skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to policy reason on gut, that's fine-- most policy is set that way. But we shouldn't disguise gut as "science" and make it unquestionable or just offensive to debate. (Or instantly resorting to personal attacks and accusations of ignorance.)

Your gut analysis isn't as obvious to me: Fire can't happen without fuel, drier forests grow less fast. In climates where wildfires are a regular and natural feature, all that grows will eventually burn-- and it's literally impossible for it to burn unless it grew first. On that reasoning one might expect that drier climates might lead to fewer wildfires. At least at the reasoning level of "gut". Not too many wildfires in death valley after all, even though it is very dry and hot there while there are wildfires in Seattle which is usually wetter than a sponge. :)

Moreover magnitudes matter a lot-- I'll accept your 'obvious conclusion' but it doesn't set a magnitude. If wildfire activity is modulated only a small amount by dryness but a large amount by where we choose to build, our irrigation practices (e.g. creating pockets of growth in naturally dry places and diverting water from wildlands we don't care about), our forestry practices (aggressively suppressing small inconsequential fires, until they run out of control), and so on-- then that calls for different interventions (and would also be really good news because if existent climate change really were the only cause of recent activity we're screwed because there is no plan to turn back the clock on that, only plans to decrease the rate).

There is also a definitional question: What is a wildfire? The things most people care about under that banner aren't just the metaphorical tree burning in a forest with no one there to hear it... they are incidents of out of control vegetation burning leading to mass property damage and loss of life. And by that definition of a wild fire where we build and how is obviously a determinative factor over which we have a lot of influence. And so a premature fixation over factors which we have less ability to influence and may have a much less significant effect in what we actually care about could result in poor decisions that ultimately lead to a lot more damage and loss of life, which we can all agree would be terrible.
There is a recourse. Move instances.
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i forgot what year but the year the spurs won the championship against lebron would be unusual today. tons of passing not necessarily for the 3 but to just dislodge the defense enough for a guaranteed bucket
> Pointing consumerism in the right direction

How do you do that?
$2,500!!!
https://www.wilson.com/en-us/product/airless-gen1-bskt-natur...
Because otherwise plastic is miracle material.

Alternatives are lot less practical or do not offer same advantages. Glass is heavier, less sturdy, possible produces shards that cause immediate damage such as cuts. Most metals need the plastic coating to be non-reactive.

And then products packed in plastic stored in inert gas last amazingly long time. Which is very big selling point for many customers.
They can provide assist up to 15.5 mph IIRC, but aren't limited to a top speed apart from your legs and/or finding a big hill.
Thanks for sharing that. I'd think that the slight lean towards the fact that we're here discussing loss rather than meeting at a funeral makes it different, but I'll vary my view slightly. It's not a comparison I'd ever make because to me pets are pets and animals are not human. So I'll alter my view to not call out a scold on this topic in future in response to your comment.
What's next? Professional cornhole?

Oh, wait...

https://www.iplaycornhole.com/
It is kind of hilarious the fraud was uncovered by some esoteric technical investigation when there was definitive evidence in plain sight the whole time.

"For instance, the "1996–2001" copyright date seen on the title screen in Groobo's video is inconsistent with the v1.00 shown on the initial menu screen, suggesting Groobo's run was spliced together from runs on multiple different versions of the game. Items acquired early in the run also disappear from the inventory later on with no apparent explanation."

It reminded me of a joke in Northern Exposure where Ed uncovers a thief by listing circumstantial evidence and then adding one piece of evidence that he almost forgot.. he witnessed the thief stealing a radio.
The drunk and first man haven’t really been good indicators of what this administration will do.
I don’t think this is a particularly well written article, but I sort of agree with the sentiment. Basketball just isn’t THAT complex and the talent pool is homogenous enough that most teams can find these archetypes and build rosters that get you to the playoffs.

That said, trends are cyclical. Look at the role of the running back in the NFL. There will always be outlier players like Shaq who will buck the trends and exploit matchups.
Is there some sort of Pareto principle that could be applied to reducing plastic intake? Can someone suggest a few easy steps that would cause >50% reduction in plastic intake, for those who don't have time to dig through the research, and can't make drastic life changes?

I'll offer "don't microwave in plastic containers" as a starter for ten.

Second might be "get a metal water bottle".
Musk's DOGE Begins Firing Workers at Federal IT Department
This is specifically about US Digital Service

Archive link: https://archive.is/NiIGi

This LinkedIn post says it's 33% of the USDS staff: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathankamens_around-50-us-d...

As someone who admired the USDS and had hoped to one day apply to them, this is very sad. It also makes me feel like DOGE is deeply unserious about their stated goal, because the US Digital Service staff is surely some of the most efficient money spent in government IT.
You literally can't just "clean it up" it's not possible. This is there American hyper-individualistic mindset at work. The problem and solution is cut and dry, anything else is a comfortable lie.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119
size, cost, culture of buying older vehicles. Those are just a few and as sporkydistance mentioned existing vehicles are good enough. My vehicle is ULEZ compliant and is from 2006, I will have this car until it hits 150-200k. That will have been majority of my driving career.
Started on a VPS and then scaled to a single larger dedicated server through a hosting company. It was never doing crazy amounts of traffic, maybe 1-2k concurrent users at peak, and the frontend was just doing slow polling every few seconds.
During The Plague of 1665 in London they culled 200,000 cats thinking that they were the root cause. It turned out that the rats were the cause and cats were their natural predator at the time. So they made things worse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcwssk7

The OP article does mention cats as a predator. Insignificant compared to the medieval times. Still interesting.
> “Parsons et al. (56) documented less than a 1% predation rate between feral cat carnivores and rats in an urban setting.”
My proposal to fix this is to automatically award a point for all non-reboundable free throws.
Or just get rid of 3 pointers entirely in the NBA.
Yeah just make it a straight line, that would be the easiest. Wouldn’t require any rule changes either.
You're missing the point - it's not whether plastic is the best material for a use case, it's about the cost/benefit analysis of using it. Think asbestos - really good at not catching fire, with the slight side effect of royally messing up your lungs.

Plastic is great for all the reasons you describe, but it's really hell on the environment. The thing that offsets that side effect is its cheapness, and that's majorly a function of capitalism/private land ownership/the general way the world is organized right now.
I think the NBA needs to focus on how to make more people tune in to the first half of the season. And player’s load management is getting ridiculous.
I live on the second floor near a road and my balcony furniture is always covered in black gunk.
If you even knew the least bit about math and its history, you would know that "no proof given by anyone in 500 years" doesn't mean a thing.
> capitalists are choosing to install battery storage in large amounts

Texas is building massive amounts of natural gas, too. Solar + natural gas makes sense for America. (It doesn’t for Europe, but whatever.)
> Scientists still don’t know what this plastic is doing to us.

I think it's because of this and how expensive, inconvenient, and possibly dangerous the alternative is. There's a lot of risk of illness in food handling, and things like one-time use containers and disposable gloves have done a lot to help.
You don't have to like the answer but your feels don't change the situation even slightly. Why are you emotionally invested here?
Sure. But that would need to be funded too. It's not going to just happen.
That’s nothing compared to an i3: I don’t even get 10K miles per set. Some people report getting as many as 12K with conservative driving.

Part of the problem is the instant torque, but the narrow geometry is a bigger issue. Also, they did something to the formulation that achieves less rolling resistance for increased wear.

I also don’t think the weight is the main issue. The i3 is a bit under 3000 lbs. That’s the same as a Volvo station wagon, and they didn’t have this problem. (If I remember right, you could get 50K mile Michelins for them.)
Total FUD. Wyden is no friend of big pharma. Probably one of the only couple of politicians we have left actually working for the people.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-expands-...
This can definitely be an issue and it was when Guzzle released a new major version every month.

Also when working with projects that are 10+ years and lines of codes a million you will run into this. Sure you can always fork and move the library to another namespace, but that is extra work.

Modules are vastly superior to namespaces, with modules it is the caller that decides the symbol, with namespaces it is the callee.

Another problem with namespaces in PHP is that you can’t put anything into it, like a variable, it is not like namespace in C++. Namespace in PHP is just name added to the class or function name, kind of fake. Don’t get me wrong, it was a pragmatic solution to a real problem and it worked for what it tried to solve, make it easier to share code.

Modules could be elegantly solved in PHP by reusing the internal concept for a class (how it is with enums and interfaces)

Modules would also make it easier to unit test code, because you will not need to worry about a symbol already have been loaded and can’t get unloaded.

With that said I don’t think it the most important feature to focus on, there are others that give more bang for the buck, like string templating and operator overloading.
"The closer [to] the railway station the less tasty the Kebab is" – A Study
Once I realized that I could use gillespie's algorithm to model a basketball game, I felt like I was 'trading on the inside'.
Why the anti-tyranny case for the 2nd A shouldn't be dismissed so quick[2016]
OP indeed misunderstood the color coding program by treating it as a knowledge problem. Looks to me like it was much more about "nudging": It's one thing to decide for yourself, in your head, whether to have the tofu bowl or the fries for lunch. It's another to have both next to each other in the cafeteria, one authoritatively labeled with a green, the other with a red dot. Sure you can still choose the fries, but it will feel much more directly like "bad choice" than without the markers.
You can’t feed an entire nation nothing but corn.
You had less meetings.
Except the decades of materials science research demonstrates that even independently of those economic incentives, scientists understand that although plastics are incredibly valuable in a variety of applications, they’re not perfect (and at worst, actively harmful). This research is being done not because scientists would be sad to think of a world without plastics that provide land owning oil barons their precious return on investment, they’re researching it because science and human progress are what drive us forward. Thus, even in our hypothetical, it’s unclear that plastics (and their ubiquity even in applications where it doesn’t make sense) would win out.
Post-Mortem – Network Outage Affecting Openstreetmap.org – 15 December 2024
This probably depends quite a bit on your acceleration/braking settings.
The association with avoiding accountability (e.g. officers lying or otherwise covering up corruption) is as old as the phrase, it's not recent.
We are frogs that sit in a pan of increasingly hotter water. We see some disasters left and right, of course. But linking that by yourself to climate change - one generally doesn't, they need scientist and researchers for that. If they even believe them and haven't been told by the PM that is all fake.

Then we have that abstract figure of 1.5C - not understanding that it is an average. A scientist or mathematician understands that - but for the average person it is too abstract. Even for me, someone who doesn't doubt man-made climate change, 1.5C is still... odd. We should communicate in expected maximum temperatures w/ durations, droughts, disasters this causes. Yet the media keep repeating "1.5C" more often than any alternative.
Submit a bunch of prompts to Deepseek R1 (a few tens of thousands), and then do a full fine tuning of the target model on the prompt/response pair.
> The “services” here is gender affirming care. What does it mean to “advocate”? Why are my tax dollars being used for this?

You should ask Elon Musk since he brought up the program and has the ability to actually ask people on it what it's about.

It should really be telling that the heads of say USAID have been replaced with politically sympathetic individuals and yet they can't surface any memos or etc that are red flags and instead have to rely on portions of headlines?

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> Dude 350k is a lot of money,

If somebody has a severed artery and also a paper cut you need to ignore the paper cut to repair the artery.

There is a significant amount of time being wasted on saving 0.000000004% of the federal budget. There are straight up 4 solutions to balancing the budget and none of this nickel and dimeing will get close (especially after the next round of Trump tax cuts).

1 - Cut Military

2 - Cut Medicaid / Medicare

3 - Cut Social Security

4 - Raise taxes to pre-Reagan levels

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> It’s easy to be charitable when you’re spending other people’s money.

1) Elon doesn't pay anything in taxes [1] so he really should't have a say in how they're spent.

2) Compromise / Pork Barrel [2] is largely how congress works; you get votes on things you want in exchange for things other people want. Reneging on things congress as a group agreed to later on is bad faith.

3) There hasn't been any evidence provided that the program wasn't authorized by congress or isn't achieving any policy goals.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel
You are hitting the nail on the head with the communication issues. Truth be told, I am more senior and the rest of the leadership team understands that this individual needs a lot of management and shouldn't be allowed to implement stuff on their own.

"If his arguments are shaky, he will step down from the pedestal on his own when he realises that this decision is inefficient and unnecessary." - The sad part about this person is that when presented with this type of feedback, they always double and triple down despite the facts on the board, it is really odd and risky behavior to be honest.

At the end of the day, I am the person who has to put him in his place, so I want to make sure I am not missing a major point of consideration with celery.
Why we started, can’t be anything other than profit.

It was a technical issue. The lead prevented valve seat wear. IIRC, Honda was the first manufacturer to use hardened valve seats that didn't need lead.

So, ultimately, you can say that it was profit, but then every human activity can be reduced to profit and it no longer means anything.
It's such an arrogant comment.

"Really basic math"? Do you think NBA coaches reached this conclusion like this:

1. A player can throw X 2-points in a game.

2. Or he can throw Y 3-points in a game.

3. 3Y > 2X, so we should just throw 3-points all the time.

It's absolutely not what happened. And the reason teams didn't discovery the current strategy decades earlier was absolutely not that they couldn't do basic math.
> I'm relieved to find I'm not the only person who wanders around photographing the typography.

There are N of us!
> a group of Italian researchers followed 257 people who had plaque in their carotid arteries. They found that 20 percent of the people in their study who had microplastic-laden plaque had had a heart attack, stroke or had died after almost three years, compared to 7.5 percent of the people who didn’t.

Microplastics could be a proxy for diet. Which is why we need more studies!
The reason why nobody is replacing coal with nuclear is that the former is cheap and the latter is expensive. And at the moment, higher energy prices are a very though sell, politically, even if everyone agrees that we don't want to leave scorched earth for our kids.
Or add a 4-point line

https://youtu.be/IgEkocfa62g?si=63y0a_Zk8CxJ-5rM
Will Google Search Be the Next to Join Killed by Google?
I met a woman who hit the "jackpot". Flew to India for "yoga meditation camp" where she met some Indian AI crypto investors. After coming back home she sold her inherited flat, "invested" part of the money into "AI crypto fund" and rents housing. I do not want to know what she is up to currently.
> some can't ever put enough value on being able to feel smug and superior towards poorer people and less well educated

this feels like a disingenuous categorization to me. there are sustainability, ethical, supply chain, and other environmental considerations that impact why one might choose organic food. i don’t always, but am lucky to have the budgeting flexibility to choose fancy single-origin coffee or other things with “perceived value”

it feels that comments like this betray a desire to look down on others more transparently than choosing to shop at Whole Foods does
Distilling means fine-tuning an existing model using outputs from the bigger model. The special technique is in the details of what you choose to generate from the bigger model, how long to train for, and a bunch of other nitty gritty stuff I don’t know about because I’m also not an ML engineer.

Google it!
If it’s that big of a risk that poultry industry will die, shouldn’t we also be concerned about the fact that the birds in the wild will also die off? Wouldn’t that threaten the broader economy much more?
The Amazon Way used to be for you to send out a memo so that people would be productive at a meeting, and cancel the meeting on the spot if more than a third hadn’t read it or read enough of it.
Perhaps, and also we already know in 40 years many more of their infrastructure projects will lie empty and unused than already do. They’re literally burning their way to their doom, and they may take globalization with them.
What was the decision to use typescript? It looks like another electron app
It'd be nice if transgender Americans could live in America without being crucified (figuratively or literally).
This article presents a readable overview of today’s NBA trends, but IMO is too absolute in its judgment. Basketball is not a solved sport. There is still innovation, for example with OKC’s historically good defense that relies on playing 5 smaller but faster players. There are still good all-around players. There are still people that hit a lot of mid range shots. We have trends going the other way, sure, but they have their own set of tradeoffs and are neither a total solution nor totally embraced in the NBA. Teams will continue to evolve based on the talents of people at their disposal and their own innovative ideas.
This happens at times in all sports. The NFL is a prime example. QBs were lighting up big, heavy defenses with deep passes. Then teams ran two high safeties to prevent this. This year, offenses adjusted again to run more against the smaller linebackers and nickel/dime packages.
> every CRUD application gets more and more convoluted over time and isn't "just CRUD" very soon after it's created.

I'm guessing tht's in large part because stuff just keeps getting added, with no refactoring / restructuring of the database. If you just keep adding columns (and tables) without refactoring your data model, stuff can easily get convoluted AF without actually needing to; the same funcionality could probably still be "just CRUD" if it were built on top of an appropriate data model. (I may be eaxggerating somewhat, but I think probably pretty much anything could.)
I'd be interested in seeing a link to this. Decades ago, playing defensive "computer chess" used to be a relatively optimal strategy against Chess AIs.

However, I believe Kasparov famously tried to employ this tactic against Deep Blue but by that time it wasn't particularly viable.
Got it. Thank you. They don’t like other people (some or many of whom are bots) steering their narrative.

So the solution is to move to another platform, where the narrative is more easily steered?
It sends the output of “git ls-files” to the telemetry server?!?! Who thought this is appropriate.
Related: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2025/02/13/multiple-russian-th...
You forgot to add that the majority of climate scientists agree on climate change.

This is important because science, like America, is a democracy. And we know democracy is the best thing ever. Period. Therefore, when groups of people agree on something (DEMOCRACY!!), it becomes an inviolable law of the universe. It wasn't until America became the world's greatest nation (thanks to democracy) that we discovered this natural phenomenon, however.
In a distributed system, the overall performance and scalability are often constrained by the slowest component.
This Distributed Llama is over Ethernet..
What timing! I'd just worked out* the "stickfont" or "open-path font" or "stroke font" that one of my favorite defunct games rendered with GL_LINE_STRIP, and it seems to be from the Hershey glyph set. If you haven't heard of it, it's a remarkable achievement of one individual contributor, essentially a career engineer applying vector graphic rendering to technical lettering.

http://www.whence.com/hershey-fonts

* with the help of others ^_^
Perhaps people feel that the problem of modeling long-range token relationships has been solved. The problem is now how to get this model to produce tokens that are valid and ingenious solutions to problems, with RL or otherwise.
Plastic is a petroleum product and the petroleum industry controls nearly every news station (Fox + Murdoch is the big one) have trillions in lobbying dollars and has complete capture of the most powerful governments on Earth. What you think and the science about plastic and climate change that we've known for decades doesn't matter.
My model 3 is 5 years old and I'm still on my original set of tires (though in recent years I do put on winter tires for a few months a year). I don't usually drive like crazy (and it's an SR+ which is the least powerful model).
Its llama/quen with some additional training to add reasoning. In a similar way deep seeks v3 was trained into r1.

It also looks to me like there was some Chinese propaganda trained into llama/quen too, but that’s just my observation.
Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication
Never heard that claim before, only that a certain subset of re-enforced learning may have used ChatGPT to grade responses. Is there more detail about it being allegedly a distilled OpenAI model?
I’m not surprised, rats are way too big for the average cat to deal with.