skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A subsidy is just a benefit given by a government for public interest reasons (in the view of said government, which may or may not match yours), so I don't see why what you said would prevent these from being subsidies.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you speak as if "subsidy" were a derogatory term, a word associated to wasteful ideas that cannot be applied to something that you consider necessary. That's a highly ideological view, not an objective view of the term.
It did for a short while as an extension, then Google decided to throw away Intel's work and only support compute in WebGPU.
This behavior always reminds me of book "The World Without Us"[0] in which the author points out that, of all our domesticated animals, cats would definitely survive due to their excellent hunting skills in a world without humans.
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us
> No part of LSD makes upper-floor windows magnetic

Salvinorin-a on the other hand has (slightly?) more potential for this scenario. Users can experience what they call “salvia gravity,” a sensation of being pulled in some particular direction, which they follow with their body. I saw someone curl into and begin to lean against a 2nd-floor window screen. His friends kept him safe for the ~7 minutes the trip lasted. If he had been alone though, he could have fallen out.

I don’t know how common that effect is, and it’s quite different from the folklore of people thinking they can fly on acid. This is just a PSA for the few people who are interested in trying that particular drug.
The "letters to the editor" are really fun to read -- it's like reading the HN comments of the time, with the same combination of insight and cynicism.

> In response to Gregg Williams' editorial ("The New Generation of Human- Engineered Software," April, p. 6), the mouse of Lisa, Visi On, and their predecessor, the Xerox Star, is a truly fascinating hardware device, and on those few occasions that I have seen these devices in use, I have been impressed. But the mouse is not revolutionary, and, as its name suggests, it is really nothing more than a rodent. Its functional predecessor was the light pen. Some years ago, light pens were fashionable devices for selecting a particular function, and they are still in use. But displays attaching light pens had to have an appropriate phosphor, and they were not as easy to program as function keys. About the same time, touch- sensitive screens were introduced, and they are still used in applications such as online catalogs in libraries; here, too, however, programming appears to be the chief stumbling block.

> If the name of the game is "ease of use," the industry would be far wiser to develop touch-sensitive displays than mice. Because a display has no moving parts, it is likely to prove more durable than a mouse. And a finger placed on a display screen does not require additional desk space, as a mouse does. If an executive were having an office conference, don't you think he might rather touch his screen a couple of times than roll a mouse around his desk pressing buttons on it?

> There are, obviously, many considerations at work in the development of new products. My bet, simply stated, is that the mouse is not a viable product. At best, it will limp along like bubble memory. - John P. Rash, President, Acorn Data Ltd.

There's also:

- Several refutations to a previous letter which claimed CRT monitors are a radiation hazard

- An engineer from Intel responding to criticisms of their FORTRAN compiler with "those issues have been fixed in the latest version"

- Debate over structured programming and strong typing

- Debate on what "computer literacy" means and whether the general population needs it (including a claim that WYSYWIG editors and desktop file managers do not make computers easier to use because "a desktop manager is only a sophisticated analog for being able to copy one file into another")

- Conversations on software prices and piracy

- And, of course, someone pointing out a typo in an article.
> You could possibly get a result by hiring a lawyer

The submitter agreed to indemnify ArXiv. So they have to hire ArXiv's lawyer too.
You discount the 4 years they spent at Flywheel 2015-2019.
On the music player side yes, but it had a lot of features/bloat like the music store and iPod synchronization.
A place called Hackernews, however, you need a time machine.
I've been using VictoriaMetrics for years already and I must say it's simply perfect.

It's not only about its performance but the entire ecosystem and the absolutely zero friction upgrade experience.

It's so, so good.

Happy to share notes if interested.
I believe there has been a recent effort to move it forward. That's how it came to my attention.
Disutility of Stock Market Losses: Evidence from Domestic Violence
No, that's exactly correct. I joined Twitter to solve a problem. A problem that my boss's boss, as well as plenty of other people, did not give two shits about solving. He certainly did not want me under him, and it was far easier for him to engineer a "layoff" than try to transfer me somewhere else.

And I get the Machiavellian calculus. I cared about Twitter and its users, especially the marginalized ones that were facing a lot of abuse. He cared about his own career, and wanted people who would put his advancement first. I would not have done that, so pushing out me and anybody else who really cared about the problem was the correct move in his self-centered analysis.
After speaking with many people in and around real estate in TN,it seems that a move to Nashville from CA / Chicago, NY, etc. could save quite a lot in taxes.

Yes the cost of living is lower, yes you can get a house with yard for the price of an apartment, food is cheaper, etc..

However for many leaving there for here, eliminating state income tax, and especially with SALT tax thing that changed some years ago ( https://taxfoundation.org/tax-basics/salt-deduction/ ), they seem to save $30,000 in taxes (?) or so on average I think the numbers have been.

If you have fancy cars / boats etc that are subject to personal property tax per year you may find saving thousands there as well.

Certainly this is not the same for $10 / hour fast food workers or billionaires with fancy tax vehicles.

Granted, services and things are different - so no way to make it not apples to oranges - but tax is indeed relevant to a set of people that consider ~30k / year to be a big deal.
FTC document:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/07/13/2022-14...
flyio since Heroku had the little accident, works for me
Thanks Google that dropped them out of Chrome and we all know how the Web is basically whatever Chrome does, so WebGPU it is.
https://www.state.gov/executive-order-13224/
Of course. Everyone in every industry and most personal tax forms spread out the costs of assets over the lifetime of the assets.

Thought experiment: What do you think would happen if people and companies could not spread the costs of their assets out over time?
Saying no one cares about breaches and security and the security and privacy of customer data is inaccurate.

If you don’t care go ahead and post your social security number in this thread.
I don't know, my blog is small, but I don't think so. Especially since it's a blog about programming I'm sure it's not the kind of stuff you'll share on Facebook...

I removed it today after seeing the impact on page size.

I guess it works for some niches like news, online quizz, etc.
Well, why wouldn’t they reply with $(way over book)+1?
I used to feel the same when I worked for a bank. And then I worked at a place where security was so unregulated that TBs of data and millions of user’s accounts could be stolen just with a shared password and no one would notice
Renewable energy just isn't up to the task in the timeframe we are talking about and in Germany where there really just isn't that much sun.

Long term, 100 percent. We need renewables and we should be Manhattan projecting fusion, energy storage, and transport lines.

But until we have breakthroughs, we are stuck with brown energy.
It's not a tech community then if half of users engage in hot item political topics on the regular, is it?
When did we decide the only people who could be CEOs had to be blessed with magic CEO-dust or whatever, and must be showered with cash because there aren't enough people so-dusted and they're apparently impossible to train unless they've had just the right pedigree from birth? Is there really no-one at the company who could do the job and would be happy to take a promotion and a "mere" $1M salary? It's not fucking brain surgery, normal people can figure it out, and they used to. It's just a job.

In Mozilla's case especially, such a gamble ("gamble"—I really don't think it's that out-there) seems eminently worth it, since they've been treading water at best for over a decade. What's the worst that can happen? They fail? Already happening.

I suspect this entire trend (across the economy, not just at Mozilla) is due to some combo of our modern intense aversion for taking responsibility for anything whatsoever, and pervasive self-dealing in the management class. Board won't replace the "right" kind of person with the "wrong" kind because it's Simply Not Done—why, if anyone in the top half of the intelligence bell curve and an OK work ethic could do their jobs with just a little experience and training, they might no longer command such insane salaries! Can't have that.

But, I'm open to the possibility that it did in fact become unworkable, for some reason I don't know about, to just train people into these positions as-needed, and in fact we do have to pay stupid amounts of money to a tiny, incestuous c-suite class who are the only possible candidates for these roles, or else everything will fall apart.
A bit of devil's advocate here, but the slower people in the group are willing and able to rest at any point that the fast hiker is ahead and the fast hiker would never even know.
We have verifiable evidence of Facebook as a platform being used to instigate genocide[0] among other issues. Dismissing a concern that a platform could be used for harm against children as fallacious reasoning is a fallacy fallacy if you have no additional points to add to the discussion as to why you feel that is relevant.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934
> Does SAP do something better for international finance/etc. than others or is it just an accepted standard?

Yes, it does it correctly for tax purposes everywhere and can be used in a way which conforms with how these companies want to do their accountings for shareholders reporting. Also it used by so many companies that every niche thing you want to do has probably already been done.

The people here complaining about the UX for reporting their hours just have no idea of the mind boggling complexity of the problem space. There is a reason everyone use SAP and it’s not because it’s bad.
Insulating a home does not give you a 50% reduction! It's closer to 15%.

You might get 50% on a leaky barn with zero insulation, but how many homes in Europe are like that?

(Note I'm not saying not to do this - certainly do this, just have proper expectations.)
My primary datapoint on SAP is that Google has a class of high memory instances designed for SAP: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/memory-optimized-machi...

The come in ~6TB and ~12TB.

Somehow, that tells so much about SAP and the institutions that depend on it.
AssemblyScript project: WASI damages open standards and the web
Yes, lack of source makes this difficult to trust.
The democrats are completely out of touch with the people they're supposed to serve. Let's hope the dems lose both the House & Senate in November so we can regain some normalcy.
3.. 2.. 1..

Someone starts a subscription service for small bars of hotel style soap, perhaps themes of hotel, room type, region, season regional or other soap minutiae, shipped once a month.

Like Candy Japan, but for tiny bars of hotel soap.
Alaska just announced a record high PFD for this year, over $2B payout, highest in the programs 41 years. And the reasons for it being so high? “Energy costs and inflation” (totally unrelated side note: our Republican governor is up for re-election).
The numbers are more than sloppy, they are (technically) flat-out wrong. New York State imposes income tax on out-of-state workers based on a convenience of the employer test. (The law was passed when workers started leaving NYC for nearby states when people discovered they could work from home before the pandemic.) So in many cases, even if you don't work in New York, you still get to pay New York State income tax, unless you check a bunch of (rather arbitrary) boxes.

The law itself, IMO, should be struck down by the interstate commerce clause. Additionally, it's the wrong fix: if New York wants to retain citizens, they should reduce the tax burden to compete with neighboring states, not attempt to legally overreach and clutch money as hard as they can.
I think VR is as much about GAMES as it is hardware. I don't think anyone, even Apple, can nail the hardware but they might. But I know FOR SURE Apple won't nail the games. Look at Amazon's attempts (lol).
Sorry XD

I actually just bake stuff from recipes once in a while. Sounds like you're actually a lot more experienced than me.
Firefox making it easy to change the default (or worse, prompting the user on first-run with some choices) would devalue the default. That default is how Mozilla makes money, so I don't expect them to address this any time soon.
I've noticed people that like writing code in Zig are fans the language and the people that like writing code in Rust center their identity around the language. The former leads to people saying they enjoy writing code in Zig, the later leads to religious zealotry and moral condemnation for using anything other than Rust.
In my day job I work with frameworks, and do vanilla development for all of my personal projects. But then I realize that in the end I'm just building my own frameworks (DB, states, UI), that I might use or fragment and reuse in other projects, because it all becomes boilerplate, and the top level logic is what's different and actually matters.
Ending our farm subsidies entirely(SNAP benefits excluded)would remove a lot of nasty incentives in our system that help keep us unhealthy
Seriously. I think the author just chose a very poor analogy for their social critique.

> unless you're hiking in dangerous wilderness, there is no hard reason to prefer larger numbers.

This is simply untrue. Many people hike in groups because it is drastically safer than hiking solo. There are plenty of stories where separated hikers simply disappear after going off-trail in thick brush to use the restroom. THIS is the primary reason why the stigma exists and the author completely brushes it aside.

If you're a person hiking in "non-dangerous" wilderness you probably need the group even more since you likely failed to bring a map and compass, much less any survival gear. You may very well not know which trail you're on nor have planned for features and junctions to expect. The bare minimum you can do is stay with a few extra people who can help carry you out when you sprain your ankle or worse.
How long would it take to properly insulate all the buildings that need to be heated but are inadequately insulated?

I have no idea what the situation is with availability of insulation contractors and supplies, but I'm guessing years? Certainly won't be possible by this winter.
Why wouldn't EU energy consumers have done that already if they can save that much money?
I have an Android and RCS works perfectly... This is someone coming from iPhones
You hate a valuable ecosystem because your company product managers listened to someone else?

I hope you find a new job. That's like saying you hate bananas because someone asked for a pie and you said you'd make an apple pie and they said they'd make a banana pie and they decided to choose the banana pie instead of your apple pie.
This was at worst a mildly controversial comment until you got to the point declaring that all police officers are spouse-beating adulterers.
It'll be worse than Second Life because they'll censor anything that isn't brand-friendly to Facebook (and there is certainly a lot of stuff like that on SL - it's a lot of the reason people play it!)
You have chance to prevent it. It's not going to be perfect but use huge lesson learned from js ecosystem "mess" (I found this triggers some (many) js folks, it's quite ridiculous).

Javascript "mess" in browsers could be reduced by dividing into two parts. DOM stuff, and pure language stuff. The first part can stay as is. Probably wrapped into thin API for new lang interop. The second part is a completely new lang that compile to wasm (ideal if vice-versa) so that backend could also send wasm to browser and be able to interact with DOM too.

Next, backend js "mess" can be stopped because we have a better way for other languages to develop for the web.
You certainly can, and we did, with NodeBB. We use plain html, css, and js (with jquery) and a couple of bespoke components that work for our needs (templating engine, i18n, utils methods, etc.)

We call out to libraries when doing things that are better handled via a library.

Guess what, when you use a bespoke solution for common tasks, you end up with something that blows past every other competitor's benchmarks, without even trying.

e.g. take a look at Benchpress, our templating engine: https://github.com/benchpressjs/benchpressjs/
Ok.

Now I'm wondering, if you go from the space ship, say 1000 km into the direction of the Sun, and then somehow apply a very small force to the radiation, would it be possible to make the radiation go past the space ship?
I'll throw in https://caldom.org/
You could, but you'd be reinventing the wheel. You might start with some snippets you copy around, and every now and then you have to go back to all your previous projects to fix some change required in new browsers. So you might start using version numbers on your snippets you can figure out what you used when. But then you figure some HTML and CSS go really well together, so you try to put those snippets alongside each other and bundle them up. Your JavaScript probably needs to know which one of those HTML and CSS snippet bundles you are using, so you'll want to make sure that you specify which one you are using in your JavaScript.

At this point you're building a crappy version of a module and package manager, but all by yourself, nobody else is using your stuff, and you can't use their stuff either because it's not in your bespoke format.

All of the examples and concepts here are just inter-project related, but this applies within a project all the same.
hoo boy if you car owners think youre getting screwed in the recession, its been like this for motorcycles for about 30 years. "oh we just sold it" "oh that ones not on our lot" "the price is only for financing."

I once had a dealer advertise a two year old but new Yamaha, on paper, for six grand less than the wheelbarrow of fees that showed up after I asked for a quote in person. The "documentation" meeting was nearly an hour of upsells for special wax, special accessories, "racing nitrogen" in the tires on a touring bike, a 3000 mile care package, you name it. and each "document" was literally trying to get me to sign an agreement to purchase until the very end where I signed the receipt and state title forms.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Looks Like a ‘Failure,’ CIA Director Says
Could you send me an invite? I promise I will only talk about tech.
> the government will have plenty of money to buy EV's for the proletariat

That increases demand. The problem isn’t demand. People are putting down deposits and paying over sticker price. The problem is supply. The government buying EVs for everyone does nothing to solve that problem.
> In some cases it's justified. But if I just want to invest in a rural house in Arizona that is used as a vacation spot, what's the issue with that?

I think it's because that house is in a community that people need to live in. There are too many instance to count where vacation rentals have priced residents out of their own communities. And when the people can't live there, how are they going to work there?
I think yes, not doing this at all (for 4 years until election cycle) is a better decision than making us less prepared to deal with this immidiate future.
> Also, oil companies largely don't pay for the environmental damage they do.

This is possibly the largest subsidy given to energy companies. Maybe the damage they do to human health is larger.
Hits the nail on the head.

Client side frameworks are still missing it, however, when it comes to:
1. Supporting persistent client side state
2. Syncing local state to the server and back
3. Variation of (2) but collaborative state

Aside --
Reactivity could be straightforward in vanilla js with some tweaks to event handling and in-browser support for dom diffing. I made this reactive vanilla js todomvc in ~200 sloc to explore the idea: https://tantaman.com/2021-02-12-Todo-MVC.html
Explain heartbeats?
Which means that this can now play out with tablets instead of bars of soap.
Pointing to individual responsibility is a great diversion strategy, well done!
For that particular problem, only one team seems to acknowledge that it is a serious problem though.

Pushing the responsibility on individuals is pretty much what happened for the past 30 years with the results we know.
In a recent project, I wrote my own template class that works kind of like Lithtml but without any kind of magic reactivity. It just rerenders when properties are updated through the "set()" method.

https://github.com/numtel/democratic-capital/blob/master/src...

An example template:

https://github.com/numtel/democratic-capital/blob/master/src...
Sure they do, but do a meaningful number of people use it for niche geek blogs? No. Major news sites? Sure.
First of all who is "they"? Then from what I can see all the dams that were removed were not very valuable for energy.

And finally the dams that were removed were small ones, not ones that are used to store water.
I just wanted to add my favourite feature which is how easy it is to have high availability.

I run all my Prometheus in pairs, each sending all metrics to two VM on-prem (Hetzner) servers. Here's the magic, each VM server will dedup metrics (remember, they are all coming from two Prom instances).
This way you have a simple and reliable HA long retention storage.

I only deal with 500k active series but I'd bet I can deal with 10-20x more with the same setup.
I don’t remember the source but there was a linked article here a while ago about how to effectively manage “blockers” like this. The example given was a med device company where the engineers hated the regulatory department who always told them no. Manager decided to actually increase engagement and bring on one person from the reg side to their meetings. At some point a person said “well we’d love to do this but no way would the FDA allow us to do it.” The regulatory employee basically said “do you even know the regulations? There’s a very easy pathway to doing exactly that.”

My boss once did a similar thing with the quality department. Suddenly we sailed through our DFMEAs. Some people do live to block others, but some are trying to do an important job. Engagement usually pays more than just whinging.
Microsoft had DirectX and a decent kernel before building the XBox.
The hardware part was much easier, and also an easy target (do better than Sony) and they had a slow start.

Also, MS had quite a bit of experience in building/maintaining a platform for developers.

Frankly, we're not talking about the same kind of leap.