skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
managing the forests to reduce wildfires >

Notice that you said "Green trees don't easily burn." Coastal California has two seasons: green and brown. Brown is in the summer. Green is in the winer. Normally it rains in LA during December and January. It didn't rain this year, so brown continued.

Most of the fires aren't in what you'd think of as forests. It's chaparral. Low scrub, bushes, and grasses. It is mostly what you'd refer to as underbrush. The only way to "thin it out" would be to remove all the vegetation. This environment has evolved to periodically burn.

> Trees have evolved to survive fires as well.

Trees have two broad strategies for surviving fires. One is to resist fire. The quintessential example is a redwood. The other is to burn and regrow faster than anything else. The quintessential example is a blue gum. Eucalypts evolved to literally explode when they burn. The environment in The Palisades is much closer to the second than the first.

This environment is, by its nature, an environment that burns. Yes, we've needed to allow more frequent burning. Environmentalists have been arguing this for decades. The difficulties with these conversations in the US is the Republican party's actual definition of "thinning the underbrush" doesn't mean controlled burns. It means clearcutting forests.

> These fires are HOT and don't just catch houses on fire with little embers.

Yes, in fact they do spread by embers. This is why the fires jump several streets at a time. The wind blows embers, and those embers ignite further buildings before the fire front even reaches them. This is one reason why it is so hard to set up fire breaks during a high winds.

> The houses could be made fire-resistant, but making houses to be fire-resistant is going to be more expensive

Here's an example things that you can do to increase the fire survivability of your home: https://flash.org/mitigation/protect-your-eaves-soffits-vent...

> and storing more water

LA had plenty of water. It didn't have enough water pressure.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/los-angeles-...
Fact-checking is hard. ... But the response isn’t for platforms to abandon the project of fact-checking misinformation, on which Meta has shown leadership in the past years. It's for the rest of us to learn that while the job must be done, it is difficult, and perfection isn’t on the menu.
Current market panic looks like early railroad investors freaking out that someone made a faster train that goes over same tracks.
ok got it, will fix soon. thanks for the feedback!
> The neutron corrosion alone is very serious problem that I doubt can be fixed.

It can be fixed, because some fuels don't produce neutrons. But aneutronic fusion is like two orders of magnitude more difficult than Deuterium-Tritium. Still, it might be necessary for any reasonable application. One of my professors was a big proponent in aneutronic fusion even for Tokamaks.
So now that Biden‘s been out of office for a week the effects of all his policies are null and void?
When you use words like purity, you're making an ideological value judgment. You're not talking about computer science or results.
How do you even eat 3 kilograms of cheese in one day?
I do not want AI to "polish" me
This, it's mostly an economic challenge. We need clean energy that is cheap. Not clean energy that is more expensive.

It's important for clean energy to be cheap because that creates an economic incentive for people to invest in switching.

The good news with renewable energy and battery storage is that we're basically there. Texas which produces lots of oil also produces lots of clean energy. Because oil refineries require a lot of energy to refine their fuel. And of course using your own product at a premium when clean renewables do the same job would be madness. Think about it, the very companies that are expecting others to buy and burn their fossil fuel are investing (heavily) in renewable energy because that's cheaper than using their own cheap supply of oil and gas for the same purpose. It's more lucrative to sell that than to use it for them.

That's why records are being broken with amounts of solar, wind, and battery coming online on a regular basis. It's cheaper. So, people do more of it as fast as they can scrape the funding together to do it.

Fusion if it happens at all is probably going to be really expensive for quite some time. Nuclear has the same problem. Clean but just super expensive. And slow to plan and execute. You need to decide decades in advance that you need it in order to have it ready. Most reactors coming online this year (hint: not a lot) were planned when solar and wind were still expensive (1-2 decades ago). In other words, they probably did not take into account current price levels of new clean energy. In terms of profitability these things are kind of dead on arrival. Fusion faces the exact same challenges. It's not completely hopeless. But we need 1-2 orders of magnitude reduction of cost per energy generated this way.
> “Peace.” Windows XP default wallpaper, 2001

This is rewriting history.
> Using computers tends to make you a nerd.

A phone is a computer in the same way your fridge or washing machine is a computer.
Why/when/where would I need this?
One little thing I consider a brilliant UX innovation of ComfyUI is that it automatically embeds the entire workflow as metadata in images it produces. That means you can take any image generated in ComfyUI and just drag&drop it into the ComfyUI, and it'll recreate the workflow that produced it. This also enables a neat way of sharing workflows explicitly - you export it as a PNG[0] and publish it, and others can both view it as an image and import it into their ComfyUI instance. As a result, if you see someone sharing their AI art or workflow made with ComfyUI, there's a good chance you can literally just drag&drop the image to get the "source code".

I think all node-based tools should offer this kind of export, and I humbly suggest that PySpur would benefit from having it too :).

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[0] - Right click on canvas, Workflow Image -> Export -> png.
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Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI
Absolutely baseless take:

Weren't there implemented protocols to use the devices connected to the VPN that would proof against the most common sources of posture check failure? I imagine most problems are quite trivial, like the phone you mentionned, especially if treated as P4 (there might wven already be a document with the required advice used by the interns when telling people to reboot).
The startup that I work at had started as a project a contracting company had taken on, and they had chosen Java Spring Boot to handle their REST API backend back in 2020.

Although probably not the decision I would have made, it's actually a pretty nice ecosystem that has scaled really well and been fairly easy to work with. Java 21 has _most_ of the QoL features that I like (I'd still really like a `?.` null operator that I can chain together) as well as the ability to reach for JPQL/SQL easily with JpaRepositories when performance is needed.

It's been fairly easy to onboard devs to the project even if they have not had previous experience with Java, and has maintained relatively decent code quality over the last 4 years.

I'm currently working on a LLM project for them that is being completed in Python, however, due to most of the tools being python-first and most of the LLM talent being python-first.
Sure, 31 December 2024 is by definition last year, but at the same time that was not even a month ago.
Are there any places where Starlink offers services while not complying with local requirements?

AFAIK all traffic is also routed through local infrastructure as well.
2024 YR4
> Talking about phones, having pictures with humans.

Having pictures where you’re not pretending to have been caught in some candid moment
They are nice, but they are no Pebble.
Garmin feel like a gadget you bought and are stuck with what you got.

Pebble started ok, it was the first attempt. The first UI basically scrolled through watch faces which I wasn't a fan of, but it was the first real Smart watch so experiments were required.

Then they put out the new UI that is used today, it's fast, cool playful animations, easy to navigate, had calendar, steps, sleep tracking and heart rate right at your finger tips (still better than today's watches). The navigation buttons blow away any other watch, long press customization is amazing, app store, etc.

Garmin, once you pull it out of the box, you got what you got. Pebble, everything the newest watch got, the old one did too (as long as the required sensor existed) and GAINED performance through the years. Not to mention the 10's of thousands of apps that gave you so much functionality.

I still think the Rebble store gives Google and Apple a run for their money... After 9 years of Pebble being "dead"
I get this argument, but it feels we cannot always reason by analogy. Some jumps are qualitatively different. We cannot always claim "this didn't happen before, therefore it won't happen now".

Of course assemblers didn't create fewer programming jobs, nor did compilers or high level languages. However, with "NO CODE" solutions (remember that fad?) there was an attempt at reducing the need for programmers (though not completely taking them out of the equation)... it's just that NO CODE wasn't good enough. What if AI is good enough?
My 13 mini shows SOS sometimes for signal. Dunno if that means it works
I feel the opposite, for some reason. Rolexes kind of looks disgusting to me, as I'll automatically jump to believing the person is superficial, cares too much about impression, and likes to waste money on such things.

While almost the same goes for Apple Watch wearers, at least I could justify them wearing it because it actually has some functionality people can find useful, compared to a arm-watch like a Rolex which basically just carries duplicate functionality today, and is mostly used as a status symbol.

Best is when someone wears nothing :)
Desmos is a great tool a nice trick I learned late during my undergrad is that desmos copy/paste gives Latex

So a pretty well featured latex equation builder is always a click away if you’ve got a graphing calculator bookmarked in your browser

Same thing with symbolab if I recall and a handful of other web based math tools
She led the FTC to bring lawsuits against Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. Although two of the cases have been blocked in the courts, this alone was unthinkable in previous administrations. She's also helped enforce policies like right-to-repair and click-to-cancel which threaten big tech's market share. Like it or not she's played a massive part in shifting the narrative on antitrust. Trump's dismissal of her along with Big Tech's front-row seats at his inauguration and general sycophantism are not good signs for antitrust.
So patreon essentially acts as a health insurance and long term disability plan? I am unsure of “estimate earnings per month” accuracy given the wide range — “12K-147K” — but even at the low end that should be enough to get constantly seek treatments (traditional and non-orthodox) and still provide for basic necessities (food, rent, bills, …). American health system is a joke.

Glad she’s making progress and has a very supportive partner. Not sure what he does for a living but seems like he has been the primary care giver throughout this.
Rolex don't seem sexy for me either. It looks rugged and utilitarian.

Edit: utilitarian seems a bit ironic consider that you can just use your phone clock nowaday.
I find this to be a very reasonable license. Cost is low but provides an ongoing revenue source. I like free or perpetual licensing as much as the next guy, but us programmers gotta eat and pay the rent.
I think you can opt out of its AI features more or less completely, but you do have to look up all the relevant config options (mostly to hide buttons in the UI leading to AI festures).
Thanks for sharing, this resonates. But man,

> That said, cosmetics and aesthetic trends on TikTok are harmless fun and games compared to what’s going on in the darkest corners of the internet. All over the world, an entire generation of young men, often referred to as “NEETs,” are robbing themselves of agency, drive, and romantic relationships through their addiction to video games and pornography.

1. "Darkest corners of the internet" are playing video games and surfing porn?

2. Just the men and all of them, huh?

OP has no idea. Which OTOH solidifies their point about disconnectedness and being in distant bubbles.
As far as I know there has never been an RTG powered electric rocket engine. RTGs are extremely expensive per unit of power output. Spacecraft like that ion engine propelled one that was sent to Ceres use solar power.
The sources for each are listed on the bottom of the page.
Or, in "quick reference card" form: https://preserves.dev/cheatsheet.html

The syntax isn't the most interesting part though; the thing that distinguishes it from most other data languages out there is that it has semantics (= a rigorous definition of when values are equal and when they aren't). So you can use Preserves semantics with JSON syntax (a subset of Preserves' text syntax) as one way of getting actually-meaningful JSON.

Plus, comments (and other annotations) ;-)
> Previous administration tried hard.

* Four UN ceasefire vetoes said otherwise.

* Over 100 weapons shipments, including 2,000 lb unguided bombs, said otherwise.

* Using the power of the government to smear peaceful student protesters spoke mountains.

* Biden's repetition of debunked mass rape lies painted a pretty clear picture.

* Constant gaslighting from Blinken, Patel and Miller re Israeli atrocities such as Hind Rajab or the Al Nasr babies said otherwise.

* A firm commitment from Kamala that there would be no arms embargo, "no matter what", said otherwise with crystal clarity.

I find the rewriting of history on this topic deeply disturbing.
I lost almost all respect for Elon Musk when he started calling a rescue diver "pedo guy". Up until this point, I was enthusiastic about his company's accomplishments in aerospace and electric vehicles.

Now I would love to see him fulfill his dream of being a Martian pioneer - as long as he doesn't return to earth. In my view, he is an embarrassment to the tech community and the United States. His childish and petty behavior has no place in a civil society.
Can you play games on your washing machine? Maybe I need to upgrade.
Yeah ... def won't cause any front-end overload to anyone else's towers... or microwave ptp connections ... or international spectrum agreements ... or raise the noise floor for nearby frequencies. It'll be fine. I'm sure.
Agreed. I caught a bug in Python code I wrote yesterday by adding a typehint to a variable in a branch that has never been executed. MyPy immediately flagged it, and I fixed it. Never had to watch it fail.

I put typehints on everything in Python, even when it looks ridiculous. I treat MyPy errors as show-stoppers that must be fixed, not ignored. This works well for me.
Always replace pronouns like "You" and "Your" in headlines with "I" and "my".

Saves a lot of time.
if the implication is that SpaceX partnerships are undesirable because of elon's alleged personal politics...

tim cook is an active, public homosexual. would it make sense to call this "SpaceX getting into bed with the gays"?
With Obj-C it was only dynamic method calls (message sending), the rest was very static and native-code too. I think Apple was after dynamic VM-based languages specifically.
The time pressures of every day life, which has gotten more complicated, are probably why we gravitate towards instant gratification more often. You don't have the time or energy to go to the library for books on a work day, especially with a commute. Same with any other activity. Working hard to finish your work ahead of time results in more work. Innovation's reward is not more free time, it's more work of a different kind.

Blaming phones is a distraction. If it weren't phones, we'd still be couch potatoes lazily scrolling through channels to find something to watch. The core issue is we only have time/energy these days for our job's work and the lazy resting which seeks instant gratification.

Next time someone's unemployed, try doing nothing but social media for 8 hours a day, 7 days a week on a couch and see you'll eventually get bored.
He might be talking about a "direct fusion drive," which is not an ion drive. It's basically a magnetic-confinement device but you leave part open in such a way that fusion products exit to produce thrust.
I first noticed this on a different torrentfreak article the other day, but this one is off the charts. It's basically just fawning over this industry narrative that something must be done to put the personal computing genie back in the bottle. We've already got the draconian anti-due-process takedown regimes (DMCA and its outgrowths), but these people continue to want ever more automatic enforcement for their government-granted revenue streams. A perfectly fine alternative is of course to not keep piling more totalitarian solutions on, and just accept that the content cartels just have to actually compete with the superior piracy UX.

Frankly the (proto-)trend makes me wonder if TF got bought out by the content cartels to serve as astroturf.
Laughs in Casio F91W
> I don’t watch mainstream media. I listen to some podcasts twice a week driving to work, and follow some people on X. Nothing Trump has done came as any surprise at all to me.

honestly its shocking that any of this is a surprise. dude was President once, and was consistently making attempts at this before, only to be hamstrung by Congress.

his entire 2nd run was pretty blunt about ties to Project 2025 and their aims. Even Drudge and Fox News covered this stuff.
Had that continued we’d be halfway to solving climate change by now, though.

Of course “environmentalists” and most others back in those days preferred cheaper coal and gas.
One Project at a Time, or a Dozen (2024)
The boilerplate does not go away just because an LLM can write it. It still makes the code harder to read.
Loco author here.

Thanks for the shoutouts!

We definitely try our best to match the Rails experience. Being that the experience is not something you can just have as a side effect.

We build stuff into Loco that Rails has, try it out, then decide if it's "Railsy" enough in the experience. If it's not, we delete it and try again.

I'm a Rails superfan personally, however as life turned out to me, I like Rust much more than I like Ruby. So the decision was to go "loco" and implement Rails for Rust.

We're looking for more feedback and people to try out Loco, please feel free to do so :-)
OK. You’re gonna lose $100-$200 worth of crap in your car and possibly pay out a $1000 deductible. How does it remotely compare to losing your retirement account or say having all your nude photos sent to your contact list?
To be clear, I'm not arguing humans will stop being involved in software engineering completely. What I fear is that the pool of employable humans (as code reviewers, prompt engineers and high-level "solution architects") will shrink, because fewer will be needed, and that this will cause ripples in our industry and affect employment.

We know this isn't far-fetched. We have strong evidence to suspect during the big layoffs of a couple of years ago, FAANG and startups all colluded to lower engineer salaries across the board, and that their excuse ("the economy is shrinking") was flimsy at best. Now AI presents them with another powerful tool to reduce salaries even more, with a side dish of reducing the size of the cost center that is programmers and engineers.
What’s more “shocking” is how these services (patreon,gofundme) essentially acts as long term disability and health insurance plans.

American healthcare is a massive price fixing scam and a complete joke.
Alternatively, remember that personal articles with one author is the perspective from the author, and not necessarily a "world truth". Same goes for comments on HN :) Saves even more time, no need to fumble around replacing words and whatnot.
I’m old enough to remember not having an iPhone and not feeling sexy.
been collecting for a while, happy hunting
https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum
Comparing Two Types of Meditation – Samatha and Vipassana (2018)
I started just having my cellular Apple Watch on me 6 years ago while leaving my phone at home. When everyone around me thought I was crazy I knew I was on to something.

I’m doubling down on this philosophy and keeping my phone in my drawer and couldn’t be happier.
I'll assume you're asking in good faith, you could start by looking at the wikipedia page for progressivism, and continue from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism
The alternative browsers have the required site isolation but aren't allowed. There's no fix for Safari and you must use it. I think it's very clearly decreasing the users' security.
His own side was calling him "Genocide Joe" because of his enthusiasm for arming the Israelis. What are you talking about?
I've wondered why an app dedicated specifically for this purpose hasn't actually taken off. It seems there have been attempts, but they all just fade away.

I know more than a few people who used to check Craigslist everyday to read the stories.
Yes. Laypeople often forget about this fact. A big reason that we're not building fission plants is because you won't get anything back for a decade or more. And by that time, will it still even be competitive?
If you also drive less the beetle does make perfect sense. Especially when the car is paid off and you fix it yourself.

The fridge may or may not make sense depending on bow long you think your new fridge will go until it fails. Having to buy a new fridge is expensive.
How often do tabs really need to communicate, and when they do, does it really need to be as fast as possible. I would say slower and secure would be a better design philosophy, especially as tab interaction is generally rare, and low bandwidth
‎"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"- Mark Twain

The pictures and video I saw of Elon in the news look nothing like the salutes in documentaries, TV shows, and movies. I did see one picture of Kamala making the same gesture as Elon though.

There's a mind-virus infecting people. It reminds me of when the front page of reddit was about Trump pooping his pants which didn't happen, but...

people want to believe what they want to believe.

I don't care what "side" of politics people are on, I hate it when either side doesn't act in good faith.

(The front page of reddit is constantly politics now, it's no longer interesting, so I no longer waste my time there.)
I was a longtime user of Sublime Text and switched to VSCode because of Remote Development and Pylance. Everything else is pretty much fine and Sublime has always had better performance, though these days having support for AI integration (a la Copilot) is also necessary for me.

I tried Zed recently because it has remote support and AI integration, but the Python integration is limited to Pyright so I gave up temporarily (I guess I can recreate Pylance using this doc: https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/USING...).
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My Forerunner 255 is now 3(?) years old and it still gets new updates with new features, so what you say isn't really true.