skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s more man-made is artificially preventing wildfires so dead brush builds up then you have a far worse fire.

Climate change isn’t causing wild fires. Wild fires are a natural part of nature’s cycle. What’s unnatural is us artificially delaying these cycles, then they come back 10x more intense.

For cases where wild fires are directly caused by people (arson, bad camping practices), these fires are also more intense.

This stuff happens all through the religion of science. I’m not a religious person, but time and time again the scientific community cries out “XYZ is bad/stupid/a relic of religion” then years later there’s some scientific evidence for it and we spend another 5 years pushing back against the scientific community to change from their old ways.
“Sweeping”…lol

It’s mostly that idiot Andreesen and his aged, irrelevant hangers-on that vomit the e/acc nonsense on twitter and clubhouse.
>If people just followed one standard like HTML, everything could be consistent

That would also require browser creators to be consistent in implementation

& you still have the "relying on people to update things" problem where it could be years after a new feature is introduced until it's widely enough supported to be useful

I do tend to agree there are plenty of poor implementations and convoluted JavaScript contraptions. Afaik there's plenty of standardized solutions to keep back button functionality with dynamic content and afaik the popular web frameworks support that out of the box.
Same with me, can't remember when mine started. I knew pretty early it wasn't normal though as for me it's only in my left ear.

Unless I'm actively thinking about it (like now), most of the time it's nt an issue, and it's quiet enough to be easily drowned out.
Your SSD controller gets corrupted and you can't read the data anymore.
Sure, that works. Or I can have it all in a single shell.nix file that covers everything and is super simple to use. It's great for handing off to coworkers that don't usually use Python.
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Generative symbolic AI occurs all the time in data integration, when you have to generate new identifiers (e.g. create new targets for foreign keys that don't exist in any source), recursively merge identified entities together along their attributes, and so on. But now that this process is mathematically well-understood it is no longer called "AI" but rather "logic programming".
the flutter tech leader just left Google(Hixie), which cast some doubts on flutter itself to me.
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It’s absolutely a one way thing. Welcome to capitalism
Aside: I absolutely adore the design of this website. I’ve tried to do something like it in my personal projects, but I’m not a designer and it always comes out as the wish.com version. Props and respect.

Serious: I think this actually highlights the importance of ethics as a field of study for everyone going into computing/software/information work professionally.

I don’t think any of us want to live in a world where our computers are lying, tricking, deceiving, fooling, shaming, or manipulating us. Yet so many of us ignore the ethical implications of our work to make a quick buck.

It is clear as day to me that these things are wrong. It wasn’t always like that. In college I thought the idea of teaching ethics was stupid, and we should do whatever we can to fuck people over (I wouldn’t have used those terms). I don’t know why I grew out of that, but I did, and I think the world might be better off if the people who knew better intervened earlier in people’s careers.

This is your sign to reflect on how many times you have been an enemy to your fellow man through your work (and if your work scales, an enemy to thousands to billions of people), and start your job search if that number bothers you.
So, take any service that connects buyers to sellers: eBay, Craigslist, AirBnB, realtors, etc... They are essentially in the business of trading personal data, so that the buyer and seller can get in contact and complete the transaction. It is even more obvious in dating sites/apps.

...but that's not the same you might say. That's right, but how do you put that into law? You need actual rules, "don't be evil" is not enough. There are hundreds of cases where sharing personal data is "right" and expected, and hundreds of cases where it is "wrong". You want to allow the "right" usage and ban the "wrong" usage. And then you have lobbies trying to explain why they are on the right side and their opponents are on the wrong side, and then you will have lawyers who are really good at finding loopholes, and in the end, what you get is something like GDPR with all its complexities. You can't really escape it.
(i'm the submitter) +1000 to this. "Every import you write you have to write in two files or three if you have to export it."

Others are good points too. Thanks!
Porting Hare to OpenBSD
Not sure about the larger impacts of V3. But, we have gone with V3 since the beginning, and now there is a better turn around time for reviews, typically in an hour and sometimes 24hrs max. Its been a much smoother process rather than having to wait for couple of days or even weeks sometimes earlier. I've heard it being much worse on V2.
You can certainly prove that a ball falls down once on Earth. It’s more difficult but still possible to prove that all balls will fall down. I don’t think that you can prove laws of gravitation in general.
FedEx quit doing business with Amazon several years ago:

Behind FedEx’s Strategic Decision to Leave Amazon at the Curb

https://fortune.com/2019/08/07/fedex-amazon-deliveries/
> For many people, semicolons represent the distinction between an old and crusty language and a modern one, in which case the semicolon serves a function similar to the use of Comic Sans by the OpenBSD project.

That's a delightful sentence, and in context of how the design makes opinionated choices based on its goals entirely reasonable.

(I don't know if I'll agree with all of those choices after I've thought about them sufficiently to be comfortable having an opinion, but I do very much appreciate that they're explicit, deliberate, and explained)
Mushrooms are natural, are they not? OF course the feelings and percepetions induced by psychedelics are not real in the sense of being actual physical phenomena, but if you think of them as transiting a chemical space/dimension then they're certainly natural.
That feature really helps when you use integers for indexing, e.g., like an enum. Say you are parsing a file format with a type field which can have values 5, 6, 7, you can easily check if that's valid with a single call and lookup something, like a corresponding length in an array without having to translate those field values to array indices first.
For me it’s actually the opposite. I dislike the container/heap functions for the fact that Push() and Pop() try to pass through values in the first place.

Especially for Pop() it’s completely gratuitous. It’s fairly common that you want to peek at the min-element prior to popping. For example, a work queue might only want to pop jobs if their scheduling time exceeds the current wall time. In that case you already need to inspect x[0] by hand. And if you do that, you simply don’t use Pop()’s return value.

I would rather see that the ‘any’ arguments/return values are removed entirely, and that the caller is responsible for reading/writing them from/to the array directly. It’s sufficient for container/heap to just implement the heapify algorithms. Its interface could just be identical to sort.Interface.

Even though some people hate it, I think it’s beautiful that sort.Sort() is implemented in such a way that it’s oblivious of the underlying data structure and element type, I wish container/heap adhered to the same principle.
All but one of the many SSDs I've worked with that failed did so by refusing to respond to any commands from that point forward. The other one was actually probably ok, but did a big reallocation and performance was trash during the process, so we replaced it.

Some of my hard drives that failed when that way, sudden unexpected disappearance from the bus, but most of them provided signs of upcoming disaster, which could likely have been averted if the signs were considered in a timely way.

The failure rate of the SSDs was much lower than the HDDs, but the means of failure was more troublesome.
I have a 5k display and I can't even quite make the page wide enough to view the entire globe. How are people with regular displays supposed to view it? What a disaster of a presentation!
my interpretation of this and prosperity gospel and effective altruism: they're para social vanity beliefs that simply justify them doing what they want to do.

nothing more than a facade operating under capitalism is good.
Well in theory, honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl.
i met the subject matter on the article's terms and made it quite explicit that an image can be impressive but unsubstantial entirely orthogonal to whether or not it is the result of diffusion. obviously it's nuts that you can cook up the right markov chain to repeatedly denoise your way to something recognisable; i doubt anyone's here to take that away from you.
Yep, it can lock down exact versions of those libraries as well, which is great for not mucking about with lib versions between even different Ubuntu versions, not to mention distros or macOS.
> i can't speak for anyone else but i don't exactly find myself seeking out stable diffusion output because a big colourful high-contrast image of a t. rex bursting out the center of mars surrounded by rainbow mandala constellations or whatever doesn't really do anything for me.

Oh yeah? What about... "a mesmerizingly vibrant and colossal T-Rex with an iridescent, shimmering skin that reflects all the colors of the spectrum. It stands in a fantastical, alien landscape filled with towering, luminescent mushroom-like structures and a flowing river of brilliant, neon light. In the background, an otherworldly nebula explodes with the most intense and vivid colors across the cosmic star-filled sky"!? [1]

I have nothing else to add to this serious topic, I just like drawing dinosaurs like I'm eight years old again [2]. I rented a GPU for this weekend and I've got a script using GPT4 to generate random topic-specific prompts for SDXL to test out all the parameters, schedulers, etc (5k images and counting so far). Maybe it's just the fact that I've avoided the reddit firehose but I don't know how anyone could lose their awe so fast. It's just fun and there doesn't have to be any more to it.

[1] https://dalle.party/?party=cA8EVQF5

[2] https://dalle.party/?party=pXWEenFO
what emacs needs

1. Make emacs faster
2. While I dont mind elisp that much, add support for other languages a clojure dialect that compiles to elisp (a la clojurescript) might be nice
It's so smooth!
Never heard of those and I doubt 99% of the population have either.

Not being compatible with those sites is definitely not the barrier to widespread adoption of Firefox.
Lullaby is free. It's notched white noise, with an interactive test to help you find the notch frequency for your tinnitus. So not the same as this youtube clip, which is just an ascending sine tone.
same concerns here, I will use RN
Thank you for summing it up. The common is things from developer's perspective I feel they should be checked out (not just programming languages)
> And this kinda speaks for itself

That's just a list of URLs with the substring "hack" in them.

URLs like ryansugarshack.com (Ryan's Sugar Shack: Taste of New Hampshire).
Check cipi control panel
How does this compare to PyTorch labs optimizations for Sam and llama2 ?

https://github.com/pytorch-labs/segment-anything-fast

https://github.com/pytorch-labs/gpt-fast
To each their own I guess. I'm in my 50s but ever since I test-drove a Tesla, and the car pressed me back in my seat with just a quiet swoosh, all that noise has just seemed superfluous and old-fashioned.
It's funny to me how much of the code is just replicating behavior you would already have for free if you just had a small shell script that used standard tools like curl and sed, and it wouldn't need to be compiled, and it would be one single file instead of four with a nested source directory, and it wouldn't have 2000 lines of cargo config.
I forgot to add: it's unlikely anything you come up with (while trying to develop your creativity) is going to be legitimately useful or even fun. It's like expecting to play a violin like Hillary Hahn (or <insert skilled musician>) after you've just picked it up. But the time to play an instrument so that at least you can tolerate your own sounds and have fun is much shorter -- and frankly, necessary I think not to give up before you can play really well (if that matters at all).
This article should be called “how to get fired as a UX designer”
Pretty much any job using it will require security clearance ...
I don't think that's it, since the Californian ideology isn't Republican to begin with.
Asciidoc lightweight markup can be used in place of ANY complex XML-based CCS (component content system), i.e. DocBook, DITA, S1000D, 40-50-something MIL-STD "specifications". Asciidoc can do anything they can, and can do it cheaper, faster, and better. With standard tooling that's everywhere you have a computer.

I'm not sure I can type out, with trembling fingers, how many dollars have been flushed down the toilet of CCSs by businesses that either had no business experimenting with componentized content, or businesses that didn't have resources for training up staff, or vendors who literally evaporated like morning dew after they'd gotten their initialization fees. So just one single story: one prime aerospace vendor I worked with had started their road to S1000D publishing in 2009. Today - at the end of 2023, and more than twenty million dollars later, with a garbage truck full of sweat and blood - that system has not released a single publication to the end user. Not one.
I'd be cooler if they banned all political ads.
I am sure you know enough about Rust to know that writing a linked list in Rust is not a “novice exercise”. It is also not something you require to use the language.

This is like a C# dev trolling a C developer by say “first novice exercise”, HTML encode a UTF8 string. I mean, it is a single line of code in C# so how hard could it be in C?

Or, it is like a C dev telling a Java programmer that their “first novice exercise” should be to write a fixed binary layout to a device driver or even just to call directly into an OS system call. Both are trivial in C after all. How about using a hash table for something though? Reasonably big job in C but new HashMap in Java.

Rust is designed to prevent exactly the kind of thing you do to create a linked list and it is designed to make it difficult for a good reason. It is a cherry picked example meant to sound smart but, in reality, it is an eye-rollingly dumb thing to say.

In DOS, I can write a program to dynamically overwrite and extend the behaviour of the operating system in RAM. In Linux, I cannot easily do that. I guess that means DOS is more advanced? To me, this sounds like the argument you are making about Rust.

I do it care which language people like. There are pros and cons of each and legit arguments on use one over the other. Why not use one of the valid arguments instead of dumb gotcha comments that only tell us the languages are different and not which one is better.
this project is AMAZING
Air tightness.

Tilt turns have a single seal that runs along the perimeter. When the window closes the gasket gets compressed all around. Double hung windows have more seams and slide.
Probably not while towing another 911 though.
Of course these types of respirators have an exhalation valve and would be a dick move to wear anywhere that requires masks. If you’re contagious you’ll be spewing virus all over just like someone with no mask on.
The only thing I’d change would be to get rid of the pickle.
Why not refund people for their purchases then if the content is being removed?
Cool. Then you can use Firefox which will support Mv3 extensions without castrating ad blocking.
Straight from hell in looks, but if this works it would be a real development in bike technology!
Exactly. Thank you!

I'm not sure how GP can justify what Putin's regime is attempting out of historical paranoia about NATO, his own ill choices that created a traditional autocracy house-of-cards that is somehow also based on mafia behavior, and his PTSD from the Cold War.

There is no what-aboutism allowed here. Nation states do foul things, and they should all be judged justly as possible by history.

Here, in the _present_, in this thread, we are talking about a specific topic where a much, much larger military power attempting to steamroll a fledgling Democracy after previously stealing a giant chunk of it with brazen menace and comic subterfuge. This also gave birth to Wagner Group and all the harm they and their descendants are causing in Africa through mineral wealth extraction and coup support.

We can have a separate thread where we can discuss the irony of this situation from a historical perspective, the cyclical nature of human aggression and ideological absolutism overall. That would be cool. What is NOT cool however, is somehow trying to justify such a war of aggression as a valiant pre-emptive stroke against an encroaching menace. That is farcical, and to be fair and frank, a detriment to any possible position one could have in support of Putin's regime.

I personally can't see one, but I'm always open to listen and talk, instead of just throwing hundreds of thousands of lives away because you fell for a conspiracy theory - or even worse, because you created one.
Notably, many of the features championed by this article just don’t (yet) work on mobile Safari. JavaScript is used because it (usually) works everywhere, unlike niche browser features.
This is basically optical write-only tape drive technology. There is literally no way to get to TB/cm2 using their technique (that's ~100 bits/linear um) using visible range light and spatial light modulators in a single layer.

They reveal that their future system will use 5 um thick tape (good luck! that's half the thickness of Saran Wrap) so I assume the claimed TB/cm2 density includes a bunch of layers. That's fine, but the claims about 5000 year lifetime on 5 um polymer tapes with nm thick ceramic are pretty extraordinary (requiring extraordinary evidence.)
LOL, the LLM is a single dimension. True AI involves a multiplicity of dimensions. Take the course of the life of a child from birth to old age. It suckles- poop/pee and learns from those experiences - maturity. The Large Human Model (LHM) would 'see' the progress of this life via trillions of observations of experiences on file, like LLM scavenged the written 'textome' to get where it is. Now text archives are more extensive and also easily searchable. The millions of LHM watchers would go through the 'humome' of experience.(which is probably both smaller than the textome as well as larger in diversity of physical experience). So it would learn it could not fly, (notwithstanding kids in superman suits) and quickly accumulate an action base of the full human life stream. After learning, crawl/walk/fall from trees/trip/bruise knees.....all things people do. It can then 'cross compile' this with the LLM and be able to create an avatar to use the LLM data to script a virtual avatar. Such an avatar could directed as needed for tasks etc., and the first steps of the ladder to a true AI will commence. This would also need all the details of the human 'neurome' to be mapped and modelled in silicon to see if it will think like us.
We have a 'clock speed', or alpha rhythm of 8-12 Hz, with a mind in silico is a clock speed of 10 Ghz - or more, reasonable?
This can start(has started) with models of the flat worm neurome and has reached many insects and small mammals, but is a work in progress with mice etc, but in the next few years virtual small insects will be virtualised, but the chemical pathways of even small insects and flatworms will take longer.
The parent commenter is saying that JavaScript in the browser MUST NOT be a dependency for core functionality because it may be disabled ("when JS cannot JS").

If your site is popular over Tor — that is, if it's used for warez or by whistleblowers and journalists who need to browse privately — this may be good advice. If it's not, people who disable a core aspect of the browsing stack are savvy enough to enable JavaScript on a site-by-site basis when necessary.
This picked up a lot of controversy and outrage on twitter for its peculair defense of doxxing, but I can't read this article as anything other than unrestrained self-promotion disguised as being outed by a journalist. Is forbes sites even a paid position at forbes? I don't want to libel the author by claiming the piece was planted by Beff himself, but what's more likely, this writer who mostly covers what's trending on tiktok gets a big scoop using voice recognition on a twitter space and then writes a glowing dossier? Or beff got on the phone with a publicist and conjured a big reveal with a softball interview all while namedropping his new startup?

I don't know why I care so much, it just makes me feel crazy to see someone with hundreds of followers taking his word as gospel instead of seeing through the paper thin marketing scheme.
Really depends on the part of the city you’re in. Take the green line out to Lents and walk back to the city center and you will develop an even greater appreciation for the difference trees make.