skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, do you consider every tax deduction to be a subsidy? The standard deduction for all US families? Is paying anything less than 100% of income a subsidy?

The US government has a very established tax code to specifically determine what amount of money it should consider taxable and to smooth out expectations. Claiming a deduction is not inherently a subsidy. Especially if you are a business and might lose 3x as much money in a year as you make to invest in long term growth.

If Oil and Gas have unfair tax advantages, that's a problem. These seem boilerplate.
Exactly. Although, I would add that type level computations definitely can be used to perform useful metaprogramming tasks, such as embedding domain-specific languages or enforcing API protocols at compile time. I show some examples in my other papers. You can also check out my blog post: https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/03/02/fluent-api-practice-and-...
Kurt Cobain talks Facebook, Twitter: It's the most rotten drug
Kurt Cobain discusses Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn: "Social media is the most rotten drug ever."
> but practically Joe Biden isn't going to ask regular citizens if he should allow export of Natural Gas to European nations.

No, that isn't practical. Which is why government is set up in reverse: The citizens tell Biden what they want. The citizens are the boss, after all. It stands to reason that the message comes down from the boss. Except that isn't practical either, so middlemen are employed to combine and distill the information they receive from the boss into a more digestible form that can be presented in a practical manner to the worker.

Those middlemen are chosen by the citizens through a long and arduous process to ensure that they are trustworthy enough to accurately convey the desired message to the worker on the ground. Yes, theoretically an unscrupulous middleman could spread false information, but through hundreds of years of using this system the citizens have shown to have a strong degree of confidence in the effectiveness of the selection process.

Not only do they have confidence, but they also find utility. It would be downright silly to go to all of the trouble of selecting the most trustworthy middleman and hire him, at a decent rate of pay I might add, only to never use his services. The citizens recognize the value they get by hiring these people to pass their orders to the workers.

You personally may have no use for said middlemen as you management style sees you sit back and forever wait for Biden to knock on your door, but citizens (plural) is inherently about more than you.
Ukraine Is Waging a New Kind of War
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Users have done the flagging. The only thing we did was unkill some of those comments.
I'm having a hard time following your statements. Can you say exactly what about current IPCC 2022 climate model findings you disagree with?
Do you get what you give? Or give what you get?
The vast bulk of climate policy appears to be virtue signalling. Like EV cars having "zero emissions", never mind the coal power plants needed to charge the batteries.
> These days, the cost of generating electricity from such sources (wind/solar) is roughly on par with that of fossil fuels.

I've never seen a cost analysis that takes into account the unreliability of sources that rely on sun or wind. I don't know exactly how a proper model would account for these factors, but surely ignoring the unreliability isn't the right answer.
The samples were stored at -80°C, where any chemical degradation process would be slowed down immensely if not come to a virtual halt.
Tim Cook's fix for those pesky green text bubbles? 'Buy your mom an iPhone'
This is the same thing they are doing on the Tesla side of things. So apparently every car they manufacture has a "digital twin" that is created when the car is manufactured and serves as a data hub for all the data the real car sends back to the mothership over the life of the vehicle. This allows them to simulate potential issues and design problems that are then input into the manufacturing chain to improve subsequent cars.

I bet some other automakers are probably doing something like this but I don't recall anyone talking about it at any conference yet.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwtRJDRcXsY
It's just like privacy and VCR rentals.

The car dealers in particular lost the "lobbying vs. public opinion" battle, but the other constituent business lobbies remain protected.
At some point knowingly engaging in this type of behavior should be considered a crime against humanity
Sure, but also Jane.
We tax everything else without wrecking the economy.
OP literally left despise them having "intense curry".
> what counts

both counts. intent and efficiency (results).

the big problem is that there is no agency that would fine/sue the shit out of these scams.
But carbon credits were never marketed as a way for people to retire carbon debt - they were presented as a way to implement the 'polluter pays' principle using the 'proven' mechanisms of the market.

I do think markets are a very useful social technology for allocating resources. But they can also be abused for distributing liability and they're slow. There's a reason most polities abandon the market model for urgent tasks like firefighting.
Would have been nice to see a comparison to alternates who were otherwise qualified but did not fly shuttles.
Personally, I find it easier and faster and more flexible doing it vanilla style. However, you still have to come up with your own abstractions (those you actually need), meaning, you have to own the stack. This may be a good thing, but is it is also challenging regarding human resources.

As I see it, frameworks are really about making code accessible, while owning as little as possible of it, by this favouring sharing and the interchangeability of work force. Also, they establish a code policy and the kind of general approach, which is again favourable with regard to human resources. (Now you can have multiple phases of development, where neither team knows anything of the other, which would be hardly possible, if you had to own and maintain the stack. In the old paradigm of art versus engineering, it's a massive shift towards the latter. Which certainly is in line with the general trend.)
More Claims That AI Is Sentient Are (Probably) Coming
> We shouldn't rely on companies being ethical to begin with.

> Time and time again we see that if companies promise to self-regulate, it turns out to be a disaster.

We shouldn't rely on them to self-regulate, but we should expect [1] them to make every effort to be ethical.

[1] not in the sense of predict or assume, but like in the phrase "not meeting expectations."
> If a carpenter chops his fingers off, it's not the fault of the saw.

That would be an effective argument, but this vile shit has existed for decades without being fixed, for no good reason. This saw is specifically designed to slice fingers off, rather than do useful work, for no reason.

> Having a base level expectation of competence for operators is normal.

UNIX expects perfection, while providing none of its own.

> A separate text input is just stdin by another name.

No, nitwit, it prevents in-band signalling, which is the entire problem here.

Anyway, I use Emacs for everything, and don't have these issues. With wget, I use -i - to enter multiple URLs at once, but it would also defeat this.
That's interesting, I wonder if the brain ends up making a map from foods to nutrition profile in order to cause cravings to food that'll satisfy a need.

For instance, I've heard of people craving grapes before to get the Vitamin C maybe (just an example), but if a human lived in an area without grapes, presumably they'd crave the closest local equivalent that'd get the vitamin they needed?
Multi-lens would imply more lenses. Which wouldn't get the same amount of attention or marketability
Half of my C and C++ compiler sales were in Europe. The Mac did indeed lag far behind - Apple bet on the wrong horse (Pascal).
> but it was holding us back reaching many more people,

Christ mate! Long term El-Reg reader here.

The pure Blightly, homegrown, sarcastic piss taking tone is why I read the Reg, and so do many others. Selling out to some bland US-corporate bullshit WILL loose you readers.

And BTW, can we have the 'Paris' icon back? Please.
There are still a number of 0% financing deals out there, if you can find the cars they're offered on.
ElixirDesktop renders a webview/browser, in that way it's similar to electron - but using the BEAM instead of nodejs..

Some day it may make more than sense to have a local BEAM instance on the device with LiveView Native running on the local BEAM, for true offline, and zero lag performance - and then that BEAM instance can always connect to a remote server, via phoenix channels or similar for it's data management/syncing..
GCP & GKE, I already have the cluster so everything pretty much lands there. Great way to learn k8s if you don't know it already
> If you need to install a proprietary app to communicate with some subset of your contacts list... then that is not a good solution.

RCS is effectively proprietary and will absolutely lag in features. I don't understand why people seem to think it's the end-all-be-all.

> SMS lets you send a message to any mobile phone number in the world... it just works.

And it hasn't changed since launch. RCS will similarly fall behind quickly. Why would we adopt a new languishing "standard", it makes no sense, everyone is going to have 3rd party chat apps anyways, why not use them?

> Why would someone want 3+ apps just to communicate with different circles of contacts? Who governs these apps and protocols? Some fly-by-night company that gets bought by Facebook and turned into an Ad Platform, or a company that doesn't take security seriously and leaks private messages everywhere? These are awful solutions.

And you think Google+carriers is the answer to this? Google is an ad platform, carriers are going to try to use this to extract more money/control.

> iMessage is gated for only iDevices. That makes it a bad solution. While it may work great for Apple users, it was literally designed not to work with anything else. Guess what... Apple devices are the extreme minority of devices out there in the wild.

Literally not part of this discussion. I do not care. Don't use it, use something else. iMessage being amazing or terrible has nothing to do with RCS being a waste of time.

> Perhaps RCS isn't the best replacement of SMS as it could be - but it is a huge improvement for majority of the world, and Apple not playing along makes them a bad actor - not Google. After all, RCS benefits Apple users too.

Bullshit. The carriers haven't even gotten their shit together when it comes to RCS and again Google effectively owns/controls RCS. It's not an improvement over what's a simple download away (other chat apps).

> So the argument that RCS isn't as great as it could be, and it's driven by Google (the largest maker of mobile operating systems in the world!) falls very short.

I'm not sure why you think being the largest makers of mobile operating systems is positive or matters in this discussion? Google is also the company that has an embarrassing number failed chat platforms in it's history. Google Talk used to be build on XMPP but they abandoned that even though it was extendable. They will either abandon RCS or continue to make it more proprietary than it already is. They are not good stewards of chat.
You realize that other groups already do policing? IRS, EPA, OSHA, USPS, hell the secret service will get involved if you are forging currency.
It's really hard to find a good metric for "Keeping a social network healthy". Most of the changes introduced by a responsibility team will inherently hurt short term metrics or block others from making a change.

I wonder if there is room for a tool which tracked the rate at which users interact with negative or psychologically high risk content on a user generated site.
AWS also likes to play this game: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/APIR... :
" MessageBody: ... Maximum length of 1024."

I have implemented some fixed error pages for my company including its logo in svg below 1KiB.
> It'd be interested to see what happens if you give the deciders X% of any unused budget as an EOY bonus.

We already know the answer to this, on average at least the system will be gamed to put money in their pockets, to overall detriment of service.
The money in compilers in those days was on the PC.
What's wrong with ads? What is another better system?
It's only silly if you're unable to comprehend what's implied and need everything spelled out to you explicitly.

Everyone is in a bubble. This is obvious. Nobody needs to be told this. The entire earth is in itself a literal bubble. Again, Nobody needs to be told this.

Obviously what's going on here when I use the word "bubble" is I'm saying your "bubble" is small and low such that you don't think someone with superior productivity can exist. The description of Bob doesn't mesh with you, while for others who live in bigger bubbles think there's nothing abnormal here. So Obviously I'm talking about the Size of the bubble... and I'm saying your bubble is small.

You said it's not because you're in academia, and I said academia is the ultimate <small> bubble and I gave my reason why.

I didn't think it would need spelling out, but obviously the way forward is to further describe your "bubble" what makes you think it isn't "small" or "low". I mean this is pretty obvious. For example... which academic institution, which major, and what other experiences you have outside of academia?

>Maybe time to get out of your own bubble ;).

Of course this is Possible. But, obviously I'm not in agreement with you, and our disagreement is the purpose of this discussion.

Your counter was "academia." So I emphasized how that doesn't tell me anything. Again, what do you think the obvious next step is?
Agree with your general sentiment but want to point out that is not the Katy Freeway. This is:
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/30/10/14/6325030/32/450x0.jpg
Abuse is something that there's work being done over: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...

I disagree re discovery, it's working-as-intended. It's got better discovery than say email, at least there are actually identity servers for people who wish to use them, and can work with both phone numbers and email addresses.

Non-publicly-addressable accounts are excellent, that's why the EU gov, military, healthcare and emergency services are using Matrix protocol versus say WhatsApp.

People can host their own node right now, and that's encouraged rather than joining Matrix.org or a paid Matrix provider. 60m+ publicly-addressable accounts on Matrix thus far. A Raspberry Pi starts at the price of lunch.

However, going forward, there's work being done to have on-device lite servers, eliminating the need for a third-party server to send/receive messages. These can even work P2P via BLE, meaning connectivity in areas of natural disaster, warzones, and political unrest where an oppressive government or invading force may disable the internet.
Why don't articles like this link to the paper?

https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.1...
> purchase order is what I think of when doing something like ordering printer paper, not getting an invoice paid

How can you pay an invoice for a service / item you haven’t purchased? If you buy a service from a supplier, you raise a po, you pay an invoice based on the po. As a supplier, I always ask for a po.
Google recently implemented SAP. Microsoft, Apple, and many other big players are deeply entrenched in SAP with almost no chance of switching. There has always been a shortage of good SAP consultants which creates lucrative opportunities for those who want to learn it.
> Yes, but my point is that "transferring money to someone" is not a true crime. It doesn't have a victim.

This is also incorrect. Transferring money to a terrorist organization is a crime because countries have declared it illegal. Of course well-funded terrorists have victims and enablement of well-funded terrorism has clear victims.

And yes, the government is using military and diplomatic channels to fight terrorism directly-- by ensuring the resources they have access to are limited.
> The article itself is full of caveats and concludes that their finding is inconclusive... Just some example

It's a bad example. Mutations are known to cause various health problems like cancer. It's like randomly writing to the RAM, live: maybe you won't crash the computer immediately, but keep trying and you'll do damages.

The fact there's "no evidence of relevant CVD, cancer, or neurodegenerative diagnoses associated with this given astronaut cohort" shouldn't be surprising, given that astronauts are finely selected for perfect health among a large pool of candidate.

It's like saying "it's totally ok to do drugs or performance enhancer when you're a sports professional player" - no, they will eventually degrade the pro player health too!

Compared to a random person, it might just show later, as they have more of a health capital.

> Unfortunately, though, people far and wide are inevitably going to use this paper as evidence that space travel causes leukemia...

Given everything we know, yes it should, among other things - just like writing to RAM should eventually crash a computer
This is mostly a technical limitation and has been placed since 1998. 99.99% of search queries won't go beyond result 100 then what's the point of showing the result 10000000 other than technological demonstration?
Automating Visual UI Tests with Playwright and GitHub Actions
Author here. This article is my take on automating visual regression tests of a “modern” web application using Playwright and GitHub actions. The goal is to build a "minimal" testing setup that checks for UI regressions on each pull request and allows selectively updating the baseline images when needed.
Yeah that was my point, the thread was about being offered 40k to be quiet, but the thing I'm wondering is be quiet about what? Might as well take the 40k if there was nothing actually scandalous going on
Maybe for very extreme things, but that's a very different setup from globally moderating profanity, nudity, alcohol, etc.
Just looking at the charts, I'm surprised by how accurately the trends were identified by the public. What the authors call "misperceptions" are in many cases just systematic errors in the absolute numbers, which frankly I would expect. The vast majority of the trend slopes are quite close to actual. I feel like the authors are reaching a bit for a controversial conclusion.
Probably, I said I was jealous not that it was great policy.
This reminds me that I had seen some other article about how sometimes, projects to plant a bunch of new trees are not successful because of maintenance or upkeep costs that may not have been thought out.
Same thing happened with Engadget and Gizmodo. Used to absolutely love reading them on a daily basis, product reviews were always super technical and a bit off the wall, it had that hackaday-type vibe.

Now they are a spammy lowest-common-denominator pop culture “tech news” and cell phone reviews.
Do those studies account for the (emotional and monetary) cost of false positives from those early detection?
> As things stand, any cross-platform messaging app which isn't SMS is a second-class citizen on the iPhone

100% bullshit. I use Discord and Slack on my phone every single day, neither of them are at a disadvantage to something like iMessage. They support the same things I do with iMessage. Having all your chats in 1 app is just a game of "find the lowest common denominator" which is not a game I want to play.
I'm not saying it's entirely reasonable to lay all of that hate on the Queen's feet. But just as she was a symbol of hope and progress to some, she's a symbol of a deeply evil, globe-spanning empire to others. I don't think you can give her credit for the good without accepting at least some credit for all the harm that happened under her watch as well.

If we're expected to be understanding to the people grieving the loss of a celebrity, surely we should be a thousand times more understanding to all the people who are angry at far greater losses caused by the British Empire.
I'm sure the SQL query that sees it will be shocked and immediately change its ways.
See the twin study, as mentioned by someone else.
Self promoting plug:

It still works fairly well on the relatively small scale if you just want to write a frontend app (i.e. simulations):

https://aperocky.com/cellular-automata

https://prehistoric.tech
Crazy, on the first pages they mention a cutting edge 8 Mhz PC while our current midrange consumer CPUs can do over 5 Ghz
The British royals' wary dance with technology (2011)
But why don't they want to phase it out? There could be some other reasons like:

1. a job tied to fossil fuels
2. concerns that energy prices will go up without fossil fuels
3. lack of alternatives for things like trucks etc.

And/or change is scary and 28% probably just don't want to change.
This. Also, these frameworks increase our productivity significantly
I kind of sought to answer this for myself in a roundabout way. My first experience with web dev was React. I never learned "why" so on a recent personal project I figured I'd start from the ground-up.

First I wrote a little 'RTS' game in Javascript where the player writes code for the units in game and runs the code in the browser. But the player/programmer needs more info about the game's state. Which means I need dynamic html components to display the changing state of the game. Easy enough, I used a lightweight library called slim-js to give me the functionality I needed minus the ugly boilerplate of the Shadow Dom. But now my dynamic components were re-rendering every single frame, since they were tied to a callback that was triggered when the game re-rendered. Ok, I'll just save the state of the game into a map and only update when there's a missing value or a new value. But all of this state management and custom component logic is overhead that makes the page harder to maintain.

I also wanted to use typescript to make sure I was passing the right values back and forth, which means transpiling every time I make a change. I also need to serve the index.html with a webserver, so I can import ES modules. Http-server works well enough for this, but what if I want to add another page to my site for watching tournaments run on the backend?

It was a nice exercise to learn /why/ frameworks like React exist. Moving forward I'm definitely going to move to a React-based page since I'm already starting to outgrow my vanilla-ish stack.

Here's the game if you'd like to check it out:
https://ai-arena.com/
There were portability issues with C compilers, for example, value preserving vs sign preserving integer promotion rules.

But Pascal was unusable without extensions. I mean that. I wrote programs in Pascal.

For example, Wirth's Pascal had no provision for programs that had more than one source file.
It was more a coincidence that they had some of the hardware needed for FM than a deliberate thing of them screwing over customers. It was the same chip that supported bluetooth and wifi. You also need an appropriate antenna to use a different radio frequency (or frequency range), I don't think they ever had that. The FM hardware was removed by the time of the iPhone 7.
Here is the climate activist effort I am referring to:

https://www.climatechangemakers.org/issue-briefing-ffs
It’s the same logic as “serverless”?
> True, but

Not true though. It's something they talk but don't walk.
I'm amazed at how many developers need ridiculous complexity to feel like they've accomplished something. I feel that too many people are focused on building resume keywords than solving problems.

If you can solve it in 20 lines of CSS / JS then do it.