skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is rarely the case, indeed.

However, in incidents like e.g. the Fort McMurray fire (Alberta, 2016), this is precisely what happens. One property with a heavy fuel load fanned by strong winds (i.e. plentiful O2 supply) gets hot enough that it causes ignition in a neighboring exposure.

In Ft. McMurray, there were documented cases of an entire 4+ bedroom house being reduced to ash in roughly 5 minutes. The heat generated by that process is easily sufficient to cause ignition in buildings <typical suburban layout> apart.
If you are never getting good suggestions on your PRs that's a bad sign. Any team of more than 2 people should have some ideas sometimes for each other. Either this means everybody's too checked out to put in effort on PRs or they think it'll fall on deaf ears.

I've been a software engineer for decades and even so, teammates will have good ideas sometimes. Nobody can think of every good idea every time.
Income is not the same as purchasing power

Purchasing power is around 7-8x less today than the 70s
I think having a long range explosives laden drone hit that sports stadium is way more scary. And more likely to come to an urban center as urban terrorism. Unfortunately. My 2c.
2025, the year in which we stop reflecting on our habits and instead entrench ourselves into tradition. What a brave new world.
LLMs are allowed to "learn" from all this content because humans are allowed to. Most humans have to access the content legally to learn. But training LLMs it's basically "Copyright lol, yolo".

Is there a reason a human can't torrent movies and say "But I'm just learning from them"?
It's definitely achievable, and it even runs with a playable framerate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754
Just put on a jumper. Or several.
The Linux Foundation cut funding for LTS releases: https://www.zdnet.com/article/long-term-support-for-linux-ke... They only spend a small percentage of their money on maintaining the kernel. So I think if you want a stable kernel you need to find someone downstream willing to do that work.
Well I think you addressed the simplest case, which wasn't really the situation here (nor in the meme).

I think if somebody directly offends you by calling you something you don't like, then from first-principles, it does seem like you're always okay letting them know that and seeing if they mind stopping. And most kind people would.

But in the meme-case it wasn't the lady in the meme asking people to stop, it was just some random girl on reddit. Same with the cargo-culting, I don't think the cargo-cults themselves are objecting, rather it is somebody objecting on behalf of another group.

Or the case of how we name our git-branches is even more indirect (since nobody is calling anybody anything, except a git-branch).

I'd love to hear some from-first-principles, emotionless arguments with clear proposals (e.g. If x% of people think term Y offends group Z, at what threshhold do we care? And does only group Z get to vote?).
Ridicule my words all you want, we both know full well that there are legal definitions of slander and that I did not mean censoring anything but legally valid infringements.

That's what a (functioning) court system is there for.

What's heavy is blowing up a nothingburger in so many words. :D

Good luck with your lawsuit!
https://archive.ph/mhnBU
What do you mean by modules, exactly? In a smartphone, which is the largest market, and where Mediatek is pretty strong, many of those functions are integrated as part of a system on chip. Power consumption also required good interplay between the various subsystems. So it's relatively tightly integrated. You also must have good Android drivers/BSP. And phone vendors are not that interested in changing vendors alle the time. There are also a bunch of patents that one must license, which Mediatek likely already does. Often cross licensing with what is typically competitors (like Qualcomm, maybe even Apple), which takes a bunch of time to set up.
Boyd’s contributions might seem impressive but he seemed like a disgusting human being. He was confrontational, chewed his nails, smoked cigars, made his family live in a tiny apartment so he could be close to work, etc. I can’t remember it all but I quit reading his biography 3/4s in because he just sounded like horrendous person.
That's what you tell the AI to do, who knows what other systems it has access to? For example, where is it writing the flags for these posts? Can it access the file system and do something programmatically? Et cetera, et cetera.
I don't think Northeastern is worried about attracting applicants, they were the 8th most applied-to school in the US last year, with nearly 100K applicants. And CS is one of their most popular programs.

I think the more likely cause is pressure from their co-op program's partner employers to make the intro curriculum more 'practical' (i.e. outsourcing training from the employer to school). It's beneficial in the short-term but IMO a loss in the long-term, Northeastern is a university not a bootcamp.
What actually, as an end user, about pnpm is better than Yarn? I've never found an advantage with pnpm in all the times I've tried it. They seem very 1:1 to me, but Yarn edges it out thanks to it having a plugin system and its ability to automatically pull `@types/` packages when needed.
> To me the best way that this goes is that 'hurt party' kindly explains to 'unknowing party' who, in turn, kindly agrees to abandon hurtful term, and everyone moves on with life.

What if the 'hurt party' is being unreasonable?
Yes if you trim it after making that partition and system correctly informs SSD about empty space. Secure Erase before making partition would be the safest bet - that way SSD firmware has full control over free unallocated space.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to die of now-curable diseases that were only able to be cured due to the hard work of many, many humans over generations. To think that that human progress is akin to a personal hedonic treadmill is misguided.
All property, physical and digital, is rented if you squint just right.
For something similar I use Continue.dev with ollama, it’s always nice to see more tools in the space! But as usual, you need pretty formidable hardware to run the actually good models, like the 32B version of Qwen2.5-coder.
You mean the full internet experience in one window thing like the aol browser? I’m pretty sure I used to use it, light blue thing and hotmail a more seemless integration?
The second Friday of every month.
Yeah, but where the hell do you get it so cheap from?
> The most scary thing about these kinds of systems seems to me to be the potential for urban terrorism.

A mortar or backpack has a thousand times the potential for urban terrorism.
What is misunderstood about them, don't they also use wheat and other grains? Maybe you mean that they are calorically dense and/or greasy thus causing lethargy?
Similar for ISDN. At least over here it was a successful and important solution for many people, not only for data access, but it was als the way to get multiple lines, caller id, etc. activated.

Of course DSL and other techs took over, but it was far from a failure.
I graduated with a degree in CS. Checking back with my university they'd added a degree in Software Engineering.

CS (traditionally) is more about algorithms, limits, growth. There's a bunch of complexity in even just understanding and calculating what a computer can do.

The Software Engineering degree makes so much sense if you're studying about how libraries can be tied together, upgraded, unit/integration testing, container and source code management, etc.

They are truly different disciplines at this point.
> a call from them

um... will someone else tell him/her, or should I?
Post hat are not in English are usualy ignored or flagged. I took a look at your site and I cheated using autotranlation. It looks very similar to https://mann-e.com/ I was going to recomend to post it, but you already did https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42664335

Perhaps you can add a comment there explaining that you are the author and giving some details about the tech stack. Adding some technical details sometimes make the discussion more interesting.
This is one of my biggest concerns for our future. What happens when the costs of drones or 3D printing become so cheap, and the learning curve shrinks to the extent that a terrorist, crazy person or school shooter can semi easily deploy their own deadly drone swarms.
> The default and de facto standard should be something that doesn’t get put on a pedestal but stays out of the way.

The problem is that in the python ecosystem there really isn't a default de facto standard yet at all. It's supposed to be pip, but enough people dislike pip that it's hard as a newcomer to know if it's actually the standard or not.

The nice thing about putting something like this on a pedestal is that maybe it could actually become a standard, even if the standard should be simple and get out of the way. Better to have a standard that's a bit over the top than no standard at all.
I like the Jetstream, but for some reason they dry out or the ball seems to get clogged (with skin oils or paper fibers, maybe?) after some time using them.
No.

Because of what nindalf said, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678031
> What kind of country lets diplomats and civil servants, or really anyone, drown in medal debt when they’re injured on the job???

ooooh oooh ooh, I know this one. pick me pick me!!!

I'm assuming this was rhetorical though
> Otherwise I can spread all kinds of made-up stories about my work mates, and claim they illustrate truths about human nature, right?

Yes, you actually can do this, and if those stories do reflect actual human nature that other people also observe then they will be shared and spread. If they warn of potential problems that really do sometimes happen and allow other people to avoid those problems then they will be useful, even if they were made up!
Don’t all of these symptoms have really high (>10%) rate of incidence in general population?
Why are the only accounts that support this Trump strong Biden weak narrative are multiple throwaways with no sources.
> [...] urban terrorism. If it doesn't leave any trace and it can penetrate walls, [...]

That's obviously bad, but it's not really terrorism. There's no one universally agreed on definition of terrorism, but instilling terror is commonly a big part, and for that you want people to notice.
Maybe you don't, and maybe that's part of the terrorism, even a placebo effect could frighten many.
I guess one challenge is you'd have to test these weapons on people to see if it causes the reported symptoms
Speaking from the point of view of other idiopathic chronic conditions....if it doesn't show up in a blood test or a scan, many doctors will just call it psychological.
https://archive.md/J2Lz6
Just as the youth from that time has no idea what punch cards and tapes are. ;)
I'm sorry I don't think I understand the problem you're trying to illustrate. I'm not sure why you're emphasizing value vs. reference, but even if that's what you want, this works just fine: https://godbolt.org/z/P8EGPYWW5
Seems like it to me.

It's akin to having a no t-shirt policy and not enforcing it until somebody wears a union shirt.
Ok, by that comment you told me everything I wanted to know: you're pulling this out of thin air. Please provide sources whenever you make insane claims like "Big Bang is disproven". Because it's not [1]. Also you told me there's "more evidence for this Black Hole theory than there is for the Big Bang", so please link to it, that I might examine it and maybe change my mind.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evide...
> I worry this view is both pedantic and harmful.

Yes it seems like excuse for enlightened apathy.
Regarding #2, then why would US intelligence agencies state that these incidents were not caused by foreign state actors? You'd expect the opposite given your hypothesis.
I guess my problem is for people like my grandmother. It's nice to see comments and interactions from her, but she's certainly not going to set up a blog. There's a whole gamut of toxic social media stuff, hustle culture and people trying to make a name for themselves as influencers, but before that, it was a way to passively keep in touch with people you may not normally get in touch with.
Cars are really deadly and readily available without raising any suspicion.

(And only fairly recently have we really seen anyone use cars for terror attacks. And they are still fairly rare, considering how ubiquitous cars are.)

See also https://gwern.net/terrorism-is-not-about-terror and https://gwern.net/terrorism-is-not-effective
First Windows computer I ever used had something like this, called Packard Bell Navigator. It was... interesting but ultimately an annoyance to use.

Looking at screenshots, Bob appears to be a more childish and cartoony version of the concept. I can see why it didn't fair well.

https://youtu.be/pwTIbYV_q6I around the 12 to 13 minute mark shows the Navigator interface.
Seriously. Nobody gave a fuck, you got insulted if you brought up your identity, because only a narcissist would bother to bring that up on the internet of all places.

"Tits or GTFO" existed because anyone who bothered to claim they were a woman or whatever must want unearned attention so pics or fuck off.
>Some people are weird. No idea why is this on HN.

I think that encapsulates your comment pretty well... the article was an interesting read, you don't need to agree with everything the author writes to enjoy it. Go touch grass (or snow depending where you are) and relax a bit.
So I can claim you once deleted the master database (although you never did), and use that to warn juniors who join to be careful?

I guess we have quite different opinions on slander and defamation.
> Insulting someone or discriminating against them is not supression, it's unlawful.

It is not, at all, unlawful to insult someone. Your argument is absurd.
>They don't seem to have the juice to pull a war with Russia off.

My brother in Christ, Russia can’t even pull off a war with its much smaller neighbor who is using NATO’s scraps and hand-me-downs.
Yes, the US State Department is working hard on this list to keep you safe and scared, and recommends you use a Taiwanese D-Link NAS instead
Qubes is great as a development platform. The simple integration of VM's into a desktop is surprisingly useful and seamless for day to day development, testing and work.

I've used it for a number of years.
> Microsoft Research's highly productive Silicon Valley campus

What are some notable examples of innovations that came from MSR Silicon Valley campus? In my opinion nothing notable has ever come out of MSR, regardless of campus. Microsoft is needing to rely on third parties such as OpenAI because MSR seems incapable of contributing anything notable to AI.
> Otherwise I can spread all kinds of made-up stories about my work mates, and claim they illustrate truths about human nature, right?

This happens all the time, and it’s fine? A recent front page example [0] — did julius ever exist? Who knows. Would it change anything? Not really…

A problem could definitely arise if you specifically called out a coworker without anonymization, but speaking in broad strokes is… perfectly fine and uneventful

[0] https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html
I work for a very large well-known media company and can say that we have a decent amount of mission critical code that’s written in Perl that still just works and is actively being enhanced.
Nah what ads in HN is crazy
I could tolerate no graphic acceleration and battery issues as part of the virtualization overhead, but I had issues with sleep (it would sleep and wake up perfectly only with when plugged in) and other related problems such as Windows VMs crashing when waking up from sleep.

I was using it well at home but could not stand it when I travelled around with my laptop.

I think Xen is mostly at fault for the issues, but I’m sure using something like KVM would be insecure, or they would have migrated already.
Isn't this missing the forest for the trees? EU as a whole has been crushed by US post 2009, to zoom in and say "recent trend bad!" is really missing the meta issue.
But that's not due to web developers. They merely execute what some business people ask them to do in order to make people consent to something they don't want to consent to and making them angry about the EU presumably causing this, while it's completely up to the ad industry. They could make it a lot simpler or even reduce their surveillance.
Same here. The CS curriculum was theory-heavy (as it should be), and there were purely practical programming courses for the other faculties.
It was crickets.

https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/crickets-may-be-the-cause-....
Lots of PhDs advance trivial knowledge if "advance" is even the right word.

I provide this example of a dance PhD thesis topic:

"Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying" by Rachel Gunn of "kangaroo" breakdance olympic fame.

Anyone can read a book and write an essay. Even AI can write reasonable essays these days. Is AI advancing the pursuit of knowledge?
The Atlantic is simply not a credible source for anything involving Russian influence on the USA.

Anything they print on the topic you think is plausible should be corroborated relatively deeply. The Alfa Bank BS is amazing.

Putin sucks.
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This is what happens when an organization has no idea what matters or how to measure productivity. You did well to leave.
I had to look up "butlerian jihad" (from one of the bsky comments) and now I want one too. Yow.
can you explain this a bit more? how it's relevant for the topic?
Running LLMs on the Nintendo Switch
https://archive.ph/bIMka
Those might be agents too.

The narrative might have started with electric fields from the grid stressing people if not causing cancer. Then moved to radio, wifi, the so called biological radio frequency spectrum. Etc

It was always an engineered argument between one camp advocating absurdly human fragility vs the other camp pretending we are indestructible supper beings and no form of radiation could harm us - ever!

It sets up the perfect climate to prevent a honest objective scientific discussion.
My best learning was difficult, whole mind encompassing, and incredibly fun.

If you can get college students idle brains curiously contemplating the how and why of the subject, that's when the tuition is really worth it.
I think the nice dinner or event is a great idea, wish we had done that. Events are more memorable than cash. I can hear it now, "if I get a 3.5 I will get to go to Chuck E Cheese"
An interesting idea but at this pricing it won't be approved by the teams that need it. In software development, for example, it's not unusual to deal with hundreds of cards at once. That puts everyone in your highest priced bucket.
The carousel images are all AI generated headshots, some of the example selfies on the page are real selfies.

Lighting and in which setting the original selfies were taken do make a difference, which is why there is a guide on which selfies are good and which ones to avoid so the model won’t hallucinate during the training.
well, we did just see a 3D printed weapon used, but the stories about the perp's looks shouted over the other details. I'm sure the gun lobby was pleased with that. so to the idea of school shootings, drone swarms would probably be too much for that, but a kid printing up their own guns to use is definitely something I could see happening. drone swarms would to me still be limited to a more well funded group to achieve instead of a lone wolf scenario.
Then they’ll match the deadly output of states that have killed tens of thousands of people I guess.
Or maybe Tails?
How China could quarantine Taiwan: Mapping out two possible scenarios
Please adopt me.
Just for people stumbling across this in the future: the general answer to blocking large numbers of discontiguous ranges of source IPs (or doing anything with those kinds of ranges) is `ipset`, which has iirc a hash and radix trie backend in the kernel.

If you wanted to be super awesome about it, you could write a 20 line eBPF XDP program to do the same thing, populating hash and LPM trie maps of addresses and dropping crawlers without so much as giving them an skbuff for their SYN packets. But `ipset` is fine.
Aluminum contamination of food during culinary preparation
Graph Query Language
> Order-independent top level declarations.

Javascript has had this for functions since 1995. This has been part of zig from the start, not added later.

> Fixed sizes for ints, longs, etc.

this has existed in stdint.h since C99. It doesn't take a genius, only years of pain with C/C++, to realize this is the better way to do things. And also, this was in zig from the start, not added later.

> Underscores embedded in integer literals

Also in zig from the start, not added later. Others have commented on the provenance.

I could be convinced that continue/break to labels was inspired by D.
The most annoying issue I had was that even using mpv would lead to audio samples being dropped. I think I fixed it eventually by increasing buffer sizes, but I would expect at least audio should work out of the box.
> The Rust Hello World does indeed experience and report errors if there are any, the canonical C just ignores them, as does the C++.

Can you give an example for each of those?
Is that indicator of slack though?
This is false. The quoted National Geographic article explicitly claims that they built airstrips and radio towers to attract cargo. Time Magazine, too, claims that they believed their rituals would cause the cargo to be delivered.

I'm not saying every cargo cult worked this way. I'm saying cargo cults that worked this way did exist according to the very sources quoted by the article, which it does not dispute.
I'm not an entrepreneur, or want to be one but I think There’s nothing exciting about making a callcenter operate well, even though it’s often done wrong is a bit of a call-to-action signal. Somebody should feel passionate bout this, it has high value (social) outcomes.

I would think that giving staff some agency to intercede, plus improved scripting support and process-flow improvements could be huge here. The stories I hear about helpdesk who can only add file notes and not actually fix things like gas-meter address/ID mismatches (and the consequent debt collector problems for people who genuinely are NOT the user of the phantom gas meter) is just huge. There's a process-improvement opportunity here.

"computer says no" is about the worst possible outcome. Measuring helpdesk effectiveness on time to close call feels like the problem (in part)
Oh, gotcha I can’t read good.
> completely overblown fears of looting in the aftermath of the LA fires (while there's little to no attention on the price gouging and profiteering that's going on) and so on

I’ve seen news mention both looting and price gouging. I didn’t feel any fearmongering or lack of attention related to those issues.