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> Asking for drones now

He did not. It would be worth re-reading his comment. He's pointing out that we do have technology that could help with containment: quickly identify fires, communicate their location, and dispatch some local water carriers. He's also surmising that the cost of keeping these active would be less than the cost of damages, which could very well be true.

Something like a Reaper drone, which he specifically mentions, works fine in the wind, as do the water carriers, that fly at hundreds of miles an hour, that have been actively helping this whole time.

I think this is probably all true, but probably not the future since it would require a competent state government who embraces tech.
It worked for me. It's intentionally written like a piece of fiction, you don't even have to know the characters are all real people to enjoy the story. Though I guess most readers at least know who "Ron" refers to.
The lip flappers, as you call them, are providing valuable information to people who lived and/or worked in the areas where the fires are occurring.

As I type this, ABC7 is providing intersections-specific location information for their reporters-on-the-ground so that people can track the progress of the fire and hopefully determine the status of their houses.
> Reasonable people (e.g., high-integrity newspapers, courts of law) will say "how can we trust that these stolen emails are authentic given that there's no chain of custody?" DKIM signatures nearly answer that question, which makes stolen emails much more valuable than they would be otherwise.

Thank you for clarifying where the vulnerability chain begins and ends.
> house fire would easily pop-up even from tens of km. A acre size fire - it would pop-up even on coarse grain IR from space

Both of these produce lots of smoke. Neither can be doused by drones.
Did you actually read them or just go to wikipedia for a summary?
Deserts absolutely have wildfires, and are even pretty common in California deserts. The second largest fire in the state for 2023 was the York Fire in the Mojave Desert[0]. There have been many other sizable desert fires in recent years as well.

As with many other landscapes, climate change, drought, and aquifer depletion have made deserts increasingly vulnerable to large wildfires.

[0]https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-31/york-fir...
Note, just to rub this in: you don't even get the verification you're looking for, because DKIM verifies domains and not users.
Hey, you never know when you might need to lift your house off its foundation and move it around the block!
I'm not so sure. In nVidia's keynote, they had an example of small smoke plumes identified as potential fires. If you had a drone hovering over a particular city to monitor fires, it could potentially be an early warning system, no?

And to others that said that the winds are dangerous, do quadcopter drones (which tend to be more stable anyway) have algorithms to account for that?
When we are on subject of loops... I'd love to have 'else' block for loops that runs when the loop had zero iterations.
This is what I'm thinking too. StackOverflow has been struggling against floods of users posting low-quality duplicates and homework questions for over a decade, who are now moving somewhere else. This is a chance for it to return to the high-quality Q&A it once was.
Igalia is self directed and one of the few organizations I can see taking on technical leadership of the entire chromium project if/when Google divests Chrome.

The technical talent at Igalia runs deep.
Tons of people just go and imbibe in various things and just sway to the music or the beat. It really is a blank slate to make it what you want, and i think that's why its popular - many types of people all go to them for many different reasons.
They're talking about both detecting and dousing. Note they mention two different kinds of drones (a few monitor drones, and then a fleet of drones to deploy and douse). The monitor drones could be practical, we've demonstrated that loitering sensor drones work well in other domains.

Depending on the sensor payload (what it's looking for) and how the data is stored and used, it wouldn't really entail a huge privacy problem unless you show up on IR sensors as well as a fire.
Los Angeles Fire Department funding was cut by over $23M only a few months ago. The fires are currently being fought by a skeleton crew of remaining fire fighters and volunteers. Can't say if that funding would have prevented it, but cutting it definitely has not helped.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/los-angeles-fires-m...

Edit: Changing a word, "gutted" -> "cut"
> The calculation changes

Nope. It becomes slightly further from the record high numbers, but still better than at any time before 90-s.

At this point, the misery caucus is just grasping at straws. In a couple of years, the housing inventory will make even that metric irrelevant, but the price of housing will still be going up.

> The solution is to remove the very much existent density and other supply restrictions

Nope. The solution is the opposite: preserve the SFH at all costs and shut down the misery caucus. Build new cities, not new density. Create jobs outside of dense hellscapes.

Because the reality is that NOT A SINGLE CITY has lowered the housing sale prices by increasing the density of existing areas. Not a single one in the US, Europe, or Japan.
Came to ask the same thing.
The tobacco industry also shifted to the most deadly form, cigarettes. Casual low use cigar smokers that don't inhale ( proper way to smoke cigar ) iirc have lower lung cancer and higher life expectancy than non smokers. Pipes and cigar were generally better especially when used in moderation even against moderate cigarette smoking.

Although generally the US just has bad tobacco habits. 'European' style smoking of a cigarette with coffee a couple times a week likely will kill you slower than whatever was going to get you like cooking and eating smoky grilled meats.
It did affect housing. I remember the great deals one could find when remote work was in full swing, and all that was said about vacant office, or smaller cities growing at the expense of bigger ones.

It was only two years though. An industry can hold off and fight back in that time.
It's all about value. The market has decided.
They are related, for sure. But one of the biggest differences is that operations affecting multiple Reboot states are transactional, unlike Azure's "entity functions".

Because multiple Azure entity functions are not updated transactionally, you are essentially always implementing the saga pattern: you have to worry about cleaning up after yourself in case of failure.

In Reboot, transactional function calls automatically roll back all state changes if they fail, without any extra boilerplate code. Our hypothesis is that that enables a large portion of an application to skip worrying about failure entirely.

Code that has side-effects impacting the outside world can be isolated using our workflow mechanism (effectively durable execution), which can themselves be encapsulated inside of libraries and composed. But we don't think that that is the default mode that developers should be operating in.
they use manned planes for monitoring - very costly and not scalable. And there is no "water-bombing" drone fleet. The manned "water-bombers" are extremely expensive, there is only small number of them and they actually carry pretty small amount of water as they are mostly helicopters or retrofitted passenger planes.
I’m on social media to talk to my grandkids and former co workers.

I don’t want to see your hoo-ha on Meta while I’m eating my pancakes.
Considering that Yahoo doesn't really exist anymore, and that Yahoo Mail is just a relic of Yahoo's heyday that is somehow still hanging around, I assume nobody has bothered to actually maintain its handling of security protocols for about a decade.
Are there estimates for the cost of fireproofing Californian construction?
In Scala you can do:

while { prepare; condition }
do { process }

This runs all 3 in order every iteration but quits if condition evaluates to false. It just uses the fact that value of a block is the value of the last expression in the block.

Scala has a lot of syntax goodies although some stuff is exotic. For example to have a 'break' you need to import it and indicate where from exactly you want to break out of.
That's actually a fair point. The good thing is that archive.is works on their site now.
no, the skepticism is for people who understand what they are being skeptical about. if you have a degree in chemistry and you disagree with one other chemist, I'd have to listen to both of you and try to make up my own mind. if you disagree with 99% of chemists, then I'm not ingesting what you suggest nor avoiding what they recommend.

you don't get to point to Facebook posts by uncle Rob who reposts crackpot ideas 24/7 and call that "a controversy". there is such a thing as being wrong.
Sorry my post was sarcasm. If English is a second language I can see where that could be lost in translation. I don't expect any of these vendors, especially Amazon 3rd party, to check.
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> if you're not an immoral opportunist...

"amoral" might be a better fit there given how they'll happily swing in whichever direction they think the power/money wind is blowing.
I listened through Move Your DNA last year (biomechanics) so this makes a lot of sense.

On the whole it doesn’t seem that bad, at least this aspect. We just need to do better than sitting for 12+ hours. And I like movement. Not being lethargic.

Some things (out of the deluge of information from everywhere) discourage me, like learning that you have been drinking water wrong your whole life or whatever microhabit is ruining your life this week. But I was and am mostly optimistic about the biomechanics stuff. Because there is a ton of potential to do better considering that even athletes can be habitual oversitters.

Thanks.
Notice a bunch of downvotes -- Apologies for being unfamiliar with the rules here (I've always been reading HN, but I'm new to commenting). I should've added a lot more details to my previous comment and been more specific. Any other guides would be helpful too. I'll be careful in the future.

When I learned OS, I followed MIT 6.828 (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2017/overview.html) and implemented a small OS called JOS based on Xv6. So if you're looking for some teaching OS in x86, check it out.
As someone who does something similar, it’s easily both
UW alum here, my alma mater is a disappointment.
> There should be no expectation that consumer grade gaming cards will be optimal for ML use.

And yet it just so happens they work effectively the same. I've done research on an RTX 2070 with just 8 GB VRAM. That card consistently met or got close to the performance of a V100 albeit with less vram.

Why indicate people shouldn't use consumer cards? It's dramatically (like 10x-50x) cheaper. Is machine learning only for those who can afford 10k-50k USD workstation GPU's? That's lame and frankly comes across as gate keeping.

Honestly I can't really imagine how a person could reasonably have this stance. Just let folks buy hardware and use it however they want. Sure if may be less than optimal but it's important to remember that not everyone in the world has the money to afford an H100.

Perhaps you can explain some other better reason for why people shouldn't use consumer cards for ML? It's frankly kind of a rude suggestion in the absence of a better explanation.
Foopee and 19hz

Start going to shows and look for fliers

Also check out spaz parties.
I want it!

But the question to me is, how reliable is it?

If I turn it on, can I resume working on my script or taking notes, or do I have to sometimes start with debugging the keyboard driver with a touch screen?

(I am burned a bit by pinephone and co. who never evolved beyond tinker toy)
What is the cigarettes of today that we later learn it's not good for us or it does nothing ... recycling or drinking water from plastic bottles?
is there a wildfire tracker?
QEMU is a fixed set of hardware. And far easier to target than a Pi.

The founder of SerenityOS created it as therapy and a pure “happiness” project. I am not sure actually using it was a real goal. So, he did the stuff he found interesting. That led him to writing display servers and web engines and crypto libraries and away from “real” drivers. He wrote his own C/C++ standard libraries and userland utilities but only enough driver code to make QEMU happy. It only ever ran in a VM on his Linux desktop. In the end, he found the web browser more interesting than the OS it was created for.

Very different project from Linux where what Linus wanted was an OS for his own computer. Linus was happy to leave the userland to others and still sticks to the kernel even now.
Lightning strikes and humans are probably the most common causes for fires in the desert.

Most desert areas in the US are a lot more lush than the blank sand dunes many people think of as desert. Usually there are a lot of bushes and grasses, and higher elevations can pine, juniper, oak, and other trees.
> you may end up with a very strong ally when you knock it out of the park

I imagine this will be determined by the culture and the system of rewards which are out of your control. A shadow lead could be an ally, or they could pin any deficiencies on you. The author’s comment is sound in my opinion: depending on altruistic behavior is a bad position to be in.
> it wouldn't really entail a huge privacy problem unless you show up on IR sensors as well as a fire

If you’re hoping to do better than sighting a smoke column, you will absolutely have to be. We’re not at a loss of detecting entire houses burning.
You mean every legacy car makers out there.
I'm hedging a little because I'm not an expert. :) As far as I'm aware, the last major algorithmic development was GNFS in 1993.
The problem is not identifying fires. That's the easy part. As I watched the local news last night, I was able to watch (along with the anchors) the real-time growth of the Eaton fire from a tiny fire near the campgrounds into a behemoth. This morning, the local news covered the real-time development of 2 new fires (both were quickly contained).

The problem is fighting fires in steep, mountainous terrain filled with dryed out brush and trees when the winds are so strong (hurricane-strength gusts) that you can't provide any air support. The problem is that the winds were so strong last night and this morning that burning embers in the air could fly to and light structures miles away (which is how most of the current fires in Altadena started).
Okay, I understand what you are trying to say, but some of what you are using as examples doesn't support your argument. Games, unless they are simple single player games, need the network. Scientific sims and math research are best served on the latest hardware, which often needs the latest OS/software to get the most out of it.
I think your arguing that MOST software should run without needing to be updated, and when we lived in a dial-up world and before, that was a very viable position. But with all of our machines on an always on network, the OS has to be kept up to date.

Most businesses just want things to work; their software/hardware costs are often rounding errors when amortized over their lifetime. I'm sympathetic to users who have paid for programs wanting to run them forever, but software businesses have to make money and sell new versions, so they add new features and follow the OS upgrades.
It's hard for businesses to support older software or a big diversity of versions; it's why companies mandate a standard and try to enforce it.

With Microsoft, they are making millions on OS and related basic programs, and so can afford to support things for a long time. With OSS like Linux, there is less funding and less people who are interested in running old versions.
As someone who has had to keep some software up to date on Linux, it can sometimes be more of a pain to update a package (because of dependencies) them to just recompile the thing from source.
The 5 years that LTS releases get are good for 2 average commercial update cycles, which I think is reasonable. Beyond that, people's skills are going to be out of date.
> It was a different time

Not that different.

> and people genuinely did not know the harms of smoking like we do now

The tobacco companies knew very well. IIRC, the medical community kinda-sorta knew and kinda-sorta suppressed the knowledge.
An excerpt from _How to Lie with Statistics_ by Darrell Huff (1954):

> Take this one: "27 percent of a large sample of eminent physicians smoke Throaties--more than any other brand." The figure itself may be phony, of course, in any of several ways, but that really doesn't make any difference. The only answer to a figure so irrelevant is "So what?" With all proper respect toward the medical profession, do doctors know any more about tobacco brands than you do? Do they have any inside information that permits them to choose the least harmful among cigarettes? Of course they don't, and your doctor would be the first to say so. Yet that "27 percent" somehow manages to sound as if it meant something.

That book specifies many other examples (from this time period in America) of misleading claims that sound statistically significant upon an uncritical, cursory reading.
Voting/karma systems changed the nature of communication compared to traditional forums. Despite supposedly replying to each other, the participants become mere props for the real conversation which is between each participant alone and the larger crowd.
> problem is that the world itself is just too complex that without nuance, you're not talking about anything meaningful- so what's the point?

To get someone to do something.

There are very few corners of the internet conducive to debate. (Here is one of the exceptions.)
There seemed to be a lot of loud, bad-faith, antagonists in that era that likely ended up killing a lot of people. Things like drinking bleach, using de-wormer, don't get vaccines, masks are bad for you, etc... It was exhausting to hear because it got a whole big group of people to cosplay domain experts and the rest of us had to deal with the fallout of millions dying.
Yeah I'm glad I didn't go there.
Unfortunately there's increasingly few places where natural disasters, of one sort or another, aren't inevitable. The PNW also burns regularly now, never mind the enormous earthquake looming under us that we're terribly unprepared for. Even the northeast is starting to get buried in smoke in the summer and hit by storms like Hurricane Sandy. Tornado Alley knocks out much of the midwest. What's left of the US? Desert and mountains?
I'm not sure if stuff changed or maybe i'm just older. A lot of those parties seemed so mysterious and exciting a couple years back for me. Now it seems like the same old stuff month in and month out. Most DJs kind of have their shtick, and there's also this kind of standard left field rave sound that a lot have seemed to adopt. Kind of like the Resolute roster.

it's also very hard for me to rationalize staying up until the main act comes on at 3-5am, getting home at 6am minimum. You waste most or all of the next day.
Textpod: "One Big Text File" + some magic note-taking app [video]
>Both of these produce lots of smoke.

i suggest you view a bunch of real IR footage.

> Neither can be doused by drones.

I'm pretty sure 20 tons of water would douse a house fire. It would take 10 flights of an F8F Bearcat sized drone. Though the F8F is an overkill built for speed. One can carry 1-2 ton with much simpler plane today for that purpose.

An acre size fire - an acre-inch of water is 100 ton. So 10 drones 10 flights at 1 ton/drone.
Follow the same steps for callers whose voice you don't recognize, before giving any financial information or reading any codes, call the person back using a verifiable good number.
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It could be for fires on normal weather days.

The problem is that with these winds and humidity small fires become huge fires before anybody can react. Once they are huge fires, detection isn't the problem.
I haven’t had an issue with it but I’ve heard other people do depending on the speed they’re walking.

I actually find walking to help intensify my focus for coding if I’m deep in the flow of a problem. I find reading PRs while walking to actually be the more difficult thing vs coding.
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Apple know it would give the game away and so exempted their own software from Little Snitch et al as of Big Sur https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
> suggest you view a bunch of real IR footage

For what? I’m familiar with very sensitive IR systems. I’m struggling to see the advantage of having them on drones versus satellites, particularly if the threshold is an entire house is on fire.
To violate your privacy an IR sensor would have to be able to pick out people (98 degrees Fahrenheit, approx.) and put them on a map. Versus a sensor tuned to an actual fire which is substantially hotter and larger.
>> Neither can be doused by drones.

Identification only by drone. Then the dousing is done by conventional means, but dispatched locally.
>Twitter turned into garbage when Elon decided to make it pay-to-play.

Twitter has been garbage for a long time before that.
No they didn't. Why are you telling lies?
Someone tweeted $23 million .. your linked article (thank you for source) follows that with:

City budget documents show the department’s more than $800 million budget decreased by around $17 million compared to the previous budget cycle.

Which makes the cuts less than %2.12

"Gutted" as a descripter seems extreme and the details that matter are whether these reductions simply trimmed fat, or denied something essential that would have made all the difference here.
> libfive is 40K lines of mostly C++, and is extremely challenging to hack on, even as the original author. It's also frustrating to touch: if it's been a few months since I last compiled it, it's inevitable that the build will have broken, and I'll have to mess with CMake for 10 minutes to unbreak it.

I'm a bit shocked at this. Is build breakage that much of an issue? Is this "we are merging in patches and then fixing them up later"? Why would something not being touched break?
That’s just how colleges are. I once reported to my alma mater that a somewhat obscure (but obviously public) link seemed to trigger the download of a zip of student details for no discernible reason (I think it was a WIP site), and they immediately threatened to call the FBI on me. I just sort of laughed it off, but I decided that was the last time I was going to initiate any sort of contact with them if I didn’t absolutely have to.

Which is the policy I followed when I found that they had stored one of their LDAP admin passwords in a world readable file on the CS servers.
If this is a question, not an intro to your explanation, then: Hatters (in Britain) used mercury to cure the hides they used. Mercury vapor can cause brain damage. Enough hatters were visibly mad, that the saying arose.
How does your book compare with the classic "Operating systems design and implementation" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull implementing MINIX?
The mods haven't done anything. This story is being flagged by users and, after looking at the data, I believe it's a genuine community response. (Edit: here's comment I just ran across, which expresses some of this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42638174).

More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42637022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632335
This is called prompt injection. Modern LLMs have defenses against it but apparently it is still a thing. I don't understand how LLMs work but it blows my mind that they can't reliably distinguish between instructions and data.