skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If its so easy, then why is google paying so much for it? You think they are stupid and they aren't getting their money's worth?

You can't have it both ways - simultaneously argue that market is efficient and we should let it do it's own thing, and that market is stupid to pay for defaults because changing them is so easy.
First rule of the team: size. Yes, it matters:)
To the article:

It's fine to handle an explicit subset of a problem. What's not fine is not making this clear. Real software can generally have a well-defined domain and range, which this article muddies with its example.

> This works but is quitter talk.

It's a valid solution. Expressing weird recipes as lists of normal recipes is perfectly fine.

> If we want to include recipe expansion as a feature of our model, we need to make the algorithm more complicated to handle the single edge case of fondant.

Yes, it turns out writing correct software sometimes requires this, even for a small amount of overall cases. That's no argument against not handling all cases.

To the parent poster:

I expect someone incapable of writing perfect software to claim it to be impossible, yes. I'd upload an article I've written proving my point, but it's about correct software, so it would just get ignored here.

Software is mathematics, and mathematics can be perfect.

> This is why I laugh at talk of "bug free" software. The best you can do is zero reported bugs. Temporarily.

No, this is the best the incompetent can do, but I won't let them drag me down to their level.
You seem to be suffering cognitive bias and projecting a lot of your own personal feelings with the "nobody else will". Well, obviously this is being proven wrong with the public's reaction to this.

Is it a meaningful number of people? I couldn't say at present, but to talk in absolutes is silly.
U.S. ethanol plants are allowed to pollute more than oil refineries
My wife hikes a LOT and takes her InReach every time. She has already saved the life of one person that she met on the trail who was in very bad shape. Doctors said that the rescued woman had less than an hour left without intervention, which wouldn't have happened in time with a traditional emergency beacon (which can't text). I strongly recommend it (and the helicopter insurance too) for anyone in the back country on a semi-regular basis.
> I suppose a black market could emerge though.

This is, in fact, what is happening; in NL they're slowly but sharply increasing taxes on tobacco products. The other day they found and dismantled an "illegal" cigarrete manufacturing plant. Only illegal because it was sold untaxed, smoking itself isn't illegal yet.

Mind you, taxing and the other measures are working; the amount of people smoking has been reduced by a lot in the past few decades. But there will always be a market for tobacco and tobacco products.
What about some sort of tool that hooks into SA directly? Something that acts as a more user friendly front end and allows people to automate common tasks etc?
How is a social security number relevant for a Patreon breach? Worst case, they would get your name, password, IP, billing address, subscription list, and, unlikely, your credit card info. I think this is what people are somewhat immune to.

For me, the password is unique, the name and billing address is public record, and my bank protects me from credit card fraud, since using one requires handing the number out multiple times a day. The only thing that bothers me is the IP address, but that was leaked in other breaches, once a few years ago, and twice this year. I think this is the same for most people.
One thing to point out: "web," as a UI platform, is very weird compared to Windows/Mac/iOS/Android.

These frameworks bring in concepts that we take for granted in most other platforms.

More specifically: When I "do web," I prefer generating HTML on the server. Working with text that way is very simple, but the paradigm breaks down when the page needs to update itself from Javascript.

Javascript+html+css alone isn't nearly as powerful as the kind of UI tooling that I'm used to for Windows/Mac/iOS/Android. That's where the frameworks come in.

The reason why they change so much is that so far, no one's really come up with a good one. I personally think we'll get there if we can replace HTML, because that's the real obstacle. For representing a document; it's really cool, but for doing true UI, HTML just makes everything over complicated.
Sounds like you just believe whatever you want then, no? How is 80% of sales in Q4 not a pretty good indicator that people do, in fact, "trust Meta with a new X" (or at least don't care enough)?

As for that new intuition, what good reason is there to believe Oculus headsets are so vastly underused after-purchase compared to competitors? And what has that to do with Meta's reputational issues?
> I don't think that was a decision made by the mods, I think that's policy created by SO.

There was little to no direction from the top, at least at that time. Mods were just self-appointed community members who organized in such a way to impose their will on the community. It was pretty classic tyranny of the minority. Many of the more prolific contributors (of which I was one at the time) were deeply frustrated by this. It was a frequent topic on Meta SO.

You saw these waves of subtle policy changes if you tracked edits to your contributions. Suddenly there'd be a bunch of edits all based on some new formatting policy and a lot of it was just pointless busywork.

Some people just fall into this trap of elevating the process to where the process becomes a goal and is treated of equal (or even higher) value to the content it's applied to. Moderation is important and has a place but, left to their own devices, moderators will create work for themselves just based on their idle capacity. You need to avoid this.
Top Images with Stability AI vs. DALL-E 2
Likewise; I wrote a lot of Fortran in those days.
I'm really confused by this because there are most certainly cases where companies are responsible not to provide goods or services to war criminals or terrorists, by law. So it's already established that yes, you can blame the makers of the tools that perpetrators used.
From YOUR guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." but there we are: a dozen of posts about Queen Elizabeth II's death on HN...
Reproducible Builds in August 2022
Goodness. How big are the rabbits in your area? The ones here are so large that I imagine that A) a cat could not catch them and B) the rabbit would disembowel the cat with its rear feet. I've seen rabbits do impressive things to small dogs and snakes. I wouldn't want one near my cats.
ARPU improved when data usage growth slowed down
I'd like to think that my CC provider would flag any bad transactions as they happen, as most do.
Yeah, I conflated "SAP" with "Concur" -- my bad.
As does AWS. Of course, they have to be Certified (TM).

OTOH, the general principle of "just have a giant in memory DB" isn't actually that crazy. In fact, a lot of the complex distributed data storage systems that a lot of services use might just be better off with a system like it. See also: Stack Overflow.
I have a theory that 80% of the top posts in the off-my-chest and AITA are basically just made up by very good creative writers, but it's impossible to prove.
> The US' military interest in the Middle East seems to be entirely based on the oil reserves in the region.

This is such a common trope that's clearly not true. Afghanistan doesn't have any real oil production, and Iraq had a tiny OPEC quota. To the extent that oil production had any real strategic purpose in the US conflicts, it was the income they provided local regimes.
$40k is two months pay probably.

Edit: To be clear I didn’t say this to shame the OP. I said this to highlight that the company didn’t offer up much. I say this because I have been in a similar position in the past where their “generous” offer was two months severance (same ballpark) which imo was insulting. Didn’t sign it either and told them to F off.
If the Red Cross were run by a lawyer, who gutted the budget for doctors and nurses and focused the organization on PR initiatives, yeah, fuck the Red Cross.

That's where Mozilla is.
For uses like that Colab costs Google more than they earn. It would make no sense to base a business around that model.
Not this year, and not if Dems don't control the house next year. This is also an incredibly stupid thing to be pushing right before a pivotal election.

You need no further proof that the left isn't controlled by some elite secretive singular entity. Lefty groups keep stepping on obvious rakes like this one and "defund the police" -- the underlying policies may make actual sense but there's no understanding of optics or timing whatsoever.
This has been known in the industry for years. Everyone is pushing companies to be carbon neutral, but that doesn't really mean money is going where it should...it just looks good on paper.

Unless companies have moral people in their upper management and are doing their due diligence when selecting offsets then the money is just going to other corporate profits and not making any impact at all. I know this for a fact since my company is carbon neutral and I also oversee the review process for not just carbon offsets but also RECs. You can thank the government for little oversight in the carbon offset process that they developed.
It seems that you could also see the responsible innovation team in the same light -- 'the product that ships should be innovating in a responsible way'.

Also IME none of these things are binaries -- a product could be more or less secure, privacy-respecting, and accessible, just as it could be seeking to innovate more or less responsibly. Different aspects of security, privacy, accessibility, and responsible innovation will be important at different times, depending on what's happening in the world.

The jobs are never as well-defined as you'd imagine.
I’ve done the opposite of you and regretted it. Good for you for sticking to your principals.

I appreciate your $40k comment here!
There are more than 3 suicides every day in Seattle, I don't see how 1 suicide of a person that happened to work for Amazon is really telling of anything.
Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
Bitwarden is experiencing an outage right now.

What I learned about it, is that they can remotely disable your browser extension which is assumed to work in offline mode. So, as soon as you have an internet connection — you get blocked.
This is what happened to me like 30 minutes ago or so. Just cannot log into my account and verify a transaction because I'm stupid enough to trust them with my TOTPs and storing temp verification passwords.

The funniest stuff, though, is that the company's damage control is to remove the comments and suspend feedback from it's community forum. Given that I'm a paying customer, I'm a little bit offended by it.
For a secret management company that secured $100 mil recently, it's a clear mark that the enterprise service train is on the way.

I'm lucky enough to have the offline access to the storage. But my trust to Bitwarden as a reliable service is completely ruined. Having this in mind, is there a viable alternative?

PS. Expect Spearrin to appear on HN and bring "personal" apology for the hiccup. But I won't buy it. Password manager services are almost like bank storages but on the internet. Apologizing won't fix the fact you can get remotely locked from the passwords and TOTPs at a pressing moment.
I was experienced with PDP-11 assembler when I was given a copy of K+R. Since many of C's semantics are based on the peculiarities of the -11 instructions, I understood it immediately. It was a breath of fresh air compared to Fortran or Pascal. I never wrote another line in either of those languages after reading K+R.

Some things that come from the -11:

1. post increment and decrement

2. integer promotion rules

3. floating point promotion rules

3. `register` storage class
Refineries are meant to last decades. Can't imagine anyone thinking, "yeah, that's a good investment right now". It would take a pretty good size financial nudge from the government to get that going.
He does use or mention a lower effective tax rate. Even though he points out a 53% on-paper tax rate, he mentions 42% as the effective tax rate in the next paragraph. This does seem closer to the truth.

He also specifically says that case-by-case numbers are more complicated and vary, so it's not fair to argue that the numbers are extremely sloppy. He has made an attempt to use well-researched average numbers that appear to rely on actual rates people pay, not the theoretical marginal rates. Mentioning the marginal rates is a rhetorical device he uses, not the rate he uses to illustrate the scenarios.
EDIT: actually I think you misunderstood the part about amortization entirely. It would actually INCREASE the amortization schedule from 24 months to 7 years...

This seems like an unfair characterization of the bill. Most of the things listed are not amortization:

- 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).
I bought these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QCF2729

They're like silicon sleeves for the AirPod Pros that give them shark tips that make them more secure in the ear.
Speaking of bottled water, guess what Evian is spelled backwards...
I'm not sure I agree with these laws. They are very difficult to actually enforce to an objective standard. They also transfer the burden of law enforcement away from police departments and on to private organizations. What it translates to in practice is a bunch of (mostly irrelevant) mandatory training for employees, and an approval from an auditor who isn't very familiar with the business. I think police (and no one else) should do policing.
Browsers don't have to have default search engines built-in at all. They didn't used to.
Which would mean that only people/companies who can afford to weather huge losses (potentially for several consecutive years) are able to enter capital-intensive sectors, providing massive moats to incumbents in those sectors and even more advantages to people who are already wealthy.
My wife (early 30s) was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and it's been absolutely shocking to hear how many other young women just in our social circle have also had it.
We Built Our Three-Year Strategy
I guess centralized ponzi schemes are better: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm...
In the early 80s, they didn't. Pascal was more or less unusable on the PC. Pascal remained unusable until it got a boatload of extensions. The trouble was, every Pascal added different extensions, making Pascal unportable.
Ah gotcha. In this case it's not actually that you are hiding away and doing all your work via DM. You're just using it for smaller discussions and then circle back with the larger team to share info. That totally makes sense.

I was thinking that the OP for this comment thread was claiming that there are situations where public comments/knowledge sharing isn't needed for teams, which makes no sense to me.
>Why would your data structure make that easy to do?

Reversing a string merely indicates the problem. There are many cases for operating on graphemes instead of code points. For example, deleting the previous grapheme in a text editor when pressing backspace/delete. I think most programmers assume they're dealing with graphemes when they're actually dealing with code points. See, for example, the rune type in Go.
Aurelia is maintained though, as opposed to being completely dead at least.

However I imagine there isn't alot of community libraries to leverage with such a small ecosystem.
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is a wonderful guide on how to apply various principles of Stoicism, especially principles around cultivating resilience in the face of circumstances beyond one's control.

However, to read only Meditations and go on to make claims about the philosophy as a whole is a bad idea that ignores hundreds of years worth of philosophers who also contributed to Stoicism.

For those interested in a more broad treatment of Stoicism, a wonderful follow-up to Meditations is Donald J. Robertson's Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
True, though in practice if I'm scripting the loop body is more like `x=$(curl -Ss "${url}") && dothing "$x" && …`
They couldn't reasonably become upset if someone were to kill Mr. Tiddlesworth for venturing into their yard. Their logic would not allow it.
Passing this Act wouldn't make your heating bill any lower.
What sort of renewables?

A lot of them rely on oil/gas; Wind turbines, for example, are made with synthesized laminates and glues, use grease and oils to operate, and require large fleets of diesel trucks to assemble and maintain.
Two things.

First: I laughed audibly at the idea that "nobody reads long walls of text". Long walls of text are practically a cheat code on HN.

Second: most people who write these kinds of "concise" comments are not engaging with dialectical reasoning; they're just dashing off sneering barbs. Clearly, you're getting pattern matched with them. If you had merely added the reference to "Immanent critique" in your original comment, as an explanation for why it was so curt, you'd have escaped that filter!

Obviously, the burden of support isn't applied to people expressing warm thoughts about the queen, because virtually none of them are barbs. They're called "bromides" for a reason!

You can write excitatory arguments, and even give HN heartburn in the process. But you have to do so carefully (or at least sparingly, taking pains not to join a chorus of rhetorical capsaicin), or you're going to get caught out the way you did here. Provocations (in any direction) generally need to earn their keep here, which is usually as simple as some kind of demonstration of good faith in your writing --- it doesn't need to be a wall of text (though if you're angling for Internet points, that'll help).
The article itself is full of caveats and concludes that their finding is inconclusive... Just some examples:

>Overall, further longitudinal studies are required to characterize CH and somatic mutational profiles in the context of space flight-associated stressors and their associated clinical impact. To date, there is no evidence of relevant CVD, cancer, or neurodegenerative diagnoses associated with this given astronaut cohort (current median age 62.5 years (IQR 60–67)). The lack of longitudinal samples from these same astronauts limits the assessment of clone stability, pathogenic potential, and prognostic value

But that the value of their report is in demonstrating the possibility of using stored archival blood samples in future studies:

>Thus, this study serves to address the feasibility of using bio-banked astronaut samples and demonstrate the importance of collaborations between NASA’s Human Research Program, Translational Research Institute for Space Health, Space Biology Program, NASA’s clinical support teams and corre- sponding data and biorepository branches,

Unfortunately, though, people far and wide are inevitably going to use this paper as evidence that space travel causes leukemia...
Or maybe it is that SpaceX is doing simulations on a level ahead of what everyone else does.

Here's one of several amazing videos from SpaceX simulations. (There are more, but I don't have the link to the others)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI
It’s hard to have integrity when you are hurting for money. I am glad the poster was doing okay and was able to stand up for what they believed in
The central bank has a dual mandate, control inflation and full employment. These are thought to be opposing forces in conventional economic theory (to increase employment, you want to lower interest rates, to lower inflation you want to increase interest rates). Although the relationship between interest rates and employment is not really empirically proven [0]. It's tough because it's not a closed system and you don't have a control. But the Fed assumes this relationship.

The point is if you have a mandate pulling you to decrease a number and another equally important mandate pulling you to increase a number, it's kind of meaningless. You're essentially reading tea-leaves. You can justify anything really. I would prefer the central bank to control inflation as a single mandate through something like the Taylor Rule [1] and leave the employment mandate to the Legislative branch

[0] https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/a...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/10/taylor-ru...
This is like the first 15 minutes of a zombie movie, where they go over the first 2 years showing reporters and then the tv goes blank...

And there is a guy standing alone on top of a hill looking over an empty town...
The end of oil cannot and will not come due to its (market) price.

As electrification happens demand for oil will drop and oil will get cheaper. In a world without externalities this would lead to a state of having a mix of both.

But we need oil to go away entirely. Price won't do that unless green tech is so crazy cheap that it makes oil literally not worth pulling out of the ground. I don't see it happening.

Or --- I could see it happening, but that's only after most wells run dry - if that happens we have failed to prevent global warming.

To get rid of oil we just:

* Have the tech that allows it.

* Tax the crap out of oil so that it is forced to maintain a certain price.

* Let the market squeeze oil out. The oil will be cheap, but taxes will make it not worth anything.

And there are many incentives to electrify. Including government subsidies, the fact that green tech is already often cheaper than oil, and the fact that oil is an unreliable resource.

Right now? We need gas to run our society. It's OK to take steps to keep it going so long as we also take steps to ensure we can stop the tap when it's time.
John Oliver did a great piece on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8zAbFKpW0
Exactly right. Everyone dumps on enterprise software in general, not just SAP, but the truth is that enterprise software is hard. There are so many requirements and specific workflows that it becomes everything to everyone and thus “horrid”.
Of course it is art. The thing that makes it art is the human thought process and intention, regardless of how the final result turns out.
If you have a Clathrate gun in one chapter, it must go off in the next.
Revealing Firewall Franchise for Playstation VR2
F*** the MMAAAN:

Meta

Microsoft

Alphabet

Apple

Amazon

Netflix
Why not subsidize these in reverse; By not taxing energy- and food-production in the first place?
You really taking a strawman extreme example I've never met in 30 years as a counter-point to "discussion should be in public as much as possible"? The article even mention that /some/ communication can still be private, but the default rule is to be public.

Your counter-point is "there are a miniscule contigent of people who can't function at all in a team". Weak.