skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can easily just display a warning that the site is not officially supported on X browser, and the user may run into unexpected errors. This is an active thing that Microsoft is doing, not something they're forced to do.
Conversely, a significant portion of the students in my class when I was attending university were only there to get a degree & didn't care about anything but the easiest way to get a passing grade.
Google/Facebook/Amazon have the power to push any startup competition out of the market in ways that are hard to even enumerate. Think about all of the services, devices, and standards that they control.

Watching the fanboys defend their favorite tech giant is incredible. These companies are not behaving in the markets or people's best interest and they are way too big, at a scale that dwarfs most of the worlds organizations.
Since dang/etc have manually slid this off the frontpage and it's just us who've already posted now I'll respond to individual comments.

Yes, it is racism. There's far more difference between a corporate person and a human person than between any of the human persons. Corporate persons are of a very different race and receive a lot of preferential treatment from retail businesses.
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If someone other than Warren gets elected, it could very well get put on the back burner. But this is defintely what Warren believes. When she was a professor at Harvard or the head of the CFPB, cracking down on very large, very powerful corporations was always her focus, whether via anti-trust or other means.
Honestly I think this is partially why Blue Apron failed...they overestimated how many people desire variety in dinner choices.

Someone build a blue apron except for ingredients for weekly meal prep.
That is most probably not going to happen. It was the original plan but it would have involved landing legs coming out of the heat shield which NASA was queasy about and would have involved quite a bit more effort to develop.

Crew dragon is (on the cusp of) delivering human launch to ISS capabilities back to NASA which was the core mission and a crucial objective for NASA so it wouldn't be dependent on Russian launch capabilities now so unsurprisingly inflated to outrageous prices since the shuttle was retired (not that the shuttle wasn't outrageously expensive either). Roscosmos had charmingly started charging 90mm per seat. Space X will charge 20 and will be capable of launching 7 astronauts vs 3 max capacity on Soyuz.

But Crew Dragon will have little to no part to play in the final objective of planetary colonisation so Space X doesn't care for it beyond that and is focusing full steam ahead on Starship.

Terrific mission though. Bravo Space X.
As a parent I don't say vaccinations should be mandatory. But people who don't vaccinate their kids should be denied having their kids accepted in school. But then that's punishing the kids. So I don't know what's the solution.

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ANWR, A place few people have ever set foot, let alone seen, including environmentalist from a distance. Meanwhile the state has an unemployment rate of about 7%, and a lot of people depend on the revenue from the sale of oil to live. I say drill. Alaska isn’t the place you’re going to see Amazon build a warehouse, at least let them have something.
Nice site, subscribed to the RSS feed. Would love if you reviewed the HariFun style quad-ped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pos9pE8xwU
Yes. I use it almost exclusively.

With a browser plugin you can even share your screen and there is a self hosted version, too.
I don't think those people imagined the subsequent wholesale abandonment of the government's antitrust role.
well, the element that corrupts government should be removed and a govt for the people restored.
Just breaking it up is as anti productive as just breaking up a company, if the company isnt breaking any laws.
Govt is a different type of entity than a corporation and as enlightening as the comparison might be, a thought exercise is all that comparison should really be.
I like how you find a place that's $89/night and by the time it's booked you're paying $600 for a weekend.
That's not just true of Japan it's true of pretty much any income tax system: Say you have a two person household consisting of person A and person B.

First configuration: Person A engages in wealth creation by running the household, raising the children, etc. etc. That wealth-creation is tax-free since it's never paid for in monetary terms. Whatever time is left over can be spent doing jobs that don't demand fulltime status. Those jobs don't pay as much on an hourly basis, but that income will be very tax efficient as the total sum of money will be lower and therefore a larger proportion of it will end up in the lower income-tax bands. This frees up person B to do a fulltime job, maximizing income (albeit earned in a less tax-efficient way).

Second configuration: Both person A and person B do a fulltime job, maximizing income. Now they both pay a lot of taxes, since the both earn a lot of money. They use some of the money left over after taxes to pay for a nanny, housekeeper, etc.

In order for first and second configuration to "break even" the hourly rate for person A under the second configuration would have to be A LOT more than under the first configuration to make up for the added inefficiency in tax.

My contention would be: It's pretty rare for both person A and person B to be able to earn so much under the second configuration so as to break even with the first configuration (as measured by hosehold disposable income, i.e. after taxes and everything).
They did that once. I guess this exchange didn’t have enough pull to change the whole “code is law” principle.
Game development is famously underpaid. After all, you're competing with wide-eyed 23 year olds with no bills or family who have dreamed of making games their whole life.

I was apparently pretty well paid at my last job (Game Dev) at 68k EUR a year.

Also, note that a lot of Europeans quote salary after tax, which can make a big difference.
My god, any other poor wrecked like me working in Spain? Earning 50k/year after taxes, and that's not a bad salary in Spain at All
Does it make sense? Do the things you list add up to 2.5% - 3% of their revenue? I don't know.
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Outside of terminal or vim are there git client that are completely controlled by keyboard shortcuts?
I tried:

let left = () => captureBtnLeftFunc($.Event())
let right = () => captureBtnRightFunc($.Event())
() => captureBtnRightFunc($.Event())
setInterval(() => {
console.log("Guessing");
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
left()
} else {
right()
}
}, 1000)
Plus if everybody in school is learning to code, the schools have to buy computers.
Flu Research Once Banned Because It Was Deemed Too Dangerous Is Set to Resume
"It always seems a bit abstract, doesn't it? Other people dying" - Tyrion
Everything is connected. The more we lose bird and insect species, the harder it will be on the flowers,grasses, and trees. The harder it is on those, the harder it is on use due to erosion and has CO2 scrubbing by the plants. We lost the last White Rhino last year, 3 bird species, and others. The extinction rate each of the last five years has been 1000 to 10000 times the normal rate.

https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-01-02-exti...
Lessons learned building natural language processing systems in health care
My view on food is relatively simple: Life is way too short for boring food. I could not imagine eating the same thing every day.

That's not to say I eat a completely new-to-me meal every day. When I was single, I would cook and then eat the same meal 3-4 days in a row, but I would change it up every week.

Now, what we (my girlfriend and I) usually do is cook and bake on Sundays, then freeze about half and eat the rest during the week, interspersed with meals from the freezer, from previous weeks. We like to cook big portions, especially soups, curries, stews and such.

Baking-wise, we prefer to bake sourdough bread or slow-raised bread with minimal yeast. We also make homemade ice cream and bake cakes.

I can understand that some people think it takes way too much time and effort that they would rather spend on other things, but we consider it quality time spent together, doing something we both love to do.
Not where I live :D

> In most countries of the world the issue of banknotes is handled exclusively by a single central bank or government, but in the United Kingdom seven retail banks have the right to print their own banknotes in addition to the Bank of England; sterling banknote issue is thus not automatically tied in with one national identity or the activity of the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterlin...

For instance if I were to go further south, any Scottish notes I have would not be accepted in a load of places. More generally using banknotes from Northern Ireland in Britain will get you funny looks and a near 100% refusal.
TurboTax can't handle even moderately complicated tax situations without forcing the user to learn about tax law. (E.g. where people live and work in different states, which is not unusual in the northeast.) Nor can they handle the human-facing job of sorting through someone's documents. We pay an accountant about $1,000 a year to do our taxes, and being able to simply forward him a bunch of W-2s and email receipts instead of triaging them myself makes it worth every penny. (Fun fact: even though tax preparation software is more than 25 years old, more than half of people still pay a tax preparer to do their taxes.)

There is even less of a basis for thinking you can automate actual corporate accounting with known technology. Contrary to popular belief, that does not involve just applying clear-cut rules to ledger entries, but rather lots of judgment about how real-world transactions should be treated under the accounting guidelines.
Yeah you're right, the only value of vast swaths of untouched nature is to be looked at.
> While this could be a gross oversimplification, adding 1/2 of the population to the workforce would, through the laws of supplyand demand, decrease wages by 1/2

This presumes zero-sum. That is, it presumes that this growth of the workforce does not affect the total productivity.
If instead, more people working means more productivity, then part of that productivity can go to paying wages.

Whether this increase of productivity actually goes towards wages is difficult to say. I think that most of the recent productivity increase have been to the benefit of investors rather than labor.
Walmart sell their own products, but they don't restrain their dealings with other suppliers in order to promote their own product lines. This is a key difference wrt. what Amazon is doing. In a world of fair competition, "Amazon Marketplace" would be the main Amazon Website, and you would additionally be able to restrict your view to products from the suppliers you trust, be they Amazon-the-supplier, Walmart or whoever.
Pretty clear that the QA process is at fault here, which is sadly common in the software industry.
This is an excellent goal, and Paul Graham has articulated the reasoning pretty clearly: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/886953410356011008

> Here's how to explain to people the distinction between fighting poverty and fighting economic inequality. If you're fighting poverty, you might say "Let's have universal health care." If you're fighting economic inequality, you have to say "Let's have universal health care. And Larry, please don't start Google." Otherwise Larry's going to mess up your numbers big time.

Since reading that, I've realized that a major part of my political beliefs is that future Larrys should be unable to start future Googles in their current form, and in particular that I don't believe it's a just use of the powers of government to enable the creation of future Googles.
Android is perhaps the closest in comparison to Microsoft/Internet Explorer. Spin off Android into its own company, including the Play Store. There would be nothing stopping Google from keeping their apps in the Play Store, but they would sit on the same level as competing mapping and search apps, and users would choose which one to use instead of have it preinstalled.
And the way Warren is describing splits, it sounds like GCP, Azure, and AWS would be spun out. Could you imagine if any combination of those three were allowed in the future to merge!
Oh, my bad. I did not mean GA, but commercial passenger airplanes. As opposed to military jets.
If they were the largest retail seller, that would be anti-competitive. Amazon does less than half the revenue of Walmart. Amazon and Costco are the same size.
I can't really see how. It would literally cost billions of dollars, be extremely wasteful in terms of duplicated efforts, consume millions of SRE and SWE hours, and the result would be slower and worse in many ways. Then people would complain that youtube sucked even more.
“...a period that overlaps with notions of the resurgence of America’s urban centers and the decline of its suburbs.”
That's a good point, most subcultures aren't going to perfectly describe everyone in them. I think my problem with the Wikipedia definition is that it's so overly broad that it's virtually unfalsifiable if you're young and white. That wouldn't be bad by itself (it would just be a large category of people). I guess the reason it bugs me is because it is so broad and so commonly -- exclusively, in my personal experience -- used as a pejorative.
For me, how much action government should take in these transitions comes down to how much societal benefit comes from having the transition take place.

With energy transition it's obvious: cleaner environment/planet, new industries with safe jobs, elimination of a dangerous job, a healthier population. So it's beneficial for the government to help make the transition happen quicker, and support the people negatively affected by it.

If there are societal benefits towards getting everyone to be cashless (I'm not an expert in this, I simply choose cashless because it's more convenient for me, although I suspect there are larger benefits), then the government should take the same role. Help the transition happen, and support those that will struggle with it. If they're not going to help the transition, or if there are no larger societal benefits with the transition, then the people that still depend on the older option should still be able to depend on it.
While I agree that we should break apart giant companies (and not just Amazon, telecoms too), the first large entity that we should break apart, is the government.

The only way to stop monopolies from forming is by getting rid of legislation that heavily benefits large businesses.
In what way does that alter or qualify the statement "There is a stigma around working at McDonalds, not skilled trades"?
Technically you should convert Pi to base 2 before doing that, because using each decimal digit's parity collapses a lot of information in a lossy way. If your function is:

f: π(k) --> δ(k)

where π(k) is the kth digit of π and δ(k) = 0 if k is even and 1 if k is odd, then your function is injective. The image of every even under f is equal, likewise with the image of every odd under f. A huge amount of entropy is destroyed that way.

So even if Pi could be used as a pseudorandom generator (and it actually can't be), you'd lose that property by defining an injective map from your domain of inputs to the codomain of outputs.
windows was never dependent on internet explorer to operate. MS put a simple DLL with HTML and other web tech in the OS, making it easier to serve up help and other content. What they did (IMHO) was completely reasonable in terms of OS integration. Look at ChromeOS today- it's the same idea, taken to its logical conclusion.

People often misrepresent the MS trial.
I've worked for an oil and gas company for a while now, and it's really shameful how much political action they expect their employees to take.
I don't think its fair to underestimate China. Breaking up Amazon or Google would benefit China more than the west. Sure Amazon and Google are possibly too large, but their Chinese counter parts are equally as large and direct competitors. The idea behind breaking these companies up is to encourage market competition but that competition already exists and will not be broken up in China. Somehow Warren always has the wrong solutions but is generally correct in identifying a problem.
At least in the USA, flying personal vehicles are non-starters without cooperation from the FAA.
> If that's all that you get, would you rather take a chance that you'll be miserable for two weeks or would you do what all of the other cool kids are doing and just hit the main attractions because, then, at least you're doing something and you're not sandboxing yourself into possibly being miserable for the only time that you do get off for the year?

Your comment made me wonder about the artificiality of tourist destinations/activities, because when we just have a week to experience a culture, we'd probably seek the condensed version that we think will give us an understanding of said culture (I'd compare it to reading a book's plot on Wikipedia vs. reading the book). One can go to Bali and visit a traditional dance show. Is it authentic, or just something performed for the tourists? It's like hiring a prostitute and confusing that with a relationship. To answer my own question: at least the bigger/village-wide ceremonies are being done by people who really are doing something due to their traditions, not for the show: https://theculturetrip.com/asia/indonesia/articles/tradition...

I guess in the end tourism and "deep travel" as written in the article are both just a search for novelty experiences. Sure millions have been to Bali, and looked at the same temple at the same time of day (sunset); but it would be novelty to me, compared to my office job. Less people from the West have spent time living in Ethiopia and that too would be a novelty experience (meanwhile the Ethiopians are wondering what the hell the white man is raving about).

Talking about the your novelty Bali experience with others who've had the same experience (novelty to each, but cookie cutter for all) does make for dull conversation.

Meanwhile there are also people who don't even get to experience something new, because they're busy being documentary photo-/videographers for their little corner of social media where they're a star.
> Companies with an annual global revenue of $25 billion or more ...

Hiding revenue is something multi-national corporations do really well.

If I ran a company that had a platform as described, and we were approaching the 25bn mark, I'd find ways to make sure we never crossed that line.

Losing IP to what would become a 'public utility' would discourage me from ever trying to develop beyond the 24.9bn mark.
I don't think they're that high. I did a brief search and both locations mentioned are using the iZettle in the following link (1.75%) - https://merchantmachine.co.uk/contactless/
I'm not sure about C, but I know of a few for other languages.

Some compilers perform whole program optimisation, rather than separate compilation of components/modules. This takes longer, but can find some extra optimisations (e.g. if a module provides some functionality, but it's not used in the resulting program, it can be deleted as dead code). MLton does this for StandardML ( http://mlton.org ) and Stalin does this for Scheme ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation) )

At the very extreme end is the idea of superoptimisation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization ). Rather than translating the given code in some way, like a compiler, a superoptimiser treats the given code like a specification or test suite. It performs a brute-force search through the space of all possible programs, looking for any that match the specification. This can find truly optimal code, but it's ridiculously slow. So far its only real-world uses are to find small "peephole" (find/replace) optimisations that can be added to real compilers like LLVM.

There's a related idea called supercompilation (which is often confused or conflated with superoptimisation) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9067545/what-is-supercom...

A supercompiler can be thought of as running the given code at compile-time. If we know the values of all the functions and variables in a given piece of code, we can just run it to find out what the answer is. Interestingly, we can also "run" code involving values we don't know: we just pass those values around as opaque black-boxes. This is really useful for collapsing layers of indirection, resolving dynamically dispatched targets, baking-in configurable parameters, etc. The downside is that it can lead to bloated executables. Roughly speaking, supercompilation replaces a few long paths containing many conditionals, with many short paths containing fewer conditionals. It also specialises general-purpose functions into many single-use functions which have particular arguments baked-in.
I don't care about fancy food, all of that flashy style over substance stuff you get at overpriced restaurants.

But I love good food that is made with care and good quality ingredients. Like for instance northern French countryside cuisine, or hearty north Italian dishes, or the best Indian curries. Nothing fancy, nothing flashy, but so goddamn tasty.
But you do need a college degree if you're planning to migrate to most developed countries.
> And Windows was dependent in Internet Explorer to operate.

I mean it was and still is dependent on MSHTML for rendering things like the help system as well as rich text in many pre-XAML apps. You don’t want the icon on your desktop, fine, but it certainly is a core part of the OSs rendering system.
>4. Rain water harvesting

Is there a risk of significantly altering the local water cycle if everyone is doing this? Same with extracting moisture from air, I suppose.
And tbh - most people would still probably download google chrome, google maps, google docs etc - it would just level the playing field
The solution is that vaccinations should be mandatory.

It is an ends justify the means argument, but the alternative is that the flu kills 50 million people every year.
Not really; chrome and Android are far more independent.

YT is integrated at every level from infrastructure on up. It depends on Google-internal libraries which are in turn integrated with other parts of the infrastructure... It would pretty much amount to a full from-scratch rewrite of almost the entire product.

Moreover, I'd question whether other providers even have the available public resource capacity to support YT.
To my knowledge, American monopoly laws focus more on the welfare of the consumer and whether customers are being negatively affected rather than the companies themselves. There’s nothing wrong with having a monopoly, but where issues arise is when consumers start to be hurt.

In this context, how do Elizabeth Warren’s comments mesh out?
Since that's the period of the study, I assume you're invoking a "god of the gaps"-type argument to invite people to assume that afterwards it went the way your predispositions say it should have?