skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would second this and say donate today. Focusing on who has money and who doesn’t today is really not a good policy. It is a generalization that is bound to misclassify some old ladies on a fixed income (my mom has one sleeping on her couch because of this). People who lost their homes and all their possessions yesterday and today may not be as wealthy as they were 24 hours ago.
For anyone that hasn't fallen into this rabbit hole yet it's a good one: raspberry pi started out as a kind of digital billboard appliance, so they chose a GPU with efficient 1080p decoding and strapped a CPU to the die. On power up the (proprietary) GPU boots first and then brings up the CPU.

That's as far as I got before discovering the Armbian project could handle all that for me. Coincidentally that's also when I discovered QEMU because 512MB was no longer enough to pip install pycrypto once they switched to Rust and cargo. My pip install that worked fine with earlier versions suddenly started crashing due to running out of memory, so I got to use Armbians faculties for creating a disk image by building everything on the target architecture via QEMU. Pretty slick. This was for an Orange Pi.
They were correct to laugh at Columbus. He wanted to sail to India, everyone told him (correctly, because they weren't naive about the basic geography) that the distance was much too far. He lucked into finding an unknown landmass that wasn't India.
> … we keep crowding in what seem to the worst places to live …

Malibu?

Pacific Palisades?

These are among the most pleasant places in the world to live. People are not going to stop wanting to live there — this isn’t a lost cause like a low-lying area exposed to floods. We have to find ways to mitigate the very real fire risk.
A playbook for hosting simple services
And this just landed too: https://pragprog.com/titles/jmnative/hotwire-native-for-rail...

I’ve done one app with Hotwire Native and it’s a pretty interesting solution. However, just like a truly complex and dynamic web UI can reach a level of polish with React that is hard with Hotwire, a truly complex and dynamic mobile UI can reach a level of polish with Swift/Kotlin that is truly hard with Hotwire. It makes the vast majority of experiences much faster to build, but certain complex experiences are hard to get polished.

However, Hotwire (web & native) can get you almost the full way there and you can just drop a React/Swift/Kotlin view in for parts of the app where you need it.
I’m gonna guess it was somewhat tongue in cheek.
Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis
The comments here are almost entirely of one voice: UW bad. Student innocent.

It is not hard to find the policy in question. I quote from the UW Registrar's website, their policy on tampering and abuse of the registration system, as cited in the subject of the email the student received:

> The registration system is provided for the sole express purpose for students to register themselves into sections. Any use of the registration system other than for this purpose is considered abuse of the system. Such abuse includes, but is not limited to, buying or selling one’s seat in a class, holding seats for another student, or otherwise registering for a section that one has no intention of taking. [0]

The student's project, though well-intentioned, is in clear violation of this policy. And it ought to be forbidden. There are plenty of ways this kind of a system could go wrong, including creating incentives to overregister or develop a registration black market, not to mention the technical liabilities of letting a bot talk to the database at bot-speed.

Now, as for follow-up conversations the student and the university have had, we have not seen these emails. We have only heard the student's own summary, which, given the high stakes and personally significant impact, may very well have been editorialized so that the university looks unreasonable and the student reasonable.

I, for one, cannot pass such quick and single-minded judgment as everyone else without seeing these emails.

[0] https://registrar.washington.edu/registration/policies-proce...
Should we move towards irrationality or rationality? If being rational is marginally better we should move towards that. We want less serial killers in the society.

So pointing out the fact about pets is to force meat eaters to consider their irrationality face to face.

We have done this throughout our evolution. Some people notice the irrational things in our behavior and try to reason with other humans why doing these irrational things is wrong and should be stopped (slavery, racism, etc).

That's what I am doing, and anyone should do. Just accepting the fact that humans are irrational is just accepting the status quo.
Where should they live? People living in the Midwest being hit by freezing winters get told to move to warmer weather…then Georgia gets hit by hurricanes. Move to California to avoid those and your house burns down. It turns out that climate change affects weather everywhere.
Woot has licenses for sale every so often. About $30 for the 2021 version the last time I noticed.
Look at CircuitMaker [1]. It's a simplified free version of Altium and will be more accessible than KiCAD (not to bash that, KiCAD is crazy good nowadays). Maybe start with one of the existing public designs and modify it.

I have an MSEE. The only reason I learned the board design process in school is because my office mate convinced the department to let him teach the class completely out of his own generosity (he still had to TA like normal). The class was well attended, universally loved, and only ever offered once (the guy understabaly thought it was too much effort to do it again). It was a huge benefit to my career.

Board design is so accessible these days. Circuit design and debugging boards is still a steep learning curve.

[1] https://www.altium.com/circuitmaker
I didn’t find it. I dug up the real/raw numbers and did the math.
Git-of-theseus: Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
Have you thought this through?

There’s probably over a million literally deranged people on Facebook.

Even if you only come across a tiny fraction of them, that’s still way more then you could possibly ever encounter in real life, in one physical community, due to simple probability and population density…
Agree with everything you have said in this thread, just want to also draw attention to the fact that there are 2400 fewer firefighters in California because California has rightfully reduced the amount of inmate firefighters. I don't know whether they were counted on for these emergency situations.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-09/californ...
It’s interesting to me how much attention these fires are getting because it affects relatively rich and tourist friendly areas. There are many, many wildfires every year across several states but most don’t even get their governor’s attention, let alone make national news. People seem shocked by what the fires can do but this is what many communities have had to deal with.
the key word is "had". I would eat any animal any day if I "had" to and had no other food source.
> as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

They are actively trying to fuck you over- stop hoping and having faith that it will somehow magically work out. Your degree is at stake. You need to escalate, and that starts with talking with a lawyer.

Right now, you are being the worst kind of naive.
This sounds suspiciously like “I tend to stay up later and later every night unless I force myself to go to bed on time” — which I suspect is pretty common, it certainly is for me. I’ll start staying up till 3, 4, 5, or later if I’m not on a schedule. Having kids helps.
A full life…in prison?
Yeah, it's just an ad for Agentforce. They have been aggressively advertising on TV lately.

One ad shows a restaurant seating customers in the rain because they aren't using AI. The other ad shows someone buying clothes that don't match because AI wasn't suggesting them. (They also serve the customer shrimp, which he doesn't like.) Looking at weather forecasts and rescheduling reservations has nothing to do with AI, and I doubt AI can do anything other than write the "we're sorry" message. (Additionally, most restaurants simply ask what food you want before preparing it, so they don't have to worry about feeding you something you don't want.) Meanwhile, choosing matching colors for multiple articles of clothing is at most a satisfiability problem, which again has nothing to do with AI. I also doubt the sales floor staff needs any help with that. There are a fixed number of SKUs and colors. If a customer says "I like this shirt, can you suggest pants", I feel like 98% of adults would be able to competently assist. They also don't get paid very much, so it's unclear what the Salesforce value add is there.

IBM also does a bunch of AI advertising and the gist is that it is being used for air traffic control. Somehow, I doubt that. If AI could replace one pilot on 10% of flights, the airlines would make millions of dollars. They all still have 2, though.

I'd love to see a case study from someone other than the AI vendor. The ideas in the TV commercials aren't even good. Would love to see "well actually we're making a ton of money thanks to these products". The reason we're not seeing it is because it isn't happening.
Reading this post makes me think, how can someone start to get into the drivers and OSes world? This seems so complicated I really don’t know where to start.
Basic WebUI for Using Ansible
We've got similar opinions here. I'm just pointing out that the overall experience here feels familiar, and it wasn't until reading this thread that I really put it together.

I agree with you that I'd be surprised if Enshittification works as well here as it does in tech, but maybe since there's an app involved, they just think they can get away with it. Who knows.
The "community notes" on twitter have just become another ideology battle ground, if you have seen them from the contributor side of things.

Another major issue with them is they take to long to materialize, and by the time the note is added, most of the views on opinion formation has already happened.

I think a better option is to have both systems (professional and from the user base), and multiple groups of each, all in competition with each other. Then let users decide which one(s) they want to have in their feed.

This is how ATProto/Bluesky approaches the problem

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...

(notes are an extension the labeller concept)
The firefighting last night was a problem of neighborhood-scale water availability. There’s more than enough water in the LA area, but wasn’t enough in the Palisades storage tanks to sustain hours of 750gpm firefighting at dozens of locations.

This event probably changes homeowners and insurers assessment of how much local water storage is enough, and removes local resistance to “unsightly” water storage. But these are muni/county scale infrastructure and policy decisions, basically disconnected from state-level environmentally-relevant decisions.
I’m not sure precisely where the fires started, but the neighborhoods in the Palisades are impenetrable hillsides with roads and houses are intervals. They’re about as densely developed as practical given the geography. A controlled burn would be unimaginable there.
Why are you assuming there must be a ‘next step’?

The general population can just not care about a ‘next step’ on average…?
I'm weird and use TeX for my resume because I'm an annoying nerd, but I literally have not encountered an Office document in over a decade. I see Google workspace at work for my last couple jobs, and there's libreoffice if I occasionally want a spreadsheet at home. Everything I encounter from banks and governments is web or pdf these days.
They are probably struggling to keep sales number up, they need more sales and cut costs. So makes sense to hire more sales people and freeze development… but that’s a sad story, let’s fix that sad story with AI:

AI is so good that everything can be automated, except for sales which needs a personal touch.

Wall Street happy, bonus for all execs, the end.
But PJ high desert areas don’t have the same level of destructive wildfires as, say, the Ponderosa pines found at higher elevations or cottonwood bosques. My impression is the fire load per acre in PJ is much lower and the fires are just not destructive. Adobe/masonry construction probably helps too, as does lower density urbanization. Probably easier to fight such fires too. (Limited experience)
The author mentions MRI in the article.
If you are able to make relatively few commitments for a month, go to sleep when you feel tired. Sleep as much as feels good. Track it in a spreadsheet.

Some people with non-24 have very regular sleep/wake cycles. I'm not as fortunate, but in the winter will tend towards 24-29 hour days, with an average just over 27 (perhaps this winter has even been a little under 27 as I've been more physically active)

In the summer it's close enough to 24 hours that I can stick to a 24-hour schedule most of the time.
Having seem children play I think many in would be quite comfortable killing a pig and draining it's blood if they could. You see children chasing pigeons - and I don't think it's just to hug them if they catch one.

I say this without commenting in favor of either side of this debate which I am undecided on and reading with interest.

But I think it's important not to shy away from the reality that cruelty and the desire to kill are very much a part of human nature from the beginning. And that applies no matter where or how we are brought up.
Apple intelligence summarization is certainly not predictable. it can do some really funny things
I mean, what products are even unique to Google or Meta? The cloning is already done and the cloners are established businesses. Or, Google just cloned someone else. Did they independently discover cloud computing and make GCP? I think not.
I would like to read this article but am unwilling to provide even a fake e-mail address to do so
In that case, even better: lay off all the subordinates, and replace the boss with a 20 line shell script.
the point is that Apple intelligence is bad and not that AI is bad
if someone shows up there 3-4 days a week, how would you know? Even China doesn't have the surveillance setup to tell if someone is living in a house or not (well, they can check to see if it is renovated, and can check to see if the lights turn on at night). It isn't really a rule of law society, so you can't use "the trust but sometimes verify system" they used in Vancouver, and it is definitely not like Switzerland where your neighbors are constantly spying on you. It is a bit counter intuitive, but checking on these things is harder in China than in the west.
Panpsychism
In Germany we had something like this from the TUEV Süd, where they certified online shops and online banking websites for their security.

Suffice it to say, but the keywords are a google dork for finding easy to hack pentesting victims.

Now the BSI (German institute for cybersecurity, similar to CISA) also started to push out certifications for the BSI Grundschutz, which is an absolute meaningless certificate and literally tests the absolute bare minimum things.

The problem here is that there is no market, this cyber security crisis cannot be solved economically, because customers want a certificate without having to do further work. So they'll get it at whatever auditor that accepts their money.

This is how it's done, even for ISO 27001 and SOC2 certifications. Nobody gives a damn if a single working student has 20+ role descriptions laying on their table. Findings are always ignored and never corrected.

Cyber security policies and their effects over time need to be measurable first before there can be certification processes.

Additionally there needs to be legislation that cannot be interpreted. Things like "reasonably modern" cannot be used as a law text because it doesn't mean anything, and instead standardized practices have to be made mandatory requirements. Preferably by a committee that is not self controlling, maybe even something like the EFF, FSF, OWASP or Linux foundation.
>in the fear that their engineers would build competing products.

Is there any evidence to support this? It would imply that even their least promising employees would still pose a threat which seems unlikely.
Are there areas of California where insurers are not operating anymore because of wildfires? That's crazy
I hiked the PCT last year over 85 days and slept on average 5-6 hours a night (except days off) and hiked 30+ miles a day over 16+ hours a day. It's weird the things your body can do if you push yourself beyond the expected norms.
Universities are businesses, they aren't institutions of learning. Students are on the "liability" side of the balance sheet. Students who stand out could accrue massive costs.

Professors? The problem is tenure.
It's one of the most sought after opportunities in prison. And the state can't afford to pay them fully. Considering they want to do it, and the state already pays a huge amount to house prisoners, its not that insane
The on-device model that Apple is using for this isn’t billed as “basically as smart as humans,” to be fair. It’s likely just a small text summarization model, not a foundation model like GPT-*.
For those in need of support or who want to donate, there are some resources at https://fireaid.info/
The pool struct Is two pointers, why are you allocating it with Malloc?
Have you forgotten your priors about human bias? ;)
I’d never suggest that people shouldn’t read books or consult experts but.. sleep is probably like diets in that you can read whatever advice you’re looking to find somewhere.

Even after we accept that a dichotomy like typical vs atypical (or night owl vs morning lark; omnivore vs vegetarian) is way too simple.. the more we look the more we keep finding new “types” (like all the flavors of non-24; vegans, paleo, etc). So even reading stuff that’s trying to be rigorous may ultimately just tell you about fads and fashions that might be working for others. Natural variation in people seems to outpace or defy our ability to categorize stuff. To me this hints that there’s really no substitute for experimenting and listening to your body.

The hard part is just that this does require some time and space in your life to accomplish, because if you’re going back to basics about stuff like food or sleep then inevitably it’s going to be disruptive until you figure out what works best.
The parent article is quite interesting and slightly different being cpp [1]. There is also a post about writing a memory allocator [2].

[1]: http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/compilers/writing-a-pool-allocato...

[2]: http://dmitrysoshnikov.com/compilers/writing-a-memory-alloca...
https://clearthis.page/?u=https://theintercept.com/2025/01/0...
Had one (thankfully not (directly) paid for), we had a heatwave and AC died.

So I call...

They "are having trouble" finding someone for "emergency service". Their idea of "emergency service" is "we have a company that will be out there in four WEEKS".

So I found someone who could come out that day, for a surcharge. Reasonable. And the AC was dead. But this company were nice - the tech said "no promises, no commitments" and he did some shifty magic and got it running for about six more hours before it was permanently to the graveyard.

So we started getting quotes for a new HVAC system.

Responses from the plan:

- we won't pay if you don't use our suppliers

- we won't pay if you don't choose from our list of models (which were all low end, 80%, 1 stage systems)

- even if you use our supplier, we won't pay above $X. If they quote you higher, the difference is on you.

- if you used another contractor for ANY maintenance work on the existing system, we won't pay

- if the maintenance schedule wasn't followed (whether you owned the system/property at the time), we won't pay

There's a common phrase in each of those statements.
Not planning on one, no. People have made it through low Tesla MRIs with only a bit of discomfort, though I'm not sure if that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Chances are I'll be able to discuss it with the technician or get it removed prior.
Creator social media automation toolkit that is using AI responsibly
You still need the gen ed credits from somewhere. And you have to actually get in to the major, which is hard for UW CSE (desirable major with limited spots).
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That’s more of an issue with the network security then?

And even if computers didn’t exist, it still would make no sense to assume every single person is competent 100% of the time… at any company. Human beings are fallible, and that has to be factored in.
Not an expert: I think one of the issues is that there's only a handful[0] of satellites with the appropriate infrared instruments, which means that any given point of Earth is only sampled at a multiple-hour cadence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Information_for_Resource_...

It's a generic problem for any sensing problem that's real-time + low-orbit.

I speculate adding instruments to large LEO constellations, en masse, would solve that problem—though I have no clue if that's practical. (Perhaps if the same instrument were doing other kinds of real-time imaging, you could piggyback wildfire alerts on that datastream, and the get the functionality essentially for free?)

edit: More info:

- "Geostationary satellite sensors view the same area of Earth’s surface at all times while polar-orbiting sensors, such as MODIS and VIIRS, typically view the same area of Earth’s surface twice daily. Consequently, geostationary satellite sensors can provide repeated observations on a sub-hourly basis, making it possible to detect fires which may not be detected at longer temporal intervals. Geostationary satellites provide data at 10-15 minute intervals, so they can detect more fire events and capture their growth and change. However, the spatial resolution of geostationary satellite data is coarser and therefore less sensitive to small fires."

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/tools/firms/faq
> contained the Ohio US senator’s social security number

Great. I’m not sure why you think that’s relevant to this subject but I’m glad to know this happened, just as I am sure you would be if this had happened to you.
Also, merely them knowing you have a lawyer instantly reframes the problem in their eyes. The path of least resistance to dealing with a "problematic" student is making the student go away. The path of least resistance to dealing with a "problematic" student with a lawyer is making the lawyer go away.

All of a sudden bureaucrats will be getting visits from internal legal departments asking very pointed questions about questionable actions.
Of all the non-esolangs (=exolangs?) APL+kith seem to be almost designorismic/estuarine (formerly, Riverian) beasts..

In your informed opinion, how would it make sense to be thrilled thinking about (not just a semi-dynamic APL (=S-DAPL?) as above but) designing

a APL-kith for widespread adoption by BOTH (demoscenic)gamecoders & Analysts (the academic variety)???

Specifically, which of the sneering checklist items[0] would be killer to cross off?

[0] https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html

(Note in particular that the very APL inspired Wolfram has monopoly with physicists BUT does nothing for engineers

https://www.stephenwolfram.com/media/physics-whiz-goes-into-...

1988

>“But we tricked him, so to speak,” says Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann, who helped to bring Wolfram west. “We gave him a Ph.D.”
)
How do you get by when every major sites starts blocking headless browsers? A good example right now is Zillow, but I foresee a world where big chunks of the internet are behind captcha and bot detection
I found a way to disable that deep in settings.