skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing to look at is total taxation as a portion of GDP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...

In the US, that's 26.9%. In France it's much higher, at 47.9%.
The environment variables thing was desperately needed, I raised this as a Feature Request with AWS over a year ago (my work has enterprise support)

I remember them telling us a way to make a lambda function distinguish whether it is in a DEV/TEST or PROD environment was to do some sort of regex on the function name, which was suboptimal, especially if you have Lambda's created via CloudFormation.

We "got around" this problem by creating tables in DynamoDB as our DEV/PROD environments are in separate AWS accounts, so the dynamo tables contained simple key/value pairs that you would read once when the lambda container started up. Another option would be to have a file in S3 or something, but you still have to write code to manage the retrieval of those resources.

Looking forward to dropping all that infrastructure and using this feature instead.
Exactly this. You are just abstracting the decision about "truth" to another set of observers.

Every crowdsourced news aggregation site faces the same challenge, too. Digg had serious vote manipulation problems. Reddit's /r/politics section was overrun by pro-Clinton activists, etc. Concerted, concentrated effort can almost always overpower the consensus of average users.

EDIT: to be clear, my point is that if/when this becomes a powerful tool, the incentive to aim it at a broader or different set of goals is overwhelming.