skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's worth it isn't measured by whether it's a huge improvement, it's obvious to anyone with eyes that the current state is better. It's whether it could have been even better had the $22 billion been spent differently.

So no, comparing skyscraper cost to tunnel cost is absolutely meaningful, because if you want to increase green space one way is to spend an exorbitant amount of money digging a highway into the ground, another is to demolish 5 blocks of 10 story houses, build one 50 story skyscraper, and get 4 blocks of public park as a result.

Urban blight around elevated highways isn't some law of nature, it's just a zoning problem, and one that's a lot cheaper to solve than digging the highway into the ground.
> Much of Europe still has a strong middle-class.

Debatable if we factor in the cost of living in many places.
On Uber, drivers don’t have much choice not to take a toxic passenger regardless of their rating, or they get dinged for excessive cancellation. Passengers don’t have much choice not to take a badly rated driver or they get dinged for cancelling. So, realistically, star ratings are only useful for the platform to know which drivers or passengers are unwanted. Otherwise, star ratings really aren’t much use. This is very unlike other platforms, like eBay or Amazon, where users can choose who to buy goods/services from based on star ratings.

Of course, this isn’t in support of this deactivation of riders at all - taxi companies are regulated in most places so they can’t refuse a fare without cause, and Uber really should be subject to similar regulation. Otherwise, losing access to Uber could seriously disenfranchise certain populations. I’d be happier if they would just ditch star ratings for passengers entirely, and just rely on driver complaints - but this is probably wishful thinking.
My fear is something like pihole may end up being a temporary stopgap; it can only help with DNS queries that go through it, and so it too may end up in the same position as chrome + ublock origin. For instance, if chrome decides to use a trr or dns-over-https and removes options to change it.
While I don't discount Musk's obsession with Mars, the recurring pattern I see is government money.

- Electric cars: subsidies

- Solar panels: subsidies

- Tunnel: transport infrastructure

- Rockets: NASA/military contracts

Starlink looks more like a commercial project but it doesn't mean the government can't get interested. After all, the internet itself started as a military project.

There are missing pieces in both theories (Mars and government money), the biggest one being PayPal. And some of them don't fit perfectly. So chances are that we are just making stuff up.
Web Fonts are a bit different - it's still semantically just text, and you have the option to override with a user stylesheet.

For many websites, web fonts have been an improvement, especially considering the sorry state of "web-safe" fonts back in the day.
I don’t see what is the point of this comment other than “hurr durr blockchain bad”. Providing a marketplace tokenised assets/digital assets is useful.
I propose we create a new browser fork due to this issue and back it by the main ad block developers.

The other issue is that Chrome on mobile doesn't support extensions.

They tried to away with not having ad-block on mobile this way. No extensions means no ad-block.

Let's just have a new browser based on Chrome that supports mobile + extensions and ad block and tell Google they can go pound sand.
I wonder why many budget schools don’t simply throw out lab work and emphasize a rigorous mathematical approach. Whoever graduates from these places would (in my opinion) likely be more competitive and useful for graduate programs anyway
Unless the company is using the restroom dishonestly, the company is doing it because they want good customer experience from excellent honest ratings; inflated ratings are thus sabotaging everyone else's experience.

If the company is using them dishonestly then inflated ratings are just serving the dishonest purpose.

Moreover, in the honest case (which I do not think applies) if the company is trying to use (known to be highly culturally variable) star ratings as a substitute for a simple binary “you would want to ride again with this driver” flag, they are idiots and overcomplicating what should be simple.
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Well, it is not necessarily right if you have 500 users, but I would call it dictatorial rather than orwellian. And it could certainly be a benevolent dictatorship with the right dictator.

The problem with the 1,000,000 users is it becomes harder and harder to have informed people make reasoned decisions based on good information, so you end up relying on processes and proxies. Data and reports. And then you create rules like "whenever data point X reaches threshold Y action Z will be taken". And it is a good rule. Not a perfect rule, because perfect rules are really really hard. And maybe the rule can be gamed a bit. Griefed a bit. And this makes people unhappy and they start complaining, but there are so many of them and they were the ones breaking the rules anyway, and there really isn't time to look into all these complaints, and its impossible to figure out exactly what happened without reading through terabytes of logs so the rules are the rules and people just need to follow them. And so what if they just got a life ban because of a momentary lapse of reason or because an organized group filed a series of false complaints. Life is too short to coddle whiners and toxic people.

And then you are orwellian.
> It's a dishonest rating when you know that a 5 means normal experience.

I agree, in a sense. If you're working with a rating system that is inherently dishonest (as I just learned this one is) by redefining what ratings mean, then it's dishonest to supply a rating that you know means something other than what it should.

I was not advocating doing that.
What does "a single bad CPU instruction" mean here? That the CPU was faulty and reliably miscalculated AVX instructions? I don't understand.
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They have, but they had fallen way out of favor for a couple of reasons - write amplification, cost/complexity of segment cleaning, poor performance for some workloads, etc. They've experienced a bit of a resurgence thanks to flash and SMR, though. Personally, I've always thought log-structured filesystems were elegant and wish they'd been more actively developed during the long "winter" during which their COW/write-anywhere cousins stole all the limelight.
The biotech to terraform (or live under domes sustainably) is a longer ways off though. All the attempts to create biodomes I’ve read about have either failed or cheated on a large scale.

Unless we have an Asimov-esque robot driven “colonization”, but does that fully count?
True, but at that point you can elect to stop using Chrome altogether. #firefoxGang
Is that true? IE was incumbent and Firefox unseated it. They had the legacy of Netscape, sure, but they didn’t throw the towel and reskin IE the same way other browsers of the time did.

Besides that, at which point does the dominant search and advertising company of the internet get an antitrust case for this? People think google is trustworthy yet they do nothing to earn that trust.
I tried that one but it didn't handle containers.
I take the same approach. I don’t rate people.

One time I contacted uber when my driver got out of the car and punched a pedestrian. I still didn’t rate the driver. I just reported the incident. I also ended my ride when that happened. Hopefully he was arrested, but I didn’t stick around to find out.
Unfortunately it is unbearably slow on MacOS.
Look at web browsing. All those browsers use WKWebKit, so they're all actually just Safari. And Apple's fine with telling the public that they have choice here. That's just blatantly false, and I don't see how their legal team allowed them to make such a statement.

A web browser is more than just a rendering engine + JavaScript runtime. Are Chrome and the new Chromium backed Microsoft browser the same even though they use the same rendering engine?
Understood, but you shouldn't blame the Investor - you failed to do proper due diligence and also accepted poor terms when there were multiple, other investors potentially willing to fund the company. You shouldn't blame the Investor
Love that they recommend going to Tarjan -- nothing like drinking from the original well!
everyone has different experiences in school of course, but at the two undergrad institutions I attended it was pretty much always the case that aptitude for the subject combined with a reasonable effort (ie, turning in completed homework and some studying for exams) would result in an A for the class. only the kids who totally slacked off or were in the wrong major would get Cs or worse.
You just gave me flashbacks to when I upgraded from DOS 2.0 to 2.1...
Fair enough. As far as I know, it aims to be fully decentralized by everyone's definition eventually, apart from KYC which I accept as a necessity.

For my needs, the decentralization they currently offer is all I really care about (I am able to get my funds out at any time, and no one else is).
What? That's a doozy. But I think most of us here have probably seen the same kind of thing. It's always fun when you realize that the person you are obligated to respect and are purportedly supposed to be learning from is dumber than a bag of hammers.

Most of them get nasty when they are proven incorrect as well.
When a program becomes sufficiently complex, it's impossible to make changes to a program without the change affecting other parts of the program. Without tests, whether manual or automated, it's hard to know if a change has caused old bugs to reappear, or introduced new bugs.

What about adding a feature that changes a fundamental assumptions of the program? Eg since the very beginning, the product has only ever supported integration with Salesforce.com, so all of the system was programmed with that assumption in mind. Unfortunately, there's now a need to support other CRMs. As support for OtherCRM is added, how sure can you be that salesforce.com support still works 100% perfectly? And then let's also add support for 30 more CRMs because that's what the customers are using. If support isn't added for those 31 CRMs, then a (high-code) competitor could come along with a better product for cheaper.

Thus, making sure every change going into the program still works with every single one of those CRMs becomes a roadblock. Not insurmountable, but at some point, the roadblock becomes an albatross around the neck of the product, making it impossible to make any changes to the product.

Having tests (hopefully automated) will make sure that the product works with all the CRMs it claims to. But the overhead of writing tests takes a non-zero amount of time/resources, which (eventually) adds up.
Is there a good way to convert chrome saved passwords/history to firefox? Thinking I'll switch back to firefox.
No it isn't. They changed the algorithm in which apps appearin search. Should they have to go through every change of app order, contact that dev and explain why?
Same here, my rating is ~4.6 whereas my girlfriend is at close to 5 with exactly the same circumstances as you. Maybe I am not as charming :(

It would be interesting to see how the average rating compares between young women vs men.
Where does one get material for space based manufacturing?
Two factor auth prevents most phishing attacks from being ultimately successful, and two factor probably is easier and better on morale to successfully implement, especially with hardware security keys nowadays.
I think it's reasonable, but there should also be reasonable common-sense support for these policies.

"No tailgating" can be supported through decent vetted entrances and exits.

"No phishing" could have mailserver and mail client support to properly flag the origin of emails and/or enforce "no remote loading" or "restrict html" or "check attachments" sorts of things
But how much? Do I need to tip more if I go unmatched on a pool? Should I have known I wouldn’t be matched at 4AM? If I get continuous matches/delays, can I tip less? Was the driver just pretending to be interested in my life story, so I should tip more because of that? Ahhhh, I liked it the way it was before...
FWIW, in the USA that was the norm during BBS' heyday--local calls costed the same no matter the length of the call. And you might be paying a different company for your local service vs. your long distance service.
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How would you rate the difficulty of this Google interview question?
Average users do care that they can't install addons. Adblock for example.
Your suggestions are already reflected in the existing Wikimedia Foundation TOU: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en

1) It already prohibits paid editing without disclosure. (ctrl-F "Paid contributions without disclosure" in link above)

2) Wikimedia projects require that almost all content be licensed under a free license (ctrl-F "Licensing of Content" in link above). Specifically, text is usually dual licensed under CC BY-SA and GFDL. Wikimedia Commons allows images under any free license. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing)

Exceptions are allowed for fair use content, which needs explicit justification and may only be used sparingly (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_cri... for the English Wikipedia's rules, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-free_content for other WMF wikis).
I work at a firm that creates and sends these phishing tests for our clients. Prior to doing this type of work we always assess the "tone at the top" regarding the culture of the workplace, to assess the suitability of doing these tests.

However, if there are staff that repeatedly fail these tests and receive constant training, then that's a question for the business in how willing they are to accept the risk.

Given that there are tools that can quite often successfully block these types of emails before they get to the end user. Most often when we are crafting these emails we need to ask the IT teams to unblock the domain.

In my opinion I think in most cases no, however depending on the industry and the strike rate you might have a case for it at some point.
Here is a good starting point for the LHC: https://www.quora.com/Could-any-practical-benefits-of-the-La...

And here's a good starting point for the Apollo moon missions:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS....
This impacts you if you're on FF too... if this works and Google is able to monetize Chrome more directly than FF then FF is going to have less development resources.
> In this example there's also only one supermarket, the Apple app store.

But there is other apps stores. There is Googles, Amazons, even Samsung have one.
There are no addons for iOS' Firefox nor Chrome.
I searched the entire article for the word “open”. It appeared 13 times. But:

One of those times was “Open the App”

One was referring to using Safari to get to the “open internet”

The other 11 were invisible labels to open the collapsible divs.
Yes, the transfer agent can ask for a key signing before moving funds, but they also need to be able to transfer WITHOUT the key. Examples would be a key loss or transfer of ownership due to court order. I don't know what the key is doing since it's optional and highly fallible proof of transfer intent.

At best the key signing is providing a partial audit trail with no case law to support any liability transfer created by its use. Typically transfer agents take very little liability by requiring a medallion signature before allowing a transfer.
The difference might be they were also heads of million dollar companies. How many of those have you or I started?
> destroy years of good will thats been built up by genuinely building and delivering a high quality app people love.

And how did they do that? By changing where it appears in one search. wow.
Happy to join you for coffee!

I am a HN luddite and have no idea how to PM you through this platform, but feel free to PM me if you know how :)
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the Netflix rating system which seems more accurate. Netflix scales the rating against your other ratings. If you always say 3 = OK then 5 = great. If you always say 5 = does not suck then 3 = sucks but not horrible.

I don't even rate AirBNB hosts (for instance) because I know that a good enough host will be punished. I only rate the top and the bottom because those are the only two ratings that have meaning any more.
I don't know man. A ton of companies clearly edit their own articles and it's often fine for me for information purposes. If it's true that one of the main reasons to check these pages out is for tourism ideas then these better, professionally-shot results are really hard for me to get outraged about.

If a medical supply company replaced medical article photos with much better versions but which showed their logos in a few pixels on some equipment, would this be unacceptable for you?

For me the production value would probably be worth it.
I guess my Chromebook will not be running Chrome.
Funny, I'm sure you're being helpful but I can't tell if this is satire. Thank god for gnu.
Firefox has been doing a few rather questionable things. They had the Mr Roboto add-on which was pushed out to advertise a TV show, they stuck ads in the "Recommendations" [1], they proactively destroyed peoples' bookmarks when they dropped support for RSS, they dropped support for RSS (because, apparently, a decentralized way to track website updates is anti-Google), and they destroyed a lot of useful add-ons.

I basically can't trust them anymore.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...
I think it's time for Microsoft to rethink their decision to base Edge on Chromium.

It's a painful decision, to be sure, but the Microsoft team has to make a decision here: fork or adhere. The immediate benefit of forking and not following Chromium on this change is obvious. However, the cost of the fork will grow over time and it will be in Google's interest to deprecate and replace all of the infrastructure that supports the webRequest API to make it maximally painful to maintain the functionality in a fork.

On the other hand, had Microsoft decided to base Edge on Gecko, they wouldn't be working off a forked codebase whose owner has a perverse incentive to make the fork as painful and expensive as possible.

How many engineer hours, months, years are going to be wasted just shoring up features like this?
Possibly also the IPv6 ULAs:

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

Not sure if those can be expressed in uMatrix as a prefix rule.
That would be much better. At least it would be obvious to everyone what the rating means.
It’s not built 10x cheaper than others’ construction price.

https://youtu.be/0ezF7NmwQZs
Quite a few things, to name a few:

* improved firefighting protective gear

* Athletic shoes

* Sports stadiums being able to move the field of play

* seismological monitors for everything from trains to trucks

* base defibrillator tech

* cordless power tools

* skin care: "Estee Lauder uses digital image analyzers and software based on NASA lunar research to evaluate cosmetic products."

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/80660main_ApolloFS....
it was certainly an embarrassing moment at the time, but I had gotten perfect scores on all my coding assignments in school, so I expected similar on my first performance review. also, when we did evaluations of our professors at the end of each semester, they would always explain that anything less than a 5/5 was basically fucking them over and we better have a good reason for the rating.

it's hard to understand what a rating out of five actually means unless someone takes the time to explain it in plain english.
Whoa, never knew that was a thing. I found FF's dev tools quite bulky and clunky in the past, but I might have to give it another go.
I don't know how current this is:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefo...
If I knew I'd be rich. If we knew what particular aspect was going to be the cause of the recession, the market would already have priced that in and we would evade the recession. There are undoubtedly a few people who will know, and a few years after the recession big short type films will be made about them.
US energy officials refer to natural gas as 'freedom gas'
> To enable the user to customize this deeply requires implementing additional functionality to do so.

This functionality already exists on macOS.
> the author chooses energy

And is thereby begging the question.

Economists value goods using prices.
"The alternative, working on natural gas wells in Pennsylvania, paid him $13 an hour, about half what he was making at G.M." $13/hr is close to twice Pennsylvania's minimum wage. It's not a terrible job, and it'd at least put some money in the bank and diversify his skills."

This is overly optimistic. He is losing half his salary, with a wife and a daughter to feed. He will lose his quality of life. That's a huge deal, and is worth pointing out and have sympathy for.

Also, if you still need evidence:

1. https://www.performcarenj.org/pdf/families/dd-residency-fact... This is proof of residency for NJ to have a NJ specific residency.
2. https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/eligibility-z-manual-ea-z/reside... This is proof of residency for DC to have food benefits.
3. https://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService=GET_DYNAM... Minnesota requires 30 days explicitly.
> The MCAS system was known about after the Lion Air crash, and it baffles me why pilots wouldn't have known about successful corrective action taken on the previous flight. After all, I read about this in the newspaper. It wasn't a secret.

One thing to keep in mind: it’s not like there’s a big sign popping up saying “hey, AoA is faulty, MCAS is trimming down the nose, unless you set Stab Trim switches to cutout. What do you want to do?”

Instead, you have stick shaker activation during climb out, EICAS warnings, chaos, and you struggle to bring things under control by putting the plane into a stable, manual, mode (autopilot off, flaps up, ...), and then MCAS kicks in surreptitiously, more or less (you have the trim wheels turning, but a lot of other stuff is going on), and trims your nose down.

> it baffles me why pilots wouldn't have known about successful corrective action

They did, and they flipped the stab trim switches to cutout, but they didn’t manage to overcome the required forces on the trim wheel to trim properly, and switched the stab trim back on. Now, there was the other issue with there being two stab trim switches on the NG with different function, which, if I understand correctly, would allow you to reenable the electric trim switch on the yoke while keeping the automatic stab trim disabled - but on the MAX apparently those two switches are identical, without that having been mentioned, to avoid recertification (I haven’t seen any proper elucidation of that yet - if you have two identical off switches, do you need to set them both to off, or only one, to turn it off?). I wonder (and again, haven’t seen anything about that yet) whether they flipped one of the switches back on, to get the electric trim support, deeming themselves safe from MCAS as the other one was still cut out, only to be foiled by the aircraft.
It's good to do a smaller project for a proof of concept first, then you can do a bigger project after that.
No. I'm saying that the effects of psilocybin claimed by Mckenna, and which are required for his theory, do not exist. Specifically, for example, psilocybin actually reduces vision, rather than improving it [1] : which invalidates Mckennas first quoted point above.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01965761

This isn't a question of "evolutionary psychology", but of neuroscience.