skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to see this as anything other than big-time grift.

This is estimated to be a $12B project. $6.5B raised so far: $3B grant and $3.5B in tax-exempt, "private activity" bonds. Does anyone actually think the rest will come from investors? Of course not, the government will see a half-finished project that it supported and provide the funding to finish the job, including the inevitable overruns.

A private company receiving 6.5B (and likely, eventually $12+) of government money... no pressure or expectations to make any profit. Great deal if you can get it!
The only other reason I can see for a powerful phone is for playing video games.

If you're just using it for communications, you don't need a flagship phone; every phone works fine for that these days. There's tons of mid-grade phones now that have excellent large screens (even OLED) and plenty of power for normal tasks (including all but the most demanding games), and quite decent cameras, without cameras protruding far out of the case like on the the top-end flagships.
Exactly, generate Haskell. It's declarative and a programming language
I think a 19 year old yobbo, whose dad is a successful interstellar logistics businessman, who out of a guilty conscience for never having had time for his son and having bought him an overpowered spacecraft, will either put grafitti on it or misjudge his afterburner and half burn it while trying to fly a very tight corner around it, in order to impress the 2 girls he has on board.
China also suffered a lot of war though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War_(disambiguat...
Fourth option, then.
> The question is why a non governmental entity is inserted into the middle of transportation security, with a profit incentive.

Reminds me of ID.me, the for-profit company that authenticates users for certain IRS services including IRS Direct File [1]. For some reason, the government agency asks us to present our government-issued ID to a private company to verify our identity when Login.gov [2] exists to provide “the public’s one account for government”.

[1]: https://directfile.irs.gov/

[2]: https://login.gov/
It's even broader than tech support. For some reason, services and vendors for the elderly fall somewhere between clinical, patronizing and exploitative. Yet there's so much opportunity to help the elderly with independent living, e.g. accessible furniture and living spaces.

I've found a grand total of one good vendor (Mobb) in home health care, with quality and pricing, plus a few original designs, with manufacturing in Taiwan. They may be a positive outlier because they are a subsidiary of a larger business selling medical uniforms.

The challenge seems to be that most products for the elderly are designed for institutional buyers like nursing homes or state/national governments. So you have the usual misaligned incentives when the buyer is not the user (see: enterprise software).
Keyboard I've Ever Had
Tons, I mean TONS of people drinking alcohol and or consuming THC will want to use that service. There will be piss all over the train if they don't put in a bathroom. which they wont because they never do...
We pay for libraries through taxes, it’s just that they’re considered a public good so important that everyone has to contribute to pay for them.
There exist select few major publishers that sell without DRM, particularly when looking at fiction.

Microsoft is a noteworthy example of a major ebook seller shutting down ebook accs: https://www.vice.com/en/article/3k3wkk/microsoft-ebooks-will...

DRM being tied to the software is effectively still the same end result. Software maker for any number of reasons stops publishing new versions of the app and they become unlisted from appstores eventually for failing to use recent SDKs or patching security flaws and users still cannot read their books.

So you depend on a company paying someone to run a DRM server or you depend on them paying someone to maintain an app and a CI/CD system. Sooner or later when the DRM content supplier stops paying for the infrastructure, your book stops working one way or the other.
I don't know what you're talking about. Chromebooks receive 10 years of updates.
Let’s be real. The kid gloves would be off for any country, democratic or otherwise, that tries to compete on economic throughput and global influence with the US.

Unless you’re trying to argue that the rapid economic growth happened because they are not democratic, the idea that democracy has any relevance on US relations is laughable propaganda.

If the countries were really school kids, then I might accommodate for the idea that the school bully actually believes that he’s no longer nice to the weird kid because he’s weird. But even if some US citizens are childish, countries are not school kids.
What's your stance on using something like cloudflare to proxy your pie fleet?

Cloudflare tunnel would solve the issue of static IPs and you also get DDoS mitigation and caching. Caching on the edge would be especially beneficial for something like a blog which is likely to be fully static or SSG at most. Although it won't help you with the writing part (;
> If I child can’t pass the standard class threshold, then fine, fail them.

There's something of a trend of reporting on schools where zero (literally zero) students are capable of doing math at grade level.

I think it started with (or at least became prominent) when Baltimore was revealed to have 23 schools in that category, though it isn't alone.

Though COVID has been taking the blame, the situation has been getting worse in the years since.

Even if these kids graduate, they have been failed by the adults who are responsible for them.
They are. Every single public resource is seen as a potential market opportunity being squandered away, or as competition other players do not want to see in play.
I’ve heard operating those cranes is a taxing job. Load and unload costs probably stack up.
This was one of the main reasons I got the library card. It’s so worth it.
So it's publishing standards I can implement to make my own compatible OS?
But the cool thing about money is that that spreadsheet really does show the preferences of customers: more business if prices go down, even just a little, no matter the cost in customer service.

It's management responding to the customers. Yes they "have the power" (the higher up in management I go, the less power I seem to have. I can affect an invididual a LOT, but if you think going up in management will get you the power to, for example, make a new product ... best of luck with that)

In other words: we get what we collectively pay for.
ChromeOS is a good idea if all they do is surf; security risks are pretty low. iPhones are also fairly safe, but the older they get, the slower they'll get and the more you have to support them. I've had to explain to my dad that eventually the software on the phone will be so old that new apps can't go on it. He looks at me in confusion and aggression and asks why, as though I'm responsible for Apple's planned obsolescence.

My family was ultimately able to convince my grandmother to get rid of her computers altogether, when her dementia really kicked in. I think we were lucky as she never really got on with computers, and would tell anyone who'd listen how computers 'came in' to her office the year she retired (in the 90s) and so never needed to learn.
I think GP was referring to an inspection of that line / tower which noted the degraded condition of the ~century-old fasteners and recommended replacement. A decade+ passed without that work being done, and then the hook failed.

The liability for that is, of course, being paid for through our higher rates.
The entire discourse seems to contest their very existence, and not even dive into the details. You are the only one arguing about the amount of money involved as if it matters a whit of difference. My entire point is to explain why the existence of such groups is unremarkable, and unworthy of outrage. I care not for your naming of fallacies. And in tech it is vital to tend to one's moat.

> "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

> I don't disagree (Published 17 August 1945)[0]

Animal Farm is an allegory about the Soviet Union under Stalin and not a novel about the United States. de Tocqueville lived in the 19th century, which predates 1945. Please, if you are going to ever read only one book, at least read it enough times to get it right.
> because they are building it to Rancho Cucamonga not downtown LA

California's HSR is very far from last-mile connectivity being a problem, mostly due to the geometry of starting in the middle.
Miniature painting

I wanted to be able to easily distinguish between the 60+ figurines of the Zombicide board game, so I figured I could paint them "quick and dirty".

Well 8 months later, I'm not finished because I "had to" learn about paint, color theory, paint mixing, human vision, brush types...

Being colorblind I gave no attention to colors around me, but I have since discovered I can see more shades than I was aware, and I'm having a blast just looking at the foliage... Which does not speed up the painting!
Didn't it build a swarm of tiny boats? That loophole seems to be currently exploited in the real world, too.
Ask HN: Who is working on solutions to reduce phone usage?
Is anyone working on something related to decreasing/controlling the amount of time people use their phones?

I'm aware of the CPH Foundation, but I'm wondering if there are more ambitious efforts underway.

E.g., I want to believe that there's a market opportunity here: if there were an alternative to Android/iPhone that would only have "non-addictive apps," I would definitely choose that brand for my kids' phones.

Another less ambitious idea: create a certification/standard, kind of equivalent to "Fair Trade," for "non-addictive," or "ethical towards the user," that would apply to apps that fulfill certain minimum requirements.
When I click "Verify", it POSTs the entered email address to the server. You may or may not be collecting the submitted personal data, but you're certainly processing it.
> I'd love to see the codegen differences between the applications

There are two applications, dynamic calls and dynamic casts.

Dynamic casts to final classes dont require to check the whole inheritance chain. Recently done this in styx [0]. The gain may appear marginal, e.g 3 or 4 dereferences saved but in programs based on OOP you can easily have *Billions* of dynamic casts saved.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/styx-lang/styx/-/commit/62c48e004d5485d4f....
This isn't just GOOG products, it's everything with a review.

It's cheaper to buy a thousand five star reviews than improve your service to the point where honest reviewers give you top marks.

The review/stars system is not fit for basing decisions on. Unhappy people are more likely to leave a review in frustration and one bad review outweighs twenty good ones. The deck is stacked poorly.

I do leave reviews when I'm happy about a place, but I try to make it obvious I've been there and am relating an experience rather than just tapping a star.
most EMUs have standard couplers at the end of the trainset, the problem is more so that the rail-wheel and bogie suspension dynamics of high speed cars are highly engineered and derailments at 300km/h are catastrophic
The power is easy enough to calculate.

Let's take the a Kintex Ultrascale+ from Xilinx as a fairly typical example of a modern FPGA. Relevant documentation is the UltraScale Architecture CLB User Guide [1] and the Xilinx Power Estimator spreadsheet [2].

Each "slice" contains two flip-flops and a lookup table with 6 input bits and 2 output bits. So two slices is enough to implement each cell with room to spare.

Let's say you have a 200 x 200 grid = 40k cells. That's 80k LUTs and 160k flip-flops. That's about 29% of the resources on a XCKU9P. If we assume a 100 MHz clock and 25% toggle rate (somewhat arbitrary), that's 4e12 state-changes per second. The spreadsheet indicates that circuit will consume 850 mW, or about 200 fJ per state-change.

That said, this is NOT an efficient way to do arithmetic. You'd need N cells to do a fixed-point addition with N-bit arguments, and O(N^2) (give or take) to do a fixed-point multiplication. Floating point requires orders of magnitude more. There's a reason modern FPGAs have dedicated paths for fast addition and hardwired multiplier macros.

[1] https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/...

[2] https://www.xilinx.com/products/technology/power/xpe.html
For all those who feel insufficiently tracked by Google. If it has a browser, you might be able to run the JavaScript implementation of Android on top of it, thus being double-tracked.
I saw he was doing a standup set in New York and I was very tempted to undertake the trip to see it.
There’s a lot of power in designing unit tests for deletion. I’d have to think about whether I feel that applies universally.
Yeah the bathroom thing is another thing I don't get. Why is the US so stingy with public bathrooms? I don't even drink alcohol and I've actually had to pee on the road multiple times because I couldn't find a bathroom, and the only bathrooms within walking distance were "customers only" (at least for men; women usually get to use them in anecdotal experience).

In Europe and Asia I've never had a situation in an urban area where there wasn't an easily accessible public bathroom within a couple blocks.

People in SF complain about piss on the ground. Yet I've had to piss on the ground waiting 45 minutes for the Caltrain because the goddamn Caltrain bathrooms were closed for the rest of the night and the Panera next door wouldn't let me use theirs. What do you expect?
Yup, just like flying between SF and LA. It takes the same amount of time as driving once you factor in all the other BS that airports entail. Charter planes are definitely faster but an order of magnitude more expensive. JSX is a decent alternative if you live near OAK and want to go to BUR. JSX out of SJC would be awesome, but not as awesome as a $50 high-speed train ride to LA that took the same time door-to-door as JSX.
Yes I would indeed take the iOS developer experience and Xcode anytime over the mess that is the Android SDK, Android NDK, Gradle (or whatever the current build system flavour of the month is), Android Studio, Java, Kotlin, ... and I bet for VR/AR one needs to fall back to native code to get any sort of performance, and the Android NDK is by far the most user hostile SDK I have seen across all platforms since I started with computing in the mid-80s (followed closely by the Android SDK and Android Studio) and all of that only improves at a glacial pace, if at all.
> he would admit the VR market didn't turn out as hoped

That's not what he said though. What he said is that Meta is basically incompetent.
What Scientists Can't See: "The Blind Spot"
Actually, the compiler can only implicitly devirtualize under very specific circumstances. For example, it cannot devirtualize if there was previously a non-inlined call through the same pointer.

The reason is placement new. It is legal (given that certain invariants are upheld) in C++ to say `new(this) DerivedClass`, and compilers must assume that each method could potentially have done this, changing the vtable pointer of the object.

The `final` keyword somewhat counteracts this, but even GCC still only opportunistically honors it - i.e. it inserts a check if the vtable is the expected value before calling the devirtualized function, falling back on the indirect call.
It might be based on the handwriting standards used in your country. Where I live we were taught at school to draw a horizontal bar on 7 and avoid the serif on 1:

https://is.mediadelivery.fi/img/468/a93c32e08dae4768869a4bda...

No chance of confusion. This seems to have prompted some to add the serif to their 1 for stylistic reasons or whatever, since it's still distinguishable from 7 with a bar.

But then again people following older or newer conventions drop the bar from their 7:

https://is.mediadelivery.fi/img/468/46827e3320294f89b12a9338...

This makes a singular 1 with sloppily drawn serif hard to distinguish from a 7 without horizontal bar unless you can also see how the same person draws the other digit in their style.
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll never actually finish this.
both cities and regions have massive gambling trade already, so, no.
what logic leads to this conclusion? I tend to lean to the rising tide lifts all boats. who benefits from illiteracy?
WE'RE BLOCKED
Post the "Leadership Sync" video after an executive shakeup.
Why not invest? Brightline has done well in Florida.
> Friends/allies don't spy on each other.

Allies spy on each other THE MOST. Where do you get this idea that they don't? That's how they stay allies: by knowing each other, they can actually trust their interests are aligned.

Literally EVERY embassy is used as a post to station spies from the guest nation in the host. It's an open secret, and spying is tolerated between allies up to some point - and that point is necessarily secret.

You are applying a very human-centric idea of morality to large, stable countries. If they were people, they'd be perfect sociopaths - hyperrational and emotionless, driven only by shared interests and never "friendliness."

> The US does not operate in the interest if the EU.

The United States operates in the interest of the EU all the time - but only because as powerful liberal democracies, their interests (seeing a peaceful world with freedom of trade and ever-tightening global economic integration) are aligned.

A world where the US reneges on Article 5 of NATO is a world where Europe was already pretty screwed, because that would imply that one or both of these two ceased to be liberal democracies.

> In fact the US has recently claimed that UN Security Council resolutions are non-binding to the outrage of most UN members. [2]

UNSC resolutions are non-binding for permanent members because each permanent member has a veto. There is no way to pass a resolution without the consent of the permanent members, and the US made it very clear that its abstention was only because the resolution was a moral point and had no concrete requirements (peacekeeping forces, sanctions, etc.). The US has vetoed all the attempts with CONCRETE requirements outright.

Any "legal experts" who say it's binding are dodging the point: this is a moral resolution and the US doesn't give a damn about saving Israel in the court of public opinion anymore, since Netanyahu has stopped even pretending that he's trying to minimize damage. This resolution does not compel the US or Israel to do anything since there's no mechanism to enforce their compliance.
> zero cost up front

I guess it depends on when you pay your property tax bill (or when your landlord does). I know I pay over $200/year in taxes to the local library, so my family tries to make heavy use of the place.
> long slow car rental line on the other end while 15 people ahead of you each have a chit chat with the one employee dealing with the rentals

it will be a fast line of ubers and yellow taxis

but okay 2005 called.

jokes aside, Brightline has delivered before. It has potential for grift but I think they’ll pull this one off. They already plan to use metrolink from downtown LA Union Station. not perfect but decent coordination.
Which one looks better on your resume?
CAHSR phase 1 is merced to bakersfield and the current design for SF-LA throws in the towel on the last mile. if you think what they're doing now is silly, just wait until the laypeople get their hands on the altamont/pacheco palmdale/tehachapi discourse.
!! these double exclamation marks always come in handy when forgetting to add that sudo
And you seriously expect an ad company to improve anything? What's Google missing?
Enough of the Traveller tournament story is dodgy and inconsistent enough that it's very hard to say what actually happened beyond Lenat winning the tournament twice in a row with some kind of computer assistance,

Basically, with the Traveller tournament Lenat appears to have stumbled onto a story that caught the public's imagination, and then through the milked it for all he could to give his project publicity and to make it appear more
successful than it actually was. And if that required embellishing the story or just making shit up, well, no harm no foul.

Even when something is technically true, it often turns out that it's being told in a misleading way. For example, you say that "the publisher changed the ruleset". That was the entire gimmick of the Traveller TCS tournament rules! The printed rulebook had a preset progression of tournament rules for each year.

I wrote a bit more about this a few years ago with some of the other details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28344379
imagination with a sprinkle of schizophrenia and autism
One time FreeCAD user: FreeCAD couldnt solve a very basic constraint. Every time it got stuck and said it's too hard. Fusion360 had 0 issues.

Licensing is a thing with FreeCAD but last time I looked it was free (as in beer) for hobbyists. The grey zone is where you turn your hobby into a small scale business.
>"The neighborhoods that need investments and resources the most are still tied up in red tape.

In corridors where Prop. H did take effect, converting an office space to an entertainment venue still takes months. That is when the use is already allowed by zoning: Over 30 days where Prop. H applies and six to nine months where it does not.

Imagine trying to open a music venue, which requires an entertainment permit that takes another two to four months, plus a 30-day public notice for people to comment, plus mandatory neighborhood outreach and a hearing before the Entertainment Commission. Any opposition from a neighbor, neighborhood group, or competitor can further stall the process.

Business operators must also pass inspections by the San Francisco Fire Department, Department of Public Health and Department of Building Inspection for plumbing, electrical and building compliance. Waiting for a license from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, which includes an FBI background check, adds two to six months. This administrative and financial burden can quickly turn into a dead end and sap even determined entrepreneurs’ energy, determination and bank accounts.

As I consider opening a second art and entertainment venue, I am frustrated by the extensive paperwork and community outreach still required, despite the latest legislation intended to aid small businesses. Streamlining exemptions forced me to reject some locations due to the excessive administrative and financial burden."

Reminds me of the following movie scene:

"Back to School (1986) - Thornton Talks Business":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSLscJ2cY04&t=113s

>"San Francisco faces a critical moment with a 31.6% vacancy rate in commercial real estate..."

What a surprise!

(Not!)
Australian PM labels Musk 'arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law'
Thank you for your reply, it is exactly what I am looking for.
Fortunately we have some people here able to do the translation.

We're looking at formatjs.io for the react librairy.
Why would the proxies used to determine "S&P 500 Tech Index" outperform the "S&P 500" any better than the ones the market comes up all by itself?
There's always the chance of being picked up by someone who figured out your trajectory. Here's to hoping!
Notorious car-and-luxury-centric city expects citizens to take icky public transit.
Showing off work in progress is not really their thing.
$6.5B to demonstrate it is in fact possible to build HSR on budget and on time in the states and that CAHSR is just run by a consultant mafioso in a trenchcoat sounds like a great deal!
I agree with the categorization, but have to also agree with Musk that it's not tenable for a single country to be able to censor a piece of content for the entire world.
Especially when the AI told me to NOT look into the other passenger's rooms as they had already departed. Super sus.
A train set with a remodelable VIP car could be built.