skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give it a shot; I think it's helpful to separate the Unison programming language from the Unison Cloud platform, as they're distinct things even though the features of one (the language) enable and are integrated with the other (the Cloud, which operationalizes the language for web apps and other cloud compute jobs).

Unison's core difference is that your code is not stored as regular text files; instead your functions and types are stored as a hash of their AST. This enables nice dependency management workflow and makes things like renaming functions trivial. The thing to remember is that your functions are programmatically tracked. Based on that core difference we built a platform that can deploy those arbitrary hashes (and all their dependencies) to different locations in a cluster, and we created a Unison library so that folks can describe how their code should be shipped across cloud computing resources. So you have Unison code describing and orchestrating Unison services.
Termination Shock was pretty good, but seemed kind of low-effort, not a typical Stephenson blockbuster.
Back when we first got a computer, my mother was highly concerned by the Windows 9x error message "Your computer has performed an illegal operation and must shut down"
Tornado / Reader / CockroachDB co-founder Ben Darnell on database isolation levels and what's wrong with the anomaly table.
> What they are doing is finding posts from queer children, teachers, or parents, adding a line that frames it as inherently pedophilic or something

Can you provide some examples of this? "Pedophilic or something" is pretty open-ended.
So in essence another "is scraping a cyberattack" suit, along with asking for damages because their hard work is now available for free.

The interesting thing here is imho that WorldCat is that WorldCat is a bibliographic database, mostly listing the collections of OCLC members, along with other information about these works. Obviously this information takes work to collect and organize, and that's what the membership fees are for. But for financial harm to come to OCLC (beyond the costs of being scraped) it seems to me that libraries would have to decide that they don't want to pay membership fees and instead use the scraped, less up-to-date version of the catalog? How likely is that to actually happen at any scale?
If I'm not mistaken, the graph you have referred to shows the total number of owner occupied homes - not the proportion.

Edit: I'm also not sure that their definition of owner occupied excludes second homes. From the linked page:

> Owner occupied housing is where the person who owns a property – either outright or through a mortgage – also resides in the property. Excluded are therefore rental properties, employer-provided housing and social housing.
> I don't think we can assume that growth in demand is strictly due to people who want to use it as a store of value.

Incorrect. The only way that the _lowest_ value of bitcoin continues to increase significantly each halving epoch is that more and more value is being stored in it long term.

> True, but they can make it difficult for people to use it, and penalize people who are found to be using it. That doesn't mean no one will use it, or that no one will get value out of it, but it does mean that it would be marginalized and of limited use to most people.

They can't penalise people for using it as it would be unlawful/unconstitutional to do so. Sure, they can _slow down_ the adoption in their country through various underhand means like allowing the banking system to prevent people from sending their own money to exchanges, and capital "gains" taxes but they can't control the network itself.

People in other countries without an oppressive regime will be unaffected (and will thrive as a result of having better access to a better store-of-value).
This is basically the late stage of us continually not building enough housing for years and years. I'm not sure how anyone thought this would turn out differently. As long as housing is an "investment", which in turn means that people lock up big portions of their net worth into housing, and then vote against policies that would make housing cheaper (it's the rational thing to do) then this will be the outcome. Just look at the 30 year fixed rate mortgages. They're an insane subsidization for homeowners.

This is not to say that people shouldn't own their homes. I think in an ideal world, most people would own, or even all people would own and the market would just be liquid in terms of selling and buying. I think ownership has a lot of downstream benefits to communities, but by enacting so many policies to safeguard owning as an investment we've basically killed homeownership in the future.

Edit: 30 year fixed rate mortgages are just an example, there's tons of other issues. We've basically given homeowners the keys to power to fight back against any and all building developments. Zoning too is part of the issue, and is frequently used to fight back against building. If you want change, vote for a land value tax which is a good start to aligning incentives properly
Yeah, but JS modules only on Firefox. :p

Still though, I think this was a mistake to do.

Hopefully scripts are disabled when including svg via an img tag.
Arrests in 2 illicit tech transfer schemes benefitting Iran and China
The video game funding gap: How investors are failing marginalized developers
I changed "men" to "workers" and it gave me three white men, all with shaved heads, who looked like clones of one another.
It's actually like well-known internet etiquette in many places that if you're going to share a post from a person you vehemently disagree with to a different Community or fan base or audience or whatever that also disagrees with them, that you block out their username and any other identifying info for precisely this reason, to prevent them from getting harassed. Chaya Raichik doesn't respect that.
It’s kind of amazing to think people were writing 2,000 years ago and that their work was preserved and we actually have access to to their ideas.

Especially when you consider that 21st century writing is pretty much text messages and AI..

Do we just not stuff to write about anymore? Have all the good theories been taken?
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio#Subsequent...
No, because costs are rising and vacancy is rising.
> the greatest growth period was before they were in a position to get exposure

This is factually true now (that growth was higher in the olden days), but it doesn't have to be. In fact, if anything, it appears that a significant chunk of young people either want growth to plateau, or even reverse the course ("degrowth"), for various reasons. One can't have it both ways.

> HN: A record number of Americans can't afford rent

It's yet another symptom of the lack of growth, especially in the housing stock. Places that build adequate numbers of new housing don't show astronomical growth in rental prices.
I had the unfortunate experience of trying the metaverse. It was vile to the point I logged out and returned the headset. Maybe Apple will offer a better alternative. The experience is nothing like real life, where a few bad people are usually limited in their verbal assaults. Also you wouldn’t generally have exposure to such indecent behavior generally in real life.
There's a bit more to it than that.

As a way to make those tax cuts appear paid for, they changed how R&D expenditures -- which includes software development on software that has ALREADY been commercialized -- has to be amortized.

This was a budgetary sleight-of-hand that made the tax cuts appear paid for.

Most small companies are LLCs, not Corporations, and therefore pay personal tax rates.

As a result, software and other tech companies now have phantom profits because their engineer salaries and other expenses are no longer deductions.

IRS guidance: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-23-63.pdf
For anyone who is looking for UI library that's compatible with Panda, I highly recommend https://park-ui.com/ By far the most polished and actively developed. I am building a second project using it.
Boy when they showed the shot of the Vision Pro Display density vs the iPhone 15 I literally laughed out loud.

That screen is simply incredible as a piece of technology.
Since I only deal with "in person" sales, to me it's less sketchy than most eBay purchases. I had a similar happening to this story, but with eBay. I don't know why they bothered trying the scam, I got my money back relatively easy, just had to be patient.
I agree. I usually finish most books I start but Snow Crash was an exception. I can't quite articulate my distaste. Looking back, one of the small things that ticked me off was Hiro Protagonist – I couldn't take the book seriously at all. Felt almost overly cheesy and clichey.

I'd like to give him another shot with
Cryptonomicon or The Diamond Age. I've appreciated him elsewhere, like as a podcast guest. He definitely has an interesting mind, just didn't enjoy Snow Crash.
Layman question: Does the ability to "understand" such orders arise from one of the many layers which transform the tokens or is it hidden in the parameters/weights or is this due to some special type of attention head?
Well just 20 mins ago we heard that the majority of people at the VW plant in Tennessee signed UAW cards. Now this wont guarantee a successful vote but it makes the leadership give an honest attempt so maybe times might be changing for the Toyota plants as well.

[1]:https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/4454085-uaw-says-m...
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> That said, I still don't know about making the lowest signed number a trap representation in hardware. We already usually have a flag to detect signed overflow; why not just check that?

TFA mentions efficient representation of optional/nilable integers in parameters or return values as another benefit, which I do have some sympathy for (supplying MIN_INT or MAX_INT as an effective "nil" value has always felt wrong to me). I'm not sure if a hardware trap is the right mechanism to handle that, though.
This is inevitable when vast numbers of people all want to live as close to the centers of a handful of major cities as they can. You either build megacities, let the market dictate who can afford to live there, or maybe start seriously realizing that from an economic and environmental point of view... maybe remote work is the solution.
If you aren't identified you can't defend yourself, which I assume would be an issue. I'd expect that the ruling can only stick for the one named defendant, unless the names of the other accused become known as the lawsuit progresses.
https://archive.today/dLu1M
But it's a fast thousand pages.
Could be worse she could get ads for euthanasia instead. "You aren't useful anymore so why don't you save the government some money."
True. But I think they have the means to do that on a lot of (non-russia-associated) repositories. They even probably wouldn't pick this one because it's under too much scrutiny.
Jeez, Java is a nightmare! And I’m not a fan of Python either. I think we’ll just have to agree to differ…
From the article:

>Raichik posted that the school offers a “pornographic” book in its library that “teaches kids about gay sex.”
>It is worth pointing out that those who cannot afford rent often will not subsidize their situation by renting out extra space and taking on roommates

small unit (<10) landlord here. fwiw: I explicitly forbid any sort of sublet/short term/airbnb type thing in my leases. think that is the rule vs exception around here. too much abuse potential and problems. so dont just blanket blame tenants. and each unit only can have so many, two plus a kid or two maybe.

will say that "cannot afford" does not really come up for me anymore. I will not rent <650 credit score, good savings, income ratio, recommendations, work etc. tenant protections are so strong and courts so backed up now its just wildly expensive to get rid of people. so after two bad experiences of taking a chance now I don't take chances on people would rather have a unit be empty for months then pay 1-2 years or more for a bad tenant. but you are wrong to blame tenants current situation is hard on all sides. painful to impossible to replace/expand old buildings, hard to make things cheaper, good tenants get screwed by bad ones just as good land lords do, bad landlords abuse things, everything is way more inefficient then it should be. everyone just does their best with the various perverse incentives.
This thing reeks of web3 and crypto style marketing. Claims such as “it is used by teams”, “we already have many users” and claims of “large” companies among their sponsors are dubious at best. Common among ai companies these days.
Basic video is good enough for a lot of purposes. But with minimal gear and software, I can clean up most speakers with very little work in audio (and there are better AI cleansing tools these days as well). For a given quality level, the bar is much lower for audio only.
I do think predictions are an unavoidable side-effect of writing science fiction, but those predictions are almost always in service to those purposes you listed. Stephenson must think nanotech book AI is more plausible as a form idealized childhood education than say, magic fairies. But in the end he relies on our suspension of disbelief to get on past that to the big questions of nurture vs nature and the quality of human intelligence.
They claim to have found the operator...

The evidence they present for that is that she wrote a python library to interact with their websites (or in their words "developed a repository for a python module for interacting with OCLC's WorldCat(r) Affiliate web services"). Also that she worked for a competitor, describes herself as an archivist, and has publicly stated that libraries and archives should be open and publicly available.

It's not exactly convincing evidence that she's involved with Anna's Archive IMHO.
I fell for a sob story about a woman who's kid died and left behind a PS5 they wanted to get rid of. I was kind and sympathetic and said "If you want I can sell it for you and forward you the money" they then asked for money to ship it to me. (I immediately caught the scam there and blocked them). This happened on an open groupme group apparently people can enumerate and join them randomly.

in hindsight 1) Don't sell something for someone else-- you dont know if it's stolen and 2) Don't front strangers any credit/money (I didn't)
> It being very expensive makes the wait-lists surprising.

Does it? Ferraris, Zondas and Koenigseggs also have big waiting lists.

Expensive things to the well off sell easier than average products to the ever shrinking middle class.
In the UK as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments)
To anyone familiar with the history of the Spanish Civil War, Guernica requires no explanation.
"In addition to harvesting data from WorldCat.org, the defendants are also accused of obtaining and using credentials of a member library to access WorldCat Discovery Services. This opened the door to yet more detailed records that are not available on WorldCat.org."
we absolutely need to progressively tax property by number of properties owned.

As you own more of a scarce asset, margins on rents are driven toward zero.

An aside, I often see worry of corporate ownership of property. While of course this is an issue, the bulk (72%) 1. of the problem lies with simply affluent people who own (fewer than ten) investment properties. I do think however, a fair penalty is to just tax based on the degree of rentiership from property investing, therefore a marginal tax on number of properties owned seems reasonable.

1 https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/08/02/as-nation...
Graduate student grows chickpeas in amended moondust
Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896)
What’s your math on $15/MWh? As far as I can tell, the steam turbine is a pretty insignificant part of the price of coal energy generation
That’s why poorer countries are thriving in maths literacy according to a report by the OCDE called “computers and learning making the connection” or something like that
I went from 2013 MBP to M3 Pro MBP and the performance improvement in Rust / rust-analyzer was staggering.
Because two US companies merging has also a big impact on the EU market. A US company launching a feature in the US but not in the EU has no impact on the EU market. So no, it's not the same thing.
Windows may as well be considered a web service at this point!
As a complement, I would also suggest this thoughtful article with a broader perspective, explaining the proper place of SRS in learning to code to a professional level:

https://experimentallearning.substack.com/p/functions-descri...
If you ask for a story, and the person needs/wants the job, that story is not likely to be accurate. You get some version of "my greatest weakness is I just work too darn hard and give to the company", pitched to whatever the question actually is. Sure, some people won't, but how do you know? Proxies and stories are usually a terrible way to interview somebody.
Is your YOShInOn RSS reader available as an app or open-source library?
https://css-for-js.dev/ by Josh Comeau is fantastic.
The people I know were applying for roles at universities. Engineering and teaching. You basically have to memorize your response and not deviate from it or you may get in trouble.
Ultimately there has been a substantial shift from the wealth made from income opposed to returns on capital. This is just an illustration of that.

I think this chart explains much of the disfunction in multiple arenas of American life.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
Bearer Shares authorize the holder to show up at a shareholders meeting and vote to select certain representatives as board members.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_instrument
EV sales plummet after clean car scheme scrapped (in New Zealand)
critically, even Substack still exposes their RSS feeds publicly. view it as a two-sided marketplace: Substack would need to control both a majority of feed sources and a majority of feed consumption (i.e. the install base of feed readers) to escape RSS. ditto with the podcasting space.

or at least, so is the theory. but i see that most of the shows i listen to aren't available when i search them in Spotify. so i'm not sure how Spotify users interact with podcasts: do they use multiple podcast apps? does Spotify win only those users who previously weren't listening to podcasts (and so don't lose access to anything they valued when moving to Spotify for podcasts)?
I'm not convinced remote work is better than the market solution from an environmental point of view. Seems like having people as densely concentrated as they can be is best from an environmental standpoint.

Remote is definitely better than the status quo of subsidized suburbs housing car commuters though.
Functions Describe the World: How to Learn to Code Using Spaced Repetition
Same. My biggest gripe. Also, buttons. I know putting everything in a monitor is cheaper for you, EV maker. We still want buttons.
I was thinking the same, it's very interesting which way the arrow points.

Am I saying that because I drink an enormous amount of coffee and really don't want to stop? Yes.

But also.. because I hope my high coffee drinking is because of my vanishing brain, rather than the cause of it ;)
He talks about supplements sometimes but I don't ever feel like he pushes them and usually says you can get them wherever but I suggest here. I don't agree with everything he says but it's clear he puts a ton of time and research into the episodes he does and I don't blame him for trying to make money. So many of his guest episodes contain invaluable knowledge and that's a fine trade off for me.
> This is basically the late stage of us continually not building enough housing for years and years. I'm not sure how anyone thought this would turn out differently.

Absolutely! Build more housing, at any price level[0], and rents will stop growing and maybe even come down.

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4629628
It's a contextual communication choice: the intended reader is someone who is concerned about their bifocal prescription. I would assume that whoever makes the lenses will simply choose the correct focal measurement corresponding to the Vision Pro's fixed 6ft focal distance, and manufacture a lens for that specific focus. What needs to be communicated to the intended reader is that a bifocal prescription will be properly accommodated.
I don't blame them for not wanting to be at the mercy of users' local Python installation (https://xkcd.com/1987/)
There is source control on https://share.unison-lang.org/
>One of those things is not like the other. Certainly your own growing child is a special case of "someone else" using your body.

That's as may be. However, unless it's your (in the individual, not the general, sense) body, it's none of your business or concern.
It looks like it received the HN hug of death.

Edit: it's working now.
Same here and it actually started triggering a little bit of anxiety in doing so (I take short breaths or hold my breath when anxious). Maybe it should utilize the 4-7-8 pattern.
Thank you, I’ll fiddle with that. WiFi is good and my 14” M3 is using its native resolution, whatever the default is.
1. how is it so fast?
2. dark mode?
Looking to learn more on the subject, but why isn't it in the interest of any city these days to NOT build more housing?

They are almost perfectly incentivized to attract working young people and families to help increase their tax base (property tax, income tax, sales tax) and housing would help them do that. Given most large cities are facing huge financial deficits, wouldn't this make sense?

(Yes, I'm aware of regulatory capture and the inefficiency of local government, but shouldn't there be SOME common sense?)
If it’s useless, then why are they mining them in the first place? Seems to be a subjective thing to determine.
I don't think this is a question with a yes/no answer? If you apply for a role that involves writing Rust and can't demonstrate the ability to solve problems in Rust, you won't make it far. But we don't even collect resumes, so you get to make that call for yourself; we don't divine it from signs and sigils.
But isn't that exactly the underlying fraud? Boeing and Spirit are conspiring to cover up Spirit's deficient delivery by allowing Spirit to work onsite at Renton and do post-delivery re-work and pretend that it is as-if delivered, and _outside_ Boeing's system of record. To reject the delivery and wait for Spirit to fix would ruin their delivery schedule, so they fudge it and muddle along.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-p....
I read the article. Claiming thst something is inappropriate is not the same as claiming it's pedophilic.