skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why allow them to book if the place is literally on fire?

Speculation on my part, but presumably a natural disaster has several rings of declining danger around it.

"Literally on fire" at the centre, "mandatory evacuation/no electricity" around that, "strongly advised to evacuate by firefighters" around that, "advised to evacuate by a politician covering their ass" around that, "Safe for now but monitor the situation" around that, "heavy traffic and poor air quality" around that.

All of these rings could be called "the wildfire-effected area" but some are more wildfire-effected than others.
Smalltalk implementations have had text export/import for ages, and image based source control as you point out, is also quite old, Monticello wasn't the first.
Take the project, do your finals and then throw the project again if you don't want to take the legal course.
Edit: mentioned frame interpolation, but seems like it was about something else; being allowed to go one frame backward
Commercial image based systems have had source control like management for decades.

If anything many "modern" low code SaaS products are much worse in this regard, than what Lisp and Smalltalk have been offering for years.
Finally something that can potentially run on those new shoehorned NPUs and isn't just more spying.
> Plus, when I last checked they are very inefficient in terms of heat isolation. The energy required to keep them at comfortable temperatures are way higher when compared to traditional building techniques.

There are two things in play here: the first is, as you mention, the insulation quality (R-value / U-factor) of windows is abysmal, both in absolute terms and relative to other wall assemblies. Heat leaks out of windows in winter in high amounts (and then you also have to deal with unwanted thermal gain in summer, raising AC costs).

The other thing is mean radiant temperature:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_radiant_temperature

Many folks think that if the thermostat reads the correct temperature in a room, you're done: that is not the case. The thermostat reads the air temperature, and air temperature is often only half of what you feel in a room: the other half is what is radiated from all the surfaces around you.

A camp fire, fireplace, or radiator feels warm because it is at a temperature higher than your skin, and so the energy goes from it to you. But if there is something that is lower than your skin temperature, the energy will go from you to it and you will feel cold—regardless of what the air temperature is.

This is why in offices, even though a thermometer / thermostat reads 20C/70F in both summer and winter, people feel cold: the giant office windows work as "anti-radiators", where energy wants to move from your body/skin to them.
That's an awful lot of CO2. You need it to stay there a long time, until the temperature gets below the ignition point, otherwise once the O2 comes back it will relight. You'll need it to get above the vegetation. You'll somehow need to prevent mixing of CO2 and O2 - remember, fires produce CO2 already.

CO2 is heavier than air. It will not stay on a ridge but will flow downslope.

CO2 is an invisible suffocation risk, as over 1,000 people near Lake Nyos learned back in the 1980s.

"High-powered drones" have nothing like the carrying capacity of large aircraft. If that was all that's needed then just buy the aircraft.

You'll need a lot of water, which will need to come from somewhere. Water is heavy.

Explosives have long been used for point fires, like oil and gas well fires, to deprive the fire of oxygen. You cannot blow up 100 acres of fire at once.

The Santa Ana winds are powerful. The plume of smoke above the fires shows how much energy is in the rising heated air. Any covering must handle all that power, and not be torn up, and not be burnt up.

For comparison, the biggest sailing ships had less 1.5 acres of sail, and the biggest wind turbines have a swept area of about 12 acres.
Great point. That said, the remaining problem is that regular API calls dont scale/perform well for integrations between systems involving lots of data syncing. A few records? Fine. Many? Not so much.

I would love to be wrong on this.
Few people believed slavery, a mechanism that stood for millennia, would end. Yet..
Roboflow (YC S20) is hiring an engineer to work on its open source projects
The cheap ones I've seen are almost all Chinese boards with limited support. The appeal of the RPi has always been that you can have some confidence it will work.
I've had colleagues working on a pulsar navigation system to improve on star sightings.

The idea is to look for the X-ray signals coming from pulsars and then use the frequency of the pulse to identify the pulsar and then match that to a known map to figure out where you are. It's pretty cool and theoretically can work even for interstellar spaceflight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar-based_navigation
I think it's mainly for embedding into products that require a standalone AI dataset of some sort. Robotics, perhaps, or production line defect detection.
In Washington, high school students can enrol in community college courses through their school, and count them for both high school and college credit.

https://www.seattlecolleges.edu/running-start
I'm not judging at all, just interested, and providing a counterpoint to the idea that it's an Asian fashion trend.

I don't think it was a weather thing. There was a "cold" spell here over Christmas. Probably 20 to 24C, which for us westerners is basically wear whatever you like weather. For Vietnamese it's winter time though, locals are all bundled up!

This incident was probably somewhat coincidental, but I have noticed several times previously in the cafe, with less people, it's all black, white, and grey.

Btw have a great trip! I was a western tourist too around 8 years ago and ended up never leaving. Life is good here, challenging and different.
Not dumb enough to ever ever get in one of those.
>Who needs 16GB ram on a PI! Like what are the actual use cases?

If you use it as you would a PC then it's actually not enough RAM. I have 16GB on my laptop and desktop computers both, and as I always keep browsers running they're always out of memory, even with 16GB swap added.

Just came in to my office.. and my office computer with the same spec had killed all the desktop applications due to memory overuse, just as it always does when I leave it alone for a few days.

Granted, I do have a lot of windows and tabs open, that's because I need to move away from stuff and do other things for a while, but when I go back I need it to be there just as I left it. But browsers are eating memory. All of them. Chromium, Firefox, Vivaldi.. you name it.

For something working as a desktop PC I'm looking for way more RAM than a meagre 16GB. For a Pi which I use just for a single purpose I'm fine with those I have.. 2GB , 4GB, 8GB (which I use for different things). I'll never run a browser on any of them though. No way.
India until 1991 was very socialist. After 1991 they implemented reforms to reduce state controls. This [0] explains a bit better

[0] https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/india-and-the-tragedy-of-soci...
@jdkaim do the project as a way to say you're sorry, give them the work uncompensated (effectively they're charging you the value of your degree, I'd assume that's not trivial).

Once you have your degree, you can go from there, hire a lawyer, sue for uncompensated labor (something about minimum wage laws, I think, requires they pay you), and so on. Maybe even some emotional distress.

But hey, IANAL and ya gotta do what you think is right.
> There are generators for other critical servers, and in particular the DSN operations have been moved temporarily to another location so they could continue.

That's really good to hear. The DSN is a really, really important asset (not that everything else at JPL isn't, but!), so I'm glad they're not totally coupled to the physical JPL location.
Thanks for the info. So is the take-away here that the tanks are under-specified? Should they have maybe 10x the total capacity? Have there been other indications over the years that tank capacity might be a problem with a large enough fire?
I have some bookmarked, but definitely not a nice list like that one, and not as many. Do you have more like these? I love to indulge into these for a few minutes a day, during commuting on the subway. I am always wondering if its because it somehow gives instant gratification into that desire to do something meaningful with the time with very little effort, ie that something new was learned (and then usually as instantly as learned forgotten :) )
Could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
Will the ML model be fully open?

(Like open source software, so that, in theory, someone could see see the source code, source data, and process for how it was trained, and reproduce that? And could they change how that model is built, not just tuning atop it, and distribute that under the same open source license?)
The use cases get born once you have such amount of ram...
AI Has an Environmental Problem
Such a tragedy. I am very sorry for anyone affected by this :(

As a non-local it’s hard to judge how big this is. Can anyone point to map or explain to what extend LA is affected?

Is it 5% of the area/population or rather 50%?
While this isn't a good thing, the fact that it was Luigi's account would've maybe caused some people to upvote his answers and questions just as-is now and thus would've artificially inflated his account's points. Thus, maybe freezing his account would've been a better thing to do (if possible to freeze upvotes/votes too)?
Guess it depends where you want to travel. I tend to use hotels in Europe now when I travel. My experiences are just as good, if not better, in hotels most of the time.

But Europe's a big place, so I can accept that it's not the case everywhere.
The painted carpets weren't* nearly as bad as the kitchens. I was stuck with avocado appliances and FD-arrived-too-late brown cabinets once.

*Well, usually. If you shopped at a reasonable store, and had decent tastes. If not - horribly and ugly things have been available in every era.
Fair enough. I should try it, although I have a pretty good grasp of how subtractive synths work. What about FM synthesis, do you have any suggestions on that? I find it the least intuitive by far, not that my experience extends to many other kinds (I mainly use wavetable, sample-based and subtractive synths these days).
host offshore or pay the piper.
> Nvidia wouldn’t say where this training data came from, but at least one report — and lawsuit — alleges that the company trained on copyrighted YouTube videos without permission.

Under the EU's AI act[1] there is now a legal obligation to disclose the source of the training data. Is this correct then that either the models cannot be used in the EU, or we'll get to know where the training data came from?

[1]: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-fil... - "General-purpose AI systems, and the GPAI models such as ChatGPT they are based on, must meet certain transparency requirements including compliance with EU copyright law and publishing detailed summaries of the content used for training."
I seriously hope the rural WA fire season this year doesn't match California or we're going to be for lack of a better word fucked.

We just had a record dry year followed by a warm and wet start to summer which has caused a bunch of new growth, thats going to die and dry come Feb and i'll be keeping a go bag in my car.
I wear tech conference merch they are still quite colourful and not beige.
Can’t wait to watch anime with AI generated subs, it will be a beautiful trainwreck.
> ensure that owning is always prohibitively out-of-reach for anyone born after 1980

I would expect a land tax to do the complete opposite and reduce the value of land by half or more, which would do quite bad things to the finances of homeowners, most of whom were born before 2000.
> frame-stepping backwards

That's not frame interpolation. Just being able to step back one frame at a time.
> This is absurd. When your debtors go bankrupt, you lose money. Nobody wants to lend money to people who cannot afford it.

That depends, amongst other things, on how much interest you charge in the interim. Payday lenders makes lots of money off of people who a) cannot afford their loans by any reasonable metric and b) default on those loans.
I sometimes think that I am neurotic, then I read an article like this and boggle at the lengths other people take neuroticism to.
The opposite, I think. It showed us how bloated the average tech corp actual is. Musk may have went too far with his cuts, but directionally I believe he’s right.
Running Animations Without Keyframes
This is true of M2 mac minis at least
There’s a reason it’s being implemented in an open source application that gets actual use instead of a random-word-generated-elevator-pitch being chased by VC funds and dinosaurs in the stock market.
> >Persistent shortages drove the real-world price up (no one was selling them for MSRP)

> I see a lot of people say this, but I never saw this happen in the UK.

Also UK. There was definitely a time (late 2021, early 2022) lasting some months when most RPi products were only easily available from resellers (I'm using that word charitably) at vastly marked up prices (at least as a home user just wanting a single unit or small number of units, it may have been different as a bigger buyer).

I have a Pi400 where a Pi4 (or 3 or older) would do just as well, because at the time I needed it for some reason the Pi400 hadn't yet been affected by the shortages (and resulting scalping) and was far cheaper to buy new (even with the full starter kit which included PSU & mouse) than any Pi4 despite nominally being more expensive. I think the 400 was even on offer below RRP at the time. The Pi400 became hard to find at RRP soon after I bought mine, I have a friend who was looking a short time later.

The shortage may have lasted longer than I'm remembering, as I only paid particular attention for a bit longer than the time of my own & my friend's needs.
I wonder what STT model that is fast enough and accurate VLC could be use for the application.
The unmitigated tendency for people to selectively morally approve homeomorphic elements of the same set based on whether or not each element is personally useful to them is extremely alarming.
(As an ex-JPLer,) you would be very surprised how many internal tools this decade have been web-stack. Flight systems are one thing, but you need plenty of ground systems to support the effective use of assets in flight, and there's no reason to avoid one of the biggest UI platforms out there.
Also worth looking at: Bernd and Hilla Becher https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photographer-c...
Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
I couldn't agree more. Elite Olympic athletes are a representation of extreme talent, perseverance, physicality, creativity, luck, risk-taking, emotion, mentality and work ethic. Even if I find most of the disciplines boring, sometimes unintelligible and aren't 'economically' valuable, I still admire them for representing the positive aspects of humanity. Similar behaviours are necessary in other endeavours, be they of a intellectual or physical nature, where great achievements are made.
As a counterpoint, I bet if you had told people a thousand years ago that swordsmanship would be less interesting to people than kicking a ball, they would also think you were crazy.
It's usage case dependent I guess but I haven't noticed much of a difference.

Both my raspberry pis and orange pis run armbian so they're isn't much difference on a software level for just running software (k3s, docker etc).
Similar to this, I bought a Lansky knife sharpening kit. I thought I was good at sharpening with a whetstone, but this makes a huge difference. $75 or so.

https://www.lansky.com/deluxe-5-stone-system.html
i wonder how that'll work.

how many new jobs will come to exist?
RPi5 is far from low power these days.
Based on my current unit prices the difference in idle performance alone would come out to about £30 a year, so you would get the difference in price back within the life of the device. Europe has much higher KW/h prices for power especially in the past few years and is more advanced in transition to green power technologies and as such we tend to care more about the cost of power than those in the USA.
this. Went to some hikings in Ushuaia, took only a backpack with me. Only brought two pair of pants, the one i was wearing and another in the backpack, the backpack one suitable for hiking, the one i was wearing was a jeans that i used for travelling and staying in the plane and airport. After three days hiking with the jeans one i sent it to the laundry and used the good one. Not a single problem encoutered.
I generally agree, but also disagree. The problem with drugs and people is that they usually overdo everything and dont know their limits. Who figures that out can also have their fun 8+ hours even at age, with a limited amount of alcohol(+weed) consumption at a certain constant level ;)

And then there are also that amazing sober ravers who can do 8-12hrs even without any drug.
Shouldn't be underestimated how much some people like the music and their trancy dance therapy. (but yeah, those only also buy water/cola/maté).
What I think is concerning is the amount of Americans that don't trust government and think most government institutions should be smashed.

Hitler was a really smart guy, young and energetic at this time, evil yes, but he definitely had plans, not sure the USA has one right now though...
Up next:

Why no one plays laser tag anymore?

Same answer as all the rest, Gen Z, of course!
What was the major building material? Wood or Concrete? I hear wood houses are a lot more popular in US.

Sorry for your loss.
I recently used some subtitles that I later found out had been AI generated.

The experience wasn't really good to be honest - the text was technically correct but the way multiline phrases were split made them somehow extremely hard to parse. The only reason I learned AI was involved is that it was bad enough for me to stop viewing and check what was wrong.

Hopefully it's an implementation detail and we'll see better options in the future, as finding subtitles for foreign shows is always a pain.
there were some extremely UNdemocratic things he did, like stabbing all of his political enemies. the democratic institution should have had the police stop the SA gangs that were terrorizing the unpopular people, but there wasn't enough political will to do that, until it was too late.
That is a worrying amount of conjecture about something nobody knows anything about in any direction.
Looking forward to the great comeback of the popcorn ceiling.
https://archive.is/i2agv
You don't need to wait, you can use: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX right now for STT with timestamps and diarization.
It's highly likely that they'll be using Whisper, if so, it won't be fully open. But I can be wrong, of course.
I think you mean "literate programming".

The arena allocator in Hanson's chapter 6 is an arena allocator, not a "pool allocator" in the sense that 8dcc means, which is to say, a constant-time fixed-size-block allocator. It seems that you had the same reading comprehension problem that I did.

The difference is that Hanson's arena allocator can make allocations of any size (his Arena_alloc takes an nbytes argument) and cannot deallocate individual allocations, only the entire arena (his Arena_free takes only an arena pointer as a parameter). A fixed-size-block allocator like the one we are discussing here can only make allocations of a fixed size, but can recycle them individually, not only all at once.

(If Hanson's name sounds familiar, it might be because you've read the lcc book.)

It may be worth noting that Donald Knuth also invented the font used in 8dcc's article.
Amazon has already rolled out AI-generated subtitles for Crunchyroll anime. I discovered this while watching Last Exile, a show that has already been subtitled and dubbed in English.

It's funny for a second, and then incredibly frustrating after that. Character names are regularly wrong, and sentences get rewritten to have different meanings. Instead of just reading subtitles, you have to mentally evaluate them for errors.

At best, AI generated subtitles should be a last resort.
given the type of UW blackmail you need to contact a lawyer to protect your right to an education finishing your studies....do not delay that step
Definitely, don't know why not more places are like that. The majority if techno clubs does it.
There is a reason more clubs are also dark etc.. not only to hide the maybe existing wasted faces, but also to completely let go and dissolve in the music, this is very necessary.
I wonder how strong your pc will have to be to run this locally.
> State Farm dropped nearly 70 percent of its policies in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood last year, according to a state filing — more than any other ZIP code in the state — in a sign it saw the neighborhood as risky. That forced more people onto the FAIR Plan, which was originally created in the 1960s to insure riot-scarred Los Angeles neighborhoods but has since found more demand in rural and suburban fire-prone regions.
You can setup a bazarr instance to use whisper as a subtitle provider.
There was a scam which targeted landlines, where the scammer would call and then keep the line open while you "hung up" (except you didn't) and you dialled the known number of your bank. The scammer simulates a ringing line, and then answers as your bank.
As a former fansub translator, it's better for mankind this way.

Further thoughts on the matter: https://old.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/dnpzrh/everyone...
In some way, Smalltalk had/has a more advanced and semantic diffing called ChangeSet
This is how a media player should work and be developed. Learn that, RealPlayer.
I gather some readers here are flagging this article - despite it being of general interest - because of the political innuendo? Are we not to submit posts about WWII here for the next four years?
I would be curious to compare Google search statistics of 'shrek' vs 'raves' over time. Obviously, causation can't be established but maybe correlation can be.
What stops Nvidia from cutting out the middlemen? They have the chips.
This is true at a certain level of prosperity and bourgeois mentality. I also find it surprising how long a regime can cling to power that is hated by its population, eg North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and even the Soviet Union. What brought the Soviet Union down was that they couldn't afford food anymore due to declining oil revenue [0], not a domestic revolution.

[0] "The Soviet Collapse: Grain and Oil By Yegor Gaidar" https://tamilnation.org/intframe/070419collapse_of_soviet_un...
Not per se, but indirectly penalizing modest people is not OK.
The guy seemed really impatient, talked over the operator while she was trying to give instructions, and then refused to follow instructions given by the phone operator.

Judging by how short the video is, I’m assuming that when he just did the 2-click thing the operator told him to do on his phone, the Waymo probably stopped and let him out.

I get vibes he did it on purpose for social media. For example, you’re supposed to be at the airport an hour before your flight, and here he is winging about a Waymo going in circles for a couple mins and threatening to send the bill for his flight to the operator? Eh?
The OP means to be able to play backwards frame by frame, which I believe VLC can't.

To be fair, technically speaking this isn't nearly as easy as step forward due to how codecs are constructed, but lots of players have this feature already.