skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at your first link. The 2024 curve is incomplete but roughly follows (but is above) the average of the 1980-present average curve. The 2023 curve similarly.

Your other link is research saying that statistic matters for fires. I can believe it does but your other graphs don't show fuel moisture as even slightly below average. Maybe the last two months of no rain indeed put fuel moisture well average. But, this is California - rainfall varies widely. LA has had many winters without rain, I grew up there.

I can't claim to climatological understanding of the situation. But I variety of narratives that don't make sense and impulse is to say that these are a response the LA fires being almost entirely a sudden and a unpredictable event, an effect not of trends but of the situation of global warming overall, something people simply don't want to admit.
It's been there since Obama. But there is heavy lobbying against it. There's no upside in it for a for-profit corporation.
> I contend, knowing farmers who use their trucks for work every day, they can’t do their job without them.

Did I say "no more trucks?" No, I didn't. My complaint isn't the existence of trucks. My complaint is trucks that are MASSIVE for no reason.

I would also hazard a guess that the same farmers you're talking about have driver's licenses that cost more money and require more stringent testing to get, which is suitable when they are regularly driving vehicles like tractors, that can pancake a standard car. And like, at this point, you really should need a CDL for anything larger than an F-250.

I would also hazard a second guess that your farmer friends would find their trucks easier to use if they were lower to the ground and had smaller wheels, as pickup trucks did in the 80's and 90's, before the CAFE standards the auto industry begged for went into effect and allowed them to make the land mammoths that are now common in suburbs all over the United States, owned by not-farmers.

> So the question becomes, do we need regulation about who can buy a big truck?

No, we need regulation that states how big a truck can be and still be a consumer vehicle. And, we need an end to the subsidies in this country both on fuel itself and on the engines that it operates in vehicles people buy that make them financially feasible in a way they wouldn't otherwise, and failing that, there needs to be steep increases in gas and registration taxes and fees to account for how abusive these vehicles are to the roads they operate on and the communities they operate in. And once they actually cost what they should, the market can decide. If our accountant is just THAT COMMITTED to his F-350 SuperCrew with the 8 foot bed that he uses to buy groceries, that's completely fine! Assuming he can pay for it.
Oh, wow. Thanks for the intel.
I'm stating as a fact that farmers about the globe are able to farm millions of tonnes of grain without the use of oversize yank tank "trucks".

They are not necessary for farming, it's commonplace to farm without them.

If US farmers are overly attached to a penis extension with dog balls and claim they are unable to live without them then that's a pathological condition, not a fact.
I agree with, but maybe someone, or a group of people, could make a legally-defined difference between 'sleeping', and 'camping'.
Perhaps they could start by using different words, plainly understood by most - or, easily researched, for each of the different (perhaps) activities.
E2L11 “Lunatic Fringe.” The map has an outer ring containing 720 degrees of hallway. Surprisingly disorienting even when you know that’s what’s going on.
Kimchi seems to love cheese. The “Kim-cheese” is a staple in my house - a classic grilled cheese with chopped kimchi inside. So, so good.
Fermented foods are a particular interest of mine. I am by no means an expert but I love that we can take very perishable ingredients and make them into other food stuffs using fermentation. Tea, milk, vegetables, bread, etc. can all be fermented and yeast and SCOBY can do so much for us. It’s amazing.
No. Prey was one of the first games to hype portals and non-euclidean maps for gameplay.

Portals for rendering date back to the dawn of 3d graphics and many early FPS engines used the concept.

But these portals were only there as a rendering optimisation. While you could abuse them to make non-euclidean maps, the tools were intended to make proper maps, and the portals would be invisible to players.
https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-P...

This is Seyfried’s book describing the pulse strategy.
You say its cultural ... ok ... then you say you have never seen "a homeless Indian" ... ok ... Does Indian culture exist in India and is there virtually no homelessness in India?
The paper is $.01, it’s the folding you’re paying for.
That's what I've seen in the metrics. DEI hiring has been an enormous failure. A lot of the concern in non-exclusively-left-leaning online spaces (including this one) about DEI hiring was and is way overblown given how drastically unsuccessful they are in practice. The default like is that "it's bad, but getting better" by showing difference year to year in sectors where the numbers look good, or even just reporting on noise.
None of the companies I worked for considered Asian tech workers "diverse". One actually carved out a separate category for Asian males: ND. Negative Diversity.

I'm not doubting your companies' policies, but just throwing my data point in there too.
Do they have a vastly different culture?
Not OP, but looked at doing grafana self hosted for similar reasons. The tooling is too spread out across different installables, the common golden signals and other monitoring metrics have a high learning curve / cliff more like it, and there's not good enough documentation to cover the user from "I want to do a synthetics test on a service to see if it is alive and show the results of that test in a graph"...a journey like that involves 4+ different tools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onggi

They sit outside year round.
yes, it looks very uncomfortable.
Airflow?
Really nice post. In my final SW engineering job, I bought a ton of drafting supplies and artist paper and forced myself to architect my algorithms. It forced me to slow down and I fell much closer to my objective.
I’m going to try your idea.
Evaluator-Optimizer LLM Workflow: A Pattern for Self-Improving AI Systems
Do you have a link to this analysis? I'm curious what "condition on race" actually means.
If cars and drivers were more heavily regulated, it might make a difference for a whole array of problems: leaky engines, illegal modifications, poor maintenance, etc. otherwise it's pretty much the anarchic tyranny of all of against all.

Other than regular inspections and stiff fines, this is just pointless.

Gangsters with illegally tinted windows, illegally modified exhausts, carrying a silenced ghost gun AK-47, with illegally bright headlights aren't going to care much about your Reddit threads.
In our area, it is mostly resorts and casinos. Economic development gives everyone in the area jobs and opportunities. This has changed the picture from "Indians begging the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and local government for resources" to "we have a robust economic engine which is a critical part of the greater surrounding community, and which we'd mostly all like to succeed, but need to work through details on." It's not perfect and there's still conflict but it's much easier to work together in the latter situation.
Just noting for those interested to check out Microsoft TEALS.
You're moving the goal posts to try and tar your opponents with the "communist" brush. The Soviet definition of "silencing dissent" was far more extreme and violent (prison, death) than what the grandparent's comment is referring to.
What genocide? I'm not aware of genocide that is currently occurring that the US is funding. The US is not bombing children.

How would just giving people houses solve homelessness? Do you know what happens to places that house homeless people? How long would this solve the problem for these people? This just seems like anti-Americanism with no quantitative grounding.
This ban, while I support it, is meaningless when Bytedance has Lemon8. Everyone will just move to that app. Nothing will change, and Trump won't do a thing about it. What we need is a US alternative. China bans all of our apps. We should be able to do the same.
That is a very Dad thing to say.
The sample flat program in the post is exactly RPN, no?
Two player games that can be played with a standard deck of cards:

Haggis, Greasy Spoon, Crisps, Dickory, Vidrasso, Cupid: Tricks and Tactics, Tuhao.
These people think they're on the verge of the most important invention in modern history. Etiquette means nothing to them. They would probably consider an impediment to their work a harm to the human race.
FreeBSD Suspend/Resume
Remotely Controlled Vehicles over Starlink
"master" makes sense if taken to mean a "master" as in a recording from which other records are made.
I think I'm somewhere on the long right tail of needing a lot of sleep, I feel best with 10 but I can do with 8. Less than 8 and I don't feel too good.

In the winter I can do 12 hours pretty often. It's not always but every few years I get a few weeks or months of 12 hour nights.

I love sleep.
I've used this method as a diff tool for years. Be it code or product comparison, like CPU specs, or these "spot the difference" images, crossing the eyes can be really useful.
Since you are qualifying what type of societal engineers you don't trust are there ones that you do?
Measuring potential isn’t particularly difficult. Everyone from the NFL to the US military does an adequate job of it.

Of course it’s not perfect, but it’s literally good enough for government work.
I gave you an actual link to the data. Sorry for destroying your whole world view, but "economy 101" is not enough to describe the complexities of the real world.

And it's not like I'm saying anything controversial. Even urbanists admit that density increases don't lead to lower prices: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/4/26/upzoning-might...
An excellent point.

Though, I am not against highly directive schools (I think we need them), I am against mis-characterization.
Servers and cashiers have had no input whatsoever into decisions to add tipping prompts to PoS terminals.
Unfortunately your alternative is a society engineered from the top down to be deliberately unfair.
I doubt that, zig is allocators land. Even stdlib datastructures required an allocators to be instanciated. Have a look at the selection of allocators: https://zig.guide/standard-library/allocators .
> you feel like you've hired all of the labor you can at a given market price (e.g., you're cheap and don't want to pay people more) it might make sense to try and reach out to parts of the labor force that you feel have been underutilized (or historically underrepresented, but we're looking at this from the perspective of a ruthless business), and DEI programs could be a way of achieving this.

In my experience, DEI programs do the opposite. I've seen manager leave headcount unfulfilled because the qualified candidates they found were non diverse and hiring them would put them below their diversity target. If 20% of the workforce is women and your bonus is contingent on reaching 30%, you could recruit at Grace Hopper and try to hire more women. But if that doesn't get you to your quota, you need to hire fewer men to push up the proportion of women.
Depends highly on the scale of the company from what I've seen. Megacorp can sponsor visas and end up with entire organizations of Indian or Chinese.
I don't see much point to this, it barely props up your laptop at all. You're still going to get tech neck. I recently got a nexstand, external keyboard, and mouse and it has been amazing.
In this case however it can be partly justified as a space saving mechanism, as that hash has to be also cached in the object. It's like Rust's `Option<NonZeroU64>` done manually.
I would love to know the recipe!
Glaukollared audience, tasty/tactile APL (SPPL?) not requiring (yet encouraging development of) taste?

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364607

Re: YK(+Sagiri), for a moment I'd thought you'd stumbled upon

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%9E%E3...
This is art. Love it.
> He immediately started undermining her. He gave her advice that she followed, and then he criticized her for following his advice. He was extremely helpful to women employees from the client, but a complete dick to her. There were many other things he did. She documented what was happening, and complained to the skip-level but he denied it, and they didn't believe her. It looked like she was going to be out.

This sounds like what happens to other males too? I'm not sure if that's related to sexual harassment though.
>> Those aren't the only options. You (or someone) could also write your own compatibility layers for the APIs that avoid some of the problems I mentioned (e.g., by producing errors on inconvertible characters, by being compatible with former Windows versions, by not affecting other DLLs in your process, etc.)

> That's akin to writing a partial C library. If MSFT makes UTF-8 as the codepage work well enough I'd rather use that.

I found out about activeCodePages thanks to developers of those compatibility layers documenting the option and recommending it over their own solutions.

> The upstream is often not paid for this. Even if they get a PR, if the PR makes their code harder to work on they might reject it

The project I work on is an MFC application stemming from 9x and early XP and abandoned for 15 years. Before I touched it it had no Unicode support at all. I'm definitely not being paid to work on it, let alone the effort to convert everything to UTF-16 when the tide seems to be going the other direction.

> Your program is declaring that everything in the process is UTF-8 compatible, but those DLLs might not be compatible with that, and so you're just praying that they don't use -A functions in an incompatible manner.

Programs much, much, much more popular than mine written by the largest companies in the world, and many programs you likely use as a developer on Windows, set activeCodePage to UTF-8. Notwithstanding the advice in the article to set it globally for all applications (and it implies it already is the default in some locales). Those DLLs will be upgraded, removed, or replaced.
Deploying web servers to space seems ridiculously far-fetched. Just insanely expensive without any real upsides.
Automated Conjecturing in Mathematics with TxGraffiti
The SHIPS Act That Aims to Revitalize America's Decaying Naval Industry
Unfortunately, our reservation is in central Oregon, which is less desirable. Even if we were not forced out of the ancestral homeland (what is now called the Columbia River Gorge), I'm not sure that would have been better. Although pretty, it is very out of the way, and people do not know that it is in the same class as the Yangtze (say).
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."

-Jean-Luc Picard

Additionally, the Declaration of Independence states our fundamental philosophy as a nation that all men are created equal. We all start from the same line, but where life takes us and what we make of it is completely up to life and us the individual.
Yes, if I kick someone out of my house for being a jerk, and if Google and Facebook globally censor a story, it's the same, because in both cases it's done by people. Thank you for this insightful contribution.
> Hell, England has not even forgotten about the Norman conquest of 1066.

I feel that's overstating it a bit. But my mother (English) was definitely brought up in a context that had not forgotten about Napoleon - Napoleon was viewed/presented as comparable to Hitler.
Part of it is the burden on the caregivers.

It can be exasperating to care for an elderly person with dementia, they can range from very agreeable to rather disagreeable but most of them have had enough experience with caring for people and being cared for that they can have some empathy with their caregiver -- even if they have a hard time remembering it.

People with serious mental illness have disturbances in those relationships (remember how Freud asked "tell me about your mother?") and are much harder. And if they want to kill you because they think you are something other than what you are they're more able to do it.

Communities that adopted "housing first" early on had great success with it. In the fentanyl age there's a lot of fear that a volunteer or someone who isn't paid nearly enough will open a door from time to time to discover a dead body.
On the contrary, if DEI really is meaningless performative bloat which is resulting in labor problems, this is just an easy way out. It may not be popular or even possible to effectively legislate against the supposed legalized discrimination inherent in DEI, but it is pretty easy to take the L and save a few million in not having an army of lecturers on staff.

The whole charade is telling for those who believe that businesses have any real mission other than to make money: with the carrot pulled out from in front of them and the sticks put away (and possibly other sticks being brandished as we speak) it’s not hard to see why something like this would happen every 4 or 6 years.
I guess he was just buying time and goodwill from the masses with his announcements. What a disappointment. I guess the wealthy really did win the class war.
Of course when it's going sour it almost becomes a different food and entirely different recipes open up (like Kimchi Jjigae, Budae Jjigae, or basically anything with stir fried pork).
Yes, it is not optimal. Like I said, I don't subscribe how its handled either.

I am not an American, and I'm brown. I don't take issue if someone says I'm brown because I am brown! Maybe I cannot empathize with other races who've been extremely discriminated because of their skin color, but as you said, it is an attribute describing me, among hundred others. I also agree, color of skin by itself is not interesting at all, just like being blonde is not interesting at all - but may play into personal preferences, again, just like any of the hundreds of physical, personality attributes.
The repeating punched hole pattern on the ceiling/headliner of a '77 Suburban...
Has it been proven that people still manage to tell races of candidates apart after removing markers? Or is this all just conjecture?
What I find weird is that the chunk's size is fixed, while the caller must specify how many chunks a pool contains at pool creation. I would do exactly the dual: the chunk's size should be defined at pool creation, so that you can create multiple pools, each dedicated to one specific kind of object. (You need a third field in struct Pool, though.) Instead, the number of chunks per pool should not something the user needs to care about: if they knew in advance how many objects are required, they would simply allocate an array big enough! The library implementation should define a sensible number and stick to it.

Similarly, I don't like exposing pool_expand(): too much burden on the user. Expansion should be automatically triggered by pool_alloc() whenever the current pool is exhausted.

This would also allow a much simpler pool_new() that just initializes its pointers to NULL, leaving it to the first invocation of pool_alloc() to actually do the first allocation. This would avoid the duplication of code between pool_new() and pool_expand().

Another benefit of fixing the number of chunks is a possible simplification of ArrayStart: this could include a proper array instead of a pointer, avoiding a malloc(). Something like this:

struct ArrayStart {
struct ArrayStart *next;
Chunk arr[CHUNKS_PER_ARRAY];
};
You are explicitly considering a man's race, that is racism.
You're probably right but I'm also glad you're not friends with Rich Hickey.
Ask anyone who grew up in the Soviet Union about that one. The vast majority of people could see through the propaganda - even supposed party loyalists - but they understood the consequences of failing to toe the line. There wasn't a sudden moment of collective enlightenment that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, just a gradual breaking of a taboo. Imposition of an ideology through coercion is remarkably durable, right until it isn't.
Plenty of popes have made far more consequential decisions.
I don’t share a lot of comments from HN with my spouse, but this made me crack up so much that I just had to. Thanks for the story!
Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X
> bringing too many people into the country via immigration

The housing situation has clearly severely declined post pandemic at the same time that immigration was restarted and increased, but I gotta point out that Vancouver has had a severe homeless crisis my entire life, long, long before this recent government changed immigration rates or even came to power.

As far back as 2007 I was reading articles about how Vancouver was net losing the sort of affordable housing that those most at risk of homelessness depended on. Unsurprisingly the amount of homeless in Vancouver has continued to increase.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2007/07/10/SRO-Losses/print.html

But you're absolutely correct that the core of this problem is a severe lack of building. Both a lack of construction of market product and below market publicly owned housing. Building more homes is the solution to get our way out of this crisis and end homelessness.

If there is any real villain here to blame IMO it is Jean Chretien, who with the severe austerity budget of 1993 completely got the Federal government out of all social housing development and building of housing plunged to near nil for decades.

The chart from this article is remarkable. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/04/22/Why-Cant-We-Build-Lik...
It's incredibly honest that they went out of their way to say explicitly the groups that can be bullied.

Scary, but also honest.

Bad times in the short future for everyone...
Nexstand is the way, I got one and never looked back. I use a touchpad instead of a mouse though.
I got a UC Regents Scholarship to UCSD bc my parents are southeast Asian. My grades and SAT score were lower than my Jewish best friend's grades and scores. He did not get a scholarship. I promptly lost my scholarship after failing Physics 2A because I skipped the final to make out with a girl. I didn't think twice about what I squandered until I had to get a job and ask my parents for money to pay for the next quarter.
In DEI parlance, black and brown refers to African-Americans and Latinos, although, curiously they also do accept African H1B visa holders in this group, despite them typically having high education, wealth from home, etc.
Yes you need to read carefully and not let your own assumptions get in the way.

He did say: Filtering based on the owner's identity is bad.
He did not say: Filtering based on the owner's identity is bad while that identity matches a person of color
Just for comparison, some data (2011-2018) for some USA states [1], show an even higher number:

> In 24 states-accounting for 51.9% of the U.S. population-591,402 emergency involuntary detentions were recorded in 2014, the most recent year with most states reporting, a crude rate of 357 per 100,000.

Notably, California with 400/100k. Florida with 900/100k. I think the why would make these numbers more interesting. How many are drug detox/recovery?

[1] https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/epdf/10.1176/appi.ps.201900...