skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend against using linked lists for bookkeeping the free blocks. It seems to be the data structure that every malloc/free implementation reaches for, and I don't know why - the slowness of pointer-chasing makes it terrible for almost any real-world use case. A balanced tree would be a much better idea, given that all the essential operations would take O(log n) time instead of O(n). Even if one insists on a linear search, a bitset is much more cache friendly than pointer-chasing and it can trivially benefit from SIMD optimizations.
I've used a microSD reader with OTG adapter on my Samsungs for this purpose for decades now.

Oh, and cameras still take better photos than phones, and it's weird that you would think they don't - they're devices that cost more than phones, designed specifically to take good photos.
As you describe it, this is so egregious that you might find pro-bono legal support from major advocacy non-profits like The Institute for Justice.

https://ij.org/
tl;dr: Godel's incompleteness theorem. When you try to create completely self-consistent axioms, it just creates an infinite hierarchy of further unprofitable axioms. Numbers don't really exist, so that was your first mistake.

tl;dr^2: Mentally move the hyphen one word to the right.
That's true in general but not really applicable to these fires. It's mostly chaparral that's burning, and most of the dry brush has built up over only a few years — not 100. We had two years of heavy rains that caused a lot of brush growth, and then this season it all dried out.

Controlled burns in that terrain are impractical because there are too many structures nearby and a controlled burn can turn into an uncontrolled burn in minutes. A more realistic approach would be expanding defensible space and culling non-native flora.

https://youtu.be/gunenpZ5JuE
Interesting, I tried query-fast and it's impressive! It would be great to add Databend as a data source—it's a cost-efficient alternative to Snowflake:
https://www.databend.com/
Wasn't aware of these sort of deals.. would love something like this for the Adobe suite.
UW charges the same fixed credit rate for 10-18 credits/quarter then adds significant per-credit fees above 18 to explicitly discourage super high courseloads.
If you decide to do this, be sure to get it removed prior to the silicone rupturing and act with some urgency if you think it has. I enjoyed my magnetic implant for the time I had it but it did feel like a lil ticking timebomb after a few years.
Focus modes are still nice for letting different groups of people contact you, though.
I’ve used #FireMappers 3.1 by NAPSG Foundation, found at https://napsg.maps.arcgis.com/. Would provide the full link, but the app value in the copied link is suspiciously long.
>Are lions evil?

lions aren't consciously deciding against a rationally plausible alternative, they are eating what is available.

similarly human cannibalization stories generally center around the concept that the people driven to such actions are given no sensible alternatives (airplane crash in a snow mountain comes to mind) -- so we don't presume they were evil, we presume they were desperate.

lions lack the intelligence and forethought to see the consequences of long term decisions. We as humans have gauged and measured the effects of ranching on our environment, the effects of meat consumption on our physiology, etc.

so, to answer your question : If the lion was able to empathize and relate to the suffering of the prey, if the lion was able to relate its' actions to the destruction of its' environment, if the lion had sensible alternatives that avoided long term consequences while still satiating hunger, if the lion could accurately forecast the future and STILL decide upon the destructive course of action...

...yes, an argument could be made that that lion might be evil.
Their margin is your opportunity. If you think oat milk is overpriced then simply start making and selling it at a lower price.
Ask HN: Who is accountable for cloud costs in your org?
Context: I lead the DevOps team in a mid size engineering org (60 engineers approximately). The product is a B2B SaaS product. The organization started taking cloud costs seriously early 2024 and my team worked throughout the year to make infrastructure changes to reduce our cloud costs. This included projects like removing manually created stale infrastructure, automating infra management, rightsizing, purchasing the right Savings Plans(and RIs), and many others. Now we're at a place where infra-only projects to optimize cloud costs are pretty much exhausted.
On the other hand, most of the anomalies (and surprises) regarding cost spikes come from application level changes. This causes serious problems because not only these anomalies are identified late into the deployment lifecycle, but these anomalies are inherently harder to resolve quickly. An example of this is when a service triggered a downstream workflow which started spawning additional background jobs (10x in production) which blew up the cost projections.

So, my question to the group is - Who do you hold(or should hold) accountable when cloud costs spike unexpectedly: the engineers who write the code, the platform team who manages the infrastructure, or the product managers who set the requirements?
(My current solution is a mix of platform team and engineers but we're still trying to formalize the accountability model.)
There's a very active historical debate about whether a schedule like this, often called "biphasic sleep", was more common in pre-industrial societies. There's a historian called Roger Ekirch who thinks it was, starting in his 2004 book "At Day's Close - Night in Times Past". There's a bunch of criticism of it, since the sources are a bit ambiguous, or if he's generalizing from Medieval England (his main focus).
> I was mostly starving hungry

What? Vegetarian doesn't necessarily mean you lose all sources of animal protein, there's no real reason to be starving on the diet.
Or the definable reals. Definable meaning you can “name” it uniquely, by writing down some proposition which is true of that real and false for every other. Since there are only a countable number of formulas, there are only countably many definable reals. Definable reals are a superset of computable reals - Chaitin’s constant (for a given computational formalism) is definable but not computable.

There is not a single set of definable reals, since different formal languages produce different sets (e.g. there are reals definable in second order logic but not first order logic). But, given any formal language composed of finite sentences from a finite alphabet, the set of sentences in the language is countable so the corresponding set of definable reals is too.

The definable reals are all the reals we can talk about individually. (Well, there are some definable reals we can’t in practice talk about individually-e.g. those for which the shortest sentence uniquely identifying them is too long to fit in this physical universe.) Undefinable reals are an uncountable amorphous mass we can only discuss collectively, we can’t refer to any of them as individuals.
A minor nitpick.

SF doesn’t have tables. It is not a relational database. It is slow because it is an enterprise application.

The link details the steps that are triggered every time a record is updated.

https://www.salesforceben.com/learn-salesforce-order-of-exec...
And go where exactly? To towns that don't even have the tax base to support themselves and lack jobs?

It's not like suburbs aren't sitting on financial bombs either.
These fires are mostly burning chaparral, not forest. Better forest management is a good idea in general but not relevant to this article.
The target audience seems to be whoever makes the decision to pay for it. Much like the allegations that the QWERTY layout was designed to make it easier for salesmen to type out "TYPEWRITER" quickly, I expect that salesforce's primary design goal is "stuff that will let us sell it to management" with actual performance/utility a distant second (or less).
Severe drought brought on my climate change is not going to be fixed by “forest management.” There is no forest around any of these fires.
Very good info.
Thanks, sverg! From my experience, query-fast is a better product than many other AI-to-SQL solutions. I'm really looking forward to this product.
I don't think non-dairy milks are artificially expensive so much as cow milk is artificially cheap. At least in the US. Federal dairy subsidies and all that.
> and I am not planning to get a lawyer involved as I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

They've already demonstrated that they won't, so faith is misplaced
Mine is coated in Schott 8625 bioglass, rather than silicone. This should help it hold up for a bit longer, and also makes it a bit easier to get it out should need be. I'll definitely be taking swift action should I notice something going awry.
More interesting, apparently Musk Social is blocking the link to her story, even in DMs

https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3lezkgnry...
Sure, but what about eating?

What you mention is a typical destructive behavior noticed in kids and a tendency of violence/killing which even adults have. Key point here is: will they also eat the bird after killing it? Is the killing done here for the sake of eating ? or for the sake of enjoyment/destruction (whatever other reason).
I recommend against books; they're expensive and typically the page count is too high for the number of ideas unless you are really interested in the academics of it. I get a lot more out of Wikipedia [0], blogs and YouTube (although the quality of information on YouTube is typically low).

That being said, if you want some recommendations I'd suggest Tyler Cowen [1] as a good clearinghouse for topical ideas and John Cochrane [2] as an interesting read. I picked an article from the last 7 days where you can see the ZIRP in the graphs, it is all the points where US Fed Funds rate was at 0.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/

[2] https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/inflation-and-the-macroec...
I think you're asking for Starlark (https://starlark-lang.org), a language that strongly resembles Python but isn't Turing-complete, originally designed at Google for use in their build system. There's also Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org), which targets configuration use cases; I'm less familiar with it.

One problem is that, while non-Turing-completeness can be helpful for maintainability, it's not really sufficient for security. Starlark programs can still consume exponential amounts of time and memory, so if you run an adversary's Starlark program without sandboxing it, you're just as vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks as you'd be with a Turing-complete language. The most common solution is sandboxing, wherein you terminate the program if it exceeds time or memory limits; however, once you have that, it's no longer necessary for the language to not be Turing-complete, so you might as well use a popular mainstream language that's easy to sandbox, like JavaScript.

One other intriguing option in the space is CEL (https://cel.dev), also designed at Google. This targets use cases like policy engines where programs are typically small, but need to be evaluated frequently in contexts where performance matters. CEL goes beyond non-Turing-completeness, and makes it possible to statically verify that a program's time and space complexity are within certain bounds. This, combined with the lack of I/O facilities, makes it safe to run an adversary's CEL program outside a sandbox.
100% of modern misogynistic rhetoric and all the new erosion of women’s rights is coming from the right. Ignoring that fact is just stupid. “Wearing the pants” doesn’t mean shit when they also vote a rapist into office.
"Designing an OS is like creating your own world"

Making video game is also like creating your own world!

And it's order of magnitude less hard than making an OS...

Bonus point, you have a chance to make a living from it!
We can look to the experience of Los Alamos National Labs during the Cerro Grande fire in 2000 to provide perspective.
I hope to have the discernment to tell the difference between the irrational things I cannot change from the ones I can, and I don't think I'm changing this, so I accept it.
What's baffling is that the supply chain for non-dairy milk is so much simpler, since all non-dairy milk can be packaged as UHT which doesn't need any form of refrigeration until open.
Have you tried? Do you have your certs? Would you pass the physical? Background check?
Say what you like about Benioff (he seems pretty annoying) or his products (happy former customer), but if you want to read a single book that will increase your chances of success in SaaS, his book Behind the Cloud is my pick.
> It's one of the most sought after opportunities in prison.

"In prison" is doing a lot of work there.

> And the state can't afford to pay them fully.

Then the state can't afford to be on fire. An externality that isn't accounted for.

> Considering they want to do it, and the state already pays a huge amount to house prisoners, its not that insane.

I'm really shocked to hear someone just casually say slavery in the United States in 2025 isn't insane. I mean it's legal so maybe I am the crazy one but I'm personally troubled that this practice is going on. I don't even like that my state uses prison labor for license plates and that's not life threatening.
So, in other words, get more sunlight?
Ask HN: What are some YouTube videos that will help me become a 10x developer
Nailed it all around. I see lots of small kids at the things. Whatever mental image people have of raves, everyone looks out for the little ones. We want them to have fun in a safe environment. There are tons of 20-somethings having a good time in perhaps a higher production quality setting than they’d normally be around.

The last things we want are people doing stupid crap to make the law have to come around, or to make it all about themselves at the expense of others’ enjoyment.
I always have mixed feelings about this. It's sad. But how is her pod supporting her exactly? Are they bringing her food? If so is that food the dead offspring of other animals? I feel these kinds of stories often have a kind of selective empathy for the focused animal. Ultimately nature is extraordinarily cruel absent humans; imo humans are the only hope for something better, if such a thing even makes sense.
This has several results. One may be the desired financial result, the other is the total gutting of the engineering culture. When you do this all raises and promotions are essentially on hold as well. Anyone who wants upward career mobility, and can, will leave. Leaving only the least motivated and least "desirable" employees.
This is equivalent to requiring an Underwriters Laboratory (UL) approval on every electrical appliance before settling on requirements for fuses or circuit breakers.

No matter how good everyone in this trust mark program is, you're only one confused deputy[1] away from disaster.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem
My pet chickens and ducks had happy, idyllic, safe lives until I humanely slaughtered, butchered, and ate them. I have also slaughtered and eaten lamb and fish.

I care about suffering so I minimize it, maximize well being, and eat meat because it tastes delicious and is calorically and nutritionally dense. I also eat more vegetables than the average person, many of which come out of the garden I work.

I have been afforded a much less idyllic life than is sustainable but I still hope for a quick, inexpensive death for myself.
Oat/almond milk suppliers are definitely pricing them artificially expensive.

Here in Singapore, where soy milk has been around for decades, soy milk in both fresh and UHT forms tend to be much cheaper than dairy.
It's not slavery. The inmate firefighters are paid below minimum wage but it's completely voluntary. They can quit any time and go sit in state prison if they prefer. We can argue about whether they should be paid more, but let's not trivialize real slavery by misusing the term.
Not really common to 'animals' in general, for example reptiles only have the very basic instincts of eat, reproduce, fight.

Insects don't have emotions, they barely have hyper specialized sensors as brains.

However, emotions efficiently direct behaviours in mammals. They enact immediate and persistent responses.

We can say without much doubt that emotions in mammals are similar to our own emotions.

The big unknowns are animals further away from us, which are demonstrably intelligent, like birds and octopuses.
A couple of other industrial photographers worth looking at:

Maurice Broomfield: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/maurice-broomfield-industr...

Wolfgang Sievers: https://www.google.com/search?q=WOLFGANG+SIEVERS&sourceid=ch...

And the one mentioned in the article (Alfred Palmer)

https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/women-work-world-war-i...
D does not need the extra keyword. The extra keyword is the same fault that C++ `constexpr` has. It's simply not necessary. The trigger for D is `constant-expression` in the grammar.

We have a lot of D users that come from C++, and not one of them has ever asked for `constexpr` that I've heard.
Not sure, but UW IT isn’t incapable of noticing repeated requests from the same IP or something, I assume most students are not setting up systems that go over residential proxies.
I think Salesforce’s customers typically sign an annual contract so not sure how the refunding thing works. Maybe they can ask Salesforce to do an “org swap” where they essentially start from scratch. (Some configuration options in the Salesforce platform are irreversible or difficult to undo. Example: Enabling “person accounts” in the data model.)

What I meant by failed implementation is when the team that’s in charge of setting it up is struggling to get their staff or salespeople to use it as part of their job responsibilities.

The reason why this is challenging is that the implementation team really needs to understand the teams that are being asked to use Salesforce as part of their job while at the same time knowing the intricacies of the platform. Plus, there’s often a lot of integration of systems and data migration that would likely need to happen in a very organized fashion.

It is kind of similar to a story I have seen here on HN about Hertz (car rental company) having sued Accenture for a botched project that was supposed to help them improve the business’s website and to create mobile apps.
Non-transferable class registrations decided by lottery would solve this. Publicly visible, physical random number generation is important of course.

With pre-registration you can also get an idea of demand in advance, instead of having to post-hoc schedule additional classes (or concert tour dates, or airline flights, or PS5 units, or… etc.)

Non-transferability means the lottery is continuous. As soon as anyone relinquishes their class, the lottery will have to run again to reallocate. You could do this daily.

This is a technical solution that works but it overlooks the cultural side of a resource allocator wanting their resource to generate hype and demand, build up to the Big Event, and then sell out in “record time”. I can understand that a big part of University marketing is to try to seem as popular and oversubscribed as possible, even if I don’t agree with it.

Finally of course, the public RNG bit feels like the most interesting. A giant continuous dice tumbler in the middle of UW’s Red Square? The tumbler feels easy, but how would you make a physical ledger to record the dice rolls automatically?
What happens when you connect the mirrorless directly to the phone with usbc?

My Sony can do MSC mode when connected to the PC. I haven't tested but I assume it would do the same when connected to a phone.
It's available through Costco. I'm sure Amazon and other similar retailers have it as well. 2024 Version.
> Serenity's existence is purely for pleasure purposes

These projects misdirect talented individuals from impactful work.

What's the point, if they ultimately collapse due to the unsustainable nature of solely pleasure-driven endeavors?

This wasted effort is particularly frustrating considering that vital open-source projects, crucial for real-world applications, are struggling to survive due to critical lack of contributors.

It's infuriating to witness this neglect.
You are so much more polite than I am. Admirable.
What hiding freeze ?

I’ve seen SFDC hiring managers advertising positions on LinkedIn hiring SWEs as recently as last month
Every AI would do this if you asked it to.
But also you'll have 5-year-old software that doesn't run on Windows 13.
Salespeople are typically compensated based on commissions. At least the well compensated ones are. Automation can make things easier and streamline the sales process, but because the sales rep is paid a percentage of the GP of a sale, automation doesn't really their take.
Depends if you use the cloud storage. 6TB of cloud storage for $99/yr with the standard Office Suite thrown in isn't too bad.
Gotcha. Thanks.

Yes, that's about how I've used it. I found that it is good at snippets, mid-complexity queries, etc., but not so much full applications.

Still, I keep hearing people claim that devs are getting ~60% productivity increases. And, I'm trying to figure out if this is supposedly through tools like Copilot. Also wondering whether AI has really had a significant impact on no code and low code tools.

Just trying to see through the hype at what devs are really getting out of AI in its current state.
To prevent over-hunting to the point that prey becomes extinct? I'm not having a hard time imagining how shame could be an evolutionary advantage.
Hologram – An Isomorphic Elixir Web Framework Is Here
As a German, I approve this wording.

Basically, it's a Digitalisierungsschattenwucherbepreisungsskandal
Have you read the comments sections on CBC articles?

Oooooof.
I for one want to hear all sides (there can be more than two sides) of a polemic. I challenge myself to determine the best possible arguments in support of each side, even those with which I disagree.
> Hey, the media, the CDC, "the science" says that if you're vaccinated, you're safe, you won't infect your immunocompromised grandma, you won't get sick, you won't spread covid.

to my knowledge, this is not what the science said. the science always said "if youre vaccinated, you are less likely to experience severe covid symptoms"
Rather than focusing on accountability as the starting point, I would suggest building tooling and visibility so that cloud costs are visible across all layers including application and infra. Once you have this, accountability becomes easier.

Each application team should be able to view the total cost of running their service - and thus be held accountable to reduce costs when necessary.

Without data you are running blind. Cost optimization cannot be solved by a standalone team - it has to be owned by everyone.

Source: Personal experience reducing cloud costs in a slightly smaller team.
A cousin works at JPL leading the Mars Rover program. Her house burnt down this afternoon :(

She's moved to an RV on her parent's property an hour away, temporarily. Thankful for backup option, but she put a lot of sweat and tears (and money) into fixing that little house up!
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