skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed with OP; my succinct version is: use comments for why not what.

E.g. comments about "what" will be repetitive, out-of-date, etc.

But comments about "why" we're doing something a particular way, especially if it's odd, are great sign posts to future maintainers.
I mean if the laws are only enforced selectively against the kings enemies it makes a mockery of the rule of law.

But if the laws are written so that they don't apply to the king in the first place of course the law is just.
> Should we really seek to regulate away hard-earned (and valuable!) advantages

Could somebody list those advantages (excluding AWS)? And how much better are those advantages than the existing alternatives?
That’s kind of a weird false dichotomy and the answer is “it depends”
Why do you, and many contemporaries with you, doubt you'd be able to kill animals?
Especially when apparently our ancestors had no such qualms.
I venture this is a matter of exposure, we rarely see animals butchered. In fact, most animals we see are pets, contant with wildlife is very minimal.

So we recoil at killing animals, because pets are like family, and most of our experience with animals are with pets. Thus, we see animals as much more human than our ancestors.

What then, does this say about the ethical status of animals. Certainly, it seems like our lack of exposure to butchering is why we now care much more about animals.
The issue would be much clearer if things had happened the other way around.
That is, things would be clearer if we stopped all butchering animals because we thought animals had rights.

That is not to say this means animals have no rights, it might well be that by no longer killing animals as a manner of habit we realized their ethical standing.
However, this is less evident than most other cases where we (the caucasian west) have given other groups more ethical standing.

With slavery, we first realized it was wrong, and then stopped having slaves.
The counter point might be that in this analogy we are still before the point of abolishment.

I think all I can conclude is that 'not being able to kill animals' is not a sufficient arguments for animals having more ethical standing.
In the end though, it might boil down to ethics not being absolute but instead being relative to culture.
I know what you mean, but at a certain level of abstraction, isn't that what web programming is all about? You already live by Chrome+Firefox+Safari+IE rules. I mean sure, there's a complicated political process, but it's still rules made by other people working for large organizations that the average web programmer just accepts. It's not like we all had a vote about Flash. Or JavaScript, for that matter.

There's a lot you can do while working within the rules, though.
I read this as an assertion the masses are losing interest overall, not switching to a competitor
Anthropologists studying primitive peoples have found many cases of people who do not bathe regularly and yet do not smell either.

I was homeless for nearly six years. The last couple, I showered about once a month most of the time. No, I did not stink to high heaven.

I actually smelled worse when I had a corporate job and showered twice a day because I was extremely ill. I smelled worse when I was first homeless and showering daily at a women's shelter because I was still ill.

As I gradually got healthier on the street, my hair got less greasy and other things changed. This is why the advice that you just need to get through the first month doesn't necessarily generalize. These changes occurred gradually over the course of several years as my own microbiome, nutritional status and other metrics changed.
How can the stoic be so much more knowledgeable about whether the opportunity will work out or not?
> Didn't Amazon ban products from Apple and Google, that competed with their own, from their online store?

I witnessed something similar at a former company[0] I had worked for. We had mobile apps for a reading product that could, theoretically, compete with Amazon's book business. Sort of a Netflix for books. Successfully launched both on Apple and Google's marketplaces, the app worked, had traction, wasn't a sketchy business or anything.

We experienced what we took to calling a soft-rejection. The app itself was approved but we were not able to launch / have it available on any of Amazon's devices. Now, you might be willing to write it off as the vagaries of dealing with a billion dollar corporation, your typical "Google locked me out and I'm SOL" thing. However, the owners of this company had sold a previous business[1] to Amazon. They had contacts and relationships at Amazon, decently high-level too such that were it an "oops, edge case" it should have been easily dealt with. Silence. They were stonewalled.

[0] - Grain of Salt: I was not on the mobile team, but we were a small operation, ate lunch daily, very open culture from the CEO to the junior folks. We talked about this a lot. This was also 5+ years ago, and I know of few of my coworkers lurk so please correct me if my memory is corrupted.

[1] - Given our very good team atmosphere, we ended up hearing a bit of history from the founders about the Amazon acquisition. From what I understand, it was extremely cut-throat and underhanded on Amazon's part. A former coworker succinctly summed it up as "The only relationship you want with Amazon is to be their customer."
So, if you own two and one dies, what happens?
Well, "peaked" means it's as powerful as it will ever be.
Lots of things aren't necessary. Eating lots of meat, sex without intent to procreate, travel.

They sure are fun!
I'm actually amazed that almost every time I go to the Genius Bar for service, there are people paying ~50% of purchase price on repairs for their Mac/Book/Pad/Pros instead of refusing service and buying something new. Going with my first comment in this thread, my perception is that people have a much stronger connection with the thing they bought rather than optimizing for cost.

To add another anecdote: a few years ago my wife dropped her iPhone 4 into water and it died shortly after. I told her to shut it off and even disassembled it to see if anything was salvageable (it wasn't for my level of DIY). She paid probably 75% of the original purchase price to have it "fixed" which meant pretty much a new phone dropped into the old housing. Contrast that with one week ago when my iPhone 7 fell out of my pocket while biking and got run over by a car (only one tire hit, squarely over the thing). There were only three scratches to the side of the aluminum and a cracked rear camera glass cover. Not even a scuff to the screen. Apple quoted me $320 for the "repair" which I refused and semi-jokingly replied that I'd wait for the next battery recall. For now I have a $5 replacement part coming which I'll install myself, but if it shows any other issues down the line I'll likely just buy a newer model and give the old one to a family member or use it for whatever still works– there's almost always a use for old Apple products that still turn on.
I've been meaning to try out Jasper.

https://jasperproject.github.io
It’s also worth noting that Amazon has said as soon as those products support Prime Video apps they’ll allow them back on. It’s perhaps more reasonable that you don’t want to sell productd that are leveraging an anticompetitive position against you. So it’s kind of an antitrust tête-à-tête.
Important caveats on the Microcenter pricing: that's $1,000 OFF, not $1,000 total. And that price is only available for in-person pickup and limited to one per household. Nice if you can take advantage of it, but not for everyone.
"The rating board will fix this for us."

Ugh.
"Virtualization, which is one of my main use cases, works but is far from perfect."

There was a brief period of time when the current, linux release of vmware workstation (v3.0, IIRC) was fully supported under the linux binary compat functionality of FreeBSD.

What this meant was that circa 2002/2003 you could run vmware workstation on FreeBSD and it worked perfectly. I ran all manner of Windows and Linux VMs under it.

I currently use vmware fusion on OSX so I haven't given it a try lately, but my impression is that spinning up a windows VM on a FreeBSD workstation is still not as painless as it was back then ...
This seems like an argument to remove all randomization from purchases.
> local and state governments have flattened local economies

What do you mean by this?
According to this BBC article:

"crustaceans have decentralised nervous systems, meaning that unlike fish, they can't be rendered unconscious with a single blow to the head.

To "spike" a lobster to death, again unlike fish, you have to pierce the body in more than one spot."

From: What's the kindest way to kill a lobster? (Yes, I'm aware of the irony of the headline)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42647341
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16387077
Considering the smaller footprints are less efficient, then perhaps that makes room for a 3-4 fold improvement. Whether that's true is another issue, but at least it appears somewhat consistent.
In the scheme of things cabling is a relatively trivial point. Perhaps a better target to find fault with is lack of easy memory upgrade, or use of sealed rechargeables in mouse and especially keyboard. Apple are far from unique in claiming, perhaps undeserved, green credentials.

In general Apple and Thinkpad seem to be the only brands that will last. I suspect it is environmentally far better, for all their faults, to keep a machine for 5 years rather than have 2 or 3 cheaper machines over the same period.

So what would you suggest that doesn't require a rethink of the whole tech industry?
I am fully supportive of that.
Question: what is the maximum water temperature that a lobster can survive in?

If that maximum is less than the boiling point of water, then another question: how carefully is the law drafted?

If the law actually specifies boiling, is it just going to result in cooks bring the water to a boil, taking it off the heat, letting it drop to a little below the boiling point, and then inserting the lobster, where it still dies but not as fast?
This comment obviously breaks the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Worse, your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban accounts that do this, for reasons I've explained at length at the links listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16402816. If you'd please look through some of those, reread the guidelines, and use HN only as intended from now on, we'd appreciate it.
Apparently it's funny to most hn'ers. I'm guessing they aren't clear on what it takes to teach helplessness.
Exactly. You want to decrease the water usage inefficiencies up the chain. The govt should advocate eating less animal products (I'm not necessarily saying all) if it really cared about conservation.
http://www.cloudscan.me/2018/02/coretext-crash-osx-10133-lld...
> Rent-A-Guinea Pig Service Takes Off in Switzerland

http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/hope-for-lonely-...
Before you go after Amazon, I think there's far more egregious fish to fry: like the big ISP cartel and the pharmaceuticals
If your JSON is so complex it need a schema, doesn't XML extra structure help?
The only animals that don't generally die mostly from predation are those on top of whatever food chain they're a part of (bears, big cats, etc.) And we don't tend to eat those.

For the rest, if we aren't eating them, something else is going to eat them. It's not a question of "taking an animal life"—the animal's life is going to get taken, in a messy, bloody, terrifying way.

It is considered by some to be an increase in marginal global utility, when a human eats an animal that would otherwise have been eaten by something else. Because we cause less suffering in the process of (killing and) eating the animal, than anything else would have.

(I don't personally know how I feel about this argument, but I feel like I should put it out here, because it's not very well-known and usually causes more interesting discussion than the usual responses.)

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Also, as a bonus argument: if you're a positive utilitarian, then we increase global utility by a lot simply by raising livestock to eat them that would otherwise have never existed at all. (If you're a negative utilitarian, then all the good humanity has ever done is probably wiped out by the suffering of the great number of chickens we keep.)

Either way, though, it's indisputable that the life of e.g. a sheep kept by a shepherd, has higher total QALY than the life of a wild sheep. For some species, we're giving them a virtual garden-of-Eden to live in until they just, one day, die at our hands.

There's actually a part of the Effective Altruism movement that wants to reduce wild animal suffering—i.e. interject ourselves into nature in order to make more animal lives like that of the tended sheep (with or without the eventual culling.) I think they hope to use synthetic meat to solve the "how do you keep both the fox and the hen happy" problem.
Any idea which FMC standard is used on the board?

Haven't found any docs/info about it so far. :(

Looking at the photo's on the announcement, your blog (etc), it doesn't look like the HPC nor Vita57 pin-out versions, so guessing it's an LPC version?
$303K is the income now needed to buy a median priced home in San Francisco
I mean Facebook has arguably reached all the audience it could reach.

The only way they could keep growing is the increase time spent on their platform. That said Id conjecture the optimization towards short term reward cycles (more clickbaity articles being recommended, etc.) loses customer loyalty over the long run
This is a dangerous route to take, because at that point you can start comparing yourself to animals. We spent a few centuries developing our world, so I think it's fair to assume higher standards. Animals kill other animals to solve their hunger and they do their best to end it quickly.
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Per clinic I suspect
The authors argument is stolen straight off the pages of Atlas Shrugged.
A classic example of the liberal mind thought to tear down those who aspire and achieve great things.
Ayn Rand's warnings continue to be amazingly prescient.

Amazon earned it's place in our hearts and the market will decide when it's lost sight of what is important. the examples of this abound with the headstones of once dominant corporations.
The authors mindset is the way for America to become a feckless copy of European countries and economies.
You sound like an easy-going dude.
You can have laws that criminalize activities after modification without criminalizing victimless modifications. Such as:

Illegal to sell a car with a modified odometer - but you can screw with yours all you want. Wait, I think that is already illegal.

Illegal to fly an aircraft in the NAS with unauthorized modifications to the transponder. Wait, that is already illegal. :)
No, because (as discussed above):

(1) I do not think it's a QEMU bug. Windows, Linux and older versions of FreeBSD work fine.

(2) I'm one of those people who thought, let's try to compile some software on FreeBSD .. meh can't get it to work.

It's really for FreeBSD to fix this, if they want to on-board new users (and maybe they don't, that's totally fine too).
Doesnt it suggest that there was some maximums size in the same general timeframe? The alternative is that they used a city like a rotating pasture or something. Genuinely curious.
I don't understand how your argument exists alongside the fact that we farm the animals that we eat.

The chicken that you buy at the grocer isn't one we swiped away just as a wolf was about it eat it. The chicken was grown indoors in a factory, likely hadn't even seen the light of day. Even a wolf-eaten wild chicken gets that courtesy.
Depends on the li-ion. There are chemistries out there right now that are good for 20,000 cycles like LTO. And a substantial amount of li-ion research is extending cycle life.

It doesn't matter how good hydrogen becomes. Battery tech will continue to improve faster than hydrogen tech. H2 will never catch up.
> Meanwhile in Europe you can get a good espresso for a euro.

Even if this is still true, you're talking about different things than what most Americans purchase. Very few Americans purchase the single shot of espresso, but last I checked Starbucks has it for ~$1.50.

What many Americans consider coffee is really a milkshake flavored with a couple of shots of espresso. Then there is the size issue. If I walked into a cafe in Europe and wanted a grande sized latte it would end up being very similar in price to Starbucks (2 espresso shots and basically a glass of milk).
Annoyingly they've also laid claim to 'proper' and 'normal'.
It's all abstractions and sometimes concretions. Then there's leaky abstractions where you need to know details of the implementation in order to use it.
No because I didn't have $50, or a credit card with which to buy it.
"The horse collar eventually spread to Europe c. 920 AD, and became universal by the 12th century.[21] The Scandinavians were among the first to utilize a horse collar that did not constrain the breathing passages of the horses.[22] Prior to this development, oxen still remained the primary choice of animal for farm labor, as all the previous harnesses and collars could only be worn by them without physical penalty."

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_collar

I guess your history of ploughman culture is mistaken.
This is the only sane answer I read here so far. I'm surprised that so many people still believe that depression is at large some kind of pathological condition. I'm even more surprised when people accept the most addictive drugs in existence as a "treatment" for anything.

You make some really great observations in your post. I found them very enlightening, eye-openers. However, I have to disagree on the fact that depression is usually/mostly a change of your perceptual model.

As you mentioned, depression is the state during which your prediction of the future (correctly or incorrectly) is that any action you take will result in a highly unpredictable, and mostly dangerous/damaging/negative feedback.
Bad enough feedback for the best action plan to be doing nothing at all.

There are two main, and very important types of depression branching off here.

One is the type where your prediction is wrong.
The other is the type that your prediction is right.

There are many cases where your modeling of reality is now flowed or outdated. Maybe you grew up with negative or mentally ill people, and you know no better. Maybe your school teachers were assholes. Etc. In this case someone needs to show you, possibly through demonstrations, that your perception of reality is actually flawed. Off the top of my head, most psychotherapy, like cognitive behavioral therapy, offers just that. Your therapist will try to prove your model of reality to be wrong (even if it's not, but that's another discussion), and convince you that things are better, to look at things positively etc. Some times, for some people, that works. Other might refuse to update their model and choose to ignore reality. Others find dysfunctional ways to cope with life. Others will get a terrible therapist with a worse model than theirs. Many things are possible.

The other main category of depression is the type where your model of reality and your prediction is correct. Like a dog or lab rat that gets zapped with 50% probability no matter what it does. At first it will try really hard to figure out what's going on, and in the end it will figure that trying isn't worth it and it will stop. You can give that animal all the ketamine in the world, and it still won't be happy, because their environment is flawed, not their perception or learning abilities.
In real life, examples include dealing with unstable people (bipolar, narcissistic etc), being stuck at an actual dead-end situation with near-zero chances of recovery (homelessness, bad chronic illnesses), etc

In this case, someone needs to fix your environment (if possible, ie homeless or dealing with unstable people) and not your perception.
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Notable that yesterday one of the top stories was that Amazon's major book competitor, Barnes and Noble, just fired most of those exact "expert" staff. That they claim they cannot afford to loss lead books like Amazon does, so they must instead discard their highly paid, skilled workers in favor of minimum wage.

This is the general trend in most of America. Many now fall into one of three categories. Highly rewarded entrepreneur / chief officer, educated and well paid but fiercely worked salary, or minimum wage serf. The bands are also becoming more defined and logarithmically separated. ~$16000 (2^14) [serf], ~$90000 (2^16.5) [educated salary], $500000+(2^19) [wealthy / gentry]

Further, the middle section is mostly bleeding downward due to factors like the above mentioned layoffs (Sam's Club did similar), the increasing relative cost of education / health care / other barriers to entry, and the inflation adjusted erosion of buying power.

Its an argument to say the path is towards expert service, yet with the range of social review / recommendation pages / boards available now (much of which Amazon itself cultivates), even newcomers can quickly become informed if they are so inclined. No wonder many now prefer to use automated isles rather than human checkouts. The staff provide little and often just push annoying suggestive sells.
Pardon my ignorance. What's particularly beautiful about this timer?
Human meat consumption typically comes from hunting of prey animals or from domesticated livestock. In the former case, a .30-06 through the heart is a much nicer way to go than to be devoured alive by wolves or coyotes or to starve due to overpopulation. In the latter case, the animal is literally genetically predisposed to this life, and the entire lineage would die out if people did not eat them.

I mean, I get that you think your position is kinder to animals, and there's a certain intuitive value to that position. But ceasing consumption of livestock would, in effect, amount to genocide.
I know you meant well, but please don't duplicate comments on HN. I'm sure that's why they were flagged.

The idea behind this site is intellectual curiosity. That shrivels under repetition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple:

> So we ran into heat sink problems with MacPro. Also, people wanted a pro machine to be extensible and upgradeable.

> We learned from our mistakes. We give you the non-upgradable non-extensible iMac Pro that is also a heat sink problem.

[1][2]

Apple has completely dropped the ball on the pro market. Not only did the completely missed the mark with the "trashcan" MacPro (in all respects: the pros didn't want it, Apple themselves couldn't iterate and improve on the design), but they have all but abandoned anything pro-related:

- MacOS stagnates.

- MacBook "Pro" is not really a pro machine [2]

- iMac Pro is a bone thrown to the crowds to wow and please, and it has "trashcan" Mac Pro written all over it

- Thanks to the USB-c SNAFU you can't even connect external monitors to Macbook "Pro"s reliably (keeping the native color range and resolution)

And there are multiple other issues big and small. To that end, Ars Technica's "Bad" and "Ugly" conclusions are quite damning.

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[1] Quoting myself, https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/940673994126249987

[2] Mac Pro's issues: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15175994/apple-mac-pro-fai...

[3] "The Best Laptop Ever Made" https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever and "Fixing the MacBook Pro" https://marco.org/2017/11/24/fixing-the-macbook-pro
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