skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't seem required nor proposed.

The issue highlighted in the article seems to be with the broad classification of all wildfires by the EPA as “natural” or “uncontrollable” events - it's pretty clear that this isn't the reality for the majority of recent wildfires. Though wildfires are historically a natural & necessary occurrence, manmade wildfires are a well-documented occurrence & something the EPA seems well-positioned to take action on.

Unless, that is, I as an ignorant non-US observer am unaware of some other regulatory body that is already (or is better suited to) regulating human contribution to wildfire frequency.
If we can't say anything about the system at time T, that's a failure of the execution model. I'm not trying to implicate Rice's theorem here or other undecideable problems. C makes it difficult to correctly implement any code (rather than all code) that has a property we want and show that it holds solely with the tools available to mortals. Divine intervention is helpful, but notoriously unreliable.
Financially, yeah, you can cash out and get similar liquidity to what you'd get from an exit while keeping plenty of upside. But investors are only going to provide that option in the situation where they like you as a CXO and think you're the right person to continue growing the company to a $1B+ valuation, which is just a nice way of saying that they'll expect you to continue to pour your heart and soul into the business, work long hours and think about the business 24/7. If you sell your $100M startup to a strategic acquirer, generally you won't still be CXO. You'll get a comparatively chill director-level job, or you can quit relatively quickly and just find a beach somewhere.
The parent company wants to know the viability of each business unit independently, one subsidizing another would obfuscate what's working and what isn't.

And secondively, teams/orgs get bloated and keeping them larger than they should be hinders their progress.
It's a bit of a catch-22:

1. I want to send a PR!

2. Project doesn't seem very active, so never mind.

Plus I'm not checking if any of my dependencies need help every day.

I took over fsnotify after it was archived because I just didn't know they needed help. Last guy spent about 5 years looking for someone to take it over. I wouldn't have minded doing it before, but ... you do need to know about it.
Thanks. I am aware of that test but it is two years old and OpenBSD had quite a few optimisation in between. Hopefully we will have some update test from Phoenix again once FreeBSD 14 releases.
Definitely - in most cases we expect our payloads will draw some power. The power available depends whether you’re looking for continuous or periodic/peak power draws.
I get it though it just "feels" more real than running a piece of software, and it's cool to be able to play original cartridges and use original peripherals. But indeed, in the end it is a form of emulation, and even if someone is able to re-create the original hardware 1:1 including all the undocumented/buggy/unexpected behavior, I'll leave it open if people actually want that. A lot of us want modern amenities: HDMI/Upscaled output, Save States, better controller support, the ability to play ROM files instead of just the original systems, etc. Oh, and HD texture packs would be nice as well. Netplay over the Internet even for games that only have local multiplayer! Oh, and there's Achievements as well. Light Guns still won't work though.

I'm "guilty" of that myself: I ordered the Duo because I really want a PC Engine system, even though Mesen is a perfectly fine emulator and I probably don't want to play my original HuCards anyway out of fear to eventually break them.

I think the N64 might be in a bit unique situation because all the emulators for it are kinda crap, which is why I was surprised to see an announcement of an FPGA version. But I also saw a breakthrough recently in the MiSTer project, so I guess it's finally time - and if they really managed to re-create the Silicon Graphics GPU, I'm impressed, because even though it's 25 years old, a 3D Graphics Chip is still quite a feat.

One thing that FPGAs can potentially do better is to emulate the entire system without needing a crazy PC. Stuff like "A memory fetch takes two clock cycles, but actually, the first clock cycle leaves garbage on the bus, and if a Sound DMA triggers, it will fetch that garbage, and that is actually required for Game X to work well". (There was a GameBoy Advance emulator that found something among those lines being the reason why one of the Pokemon games doesn't work properly in an emulator. And I remember there being one SNES helicopter game where the shadow under the helicopter never showed up in emulators of the time, because it used some crazy exact timing to render it on original hardware).

Doing a cycle-exact simulation of an entire system is pretty hard (All the "How to write an emulator" tutorials just do a big switch statement of CPU opcodes and call it a day), and it's harder the more advanced the system gets. So an FPGA still has the _potential_ to be a better implementation overall, but it's always going to be that system that's "Accurate except where people want anachronism" but always limited in what kind of additional enhancements it can make (HD Texture Packs, CRT Filters, Retro Achievements, Local Multiplayer over the Internet, with matchmaking)
I'd guess because it's less prone to get interfered with by wind, more easily controllable, and can stay up longer if battery power lasts overnight.

I too would like to see more autonomous hydrogen balloons flying. Even on tethers to get height cheaper than a tower.
The standard story arc for something like this is that it is pitched as a humanitarian/environmental technology, but it is the military that provide the money and that where it gets used. I'm not being overly judgemental - the good guys (e.g. Ukraine) need good military tech. But lets not kid ourselves.
People have short memories. A few years ago hypes like big data and machine learning, blockchain and autonomous cars were pushed relentlessly. The consultants would confidently predict 300 gazillion profits by 2030, everybody would lose their job etc.

Then the pandemic happened, momentarily some candid voices admitted that all this digi-crap does not help an iota with our quality of life (or life, period) but the digital WFH hype found just the right meme to sell.

Then the pandemic receded but the LLM breakthrough was compiled just-in-time to rekindle the AGI hyperventilation...

There is no respite. The tech economy is like the fabled sharks: needs to keep inventing hypes or it will implode.
> The senior manager questioned his answer, saying:
> “The receipt appears to have two sandwiches, two coffees, and another drink . . > Are you advising that this was all consumed by you?”

The entire article is hilarious
I can buy any flight from the airline directly and just apply points to my bill. Easy to do.
If you read full article it is mentioned they got full 8 years, not 2 days.
That might be right, but bear in mind the UK counts temporarily housed people (e.g. people couch surfing) as homeless, not just people literally on the streets. These stats may not be directly comparable.
> indicative of a lack of good prospects for investments

This is what it looks like to me, too. Also, all the money that poured into "crypto" enterprises and schemes. People are inventing $THING_TO_INVEST_IN out of nothing, and capital piles in.

I'm no economist, but this seems like the result of there being too much investor money chasing too few investment opportunities. Why's there too much money? I'd speculate that QE caused this.

I've always thought that QE was nuts; the present global inflation scenario was entirely predictable.
Real-Time In-Ear EEG Signal Verification
This patent just published- seems like some university researchers in conjunction with Meta employees filed it.
Somehow they never managed to get search right.

It's decent, but most often DuckDuckGo gives more relevant stack overflow answers than stack overflow itself does for the same query. Even though SO has far more information to tune the results on than DDG.

Another "proof" of how bad their search is, can be witnessed in the millions of duplicates. SO basically got an army of volunteers who know how to operate this search within their niche, to close duplicates, something that a decent search result would solve for a big part.
I can understand that view, but I like to have the controller class files themselves represent the site hierarchy. Rather than looking in a file for the appropriate route, I look through the filesystem to understand the routing. I expect FooController to map to /foo (or /api/foo or whatever). I worked on a django project which did all the routing in a single location and it frequently resulted in merge conflicts between multiple developers committing changes to the file about the same time
In 2 years they are going to hire again and AI integrations everywhere, because it costs too much
If you are going to quote me, maybe quote the entire line?

> and it is clear that most people are not going to pay for the things they have grown accustom to getting for free.

The unfortunate reality is that many people have been conditioned to get content for free. We can complain about it all we want but the vast majority of people are not going to suddenly going to start paying for something that was once free.

You're right nothing is stopping them from selling physical goods and services, but wether or not that actually turns into making money is another story.

I feel like if you are getting free content an ad is a fair tradeoff. IF that ad is not invading your privacy.
Yeah. A lot of the things that make C not low level in the terms of this article happened on IBM mainframes decades before x86:

* tiered memory hierarchy pretending to be flat RAM

* CPUs that are much bigger than the ISA suggests, and which have out-of-order and speculative execution so code can make good use of their resources

* optimizing compilers that further decouple the program as written from its execution

IBM was working on this stuff in the 1970s, well before the rise of C. It’s fair to criticize the model and seek out alternatives, but it isn’t fair to blame C.
We’ll be hiring in the near future. Early engineering hires will likely be controls/RF/EE focused, and we might bring on some biz dev support.
> Open, permissionless networks beat closed, proprietary ones once they are good enough.

Generally yes, but not necessarily - look at what happened when we (the nerds who write free software) collectively decided that IRC was “good enough” :(
I used to have a sapphire preferred, which promised 1.25x point value or something when spent on travel. When I went to book via the chase portal, everything was magically .25x more expensive when compared to the airlines page.
I've always loved that the time set by time.windows.com (I think that's the default that comes with Windows) always seems to be 2 to 3 minutes off the time set by the NTP.org pools. Really easy to get outside of the Kerberos 300 second allowance.
RonDB is open-source and supports on-disk data on NVMe disks.
http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2022/04/variable-sized-di...
CSS reset is worse than any default browser style: in browser paragraphs are separated and lists have bullets. With CSS reset, there are no styles at all, and the page looks like unformatted text.
I think it was IBM that demonstrated in the 80s that a decision tree out performed doctors at diagnosis.
Wait you guys actually contemplate your "status"? This seems overly dramatic and does not match my experience at all. Software development is a very young profession and will continue to change.

I genuinely don't understand that you can, with a straight face, say that juniors with copilot can do the same work as seniors. Typing up the code is like what, 25% of time spent - during a good week!
I dismantled one of these as a kid. Ok, technically it was my friend's Commodore 64 light pen, but it worked on the same principle.

To my surprise the only active component in it was a LM741 Opamp, and I was like: "That's what I know!". So I rebuilt one, without understanding much how it functioned. Because I didn't have much money and housings were expensive I built it into a matchbox, whose frontside fits a 9 pin D-sub connector quite nicely. The photodiode lived in a ballpoint pen and both were connected by a homemade coiled cable. It looked sweet and I must still have it somewhere.

The precision was terrible and I couldn't paint with it, but it was no worse than the original. So next time you play one of these old shooting games and you miss a lot, it's maybe not your bad aim even.
Autonomous vehicles threaten to worsen congestion, experts say – Mission Local
> they are unrelated to the EPA's emissions standards

This seems tautological? Surely the proposal here is a change to said standards to increase their utility?
> Instead of chopping down trees to build a bike lane, they should simply take lanes away from the road and make those into protected bike lanes.

Most of the roads this happened on are 2 lane roads in Eastside Portland. They're expanding the road for "bus lanes" which are hybrid turn lanes and lanes for buses to travel in as well as protected bike lines that are usually joined with a sidewalk and bust stop. Point being, there's no lane to take away.
ok, many layoff numbers, but what about how many new roles have been filled or the total number of positions. As is, this is just a sensation piece for clicks, you will not learn much by reading this.
Yikes. I know it's just an example, but how often do "normal" people buy TVs?

I gave up videogames because I didn't want to spend so much time in my head like that (I'll still gladly play tabletop games with other people, and even couch-coop videogames if I'm invited too, but I gave away my gaming PC), and I sure don't want to spend time fiddling with credit-card points games. It helps that we're mostly unhooked from "retail therapy" or whatever the term is these days.

What are the costs of cc points games? Who pays in the long run?
> But integer arithmetic is safe in terms of Rust.

It's "defined safety": If a >= 0 and b >= 0 then a + b > = 0. True according to most schoolchildren but not true according to the Rust spec. It breaks the principle of least astonishment and has and will lead to security vulnerabilities.
Discussed last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37894403

(Mostly arguing about the authors' choice of title)
totally agree. The greater good > than individual freedom. My eyes are being opened on this very thread
Project owners/maintainers like it because community members answer peoples' questions in Discord. In a Github bug report everyone expects the answer to come from the owner/maintiner, even if the answer is "Ugh, i answer this so often, just read the docs".

It's clear there's room for innovation in this space... something that democratizes Q&A but also where the answers aren't lost to oblivion come tomorrow.

I expect a tailored per-project chatgpt would help here. Let it read your discord, let github (or myproject.com) users search its knowledgebase directly: voila. curated user-generated answers to project-specific questions.
How else are you supposed to pay for their medical bills?
Oh wait, maybe you're right!

https://www.jacksonprogress-argus.com/arena/parade/mary-lou-...
>The 24 hour test was with a sub-scale prototype at low altitudes.

That's fine, but I think you need to make that clear or some people might think you aren't being straight.
Intel's IA-64 supposedly exposed lower levels of the processor to machine code, but I hear it took ages to compile, and compilers never really got to the optimization levels they were expecting (and not being compatible with x86 also didn't help adoption)
There was a desperate attempt to find something, anything, which was a "must have" item. This fueled the VR boom of 2019 and the metaverse boom of 2021. Both sort of worked technically but turned out to not be that compelling. It's not yet clear how the "AI" boom works out.

It may just be too soon. VR is stuck because the headgear remains clunky. The metaverse is stuck because the initial implementations were crap and you need a serious gamer PC to really make it work. AI is now running into the problem that large language models are expensive enough to run that they can't be ad-supported. All three may pay off as the technology progresses.
> This is just saving you bandwidth and battery. It would be more expensive for them to offer ad-free youtube without the music-only component, because people would still use it to listen to music, but now with video attached to every song.

I think you're oversimplifying Youtube Music (and ignoring that Youtube Premium does include exclusive content), but assuming it is just Youtube without a video stream -- does it strike you as odd at all that the inclusion of a cost-saving feature would cause an increase in the price of the service for customers? Does that make you doubt at all whether or not this product is priced around the actual cost of ad-free content?

> How is anonymous viewing possible with paid accounts?

There are ways to do this using things like blinded tokens, but to fair they're complicated and Google is unlikely to pursue them. It does get at the inherent tradeoff here -- the way Google has structured Youtube Premium it is impossible to use it in a privacy preserving way.

And I think even ignoring the other problems with Youtube Premium and even ignoring the bundling issues, there is a little bit of a disingenuous nature to these arguments of "don't like ads, just pay" when everyone understands that by the very nature of the product, paying does not remove many of the negative aspects of Google advertising that people are trying to avoid.

In a way, I'm being overly charitable here; Google bundles ad-free viewing as part of an extended package, but the other problem that I didn't complain about is that buying that package literally doesn't get rid of entire problem and in fact requires you to use Youtube in a way that makes the problem worse, because at least when you're signed out your data isn't getting quite so explicitly linked to you as an individual.
Care to elaborate? How is reading from an append-only file backed by a memory indexed DB slower compared to either 1) a mutated file, or 2) either append-only or mutated raw NVMe disk storage?

I mean, what's the trick NVMe can do to be meaningfully faster?
Probably for control reasons. You can send balloons up to that altitude, but they'll go where the wind takes them.
I'm having trouble thinking of a mainstream production language with a stronger type system that could make a compile error out of the string argument passed to an HTTP router; can you think of one? Or of a non-string-typing for routes that solves the same problem, again in something people ordinarily use to deploy to production?
I'd you think the SO is bad, you should check out the EE board on StackExchange. I've never seen such aggressively unhelpful behavior by people performing excellence in my life.

ChatGPT may have killed it, but it was already severely weakened by them allowing a-holes to run the place.
Spoken like someone who lurked in #Linux on EFNet.

There's a way to foster new people who are interested in your field. There's a time to explain something, and a time to say you're at a point where you should be able to grasp this, and point them in a direction, and wish them well. There's never a time to make someone feel stupid for simply asking a question, even if it really is a stupid question.
I've had a suspicion for a while now that this is what ChatGPT does within a conversation (chat.openai.com, not the api). I've had very long chat histories that seem to gracefully degrade instead of just forgetting everything. Maybe there's more clues in the context than I realize though.

Either way this type of idea will probably be a fundamental feature for all chat bots in the future IMO.
AI can do the same thing - it'll probably pretty up the words more, but it's perfectly capable of fuzzy matching a "duplicate" question, passive aggressively telling you to sod off, and telling you that some questions are wrong to ask.
In this video we continue implementing string parsing business rules.
I don't think that's why Google sat on it. My guess is that it was hubris of the key researchers. They all had these castles in the sky of how it was "supposed to work" and then all that is required for quite powerful systems is scaling.

Only Ilya seemed to lack hubris and followed the path of scaling.

As for their being no moat, we don't know that. We are seeing a number of attempts at replicating GPT3/4 and there has been some success which is indicative that there is no moat, but this is a really new field.
You're entitled to your opinion. Personally I think guidelines like "be kind" and "avoid generic tangents" are far more important. Your comment is completely focused on targeting me. I was trying to have a conversation about what's in the article under discussion.
You must not recall Antennagate.
Have you ever heard about cheaters in Counter Strike?
I think there was a company doing that (Carbon?) I first saw them on Laravel’s site. And I did read their ads. Like I read the ads in the few magazines I read, because the products are themed with my current activity. I don’t think someone would complain seeing cars ads on a blog centered around cars if it is done in a calm way
> whether stricter pollution controls than already implemented are necessary

in which case this seems to posit that measures to reduce human causes of wildfires are not valid pollution control measures?
> Not only tracking, ads can carry malware and viruses from malicious sites. They also can bog down the browser like Fandom wiki for example. Ads company are part of the problem since they don't screen them for malicious stuff.

Very much this as well, I know that when I first started using ad blockers it was because of just how obnoxious the ads on IGN were.

Most mobile game ads, and similar ones are just insane.

I guess I should have been more clear that I am more thinking the old google Adsense like ads from 10 (more?) years ago that were just simple text or maybe an image. No popups, new tabs, annoying videos (YouTube I would give an exception since you are already watching a video), etc.
Can be both dumb and "good" at investing.

>If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?

This is a question I wish people would ask more often, but instead, determinism has people associating wealth with merit, and even worse, absence of wealth with absence of merit.
I've noticed that for a lot of quick/common stuff ("how do I change font color with JavaScript?") the question that comes up is old and talks about jQueryUI, but there are 400 answers that cover every library and framework since then.

It's really not convenient to search through those answers even though the knowledge you need is there.

For a long time they argued that duplicate questions were a problem because they weren't trying to be a Q&A site but rather a knowledge database. But it turns out that the duplicate reduction effort has made the knowledge database harder to access for many common queries.
When everyone else is using steroids...
"experts"
Nova – a native macOS code editor from Panic
My cofounder and I raised an absurd sum at a valuation which was pretty insane during the last months of the zero interest rate environment. We had months of no interest in the idea, then we got one term sheet, and then we had three term sheets, and it was hard to say no to the very large ego number.

In retrospect, a lot of things would have gone differently and better if we'd been forced to take a smaller bite first. Our round was nominally a seed, but it was the size of an A or B from years past. We'd have been better off with what's called a pre-seed in today's terms.