skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s different depending on the municipality. Your initial statement is not exclusively true of every inch of land in the US.

Please enlighten me where in the US you could legally shoot down someone else's drones.

>Furthermore any illegality is limited to what any small police department can actually do about it.

If you're interested in protecting your privacy, why would it ever be a good idea to commit a bunch of felonies, by illegally discharging firearms to take down cameras? Even if you somehow didn't get caught, you're painting a big target on your back by committing all those crimes and putting everyone in the area on edge.
Yes, to no avail. Mentioned earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409580
You are correct. The Mayor of the city said the data stolen was either encrypted or corrupted and unusable. The mayor also refused to confirm something had taken place for weeks.

I’ve been following this since early August because I grew up in Columbus and still have family there.

Ginther is a terrible mayor and has handled this mess about as poorly as you can. The researcher they’re trying to quiet exposed that Ginther was lying about the data being unusable.
On the other hand if taking off work means forgoing income, taking the slower rail journey is even more expensive. Instead of taking 6 days off work to fly and take a cruise, maybe now I need to take 8. For retirees or folks who can work on a train, the calculation might be very different.
> Finally, it was a fake job because the problem that the Conglomerate had hired Andersen to solve was not real,

I don't really like the whole popular understanding of the y2k thing. Substantial problems with infrastructure were fixed. It wouldn't have been Mad Max, but business operations could have been affected for weeks. Instead, we had almost smooth sailing because there was an appropriate amount of preparation beforehand.

(Not to say that there wasn't graft like he describes as part of that preparation).
Iron oxide is completely inert. You can store it in piles, under the elements. Iron powder less so, you need to keep it dry, but again you can just pile it up. The only tricky part is moving dense dry solids around at the huge scales required.

Edit: wait I forgot that direct reduced iron powder exothermically reacts with oxygen and water in the air, that's how single-use instant hand warmers work. So yeah you gotta isolate the iron powder a bit more than stick it under a tarp.

I've been playing too much Factorio lately so of course my mind goes towards rail systems (could repurpose coal plants) in combination with pneumatics.
Just picking two large cities, Dallas to New Orleans takes 33 hours by Amtrak vs. 7 hours just driving a car. It’s hard to understand how anyone would make that choice. I’d really like rail to be a choice in the USA for being able to get somewhere instead of the train ride being the destination.

It looks like $104 by coach, which seems really reasonable but I can’t imagine sitting in a coach seat in a car that has both upper and lower levels for 33h. A private room is $619. A round trip plane ticket is about $139 and the flight is 1h37m. Amtrak needs to enter our universe.
The cost basis of the asset can be "The fair market value (FMV) of the property on the date of the decedent's death".

Source: https://www.irs.gov/faqs/interest-dividends-other-types-of-i...
Many banking apps won't work on custom roms, which can be painful. Open source OSes are getting cornered. Just like self hosted email servers that are getting blocked by many email providers nowadays
Funnily enough, even the "dark mode toggle" icon in the blog is not aligned correctly with the navbar text.

https://imgur.com/a/1xSCMWb
>Let's assume the asset appreciates at an annual rate of 8 percent

Quite a lot of value creation going on. Good on them!
> they went with SwiftUI simply because it’s the newest thing rather than through an evaluation of implementation strategies

Not that it applies to this project, but in my experience, this is one of the plagues of the lower-paid engineering team.

On the books it looks like the company is saving money by hiring on the low end of the salary scale. In practice the budget is spent inching away at minor upgrades, while enthusiastically adopting new techs for experimentation and resume-padding purposes.
Jeez, there’s a whole comment above that explaining the context and caveating it with the needs of robust type system too.

If you’re pedantically holding on to one sentence as a gotcha, because I didn’t caveat everything, then fine. But seems a bit much to then say I’m forcing a definition just because you ignore the rest.
When you mentioned retro I was expecting something like editline. Now I feel old.

Anyways, the TUI on mainstream MS-DOS 6.22 and Borland from those days were incomparable to anything on mainstream Linux even on these days. For some reason Linux is the king of text mode and yet never had a proper TUI tradition.

Thank you for sharing the project. Compiled well on my side, looking forward to the next developments. My (unrequested) feedback:

+ consider renaming from C-edit (uppercase) to lower case c-edit, because it is simpler to type from the terminal.

+ the animations of the spining part on top was distracting

+ some menus missing to implement functionality, didn't test copy&paste

+ mouse support would be nice, albeit optional but would complete the MS-DOS 6.22 / borland style since it supported mouse there too

Thank you.
Are you just going to ignore the federal patriot Act.
Google went public in 2004, after that I don't think any amount of founder idealism could have saved it from shareholder pressure. If anything it's remarkable they held out as long as they did.
> You could disable animations on iOS through accessibility options

No, you cannot (mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409580). Makes it even worse in the cases I tested actually.

> As a rule a flagship iPhone is at least 30% faster than flagship Android (by which I basically mean Samsung Galaxy) on realistic workloads.

That's cool, but not what I'm talking about. Even my Motorola Moto G4 (released in 2016) allowed me to turn off the animations, so even that one "appears" faster than my iPhone 12 Mini only because iOS forces you to wait for animations to finish.
Interesting project. Thanks for sharing! :)
Intel Considers Options Such as a Foundry Split
The site probably seems nice to you because you are the one who submitted it previously.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408618
Glad you enjoyed it before switching!

If you're open to sharing what didn't work for you in remembering people through re-deploy I'd love to hear it, I spent quite a few brain-cycles to think about making that as seamless as possible for the user (semver major version bump shouldn't break this, for example).

I'm assuming the problem is the salt being changed if it's not pinned by the .staticrypt.json file (auto-created but needs to be commited) or the `-s <salt>` CLI option.
The article clarifies this?

> Generally, in exchange for such favorable terms (i.e., interest-only, matures on death), the bank will ask for a share of the collateral’s appreciation (essentially, "stock appreciation rights"), and this obligation will be settled upon the borrower’s death along with the loan. The amount of the bank’s share of the collateral’s appreciation depends on many factors and it is fundamentally a matter of the bank’s underwriting process.
Yes, the cost basis for the inheritor, not for the deceased/estate.
> You can answer the call and switch back to Maps while the call continues, right?

Yes, I can, and currently have to, but absolutely 0 times I've answered a call in the car and want the Phone app to cover the entire screen, no matter what I had there before.

It's just extra dangerous when I'm using maps, as maybe I have a turn I have to make in that exact moment, and having to go back to the maps just because some designer at Apple want to showcase their contact/name/phone number layout in the Phone app sounds like asking for trouble.
Thanks for the reply.

How would CAs vary the amount of compute? Don't you have to compute everything state-wise every iteration?

Right now my understanding is that in neural cellular automata people replace the update rule with a DNN. And this DNN is trained on small inputs. Basically a cell's neighborhood input vs a "pixel" vs token level input... a cellular neighborhood here is basically patches which aligns with DNNs anyway.

A good example is: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

The examples remind of inpainting though in some sense.

You can apply transformers to this to get a shared memory (people have done this I believe).

Too be honest I feel like neural CAs are a trick but I am probably wrong.
> I also had a combination radio/cassette player deck on which, whenever a good song on the radio came up, I would record it, to have my own mix tapes.

Ha I did this too, starting from when I was pretty young. I had a dual-deck recorder, and would sometimes just record the radio for an hour or so, then later copy specific songs to a second tape. I remember getting so annoyed when the radio announcers would talk over the beginning/ending of a song I wanted.

Eventually I started buying music on CDs but still made mix tapes for years after that, because (1) I initially didn't have a portable CD player, but I had a walkman, (2) even once I did, I still usually preferred listening to a mix vs a single album, and (3) I didn't get a CD burner until their price became reasonable.
Why are you using Paddle? Using a MoR for a product like this is really dumb.

MoRs are common in very shady areas (gambling, adult, etc.) where getting credit card processing approval is difficult.

Yet some marketing genius has decided he can hoodwink indiehackers into giving him 12% of his revenue, while also hurting the indiehacker's sales.
This is cool. CO2 emissions are 36B tons per year. At $100 per ton, it would cost $3.6T to offset assuming you could build enough of these plants. At 4000 tons per year we’d need to build 9 million of these plants.
I don’t know who you’re quoting. Art is made by people, it’s literally in the definition of the word art. Google it. You haven’t disproven it by observing gravity. Idk what to tell you.
I had an idea for a short story about humans trying to reduce co2 in the atmosphere and triggering another snowball.
These routes can be 70, 80 hours of runtime with only brief stops for a crew change

If something breaks it stays broken until the train can be serviced. I actually lack experience in clogging or unclogging Amtrak toilets so I don't know what must be done to keep them in service

Each superliner has multiple toilets in the lower level, most seats are upstairs but there are lower level seats particularly for folks who are not able to navigate stairs for whatever reason or just people who prefer the peace of not having people walk back and forth through the car (only the upper levels are connected by vestibule)

So anyway if you have a seat in the lower level you're down the hall from the toilets, and 2 or 3 days in the clogged toilets just stay clogged and it reaks
> probably not too hard

> The chance... is absolutely zero

Unsolicited advice: practice more intellectual humility.
Artifacts are now generally available
I really need to add Tom's plugin to nbdkit upstream ...
How to write a good design doc
Yeah, I felt like the “you have to be wealthy” hand-waving in the quoted section wasn’t very explanatory. Are lenders giving the ultra-rich great interest rates here as a loss-leader to try to attract other business from them?

> First, this type of planning is generally not economically feasible unless the taxpayer has a net worth exceeding around $300M. If you’re worth less than that, you’re not going to be able to command attractive loan/line of credit terms from investment banks. You’re going to have to get a plain vanilla product from a retail lender which is going to have relatively high interest rates (typically the Secured Overnight Financing Rate plus some amount of spread) and other terms that make implementing “buy, borrow, die” expensive enough that you aren’t much better off (or you’re much worse off) than you would have been had you sold the asset and taken the after-tax proceeds. (Caveat: even loans/lines of credit at retail interest rates can still be very useful for short-term borrowing needs.) Clients with a net worth exceeding around $300M, however, can obtain bespoke products from the handful of lenders that specialize in this market, and the terms and conditions of these products make “buy, borrow, die” a no-brainer for virtually everyone who has this level of wealth.
Glad it compiled! Most of your suggestions are on my to-do list indeed. I wanted to maintain an animation to demonstrate that it could be kept running throughout all the different dialogs and listboxes. I'll probably end up changing it. Thank you for testing it. :)
Going to be ugly when the AI bubble busts
Usually. There are no hard rules though.

Upstream stable kernel certainly does not care about compatibility with your particular thirdparty module. You'll just have to add another KERNEL_VERSION #if. Maybe if you're nvidia, or something, things are different.
That looks cool!

Do you mind if I list in the Community and Alternatives[1] section of the StatiCrypt readme?

[1] https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt#community-and-alt...
I think that was parents point, the train /is/ the cruise
https://wiby.me/ is also excellent. Someone else linked it elsewhere in the thread but worth riding the coat tails of the top post for anyone interested.
https://archive.is/zHMO5
Do yourself a favor and watch the entire back catalog. Not sure there’s anyone more creative than tom7 working right now.
There should be a separate category for node_modules folder.
Similar to ColdFusion CFML and Open Source: ZPT Zope Templates: https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/ZPT.html

https://zope.readthedocs.io/en/latest/zopebook/AppendixC.htm... :

> Zope Page Templates are an HTML/XML generation tool. This appendix is a reference to Zope Page Templates standards: Template Attribute Language (TAL), TAL Expression Syntax (TALES), and Macro Expansion TAL (METAL).

> TAL Overview: The Template Attribute Language (TAL) standard is an attribute language used to create dynamic templates. It allows elements of a document to be replaced, repeated, or omitted

Repoze is Zope backwards. PyPI is built on the Pyramid web framework, which comes from repoze.bfg, which was written in response to Zope2 and Plone and Zope3.

Chameleon ZPT templates with Pyramid pyramid.renderers.render_to_response(request): https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/na...
The siren song of ChatGPT and junior devs that listen to it
All eukaryotes except plants eat other life.
Unless the unit was part of the type, and why wouldn't it be? A unit error is a type error. You don't have to say that something is 5 long, you can say that it's 5 inches long. And the function can be made only to accept a length in inches, and you can implement :Into<Inches> on your length type for an automagic conversion.
> Edit: I just remembered the most egregious issue: How can I see the current year without having to open up a separate calendar application/put a huge widget on my home screen?

I'm not a fan of Apple for many reasons and I agree with your overall sentiment (though not with the same voracity), but I'm really curious how _this_ is the most egregious issue for you. The calendar year changes so infrequently, why would you need it featured so prominently?
Wow, for just a second I was excited. And then I looked in Accessibility > Motion and there’s no “off”. I tried “Reduce Motion” and deleted an old Wallet Pass, and it still did a ridiculous and obscenely slow animation.
> Recently, Equatic announced the start of engineering designs for the world's first commercial-scale, ocean-based CDR plant. According to Sanders, this plant could remove CO2 at a rate 99,000 times faster than the oceans naturally do.

The clickbait headline implies the plant to do this exists, but the article reveals they’ve started to think about how they can maybe do this in the future.

Everything in this article reads like snake oil shilling. I’m all for finding “the brighter side of news” but not if the news is literally imaginary.
> This is the first thing new user sees.

The vast majority of WordPress users, and even many people who call themselves "WordPress developers" never look inside the database. WordPress is, in almost every way, a terrible platform to develop on. What saves it is backwards compatibility, an enormous ecosystem, and being relatively easy to use for everybody who needs to use it.
C++ is relatively easy to read.
The only troubles I had is reading STL's sources because of all _ and __ prefixes, and understanding template errors from compiler, but that will soon be fixed with concepts.
Along those lines I've been enjoying Solo Travel Japan - he does more ferries than trains (gee, imagine that!)

https://www.youtube.com/@SoloTravelJapan
Well, you've chosen two large cities that don't have an Amtrak route between them so you have a layover in San Antonio
> Animations, interactions, etc just feel… off somehow, like I’m using an early alpha build of software that has placeholders strewn about.

It's funny that I'm the complete opposite. I was fine with Android, switched to iPhone (as mentioned upthread) and everything feels off, like no one cared about the UI and UX, and bugs galore everywhere. If someone handed me my iPhone 12 Mini today I'd say they're running a beta version of iOS on it.

Maybe it's just a "get used to" thing as we're surely not the only ones having very opposite feelings about this. I've now had my iPhone for 4 years it seems, but I still feel like the OS is beta-level quality, should have gotten used to it by now...
Yeah, even an extremely powerful units type system like C++ mp-units doesn't fix "I assumed this number was feet and you assumed it was millimetres".

But both the mp-units and this lighter weight Rust approach would at least make you write that down in the software. There's some chance the mistake is realised, whereas when it's just an organisational assumption that just doesn't happen.
> Although the names of the mystery AI whales are not known, they are likely to include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, OpenAI, or Tesla.

I hope they're not saving their best chips for the likes of Tesla/Grok. That'd be a PR nightmare if and when it leaks.
> What, ultimately, did Wolfram do in these five most productive years? Can it be said in a sentence, or a paragraph?

He shipped a lot of software, wrote a lot of books and papers, did a lot of media, and substantially advanced his passion projects.

It's unclear how much of the last stuff will pan out and advance human knowledge, but it was still done.
Okay, I mean I feel like they’re not that mysterious. Like, there are probably only five or six candidates.
It's not really a "how to" guide but an explanation of the scheme.
Perhaps you might enlighten me how it's "very clear" from my opening paragraph that I don't understand the thread. Granted, the initial post could be interpreted a number of different says, but having read the whole thread, I think I have a pretty good understanding of the intent. But clearly, you have a different interpretation, so please - enlighten me to your way of thinking.

Taken at it's most charitable, the opening of the first message "no more bug reports related to the disk accounting rewrite, things are looking good over here as far as regressions go" would suggest a meaning of "there are no significant bugs, the changes below are optional".

The next section in the change description then says that this fixes a number of very serious bugs. Straight away, I can see the potential for an interpretation difference. Is it "heads up, no changes required" or "these fixes are critical"?

He's told "no" by Linus, for reasons that seem to correlate with what I said (unless you'd like to point out in what way I don't understand the thread), and then rather than saying "yeah, then can wait until the next stable branch", he doubled down on the importance of getting these changes in and basically saying that the rules should only apply to everyone else and not him because he knows that there won't be any new bugs because of $REASONS. $REASONS that didn't apply when the bugs were introduced. $REASONS that include automated testing, but that didn't find these bugs originally.

The thread (which apparently I don't understand) contains a perfect summary from Linus himself: "But it doesn't even change the issue: you aren't fixing a regression, you are doing new development to fix some old probl;em, and now you
are literally editing non-bcachefs files too."

All this for some changes to a system that he's actively discouraging people from using because it's not production ready anyway, and so none of these bug fixes are actually critical for right now.

It's good he ultimately backs down, but he should never have been pushing for these changes this late in the stable branch timeline anyway.

So, that's my understanding of the thread. I'd be interested to hear how your understanding of the thread is so radically different from that.
> Rather, it will use the original cost basis, pay tax on gains up to the adjusted cost basis, and the inheritors will use the new cost basis should they sell in the future.

This is just incorrect, at least in the US. The estate does not have to pay capital gains tax for assets passing through to the inheritors.

It's a great policy proposal though - this is one fix for the problem!
This is a bit sad.

Tech report became a zombie about a decade ago.

Tom's hardware has always just been 'mid'.

I feel old
It has to be case by case assessment of whether the law is just & right. We have a moral obligation to not follow - to practice civil disobedience - against unjust laws.

Banning vpns is a bridge to far for me. The state is placing itself too far above the people, demanding control which it is not entitled to, dictating how we might think & connect.

Letting a state grow ever more vicious in its enforcement, letting it cut itself off from the world & punish its citizens by denying them access to the internet & technologies that the rest of the world enjoys is their own real power, is the economic-military control they have, if they want to go to war with businesses. That's all they have for power. And it makes them look dumb, shows them to be bullies, and hurts their people.

We need some states to get uppity, so it becomes more clear that the Internet doesn't care & that states can do what they want, ban what they want, and the rest of the world will keep moving along. That's exactly what's happening here, and the state is, in my view, making an absurd fool of itself by going so absurdly far in desperation to try to apply the law. Fucking with the app stores just to drive home a grudge match with one service is fucking ludicrous & we should laugh out ass off at these fools.
> You can use Siri Search on iOS as a calculator

With the added benefit of having to press not just one, but two buttons in order to add a "+" sign. First press "123", then press "#+=" and now you can add your complex mathematical characters :)
I've been using .Net since 2002, as my main framework since 2007 and have always stayed on the edge (as part of alt.net, the part of the community who pushed .net core and basically the entire .net team nowadays).

So for the last 6 months I've been using golang. I really like it. Fast, simple, native.... but it's like using tonka toys compared to .net core. It's slower for webservices and everything is just more work. Yes being a wizard with .net and only decently productive in golang is a difference but that's not it. It's just nowhere near as mature as a language or ecosystem.
And regardless of who the 4 are, the two others in that list of six candidates are most likely not too far behind.