skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the site is just a test (which didn't really take off to be honest, I've posted it here and there). But regarding the controls and the trust, you only pay out the reward if you like the result (that's how it works at the moment). And both the creators and the requesters can gain a reputation. A requester gets a good reputation for offering rewards and regularly paying them out. A content creator gets a good reputation for regularly fulfilling good wishes.
It all depends on how low they set the rating lower bound.
That’s pretty unusual.

Also, you seem to be having trouble reading. Nowhere to I refer to breakage as liability.

Take Amazon for example. On the platform side them call them “referral fees”. For risky items, where fraud and returns are higher, the fee that you pay Amazon for the privilege of selling to their customers is higher. Sometimes a lot higher. It’s going to be referred to as either an allowance or entitlement on the retail side. Allowances are specific allocations. Entitlements generally refer to all of the payments which a retailer is "entitled to" for the privilege of doing business with you, including allowances.
>then we'll get native J2EE in the browser instead of JS copies…

Can’t wait. Imagining all the possibilities...
EPA Ready to Scrap Biofuel Market Reform in Bid to Boost Ethanol
Do you have sympathy for the knock-on effects for the rest of society? We may not be able to prevent 18-22 year olds with underdeveloped minds and who are aggressively marketed to throughout high school from choosing poorly in college.

However, think of all of the lack of productivity and financial progress on the macro scale, that's where I feel we need to act beyond the level of personal decisions. If we don't put the right incentives and regulations in place, what's to stop the collective from just slowing down the economy? I have sympathy for all of us who have to deal with the student loan ball and chain around our country's former students.
Huawei Files Motion in US Federal Court Calling Ban Unconstitutional
I guess it depends how much magnesium hydride you find or can make there. It's a very long trip from the belt to Venus though.

And honestly, if you have the resources to mine global amounts of magnesium hydride from the belt and ship them all the way to Venus you have the technology to build a nearly unlimited number of space colonies that would be much much nicer to live on than even a terraformed Venus.
Incredibly cool
The developer interface is _much_ worse than the user interface. At least the user interface had shell completions to guide your guess work. As you suggested, having to initialise a bunch of things in some undisclosed order is bordering on meddling with the dark arts, good luck tearing it all down again safely. Then let's say you want to streaming-encrypt something on the fly, good luck understanding the correct way to chain BIOs and what exactly the behaviour for seeking, buffering, writing, closing, opening, decrypting, reading, popping BIOs and then working with the remainder of the chain, before pushing a BIO back on is.

I wrote a steaming data encryptor a little while back using openssl, just in C, it works fine now but the majority of my reading was existing implementations on the web and some out-of-date blogs coupled with some, sometimes-correct documentation and just pain trial-and-error paired with my good old friend Valgrind.

Unfortunately, in some industries it's go-FIPS-or-go-home, so we don't even have the choice of using a fork or an alternative at times.
Ah, the cringe.

I just realized that you are conflating Walmart's retail operations with its online operations. They are two separate things, and are governed by different sets of practices and contracts.

Walmart's physical/retail contracts don't have anything similar to what you've been calling entitlements except in the rare case. Everything else you've called an entitlement is simply decades of standard legal terms, generally straight of the Uniform Commercial Code, none of which are called entitlements.

Bigger retailers like Walmart and Target do have "allowances" which are negotiated on a per-contract basis and thus their terms and scope vary by contract.

Note: from what I've been able to determine, "entitlements" in the way you've been using them is a CRM term, it's not a term of general use in the law or retail industries.
The all-seeing eye works for supermarkets all the way to the producer, it works for housing all the way to the builder, it works for cars, it works for services like garage, additional classes, etc. There is no reason people will all of a sudden be stupid when it will come to healthcare, transportation or education. Point is, competition is transitive, and the last tier is always competitive. Therefore by iteration every tier is competitive.
Thanks! Nice additions!
The problem is that "the Strip" isn't a singular place; it's two lines of huge casinos on either side of Las Vegas Boulevard. Any transportation from the airport needs to more or less stop at each casino (or directly connect to something that does) to be useful.
I agree that a very strict version of this is too draconian for most workplaces, but depending on the person's role and how many times they've failed a phish test I think it's reasonable to have consequences. For positions where getting phished would be disastrous, something along the lines of a warning or training after the first and second strikes then firing after the third doesn't strike me as exceptionally draconian.
Were the scientist hired by Exxon in the 70’s also participating in this political scheme?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

I’d love to hear how the sceptics turn this fact in to present day politics.

Policy seems to be the only way we can sort this future mess out btw.
> Regulation is clearing up and there are many biting at the bit for this.

In what way is regulation actively harming your ability to purchase shares of a legitimate operating business without overextending yourself financially? Please be specific.
Advertising signals are normally too weak to be detected by standard A/B tests.
Additionally, most traditional advertisers do not run A/B tests. Their agencies especially do not run such tests.
Source: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=lewi...
Why do you say that?

Even accounting for the cost, I think many would still argue that it was worth it, replacing a highway system that divided the city with a walkable network of parks that effectively connects different neighborhoods like financial district <-> north end, along with a new series of (underground) highways that provided improved traffic flow.

Before and after photos: https://imgur.com/JbgPur6

If the cost issue were solved, what would be the reason not to do it?

(I suppose it taking well over a decade to complete construction is an issue, but presumably new technology could improve that as well.)
This Boring Tunnel is all hype so far.

The demo tunnel doesn't look to have sufficient ventilation or emergency exits in case of fire, car crash, etc.

They haven't addressed the ingress and egress congestion problems into and out of the tunnel. How can a single elevator go up/down to handle 1000+ cars per hour (4400 passengers per hour)? Basic math gives you 3.6 seconds for the elevator to go down, wait for the car to offramp, go back up, and wait for the next car to onramp.

These are some of the many reasons tunnels and subways get expensive. You can't just build a basic tunnel rigged with cars and say "problem solved" at 1/10th the cost.
Debt-based bond-backed money is already ex-nihilio. UBI-backed money might exist and the monetary system would have been much simpler.
Population is the result of population growth.

The best solution for the planet and our quality of life is to make population growth stop, and ideally see population decrease.
Of particular interest is that Kevin Chan was sent instead as he could answer any questions... except he doesn't:

"Erskine-Smith: Why are you not complying with privacy laws in Canada (in the opinion of the privacy commissioner, who will be taking Facebook to court).

Chan: I'm limited in what I can say.

Erskine-Smith: No you're not."
From and reply-to looks just like your company unless you catch the misspelling. "l" and "I" in the domain name go to different companies, but when everything else in the email looks just like any other email from IT you aren't going to notice that small difference - you probably won't even read the from/reply lines.
what? the answer is to democratically come up with literally any policy for assigning cars that makes more sense than "rich people get whatever they want". it can even have market aspects to some extent if necessary.
React really hasn't changed much since React.Component was introduced. Some lifecycle methods were deprecated/replaced, and hooks were added. That's honestly about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air
The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Freedom Gas"
You can install NGINX with Termux.
> In both cases, the pilots didn't strictly follow procedure

But would "the procedure" actually have saved the plane? I don't believe so. WalterBright is arguing that the pilots should have known better than "the procedure" and done something different from what the checklists and memory items proscribed. I can't comment on doing so — as I'm not an airline pilot — but to put blame on pilots in this sort of situation without acknowledging Boeing's actions is beyond tasteless.

IMHO Boeing is 100% responsible for the deaths.
What social experiences do you feel like you missed out on? Having teachers ignore you and spend 90% of their time dealing with problem kids? The petty drama? How many people look back fondly on K-12 and think “man, that was great?”

Read Sasse’s “the vanishing American adult.” It’s got some great commentary on what’s wrong with modern school. We take kids, and instead of having them be around adults to socialize them, we let them loose on their own little child-dominated Lord of the Flies society.
Other than Facebook and Google, what are the preferred marketing services for iOS indie developers in 2019? Is it mostly domain/niche specific, or are there horizontal promotion services for apps?

If Apple's 30% fee charged to developers does not include any marketing services, what additional percentage should be budgeted for the companies that are promoting apps? 10%? 20%?
Presumably you were able to explain your case and have the reprimand expunged from your record. As long as they are reasonable in that way I don't think occasionally testing the people handling sensitive data is a bad idea.
Anybody have experience with buying app store ads? I wonder if they could provide a crucial bump in a situation like this where presumably the reviews are good but you drop because of things beyond your control.
Object pools are really easy.
Unsafe is only for extreme cases. Some cache libraries use it. You don't have to code it yourself.
Yes this is better than relying on the end user/admin to tune things. It is more predictable.
Have you ever lived near an elevated train? They're not pleasant areas, especially compared to subway stations. The area under the tracks aren't very usable, except as a roadway and parking lots. They're loud as hell, people on the trains can see into your home, the spaces around the elevated tracks are great places for people to do drugs and have crusty hobo sex. These criticisms apply equally to elevated roads.

Most times it rained or snowed in New York City when I lived there, New Jersey Transit and PATH would have problems because of the issues of weather on outdoor trains. It only affected NYC's subway when there was flooding (which also affected NJT and PATH).

The fascination with tunnels is that they're a much more ergonomic way to build infrastructure for the humans that have to live near them.
What part of this is actually different than a traditional market? Government involvement does not preclude the use of market techniques. In this case, the government is just an individual player with weird values.
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Inertia, presumably? What keeps the rest of the Earth rotating?
Has that been an issue you have come across?

Granted, it felt like 99% of companies did not let me through the door, but I was under the assumption that after actually having industry experience, it wouldn't be as hard.
I now have a Civic which just has a generic "tire pressure low" warning, but on my previous car, a Dodge Dart, it told me the pressure for each tire.
It's not for personal vehicles. It's for moving conventioneers from one end of the convention center to another.

Think of it as one of those people movers they have at some airports.
The El was built along with the city's expansion (often by developers who wanted to make new tracts of land accessible). That doesn't work for infill, where the intrusion and space the elevated tracks require aren't accounted for in current prices and expectations, and where right of way isn't established.

If we had a Robert Moses of transit, then it could happen, just like the highways happened. There are no Robert Moseses of transit. Now the best we can do for new lines is shadow the highways.

Elevated lines like in Chicago also seem very uncommon now, I suspect they aren't actually that great? They certainly take a lot of maintenance and don't have great trip times. I think putting an incredibly large and heavy vehicle on metal stilts isn't a good approach. There have been people who want to instead put relatively light vehicles on stilts [1], with many benefits, but that's been met with almost no interest from people who can make these things happen. (Personally I think it's a missed opportunity.) Though in a sense what's being built here is along those lines, but underground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
Lots of people saw it. It was obvious if your job was being outsourced or if your factory was being closed, quite apparent if no new machinery was being invested in.

At the time Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were around and all of this was discussed. The predicted decline happened. There are capitalist rent seeker types that are okay with it, they also voted for the lunatic politicians. The people not so happy about it don't get to write for the capitalist newspapers giving the illusion to people with no skin in the game that 'nobody predicted this calamity'.

So predictions for forty years hence? It does not work like that, does it? Back in the 1980's you just knew that if manufacturing was gone that there would be no market for locally made goods, no possibility of exporting quality stuff on the world market and that we would not be able to drive prosperity on the back of financial services forever.

If you push someone over a cliff you are not sure whether they will break their neck, crack their head open or get impaled on a spike, all you know is that the outcome will not be a good one.

Right now we are using far too much in the way of fossil fuels, the climate is not right and it is getting worse. I don't know how ravaged the world will be in forty years hence, all I do know is that carrying on as we do is not a good idea.
>If the cost issue were solved

I feel like that's a very very heavy lift.

Lots of things would be great "If the cost issue were solved".
Yes, an "I'm travelling with dogs" option would also be quite useful. Some drivers love them and some hate them and are paranoid their car is going to be ruined the entire ride. It'd be better for both rider & driver if this matching were done automatically.

Most riders would probably be fine with a small additional fee.
Capabilities to enforce regulatory compliance on permissionless chains is coming. You could, say, have zero-knowledge proofs in smart contracts that enforce that tokens representing security X can only be transferred if the receiving account has performed KYC and confirmed as an accredited investor in jurisdiction X, Y or Z, without leaking any PIIs that went Intl the verification.

Or more trivially, TPL for account tagging.

Microsoft's initiative on decentralized identity leveraging on the Bitcoin blockchains could be a component in this. Excellent podcast episode here: https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/what-bitcoin-did-107-m...

Not to say you're completely wrong, just that smart contracts can be used to enforce regulation rather than skirt it - like any tool the outcome depends on the intentions of the one wielding it. :)
Of course there is an alternative, it's called encrypting your E-mail, and has been around for decades (for example in the form of PGP/GnuPG/GPG/whatever).

That said, having observed its history for the last 26 years, I do not think it is an accident that PGP/GnuPG is so difficult to use, poorly developed, generally marginalized, and has not been adopted by any of the big E-mail software authors.

Think of it another way: if Apple decided to really be pro-privacy today and built support for GPG into its Mac and iOS apps, the problem would be largely solved. But for some reason they do not, nor does any other major software maker.
A favorite example of mine even if it's contrived: https://twitter.com/sc00bzt/status/730903007014076416
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> If you are middle-class or lower-class, the options are pretty much binary already, today, in the real world. You eat, or you don't. You have a roof over your head, or you don't. You get medical treatment, or you don't.

This is a lie. Most 'poor' Americans have lots and lots of expensive things; they could choose to do with less. This is not to say all could, but the poverty level metric is so excessive, that many have lots of discretionary spending that many 'rich' households do not.

This has to do with how we define 'poverty.' The poverty level as set means that many americans with lots of discretionary spending (for example, television) are classified as poor, despite having easily fixed overspending. For example, according to data from the department of energy (accessible here: https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2005/hc/pdf...), 26million / 39million households eligible for federal assistance (~64%) had cable television, meaning almost $70/month in unnecessary expenditure. For those below the poverty line, 10.6mil/16.6 mil had cable or satellite (again ~64%). This is data from 2005, but other years are similar.That is a bit ridiculous.
Would that meet the demand? How does a PIC uC serving static HTTP perform?
I do not agree. This should also be implemented in financial institutions and any company that has access to overly sensitive information, especially that which you can not easily change or that would put your family at risk of harm.

I would add in my proposal that if a percentage of employees under a director fall for it, the director gets let go. If a number of directors are let go, the C-Level is let go and so on.
Maybe Elon should visit Europe or Asia and check out an underground mass rapid transit system or two. They have two orders of magnitude larger capacity. And even their capacity is finite.

And keep in mind that the NYC Subway and the London Underground are NOT a good example of a modern mass transit system.
I work at a financial company and we have a similar policy around phishing email. Embarrassingly, I failed this once and then created an email rule which filters out the fake Phish. No idea if it gets real Phish.
Everyone has to agree with the bully in the play ground. The bully is not around forever though. A new one comes along.
Threads like these are really interesting to me.

Our fascination with which language /framework is the best, most performant, whilst understandable (we are all attracted to shiny technology) misses an important point.

Engineering is all about trade offs and there are plenty of technologies that are comparable nowadays.

I think it's more a matter of picking something that makes sense for you and your team as well as the particular problem you are tackling and sticking with it than engaging in a holy war.

For example if you need great concurrency support.. perhaps you are better off with elixir
if you need heavy computations.. go for python
if you need safety, then perhaps look at go or rust

Rails really optimizes for developer happiness, comes with a huge ecosystem and is mature enough that can be called a boring, stable technology to build on.
That being said, it certainly isn't the right choice for everything.

Disclaimer:
I mainly use ruby on a day to day basis but also love elixir, python and even go.
I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, but I'm confused by this line of argument. If Apple is running razor thin, zero, or negative margin for Apple Music--what are they getting out of it?

Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes, Reminders fit that same definition. In those cases I imagine they're "value adds." Music (as a store or subscription, not as a player) I don't see being a "value add."

> because their products can be purchased in the exact same form at another retailer.

The Internet is different. I've always been annoyed that if I buy a movie or most ebooks I'm tethered to that platform for playback. I'm very glad thats generally no longer true for music purchases.
Many people don't get a bonus. If you have no benefits, an hourly wage, and no path for advancement, the only thing they can do is whine or fire you.
Well,

1) they're neither "seen by devs as a unattractive platform to build a business on" (they have millions of apps, and hundreds of thousands of devs contributing, including all major software companies, from MS to Adobe, plus they have earned devs by far the most money of off any app store, in fact an unbelievable amount ($120 billion in developer revenue [1])

2) Nor are they treated like a monopolist in courts. Being the only app store for your own platform is not a monopoly. Being the only platform is a monopoly, and iOS is not only not "the only platform", but is a minority platform (more people use Android). Not to mention that even being a monopoly (which Apple is far from one, and wont ever be due to price) is not illegal: exploiting that monopoly (like Microsoft of yore did) is.

[1] https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/01/28/apple-app-store-120-billi...
No, those growing countries are not the ones producing the most emissions. Top priority is getting the first world to cut down it's emissions and make green technology accessible for developing countries so they don't follow the same path

Population growth is not conveniently forgotten, it's brought up constantly in any discussion. It just isn't the cause of our current situation and won't be significantly adding to it in the time frame that the west needs to adjust
This is known as the Ben Franklin Effect [0] and is pretty interesting to read up on. It wouldn't at all surprise me if this plays into passenger ratings, even though it seems counter-intuitive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
Chargebacks have been used since forever in corporate accounting systems for that purpose. They work fine, no cryptocurrency or exchange needed.
> virtually guaranteed to be wrong

I would go a step further and say all formal models are proven to be wrong. After all, that's what Gödel and Turing kept going on about.

We can't prove any non-trivial program ever halts or does not halt. In fact, we can't (or don't) prove much about our programs we run anywhere.

All programs are a collection of assumptions. To bring this back to the topic at hand, if all of our search assumptions are useful to some meaningful number of people then it really doesn't matter how many "falsehoods" we trip over. Those falsehoods fall away, becoming mere insignificant edge-cases. Satisfying all people all the time in all cases is a fool's errand.

Articles like this are good at letting you know your blindspots so you can choose your blindspots rather than succumb to them. But don't let it become dogma.