skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So as a guy with protanomaly, the biggest shock for me when I got my colorlite glasses¹ was that the traffic signs with bright blue and dark red colors suddenly looked dark(er) blue with very bright red. I asked my (normal vision) friends how they experienced those traffic signs and it was the latter. The lenses corrected for that.

It was actually quite shocking how much more sense most color choices in art and design made to me, which was a much bigger reason for me to keep wearing the glasses than being able to distinguish red, green and brown better than before. The world just looks "more balanced" color-wise with them.

While it was very obvious early on in my life that I experienced most green, red and brown colors as ambiguously the same (I did not know peanut butter was not green until my early thirties), the fact that there also were differences in perceptual brightness had stayed completely under the radar.

¹ And yes, these lenses do work, at least for me. They're not as scummy as enchroma or other colorblind-"correcting" lenses, for starters you can only buy them after trying them out in person with an optometrist, who tests which type of correction you need at which strength. Ironically their website is a broken mess that looks untrustworthy[0]. And their list of scientific publications doesn't even show up on Google Scholar, so they probably have near-zero citations[1]. But the lenses work great for me.)

[0] https://www.colorlitelens.com/

[1] https://www.colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-correction-inf...
I don't think too many people are buying a Nikon solely for this purpose, but rather they already have it and _also_ use it as a webcam. The main advantage there is - in my view anyway - that it allows you to control the field of view easily, compared to the built-in webcam. The far better image quality is just a bonus.
The exit of off road events is a common place to check this. So much so that there is a reputation in the off road community and now they don't even need to check often anymore since nobody is stupid enough to risk driving a truck that has ever had off road fuel in it there.
I haven't started doing this with agents, but with autocomplete models I know exactly what OP is talking about: you stop trying to use models for things that models are bad at. A lot of people complain that Copilot is more harm than good, but after a couple of months of using it I figured out when to bother and when not to bother and it's been a huge help since then.

I imagine the same thing applies to agents. You can waste a lot of time by giving them tasks that are beyond them and then having to review complicated work that is more likely to be wrong than right. But once you develop an intuition for what they can and cannot do you can act appropriately.
My AC works in both directions, in winter it moves more cold outside than the power it consumes. Not sure what the factor is exactly, but I think same as for cooling.
Why would anyone tear down a 20 year old house? Where I live the houses are 80-100 years old and they’re better built and nicer to live in than most newer homes.
Yes for me building was the easy part, marketing and sales, not so much.
I am not sure the wood framing matters much in this case. The fires are burning houses because the roofs are flammable, or embers are getting in the house through the eaves or a broken window. So in the end you have a completely burned down wood-framed house or a hollow concrete house that is no longer structurally safe.
It's an incredibly difficult thing and for many, myself included I'd love to be able to work for myself, and actively try to do so. But the limited time between work and family make it incredibly hard.

There's also the part of me that knows even if I do quit, I'm immediatly going to be thinking about a second project, because what if the first one fails, what if someone comes along with a better product and takes my customers, etc.

It puts you into a state of permanent worry and decision paralasys, not knowing what to focus on, if its a waste of time, if its going to be enough, etc.

For most of us, sure we can build something - that's totally meaningless though if you cant get people to use it, and despite what everyone likes to say that right there is the bit thats near impossible for most.
It works fine for commercial buildings and multi-family structures here too , there’s even a ton of brick buildings in Oregon (which are currently being retrofitted), but not as well for single family homes because of the cost.

There’s a lot of historical context to understand here. The neighborhood that just burned down in the Eaton fire (Altadena), was built up by African Americans and Latinos who were redlined out of Pasadena even after desegregation. Some of them built their houses on land that they bought for under $100 in the 1950s and 60s. They wouldn’t have been able to afford the kind of construction they’d need to be both earthquake and fire resistant. Their choice was between owning an old tinderbox or renting from slumlords.
Quitting to quit working is a different feeling. You may spend time in the first month untangling your role and your ego. I had no idea how important the status was to me until I was just a guy, at home, that no one needed. It was a valuable lesson about self worth, and one that stayed around after I rejoined the work force.
Somewhat tangential, cross-compilation seems to have been frowned upon in Unix historically. A lots of things out there just assume HOST==TARGET.
Anthropic Revelation: AIs Refuse to Change Their Minds, Just Like Us
Not a big deal at all.

The outrage in this thread is incredible. Buying a couple A/V adapters to adapt a non-webcam camera into a webcam is somehow seen as a terrible burden.

If someone doesn't want to do that, perhaps they should buy...a webcam. No adapters needed.

A camera comes with more power at the cost of simplicity for this use case.
It's true though. All cable news is "entertainment news", not "news".

Nobody should have been getting their "news" from Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, or Rachel Maddow.

IMO they shouldn't be allowed to call themselves news without putting entertainment in front.
Other "KDE for" pages:

- developers: https://kde.org/for/developers/

- kids: https://kde.org/for/kids/

- gamers: https://kde.org/fr/for/gamers/

- creators: https://kde.org/for/creators/

- scientists: https://kde.org/for/scientists/

- activists: https://kde.org/for/activists/

- students: https://kde.org/for/students/

I really like this approach of presenting their apps and others through defined usages / user profiles. It's a good discoverability mechanism for such a rich ecosystem as KDE.
A fair point - but several factors, focusing largely on roof design, were highlighted in the article. Taken as a whole, it makes the case that concrete is not a strict requirement.

That's all I'm trying to say.
Unreinforced masonry is illegal in most of California and extremely dangerous- every brick becomes a projectile in an earthquake.

Despite the news coverage, fires are extremely rare but nearly every home in these areas is guaranteed to face multiple massive earthquakes that would bring down a brick building.
Obvious next step: use this kind of model in AI-Scientist, Sakana AI's AI-powered automated researcher project.
I was referring to PC programs, long before the term DX had become a thing.
Greg Chasen, the architect interviewed, also mentioned in this Matt Risinger video, "Lessons From Two Surviving LA Fire Homes":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZe-TlYxm9g

Some video sources in the description:

* "CAL FIRE / IBHS Demonstration Burn Timelapse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvwogREEk4

* "Your Home Can Survive a Wildfire" (from NFPA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM

It's fairly well-known how to deal with wildfires:

* https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/firewis...

We just have decades-old housing stock that can kind of be viewed as kindling. So new builds are probably better, but old ones can be renovated to improved methods. There are also things as a homeowner one can do to improve your odds (e.g., cleaning gutters, clearing dry brush, for vented attics have better screens).
Same. Lack of RDS support is the only reason we aren’t using this.
My thought is that Expo prioritises web compatibility too much to the point that it leans into conventions with things like navigation that are web-oriented and these contribute towards an app not feeling like a native app.
One of largest lithium battery plants ignites in Moss Landing
I hear the same thing about supermarkets. Their margins are razor thin (1-3%), and yet people look at the overall profits and complain, ignoring the fact that the company had to deploy 50-100 times that capital to make that profit.

An alternative is to split these companies into smaller companies, which will each have much lower profits but also higher costs due to lost efficiencies, but people will not be happy with that either.
> Risks and losses cannot be extinguished, they can only be transferred to others.

At least for risks like wildfires, we can reduce future risk by rebuilding homes using wildfire resistant techniques and materials.

The problem in LA (exacerbated by the climate-change driven conditions) was that most of the burned neighborhoods were built adjacent to fire prone wildlands during an era when homes were built like matchboxes, almost designed to burn. Add the hurricane strength wind, and each building became a blowtorch.

Fiber cement siding, minimal eaves, and metal roofs are straightforward ways to reduce wildfire contagion risk of buildings. There have been numerous experiments done to demonstrate how effective this approach is at significantly reducing combustibility of buildings.

Cutting back trees near houses to create defensible space is also pretty straightforward.
If this story is true then I'm suddenly in favor of brexit while before I thought it was worse for everyone. Of course I live in the US and so my opinion should be of zero interest on anyway. Still if you live in the EU I would hope you are concerned.
The poorly written article actually doesn't say anything tangible.

I'm flagging this as clickbait of the worst order.
I'm not so familiar with huge wind but a lot of water I got some (naive) ideas.
Build much bigger sewer pipes and river beds. Build houses higher. As usual each region has his own problems. We can all agree either we move out of there or we invent ways to mitigate the problems. For the long term of course, as we all agree, reducing CO2 emissions, stop climate warming and trying to get back some CO2. I believe and hope we can both do that and not having to live like austerity monks.
If you have tpm encryption on your boot disk, then you can simply store decryption keys for your otyer disks on it.
Canon, and yes you do, the camera is not recognized without the drivers installed. Actually, it barely works even with the drivers installed. There is a free version that I have had working in the past, to glorious success, with the Canon 1DX, but the current 5Div does nothing, and I don't want to pay to find out that it still doesn't work.

There's half a camera's worth of features in these things that people won't use, but they still pay for them.
We're talking about a deck of cards that satirize the USDIA Iraqi "most wanted". A deck of playing cards.

Think about all of the things you see on Facebook. Where does a deck of satirical playing cards fall on the spectrum of causing liability in your mind?
> You could just as easily build a wood framed home with an exterior shell that is fire resistant using modern materials or brick.

That is actually how pretty much all new houses in the UK are constructed. They are pre-fabbed timber frames with a brick facade. It's quite common for British people to be snobby about building materials. I wonder how many don't realise their house is timber framed.
To be clear if Elevance is the only remaining for-profit BCBS licensee it's because they bought the others.

Highmark got labeled as for-profit on its Wikipedia entry likely because they own a variety of for-profit companies including e.g. Highmark BCBSD Inc. and Celtic Hospice LLC.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/453...
Ofc they hint towards it, it's climate.gov. But the actual data shown, shows no increase at all.

You won't find a "smoking gun" because it's not happening.

Your biases are in-fact showing that you don't realize you went from claiming it was true to "well we have no smoking gun".
Never disable Google Play protect
I was wondering what you think about this. I have it disabled because it always flags the f-droid store. It's also very annoying when disabled, because it keeps asking to enable it, which is often a good sign that you actually don't want it.
The default system prompts are tuned for the naive case. LLMs being all purpose text handling tools, can be reprogrammed for any behavior you wish. This is the crux of skilled use of LLMs.

The better the LLMs get, the worse the average prompt quality.
ML doesn't work on a lot of cameras - yet. It's quite far behind the last generation of SLRs and stays away from the flagship models.
Probably they will, at one point maybe that banks wills stop financing it.

But only when you can't get mortgages, people will begin to stop, and even then some will continue.

It'll take a long time for these changes to trickle out. Especially, when real estate prices in LA are so high.

It might be faster to fix this with zoning. Or if the area is so desirable, find a way to engineer your way out of it.
It absolutely happens in steel and concrete construction in earthquake loading, when loading past the smaller earthquakes.

Plastic/non-linear deformation is intended in shear panels of steel connections and the core of well confined concrete beams/columns. The idea is to provide a lot of energy damping due to the nonlinear nature of the f*D hysteresis curve. This works long enough for the earthquake to go away and the people to get out of the building, at which point, you need a new building but hopefully no one has died.
If it has a computer it's recording your data. If it has an internet connection it's sending your data.

Stop buying 'smart' things.
Thermodynamics unfortunately disagree. As your temperature deltas get smaller efficiency goes down.
I use a Canon EOS 90D via hdmi & streamlink, so yes there are alternatives.
Where is “here”? Are you sure you aren’t confusing hurricanes and tornados? Hurricanes rarely destroy houses in the US, either.
I get it now. Thanks for the input
> This is an article introducing people to memory management, targeted at beginners

I realize, and that's what makes it even worse. First impressions have a heck of a stronger effect than 10th impressions. Beginners need to learn the right way in the beginning, not the wrong way.

Whenever did "safety first" stop being a thing? This is like like skipping any mention of goggles when teaching chemistry or woodworking for "pedagogical reasons". You're supposed to first you teach your students the the best way to do things, then you can teach them how to play fast and loose if it's warranted. Not the other way around!
I had a Panasonic GF1, which couldn't do timelapses as well (there was no such thing as apps for that camera, only firmware hacks). What I did was to buy a remote shutter release that had a timer and other functions, which allowed me to do so much more.
It reminds me a little of the time Apple charged $2 for a WiFi driver update, claiming some accounting rule said they couldn’t distribute it for free.

I guess they figured out a better way to do the accounting, since they never did that particular stunt again.
Ugh - the continual "enshitification" of products and offerings. (Betchya 5-6 years ago this would have worked without issue)

Am sick of basic features being pay-walled, or subscription-only - or abandoned/bricked when the company decides to "end-of-life" them after a couple years.

While it ain't pretty - or small - at least it doesn't require a subscription... "CinePi"... (https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI)
> 10 years ago people were talking that landing rockets is impossible.

Maybe some. Others had been working on this in the 90s already. Not to mention Spaceshuttle, which achieved these milestones (with a vastly different design) in production.

> Then whether they can be reused. Then whether there is any economical gain doing so.

Reuse is currently partial. The economic advantages have largely failed to materialize, at least to the extent that they were promised.

> Btw ULA reasonable launch price of today is because of SpaceX competition

Why compare to ULA? Look at Ariane 6, or Soyuz-2 - they have similar numbers to Falcon 9. Falcon 9 is 22 800 kg to LEO for $70M. Ariane 6 is 21 500 kg to LEO for $115M. Soyuz-2 is 8600kg to LEO for $35-48M (so about $92-129M for a Falcon 9's worth of cargo). More expensive, but not by some huge margin.

> As for starlink - they have explosive revenue growth. Alot of businesses want one. Planes, ships, trains, military, rural areas, they are actually profiting from the operations and not loosing money and I still have to read comments like that.

This is a completely different take than the previous comment. Sure, it's successful in the developped world in certain industries. This is nothing like "saving countless lives" or "helping stimulate economies across the world", which is what I was responding to.
Its friendly governors but not yet proven to be democratic.
They're blowing up their own money, unless you still count it as being the taxpayer's after the government pays them for launch services.
Actually, that's probably the one thing that I would find interesting.

I didn't expect so many people to attack me when I said it was ironic. I find it ironic, period. It doesn't mean that I support China or that I hate the US. It only means precisely what I said: I find it ironic to criticise China's ban on US companies and end up banning Chinese companies for what seems to be protectionism.

Now you've been repeating that it is obviously a strong national security threat, but whenever I asked you to elaborate on that, you avoided it. Would that mean that it's maybe not that obvious?
This point made me think for a while... We're so used to languages with batteries included, like for instance Python which I often compare to Lua, that we assume it's always a good feature to have. It can be, but it's not for free. We definitely become a bit lazy and often turn more into "library users" than coders. It's convenient at first sight, nevertheless a bad habit. There's so much we can learn by implementing our own versions of even the most simple algorithms. In addition to that, our solution is probably going to be leaner, even if not as feature-rich, than the library next door. But then again, we probably don't need most of those features.
> Canon is a hardware company, not a software company

The problem is we commercially
enable hardware companies to be shitty software companies by buying hardware that lacks basic open protocols. We accept single platform lenses that could work in any similar mount. Photographers invite this mistreatment.

It would be trivial for Canon to stream the live view out as UVC over USB and it would have Just Worked™ as a webcam on every platform.

This isn't just a Canon problem. It took Nikon several generations of dSLR to add standard USB ports. This could be Japanese hubris or a lack of competition or a lack of engineers actually talking to their customers.
>Pretty much all of the profit-maximizing forces in the for-profit system are deeply unethical.

Are you talking about healthcare specifically or businesses in general? AMD wants to make the best CPUs for the most amount of money. Is that "unethical"?
Better Than Space Flight Simulator
> In my view most people don't want this

The polls on all the above are pretty clear. There's no need to rely on your own viewpoint.

> otherwise they would have implemented a government where the majority is heard, but they didn't.

May I suggest reading some Chomsky, or at least watching Manufacturing Consent.

> Either it's a dictatorship or it's listening to the majority.

It's a plutocracy, and this has never been more obvious.

> There is nothing democratic about acting against the majority.

Well, there you go. Do check out those polls.
- "And for expandable rockets, virtually all rockets designed and launched in the last few decades have successfully accomplished their first ever flight,"

That doesn't resonate as true to me.

The first Ariane 5 flight blew up [0]. That Europe's current heavy-lift workhorse with 112 successful launches (including JWST), but the first one blew up.

The first PSLV blew up [1]. That's India's current workhorse with 58 successes, but flight #1 was not successful. Their GSLV did not reach its correct orbit on its first flight either [2], though it didn't blow up.

The first Delta IV Heavy did not blow up, but it failed to reach its correct orbit [3]. That was US' largest launch vehicle for most of the 21st century.

The first Long March 5 failed to reach its correct orbit, and the second one blew up [4]. That's China's current heavy-lift launch vehicle, since 2016.

South Korea's first orbital rocket RUD'd both its first flights, in 2009 and 2010 [5].

Japan's newest orbital rocket was launched in 2023, and that blew up [6].

Rocket Labs' Electron has a current >90% success rate, but the first one blew up [7].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Launch_history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PSLV_launches#Statisti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GSLV_launches#Statisti...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy#Launch_history

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_5

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naro-1#Launch_history

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H3_(rocket)#Launch_history

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab_Electron#Launch_sta...
That's similar to how Apple does it. The base system is signed (and has a tree of signatures so you don't need to strictly re-calculate the entire RO volume your base OS sits on), and the signature is recorded in the boot configuration.

Granted, you could disable that, but they have thought of that too, you can only disable it from a recovery OS that is signed the same way. But disabling that doesn't disable it for the recovery OS, so you can't evil maid the recovery OS later to make it appear as if it is still enabled.
TIL that PostgreSQL has SECURITY LABEL! It seems like this could be useful for storing all sorts of metadata about database objects, not just security stuff. E.g. like the COMMENT but not global. From reading the docs it looks like you need a "label provider" to get it to work though. I can only seem to find a few label providers around, does anyone know of one that isn't security/anonymization related and could be used more generically?
If it was really an oxygen/fuel mix burning I don't think you can do much of anything to stop that.
I love a good 'I quit my job to start my own business' story, but this one doesn't have much detail. Fair, everything is not written for me or this audience, but would love to know more about the particulars.
Astro uses a crossfade as the default view transition, as is described in the docs you linked, it doesn't use any blur.

I haven't seen `filter: blur` used for view transitions before, wouldn't personally call it obnoxious, but to each their own.

I think as long as prefers-reduced-motion is respected, its' fair game.
> So did Socrates. Ironically, being jaded about contemporary culture is older than the hills.

Well, Socrates did have some good points. Even in the Golden Age of Pericles, there was some breakdown of trust between citizens, and professional litigators started making money by simply bringing random people to court.

Even when there's growth, you can still have decline in many areas.

My point is that even though decline is inevitable, the rate and magnitude of that decline can be somewhat controlled, but the discussion has to start from acknowledging the situation and what can be done.