skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hogan had agreed with Gawker to take part ownership of Gawker including revenues, and then that was reneged upon after meeting with Thiel's (his) lawyers again, and similar after multiple points of near settlement.

The damages were then upped to ridiculous amounts. Financial / economic (not emotional) damages were listed at $50M.

Bollea's net worth, at it's peak, was $30-40M (edit: from $25M), and is now estimated at $8M - though most of that has been stripped by divorce, before any of this happened.

I am not sure how someone whose likely career income didn't reach $50M can now, in retirement, state that he suffered $50M in purely economic damages from this (remember, the emotional damage is separate, as is the punitive) - from what? Not from residuals on old WWF repeats - he would still be entitled to these. The occasional celebrity endorsement?

I can't see any realistic justification that his earning power for the rest of his life would total $50M, let alone that $50M only covers the fraction of his income that he _lost_ because of this.
One of the most important, foundational concepts in economics is comparative advantage. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage and https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041615/how-do-facto...

Comparative advantage says that even if Country X is better (e.g. more efficient, less costly) than Country Y at producing both Product A and Product B, if it's more better at producing A than B it can be more profitable to them (and everybody) to maximize their output of A and leave Country Y to produce B.

In a relatively low wage country, it's possible (contingent on other factors) that the most profitable thing for that country to do is to maximize its output of the types of products that require large numbers of lower wage laborers and leave other countries to producing products that utilize higher wage labor even if the low wage country would be more efficient at producing all types of products, including those requiring highly skilled labor. Given the reality that the former types of product will tend to be low margin and the latter high margin (and, again, contingent on the exact numbers), it's entirely possible for manufacturing revenue in high wage countries to continue increasing even as the low wage country surpasses it in expertise and efficiency in producing all types of products.

Again, this is all contingent on hard numbers, though FWIW in actuality this is often how things play out at a macro scale. My point is merely that the fact that manufacturing revenue is increasing in Country Y, alone, doesn't tell you much if anything about its efficiency and expertise of manufacturing either products A or B relative to Country X or even in absolute terms; and therefore it doesn't tell you much about the long-term viability and health of those industries. Factors exogenous to the specific skillset related to producing the product, such as labor costs, will often control which products a country makes, regardless of its absolute efficiency in making those specific products.

The upshot is that future manufacturing revenue could be disrupted much faster than you might otherwise expect if it's controlled not by slowly changing, transparent factors (e.g. the generations it takes to build a highly skilled workforce, which may have happened without it being reflected in present market specializations) but by other factors that can change much faster (i.e. whichever factors provide the underlying comparative advantage, such as labor costs, exchange rates, or hidden or poorly understood factors).
Do things like mkv files work ?
Your comment actually presents an idea that many choose to ignore, that healthcare is actually two markets in one.

For routine primary care like regular checkups or an appointment for some symptom bothering you, you absolutely are not under duress. You won't die because you took 5 minutes to choose a doctor on ZocDoc. With more transparency in costs of service, this could definitely become a market, ie "for $XX per month, get unlimited visits to our partner doctors' offices".

For emergency situations, surgeries, and things that require expensive ongoing care like cancer, you're correct in that you're under duress and can't really shop around. This is the market in which the usage of insurance makes sense, as it's a rare occurrence that would be catastrophic to pay for out of pocket for the majority of people.

I think we can do a great deal to lower cost of healthcare to Americans if we think of it in this two market approach, and handle each accordingly.
Indeed that is my Spanish :)
Thank you!
Artificial intelligence in zero gravity (aka space)
They got rid of their training programs so that workers would have to acquire new skills at their own expense.

Then they were surprised that a dearth of the workers wanted to acquire skills that are only useful for employees at a tiny subset of companies, who refuse to pay more for them, and instead most went for more portable, more universal skills.

But they still don't want to pay more for the niche skills that they require--the skills that no one is acquiring because the marginal benefit of acquiring them do not pay the cost of the training. And they don't want to change their business model to work better with the skilled employees who have the more commonly learned skills.

This seems like all that would be required to fix it is an economic understanding at the most basic level--supply and demand. Pay more to employees already suitable, or pay to train those who are not, but have sufficient aptitude to become so. Labor skills are a service product, and the market finds a price for them just the same as every other product. If you can't buy what you need, you got outbid.

There seems to be some flaw in business management education if managers are ignorant of this, and some flaw in public policy education if the managers are not ignorant, but just pretending to be, in order to get government concessions. Somewhere along the line is a person that needs to re-take Econ 101.

For the question of "What if we train them and they leave for a competitor?" it doesn't take much to work that out with thought experiments. The game-theory analysis says that each individual company is better off ending its in-house training program and poaching its trained employees from another company, with the greatest advantage going to the company that does this first. So the Nash equilibrium is for no companies to have their own training programs, and therefore for no companies to have access to trained employees, while the optimal group benefit occurs when every company has a training program, and trains rather than poaches. The obvious solution is to cartelize the competitors, such that they all agree to contribute to a common training program, and give at least a minimum pay raise to every employee trained by it. There are a variety of ways to make that happen. A union could run the program, and force the businesses who are hiring its members to pay for it, by threat of embargo. A government could tax the businesses, and use the tax to fund a professorship at the public university, required to teach certain classes. The businesses themselves could create certifications, and jointly control the certification body, such that certain certification levels meet some common needs of all participating companies, while those seeking certification pay all the costs of the training program.

Or, one businesses could pay more to prospective employees that strategically acquire niche skills, as a means of encouraging them to actually train themselves. If you're running a business, you can't just sit on ass and expect the world to just cater to your needs. The world wants money.
rich and powerful men I knew personally rarely even had a cellphone, and they didn't read news.

Why do you use your cellphone or read the news? Probably for entertainment or gain knowledge about current events. Rich and powerful men can do stuff way more entertaining than what a cellphone can provide and honestly, don't need to be up on current events.
What they are fleeing are wars that were incited by... I'll let you fill that space. When you start putting the pieces together, it all makes sense.
I don't watch stories. They have some kind of TV? What was wrong with a single photo? Can I get my feed in chrono order please? An ad every 4 posts? How much can I pay you per year to make it stop?

I live an interesting life and it was fun to share and meet others in the same lifestyle niche, but I've just about given up on Instagram. Not worth it.
He's a Jewish banker. It's a dog whistle for the extreme right wing. Some people thinks he's the far right bogey man like the Koch Brothers are to the far left but there's an extra layer of anti-semitism attached when it's heard/read by certain groups. It's not just that he funds causes that are antithetical to the far right but the fact that he's a Jewish banker -- the favorite scape goat of various groups throughout history (both far left and right have targeted this group). It's gross and disgusting.
Well, first of all, something like antisemitism doesn't have to be self-consistent to be a thing. Second of all, actually, other Jewish billionaires are also targeted: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/28/politics/tom-steyer-mccarthy-...

I don't understand what you're so skeptical about. What is the standard of evidence for antisemitism you're seeking? I'm not going to find many mainstream adherents to Soros conspiracy theories that are going to flat-out admit it, am I?
Thanks for providing this and thanks for allowing us to pay for an account. I hope that sr.ht becomes sustainable, it's great to have an alternative that is focused on open source developers.
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind
Pareto Network (PARETO) is a working dapp with users and a token. People use it to trade and value information, it is mostly financial and trade information that people, people do get paid.

I thought it was compelling

https://blog.pareto.network/why-do-we-need-a-blockchain-for-...

There are others too
Everyone in Germany I know who actually made a world-class product had to escape some inept manager at some large German corporation, and those people are automatically excluded from any government subsidies due to a lack of political contacts. So the money will go to people with political skills and buzzword bingo, likely not being able to understand anything they are talking about. Then, in 5 years everyone will look back and wonder why Germany is again 5 years behind and resorts to importing all software from US; then external factors will be found to blame (or some poor scapegoats that didn't cover their backs). And a next gen of clueless managers will step up for another cycle with another hot technology.
In a more sane situation the minister would read up to gain some basic literacy in the field, the fact that he hasn't is strong evidence that he is an idiot.

But you can be an idiot regardless of experience, and selecting an idiot as minister is arguably the graver error.
It's not bitter, or old. I'm neither!

It's hard to keep on top of technological possibilities and capabilities. Especially for someone non-technical making and overseeing technical decisions.

Tech folks can learn business easier than business folks can learn tech... Time to get to it.
What. The. Fuck.
"Degenerate"? Soros was explicitly anti-communist before the fall of the Soviet union.
I think a lot of people can feel how these apps affect their wellbeing. But how do we clearly state what the issue is, is a more difficult question.

For me this brings a larger topic that has to do with software development... any maybe it underpins the issue behind all those addicitve apps.

The issue is that typically, it is software and hardware that dictates the apps, rather than a human looking at a human, problem, and creating an app to solve a human problem. Of course that's the story we tell ourselves but it isn't the truth.

Most of us who code have stumbled upon those decisions many times: suddenly you realize a pattern in your code, and how convenient it is, that you could also use it for something else. A vary basic example of this is, well since we have profiles, now we can "connect" them. Why don't we add a "suggestion" feature that shows a lot of "interesting" profiles? And let's also allow to "follow" someone, because the software pretty much says : it's easy to do so wtf not?

You see what I mean?

People will deny that and say that eg. YouTube "suggestions" are purely a commercial, ie. completely rational and premeditated decision. But again I'd argue it's not the full truth. The full truth, is it becomes a reality because sofware and hardware made it not just possible , but easy.

Essentially: we let software and hardware tell us what to do, based on "what can be done". Look over the web and you find gazillions of example of that. Gazillions of completely unnecessary apps that exist solely because "we can do it".

And now we have AI... and one can only imagine the gazillions more awful applications of AI that will happen, that already happen today... "just because we can do it".
Previous Hacker News thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
Plus, I already know that Uncle Al is a conservative nut, and cousin Fred is a liberal nut, and interpret their content accordingly.
It has a tremendous amount with him being Jewish. At least one person has shot up a Synagogue because of it.

If you can point me to a left-wing agitator violently attacking Jewish people over the actions of Sheldon Adelson I'd love to see it.

Otherwise this is just intellectually-lazy "Both-sides"ism.
Sounds interesting. Maybe you could summarize here in addition to linking to your blog?
new term: Menopoly? Meritocroply? Sheepoly? ugh...
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Probably a lot worse than the tobacco industry in the long term. With a lot more unknown effects and problems.

Again, the problem is not sharing. The problem is that they knowingly manipulate the sharing. How they do that is their problem.

I have no idea how to go about enforcing this. But it's impossible for me to look at it and say "just let it run it's natural course".
Yep, dat supports on-demand fetching ("sparse mode" in the documentation).
Also, if you use facebook, stop. I haven't used facebook in years, and I feel pretty fine. I still have friends; we hang out; we show each other pictures. And, best of all, our communication isn't being injected with ads meant to distract us from communicating with each other. Texting, email, slack, whatsapp (yes, I know), signal, discord, and gchat work pretty well. If you're a user of FB, stop, and their power over you and your friends will begin to evaporate (if that's something you're concerned about)
Yes. I used that example because of how it's clear example of a political nomination.
No one is claiming you can fireproof a house; did you even look at the link?

With some simple actions you can change the odds of 100% of homes burning down to 10-50%. This isn’t made up, these are facts proven by evidence and experiment.

Your comment is like saying no one should bother building basements in tornado country because a strong F5 will kill you anyway. The vast majority of tornadoes aren’t strong F5s so taking some precautions absolutely will save lives and property.

The biggest ones are:

- fire-resistant roofing; the vast majority of homes that burn in these evens are set on fire by embers long before the fire line even gets close, which makes firefighting efforts basically pointless

- fire-resistant siding; if a fire is near this makes it much less likely that the siding will catch from brief contact or by being heated to its ignition point. If the side walls catch the house is a goner.

- keep tree tops 30-60 ft away from structures. Fires often leap from treetop to treetop, then from there to the structure.

- use non-flammable landscaping near the home.
> He said he would give $500 million to fund migration and he has also gone into a deal with MasterCard to give migrants cards they can use for cash on their journeys. Not a conspiracy theory.

The conspiracy is in pushing the narrative that people are being paid to migrate.

The money he committed is not "to fund migration". It is to help alleviate the effects of what he calls a global crisis of forced migration. Your characterization makes it sound like he is bankrolling and encouraging it, but instead he's focused on helping those forced to leave their countries for reasons like violence and/or extreme poverty. There is nothing wrong with trying to help those who need it most, and helping them integrate is beneficial for the host countries as well.

This is from your link:

> In response, I have decided to earmark $500 million for investments that specifically address the needs of migrants, refugees and host communities. I will invest in startups, established companies, social-impact initiatives and businesses founded by migrants and refugees themselves. Although my main concern is to help migrants and refugees arriving in Europe, I will be looking for good investment ideas that will benefit migrants all over the world.

As for the MasterCard claim, as another poster pointed out, there is no evidence for it.
Yeah. I'm saying that Google Cloud Platform (which does not include Maps) has a good track record with respect to their generally available services, as does G Suite with respect to their core G Suite services. Hell, even G+ isn't going anywhere for G Suite accounts (the turndown is only for consumers).

To be clear I'm not pretending that they've shut down as few things as Amazon (looking at you SimpleDB), but within the product area and lifecycle categories I indicated, they've stayed within what is perfectly viable for lots of companies.
The conspiracy theory is he is funding the migrant caravan, not that he has "earmark $500 million for investments that specifically address the needs of migrants, refugees and host communities."
Nonsense. If antisemitism played a significant role, Ben Shapiro wouldn't be the darling of the right. For example.

Soros would be the boogyman regardless, it comes down to the fact that he's pouring tons of money into political causes. Like the Koch brothers do on the other side. It's simple. No need to add additional theories.
The most secure computer is that which you don't use at all.

- zen koan
FCC Approves Use of Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System in United States [pdf]
https://github.com/ascendr/spectre-chrome

Then, keep in mind that new Spectre style vulnerabilities have been announced for CPUs, and the feasibility of using GPUs in this style of attacks is being explored now.
There has been a heavy bias towards shared objects in glibc and the GNU userspace utilities for a long time. Today that mostly means dynamic libraries (there are also statically linked shared objects, but those are mostly a quaint reminder of the past).

I don't hate dynamic linking as much as I used to, but it is still a peeve of mine. Linux is one of the most backwards compatible kernels, but the heavy usage of dynamic linking means that a linux program from 20 years ago either won't work at all, or will be buggy.

A statically linked program from 20 years ago will work (but possibly won't have sound; though it's possible to get either alsa or pulse audio to emulate OSS and then even sound will work).
if that's the case then surely Russia has agents masquerading as the far left too? After all if you're just pretending to be far right to enrage the left you're leaving half your strategy at the door.
Bad code in legacy projects, thoughts
Individuals running private companies can do whatever they want, as long as they can convince others. This is a public postion.

Reasonably sure EM has also used a computer and managed technical companies. Someone who hasn't used a computer in 2018 is not suitable for most jobs, short of digging ditches.
We maintain the ones we built originally, but new ones are typically maintained by the app/service in question. At some point, the question of maintaining and updating "X,XXX" integrations with a comparatively small team does arise, so the idea of the partner owning and being responsible for the integration begins to make sense.
His short of the UK pound was used by a lot of talk radio nutcases to link him to various conspiracy theories (rothchilds, elders of Zion, etc). Many of the modern internet provocateurs seem to have been raised on a steady diet of late night talk radio.

The key thing about those sorts of things is that the lack of evidence is itself evidence of the grand conspiracy.
That must be why he’s been condemned by such noted antisemites as the Israeli foreign ministry...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-hungary-soros/isra...
In all parliamentary systems I know (Spain, France, Morocco) ministers do not have to be selected from the parliament. Parliament is legislative while ministers are executive.
Thanks for the correction. I was posting that from my phone without any references in front of me.
A few developments worth sharing:

- This week we managed to get a performance bump by moving the dat stack into its own process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lVBr5BchE&feature=youtu.be

- We're working on identity and user-filesystem tooling, discussed here: https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1058830217798660096

- We're replacing our discovery network with a new DHT that handles hole-punching, and that's going to be exposed in a user-to-user messaging called PeerSockets https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker-core/pull/6 This is one of Maf's top two priorities right now. His other priority is a new version of the dat data-structure that will improve performance and lay the groundwork for multiple writers in a dat.
Interesting difference in opinions between this thread and this recent post about FB needing to censor it's platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458938

Not sure why the surprise. Pretty obvious that FB (and all other entities) will use it's power only to advance its own interests.

> People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me" Dumb fucks.

- Mark Zuckerberg
Full Stack Developer Position in London – 80K and Benefits
Why is this the case? Don't the data portability rules make it easier for Europeans to be able to switch to a Facebook alternative?
Apple Mac OS vs. Microsoft Windows 10
Having good leadership skills and a successful track record (strong plus if they come with clear and measurable ROI). That and being able to master networking and public interactions (which a good leader knows to do anyways).
A spike in underage vaping prompts FDA to restrict flavored e-cigarette products
Back in about 2005, I hated javascript. In hindsight, what I hated was cross browser development and developpers messing webpages with javascript (alerts, popups, javascript "links" ...). I used noScript intensively (always unless forced otherwise), and it made the web better. How not to think javascript is a shame, then ?. Javascript wasn't understood well at the time, and I guess still isn't by most people. Just learn to understand it it's awesome. So, no.
The best feedback you ever get as a library maintainer is the population count of questions.

If everyone asks you the same question, you’re the one who’s wrong, not everyone else.

If everyone is asking you why you did it, you probably shouldn’t have done it.