skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this the kind of argument that bites the government in the foot?

On the one hand, plenty of antitrust people argue that Google is a natural monopoly and needs to be broken up because the regular rules of competition aren't working.

On the other hand, here's the DOJ seemingly arguing the opposite -- that Google needs to fight so hard to maintain competitive dominance that it's forced to pay billions of dollars just to keep its market position.

You can't have it both ways. And companies strike exclusivity deals all the time, that's normal capitalism. Really this is just ammunition for why Google isn't abusing anything, it's just competing normally.
Andrew Dent and Elena Donio were consultants on the internal MSFT SAP implementation. They took what they learned about building friendly procurement and expense reporting SAP front end apps to Concur.
A change has been proposed to the old axiom about falsehoods:

Lies, damn lies, statistics, and computer models.
But you also get yourself dependent on fw devs. And they most certainly don't care about you, your needs and your customers. Wix? That Wix that broke support for all old browsers and devices? Lost views and customers? Thanks, but NO, THANKS. And you, as a site owner, can do NOTHING. You rely on what you're offered. They break it - you're screwed.
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People who fly a lot get significant cosmic radiation exposure.
> there wasn't a Turbo Pascal for anything other than the IBM PC, so far as I recall

There was a z80 version of Turbo Pascal that ran on CP/M machines (incidentally, one thing that’s striking about the first several years of BYTE is how many huge Cromenco ads there are) as well as the Apple II with a Z80 card. That, along with x86 support, covered a lot of ground.
Or you can avoid frontend work
So now I can blame my poor dietary choices and comfort eating on my "gut-brain connection"? Sweet! /s

But in all seriousness, this was already known. We are wired from evolution to de drawn to fatty foods, from the caveman times when food was a scarce luxury, and fats were a dense source of calories that could keep out bodies going for longer especially in harsh climates, therefore eating as much fat as you could find was a must for survival. In the middle age paintings, a lot of women were on the plus side as the body fat was a sign of health, wealth, good nutrition, fertility and capacity to carry out pregnancies and feed babies.

But in our modern sedentary world where calories are abundant (in the west at least) fatty foods are more of a health risk than a benefit for the general population.

But still, I love the taste of fatty foods and loathe the taste of the low-fat variants. Cappucino just tastes like crap with soy/low-fat milk. Cheese and butter tastes amazing. Fatty fish and foul is a delight. Beef cuts with lots of marbling is better. And in general, foods cooked in animal fat are something else. To me at least, other people might have different tastes. But now I know I can blame my caveman ancestors for my cravings.

There's also this new keto diet that sprung up in the weight-loss, body-building circles a while back, based on this theory that we should feed like our caveman ancestors, using only proteins and fats with zero carbs. I'm not an expert so I cannot comment on this diet though.
> Indeed, it assumes that it's very important for the entire group to stick together. That it would be bad to split up, or for someone to be left walking alone behind the pack.

This was a dead giveaway for me that the author has little experience hiking. So many comments here about socializing, politeness, etc, not even mentioning the danger. But people plugged into the community and reading about incidents know how quickly things can turn from routine to crisis, and how many of them could have been prevented or mitigated by following these simple rules. Just one of many, many examples: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/17/new-hampshire-o...

For whoever needs to hear it: HIKING IS DANGEROUS!!! Respect the wilderness, prepare, and take care of each other.
It is puzzling that lower income is associated with obesity. Perhaps reforming SNAP to exclude more sugary and processed foods might be good policy.
Responsibility is zero sum, or any conversations about it are meaningless. This is quite handily illustrated by your comment actually - where does it end? How much of an "inkling" must people have to carry responsibility? It doesn't sound like a question of fact exactly.

The only way to objectively agree about responsibility is to use an actor/agent model, where actors are entirely responsible for their actions, and only actions which directly harm others are considered. Otherwise we're discussing which butterflies are responsible for which hurricanes. I'm happy to be wrong here, but I just don't see an alternative framework that can realistically, objectively, draw actionable boundaries around responsibility for action. This by the way is the model that is used in common law.

Facebook being a complex tool strengthens my point. Should providers of complex tools be responsible for every possible use of them? Is it not possible to provide a complex tool "as is" without warranty? Wouldn't constraining tool makers in this way be fundamentally harmful?

> online communication systems enable harm... Facebook is morally responsible for that harm

Everything can be seen to "enable harm". Facebook being morally responsible is not a statement of fact, it's an opinion. Facebook's actions to mitigate are a) to evade/delay regulatory action, b) to maintain their public image or c) by a small group of activist employees. Only a) and b) align with their fiduciary duty to shareholders.
I was looking at purchasing a newer, used Land Rover a few months back from a Land Rover dealership (one that had a sterling reputation prior to a buy out). The sheet of non-negotiable fees was rolled out, which raised the price nearly $5,000. The $1895 for "Executive Concierge Fee" blew my mind, consisting of your basic $150 detail and a slew of additional items that one could buy and apply from any Pep Boys for under $100. Funny enough, when I got up to walk away I was asked if I would buy the vehicle that day if some of those $5,000 of "non-negotiable" fees were removed.

I contacted the sales manager to tell him why I'd never be back. They couldn't care less. It must mean that enough people fall for these scam fees or don't pay attention to the line items that they can afford to not care.

It looks like that rule would address this, and I'm for it.
Sorry, explain to me how Marconi directly profited from the Rwandan genocide?

In any case, perfection is rarely possible but often an excellent goal to aim for. For example, consider child car fatalities. We might not immediately get it to zero, but that is no reason to say, "Fuck it, they can always have more kids."
I'm selling carbon credits too, by the way. If you want to be absolved of your sins of pollution, just send me money and I'll email you an official Cyberdog Planetary Salvation Certification. It's very easy. I'll use all funds to plant trees or whatever, minus obligatory administration fees (don't worry about it). Just ping me with however many credits you need and I'll send you my CashApp tag or Dogecoin wallet address.
I think the point of “nitrogen” is more that it’s dry and impurity free, vs shop air that can have a lot of moisture and other junk in it. Ever drain an air compressor tank off the water that accumulated inside? They get filthy with rusty water.
Cool story bro. You should just start your own company and get a CEO and pay her $40k.
You're suggesting that you can find things you assume correlate with what people want out of a community, but several people here commenting they can't define what they want. There's low odds of it somehow matching what they want, but struggle to express.
> Young (< 50) healthy adults shouldn’t even really be getting annual checkups (in my professional opinion and per several guidelines) and annual blood work is definitely not indicated.

Tell this to my mom.
Everyone Wants to Ban Certain Content Online. No One Wants to Talk Enforcement
It's cool if you don't like cats but I think the op was pointing out that some people think cats are just vengeful little maniacs. Which some of them are but they have a very wide range of personalities and classifying them all as such is a bit unfair.

Also, cats express themselves just as much as dogs if not more. They just do it much differently. I can tell what my cat wants just by the way she meows.
> "Clinton should get most of the blame."

I apologize, this was not my intent.
If you're looking at it narrowly in terms of US's actual invasions, perhaps. But the US foreign policy in the Middle East has generally been directed towards "keep the oil flowing" to such a degree that there's not really any other coherent vision or grand strategy at play in that region.
You also forgot to mention Flash :) It was starting to solve all the problems: from design to inveractivity. But then Adobe.
Same here as a backend engineer.

I went into js/ts because I wanted to create something that I can interact with graphically, I don't really care about DOM.

Worked out for me mostly:

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata

https://prehistoric.tech

These are built with typescript and compiled to js, with HTTP/CSS being static. And basically no framework usage. All of the complexity are essentially the simulation themselves.
What if a car company could only stay in business because of the interest it collects on financing?
> It makes sense for Europeans to experience ludicrous natural gas bills, but not someone in NY.

It's a globally traded commodity. If someone in NY won't pay 40% more, someone in Europe will. Just like you work for who gives you the most compelling offer, so too does natural gas go to who presents the most compelling offer.

> the US should not make citizens suffer in order to prop up European nations

Given that the US is where most of the natural gas is produced, per your comment, the US will realize a huge windfall by shipping its product to Europe at a high markup. The citizens of the US will be emboldened by it. They may have to pay more for heat, but stand to gain even more than that. Europe loses either way.
> refactor crucial bits in Rust

on't forget rewriting all the scripts in Zig of course.
Execute to me would be providing the user experience they're showing in their own videos, many of which are simply not possible with headset technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAL2JZxpoGY

Just a ton of little things. Woman floating horizontally in space. Possible to render. Not possible to convey to the player. Cards, basically impossible to actually have cards that have good physics in a networked game like that. The smooth floaty motion and spinning is particularly dumb.
Salesforce carved off a big chunk of SAP's business, and is currently valued at $155B.

I'm sure their goal was to eventually replace SAP. Instead, I think they ended up with an 80% solution that requires the customers to invest 20% as much time as a full SAP setup.

For instance, Salesforce spends a lot of effort on sales and customer facing things. SAP does that too, but it also does logistics. Logistics infrastructure is much harder to reuse across industries than sales and customer support.
Is this even worth doing when people are still smoking, drinking alcohol, living in polluted areas and eating red meat? These are all known risk factors with large effects on cancer risk in younger people.

I think the effort is better spent as follows:

- ban sale of combustible tobacco products

- ban advertising of alcoholic beverages
Not only that, it's actually INCREASING the amortization schedule (for geological and geophysical expenditures) from 24 months to 7 years. So not only is the comment misleading, it's straight up wrong
One of the features in go that makes it workable is you can assign it away via:
_ = somevar

That eliminates the unused chain problem. Not sure if zig included that part of the feature as well.

Generally I agree though. The main problem with forcing unused variables, imo, is that it forces you to think a certain way. When I'm exploring the solution space on something, those constraints feel inhibiting.
If a carpenter chops his fingers off, it's not the fault of the saw. People who use programs should be expected to know what's safe to put in and out. Having a base level expectation of competence for operators is normal.

A separate text input is just stdin by another name.

Yes, I believe people who paste URLs into the terminal should examine those URLs - you generally have to trim some stuff, quote, or rewrite things to make them useful. If you believe in wildly flinging data everywhere, good on you, I'd rather deal with easily avoidable problems such as demonstrated in TFA.
How am I eliding anything? My statement is that the only quantitative number in the first 2 paragraphs is the ">2%" figure.

I'm also not criticizing the study, I'm criticizing the article and your defense of it. If "you have to use the citations given to understand the broader context of the study" - then if the point of a pop sci article is to effectively communicate the salience of the paper to lay audience, then that broader context needs to be communicated too.
> "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?"
The right way to reduce CO2 emissions is to simply tax the carbon content of fuels as they are sold from the refinery. Increase the tax until the usage goes down.

Simple, effective, efficient, and boring. And hard to virtue signal one's way out of.
ok so a bunch of ppl were playing fornite in april 2020. that doesnt mean that people want to watch vr concerts
You can also replace SAP with Salesforce in this parent comment ^
How many month’s salary would the writer need to have lost before you unlock some praise?
We should have infrasteucture, but uts about who is paying for it.

As a non-user of cars, I still pay for highways. But a non-user of trains doesn't pay for railways.

Buyers of electric cars get more cash subsidy than my ebike costs to build! Why don't we give out same subsidy to people who want yo buy a bike or to spend on railway tickets?

I am a user of Cycles, and I don't get shit - I dont even get space to ride - there are almost no dedicated roads for bikes.

For the ampunt we spend on fixing roads, we could give everyone a new ebike every two years.

Airplabes are even worse. Ebikes, Cars and trains pay taxes on fuel and electricity, but airplanes don't.

So why are subsidies distributed so unfairly? At least make them equal
Or companies with venture capital? Something that seems easy if you’re literally pumping oil.
Be patient. There's about to be a glut of available vehicles [1] in the near future. The boat market is also showing the same signs.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/gen-z-millennials-...
All communication systems enable harm, and more generally all systems that allow people to interact enable harm. In the US, the true responsibility for regulating harms lies with the duly elected government exercising its regulatory powers on behalf of the people. It does not lay with the unelected unaccountable members of Responsible Innovation Teams and Online Safety Teams. This form of tyranny persists because the majority of our representatives established their power bases before the advent of the Internet. Hopefully, in the next decade or two, we will be able to effectively subjugate and regulate the King Georges of the large social platforms.
Apple supporters don't seem to understand RCS is supposed to replace SMS/MMS - not replace iMessage.

iDevice <-> iDevice messaging will continue to use iMessage - it's everyone else that would receive RCS messages, and that's an enormous improvement over SMS/MMS. Not supporting RCS for non-Apple devices is absurd today, and would be trivial for Apple to implement.

So... we're left to believe it's an intentional decision to degrade messages with non-Apple devices.

As an aside, it's absurd to have proprietary texting protocols in 2022... Apple's iMessage might be great, but it requires an Apple device to work. That's frankly ridiculous. Let's get a standard that replaces SMS/MMS for everyone...
So two months, assuming 40 hour work week, ends up being a comment with 320 hours of integrity behind it. Still very impressive, thanks for bringing it to the time domain.
Hahah, I'm not surprised. Them config files have created a niche FE DevOps Specialist role.

To be fair, while the hours of painful medium articles and gists research, the knowledge gained has given me a better understanding of Webpack, and I do feel more confident when taking on various tutorials which all have different approaches to fit the config to my needs. But still, as a newcomer to JS or someone in OP's position, the build game is certainly a lot more complicated than your command!

....btw, I have no idea what your command does/says :D. Linux (Ubuntu) CLI syntax has been something I've tried to improve on over the years.
I bet you would have killed for Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org) in the '80s. Actually, I wish I could integrate it directly into my editor today. (Well, preferably something running locally rather than a web service.)
> Responsibility is zero sum, or any conversations about it are meaningless.

That's incorrect. I'd suggest you start with Dekker's "Field Guide to 'Human Error", which looks at airplane safety. Airplanes are only as safe as they are because many different people and groups see themselves as responsible. Your supposedly "objective" model, if followed, would drastically increase deaths.
Or we could simply not comply with their attempt to launder their reputation, and keep calling them Facebook.
Oh for sure....but I am speaking extremely broadly....society and culture (two things that cover pretty much everything humans do), both "Western" and international.

We live on a planet, that much seems mostly agreed upon...and, we do various things in a various way(s), "that's how it is"...and, it produces the results we see around us (which some people think are great, others not so much).

We could try doing things massively differently than the way we do now and see what results that has. Or heck, we could even imagine doing things other ways, and imagine what results that might produce. Of course, people typically lose control of their imaginations when doing this...but maybe we should try not doing that.

The reality runtime we are in seems to afford us substantial optionality for experimentation - I propose we take advantage of this option.
Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists(2018)
Love retro magazines. Byte had some great covers. I recently flipped through an old Compute! magazine looking at the type-in programs for different computer platforms at the time (IBM PCjr, Commodore, Apple, Atari).
> Most of these are not so much "subsidies" so much as normal bookkeeping practices as employed by the oil industry. Developing a new copper mine would count as an R&D expense, but not a new oil well.

Which part specifically seems like "normal bookkeeping" to you?

This bill:
- 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).
Over 90% of the projects at work I would categorize as "very successful and high business impact" I did on my own and just showed management once I had a minimum proof of concept. This is over my whole career and not specific to an employer. I have thought about this a lot as it relates to prioritization of work.
> Russia is at peace with Ukraine right now.

There is nothing peaceful about the Russian invasion of Ukraine outside of the pedantry of spoke claims of "being at peace".
I actually like the podcasts integration and I'm glad that on Windows iTunes hasn't (yet?) been split up the way it has been on Mac.

Not so much (with some little exceptions) for actual podcasts [1], but rather for managing my collection of various radio comedies – its handy being able to sync them over to my phone together with the rest of my music collection, but by manually setting their media type to "Podcast" [2] they don't clutter up my regular music library, I get the handy unlistened/listened visual indication, and it remembers the playback position in case I can't listen to an episode in one go [3].

[1] I was never that big a podcast listener, plus now that my mobile music player hardware has its own network connection (because it is in fact my phone) I can download episodes directly there without having to go via my computer.

[2] No longer possible on Mac in the post-iTunes age, and the successor Podcasts app apparently doesn't support manually adding files as episodes to it.

[3] Okay, so you can turn on remembering the playback position for any file in iTunes, i.e. even regular music files, but that doesn't work with my Android phone.
I don't see why people working in an office need guns, but yes, enforcement of laws should be done by... law enforcement. This isn't too controversial really, if I make a credible threat to someone online, it's a criminal matter for the police. Just as if I had sent it in the mail. The same should be true for all other types of crime (fraud, money laundering, etc.). Police should (and do) conduct investigations and arrest offenders.

Social media moderators exist to protect the public image of the platform, and enforce community guidelines. They should not be burdened with law enforcement simply because we can't be arsed to do proper police work.
I was never talking about climate models. I rebuked the idea survival is certain because it won’t be “too hot” for biology according to a climate model. We have no idea if we’ll remain rational actors until we experience and try to adapt to further climate change.

Constraining “survivability” to one metric is stupid.

Was tired and busy yesterday. Got rambly.
Just being in that group might actually be a scarlet letter for other Twitter hiring managers.