skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes buy stealth bombers, M1 tanks, drones to bomb people that the United States does not like, and also the overthrow of many different governments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r....

Taxes also pay rich politicans like Rick Scott to defraud medicare.

Taxes pay for different political parties to push their agendas both left and right.

This is government not by the consent of the governed, the governemnt does not represent me at all, but I pay my taxes becuse men with guns will ultimately come and put me in jail by force if I do not.
Foreign buyers had an insignificant impact relative to the Bank of Canada leaving interest rates way too low for way too long.
Let me ask you: what is the alternative? Life cycle management and building software go hand in hand.
... and you don't legally own the property. The original owner can just return your money and move back in. People can squat on your property and you have no legal right to evict them. You've just created a legal nightmare.
Prices rise because a certain proportion of workers are high income workers, and when you limit supply such that a region can't fit all its workers, that's who wins the bidding war for the house or who happily overpays for that ratty apartment and this process raises all boats over time. There's no backstop either; people on the low end of the economy end up paying more and more of their disposable income until they have to start putting bunks in bedrooms and living rooms to pay the rent on their wages. Only middle class people can afford to move to a lower cost of living area since moving as high upfront costs with sometimes no prospects of a job at the other end so you need a savings to float for some time.
Sounds interesting! I work with these data, is any of that going to be Open Source or commercial only?
> whatever other nonsense you thought you were

hah, oh man. If you only knew how (and how hard) I've tried to shove certain labels off me, only to have them almost karmically boomerang back to me, to the point where I practically screamed back to whatever powers-that-may-be, "OK, I'LL F***ING BE A CODER!" =)

(Computers and I were as much an intellectual version of "love at first sight" as can be imagined. But, like many loves, it was also burdensome for a time.)

But I will accept this ADDITIONAL first-order label of "Dad" ;)
When I buy a wooden table it's true that the tree grew from the ground - but I'm also paying for the efforts of the foresters, the sawmill workers, the truck drivers, the table designers, the machine operators, the assemblers, the store salespeople, and the delivery drivers.

I buy a plot of land, on the other hand? The lazy sellers won't even deliver it to my home :)
there is something nice about being able to just write some json and curl an endpoint. getting to this point with grpc is effort.
The truthiness of your comments shouldn't change upon who hears them?
> magic wands are not real

They could be though, at current tech level. It's the infrastructure that doesn't support it. Smartphones are as close as we got, but they reveal couple unfortunate things about the real world, such as:

- In a competitive market economy, everything ends up sucking as much as it can get away with;

- Magic wands would offer individuals more autonomy than the market, and possibly civilization, can sustain without self-destructing.

> wizards don't exist

Within constraints of the above, sure they do.

> Magic still doesn't exist.

_joel already provided the obligatory quote, but to expand on it, most of the magic in fantasy literature could be made possible with current technology, but would require supporting infrastructure to avoid breaking rules of thermodynamics. If you want to go less conspicuous, we'll have to wait for molecular nanotech ;).
Sorry; I misunderstood the example.

My point is that letting a dependent territory go on good terms is a known practice, so thanks for the examples.
I think they mean feed stock animal fats not whales. When you eat that hamburger there’s a ton of left over animal fats. Given the animal is dead, the worst you could do is not use its remains in the most productive way possible. Otherwise why did it die?
It wouldn't be such a good investment if the supply wasn't constrained. If you want do devalue the dollar, print more. If you want to devalue the housing market, make it legal to build more.
Both my father and I have gone to doctors, and were diagnosed with inflammation. That was a long time ago and I don’t remember the specifics, but essentially, it’s the kind of disease that is chronic and they didn’t really know the specific cause of it. We got prescribed those steroid nose spray to use on a bad day. It helps to an extent, but not quite solving the problem. The effect only lasts for a few hours and I think they strongly recommend against using it more than once a day. Plus it’s kinda expensive if used frequently.

Drinking a lot of water, on the other hand, has a huge effect on my breathing. I can breath through my nose all day now. It probably doesn’t treat the underlying cause, but symptom-wise, it works better than any prescription I’ve taken.

I’m in no position to give real medical advice, but since drinking a bit more water is usually regarded as harmless (2.5 liters is well within the safe range of water intake as far as I know), I’d say give it a try. Just prepare to pee more frequently.
> current housing prices are way off their peak from a year ago

The only policy that impacted this was the Bank of Canada’s interest rate policy. Houses were rocketing up right until the moment rates started increasing.
Thanks for the kind words whacked_new!

I agree entirely with your prediction: spreadsheet programming is different from interactive "control flow" programming... and it should remain different! The spreadsheet model of programming is easier to grasp and incredibly flexible. I think the key is that spreadsheets are time-less & space-full, I hint at this in the talk & see also my root comment for more elaboration on this.

What's exciting to me about lambdas is that they can be used to enhance this time-less, space-based style, like in the examples I elaborate around 18m47s: the habit tracker, timesheets & a spatialized Game of Life.

I imagine/hope that in a few years we will have a culture of casually importing magical custom functions that will become polished through mass use and eventually become standard. These native functions are much safer than macros so you can be as casual with them as copy-pasting formulas. There's no permissions fuss to wade through, as there is for AppScript. (I even think there will soon be libraries of custom functions, I might even publish one myself in a couple of months.)

* * *

As to your question, I interpret it as: why are lambdas coming inside spreadsheets instead of spreadsheets becoming incorporated into programming languages, right?

I have come across many extensions of spreadsheets over the years. Spreadsheets are so ubiquitous there's many kinds of wrappers for them, many hybrids. Since the birth of spreadsheets in 1979 there has been a flood of drastic alternatives & variations that have been tried. The most famous variant so far has been pivot tables, which has become a useful, somewhat infamously intimidating feature of spreadsheets but not the revolution once expected. One of the more interesting extensions is TreeSheets https://strlen.com/treesheets/ But nothing yet has beaten the simplicity & power of a flexible grid sprinkled with formulas & references through the value rule.

To me the most important thing I learned researching this talk was that it crystallized in my mind that spreadsheets are not just a table, not just a grid. They have a key constraint, they intertwine code and data through the value rule that Kay pointed out 5 years after dynamic spreadsheets were invented (see http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20Computer%20Software%20-... ).

So my answer to your question is that spreadsheets have been incorporated into programming languages, they have long grown scripting languages like VBA or Google AppScript. Those are massively useful for top-down extensions of the functionality of spreadsheets.

But the other direction, lambdas in spreadsheets, has been much slower & difficult, yet it offers the promise of a more bottom-up revolution in usage. It has taken us decades to evolve the model of spreadsheets towards lambdas in a way that works well with their true nature and to the ton of other features & culture they've grown over the years. (My personal favorite feature, btw, is the incredibly flexible formatting we can give to a sheet, specially conditional formatting.) As mentioned in the talk, spilled arrays are a recent, crucial step to make lambdas possible & useful.
This is great work. I'm impressed.

Just in case you happen to know the answer: How does taking tree samples (as in your third link) not harm the tree? It seems inevitable that it would do so, at least intuitively.
I thought there would be an option to select just one, but seems they are indeed just random smatterings of rust vs { Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, Java, C, and C++ }
flicking through the article i saw mention of the "reset" button on the keyboard - this was my least favourite feature of the 8-bit computers such as the apple ][ and the bbc micro - one slip of your finger often meant lost work. actually having a reset button was a good thing - just don't put it on the keyboard.
There’s also the case of that one guy blinking “torture” in Morse code.

I think we may oftentimes underestimate the chasm of difference between proper training and the lack thereof. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought that into focus for me, and probably a lot of people, that you can dress the part, talk the part, and still be complete garbage.

It might be very easy to miss the signals when you’re focused on all the things that real warfighters have committed to muscle memory.
You might be interested in Project M36:

https://github.com/agentm/project-m36
> You know stuff cools down, right? Power loss to radiation is proportional to T^4.

It only took around 160 million years for the Earth's crust to form, so yeah, sure, stuff cools down, eventually.

> Hint 1: How do we do this for aluminium? Hint 2: I didn't say "mechanical" for this.

Ok, mechanical was my idea - but chemical extraction of oxygen requires some other compounds to form, potentially making the whole thing even less usable for future conversion into more copies. Plus, it requires an input of some other materials, which may not be easy to create.

> Do you perchance know what a mirror is? Or how light they are? How little of (insert-planet-here)'s mass you need to turn into PV and/or mirrors to get to covering the planet, how little time it takes to use those to gather the energy needed to run a launch loop to get a second planet-tiling-quantity to orbit?

That still only gives you the 10^15 watts that reach the Earth, not the 10^26 number you were citing. Also, covering the whole planet with mirrors or PVs is again not nearly as trivial as you make it out to be, and this "launch loop" idea is just some abstract design, not something we can actually build (despite what the author would have you believe).
I remember when I visited my friend in Cambridge (UK) we ate at a quite cool vegetarian restaurant. I was surpised at the time that they had a policy of not accepting 5 pound banknotes. Later I learned that this was a protest against the tallow content of those notes.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/03/vegetarian-r...
Red-black trees in Haskell, using GADTs and zippers (2012)
If the number of sign ups keeps increasing in current rate, I will most likely continue with enhancing the “Do I need an Umbrella Today?” app: https://umbrellatoday.app/#!/today-in/

Perhaps find a way to commercialize it as there are quite a lot of users that have signed up already, any ideas?

Happy to also get your feedback on the most wanted features.
I saved up Common Lisp resources for a few years and in 2022 I finally decided to sit down and learn it. It was entirely worth it, so I recommend you sit down to learn Rust one weekend. In fact, do it next weekend. Getting started on anything is always better done sooner than later.
> Clearly I need some peace-bringing meaning, but it is very hard to find, and I do not even know how to start looking for it.

there is almost no way to say this without sounding preachy, at least to my american english ear. But. it’s true nonetheless.

that meaning? it’s in your neighbors, and you find it in direct, human service to them. There are many, many ways to serve, and one of them fits you. It doesn’t have to be some huge thing, and i’ve found that it helps not to talk about it, just do and be open to the moment.
> I can imagine finer-grained exclusions, such as allowing full-text indexing but only for accounts on the same instance, or allowing use for search but no other applications. (No ML model building!)

I think it's unlikely that you can prevent ML model building with a carefully designed license. The most common legal position (though not something that has been tested in court yet) is that training models is sufficiently transformative to count as fair use, and does not require any sort of license to the data.

You can see this in all the state of the art tools that are trained on all the publicly available data that they can scrape, without regard for license: translation (text), GPT-3 (text), Stable Diffusion etc (images), Co-Pilot (code).

For preventing trolling and harassment a licensing approach is an even worse fit, since those are not people who care about respecting licenses.
I love it that it concludes with what is called abduction in my field of academia. So in general you would have deduction, you reason from a set of principles, or induction, you reason from specific instances towards the principles. Abduction is like induction, but that you find a completely new type of principles, unknown before.
Canada's Immigrant Investor visa program was canceled in 2014. This new law has nothing to do with visa applications and is intended to address foreign speculation in local housing markets.
I can’t tell if this is sarcasm.
Posting this because today I happened to remember playing it as a kid.

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209611 (45 points, 19 comments)
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I'm building software to provide better human-in-the-loop recommendations for media, content, and retail companies. I'm also keeping up with developments in machine learning, large language models, and image generation.
Its a practical not a philosophical discussion. Try driving through the western united states and see if a lack of land is a real issue.
Why? Did anything change regarding the content of the article?
Found a job and moved to Spain, so will spend 2023 practicing Spanish and some Catalan.

Job is related to climate change, so will continue mixing workflow managers, climate experiments, HPC, Python, data analytics.

Other than that continue moderating r/functionalprogramming and r/fuzzylogic on reddit, add more Brazilian Portuguese expressions to https://speaklikeabrazilian.com, and try to release Apache Commons Imaging 1.0, and a new version of some old Jenkins plug-ins I haven't managed to find someone to adopt them.

If I find time will probably try to learn some more Prolog and reasoners with SPARQL/RDF/Jena...
I’m also on it, originally started it for weight loss, and am down 35lbs in 4 months. However I’m starting to wonder if I was diabetic or pre diabetic, as I no longer feel my blood sugar changing throughout the day.

The drug has been great, with minimal side effects. Simply not interested in food, and always feel full.
Dave Jones is also hitting the same note, accusing AI companies of theft: Scraping the web for training data and building models out of it without consent of the IP owners.
> The resource mismatch currently leaves a lot of compute sitting idle in practice.

When separate storage is multi tenant and compute is elastic you can really squeeze more efficiency. With that you can keep utilization extremely high, b/c storage is effectively spread across the whole fleet. We really see this now running 10K databases on a single (single per region really) storage deployment.

Compute is also elastic, so you again can drive utilization up. So my argument is that separation of storage and compute is not necessarily for performance but rather for utilization, convenience to operate, and additional capabilities (branching, serverless).
Hey Jarred, great work with Bun. I have reached out to you over over email regarding Runtime Engineer. Wondering about the status of that application
Sure, but nobody and nothing is standing out in the rain to "drink" the majority of their water intake. It's hard to think of any civilizations that relied on mostly rainwater, but maybe I haven't heard of any. What little prehistory I do comprehend suggests that consistent freshwater sources control patterns of human habitation (eg, most capitals are on rivers; Ur is a desert ruin because it is no longer a port city covered in greenery but was once).

Your point about diet is reasonable, but I still think it's probably "easier" to get it right in the water. No need for the body to move stuff to the kidneys if the water's already got some in it!

>Disclaimer: I drink reverse osmosis water every day with a ppm of about 8 compared to my tap which is 100 ppm. Rainwater varies but is probably about 8 ppm. :)

Parts per million of what? Maybe I'm stupid and that stands for "particles per milliliter"?
The problem is not rich people overseas, its rent seeking rich people everywhere.

1 person - 1 property.

Commercial property should be state owned with perpetual leases.
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News media has always included cultural commentary. You could argue that it should be unbundled from "hard news" but history doesn't really support that argument.
a few side projects I juggle, when have time and energy:

* 2 books underway: software performace; sci-fi comedy novel

* making a sim related to democracy and climate

* ideas for tons more but learned must practice extreme prioritization
An alternate (and growing) use of Tallow is as a feedstock for renewable diesel / sustainable aviation fuel production.

Tallow is a traded commodity. It is unlikely to get dumped.
That sounds more like the need for standard office brown-nosing than building trust with your colleagues. Note here that your boss is not your colleague, no matter what they may encourage you to think.
Finally setup my homeassistant amber I bought to finally get a decent setup where I can manage all my home automation devices in a single place with my wife and kids using it (needs to work and be simple).

Then: Getting back into more technical stuff by refreshing python and SQl skills - mostly to have more fun in my next job (trying to move from a pure Product/Program mngr role into a technical PM role/Sol Architect).
>nobody is thinking about you in a critical way, at the level that you are criticizing yourself

I think there are shades of this, which is to say the level of judgement can vary.

I feel that in a smaller city my social anxiety is not as strong as when I’m in a larger city.

In larger cities, I feel much more evaluated and judged ie eyes on me looking at my clothes, checking me out, etc despite being a much more detached and impersonal environment than smaller cities where I just feel ignored. Maybe it’s just more people around putting me more on edge.
The neat thing here is that all of the red-black tree's invariants are statically guaranteed to always hold. For example, if you wrote code that could ever make an unbalanced tree, you'll get a compiler error.
They say “paper” but it was a cotton blend much like USD. They’re shit talking old notes because it’s good for business. I haven’t touched cash in a while but I don’t recall any meaningful difference in the durability of “paper” GBP and USD.

Edit: the additional context for this article is at the time the notes were released, there was a lot of anger when people discovered the notes contained animal products.
I want to pivot my career to teaching. I get a lot of satisfaction (and ego boost!) from it but language was a big obstacle for me. I was very aware of my English and it was very frustrating how I can express myself in native language but I mumble in English. Last year I switched my surroundings from native speakers to people like me - with English as second language. It was a great confidence boost. I was mentoring people in DataViz Society and have two lectures about visualization. Now I’m preparing my course about creating data visualization on the web. I can do this on my company time so I’m free from thinking about profits and marketing - I want to run this for free. In the end it is aimed mostly at folks who change careers to programming without company learning budgets.
Unfortunately there aren't any shortcuts to good health
I 100% concur. Canada would benefit by having a population 2-3x current. I am always amazed how in the US there are so many cities with vibrant cultures in the 50-80k range whereas in Canada you can drive vast distances and only find tiny settlements of a few thousand people and no services or culture to speak of.
whoaaa who wudda thogt!
How I see it: any and all attempts to kneecap user functionality is shameful, anything that you're relying on goodwill for will fail miserably and be exploited. If your plan for handling a full text search of the network is to browbeat the developer into not doing it your days are numbered. If your plan for keeping your words private is to put them publicly on the internet and then call people Nazis or whatever for looking at them without your permission you're not very bright.
I guess 2 should be a copy editor! :-)
i don't think there's too many people (or at least, people making these decisions) who think foreign ownership is the real problem here. it's just the portion of the problem that's politically easiest to tackle.

banning foreign ownership will help, even if only a little bit.
You should probably just use AWS. Or Azure.
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