skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This deal was secured by something other than Chicago's taxing power, so it should have less effect on Chicago's creditworthiness and ability to issue other bonds.

In any case, if it was 3% it's economically very comparable to issuing a regular bond and not the "fleecing" that's talked about. If the city regrets the deal, it should be able to issue a regular bond and use it to buy out the investors, or issue regular bonds annually and use them to pay the penalties, all at roughly a wash economically.

I'm not sure 3% is correct, though. I'd like to see another source on that. It reads like it has some protection against inflation. If it's 3% + inflation, that's a really enormous return.
Congrats on the launch! Sounds like an exciting project. Do you plan to store also the raw data (input + output)? It can be relevant for fine-tuning, optimizing costs, etc. Since you already store metadata, I think it makes sense to have a one-stop shop.
If often amazes me how unresponsive the EGS application is.

Though my experiences modding various games with their unreal 4 dev kits were much worse. Especially coming from modding games with engines where you could edit scripts with the text editor of your choice.
Not who you were asking, but I'm a big Moore fan as well:

* From Hell (Some might be put off by the original comic's black and white art, but there was a recent release that colourised them by the original illustrator)

* Providence

* Jerusalem

* V for Vendetta
I think what the parent meant was that if someone wants you to "text" them, they actually mean to send a message on WhatsApp and nothing to do with whatever texting on a given platform is.

Also, how are you data mining end-to-end encrypted messages? How can you get data out of messages you can't even see the contents of?
Half as interesting did a really nice video on the subject a couple weeks ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HG6KA6V4T7w

It is absolutely bonkers how one-sided the deal was and seems to be costing the city billions
Source Available is not necessarily Open Source.

https://opensource.org/osd/
Are underscores/dashes coalesced out too?
Half as Interesting had a good video on this topic a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/HG6KA6V4T7w?si=TXh71B1xoHGGID84
Also https://yggdrasil-network.github.io — but tbf both the linux distro, as well as the overlay network are niches. Pretty sure there are much more well known projects with the same name.
On the claims made for technology vs what you actually get: https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/
Your definition of capitalism is incomplete. You’ve described the essence of capitalism - as you see it - and people not adhering to your choice subset don’t ‘have a very good definition of "capitalism"‘

You’ve made a no true scotsman argument because all these other capitalist systems with their wage labour grievances and their accelerating inequalities tearing at the coherence of societies’ fabric are not _really_ what’s at the core of capitalism and if they just did it better then it’d be awesome.

The scale part comes in because what you describe - capitalism without wage labour - exists all over the world today, but only in the small. You cannot grow it to a country sized system.
At the rate that solar costs are falling we really don't. We just over-build and energy during the day is nearly zero cost. There is no problem with curtailing excess solar production, or opportunistically use that daytime power curve to run non time critical industrial processes.
on an individual level maybe it's (partially) subjective, but marx is concerned with the systemic level. he's talking about the industries which really drive the economy

i don't think there's ever been a successful attempt to reduce macroeconomics down to the microeconomics level. basically, the system as a whole cannot be calculated by summing up a model of all the individual behaviors, it doesnt work that way. there have been several broadly successful macroeconomic models

steve keen talks a lot about this same type of stuff and he's very much not a marxist, if you want a different perspective on it
One of the reasons I like/tolerate jq is that it's stable, i.e scripts written for it a few years ago still work the same today.

I have some code around for yq instead that keep breaking because yq keeps improving in non backward compatible ways (I didn't investigate how often yq introduced backwards incompatible changes, but the issue affected me several times in unrelated places, CI scripts or whatnot, that by their nature end up running with different versions of base tooling and update them at various pace)

I was always thus grateful to the great wisdom of the jq maintainers for their understanding of the importance of backwards compatibility.

I hope this announcement doesn't mean that this stability was just an accidental side product of stagnation and that once stagnation is "fixed" it will be done at the expense of stability.
I once saw an electron microscopy picture of a pollen covered in micro plastics but I can't find it anymore. Pollen attracting pollutants (via charge/surface effects?) are not a necessary mediator for pollutants to adhere to the skin though.
Yahoo pool was awesome. Being paired with a random player... a/s/l?
Also not a big fan, but I hate it for a very specific reason:

echo 12345678901234567890|jq
12345678901234567000
I'd be curious how that compares to other countries?
California installed about 5GW of batteries in the last three years.

Today natural gas peaked at 16GW. Batteries at the same time were delivering 3.8GW. During the day renewables which is mostly but not all solar peaked at 18.5GW.

So currently shifting my guess about 2 percent of the daily power generation. So not huge. But that didn't even exist three tears ago.
UK rejoins EU science research scheme Horizon
Put me down for £2, and I'm pretty confident. I work with some characters who have evolved to mimic productive workers while never producing anything of any discernable value.
Maybe gravity towers: https://spectrum.ieee.org/gravity-energy-storage-will-show-i...
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dang, could you perhaps insert "[Shen]" in the title?
Unless you go to explicitly authoritatian circles most communists (atleast the western ones I interact with) are explicitly against so-called Vanguard parties. A hypothetical communist revolution can be a slow transition without needing an authoritarian party to rule foe the course of it. Autocrats don't really want to give up their power.
Batteries are within an order of magnitude of significantly cutting fossile fuel usage in California at least:

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html#sectio...

Very scalable. It’s happening right now and accelerating.
>focusing on the problem, not just an area of study

how exactly do you plan on picking a problem that is either unsolved and/or not uninteresting without "picking a research area"? solving an already solved problem is a waste of your time (reviewer #2 will just point out the relevant missing citation). solving an uninteresting problem is a waste of everyone's time: it will take someone some time to figure out what you've actually done and that it's useless.

this is why generic platitudes like this are worse than useless - you're giving the impression/appearance of high wisdom that's sure to lead some naive kid astray; for example, the bulk of a phd is not actually solving some problem but finding the right problem to solve (interesting and unsolved).
Not just Canada. The Scottish band 'Boards of Canada' was named directly after the National Film Board of Canada as the members of the band had grown up watching films and animations of the film board.
You don't have to have it open during development, only to download the Unreal Engine, which happens very infrequently.

Right now I have open:

- 2 Rider backends with 8 and 7 GB of RAM consumption, plus rider64.exe with almost 4 GB of RAM usage.

- UnrealEditor.exe with almost 1 GB of RAM usage (6 GB committed).

- Firefox with 500-ish MB of RAM usage.

- Epic Launcher with 500-ish MB of RAM usage.

- Steam with 200-ish MB of RAM usage.

The launcher seems to be the least of one's problems when working with UE, resource-wise.
The bit about cars: You know who's job it is to regulate companies? The government. After seeing this article, I just read the Hyundai legal texts that apply in Europe (because we have a Hyundai). They make many, many references to the privacy laws here, and how Hyundai complies with them. No mention of gathering medical data, or selling data to third parties, etc..

Folk in the USA (and other countries without privacy laws) need to kick their governments into action.
Nice! Some feedback:

The gif shouldn’t end so soon and stick a little longer on the 2nd screen. Right now it’s faster than I can read.

Maybe use a different email than simpleotp in the example.

Perhaps a free tier for 500-1,000 active users.
Nah, they are not tolerant. They are just less murderous then ISIS.

> They have strong feelings about what the government should or shouldn't do, but I haven't met one yet who would actually advocate killing someone for things we think about in terms of tolerance.

There have been multiple mass shootings literally in that category. Compared to ISIS places, yep, it happens significantly less often. Plus, I have seen such calls against transgender and clinics. And acts of violence against both in fact do happen.
The idle power usage is quite bad which is a metric this article fails to mention.
I was going to say, "hey, maybe nuclear winter can help too!" but it sounds like maybe that whole thing was overstated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
If you use a VPN you get CloudFlare captchas all the time
I used UE4 professionally a few years back, and at the time ortho cameras were effectively unusable. Landscape actors were rendered at the worst LOD, for example, with no workarounds. Glad they're finally bringing them up to parity.
“ they don't have a domestic launch vehicle”

So your claim was wrong
Current use case includes defending Ukraine from genocidal invasion.
No, I mean Rider. CLion seems to be built to work with CMake primarily which UE does not use. Rider specifically has an Unreal Engine plugin and does support C++ fairly well. It is the only IDE we could get UE code completion to work properly. Why this is the case I don't know, but if I had to guess I'd say something something msbuild.
The art of a scientist is knowing which problems to pick.

Too easy and you won’t find anything new, too hard and you won’t make any progress.
This is a non-problem solved by the jq example. Clearly nobody sane writes (or consumes) APIs which sometimes produce array of object, sometimes produce singular objects of the same shape... Or maybe I'm spoiled from using typed languages and cannot see the ingenuity of the python/javascript/other-untyped-hyped-lang api authors that it solves?
On the subject of beauty, I really like this quote from Joe Armstrong:

“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”
>”vast majority of it is not held for investment purposes.”

“Vast” may be going too far.

Each year, gold acquired for investment or by central banks is about the same as that acquired by the jewellery industry.

Not the greatest link, but a section down the page shows gold demand in 2022 was jewellery 46.58% and investment plus central banks 46.85%. Tech makes up the remainder. I’m sure a better googler could attain a better reference.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in....

For whole world gold holdings, the picture is similar with 46% in jewellery and 39% in either private investment or state holdings.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/chart-how-much-gold-is-i...

I suppose it comes down to perceptions of the words vast and investment. Some jewellery is held as investment, and state holdings are more than just investment.
Minecraft 1.8.9 for PowerPC Macs
It has never been easier.

The quality of all tutorials, the easy free download, marketplace and the community are great!
Yawn...Enhance your calm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon). That's hardly how the author operates her business.
> What the heck is "m t"?

It's worse than that! What the heck is "->"?

But I don't particularly buy the argument. Alright, here I go:

def main():
x = input
y = input
print(x + y)

Uh oh...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'builtin_function_or_method' and 'builtin_function_or_method'

What the heck is "Traceback", "<stdin>", "<module>", "TypeError", "operand", "builtin_function_or_method"? Did I have to understand all those to write the simple Python program?

The claim that you have to understand everything about a failure case in order to write simple programs doesn't seem valid to me. It doesn't resonate with how I've learned languages before. However, I may not have the best perspective because I'm very familiar with both Python and Haskell so I don't have the "beginners mind" any more. I would be interested to hear from someone who's a beginner (perhaps in both languages) whether they think the Haskell program requires more understanding than the Python one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37402253
Sounds like this is fixed in 1.7
The "tons of cash" were for a single billboard.
Agreed. And next in Chicago we need to cancel or renegotiate pensions with all government employees in the county over the age of 60 for having been personally responsible for putting the county in a deficit to begin with.
I'm mystified at this type of comment.

What business does government have to choose the culture you experience? This is like the idea that it is perfectly fine that government funds all science research. It's this really what government is there to do?

It's great that you like it, but what if I don't like the culture/science it spends my tax dollars on? How can I like something that people are forced to pay for, whether they like it or not?

I think government is already terrible - spending other people's money inefficiently on pensions, wars, surveillance, mis-education, big pharma, etc - I don't think the arts are anything it should be funding. What is the difference between funding the arts and propaganda? How is this not simply about driving whatever agendas government is promoting?

I have so many issues with the idea that government is a benefit to us, the idea of it sponsoring the arts is only indicative of the already massive overreach it has. And then to cheer it's actions, happy that government forcibly extracts more from the people it purports to serve! It boggles the mind.
Is the concept of "you get X more holidays for doing task Y" not a concept under socialism?
I’ve always wondered about that name!
Are you rewriting it in the first language you learned?

Sometimes less general tools are nice. If they fit the problem space well, they can be very expressive without feeling unwieldy. And in some contexts reducing the power/expressivity is actually a good thing (e.g. not using a C interpreter to make your program and your config file use the same 'language')
If you can read C++, this one is surprisingly easy to get into. You can do most things with the amazing graphical editor and for the very few cases where that isn't powerful enough, you can debug the whole thing in Visual Studio which means you can see parameters and stack traces for everything. And in my personal opinion, classes are predictably named and layered in an useful way.

I found learning it and working with it quite enjoyable, especially compared to my experience with Unity where the lack of source code forced some very ugly workarounds on us. And with "only" low millions in annual revenue, Unity wasn't even willing to discuss the price for source code access... but with UE, you get a triple A game as demo project for free.
Regardless of the specifics of the deal, signing a 75 year deal with a single company is anti competitive. How did it get up? Weren't all the other parking companies outraged?

Around here, deals like that never last more than years. They have to be re-tendered frequently.
It is not publicly available. If you click on this link you get a 404 page: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine You actually have to go and subscribe, agree to their terms, and then you get to view the source code. It happens to be free, but it is by no means "public". (I also don't have a problem with their license. Their business model is more than fair.)
Pitch Competitions as a Measure of Success
I guess the other use case that comes to my mind is the oil and gas industry who have a lot of underwater equipment, which could conceivably use an acoustic modem as a backup device.
Relevant: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/efficiently-managing-millio...
The city needed the cash today, not in 75 years. They did a similar deal with the Chicago Skyway. Both deals had a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose vibe when implemented.
The prescription is more about an ultimate target that is aligned with making mobility as efficient and low footprint as possible.

For each mode we need to think: does it work if 10 bln people do this for centuries into the future?

Even a mechanical bike has a non-trivial impact (its manufacture needs recyclable raw materials and energy, it needs paved paths etc).

What you are suggesting is the least possible action in the current circumstances - which is fine very short term but not a full plan how to incentivise people.

On the juicy question of bike vs walk I would say it depends on the weather :-)
The Next Feature Fallacy (2015)
This isn’t quite true. If your effect depends on state, that state must be included as a dependency.

This is easy to miss, so you install an eslint plugin to warn you about missing dependencies.

This causes the opposite problem - adding dependencies unnecessarily to silence the warning. Then you need to ensure those dependencies are stable to avoid running the hook on every render. Or ignore the warning with a comment, and you’re back to square one.

It’s all too easy to write an effect that either doesn’t run when it should, or runs when it shouldn’t. This is especially true for inexperienced developers.
Enchiridion. This was not one I'd drop in casual conversation, or sing in a hymn, so I had fixed in my head a pronunciation like "en-cheer-ih-dawn", but I finally used it at church, and the head of Religious Education was there to gently correct me. Thank God!
But you will be able to do network access though the fetch API, and fs access though its own API.
Doesn't the article begin by talking about how the courts are siding with the corporation?
No, court. If the contract is found unenforceable, it will be in court.
Read The Dosadi Experiment from Frank Herbert. It is a scratch at best, it is terrible. Was recommended for me by some Dune fans.
> What allowed WW1 to happen, among a lot of other reasons, was Wilhelm II's dismanzling of Bismarks alliances and treaties.

That's a commonly held view, but Bismark is partly responsible for the inability of Germany to win WW1. He was the one that set up pre-WW1's alliances, and especially, he was the one that alienated Russia with duplicitous diplomacy. That policy, which culminated at the Berlin conference is, ultimately, the thing that allowed France to break from its diplomatic isolation.
I still have a perfectly working v4, these things were built to last.

Lots of kids at my school had one back then, but they were mostly the more basic chinese knockoffs. If you had a real one, you were one of the cool kids.
My wife and I started learning game development a year ago after 15-ish years in the software industry. UE is one of our main drivers. It is probably the hardest to learn when compared to Unity or Godot, but you also have some insane capabilities. Taking Godot detours definitely helped our understanding of how games work, and we should have embraced blueprints a lot more instead of trying to solve everything in C++.

TL;DR: yes, it's possible, but it has a learning curve.
It was the Internet... until your mom picked up the phone.
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Yeah, but your ISP router does work, and you could replace it if it didn't. Oven repair might be expensive but it's possible (Usually, some places you might have to wait a month, like I did when the heater went out), and not that expensive.

With DIY stuff, sometimes you can't replace it because there's no equivalent, you've invented novel functionality, and bought other things that depend on it.

Like, one time, when I had a very different mindset, I made a controllable light that used a non-DMX protocol, and took power over XT60. I don't know where the special USB adapter for it is.

If "Number of direct dependents" and "Total of all dependents that are in some way customized" are more than just a few, then it's pretty nice to have standard stuff.

Building things that are effectively clones of what you could just buy isn't that interesting to me, but making novel things comes with future unpredictability.

I like to look for projects where there either just isn't any commercial thing at any reasonable price that would work, or the thing is non-critical, or there aren't many design decisions in other things based on the custom thing I'm doing.
Oh, "jackpot" was just a figure of speech, I didn't intend to imply any particular probability. Not sure what the chance of finding sensitive information in the private files of an engineer is, but I would guess a lot better than one in a million. One in a hundred, maybe? One in ten?

I think the most likely explanation is that this actor routinely attempts to compromise big-tech engineers using low-sophistication means, then grabs whatever they can get. Keep doing that often enough, for long enough, and you get something valuable -- that's the "persistent" in APT.
or maybe God is intuitionist

btw reminded me of the "quantum-mechanical" monad
http://blog.sigfpe.com/2007/03/monads-vector-spaces-and-quan...
Since (from my understanding) unzipping the content happens on the server, then the server in my opinion is still responsible for the content.
Double check whether you think of the correct abstraction level. The BEAM is more like the JVM than Kubernetes.
also it's useful for isometric like games
Killing the right people, efficiently at the lowest cost :p
Is an error that takes looking things up better than just doing an unexpected thing? Because the mistake there seems pretty similar to the kind of syntax mistake in:

>>> def factorial(n):
... 1 if n <= 1 else n * factorial(n - 1)
...
>>> factorial(1)
>>>

Why is nothing happening?