skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not blackmail to want the opportunity to be able to tell the truth in the future. Jennette McCurdy recently wrote a memoir and mentions that Nickelodeon offered her $300k to sign an NDA about her time as a child actor there. She declined their offer. She didn’t blackmail Nickelodeon but it was absolutely the right decision for her since she’s more than made up the $300k on the sales of her book. And for the public, who got to read her excellent book.
But nothing really came out of it? It's like twitters reputation got ruined or there was some repurcusion for the company freely talking about it
MS uses Dynamics for a ton of internal processes, just not all of them. I suspect the SAP installation predates the existence of Dynamics as a product.
denser residential (or godforbid! mixed use) areas would require less capex and opex, so they would require less public funding
Spotted a non front end developer.

I'm being honest here -- there are things you need to learn. You may not like them at a beginner or someone new to the stack, but they are here as industry standards for good reasons (which I won't go into here).

By the way, JavaScript is not necessary a language as "easy" as you think is. I have seen plenty of bad code written by professional software engineers. Seriously, you need to put a lot of effort into becoming a good front end developer.
My answer to that would be that the US was/is very concerned about spillover conflict. A few aggressive countries could easily draw the whole region in.

Why is the US so less concerned about South East Asia or Africa than the Middle East?
It is worth it, and therefore worth gentle evangelizing. A lot fof people are still thinking "screw it" because either they don't believe they can do anything or because they don't yet care.
It has stuff like E2E encryption, but that essentially just works on the message contents. Who sends messages where is visible to any server owner that receives the data (basically: host of the user account or room, or any public room). (there may be wrinkles to this, but in a broad sense it matches Matrix's metadata exposure)

Which makes it pretty much exactly the same as, e.g., XMPP. Or nearly[1] any federated chat system, past, present, or future. It's not privacy-oriented, by design, because privacy oriented and able to connect N independent implementations which are able to protect themselves from abuse are almost completely at odds with each other.

In that sense: yes, it's a privacy disaster. It is not and never will be Signal. But in another sense, no, it's just what happens when you build a usable federated chat system - convenience costs privacy. There are "free" and "cheap" ways they could improve it, and some improvements have been trickling steadily, but the fundamental feature-set prevents it from ever being what most privacy people would call "good".

[1]: there are some exceptions, but generally speaking they are making extreme tradeoffs somewhere. E.g. inability to stop spammers because you can't see senders -> no large hosts will ever exist because it'll hemorrhage money, so it's practically just a P2P network. Some of which do have interesting privacy feature-sets, but often suffer with discoverability and connection reliability.
To be fair, the benefits of "object store" it is scalable and bottomless while you have to play with EBS volume expansion etc. Some folks find managing fleet of EBS volumes not a big deal others find it problematic.

I think having "long term storage" on S3 compatible location is a way to go but you need ability to use local storage as cache to queries on recent data or just date range you're working with can be fast.
> The conflict in Ukraine means my heating bill in NY goes up 40% this winter.

Why? The US is the largest producer of natural gas in the world, and by quite a large margin[1].

Europe tied themselves to Russian natural gas, heeding no warnings in the process, and now find themselves cut off due to conflict. Oh, if only this could have been predicted and avoided in advance...

It makes sense for Europeans to experience ludicrous natural gas bills, but not someone in NY. Further, the US should not make citizens suffer in order to prop up European nations that couldn't have cared any less about their own security until it was too late.

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/natural-gas/world-natural-gas-...
Which language is the one where you make sweeping generalizations?
Right, but isn't this good when we are talking about fossil fuel companies? Fair competition drives down the price of fossil energy, while our goal as a civilization should be to raise the price as much as we can stand (to infinity if possible!) so that we don't cook ourselves.

You can therefore make the argument (though I don't agree with it myself) that subsidies to big oil that reduce competition from upstarts is, in a twisted way, a climate-positive policy.

This of course fails because subsidizing big, publicly-traded oil companies reduces their cost of capital. This causes rational capital allocators to rationally invest in fossil fuel exploration, resulting in more carbon being dug out of the ground and added to the atmosphere.
I’ve given week at a time committed tries to several other search engines at this point.

I tried Kagi, DDG, Bing and Brave Search. I was surprised that I kept getting good results from Brave. Still using it and generally don’t need to look elsewhere for most searches.

The others were more of a mixed bag.
> If you look at a site like GMail,

Ouch! As a google mail theft victim, "right in the heart" :(

> efficiently without hard page refreshes.

And completely destroying the "Back-forward-refresh" functionality.
(1999) of course
> Additionally, SALT isn’t exclusive to CA, any state with income taxes benefits from it (and most states do have income taxes)

Many states have income tax, but prioritize low taxes and spending. Those states don't see as much benefit from the SALT deduction. And make no mistake, when it comes to SALT, the real winners are the wealthy, not the poor.
Same! the google maps m! is just too good for me not to use DDG. (does Google have an equivalent?)
There are two possible things you could mean by that.

One is that you think a lot of things just shouldn't be enforced, and that we should allow a lot more harm than we do now. Genocide?

The other is that you think we should have a lot more police to take over the harm-reducing regulatory actions now in place. That we should take the tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of social media moderators now working, but make them government employees and give them guns.

I can't decide which is more cartoonishly evil.
I think that the mistake is thinking that corporations can have ethics in the first place. A person can have ethical and moral codes, a corporation can't. Execs can write as many documents as they want, a corporation is not a person and will never be able to have the same consistency that we'd expect from a normal person with morals.
Increasing conductivity of aluminum as an alternative to copper?
$DIVINITY, how I miss Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Dreamweaver was good, but the way Fireworks let you edit images in both bitmap and vector mode and saved it all as extended info in PNG files you were always able to view everywhere…

So sad that Adobe killed them off. I would still be using Fireworks today if I could.
From the OP, the list of “subsidies” is below. I’m not an expert but this sounds like lots more than amortization. Do these all sound like things that are reasonable after digging more to you? (Tone check - not accusatory, I’m curious if this matches up with your previous research or doesn’t overlap). Tax credits and deductions on the face sound unreasonable to me, but it’s unclear from the summary how substantial they actually are.

I’d agree that policing the Middle East is by far the biggest subsidy though, and that externalities are the thing we should be focusing on. But absent a coherent CO2 tax proposal I’m ok with chipping away at smaller subsidies where they exist (Though now seems to be a politically suicidal time to propose doing so. Wait until inflation is under control before increasing the cost of gas again.)

>>>

This bill limits or repeals certain fossil fuel oil and gas subsidies for oil companies. Specifically, it

increases to seven years the amortization period for geological and geophysical expenditures;

repeals the tax credits for producing oil and gas from marginal wells and for enhanced oil recovery;

repeals the tax deduction for the intangible drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells;

repeals percentage depletion;

repeals the tax deduction for tertiary injectant expenses;

repeals the passive loss exception for working interests in oil and gas property;

denies the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities for oil and gas activities;

prohibits the use of the last-in, first-out (LIFO) accounting method by major integrated oil companies;

limits the foreign tax credit for dual capacity taxpayers (i.e., taxpayers who are subject to a levy of a foreign country or U.S. possession and receive specific economic benefits from such country or possession);

and
expands the definition of crude oil for purposes of the excise tax on petroleum and petroleum products to include any oil derived from a bitumen or bituminous mixture (tar sands), and any oil derived from kerogen-bearing sources (oil shale).
whats your monthly bill like?

have you looked at running those cheap VMs from say lowendbox.com ? there are good companies like racknerd.com ? not a shill, just a user....

the reason for this is that i have "tried" to go and buy or use one of the 3 major cloud services but they are too darn expensive and complicated. this way you get a panel and an ssh and do what you want for a fixed price
From the paper,

> We obtained de-identified whole blood samples from 14 astronauts who flew relatively short Space Shuttle missions (median 12 days) between 1998–2001. These samples were stored at −80°C for ~20 years. Blood samples were collected 10 days before flight, the day of landing, and 3 days after landing12. However, for this specific study, only samples from 3 days after landing (R + 3) were collected as buffy coats (peripheral blood mononuclear cells - PBMCs).

One of the issues here is of the biased sample set. To say that astronauts are drawn from a small pool is a severe understatement. All astronauts from the stated era have,

- High IQs
- Absence of obvious psychopathologies
- Extremely high stress tolerance
- Faster (than the median) reaction times well into middle age
- Usually within 3SD for M/F height, falling between 5' to 6'2 (6'4 at most)
- High educational attainment

And they've all done,

- Scuba diving (sometimes including extended stays as aquanauts)
- Pilot training (even if you're a scientist astronaut, they'll teach you how to fly, [edit - as Walter points out flight hours equal radiation exposure and NASA astronauts usually have to maintain a minimum of 180 hours per year to retain their flight status])
- *At least* one sport where they've risked their life
- Undergone wilderness survival training, including a "hell week" of some sort, somewhere along the line
- Experienced near drowning (part of training) and other similar stressors
- (frequently but not always) Been a part of the military, including exposure to pollutants that we now know are carcinogenic or harmful.

Additionally, during this period, unless they were an international astronaut,

- They would eat similar foods, from the same places
- Live in close proximity to each other
- Grow up in roughly similar environments (though split between urban/rural environments)

Of course, not all of these factors will impact their DNA, but the selection and similar life experiences creates a unique problem. Until we send more people up, we won't have enough data to say how space travel impacts and mutates us.
Facebook could have chosen to be a completely neutral platform. They could have followed the ISP model, making Facebook another platform like email, RSS, or http. They just had to not make editorial decisions - leave the feed sorted by recency, and only remove illegal material. This is what safe harbor provisions assumed a company would do, allowing platforms who simply pass information between parties to avoid liability for that information.

But they wanted to be valued higher, so they explicitly chose to instead step into the editor's role and became responsible for the content on the platform.
https://archive.ph/InZpI
Base salary is in general less negotiable than stocks.
At least it’s the dream they’re selling
No individual makes any real difference. But collectively we all do. I've learned over the last many years that few people get convinced or motivated by preaching, but living the life shows it can be done and leads by example.

Please keep on keeping on, we can't let up.
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

— Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verses 8-11, RSV translation.

Written about 2500 years ago, +/- some centuries (experts disagree on date and author). It's maybe a bit comforting and distressing at the same time.
DDG results are a little “different” than Google’s but no worse. Like somebody else said, usually when DDG can’t find the answer neither can Google.
> you're confusing principle with quantitative absolute

I really don't think I am, I'm trying to tell you that you keep referencing subjective values as if they can be assessed objectively. An example from the comment above is the following subjective value implied as an objective value: a long life is a better life than a not long life. I know it may sound preposterous but for every scenario we could imagine there is always a way to look at an action as a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective, even chugging rat poison. Perhaps the results of my death from poisoning is that someone else is able to survive due to the whatever circumstances surround the scenario; in this case I may be balancing the value of my own continued existence against that of someone else's and you want to tell me you there's a framework that is somehow going to guide me into making an objectively correct choice about who lives and dies?

> Objectivism deductively and inductively proves that certain actions are an objective good for the soul as a condition of being human

I disagree with this wholeheartedly.

I have seen zero proof of this and I really don't think it can be proved because the objective universe does not track goodness in any way, it is a concept defined entirely within our minds and does not have an objective physical reference we can test or compare against.
>Price of oil goes up, demand for EVs and other non fossil energy uses goes up.

Also prices of every thing in the economy goes up, including EVs and non-fossil energy. Eventually we just substitute local production with imports from various bad actors.

Besides, EV production is no longer limited by demand, but by availability of batteries.

>Demand will only go down when you make consuming fossil fuels economically painful.

Demand can be lowered by mandating fuel savings and some mild taxation. Sometimes even just asking (like a recent UK campaign did) helps.

>No one is going to voluntarily leave cheap energy in the ground unconsumed/non combusted.

The lower demand is, the less economic to extract.

>You must continue to drive down the cost of clean energy and using that clean energy for work (mobility, battery storage for grid balancing and energy arbitrage, etc).

Yes, we must keep plugging away at this. But IMHO supply side manipulation of fossils is not effective anymore, and has significant downsides.
Either letting the user choose, or the developers setting a default (ideally with the interests of their users in mind). Of course, the latter is subject to interpretation, and a privacy-focused application might make a different choice than standard consumer products.
On top of these options, with modern browsers, it's quite easy to make reactive components in plain vanilla ( https://benoitessiambre.com/vanilla.html ). I find this approach very usable for smaller simpler projects where you don't need a full framework.
There wouldn't be no infrastructure, it would just have to be scaled back to a level where it could be paid for with real surpluses rather than the fake surplus created by pretending that only digging up oil and coal have a cost, while burning it is free.
> It's almost nothing but plaintext, one static CSS file, and some images. One time in a hundred, when I select a new story, the lightly-shaded background of the page blanks through white because loading a couple resources takes too long.

That doesn't sound right to me. Why isn't the "one static CSS file" cached? It should load instantly because it's already in your browser and doesn't need to fetch anything. I've created/maintained static sites as well and I've never run into this visual hiccup you are describing.
This is intentional and part of the business model of most companies selling ERP solutions. They deliberately (or incompetently) make their product so overcomplicated that noone outside of their consultant team can make heads or tails of it. Then they can charge big bucks or consulting fees.
it's a carveout and preferential treatment of (certain kinds of) capital. that's a subsidy, no matter the mechanism of return.
SpaceX fires up all 6 engines of Starship prototype ahead of orbital test flight
> Lacking an unsafe keyword does make it more unsafe, but in my experience, not very much.

The problem is not "lacking an unsafe keyword", it's that Zig is not memory safe. Not being memory safe, in my experience, makes a massive difference.
I had a stats professor theorize that at some point all stats calculations would be done with simulations instead of formulas, since formulas are simplified models of reality whereas simulations can capture much more of the complexity if properly constructed. This was 10 or 15 years ago and the feeling was computers were either fast enough already or would be soon enough for most problems. This came up as a result of a similar observation about the transition from tables to graphing calculators for probability distributions and things like that.
> "Some thing didn't write properly? Cool! Where and which line?"

My eyes glaze over when I'm trying to read stack traces in Java or Python, and then it turns out I can't figure out what's wrong because the stack trace doesn't include the path of the file that failed to parse.

What we care about is stuff like:

- Program tried to parse file X,

- Failed because file X doesn't exist, or because file contains syntax errors, or something

- Some context giving us the reason why program tried to read file X, which is usually at a fairly high level (something like "could not load config").

Putting the function name in the error-handling code is something that you SOMETIMES do, but only when it adds important context. If you do it all the time you end up with something completely unreadable, like a stack trace. There are various libraries you can use that give you stack traces for errors in Go, if that's what you want.

If I get an error that X is not a valid JSON file--often, that's all I need to know, because I can open X and see the syntax error and fix it. Knowing the name of the function that detected the syntax error is unhelpful, usually, and we have logging + debuggers to help with those cases.
This implies that the poster is the kind of person who doesn't find fulfillment in making choices that align with their ethics system unless the world also aligns with their ethics system. Like I said before, I don't think someone who would join an anti-abuse team follows this behavior pattern.

Additionally, the belief in one's own moral choices and behavior is often one of the important steps in finding fulfillment in yourself. If your fulfillment is reliant on external validation, you will always be found wanting.
Does Betteredge's law of headlines apply to academic papers?
And in zig lang which is quite interesting
This isn't a surprise.

Meta's headcount grew 32% in one year, and revenues went down 1% YoY in Q2. Wall Street expects it to go down even more YoY in Q3. Layoffs usually happen in September since that's when budgets are set. So they objectively overhired, expect to shrink, are now just laying off non-revenue generating divisions.

Some can argue there's no such thing as non-revenue generating divisions. Every division contributes, and this one could have helped with the Meta brand, public perception, user retention, etc. But the real way you solve that (as AI researchers have solved) is not having a firefighting team that's expected to fix everything; it's instilling the proper behaviors, processes and culture within each and every team in the company. Having these discrete "divisions" serves PR goals more than anything, and that's expensive PR.

This is exactly like Steve Jobs laying off the Advanced Technology Group. Did that signal a "neglect" of R&D? No.

I personally believe that even Meta management is far more pessimistic about its stock than Wall Street is, and that's why they're playing it careful. Wall Street expects a 10% growth in revenue in 2023. Usercount isn't growing. So FB needs to cut spending and focus on core product and increasing revenue per user. Straightforward.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of one of the frameworks mentioned in this thread.

Yes, HTML/CSS/JS are perfectly fine tools for web development. But just like it's not as efficient to use a hammer as a nail gun, using HTML/CSS/JS alone might not be the best choice if you're trying to build something highly interactive or if you have other concerns (e.g. a very large team that consistently steps on each others' toes on accident).

I'd encourage that you try to actually take HTML/CSS/JS as far as you can take them, if nothing else to experience the pain points of using them at high levels of complexity yourself. This can give you an appreciation for why frameworks do things the way they do. For example, routers are patterns that every framework dealing w/ parameterized pages eventually lands on because it's a pattern that makes it easier to manage page parameterization.

It can be argued that some frameworks land on seemingly strange or overly complicated APIs sometimes, but that's just the realities of engineering. We try to make the best decisions with the known information at the time, and then we have to consider maintenance costs after the fact. Nobody is perfect and sometimes we only see flaws in an approach through hindsight. There's also such a thing as using the wrong tool for the job. Frameworks usually have scope and an idiomatic way of being used. These indicates which use cases the frameworks are strong for, and which aren't.

Most self-respecting frameworks will have some sort of tutorial that you can follow to get a feel for what type of tasks they are trying to optimize for. Try them out to see if that's what you need. If it's not, that's ok, there are plenty of other tools that could fit the bill better. My recommendation would be to try different "categories" of frameworks. For example, React/Vue/Svelte are very similar in scope, so trying one should give you an idea of what all three are more or less all about. You could try htmx, or GWT or even jQuery to experience completely different flavors of "framework-ness", maybe one of those will "click" better. Maybe you'll find that vanilla HTML/CSS/JS is all you need after all, and that's ok too.