skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no point in having humans, ideally we should end up with just Elon Musk and fully automated resource extraction and entertaining infrastructure to please him /s
What free and open source alternative works on my iPhone/ipad?
Sure, that's likely to get somewhere.

Just let nature take it's course and Twitter die on the vine.
I just use Libreoffice for home needs. My daughter has access to Libreoffice too but prefers to use Google docs for everything. I think there is a whole generation of students growing up on Google docs, mainly pushed by schools, and that will have some impact on office productivity space in another 10-15 years when they start to work.
The problem with the "everyone" model being pitched here is that it may as well be a synonym for "nobody."

I've worked for a few orgs where quality and testing were "everyone's" responsibility and it ultimately led to everyone pushing it off their plates and lots of it simply not getting done. Why? We could collectively borrow against the future and "everyone" being responsible meant that nobody could be held accountable, as then the debate would be in deciding fractions of responsibility.

It also encouraged those with other incentives, like product, to lean heavily on that to ship more features over doing reliable tech work as they figured the debt would be someone else's problem down the road.

People have this naive idea that people who are given responsibility will step up. There are those that do, but the rest often see the far easier path of externalizing problems and frankly most jobs reward that as they don't see externalities well.

I would have it so that platform team is responsible for identifying and engineering is responsible for fixing it. I am not sure that either team would have the skills needed to prevent such things from happening, so perhaps canary deployments would be the way to go if it is a substantial risk in your domain.
> We download the reprojected data from UW SSEC's RealEarth program

I really wish GOES's official images would provide the high resolution imagery directly. We shouldn't have to go through RealEarth to get it. However I've noticed that only RealEarth has the highest resolution images.
A lion will kill anything that moves

That’s a common self-indulgence. Many predators in fact couldn’t care less if prey is still twitching or whining, as long as it doesn’t run away.
That depends on whether you're falling asleep around the same time (±1.5 hrs) every night or not.

If you are, then you're likely adjusted to the 24 natural cycle and something else is going on. The closest thing I'm aware of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_sleep%E2%80%93wake_r...
Thanks for sharing. Do you work with the folks at Watch Duty?
You would think so, but I have not found a single person who wants to take me up on that.
This is the comment I was looking for!

Note also that the student uses the LinkedIn post to advertise themselves to potential employers. This reduces credibility in my mind as it provides a reason why TFA might benefit from exaggeration/misrepresentation.
Very interesting, what are some good examples of this happening?
Showdead doesn’t work on stories AFAIK, just comments.

For stories on the front page, I made https://orangesite.sneak.cloud.
I've said many times that the problems solved by uv aren't really caused by using Python as an implementation language - they're primarily caused by the design of the existing tools. Resolvers in particular are constrained by many things that aren't the implementation language: the algorithm (is it making likely-to-succeed guesses first?), how thorough the resolver tries to be, the approach to caching.... (Of course your network connection also matters, but tools can't really do anything about that. Yes, I do count that as part of resolution because you can't actually get all the necessary metadata in one shot because of the way that the packaging standards and PyPI work.)

But I don't have the kind of hard numbers I'd really like in order to make that argument properly. Hopefully I will by the end of the series, since I'll also be working on Paper.

Bootstrapping isn't a real problem unless you actually want to get Python itself (not a virtual environment; those are trivial) and find the standard approaches insufficient. I have already worked out how Paper will bootstrap itself - and I expect it to end up being much smaller than Pip, never mind the full Pipx package or a compiled uv binary. I guess hardly anyone cares about saving a few megabytes of disk nowadays, but it's a real annoyance for me (and the planned subject of another post, not in this series).

If you like having an opinionated, integrated workflow tool, uv comes highly praised. I personally am much more in favour of the Unix philosophy. If you use uv only to install applications and libraries then that seems like a waste to me.
Because you have to go to a high school that offers special courses, you have to be willing to work much harder than the average student, and you have to know about this trick when you're like 15yo and comprehend how much $$$ and time it's going to save you in the long run.

I fortunately did take advantage of this, and so did my wife. Thought we took advantage of it so we could do cheap study abroad and not have to take any courses toward our degree plan (indeed, I actually earned a second degree in a completely unrelated field while doing my study abroad)

But to be clear, this was because I took every advanced class offered at my high school and took other courses at the local community college instead of hanging out with my friends during lunch, etc. It was a constant gaming of the system to eventually get the results I wanted.
In Australia these are known as "bush doofs" and are essentially community events - they're organised, run and attended by a group of people rather than an organisation.

You can't buy tickets to them, you have to know someone who's in the group chat for them. You can just turn up on the day if you know where the event is; they're always incredibly remote, usually on a patch of bush (forest) on someone's enormous farm or a national park, pitch a tent, join in, help out where you can. Security is "if you act like a dickhead you'll be asked politely to leave by a bunch of people". There's no financial contribution, except sometimes a hat is passed around if someone had to pay for equipment hire or similar. You can buy drugs there, but only if you know the person you're buying from; usually better to sort yourself out before you go, there won't be anyone advertising anything for sale at the doof.
At my University, scripts like these are pretty much universal.

We even have an alumni-run site that scrapes the registration platform's API for the details of every course to provide a better UI interface.

It even has a tool to generate an AutoHotkey script so students can insta-register for all their classes seconds after registration opens up for them (it's usually a mad rush at midnight when course registration opens for freshman/sophomores as they all compete for the remaining course slots left after seniors and juniors have already registered).

Seems inane an institution would crack down on it.

We even have another alumni-run site that does nothing but FOIA the average GPA of all courses from every professor; While I can't imagine the university is thrilled about it, as it's completely legal they haven't tried to pressure the creators to shut it down afaik.
on a global scale more affordable may be true. unfortunately on an individual level in many places it is not. where i am meat is cheaper than the nuts and other vegetables needed to replace it, and those here that can't even afford meat from time to time end up with a rather poor diet.
> you can't self-hosted email because sender reputation is too important in business.

Email saas vendor only lock-in seem to be the root of some vendor lock-ins.
Those things might make sense if one building is on fire, but the scale of these fires and similarly sized forest fires make targeting individual building useless - there are hundreds or thousands of buildings on fire.

Forest fire fighting is pretty contentious, but we now have very specialized planes and helicopters that I assume didn’t exist decades ago. Similarly there are 747s that drop 20k gallons of fire retardant that I assume is new tech. Not sure if trenches are new or not, but also pretty common for forest fires.
UW CSE alum (but graduated 1^H25 years ago).

You should at least talk to a guidance counselor if you are close to graduating. They have a lot of incentive to get you graduated, and would probably just register you for your courses manually (because...you weren't officially expelled so there has to be a way). Anyways, the counselor will have options for you, and won't be constrained by whoever is running the registration site (and aren't going to be their allies either). If that doesn't work, go to UW administration, they are going to be less interested in allying with the tech department the higher up you go (unless this came from them, and not the tech department?).

Alternatively, if you can put your work with the university on your CV, it isn't a clear loss for you. You should also consider getting a lawyer involved, but it might be better just to get what you can and graduate.
There was an article in the Guardian recently about a rave reunion event in the UK - I think it would agree with many of your reasons about what killed them: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/10/sanctuary-club...
#FireMappers 3.1 is found here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=a...
You haven’t been to California right? Weather and location wise, it’s one of the best places in the world to live in
You clearly have never dealt with their support system(s).

You still need a geek or geek adjacent person. Their stuff breaks all the time in weird and wonderful ways and someone local has to figure that out and send trouble tickets in to the vendor(s).

With Google, you pretty much can't get support, even if you are a paying customer, so you absolutely have to have your own human, if only to tell you: You can't use Google that way...

With MS you can get support, but you pay extra for it, and it's hit and miss as to how useful it is.

With Apple, you get support. It's generally pretty good, but can occasionally fail.
Not so fast:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-killer-wha...
> If there were an IDE plugin that let you use a local model

TabbyML
Frozen paradise several months a year. Water is a solved problem, look at Israel
The default design is rather unergonomic (you're less likely to downvote by tapping on the wrong closely located button if you want to upvote since you can have the more frequent upvote action in a convenient side swipe gesture, but the less frequent downvote in a separate hamburger menu - things like this you won't get from reading a feature list) and ugly (fonts, padding, colors) , but if it doesn't even occur to you, then maybe you won't appreciate all the improvements, so maybe not missing out?
I don't know a ton about this (just heard about it in something I read somewhere?), but I prefer the computables--I feel like the idea of a computable number is the formalized version of the idea that (non-integer) numbers in nature do not have definite values, but instead have processes by which you can overturn more digits with effort, and thus they can only be said to be "pretty equal" but never totally equal.

If a number can be defined in a language but you can't tell me if it's different from another number that I have in finite time, then it is not very interesting to me.
The stories of survivors of the Rwandan Genocide
Nice, thanks but did you know about NASA FIRMS?

https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@-117.8,34...
Everyone can't have the full picture as too much knowledge and information are required and even if they did, their incentives usually aren't aligned with caring.
Wildfires in California date back millions of years and are a natural part of the region's ecology. The difference in recent centuries has been dense human habitation. I think your statement about presumed prevention is inaccurate or misleading.
They can look a little like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH_RWBSQ9ic

Note: Burning car and local farm fire truck to stop fire spreading.
> no rubberband scrolling

unfortunately that's not true
"I think Salesforce’s customers typically sign an annual contract so not sure how the refunding thing works."

"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."

The main idea is that you sign a contract for some services in exchange for cash. And if the services are not provided, you don't need to pay the cash.

Depending on who has the advantage, (whether the contract was paid upfront or not), one party or the other can bring it to court, and similarly the other party can counterclaim.

In both cases the claim will be for "Breach of Contract". In my experience there is no expectation both parts of the contract have equal weigh and requirement for proof. It's not like you automatically win a case if you signed a contract, you need to show that you did the work, that client received what they asked, that you made no fraudulent representation to get them to sign. It's not as straightforward as, "they signed for 50K, therefore they owe 50K"

Of course this can be solved extrajudicially, through internal processes, but in general these processes follow the same logic as the courts of law (common law in this case), so the underlying legal case law is what shapes these refund policies.

IANAL
My university had a police department because it is, as one might expect of a flagship state university, an enormous landmass with billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment, plus about 6,000 full-time residents living in university-owned housing. Residents of a certain class of people who are prone to doing stupid, illegal shit.
Of course it works on stories. There are eight right now on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
It’s a freaking fish, man. Of course we should all hope that humans don’t go through the same thing. It’s like looking at salmon and being “I hope you, guy eating the salmon, never experiences being filleted and then cooked into a delicious dish in an oven, with some sliced lemons on top of you and some asparagus on the side”. No shit! Humans are different! This is just one of those pity parties that people throw posting upworthy etc etc because a fish got long covid.
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Typically when a core previous truth changes, society changes in response.
Why should anyone’s right to publishing be dependent on their country of origin? The right to free expression is a human right, not an American one.
Thanks. How I would've imagined this could work (if it could be made to work) is to somehow account for the notion that your "infinity" just got halved (yes I get that infinity is not part of the set, but let me wave my hands here while we're breaking our axioms), and everything "after" it is no longer in the set. Which would imply that "{1, 2, 3, ...}" is no longer a sufficient description for the set of natural numbers; you'd probably need extra information (maybe a "scale factor" for the infinity or something).

I imagine you're right that this leads to a contradiction somewhere, but I (obviously) haven't thought it through. I just would love to see someone try to break enough axioms to make it work and see what comes out of it, or show that it contradicts either itself or something we see in the real world if we do that.
You do not want and cannot have a startup run these critical services. Just reeks of VC opportunists and cash grab.
> It’s been more than a decade since people started trying to get others off Facebook. It clearly hasn’t worked.

That's called "quitting". It hasn't worked yet, and people widely began the quitting years ago, so it's not going to work until they actually work hard with commitment, passion, creativity, confidence. If they don't do that, if they don't believe in it, certainly nobody else will.

And look how you've derailed the actual work. Instead of talking about how to solve the problem, we're talking about whether we should quit like you have - a conversation that accomplishes absolutely nothing for anyone. Who invited you to this meeting?
> Just because the younger generation are doing things differently it doesn’t make them wrong...

Yes, but that also doesn't mean change can't be bad or in the wrong direction.

What you describe isn't neutral, and it's pretty clearly not good.
Find the context you are missing and if it’s bad reason you will understand their perspective more and be able to persuade them.
You don’t have to know theory to make acid with a TB-303, i.e. the subtractive synth that changed music the most.
Birth article in Sept - https://archive.ph/uZ5mx
Who's presuming it's preventable? What little investment do you suggest California make?

Probably slow controlled burns would be helpful in reducing potential fuel, but who's going to perform controlled burns over the entirety of all the hills surrounding LA ?
Only saves time if you consider being in university a waste of time instead of an opportunity to be free to learn what you are interested in and surrounded by like-minded people.
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the majority of humans may think that way because they don't have to kill any animal personally, they are disconnected from the "killing" part of the whole equation.

until a century or two ago this was simply not true. everyone grew up with animals around them and for sure watched them being slaughtered.

people being bothered by that have always been the exception.
What about my comment makes you think I'd like to "live in a Putin-esuque society?"
The company still pays that commission. If the company instead kept that money, it would be more profitable (or could lower the price of its product).

We can get into the nuances of advantageous tax treatment or not, but sales commissions come from somewhere and are essentially transaction costs.
> And they were right. Television created nothing of value.

Exactly. Bad things can and do become normalized and then unremarked upon. Some people confuse that phenomenon with those things actually being good.

People often have clearer eyes at the transition.
Honestly, step 1 is just understanding what the purpose of each component is.. OS, driver, device etc...

for eg. A device driver is about exposing an interface for other programs being run on your computer, to access and control a device...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=juGNPLdjLH4 this is a decent crash course on that.

You can create a toy USB device using an Arduino or something that can send / receive information to your PC. Eg: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yTc2GLXfCOY .

Then it's a matter of just understanding what the subsystem you're interested in writing drivers for your OS does, how to make it do something, just write code. Storage devices, graphics devices, etc...

A raspberry pi can be a decent starting point for these experiments too.. eg. Writing a bare metal operating system for the raspberry pi https://github.com/babbleberry/rpi4-osdev
> Summarizing messages requires rewriting them. Where is the surprise here?

You need to move from describing the process to reviewing the content. If rewriting makes it harder to see it's a scam when you expected the opposite, here is your surprise
What do you think can “break” with logging in to your Google account and using GSuite? It’s basically the same thing as the consumer version.

It’s the same with O365.
Why would anyone be happier on a 26-hour schedule if they can get an adequate amount of sleep and go to sleep close to the same time on 24-hour schedule?

I can see it going the other way, where if your natural rhythm is 22 hours you can likely force yourself to stay awake to align with 24 (and likely would be much happier than free-running on a 22-hour clock).

Speaking from personal experience, if I could consistently stick to a 24-hour schedule, I would. And I think most people with non-24 have the same position (and have likely tried many things before giving up, as tossing and turning for hours every night and then still not sleeping enough is pretty unpleasant).

Additionally, if Bob's rhythm is 26 hours then his sleep cycle is shifting ahead by 2 hours every night regardless of when he falls asleep. If he is able to fall asleep at the same time every night, his sleep cycle presumably isn't shifting, and even if 26 hours might be more natural for him, he's able to sync his cycle to 24 hours regardless.

So I don't think this would qualify them for non-24, as the circadian rhythm isn't shifting every day.

On the other hand, if Bob chooses to sleep 26 hours for whatever reason, perhaps he could be said to have it then? It's just inconceivable to me that someone would actually choose that given the option.

It's worth noting that the average human circadian rhythm is closer to 24.5 hours when external stimuli are removed. So it doesn't strike me as too different from Bob; people are nevertheless regulated to 24 hours by daylight and not said to be non-24, even if, like Bob, their natural state might be to sleep more.
Another difference is a steady increase in the world temperature due to climate change.
No, looks like they're doing a way better job! Thanks for sharing. I was only aware of the GOES sats. Seems like VIIRS is more intended to do this kind of monitoring.
My university's athletics program pulls in so much money and some of it funds academic programs. No money goes from academics to sports.

So the athletics department is not only self-sustaining and self-funding, but it funds academics as well.

It's basically as if Man U sent some of its profits to Manchester University.
The intelligence gap between lion and orca is much slimmer than orca and human.