skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it replace docker? You still need the dependencies of the CLI app

Edit: Ah I guess it’s just the WASM vm if it includes everything
> part-time, dissertation-only PhD programs

It's just getting worse and worse. I believe you're trying to argue in good faith but maybe you should just stick to stuff you know about.

There is nothing about 'dissertation only' that makes these programs 'part time'. I'd argue that a good German or French university (I would guess the UK too, but I know less about that system) has more comprehensive and more stringent coursework to the MSc level than most US universities have for their PhD level. They don't do additional coursework because they're 'done'. Talk to those PhD students (and their advisors) about whether they consider that work 'part time'.
Writer here, thanks for reporting! Not a native speaker, but I definitely meant "esoteric". Fixed
I thought it was a reasonable article also. But it isn't a defense of "safe spaces" as they are commonly referred to. Those are spaces where certain subjects won't be brought up for fear of offending or triggering others. What the professor proposes is a different sort of space with different conversational norms.

Just to clarify, I don't think it was a bad opinion piece. I thought the title was provocative and misleading.
>doesn't Canada only have a population growth rate of around 1%/yr? It seems like you could easily build your way past that without giving up the advantages of immigration and a little population growth.

You would think that wouldn't be too hard, but housing construction in Canada has been seriously lagging even at a countrywide level[1] with housing units per capita continuing to trend downward. And then of course it doesn't help if major metros see population growth rates faster than this.

[1] https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-new-housing-populatio...
“Big” air defense system are good to destroy targets at middle or high altitude. Since both sides have such systems, the only “safe” place to fly is very low altitude (below 500 feet, or 150m) where you're practically hidden from air defenses' radar, but you end up being in the range of MANPADS (though shooting at a fighter jet with a MANPADS is way harder than doing the same on an helicopter)
> Housing can either be an investment or it can be affordable long-term, it can not be both.

While this is one of the most often cut&pasted comments on HN, I haven't seen a thorough discussion of what it actually means in practice.

Any references with substantial analysis of proposals to achieve this and what the unintended consequences could be?

You seem to advocating for an immense increase in property taxes. This line from the previous comment:

> The money available to collect from NYC and SF land taxes alone could fund a nation-wide UBI.

suggests that the increase in taxes would be quite enourmous indeed.

That would certainly make housing a bad investment. Nobody would want to own any if the recurring property taxes are that high.

But of course it doesn't make property affordable either, if the tax rates are sky high.
Just because a sneeze isn't required doesn't mean that a sneeze isn't more effective.
It has always been but people who vote (homeowners) have a vested interest to shape the narrative to be a demand-side problem.

The only loss when building more dense housing in urban areas is the existing owners whose views are blocked. Otherwise it seems to generally increase the tax base, support more businesses (when mixed-use housing is built), and increase renter mobility.
Feels kind of 1920. War. Inflation and Physics offer's some interesting mysteries. Maybe AGI will solve it all for us;)
Actually the cross-platform Tk widgets use an internal "option database" which is essentially just Tcl-flavoured X11 resources. The typical usage is to just set the various options in the application's code, but it's also possible to merge in the display's existing X resources.

> At the end of the day X resources are just key-value pairs and the file allows for wildcards, includes, etc

If you squint a little bit, X resources are proto-CSS for the desktop: the clients have a tree of widgets (each widget having a class and a name) and query the resource database for style properties that apply to this tree; the resource database is composed of patterns ("selectors") and values for the various style properties; and applications have a default set of resources baked in which the user's resource database may override. Resource values are also typed (e.g. font, colour, screen position) and there is a rich syntax for specifying things like colours. It's all very elegant, but depends critically upon the X client (or its toolkit) actually bothering to implement this scheme. Qt never bothered and Gtk let its support slowly rot away.
Interesting. Is the process for home buying in Canada always blind-bidding or is there a regular practice similar to Australia where people show up for an in-person public auction?
The lack of Ruby support instantly rings an alarm for me because CPython (on POSIX) also is not relocatable, but is listed as support. Turns pit Hermit is actually using a third-party build script[1] instead of the official one. While the python-build-standalone project is quite awesome and indeed useful for a lot of things, it has enough quirks I would recommend against any generic package distributor to advertise it as Python for general use. This in turn makes me lose most confidence on Hermit, unfortunately.

Be careful if you’re also interested in Hermit. These kinds of things bit you up way down the road when you least expect them to.

[1] https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone
Incentives matter. Aligning everyone's correctly matters. So much of the story sounded "yeah but you can survive that" right up to the point here:

>>> Sales, however, wanted the opposite: close many deals and hit their targets of signups

If your salespeople are focused on selling to the wrong people nothing matters. You are either Shopify taking years to build or you are a rocket ship taking shortcuts - decide
These are reflectarray radars, not AESA. No crazy specialist components are really required, just a lot of PIN diodes. I'm sure those can be made in Russia.
https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=wt-wt&kp=-2&kn=1&kaj=m&kay=b&kv=m...

...my default/ basic DDG search.
I ublock all the graphics and stuff, too.
> Individual non-business landlords cannot derive more than 50% of their income from rental properties

Properties are one of the top income generator for (pure) retirees. How would you ensure they can retire and still have income via properties?

I guess you can add clausal to exclude {retirement_age} ownership? Hopefully nobody uses them as proxy. Tricky huh?
Sorry for nitpick, but in the TypeScript example, should it be

for (const vec of vecs)

Instead of:

for (const vec in vecs)
There‘s other stuff to pick from, too - lead, mercury, and other metals come to mind for example. Lyme disease, which is now suspected to be transmitted sexually and maybe across the placenta (speculative though that is). Pesticides and herbicides. Radical particulates emitted by cars and industry (have been shown to lower IQ, and who knows what else). Nutrient-depleted soil (eg magnesium and copper), resulting in deficiencies. Iodine deficiency, which is endemic in many western countries. Rampant sugar (even worse: HFCS) consumption, obviously. Increase in food lectins via GMO, endangering gut mucosal barrier function.

The list goes on.
Hey, I'm hoping you can answer some questions for me.

I'm building a build system and a VCS (separately). I want to do it right.

Could you explain to me what Brazil is? Is it the build system? [1] Or is it the VCS that Amazon uses?

If it is the build system, then it appears that versionsets are literally just a list of dependencies with their versions to use for a build. Is that correct? If not, or if you can give me more detail, what are versionsets, exactly?

Also, what are workspaces? Does this quote from one of the comments on the link match?

> A workspace consisted of a version set to track and any packages that were checked out.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/terabyte/15a2d3d407285b8b5a0a7964dd6...
Google ads, at scale, gradually transform into a protection racket.
The meteoric title inflation is definitely interesting. I consistently see people who were Analyst level at Fortune 500s getting up to Director of X in a year or two at startups. Seriously makes me question the quality of people at these places if any random analyst is qualified to be a manager of managers.
Yes, but also no.

Per the CPI, for every $1 in 2000, you need $1.68 today. 1.68^1/22 - 1 is about 2.39%/year inflation.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=200001...
The cat's already out of the bag.
Patek Philippe knows a thing or two about this. It's been years since I've seen their ads, but I still remember them.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/untold-story-patek-philipp...
Fun fact, the O2 had an 'optional' expansion port that was an additional ~$1,000 or so... but the thing is, ALL the O2s had this port - it was that if you paid for it, they popped the plastic cover off the case to reveal the port...
Yeah that was my thinking too. I was just checking to see if there were any obvious success stories that I was missing.
I see you put a lot of thought into tag issue and yet, i much be that guy and tell you that it will just add a lot of bureaucracy and those who have resources and knowledge will be able to circumvent those restrictions.

And it does not solve the problems of:

- there is just too much cash out there

- land is limited. once it's gone, it's gone

- when you die, your kids get your house and land
Same. He really needs to learn how to omit the hype and self-aggrandizement and reduce his articles down to their scientific essence only. Stop burying the lede and put the main ideas in an abstract, then develop, support and critique them in the text.

That would reduce their length by roughly 50% and increase their readability and information density immeasurably. For all its faults, this is one thing the academic scientific publishing system does well.

He needs to just let his work speak for itself, instead of trying to be a salesman for it. His inability or unwillingness to do that is negative signal, no matter how positively he phrases it.

I continue waiting with an open mind to see if his techniques produce any kind of predictive theories. But without testable predictions, there's no way of knowing if ruliads and the like are a new and useful representation of reality, or just the rules for an alternate simulation wholely different from and unconnected to our reality.

It would be really cool if they turn out to be the former, and he's figured out a new symbolic+computational representation of Maxwell's equations and relativity. But we'll see.
It's a lack of supply caused by costly and overzealous environmental assessments which strangle the process of land development in Canada, particularly Ontario.

If you want a convenient scapegoat, blame the McGuinty government of the early 2000s. When the 2005 Greenbelt Act was passed, developers across the country warned of a housing crisis in the future due to the effect the bill would have on the price and timelines for new construction. 17 years later we'd prefer to blame China or NIMBYs, but the reality is Canadians, and especially Ontarians, did this to themselves when they allowed politicians and environmentalists to ignore the concerns of land developers and engineers.
It's a good point- there are different agencies and even departments within agencies with different leaderships and cultures of how things should be done. I've also only ever had good experiences as an American overseas dealing with passport/embassy issues in general (although it sounds terrible for anyone trying to immigrate) but other agencies are an absolute nightmare. USGS is doing their best but I think it's going to take a seismic event to reform the culture in some of these places.
> all my files inside the WSL filesystem

Is this a necessary limitation of WSL?

I've been using Cygwin instead, so I can access Windows-native files using Linux-y tools.
DHL Boeing 757F exits runway and breaks into pieces at San Jose, Costa Rica
Even better, use Windows Terminal. It integrates any number of shells (Powershell, cmd, and Ubuntu via WSL2) into a single terminal application.
True, but when the article is about tax burden, they should be honest about the tax burden.

Someone concerned about tax burden can probably figure out that rent is higher in LA than in Houston.
Great videos! But the launches all seem "normal" to me.
"Most engineers joining didn't know much about why the one-click checkout industry has the potential of billions."

So why isn't this a standard feature of every shopping cart program, including the cheap ones? The complicated part is that you need "undo", valid for a while after ordering. That's what makes one-click buy feel safe for customers.
This complicates inventory management. But you really need "undo" for an hour or so after ordering.
In a Lex Fridman podcast with Stephen Wolfram, Fridman observes that in some ways Wolfram and Elon Musk are alike. Wolfram agrees. The similarity is what Wolfram calls "Optimism" - a strong belief that not only can they accomplish great things but that they can do so relatively quickly. This is Elon Musk saying self-driving cars are going to happen by the end of the year, or Wolfram saying he's discovering the unified theory of everything.

The idea they touch on in the podcast is that this optimism helps people do great things. If you realized the thing you want is decades away, you might not even try. If you (incorrectly) think you are on the cusp of achieving some monumental goal then you may strive for it and, throughout those decades, you may keep believing you are on the cusp and keep striving until you finally reach your goal.

This is connected to the idea of "Depressive realism" - which is the idea that depressed people are often more realistic about the world. Perhaps, to be productive, it helps to have a somewhat delusional belief or confidence in your own abilities.
Russian State TV Has Found a New Home on Gab
Limit ownership to only 1 property for international students and foreign workers.
There are many other existing/mature Ruby bytecode VMs/JITs you could switch to before a WASM bytecode VM/JIT.
You have 500 people and you spend 20k/month to employ each of them.
I am told, every time someone claims *nix isn't a good desktop, that having to fix things is unacceptable; if a problem can be fixed by editing a config file/setting or installing an additional program, that proves the platform will never be good enough for desktop use. I am perfectly happy to watch NT failing by the same standard.
We could be a little more permissive here about what constitutes a "model".

Models are not systems. <=> Maps are not territories.

Formal systems are models. They model the world. Depending on which formal system you use, one may model the world better than another. There is no "perfect" there is only "comprehensible", "insightful", and, when predicting the future, "accurate". All of these are measured in degrees, not kinds.

Models are not related to systems a priori. You are permitted to apply any model to any system. Whether the application is useful is only posterior to this first step.
> 2) YIMBYs need to realize that NIMBYs aren't exclusively motivated by greed. When they tell you that they don't want their neighborhood to densify they actually mean it. It's not covering for racism or greed. People genuinely don't want their neighborhoods to change.

In my experience this is almost 100% the real truth. I haven't met many people that are looking at their house price when they think about changes to the neighborhood. First consideration is usually traffic. Second consideration is character. In neighborhoods where almost everyone owns, they very much don't want to see it become a rental neighborhood.
Is there a particularly high failure rate with these missiles or is this a widespread problem in systems where the engine ignites after launch?

What do they do after? Is the site repaired? Scrapped?
Sounds interesting, thanks!
Lead isn't actually a requirement for piston-engine aircraft. It's just that most piston engines available with:

1) world-wide certification
2) world-wide base of trained mechanics
3) already widely deployed (you can't just "swap" engines on a plane design)

Are piston engines whose original design happened ages ago when leaded gasoline was the cheapest fuel with necessary performance (and that includes not just octane rating, but also things like evaporation rate at given atmospheric pressure - you don't want your fuel tank to explode due to gasoline vapors).

Several newer designs in Europe have been playing around with Diesel engines again, because thanks to being heavier fraction it doesn't have as much evaporation problem of gasoline, and also diesels are by design very tolerant of fuel types. Most importantly, a plane with an aviation diesel engine can just as well use non-ethanol-added diesel from car gas station, or any of the Jet-A1 compatible fuels available on airfields (pretty sure everything that isn't accidental leftover of SR-71 blackbird operation will work just fine).
Enjoy streaming that "unknown track" if you can't seek.
Do you know what headers I can use to identify repl.it? a quick `curl --head` tells me `replit-cluster` is an option but none of the scraped sites had that response header.
You don't think this is true of every purple state?
It seems very hard to do but I worked at a startup in the early 2010s and we were spending >500k/m. We had ~25 employees, 7 of them execs, all buying new homes and cars, meanwhile we had 1 single paying customer bringing in 10k/m. I told some of my close colleagues that we probably had 6-12 months left when I put in my resignation.

12 months later they laid off 10 of the 12 remaining engineers.
" ... the listing agent isn't going to let you climb on the roof, go into crawlspaces/attic ..."

I have done all of those things on home viewings / open houses. I've opened septic risers, started generators, tripped breakers ...

Nervous smiles were the worst responses I've ever gotten.

You, and your sibling poster, are correct though: a real, comprehensive inspection is hours long and no amount of brashness is going to bridge that gap - but there is a LOT you can do with 30 minutes of knowledgeable poking and prying. You don't need an hour to see if the sills are rotting or if there are no foundation anchors ... or if all the floor joists are swiss-cheesed up by 40 years of ad-hoc electrical and plumbing runs ...
This seems like the go-to FUD or, more likely, the possible consequence people glom onto when it's reported/suggested.

Like you said though, jury is still out. I obviously don't expect it to turn out to be good for humanity but I just wonder if there's any documented side effect, to humanity or the ecosystem/biosphere.

I have to imagine you can also find an amount of glass of similar similar size all around. The only saving grace for glass is that it doesn't float.
For what it’s worth, there are a small number of interpreters and compilers included in Windows. They are for older versions of languages, so you will not be able to use the latest features.

wscript.exe can run JScript and VBScript.

PowerShell can run scripts. It has access the whole .NET runtime, so you can even make GUIs if you are determined enough.

There is a C# (csc.exe) compiler under c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET . There is also MSBuild.exe to run build scripts. If you want to get more off the beaten path there are also VB.NET (vbc.exe) and JScript.NET (jsc.exe) compilers.

If you can try typing “python.exe” in a command prompt on newer versions of Windows 10 and 11. It should open the Microsoft Store to install a modern Python interpreter.
For me it is good to find an honest discussion of a thing (e.g. tool, tv series) rather than whatever paid-for article or review which would otherwise appear first.
in case anyone sees this, I've made a proper post with more stats at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30949282
I've not used WSL2, but folks say accessing the windows files from linux and vice versa isn't nearly fast enough.

I wonder which VM based "shared files" is the fastest.
that is classic cause and effect. realtors are just tagging along. I bet even if they make realtors accept second highest price instead of first(aka google adds) the impact would be minimal overall
It's a lot easier to build housing in the middle of nowhere USA; but there's not a large problem of ghost cities. There's certainly a lot of sprawl, but not large new construction ghost cities; although there was some overbuilding in some areas into the 2008 housing crash, and some areas where construction stalled or stopped mid-build as a result, since either the builder could no longer finance finishing or it didn't make economic sense to do so at that time. China has a lot of disconnected incentives that help it make economic sense for the participants to build and buy into a ghost city that I don't think are present in the US and Canada.

If ghost cities are a real concern, you could punitively tax vacant housing that's not offered for lease or sale, and limit housing starts when housing offered for sale or lease was above some threshold price. Or you could do something like a deposit per housing start, paid back over time to the owner or occupant while occupied.
India has almost wiped out extreme poverty: International Monetary Fund
tfa states an intention of doing so in the next 5 years.
So lording esoteric knowledge over the anonymous rabble is more productive than just explaining what is the issue?
Unless things have changed radically since I was last there, downtown is mostly not dense.

But even if it were, it wouldn't solve the real problem in these north american cities, which is the "missing middle".

The model of small area of highly dense towers aimed at 20-something urbanites with no kids surrounded by spaced out single family homes with a yard is just fundamentally unworkable at any real scale.

If Vancouver wants to solve it's problem and not become a suburban/exurban sprawl (typical failure mode these days in north american growth) it's going to have to build a whole bunch of mid density housing near to downtown, and it's mostly going to have to build that on top of areas that are currently full of single family detached. This is not going to make current denizens of those "nice neighbourhoods" happy, naturally.
Cherry picking a few countries is a good way to confirm your bias, but not a good one to make a good argument with.

Many places in Europe didn't have a “basic income” equivalent as part of their pandemic response (for instance, France's response has been exclusively targeted at companies, to avoid layoffs and bankruptcy), and it didn't prevent inflation ramping up here too.
Nice work!

Note that Microsoft actually has a compiler from a Typescript subset into C++, as part of the MakeCode IoT education project.
True. This is why I advise all of my students who want to be casual fliers only (i.e. not flying for hire) to switch to Basic Med. No need to seek out an AME (any family doctor can do it) and the appointment is only every four years (instead of every two if you are over 45). Even flight instructors can instruct with Basic Med.
Awesome! I had guessed correctly that this would be the big announcement today :)

I think it is a great idea and it will be exciting to see what comes out of it.
Did we not sort out the Higgs field in 2012?
thats the problem with all these syntax sugar features in languages. you literally can't change them without blowing up your entire ecosystem.
The performance is not great across Windows and WSL filesystems, so it's better to keep every file inside.