skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is somewhat simplistic. There are many methods to wild fire control, including prescribed burns.

Yes, many forestry practices are antiquated and incorrect, but it’s not as simple as just letting fires burn.

There’s a significant science to forestry and wildfire management. Fire suppression is as important as fire management and fire encouragement. They go hand in hand, and require a measured balance
I did the same, and found a different subset of techniques useful, and the rest new-age nonsense.

There are studies showing mindfulness works, but they've only tested the whole smorgasbord of techniques vs. placebo. I guess it would cost a lot more to test each one individually.
Huh. I know lime plaster can contain significant levels of iron impurities, but I think even in the worst case those would be low enough to have an insignificant effect. Now I'm really curious too.
https://nitter.net/mtruslowstorey/status/1703781076689121556
> And no, cases don't often make it to the Supreme Court because the wording of the law is ambiguous. They make it to the SC because the parties disagree on legal principles and on whether laws are unconstituional or not.

I don’t see how those are exclusionary principles. Also, I have never heard about this case, but after some simple googling I learned that the Supreme Court indeed had to figure out the definition for children in a particular law: https://berkeleysolicitors.ie/supreme-court-determines-defin...

> Still, this seems to be the opposite problem compared to what was raised earlier.

No, it is the same problem I mentioned before: some laws define it in a contradictory way; some laws don’t define it. I told you it’s a fun exercise!

> Do we want laws to be more explicit about their exact definitions of words, or more implicit?

I want laws to make sense. Inconsistency doesn’t make sense and only brings troubles. Vagueness is good. Ambiguity is bad.
That is the standard for any type of large enterprise software project though.
Leakage doesn’t seem to be the problem that is being explained here: it’s internal sensing within the home by existing wifi devices.
How is it possible to do this? Isn't all you need is to emulate is at least a 386 or 486? They removed emulation of that cpu target?????
Just the simple practice of regularly inquiring where your focus is has helped me a lot. Helps to detect when you're too tired from work and when you're not really relaxing in your downtime.
I'm amazed anyone would ever want to DIY something that touches money.

People tend to get pissy about money. Almost as much as water plant scada systems and railway safety. Maybe moreso.

And if you're dealing with money, you're already inherently doing cloud stuff, because you're talking to the payment services, plus you already by definition have money to pay for a real billing system...

It seems as crazy as people on r/wallstreetbets advising their parents on how to put their retirement money into hand picked stocks or something.
I am looking at the data analytics industry as a whole and being involved in communities of data practicioners. Most of these people use cloud DBs (Snowflake, BigQuery & co) since there's less dependencies on DB Admin type of work.

Some might be using Postgres or whatever the Engineering team provided them with, but I don't think I have really heard of a Data person preferring to use SQL Lite.

Might still be a great fit, but as the other comment pointed out, it might not be a good fit for the target audience.
> all the time

In order to correct a bad tendency, you have to exercise effort (as resistance) in all the spans in which the tendency may show.

Suppose for example you are standing: you have consolidated the function and the effort is optimal - but if you tended to fall you would have to spend more.
except you are really sure about saturated fats.
You can make it documented. Can other people understand completely same as you? It's a different story
Gratitude does not require an object. You can have the feeling without feeling it towards anyone or anything.
Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new controller
Very common in the communities I frequent where filesystems like ZFS are discussed, such as https://forum.level1techs.com/ and formerly the ZFS reddit sub, now https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/
Not to get too political here, but the problem is literally that we have "raked the forest" too much.

If you don't know how this could be political, be prepared to make your day a whole lot dumber if you google it.
They’ve even got their own mascot. It’s a gravestone.
I think the general consensus is Mesopotamia that at that time was a lush green area. The myths after all probably originate from the city of UR.
Safari seems a bit faster to me
I can name one: a house at Monterey Place, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US

According to Google Maps it's no more than 10 minutes to any edge of the city. It's also near stores and a rail station with service to Albuquerque.

While I lived north-east of there, most places I went to in Santa Fe were within a 10 minute drive of where I lived. I rarely went to the SW corner of town.

I worked from home.
Especially to whomever downvoted me: there are at least 64 of us with this same bug.[1] — and that’s just the ones who bothered to waste time on Apple’s official discussion board.

I reset my keyboard dictionary again on iOS 17, still exact same reproducible bug. It’s been at least 2 years.

[1]. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253315276
Being vague and up to interpretation because lawyers can’t foresee all possible circumstances is a feature.

Being a mess riddled with inconsistencies is not a feature.
I don't understand, why the author's concern is focused around surveillance through wifi. The routers are private devices, so if secured properly, what kind of backdoor a third party could use to take imagery of your house insides?

Law enforcement for decades has used commercial cellular networks to spy on people, and with the modern 5g technologies these surveillance suites are very well developed and able to see EVERYONE at scale with centimeter precision.
We usually do HxWxC, for height, width, and channels, so each pixel is addressed via the two first dims of the input, and then it has 3 channels. Of course, you can transpose the tensor to CxHxW or CxWxH. Different ordering behaves differently with respect to memory locality.
Really? You buy books without searching anything about who wrote it?

If yes, well, there's the problem then. It's not AI, but the lack of guidance and research skills in support of the process of choosing a book.
It’s Microsoft Access, ”works only on Windows 98” seems highly doubtful, especially as the screenshot in the post is Windows Vista…
MIT License allows Amazon and other Cloud providers to offer Cloud Solutions as well. That's why most SaaS changed to AGPL or better versions that explicitly disallow Cloud offerings.
A Line at a Time: The Atari 2600, Now with S-Video
> It's also worth noting that in the case of incidental wifi surveillance, it's likely the plain-sight doctrine would apply

Plain-sight should mean observation with the natural human senses, and I think the courts agree. There is nothing "plain" about radio signals leaking through walls. The thermal imaging example in the article as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_surveillance_doctrine

> the drone observed “each window of Plaintiffs’ residence and outbuildings” and was “outside [law enforcement’s] visual line of sight,” violating both federal and Indiana law.

Placing a device outside a home to collect WiFi signals doesn't sound like "visual line of sight". I.E. clearly a 4th amendment search requiring a warrant.

Collecting records stored by devices that had been in the area already seems plausible, but would presumably require a legal justification to search those (warrant, consent, etc). But to my understanding, devices don't store such records.
Some tools make poor choices harder or impossible. That's the entire point of static typing too. In this case python encouraged insecure design choices by making them very easy and even presenting them to users.
You can subscribe to Private Eye here for £38 a year with an issue through your letterbox every fortnight

https://checkout.private-eye.co.uk/singleitem?item=PEY&prom=...
Next time you're in the Netherlands, don't go to the van Gogh museum, but go to the Kröller-Müller Museum instead. It is the better van Gogh. Trust me on this.

The Kröller-Müller collection was made before van Gogh has broken through. They got first pick on everything. Although the van Gogh has more works, the Kröller-Müller has the better ones. Besides the setting of the Kröller-Müller is much much nicer.
Employee number N at Silk Road
I didn't say it's impossible, but it isn't sustainable.
With autonomous drones, it's easy. Ask your generals if autonomous drones are right for you.
Yes, I know, which is why I was curious about specific examples from their culture. I wasn't expressing shock that it would be used a lot.
Thanks for your work!

What is the relation between BAR, Recoil and Spring?
It doesn't need to be your wifi devices, it could be your neighbor's, if you're in a townhouse or your house is close enough.

But I agree with another commenter: if they've hacked your wifi router then you have bigger problems, as they've likely hacked all your devices then.
Something weird is going on with Apple Watch.

When the iPhone 12 came out in 2020, we got a new design language. Sharp flat edges were back. Every year since then we’ve been waiting for the watch to get a design update. But still in 2023 it’s the same old fat bubbly design which looks _very_ dated.

I wonder if Apple is waiting for some piece of tech to get better (batteries?), so they can launch a sleeker flatter watch.
One thing I appreciate about sentry compared to datadog is the ability to configure hard caps on ingestion to control cost. AFAIK the mechanism is basically that the server starts rate limiting/rejecting requests and the client SDKs are written to handle this and enter a back off state or start sampling events.

I think this could be a nice point of difference to explore that can help people avoid unexpected bills
Have you read the article? There’s half a sentence in like the fifth paragraph that might be explaining what it does or might just be making an aside comment. At no point do they say what it is. Just what they’re doing with it.

It’s like they’re talking about farming without explaining what a tractor is.

Two links down https://iiif.io/get-started/how-iiif-works/ :

> Learning about IIIF (generally pronounced “triple-eye-eff”) can be overwhelming at first,

I don’t think that’s our fault, that’s the authors’ fault.

I hate people who talk in circles and then imagine themselves misunderstood geniuses. Just fuckin… read some Feynman already and adjust your attitude.

Below the fold, two pages deep:

> Modern Web browsers understand how to display formats like .jpg and .mp4 at defined sizes, but cannot do much else. The IIIF specifications align with general Web standards that define how all browsers work to enable richer functionality beyond viewing an image or audio/visual files. For images, that means enabling deep zoom, comparison, structure (i.e., for an object such as a book, structure = page order) and annotation. For audio/visual materials, that means being able to deliver complex structures (such as several reels of film that make up a single movie) along with things like captions, transcriptions/translations, annotations, and more.

That’s all I wanted to know. Now I know if I care. Wait, what were we talking about? I’ve got four shelf-feet of unread books and a “read later” bookmark list and a “watch later” YouTube list that is so long you would cry. Do I want to get into this still or work on those?

Don’t bore the reader, or stuff like this ^ will go through their head. ESPECIALLY now that attention spans are getting shorter.
Related:

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5774918 - May 2013 (13 comments)
Purchase records are not evidence that someone carried a thing to a place. I can think of any number of plausible scenarios, including that the police moved it, someone else moved it, the photo is taken out of context, etc. And of course: the victim might have brought it themselves.
I think it is less confusion than just calling it auth. I have read many articles about basic auth vs oauth. But the auth here isn't the same.
> While we need to make money at the end of the day

Honest question: What makes you think that you are not turning into a Datadog (price wise) once reach a certain scale?

The problem what I see with software companies that the pricing is dominated by investor requirements and when a company reaches a certain milestone change up the licensing model and the pricing with it.
Except the way the game is played doesn't implement Georgism, or am I not getting it right? It goes buy once, seek rent forever.

If Monopoly was Georgism you'd be paying taxes representing the potential value of your color/land e.g. every lap, regardless of if you put a bunch of hotels on there or not, or if someone landed on it or not.
Why don't you just use F#?
Meta Is Killing Off Two Oculus Quest Launch Titles
While generally I agree, I think it's at least amusingly relevant here given that that is essentially ChatGPT's response in the second screenshot above.
78.5% of Americans speak English at home:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
Hi Azmat! Could you help me understand what you mean with "this is a marketing article" and "From reality perspective, only 10% true".

I really want to understand what flaws there might be in my thinking. If you could help point out the flaws you see in this article, I'd really appreciate it! :)
Court blocks California’s online child safety law
Ecological stability refers to a concept that is never realized. You can pretend it exists by ignoring the variation that you feel is unimportant. Over time, that variation will make its way into the areas that you thought were stable.
A JIT implementation of safe language 1 would still be dangerous in safe language 2 since it's emitting and running raw assembly. So you need a safe assembly language no matter what, I think.

Unless safe language 2 can provably write safe compilers in it, but I'm not sure I've seen any attempts at that for JITs. There is CompCert for C.
I believe Scott Young did something like this with MIT's curriculum. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
This one is going into the textbooks on how to not conduct a revenu model change.

Most of their customers are way to locked in for them to change engine in the short or even medium term, but this will have significant future impacts.
I think it's really sad that despite all of the evidence that meditation is good for you, people still treat it as some kind of pseudo-science hippie non-sense.

It makes sense why people would think that since this started as a religious exercise (and also because to this day there are still lots of people who connect the two in their practice), but you can simply not do that. I treat it simply as an exercise to make my brain calm down from stress and anxiety and it has been extremely helpful for me.
There was an effort in the early 90s to have search as a protocol so you could have a query and then select the domains you want to run it on and return an aggregate result.

It was 100% abandoned and I think that's a mistake. It'd be nice to explore some of those ideas again
One card, same experience... nouveau was quite reliable... it was a dual graphics laptop, so I later switched to Intel to get more battery life.

On another laptop (with nVidia Optimus, I believe), it was not usable (at least not for external screen).
Major difference between building a cruise ship and a polar ice breaker.
Zooming a 48MP quad-Bayer camera is not exactly digital; you can reconfigure the sensor to be a different resolution.
I remember a lot of arguments about how a signature should look…
It's ok! I believe you, and you don't have to stop! It would be good to maybe adjust the proportion of the archive comments relative to your posts about other things, but don't worry about it.

I appreciate the reply and am sorry for suggesting the bot thing.
Have you tried the nix package manager on silverblue? https://julianhofer.eu/blog/01-silverblue-nix/

This helps keep the (I agree, awful) configuration portion of nix minimal.
I thought there were wildly popular messaging apps now that were encrypted by default ?
I also have this question, on Linux.

You can use a VM, but that’s a pain.
Because the only thing you can ever have is a theory. The strongest theory is the one that gets chosen. Theories vary in strength over time.

Nothing is ever solved or proven. Theories get stronger and stronger evidence. Believing in a theory doesn't in any way help you make sense of the world. We just do it for expediency of communication.
For those wondering what could be a practical use of IIIF, see this example:

https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvr...

This is powered by the IIP image server and the OpenSeaDragon viewer, both being IIIF compatible.

https://iipimage.sourceforge.io/documentation/server

https://openseadragon.github.io
Wow. I did not know there were so many non-js environments out there!
> "the most optimal way"

Optimum in what sense?

Make as much cash as quickly as possible or have a forrest and a working eco system (or even any trees at all) also in 100+ years from now.
1) You always need to wait a two or day before assessing performance. Often the Spotlight index is being rebuilt.

2) Nobody should ever evaluate anything on a .0 release. Wait a few point releases.

3) I've found the last few iOS/OSX releases to have better performance as their moved to pushing services based revenue.
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OpenArena used to be my go to FPS for impromptu LAN parties. Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux and it's easy to get a local server up and running. Plus it works great on ancient Thinkpads.
How new tech is helping people circumvent digital authoritarianism
That's the point, the game is pointing out the flaws of the current system.
But you can more easily live next to your parents with WFH then RTO; you don't have to move to where the jobs are, moving everytime you change jobs.
There really is some magic power in being able to reach first-party sources for things like this.

It's also fun how "impossible" it can seem sometimes, especially (for me) if there's an age and/or geographic distance.

For instance I grew up in the 80s in Sweden, and was really into computers (!) back then, too. I had a Commodore 128 (followed by Amigas). There was a lot of gaming going on in C64 mode, and of course "Uridium" [1] and "Paradroid" [2] were more or less staples that everyone knew about.

It's still weirding me out that I have their author (Andrew Braybrook) in my Xitter feed [3], and that he is still doing game devlopment after all these years. Back then he felt like some kind of distant (he's from the UK, and more than a decade older than me) magician; now he's kinda/sorta my peer, at least professionally speaking. So weird.

I realize things like this happened all the time before the Internet too, but it must have been harder and/or more rare.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uridium

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid

[3]: https://twitter.com/UridiumAuthor
I don't think so. If you want to be more sporty, because you are overweight the lasting solution isn't going to be to try to be sporty all the time, because that is a too big jump. It is going to be to move more when you can and have make a small sustainable habit of doing a sport acrivity — and you do this on top of adressing other root causes of your overweight, which may be psychological and have to do with the food you're eating.

Don't fet me wrong, I have nothing against mindfulness, as I said it can be very good to be mindful. But as I said I have met quite some people who talk about practising it who do not come across as the balanced individuals they believe themselves to be.

I still don't believe being mindful all the time is good. Maybe being "meta-mindful" — so to be aware when it is also good to tap into other modes of perception — is better.
I suspect it might have been a timing/market positioning thing.

By 1984, "boots to BASIC" was reserved for low-end kit: C64, Atari XL, and increasingly Apple II. The IBM PC and clones were rapidly defining what a high-end personal computer was, and for them, the BASIC was an useless appendix (Casette BASIC on IBM kit) or a bullet point at the back of the pack-in software list (BASICA/GWBASIC)-- it might be there, but commercial boxed software was the primary selling point.
The main Georgist policy recommendation is a tax assessed on land value, arguing that revenues from a land value tax (LVT) can be used to reduce or eliminate existing taxes (such as on income, trade, or purchases) that are unfair and inefficient.

If I am understanding this correctly, wouldn’t it result in a world where landowners put the minimum amount of investment into the land, and then move to cheaper land as soon as possible/when their current land becomes more valuable?

The assumption here seems to me that land in NYC/wherever is inherently valuable, which doesn’t seem true to me. Especially in a remote working world increasingly detached from physical spaces.
Android "peaked" around v8, maybe v9. Up until then, jumping from one version to the next one really felt worthy of a new major release.

10-13 (haven't used v14 yet) were all just completely forgettable (mostly UI changes, no significant new feature).
That’s fun and perhaps strangely more relevant than ever. It seems like most capitalist players today strive for playing monopoly games instead of traditional market games (like providing a better price and/or higher quality products). Especially in tech, nobody wants to make merely a better product, but rather a “platform” or “marketplace”, where controlling access is the goal. Sure, sometimes we get a totally cool new product or VC subsidized pricing for a while but the end goal is more often that not that the company sells you permission to access some service that you’ve come to rely on. This is true both if you pay with money or you trade your personal information in exchange for your attention (ie ads).

In some cases, there are legit reasons for middlemen to exist and provide some reputational or safety function. But it feels to me like we’re seeing an unnatural bend towards this model, even for things that serve no such purpose at all (like most iot crap, heated car seats, drm ink etc etc).
Chatgpt is so much more useful for things that are specific and complex than Google is.

Google used to be good at it but it's now utterly befuddled by specificity and returns such garbage that I had given up.

But the form of "I'm doing this, I'm seeing this and I'm wondering if X is possible" chatgpt is solid on that - basically a personal stack overflow
In your case, just substitute "feeling gratitude for positive things in your life" with "consciously acknowledge positive things in your life".
The commenter I was replying to was speaking of Switzerland, not India. I was referring to the cost of energy, not the total usage. You’re totally right that India uses less energy in general (in total usage per person, but not sure about per McDonald’s meal). And the energy is cheaper there.

For comparison here are the costs per kwh in USD for the three places I see with a quick Google:

Switzerland: 33¢
United States: 23¢
India: 11¢
Surprisingly consistent when measured using coffee that is ground to hundreds of microns is not an indicator about consistency at the few microns level. Use high quality calipers on the burrs, you’ll be shocked how much variance you see run to run at one adjustment, never mind what happens when you move the dial. Micron marks on grinders are pure marketing.
Not applicable when the base offering is free and open source. The SSO is in the base pricing in this case.