skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada is in approximately the same unfortunate position of being a supplicant state of the US. This was apparent as far back as 2018 or so. The US "Commerce Department" recommended sanctions on Canada for a trade violation in timber. The worst case sanctions add about $9,000 to the cost of a new single family home in the US.

"March 2016, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Obama instructed their respective cabinet members responsible for international trade to explore all options for resolving the trade dispute.[32] Canada's international trade minister, Chrystia Freeland, said that "what we have committed to is to make significant, meaningful progress towards a deal—to have the structure, the key elements there a 100 days from now"."

Then:

"April 24, 2017, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said his agency will impose new anti-subsidy tariffs averaging 20 percent on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move that escalates a long-running trade dispute between the two countries...

"On April 25, 2017, the Trump administration announced plans to impose duties of up to 24% on most Canadian lumber, charging that lumber companies are subsidized by the government..."

Then:

"On August 19, 2024, the US raised tariff rates on imports of Canadian softwood lumber products from 8.05% to 14.54%".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_s...
> the Mint will also sell you in line with Chinese numerology collectible bills with “777”s or “888”s in their SNs

For Chinese numerology, you'd want 666.
Right, metamorphic testing in particular (which would be a special case of PBT, with metamorphic relations being properties), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_testing, https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/testing.md#pr...

One simple example (from the above) is "sin (π − x) = sin x" for the implementation of the sine function not requiring the knowledge of its specific output values. Naturally, instead of the literal equality "=" one can use a more appropriate accuracy specification as in, say, relative ulp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place) error bound, cf. https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/accuracy.pdf
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I hate to be that guy, but if you're going to criticise someone else's intellectual ability, it might be worth ensuring your argument is presented in a form that is more than barely literate.
Yes they are, it isn't that big a deal, a new talking head will be in power for a while and eventually the blame for any problems will shift to him.
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What if you had two guests but you lied about which one beat you up while the other one was out?

What if they were twins?

What if the person was wearing a mask that you knew your guest owned, but it wasn't actually him?

You're entering into this with the assumption that you know who beat you up. The police don't have anything other than your assertion. That's why corroborating evidence is needed.
> But maybe it is better to try to agree on what is really going on in real discussions, rather than hypotheticals about candies.

I don't think this is going to blow your mind or anything, but the candy discussion in this essay wasn't actually hypothetical at all. The tic tacs are fetuses and the "fascists" are forced birther conservatives. You might disagree that it's reasonable to call a forced birther a fascist - to call them that certainly seems a bit imprecise to me - but I'm not sure what you're driving at beyond that (valid) semantic point. Begging what question?
This only happens if people are evaluated based on OKRs, which is not what this tool was originally about. High Output Management, as far as I can remember, says that such a tool must be used solely for communication, i.e. to avoid having people ask the same questions over and over again (and to enable descentralized decision making).
That's a good point, I was actually wondering about that. I've seen a lot of jumping analog clocks so I incorrectly assumed Big Ben was the same. I should have checked :)
> If it's 11:55, you would usually mentally subtract and conclude: the meeting is in 5 minutes. That's how I always do it myself anyway! But the most probable estimate given the available information is actually 4'30"!

The way I like to think about it is "the meeting is in less than 5 minutes". Which is always correct since my reaction time to seeing the clock switching to 11:55 is greater than zero.

It could even be less than 4 minutes if it has already switched to 11:56 and I haven't had time to react to that change, but that's OK - my assessment that I have less than 5 minutes to get to the meeting is still correct.
Suggest watching the movie gattaca to understand what happens to kids of parents who think like this in an extreme version. The problem is if you ignore the reality of the competition it’s basically setting your kid up to fail due to prisoner dilemma dynamics.
I mean, the South in the US waged a really big protest because they wanted slaves, and we murdered each other enough that they sort of changed their mind. Not every political grievance is on the right side of history.
It’s also so very weird that both sides of this issue are likely nodding their head agreeing with you. I couldn’t get a good inference on which side of the comments you meant, personal opinion and assumptions notwithstanding.
Oh certainly. He has no interest in governing, he's interested in preserving (and assuredly) increasing the handouts subsidizing his businesses.

X is a political project being run at a loss. It's his blog, the remaining users are commenters.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611416
I also struggled with this for similar reasons. His favorite AI feature is essentially writing valid js for calculations (his example is literally valid js if you just drop the equals on the last line - you can paste it right into the console on his site and see the answer).

The whole article feels like it suffers from a similar lack of coherence. Ex - I am hardly an apple fanboy (I strongly dislike the company) but the complaints here are basically

The service sometimes has outages

The image gen is not as customizable as he'd like

He's morally opposed to cleanup in photos

Notifications summaries are bad (and how dare I get my texts 5 seconds slower).

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None of that is really related in any way to the security footprint of the tooling he discusses up front, and it's also hardly distinct from most other current AI offerings, and it's not really a consistent complaint about the tech.

My opinion of Apple is that they do a crappy job with the vast majority of their apps...

They build good hardware, and they abuse their small hardware footprint to make decent device experiences and a decent (but getting worse) OS - but their actual applications are generally mediocre at best (mediocre copies of a previously successful, usually better, app that they will put out of business through shady store practices if I'm being blunt).

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If anything, the failure here is that Apple marketed a thing that AI can't really do (yet, maybe at all), and most of the things AI can do without being incredibly invasive aren't actually all that useful to most folks. Very useful to a handful of power users in specific circumstances, but otherwise essentially novelty apps.

So... it's not an implementation failure. It's a marketing failure. And this is hardly unique to Apple right now. The only difference is that usually Apple doesn't play their hand until this inflection point with new tech is over, so it's more obvious this time around just how bad the product fit is for general use.
That's basically what happened. Between the three police forces, the jurisdiction was unclear. Parliamentary police and city police could not decide which laws to enforce as it depended on where the protestors were located. The province mostly polices highways and small townships that cannot afford their own police force. They quickly regained control of the highways to divert any additional incoming trucks but couldn't step in within city limits for trucks that were already there.
What do you do on mobile? Very much like being able to enter things in on my phone.

Of course I can keep receipts and do it later but just wanted to know how others handle it.
Wallpaper?
Without commenting on the rest: Courier, which is a serif font, does not appear in your screenshot.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/IBMCouri...
That's fair. I should amend my comment. Even stuff that's highly in demand often has competitors with equivalent products, and often the products are complex and business relationships need to be maintained and there are a thousand and one complexities to understanding and executing the business. I apologize for the "any idiot" line.

But I do believe that the job is fundamentally different when it's about selling a product that's needed compared to selling worthless crap.
> At what point is that, legally?

Presumably when they started setting up residence by not moving their trucks, living in them, and 'importing' fuel supplies into the city:

* https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/protesters-say-the...

Or it could have been when they set up saunas and barber shops:

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/ottawa-truck-c...

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(IANAL)
I had no idea. Only highlights how much I have read their docs or marketing.

We are a family of three and the 25 institution limit seems fine to us.
Verbally, IME, people mostly round to quarters of an hour (exact hour, quarter past, half past, quarter to).

I've never heard anyone say it's 4pm when it was 3.31pm.
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No, if you read the article, you'll see that he addresses this point.
Peter Thiel – The Straussian Moment [pdf]
No one cares about your gpa after 2 years of experience. All they will see is Harvard or BU
A minute is an insignificant period for most daily tasks, so the convention "show me when the minute changes" is simple and pragmatic. If your task needs precise count of seconds, you get a clock that shows when the second changes, and now you are half a second late on average.

You can keep playing with increasingly smaller time units until you conclude, like Zeno's arrow paradox, that you're always infinitely late.
It's instructive to compare Vancouver to Toronto. 10 years ago in BC health care was in worse shape and housing was ~2X the cost of Toronto. In the past 10 years BC has had an NDP government and Ontario a Conservative one. Both housing & health care have gotten worse in BC, but at a much lower rate than in Ontario. Today health care in BC is in much better shape than Ontario, and the cost of housing in Vancouver is about the same as it is in Toronto.
a "quarter" means 1/4th -- it's a "quarter" turn of rotation on a physical clock, but 60/4 is always 15.

or were you making the distinction between "quarter past" and "quarter after", because I'd agree that the former is a lot less common.
All the novelty $1 coins since the Sacagawea offer the potential for a gradual shift too. Modern multi-denomination coin mechs are likely to accept them, unlike the Susan B Anthony's that were too close to quarters [1]. Some of them even have a sticker near the coin slot advertising the feature. So if someone has given you a dollar coin in change (probably a government cashier or machine), you might be able to use it in a machine. I couldn't find a well reported number on dollar coin acceptance --- just an undated claim of 30% of machines accepting them according to Vending Market Watch but no link to an article or anything. I did see an article on VMW from 2011 about cash recyclers that allow a machine to take a larger bill and issue change with smaller bills rather than only coins, that featured a quote that resonates with me:

> "Customers have told me firsthand how thrilled they are to receive bills as change instead of dollar coins," said Mike Gallagher, service manager for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. "Sales on those machines have increased, and the technology has been extremely reliable." [2]

[1] I did see one coin mech in the wild that took Anthony dollars; but it was a spendy arcade game and had a dispenser next to it to get the dollar coins you needed from bills or quarters. And there were big signs about it, at the Disneyland StarCade in the 90s.

[2] https://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/technology/article/102518...
It doesn't, but that's the only way to get blatant scam videos removed from YouTube.
Ok, how /do/ the three seashells work?
Maybe he means the extreme levels of immigration that have tossed fuel on the housing and healthcare crisis?
I wonder: if these are essentially just a “paper trail” for deposits made at the BoD by issuing banks, why bother with a physical banknote at all? In the case of an insolvency of a bank, the bank’s notes would still continue circulating, after all.
Are you talking about the militant separatists who had already committed mailbombings and escalated to assasinating a government official and kidnapping a foreign diplomat on Canadian soil in 1970?

It’s also important to note that afterwards Quebec separatism continued to be a legitimate political movement without a terrorist wing, with parties represented in federal and provincial governments.
For structure generation I prefer Doug McIlroy's approach: pick a tree size (from some arbitrary distribution), and then, of the n possible valid structures of that size, produce the kth one uniformly.

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/nfa.pdf gives an nfa variant; extending to a pda is an (interesting, I found) exercise.
I have many teachers among my friends. So far, they're mostly powerless. If a student is creative, there is basically nothing that will prevent them from cheating at any homework/exam.

My father, who was a math teacher, already faced the problem mid-90s, as cheap mobile phones became available in my country. Things have only gotten worse since then. ChatGPT is only one more brick in the wall.
What does "law" mean to you? Do the "Emergency acts" not count as law in your opinion?
<glances at recent story reconfirming Apple as the most highly valued private company the world has ever known>

This is sardonic, as yes, Apple could have chosen different monopolies than it currently has, at different points, and had a different (maybe not better?) trajectory, some of of us are old enough to remember the antipathy towards Microsoft when to the Office suite it added default Explorer,

But also, maybe our system fundamentally rewards the "wrong" things if one's definition of "right" includes things like innovation. Or maybe, the welfare of the commons and the common good.
I don’t know if it is about blame for the other side, but I can see Trudeau being a scapegoat for all of Canada’s problems. I DO think he is responsible for a lot of Canada’s problems in the cultural side, especially as it affects politics. But the laws and realities of governing the country are also the fault of legislators who in turn are voted in by people. So to me what I view this as, is people rejecting the current highly progressive order of things in Canada but also the left leaning side of Canada’s politics ejecting Trudeau as a way to not bring blame onto the rest of the party and its politicians.
Is jquery something people start projects with today? If so, what is the motivation?
I remember people handing in work copy pasted from Encarta, complete with the blue hyperlinks (even back then pasting formatted text was a stupid default in Word).

How did I know my classmates did that? Because they managed to get that "work" pinned up on the "exemplary work" notice board!

My carefully hand-tuned word art titles meant nothing in comparison! Nothing!
Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors.

docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Te...

your link: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
Hardcoded to return 'false' of course. Because nothing ever happens!
I mean, it's good they are doing the right thing here, even if it were only damage control. But doesn't give a lot of confidence they won't harm creators who don't yet have 3b1b's reach.
a colleague is doing a FOSDEM 2025 talk about https://github.com/grafana/augurs
This is the first time I have considered that it wasn’t them blowing up each other’s franchises.
AI Summaries of Financial Reports
I'd actually argue its worse if their guiding principles guide them to bad behavior, because they have a ready made defense and social insulation around their bad behavior.

That's really at the heart of the evil of the Holocaust. It did not happen because good people were possessed by an evil spirit or tricked by propaganda or whatever, these aren't people acting out of character or at odds with their moral senses. It happened because people allowed themselves to be convinced that an evil was a good, because the propaganda they encountered reinforced their preexisting biases and inclinations.

To the point above, its not the case that fascists lack any set of guiding principles, its that their priorities are perverted from the normal. It's not they don't perceive e.g. murdering members of the designated out-group as evil, its just that their principles either recast those people as less human (making the murder ethically neutral at worse), or that allowing said people to survive will result in far worse outcomes for society at large (making the murder ethically commendable).
This is really neat, from both a technical and a language learning perspective.

I quite like the idea of eliminating English from the UI for immersion. You could also go with French + icons, so there's a little learning there too.

> Is there a cheaper, more scalable way to score sentences than what I’ve described here?

I estimate English sentence difficulty for my program, and that consists of some grammar heuristics + seeing which CEFR level each word belongs to and (~roughly, it's a little more complex) averaging their difficulties.

I wonder if it'd be worth trying a similar technique to estimate the difficulty/cognate-score.

Maybe some process like:

- get the words

- get their English translation (easier said than done...)

- estimate how close they are to a cognate: perhaps a little classical ML here?

Alternatively, you could exploit etymology. If the English translation has either French or Latin etymological roots, they're probably cognates.

Or (as I like to do with my project), do all of it and average them together!

You might also want to try Claude 3.5 for scoring - it's about as expensive as 4o, and might be more effective. Amazon will also give you free credit via Bedrock and AWS Activate.

> Users should be able to understand how the app works without reading an entire blog post about it.

I have precisely this problem. I think I've distilled my tool (https://nuenki.app) down to something simple, and the HN audience seems to think so, but then I show it to non-technical people and it all goes wrong. Maybe look into how Lingua Latina per se Illustrata is presented?

Maybe try streaks for gamification? They seem to work well in Anki and Duolingo.
"Quite." shoots fireball
You're right. I'm fixated on the idea of Ansar Allah recruiting foot soldiers to fight America (or whatever); just: that's not why they recruit foot soldiers. Thanks to both of you for the clarity.
The President is technically the commander-in-chief of the armed forces in the US. His opinion carries weight, fortunately or unfortunately.
It’s really well done. At one point the character says something along the lines of “but they would rather do other things, like play on neal.fun instead of going to the amusement park”
The EYG type system does support recovery, so you will get multiple type errors if that's the case in the program.
Would be very valuable if someone could write a summary of novel ideas for practitioners (if there are any).
Is lunch money similar to mint and just shows you your spending? Or is it envelope or zero based like ynab ?
Yes, but that was a very unusual time and can be attributed to the US financial crisis. In addition to money fleeing the US, the Canadian and US interest rates diverged to strengthen the Canadian dollar.
There is no way 2 parties can represent the diversity of opinions and ideas in the country.

2 parties means power tends to jump back and forth due to the recent ruling party doing badly vs the opposition actually providing an alternative and compelling change. This means parties tend to "lose" more than actually "win" elections.

2 dominant parties when one side of the spectrum is split among 2-3 parties tends to allow a smaller minority to achieve stronger governments which is not representative. I.E the split on the right in the 90's allowed the Liberals to have many successive majority governments despite less than 50% of support for many of those elections. In the aughts the alliance and PC merger turned that around and now the NDP and Liberals tend to split the left to a degree and the right can win a strong majority with 35-38% of the actual vote. This doesn't benefit any side long term.

"getting things done" isn't always the best metric for a political party, especially when they don't have the public support for their changes.

STV or various other methods that allow proportional results while maintaining current representation and government size were the best outcome, but didn't benefit the liberals so they dropped it.
For structural code editors to thrive, what is needed is a universal, simple, minimal, txt-like format for the AST, so that AST-editors are not locked to a single programming language each.
> with discounting the observability challenges
> handwaving away these architectural differences

I am doing neither of these things. I am only saying you will have observability problems whether you do LP or WS, because you are stepping away from the request/response model that most tools work with. As such, its weird to argue that "observability remains unchanged".
Infinite version:

let button = document.getElementsByClassName('main-btn');

let clicker = setInterval(() => button[0].click(), 1);

To stop, use this:

window.clearInterval(clicker);
Make your own with padding cement. Put the stack of bills in a vice and coat one edge a few times with the cement. I did this for a nephew as a unique gift. Some people being paid with these are suspicious.
Interestingly, going down might be the worst case for stairs :)

While climbing stairs is fairly low impact on the joints, descending is high impact (depending on how fast you go).

There are not much health benefits from going down stairs beyond what you'd get from regular walking. There are some (mostly minor) risks.

Just something to think about. (yes, I take the stairs up and down).
Part 2: Symmetries and semicartesian cubes

https://home.sandiego.edu/~shulman/papers/hott-cmu-day2.pdf
I only remember the ones about the size of a discman with 2.5" laptop hard drives. The iPod was, I think, the first one with a 1.8" HDD. When the Macbook Air first came out it used the same 1.8" HDD