “home electronics” fall into this category of unfortunately low-quality and hard-to-repair, so I try to avoid them entirely wherever I can.

Still other good are problematic to shop for and own. Trying to buy any durable goods (and even consumables) on Amazon these days requires a good deal of research. It’s pretty obvious which brands are the “WEKAPO” or “POPCHOSE” or other combination of gibberish (see https://youtu.be/4UrqlMfwUC4 on why), but there’s just SO MANY of these products flooding Amazon that it feels like digging through racks in a thrift shop or something. I wish they had a filter for something like “established brands only” but I know that a ton of their business these days is selling these low-quality products that are typically copies of other products.

The most frustrating result of all the SHNITPWR and VANLEONET for me is probably the impact on rwview sites. If you Google things like “best SUP 2023” you’ll get endless “review” sites that are just Amazon affiliate links with articles that are reworded (likely automated) product descriptions or pathetic paragraphs from pay-per-word authors that have obviously never used any of the products, showing you what amounts to 10 random products in a category from whatever from junk brands. I hope Google finds a way to PageRank these into the ground, and I wish Amazon would likewise do something to combat this behavior, as it’s making the modern shopping experience and the internet in general pretty awful.
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds
1) I agree, which is I why I did end my comment that I think it would be nice to see an optional install offered for offline usage.

4) I don't think they are using Docker, but they are using containers. (They mention running directly on top of Hyper-V so they might not even be considered by some developers as containers in the Docker sense but closer to "mini" VMs.) The container they are using for security/sandboxing reasons. The Excel team likely still has nightmares from the worst years of VBA macro malware and this Python system seems built specifically to sandbox all the running Python code to an execution environment (container/VM) that is easy to refresh/rebuild/recycle/tear-down. I agree that Python on Windows is usually great and most of the Python ecosystem is great at cross-platform support, but I also understand why Excel would want to sandbox any Python it runs to containers that are isolated from the host machine/user and it can easily reboot.
Congrats to all of the team at ISRO. Assuming the software development for these is non trivial; Its interesting that with the last mission(per Scott Manly) was designed to always select a spot(or more precisely a trajectory) and try hit it.

What made them make that decision? Was it like "lets be as precise as we can because we want to get to the spot X because X is special" and thus "Lets let the software always compensate for any errors to get to X". I am assuming that even at this point they tested the software for extreme conditions. It is most likely that once this assumption was made the Software was built that way, i.e: "Lets test the Software can always correct for any issues to get to X with feedback(like thrust)". It trades off Safety for Accuracy(to hit X).

This time the idea was "Lets select a trajectory to X" but this time "We will let the software prioritize safety(altitude, speed and heading) to be within norm once we start descending towards X". And additionally "Not make any corrections if we are somehow too far off X if it exceeds safety limits". It trades off Accuracy(to hit X) for Safety.
Thanks for reading! Lots more to come :)
https://www.gammacore.com/about/how-gammacore-works/
Although I strongly believe all information should be shared without censorship, it should be clarified what is happening here.

The people of the court are not ordering him to do something against his will. They are clarifying that the people of College of Psychologists are within their rights to revoke his license.

If you play with someone else's toys (in this case a license), they can take it back at any time, for any reason. The only wiggle room I see is if two people, with full knowledge of the details signed a valid contract where the right to hold the license was contingent on certain obligations.

This "other people's toys" mental model explains why "the government" gets away with taxing. Other people made the money, both the idea, and produced the paper, and as such they can decide how it is used. It never was an never has been the property of individual people.
It does emit ink! It uses a modified hand-held inkjet printer (princubestore.com). The distance to the print-surface is fixed by tiny wheels which make direct contact. For some reason the article doesn't include a video of it working, if you'd like to see it in action: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwN3NFBv4sO/

source: I made the shoe :)
> Without the let, I'd have to do a match statement followed by an unwrap just to check if a field in an enum is set.

You... would not?

An `if let` trivially desugars to a `match`.

if let <pat> = <expr> {
...
}

becomes

match <expr> {
<pat> => {
...
}
_ => {}
}
Ask HN: Were C++20 coroutines the best approach for stackless coroutines?
I keep looking at that paper and wondering about the advantages and disadvantages of the adopted approach vs the one in the paper.

Does anyone have more insights?

- The paper uses the `resumable` keyword. Meaning that you have to use `resumable` in each function prototype when no deduction can be done.

- You have to mark as `resumable` the evaluation mode.

- There is no viral `co_await` all the chain up.

- There is `resumable` deduction. This makes the standard library templates, for example, reusable and convertible to `resumable` by injecting your `resumable` function/iterator/whatever.

- It seems to be easier (correct me if I am wrong) to calculate the space needed for a coroutine?

- If follows something much closer to a function-object approach.
Pretty common complaint in reviews for bike mounts when I was researching was breaking autofocus mechanism and IIRC either gyro or accelerometer which messed up screen orientation. Seemed like it happens in city riding as well but might depend on road quality of city.
As I was told at the last security conference I attended, we are all in security. Security isn't getting smaller it's just expanding into every aspect of IT.

Unfortunately our industry has become the go to for job changers and those looking to improve their lot in life quickly. Lost your job at the mill....just learn to program. Can't pass Calc 1, just get your CCNA and become a Sysadmin. Tired of working retail, go to boot camp and in 6 weeks you can be a Cyber Security professional. It's no wonder our wages have receded in the last decade.

Security was never where you started in IT, it's where you ended up. Most people in security have had lengthy careers in different areas of IT like programming or networking before they got into security because security requires a large depth and breath of knowledge to be good at the job. As far as future, who knows, in 10 years we could all be digging in a mine with spoons working for our AI overlords, but my guess is it's not going anywhere.
An 11 Year Old Bug in the macOS Popen()
There is also 10+ years research for tinnitus using Vagus Nerve Stimulation to stop it [1]. Results seem mixed. Many other drugs/neuro-stimuli for T have gotten mixed results and passed clinical trials such as Leniere only to flop in actual usage. It's interesting that the community anecdotal evidence such as r/tinnitus and TinnitusTalk are so useful for these cases because they are more likely to report negative results at the post-approval stage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7951891/