skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that's going to cost the taxpayer in Florida a pretty penny

It might, but Disney becomes a taxpayer as well and the county/state would not necessarily be under an obligation to maintain the roads and property to the same level that Disney presently does. This presents a huge challenge to Disney, because they need the property to be maintained at this level and need to have the flexibility that the special district affords them. Can you imagine the regular government permitting required to do what they do? Right now if they need to fill in a wetland area to build a hotel—no one outside of Disney need be involved in the yes or no of that decision.

Whether or not it’s legal will be for the courts to decide…however, should it stick, make no mistake…this hurts Disney far more than it hurts the local tax payers. If it didn’t Disney would have ended this special deal long ago.
Procedural images using wave function collapse WASM (Golang)
I’ve pretty much sworn by Yamaha guitars my whole life. They absolutely make some of the best musical gear, IMHO. :)
Yeah but there's no reason to put it in strings because it's not printable. When you get to the 2/3/4 byte-wide parts or UTF-8 they can have zeroes in there. This is a long-winded way of saying UTF-8 can't really be NULL-terminated because it can contain NULLs as a matter of course. That's where you get modified UTF-8, which is indistinguishable from regular UTF-8 other than it's NULL encoding, which if you don't know it's the modified derivative will sneak up on you, just like UCS-2 vs UTF-16.

This stuff just has to be OOB configurable. ASCII-compatibility lets us think we can do stuff like this, but you're always just assuming and hoping it doesn't blow up.
Would many people?

The HN crowd, sure, but the general population?

I don't think they consider repairability and battery replacement, let alone put it above the device "looking good".
It's obvious why, you don't need an a/b study to tell you the sun is shining, you can just look outside.
> There was an Al-Jazeera report that was more substantial than any of the other mainstream US media

As the name might suggest, Al Jazeera isn't a US media company. And despite being Qatari state owned, has mostly retained its editorial independence. It reminds me of what the BBC used to represent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
What do you mean? RDS lets you run replicas
No, they would not. The nukes are a deterrent against invasion.

And for what it's worth, if the North wanted to, they could flatten much of Seoul with conventional weaponry, since it's only 70 km from the border.
I'm stunned that I had never thought to use a FOIA request for source code until seeing your comment. This is very tempting.
A molten salt reactor is, first and foremost, a distraction.

By the time any production molten-salt reactor design could get proved out and the first commercial one built, renewables + storage will be providing all our power for much less money than it ever could.

But we can waste a lot of $billions on it that could instead go to build out a hell of a lot of panels and wind turbines.
> I have many gigs of email
> don’t want to pay many tens of dollars/month

How many gigs? It appears that the 100GB plan is only $9/mo.
This sounds about equivalent to what I do. Last time I was at the doctor I was measured at 56, but when I measure myself I usually come in closer to 60.
I’ve been manually recording every 15-minute increment of my life in Google Calendar for the past 3 years.

While studying at WGU, I also tracked 100% of my computer/phone/TV usage with ActivityWatch.

I wrote a paper showing that over 80% of my learning sessions could be accurately detected and classified from my computer usage logs:

https://miguelrochefort.com/Rochefort_2021_Academic_Time_Tra...
Some of these were very surprising to me:

Registered nurses at an annual mean salary of $151,640; nurse midwives at $162K.

PR managers and art directors both at ~$155K.

Airline pilots only slightly lower than CEOs ($243K vs $258K).

I'm guessing the last of these has to do with CEOs being paid mainly in equity, but the numbers were quite high for a number of kind of mundane jobs in both private and public sectors and across multiple industries.
Yea meanwhile the rest of the US focuses on this one action alone.
I looked it up. Florida's actions are authoritarian.
it's a complementary ladder
> You throw away structured control flow in favour of unstructured control flow?

That's right. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it works great. You wind up with a collection of blocks of code connected by edges. Then, you can use graph theory to work magic on them in a general, correct way. Data flow analysis is based on this.

One thing the graph math does is enable the reconstruction of loops out of the blocks and edges - so you can write loops any way you please, and the compiler will figure it all out and apply general algorithms to it (like loop rotation, loop unrolling, etc.).
Fairphone’s entire line
Kansas is a right-to-work state and is where Boeing builds 737 fuselages, does passenger to cargo conversions, and does a hefty chunk of their work for the DoD on pre-merger products.
I tried this. It’s unfortunately particularly unimpressive.

There’s a total of 8 samples, they’re all just nature samples - it’s a basic subtractive synth, it did work ‘out of the box’ in Logic; that’s kinda my whole review. It’s nothing I could see using for anything, unfortunately
- though it is small, so I don’t see myself removing it.

And am I the only one who thinks the website makes it look like a hardware synth? It took me a while to even get it was a VST.
I’ve given up arguing this on HN. We have to repeat this every time this topic comes up and despite those of us with air industry experience setting the record straight repeatedly, the number of posters parroting this line never decreases.
"well, I never!"

—the Grand canonical ensemble
There are over 1,800 special districts in Florida.

Politicians have explicitly stated that they are punishing Disney for criticizing a law.

There is no gray area here.
Well, we haven't optimized away bacteria, or mice, or fleas. Plants can't run or fight us directly, yet we haven't gotten rid of them. We put a lot of effort into attacking particular pathogens like COVID-19, HIV, and many others, but it's a tiny fraction of the things out there that catch our attention.

And on the other end of the scale, various large animals in Africa seem to have evolved with humans to be extremely mean and dangerous, so they didn't go extinct quickly like megafauna elsewhere.

It makes sense that AGI will profoundly change humans, but to me, not so much that it will suddenly wipe us out the way perhaps humans wiped out woolly mammoths or the like. Because we won't be isolated from it while it is developing.
I feel like you are on to something. I’ll keep an eye out for AWS support.
It's still more than what's even available for the competitors.

It's easy to be pessimistic, but show me any phone manufacturer that offers extended support past 3 years. Hell, even computers hardly will come with more than that as an option.
You sound like you have an inferiority complex, you probably were not blessed with a comparable IQ to the people you describe and resent them for it because in SV that's your most important asset.

I'm not that smart compared to the other people you replied to but smart is relative. I chose to go to the 3rd best high school in my mediocre Romanian town and had the highest entry grade in the entire high school. When it came to math I would grok the concepts by simply reading on my own 30 minutes before class while my peers would need tutors and still not get it.

Do you think I had a good time in high school? What my peers lacked in math skill they gained in ego preservation. They saw intelligence as a threat that must be neutralized. I doubt my story is that different. I'm telling you this because it's pretty obvious you did not live it so you might gain some empathy and let go of your resentment
I feel like those must technically violate laws about defacing/destroying currency.
Ask HN: What are good RSS feeds you follow?
I am getting back to RSS. Got tired of facing so many content that doesn't interest me or I want simple interfaces and quality content to read. Please suggest anything related to history, software architecture, science
> There's really no justification as to why I can install the latest version of Windows 10 on a computer from 2006 and everything works smoothly

Windows 10 isn't "the latest version" anymore, and they've dropped support for a ton of processors (actually, it's worse than that, they've intentionally broken support for a lot of processors).

Some have fTPM that can be manually enabled, and it may or may not work or cause issues (stuttering, etc) without BIOS patches and other stuff that the vendor may not provide for legacy hardware, so even there it's hit or miss, but stuff from the 2006 era doesn't have fTPM at all and you'll have to do the microsoft equivalent of hackintosh.

But yeah Android's support/device lifetime is egregiously bad, I'm not basing my OS on a custom build by some guy named xXxMark69xXx who posts on a web forum. Even Linux has official distributions that are expected to pretty much Just Work without modifications beyond installing some (audited, signed) driver packages, but the Android model means that it's simply not possible to "just install Lineage", you essentially must have someone customize it for each individual model.

Android phones also usually have terrible spare-parts availability, unless you want to buy a wish.com-tier battery that will have half of its advertised capacity out of the box, and pillow up before six months have passed. It simply is not possible to buy quality battery replacements outside of the OEM supply chains (I've pointed this out here on HN as a business opportunity every time the topic comes up) whether it's phone or laptops or anything else. And the OEM supply chains are just not there, despite every opportunity for vendors to "just use standardized parts" like people are saying.

At the end of the day I'm perfectly happy to just pay Apple 50 bucks so that a technician can put a new battery into my 4-year-old phone and I'll know it's OEM tier and that the waterproofing/etc will be done right and that they won't shatter the back and so on. Not the place I want to try and save 20 bucks in my life anymore.
Most of the pitfalls of ad-hoc polymorphism aren't possible with type classes. Unless you use some dangerous annotations.
Not trivial, fundamental to attracting usage.
I agree with what you are saying. So I am not sure what it is you think I am not understanding. My objection was to the “rule” claiming that implementations of higher-level features in lower-level languages are always inferior (“poorly on both counts”). That is simply not true. For example, a high-performance AAA game typically use a number of different custom garbage collectors all optimised for specific purposes. Solving a hard problem that higher-level languages can’t solve. There is nothing inferior about that. So that part of the “rule” is wrong. And if we remove that smug incorrect parts of the “rule” then all that remains is a claim that complex systems often implement higher-level features in lower-level languages. That part is obviously true. But not very interesting.
I forgot to reply earlier, but that's a good point and I didn't think of that. I would imagine that the live chicken weighed about 4.5-5 lbs too.
Sort of like too much information being "dangerous" and leading believers astray?
This exact question was asked on Stack Exchange long enough ago that the answers are actually good https://stackoverflow.com/questions/924303/how-to-write-a-di...
At least Java I doubt it. char holds any valid UTF-16 value, so without casts I think it's probably pretty hard. Not an expert here though.
In principle not too hard, in practice the topic comes up every few months and nobody has done it yet
That'll also cost you $$$$ and takes any provisioned lambda out of the free tier. Also note that only your specified number of instances will stay warm, meaning if your lambda needs to scale up, you risk slow cold starts on additional instances outside of the number you provisioned. You could specify the number of reserved concurrent images (limiting the number that run) but that also costs money and will eat int your quota.

Using containers for lambda is generally a bad idea for anything TypeScript/JavaScript that handles a realtime request - you just can't beat the speed of a single JavaScript file (compiled, in the case of TS). AWS CDK now ships with the NodeJSFunction as well, which makes generating those a breeze with ESBuild.
I can attest to this. My wife and I are planning to rent our house out for a couple of years and become “digital nomads”. I was looking at AirBnbs in different cities. The decent ones weren’t any cheaper than a 3 star (middle of the road) Homewood Suites.

With Homewood Suites, we get a full kitchen, a gym, a pool, and a crazy amount of Hilton Points when we use their highest end credit card.

On top of that, we know what to expect.
I don't think this is so much a "Russian" laptop as it is a "US-less" laptop. It's probably also mostly a proof-of-concept in case the US ever imposes sanctions on Russia, which, well hey, we're there now!
I greatly appreciated the source code (probably FORTRAN) that I found in a university library in the late 80's. I seem to remember a book of microfiche with many basic algorithm's published on the basis that it was developed with US government with federal money and hence needed to published. So as an Australian I was very grateful for the implementation of Hungarian method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm) that I used to write a Turbo-Pascal implementation for rostering problems.

Anyone remember the name of the book/folder and the publisher?
It’s the same economics that create food deserts in some places and Whole Foods in others. Or how banks don’t exist in poorer neighborhoods despite being profitable on others. There is no incentive to allow one to subsidize the other. It happens with health networks that are mission based but otherwise, not usually. Try balancing out your research with the taxpayer funded public hospitals, it’s a train wreck.
> it's probably pretty easy to write invalid UTF-8

In which language(s)?

Its quite hard to write invalid UTF-8 in Rust, because the UTF8 encoding is checked when the string is created. I think this is the right choice.

Javascript, C# and java should work like rust, since a string should always ... y'know, contain a correctly encoded string. The current situation in these languages feels like a weird middleground where String classes are actually arrays of 16 bit integers wearing a fur coat.
I was homeschooled after 8th grade due to social problems at school (I was bullied to the point of being suicidal for being fat). This was entirely by choice on my part and this was back before online learning was a big thing (early-mid 00s) so it was all in paper books then.

I did quite well in the program and on the SAT I took to get into college in lieu of a high school diploma. I did okay in college too, graduating with honors. I really can't see what I lost by basically doing high school alone in my bedroom reading books and taking self-graded exams.

I think it can work with the major caveat that it has to be both voluntary and the student has to bring a genuine desire to learn to the table. Not all students do. I think Khan World School will work very well but for maybe 10% of students leaving 90% worse off. Conversely I think in-person traditional schooling will work well for 90% but make 10% worse off due to stuff like bullying.

It would be unconscionable to withhold something like Khan World School from the people it could benefit. It's okay that it doesn't work for everyone. Neither does the traditional system.
Source code of LW editor is mostly available. I’ve done some extensive modifications to it (implemented VIM mode), but these days I’ve moved back to Emacs- just something I prefer more
Now the question is: how much time did he spend tracking all of that?
I read with interest most well written articles explaining entropy. I often leave the article mildly satisfied that I understood it. Until the next day when I again have to figure out the difference between "high" and "low" entropy in a particular model, and invariably I mix up the two.
I looked carefully, but did not find in the article what is expected. Is the contention that authors who do not contribute do not get reviewed? Or that otherwise successful authors are excluded?
Welp, I suppose the author has another 10 years to work on their article about how it took them 20 years to actually understand entropy.
Claiming everything is cause for alarm is defecting against the ability to communicate about important things because it means alarms no longer work. Journalists have been crying wolf 24/7/365 on every available bit of bandwidth for decades now and it's time to start treating them appropriately.
Technically true, but UCEPROTECT, in particular, is known to have some shady practices:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/02/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad....
Testing my system code in /usr/ without modifying /usr/
This is going to throw unknowing readers for a loop, because it's a comment trying to be cheeky.

Simply put: Fargate/ECS/EC2+EB = long running tasks

Lambda = Short burst tasks with a max life of 15 minutes

Running a lambda 24/7 will nuke your credit card. Using Fargate for a scheduler/cron job that only runs 4 times a day will nuke your credit card. Use the right tool for the right job.
From a very experienced FOIA litigator, most of the time your FOIA request will be denied and then you'll have to sue to get the records. Typical time for these cases is 2-4 years of court appearances in trial court, then another 2 years in appellate court to get a favorable decision.

A buddy of mine just won one that finally set the precedent that database schemas are not security:

https://twitter.com/foiachap/status/1215388081378988039
I see a lot of people mentioning the poor working conditions of healthcare professionals. Things like low pay, long hours, mean patients, etc. These are undoubtedly all problems that largely fall on the shoulders of nurses.

The issue with entitled, mean patients strikes me. While I'm sure a fair bit of this is due to the way in which misinformation about COVID and other health issues spreads on social media, I have a hard time believing this is the primary cause of this grumpiness. It seems more likely that the average person is just fed up being taken to town by a completely inhumane system that really ought to be the most humane of systems. Nurses are the front line representatives of a system that exploits people when they are most vulnerable.

Now, I'm not saying nurses deserve this at all. They're not to blame for the state of things. But the observation might go some ways in explaining the psychology of the phenomenon.
Does anyone have any experiences with Pulumi to share?
1Password syncing went down for a few hours today during a database upgrade
Electric power demand will increase by what it takes to keep our cars charged up, and to drive industrial production of hydrogen for steel and other industrial processes, ammonia for fertilizer, synthetic fuels (including ammonia and hydrogen) for bigger vehicles, carbon capture from the atmosphere, water desalination, and myriad other uses.

Build-out of renewables will increasingly displace fossil-fuel generation, then (as that is exceeded) bank energy in storage systems (batteries and pumped hydro, short-term, other tech for longer term). We will need a lot of new transmission lines to trade power between current users, current generators, and storage.

None of it requires new physics, although improvements in catalysts will improve round-trip efficiency and cost of storage systems and synthesis, and new chemistries will improve cost and efficiency of new photovoltaic build-out.

There is no place for nukes in that world. They cost way too much to compete on a fair playing field.
> There is the increased tax burden on the surrounding counties that will now be responsible for upkeep/services/etc

They don’t have to provide upkeep/services/etc to the same level that Disney currently does. Drive around the greater Osceola/Kissimmee area and ask yourself “Is Disney going to be ok with their roads and common spaces in this condition?” Pretty sure the answer there is “no” and Disney will still maintain the roads to their standard and this will ease the burden on the counties…and pay taxes to boot. Disney has a golden goose that they have paid a whole lot of money for over the last 50 years to shit golden eggs, they aren’t going to slaughter the goose just because the price of goose feed goes up.
Most colleges are a "scam". When doing my degree I tested out of the maximum number of classes which, in my opinion, is infuriating and a perfect example of how dishonest the industry is. If you know the material you should get the degree.

That, in my opinion, is how a merit based education should work. Instead, our system asks: Do you have the support system to and finances to enable you to spend 4 years without earning an income to complete a degree program?
I expect the rocket plans. Why the fuck wouldn't you expect the rocket plans? Unfortunately, letting companies own plans they were contracted to develop is actually a form of payment to those companies. GE's entire best-in-class commercial jet engine line was built from military blueprints they own and control but who's design was fully funded by the American people. This is bragged about openly within the company.

Elon had to go to Russia to get rocket plans. We have truly dropped the ball on this.
"Ultraviolet Catastrophe"'s problem is that it sounds way cooler than it is. I mean, that's the title of a cyberpunk novel; more hyperbolic (and disappointing) than pretentious. Eigenthings would be second on my list of pretentiousness (oddly, not gedankenthings; I'm inconsistent I guess). Standard Model names strike me whimsical to the point of being undignified.
Yes, because previously there were no good electric cars, not even for rich people.
Except there absolutely was. The only NSA US surveillance program that Snowden leaked was known about in 2006, when Mark Klein revealed it. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns...
I’ve never seen that even before the pandemic. 1.5x-2x is normal for all the usual reasons a contractor cost more. Taxes, benefits, agency that needs a margin, etc.

I’m guessing if you’ve seen that is hyper localized to some place/issue.
That is quite an exaggeration. My calculator app has requested 0 permissions. That's right, none.

Even though I use the calculator app from a famous ad company that loves gathering data - Google.
https://www.ghacks.net/feed/

http://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/

http://blog.malwarebytes.org/feed/

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/dslreports

https://feedproxy.google.com/PetaPixel

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain

https://spectrum.ieee.org/feeds/topic.rss

https://feedproxy.google.com/PetaPixel

http://bensbargains.net/rss/
Snowden's leaks contained a single program that collected US data at the time, which Mark Klein had already revealed in 2006. That program was reduced after Snowden's leaks and then shut down entirely in 2019.
People are selfish, a dash of prisoner's dilemma, a pinch of tragedy of the commons, and you get businesses that serve individuals while failing society. Also efficiency is the enemy of robustness. No one wants to pay 10% more for slightly inferior hard drives, until a flood destroys the entire worlds production capacity. I consider myself a libertarianish sort of thinker, but market forces are a greedy algorithm, with all the downsides of that.