skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raspberry Pi has a bizarre boot sequence and bringup process, much of it which is not open and not implemented in open source code. I think it's probably not a great platform for this sort of thing, despite it being decently well-documented.

(And even then, its USB controller, for example, has no publicly-available datasheet. If you want to write your own driver for it, you have to read the Linux driver source and adapt it for your needs.)
For reference the LAPD budget is $175 million per month.

The fire budget was cut by $17.6 million for the year, the 23M cut was proposed. The police budget was increased by $126M for the year.

For context, the LAFD annual budget is $820M and the LAPD annual budget is $2140M.
I think you just described software that was developed by professionals vs software that was developed by warm bodies.
What is burning? Mostly bushes or mostly homes?
Reminds me of the time my university made headlines!...for attempting to regulate wifi.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/49515
It’s fine for the resolution to be going elsewhere. But it’s also very reasonable to say “hey, you guys are dickbags” as you go. SO encourages dickbag behavior.
Update: I immediately took down my class project site after receiving yesterday’s ultimatum. I still don’t think the simple demo site violated the letter or spirit of the registration rules, but I took it down because I always want to operate in good faith.

They followed up today to thank me for doing it, but also indicated that they were putting a hold on my account anyway. As a result, I am not going to be able to register for my final quarter and have been de facto expelled at the end of this quarter.

Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate.

I really love UW and have had a wonderful time here. But this is so demoralizing.

Update #2:

I appreciate you guys for all of your advice.

This platform was never intended to be monetized, and I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

I'm not planning to pursue this project at this point. If they came up to me at first with the offer to work with them it might be different, but the way they handled it makes me just want to walk away.
I don't understand - what could they possibly expel you for?
I thought that’s what the reference was. I think it all worked out in the end.
Really nice - tested on mobile and desktop.

Nice touches:

- Motion from the running clock

- Knowing where the planets are on a given date

Wish list:

- Scroll through time

- Hide non-planets, esp. to see inclinations of the planets

- Display the orbital center

- Reframe as Atlas of Home
> there's increasingly few places where natural disasters, of one sort or another, aren't inevitable

Sure. That doesn’t mean you can’t mitigate damage.

Not e.g. building on the Houston flood plain is one such example [1].

[1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...
Seems like it would be logistically difficult to be able to drop a significant amount of water anywhere in, say, 15 minutes.

With dry conditions and high winds, that is an extremely slow response to an uncontrolled fire...
Show HN is for authors to present their own work. Not affiliates.
I have tried to use SO on a few different occasions in the last year, and I’m running into an issue where (likely due to declining traffic and user interest) the quality of the answers is really poor because a lot of the information is for older versions of tools/languages/systems that have changed.

It’s a pretty clear indicator that the site is in a death spiral of

1. traffic falls
2. With fewer users, quality of answers falls
3. users can’t find good answers
4. GOTO 1
Haha, touché!

Well I can confidently say that your health is different to places I've experienced.

I bet you don't even still use faxes...
Social media. I think many people already realize this, but it hasn’t yet hit a tipping point.
4k 24" monitors used to exist, but they've disappeared from the market and now the choices are either 27+" or laptop panels.
Implication not substantiated by random insignificant observation. Bot?
I like:

Kaeru no tsura ni shonnbenn, カエルの面に小便, (Like) piss on a frogs face;

Basically the idiom "like water off a ducks back"
https://app.watchduty.org/

This one is pretty good
You may want to consult with a lawyer. This is starting to sound like extortion.
HTTPS isn't an issue, dropping whatever the command generates onto a HTTPS supporting server isn't an issue.

I want the manifest to be automatically generated from whatever is in the directory. The service worker should download everything from the manifest at first launch. I'm ok with a download-on-demand build option, but by default it should grab everything needed. If a user installs something, it should be assumed that they can use it offline.

I feel like the tool should already exist. If it does not yet exist, it seems like there must be a reason for that that I am not aware of.
As an ex-JPLer, it would not have surprised me for this to be the case even in the early 2010s.
Their market share has significantly declined
Sure, there are nutjobs everywhere, but contrary to principles of science, everyone was told to "trust the science".

Not "be skeptical, verify, repeat, etc.", but "trust".... you shouldn't have to blidndly trust science, that's reserved for nutjobs speaking to god by yelling into a hat, where there's no way to verify.

Many people also got vaccinated because the science mentioned 94% (or whatever) effciveness against covid infections, about preventing spread, and guess what, trusting that killed immunocompromised grandma too.
What? You didn't even do anything? This is extortion.
Putting the cameras on flying platforms actually limits their functionality because the platforms have to be refueled/recharged and rotated out on a constant basis.

Water carriers fly close to the ground and make sharp turns because they need to pick up water and make targeted drops, so they are heavily affected by the wind. The water carriers weren't able to start flying until late this morning/early this afternoon due to the winds being too strong (>75+mph gusts).
This sounds like they are trying to extort you.
It's probably what you've said. I think perception changes, all the different venues and different types of music were once exciting. Then your brain forms the patterns and isn't as excited by x,y and maybe only z elicits a reaction.

Then you become more and more a morning person, so in the evening you aren't even that hyped up and your brain is already trying to call it a night.

For me something like standard 4x4 techno has become so formulaic that it doesnt interest me as much
> Versus a sensor tuned to an actual fire which is substantially hotter and larger

Again, at that point you’re no longer adding value over the status quo. We don’t have a problem detecting large fires near population centres.
> none of them will have "actual qualifications".

And for everybody who demands a certificate of some sort, there's somebody else who rejects anybody who _has_ that certificate ("You have an MCSE? Only idiots have MCSEs!")
2% means gutted? 2% less funding means only a skeleton crew is left?
I see there are three separate fires several km apart. How do they start so synchronously?
> The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.

So, in the long run, we'll just throw more and more hardware at AI, forever.

> The second general point to be learned from the bitter lesson is that the actual contents of minds are tremendously, irredeemably complex... we should build in only the meta-methods that can find and capture this arbitrary complexity.

So AI will permanently involve throwing a ton of compute at a ton of data.

I guess it's time to buy stock in computer hardware manufacturers.
Wasn't a government agency rendering citizen SSNs client-side and when someone discovered it, they went after them? Wouldn't be surprised if the anti-DRM part of the DMCA is used to persecute these non-crimes.
Real condescending dad energy right?
That's what happens when upvotes put a story on the front page and then user flags take it off the front page. This is standard stuff. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639323 and the other links there.
Folks say the same thing about the 1991 Oakland firestorm. If there's a fire in your area, pay attention and don't assume it'll be contained, the situation can change very quickly.
Yeah it's such a sacrifice. Many of the acts come on at 1am earliest, but usually 3am. That's getting home before 6 if you're lucky and then the whole next day is wasted.
Probably not the raspberry pi as it is one of the less conventional SBC in terms of booting and while its hardware is more documented than ever, it's still a less documented Broadcom custom chip.
I prefer to check the current catechism

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM

the key difference between the pre Vatican II and the current missal is that is a focus on sacrifice vs a focus of communion.

St Augustine so sweetly reminds us:

receive what you _are_: body of Christ

and

become what you have received: body of Christ

does your practice make you a more loving person? or a more righteous one? do you feel those not celebrating a specific rite are less Christian? less worthy? does it matter on judgement day if you went to tridentine mass? if you had a choice? do you look down to those not doing it?

that's what matters.

the Jesus chips are as magic in English as they are in latin.

much love ;-)
You are welcome! I just looking on these things very serious and trying to use my knowledge to make better products/services. And sometimes I'm really surprised in good way.
That's all false, like the other things you've been posting.
Why would the school admin go nuclear over a request to integrate with the registration system, a system that is clearly intended to be used by applications:

> “The Student Web Service gives your application access to information in the Student database such as course data, registration data, section data, person data, and term data (general academic data).”

It doesn't make any sense. Was there something left out of the story? Do they offer this web service as a honeypot to find and expel ambitious software developers?
Seriously, this needs to be ended by the harshest penalty of law.

Throw every product manager responsible for forcing in-app browsers upon their users in jail.
> I feel like there is a story behind it. :)

Ahah. 100%.

Honestly I am in a great conflict right now. My current role is in a platform team (first time here, previously it was only product positions). And I'm responsible for implementing unified company wide authorization including client libraries and integration with all web frameworks in use. I feel vast empathy for product engineers having to migrate and integrate the new system. It has artificial intended bumps I have to enforce and doesn't like personally.
ohoh, nice article.
ohoh, there are others and they seems to be high quality.
fucking ohoh, a rss feed, no add.

In my feed and bookmarked.

very good writer, experienced dev.
You aren't shadowbanned from voting.
Quite true! Having been fairly instrumental in a few areas that I'd eventually moved on from, it was always interesting to see some of my trademark accomplishments become The Old Thing We're Trying To Replace (or even just The Big Thing We Have To Maintain); gave me a lot of empathy for prior contributors of code I ended up inheriting.
I tend to assume that the old thing seems dumb because of the constraints when it was written and changing requirements over time; if a tool made by one person in a few weeks seems hopelessly naive to the medium sized team investing a few quarters in replacing it a few years later, that seems to be a rousing success for the original author.
The genocide also wouldn't have occurred if the internet wasn't available, or if air/water didn't exist, etc

I think blaming the medium for communication is a bit silly. That is just the substrate. The responsibility solely lies with the murderers.
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I'm not sure why the percentage matters? Whether it's 2% or 20%, it's still millions of dollars that could have been used here. More broadly, why are we cutting fire department budgets when wildfires are becoming more frequent, more intense and a year round phenomenon due to global warming? If you want to trim fat in the government there are much bigger targets to go after than an essential service like firefighting.
Yeah universities are horrific for ethics.

I had a lecturer log in and leak the grades for my entire year, including my own, so his students could choose the best partners for final project.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/
There's a very delicate balance to walk between chaos that works and a new idea that might be better or it might be worse or bring it's own type of chaos.
Depends: did it have a lot of excess capacity before the cuts?
Discusion (604 points, 2 days ago, 481 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619139
Thank you, that gives a good performance estimation of what to expect and I still like it.
Nuanced: As AI writes more code, we need better tools to trust it
At Nuanced, we're building tools that make AI-generated code more reliable.

As AI writes more code, we need better tools to trust it and technologies that ensure our human understanding keeps pace with this rapid development.

While everyone else races to ship new features with AI, we're focused on addressing gaps in AI coding tools and ensuring those features are reliable and maintainable rather than code that works today but becomes a liability tomorrow.

We're starting with an AI-powered Python language server that makes AI-generated code more reliable by understanding your entire system—using a deeper semantic understanding of code than LLMs have today, but also artifacts outside of code such as commit histories, configs, and team patterns.

We're a team of ex-GitHub engineers and researchers who've scaled some of the world's largest developer platforms. I'm Ayman (https://www.aymannadeem.com/about/), and before founding Nuanced, I spent seven years at GitHub where I helped build Semantic(https://github.com/github/semantic), an open-source library for parsing and analyzing code across languages—and scaled security systems to detect anomalous code patterns across millions of repositories. Our team’s deep experience in static analysis and large-scale system design shapes our approach to the AI reliability challenge today.

We've all been on-call at 2 AM, untangling complex service dependencies, and more recently, we've seen firsthand how AI accelerates development—both the wins and the wounds.

If you're building an AI coding tool and any of this sounds interesting to you—we should talk!

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This is a huge story and if it goes viral, it could put a lot of heat on UW. Write a detailed post on your LinkedIn, Twitter, anywhere that could get the attention of media. Better yet, link your post here and I'd gladly help spread the word. What UW is doing is extortion especially for their fuck-up. Be polite in your post and just write down the facts.
Have you looked at https://www.recraft.ai/ recently? The image quality of their vector outputs seems to have gotten quite good, although you obviously still wouldn't want to try to generate densely textured or photographic-like images like Midjourney excels at. (For https://gwern.net/dropcap last year or before, we had to settle for Midjourney and create a somewhat convoluted workflow through Recraft; but if I were making dropcaps now, I think the latest Recraft model would probably suffice.)
> Crap no doubt, but maybe good enough to try some basic priming?

I had a cheapo-crappo airbrush and it was definitely enough for basic priming with some zenithal highlighting. Didn't really use it for much else beyond "wash this area with paint quick" because I am old with poor fine motor control in the hands but I could imagine it would be something you could practice on to get the basics of "pull-back/push-down" triggers.
Global warming doing it's thing.
They didn't.

Palisades started Tuesday morning in someone's backyard. The Eaton fire started last evening near one of the campgrounds. The Hearst fire started late last night around 10pm (suspected cause was a vehicle fire from an accident that spread to the side of the road).
Dupe (20 points, 10 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633865
This is lazy journalism. Has the author ever heard of "meal-prep" ? Does the author even own a freezer? Does the author even have basic cooking skills beyond spaghetti?

At most, a few hours of passive cooking and, at most, 20 minutes of bagging/wrapping on ONE day can set up a family for more than a WEEK with a variety of quick, easy, healthy, and tasty dinners.

My mom did it for our family when I was growing up and I have friends with multi-kid households that do it today.
Everybody knows you have to be a drop-out to become successful in tech. This is basically their way of identifying potential entrepreneurs and helping them to drop out.
When I read your initial post I figured it was knee jerk reaction, and like many no’s was only the start of the conversation.

Now it sounds like you’ve got some sociopaths on the line. I would gather information and fish them to get very specific about their request and threat, then kindly turn it around on them. Be prepared to go above their heads all the way to the board if necessary.
You wouldn't think you'd need to point out building on the water side of a levee is a bad idea, even for a "dry reservoir", but here we are.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
I never experienced an earthquake, in Tokyo, but those who have, say that the buildings wave around like drunk dancers.

Things fall off of shelves, but the buildings seem to come out OK.

The Japanese are hard core about building standards.

Compared to other nations (deliberately not gonna name them), that have corruption problems, as well as frequent earthquakes, you always have a bunch of buildings fall down, there's a surge of anger, a couple of unpopular scapegoats get jailed, then, it happens again, the next time.

I have a bunch of friends in the LA area. So far, none of them have been in the line of [literal] fire, but everyone is freaking out. These fires are under no control, whatsoever.
I still consider a legal warehouse party to be a rave. Depends on crowd, music, and vibe.
Seconding watch duty. Been invaluable as I evacuated. Happily donated/paid the subscription!
Teens (and tweens) used to do the bulk of the lawn care that homeowners didn't do themselves. I don't think we'll ever get back to that even if all of the immigrants were to be deported. They're just not interested in doing this kind of work anymore.
In most of the US, as long as you are sufficiently academically qualified, you can go to a public university for free or nearly so. The exact standards vary by state, but they are not all that rigorous. The federal government on top of this provides means-tested grants to anyone regardless of academic qualifications that for poor people is likely to amount to 50-75% of public university or 100% of a two-year college.

Where the US differs from a lot of European countries is a) a lot of people chase after their "dream" university, which may be private/more selective/out of state/etc and b) almost anyone can go to A university in the US, no matter how poor their grades. It just won't be free.
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Like many students, I struggled with remembering what I studied. I’d read, highlight, and take notes—only to forget everything a week later. Turns out, passive learning doesn’t work.

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I really don't understand how SoCal and California residents in general find the the state's response to wildfires in the last decade to be acceptable. Not only have fire departments seen cutbacks, but so has the forestry needed for preventative measures.

What really bugs me is what I find to be a disinterest and lack of belief in vastly expanding the fleet of water dropping aircraft. Letting fires burn to the extent that they have been isn't cheap, to put it lightly. Somehow, a state that is one of the largest economies in the world can't or won't expand its aerial response such that fires of the scale we are seeing become a thing of the past. With satellite technology, it should be possible to identify wildfires as they begin and immediately deploy hundreds if not 1000+ planes to dump water from the Pacific and reservoirs, while drones go ahead of them to confirm that an out-of-control fire is actually in progress.

I can anticipate being told this is not possible or too expensive, which is what everyone I know seems to believe, but I don't buy it.

If anyone ever runs for governor and makes my proposal their single issue platform, I will vote for them regardless of political party or whether it is truly feasible up to the extent that I am imagining. Fuck wildfires.
The conditions that make one fire likely make others likely too...

Extreme dryness, high wind, failing electrical infrastructure, overburdened emergency response.

Also embers can easily be blown miles away to ignite another "new" fire.
Agreed. I don't see anything from a google search that suggests that they cut the number of firefighters, either.

Hyperbolic statements like "gutted" are just meant to get the knee jerk, frothing at the mouth "retweet" kind of reaction, and it seems to be being successful at that.
Like many students, I struggled with remembering what I studied. I’d read, highlight, and take notes—only to forget everything a week later. Turns out, passive learning doesn’t work.

What does work? Active recall. Science backs it: testing yourself strengthens memory better than rereading.

So, I built SyncStudy—an AI-powered tool that generates quizzes, flashcards, and study challenges from any text, helping you master concepts faster. No more cramming. No more wasted hours. Just better learning, smarter retention.

It’s free to try, and I’d love feedback from the HN community!

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What study techniques have worked best for you?
Wildfires have always occurred, just that mansions are now in the way
>DataPools is a Wi-Fi geolocation spoofing project that virtually relocates your phone to the latitudes and longitudes of Silicon Valley’s elite pools. https://adam.harvey.studio/datapools/

That is hilarious and should be expanded.