skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The supply side realized long ago that a college education was a commodity and the consumers haven't, that's how we end up with stories like this and student loans that will last forever.

When I was a junior I had no idea what I wanted to study: I did some research on the highest paying jobs and narrowed it down to healthcare, finance, energy and technology. After cross referencing that with what local (cheap) schools offered and what career paths I could achieve with 4 years of education I settled on CS and graduated with no debt and a high salary.

Just because society highly values education doesn't mean we have to be poor consumers about it.
Fortunately, they are not the only storefront that exists. There are plenty of other storefronts on slightly different hardware available to the consumer.

In fact, the App Store is a minority storefront on minority hardware.
There could be a sufficient amount of friction in the system such that it could be in any position when the air speed is zero?
I hope they start deactivating drivers who refuse service dogs or otherwise repeatedly fail to abide by the agreed terms of service. Uber continues to regularly ignore driver violations and fail to comply with the results of rider class action agreements.
Looks interesting but there doesn’t seem to be al list of supported banks?

Pretty happy with Truelayer (https://truelayer.com) but more competition is always better.
I don't know if "ethnically diverse" affects public services here in the US, but we are more significantly more diverse than the majority of other first world countries.

https://wapo.st/2YSx1Ry
> They could start banning people they don't like for political reasons

Start? Uber already blocked police from using their service in certain jurisdictions.
The response requires logging in to Google's systems. So, essentially, there is no public response.
It is, I took my brother-in-law aside and had him walk through some basic scenarios for his future (future salary, job opportunities, cost of living, etc.) Had I not done this with him, I am not confident he would have had enough sense to do this himself.

As it turns out, many people are not willing or know how to do the research, even if it's just a little google-fu. I wonder if, because of programming it is second nature to me to search the internet for answers about anything.

I've found anecdotally that many people don't bother trying to figure this information out.
Silver lining: HN readers now know about your app.
Honestly, at this point, I don't even use Gmail web: I just use the macOS built-in Mail app (Thunderbird unfortunately doesn't have a friendly UI).

If more people switch to Firefox, this might be an additional effect: a rise in the usage of desktop mail clients.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043965
Proportional to the degree of damage that can be done by the employee in question... yes, absolutely. If you have the responsibility and authority to disburse millions of dollars to a random bank account number, then you've got a high degree of responsibility not to be spear-phished, and it would be a disqualification if you are unable to resist it.

On the other hand, firing a front-line call center employee because they failed the spear-phishing tests is fairly pointless and more damaging than helpful.

Where exactly the line falls would be up to the business and like so many things, involves too many factors to be reasonable to discuss here. With the typical concentrations of power and authority in a business, it's only going to be the minority of employees that would be faced with termination for this problem, because only a minority will have the power to do significant damage to the business in general.

I think it's not too difficult to think that the article is mostly talking about the situations where it isn't proportional to the degree of damage that can be done by the employee.
I was referring to past actions of the US that proved to be unjustified and disastrous: WMDs in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, etc.. This is related to the normalization of credibility based on information ubiquity, but I think it's mainly US's actions speaking for themselves. After the WWII us has become a policing force that more or less , with the exception of the Vietnam war, wasn't as active in foreign wars as they've been recently. The Vietnam war fuckup was largely forgotten or attributed to a different America that had changed. But the recent wars were also pointless and proved otherwise.

Once again, US has the ability to change, but it will take a lot of effort to do so and will have to start leading by example.
No sources, observation from life.
The children of actively involved parents now have children themselves. They saw the futility of their actively involved parents actions, and how the school system wore them down and slowed down their growth, and want nothing to do with it.
The car itself may not be the future, but cheap tunnels and multi-car (let's call them trains) will be the future.

Asian cities already have amazing subway systems that just work so much better than surface streets. The biggest improvement would be to have express lines that only visit every ~10th stop. Financial viability due to massive ridership make these possible in Asia, lower tunneling costs could make them viable elsewhere.
I got curious about your assertion, so decided to get some numbers.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/999101.htm -- annual mean wage of the 2,639,180 employees of the federal government, $76,810

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm -- annual mean wage off all 144,733,270 employees in the nation, $51,960

Of course the federal government might legitimately need higher average skill levels than the rest of the economy does. I wonder how that ratio, $76,810 / $51,960, compares to the ratio in other countries, particularly those with a reputation for being well-governed.
A few years ago I received one of these at work, before I even knew they were a thing. I would have been very annoyed if they'd taken any action against me for following the link in it.

The email itself looked like a standard spam email, but the link was really weird, having a few tokens as part of a query string. Normally fishing emails have simple URLs in them.

So I did the obvious thing of opening the link in a fresh, zero data, locked-down VM just to see where it would take me.

I got the message that I was an idiot, and my company also was notified that I'm clueless about information security.

I can only imagine how difficult it might be to explain to someone what I had done, and why I probably shouldn't have to go on some tedious training course let alone be fired. Luckily all I saw was an increase in the number of these emails I received.
IDEX is semi-decentralized: order-matching is handled off-chain, funds must be deposited into a centralized smart contract that handles all settlement, but the smart-contract itself and balances within it are held on the Ethereum blockchain. It prevents some forms of exit-scam or hack (you don't need to trust that the IDEX principals won't send your funds to a bank in the Bahamas), but retains vulnerability to a bug in the IDEX smart contract allowing a hacker to obtain them. The IDEX smart contract is at least public and auditable, though.
“EDIT: After reading your other comments, it's pretty clear that you think that a product maker, i.e., Alpha Cola, sells to a Walmart shopper and pays Walmart for this opportunity. That's not how retail works. Walmart pays Alpha for a bunch of soda, and as part of this Alpha may negotiate an offset (what you've been calling an entitlement) for marketing support like in-store displays and premium shelf space alongside Code.”

It depends. With Walmart specifically It depends if it’s owned, dsv, or platform. Sometimes a manufacturer (that’s what we call them, not “product makers”) does sell to a Walmart shopper and pay Walmart for the opportunity. That’s what the Walmart Marketplace is. Same as the Amazon Marketplace. Even DSV contracts are now changing, as e-commerce retailers will have you ship items from your warehouse in their box with their tape.

Walmart literally calls these either entitlements or allowances, it depends where (and when) you signed a contract with them.
Stevie does address some of the legal side in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14606475

>In the UK this is no longer necessary and FCA accredited organisations (Or qualified organisations from across the EU) can gain access to Bank APIs which allow much easier, programmatic access with much more granular access and far fewer security implications.

I don't have a horse in this race, but in my experience the Open Banking APIs are:

* Not performant

* Poor at handling and reporting errors

* Limited in their functionality
Standard market theory is that rational actors will make optimal decisions. In theory, that the effects happen in the future shouldn't matter. Indeed, almost all market choices are prospective. Cars are a good example of something where there's generally no up-front penalty for a bad decision, but people buy cars just fine, and it would be weird to say the market isn't in play there.

The problem is that actual humans are pretty different from homo economicus. Iterating on experience is most of how we learn. But people don't really iterate with education; as structured, it's way too big.

I think the way to solve it isn't some sort of system of up-front penalties. Personally, I think the problem is that education is treated as a one-and-done thing that happens at the beginning of our lives. But that's when we know the least about the world and ourselves. I think education should be an ongoing process mixed in with work.
You can't really move a massive invasion force on wooden rafts. Unless they would've asked form some D-Day leftovers, it's just not very feasible.
1) I'm pretty sure it already is.

2) I still don't care.

Just my opinion.
I learned to look at reply-to back when I used Juno & Netscape Communicator. Heck, Communicator used to warn you if reply-to differed from the displayed name.
So all we have to do is get a significant number of Americans to buy into the right culture and wait for the effects to manifest themselves in federal government? What a brilliantly trivial solution! Why has no one considered this before?
>A crowdsourced star rating is not due process. And with Uber and Lyft essentially part of public transport, this is a scary and deeply undemocratic path to go down.

Actually, crowdsourcing is quite democratic. That's the problem. Due process protects against the ultimate form of democracy—a lynching.
In other words authorities in China, India and Africa pay lip service to what one might call the 'Greta Prediction' while their actions show they simply do not believe it.
> This isn't like Angular 1 -> 2

I'm seeing that

Organizations are still supporting a transition from 1, "1.5" and 2
Problem ist once these allegations are out there is literally no way to dispelled them. Keep up the good works. My assumption is that you could be compelled by Swiss law to give access (a la Lavabit), but that the same would be true for literally any non-shady email provider. You get either someone trustworthy or someone who can avoid the rules, but there's no middle ground. Any of the providers sitting in Dutch bunkers or island tax havens can really be geld accountable or their trustability be verified. And any proper honest provider like posted or mailbox or Lavabit will necessarily have to comply with local laws. Swiss laws or German laws will certainly offer better legal security than American or Australian legal contexts - but everything has a limit.

So please don't be disheartened by the undeserved hate here.
You could call it related searches and only display the suggestion when all words are either in the products catalog or in the dictionary, also checking if the query returns something with a phrase search. That can help with typos without ever being to weird
Not an expert, but often with big costly new things the main issue is that nobody dares. Or rather, nobody has the belief in the idea, resources and power to decide (think city officials).
The parent didn't say population growth, they said population. There's way more people currently alive on Earth than the planet's carrying capacity under 1600-level tech, to which we'd had to backtrack globally if we wanted to fix the climate crisis through reducing consumption alone. This is unacceptable for pretty much every reason.

We either find technological solutions to this problem - both on the emission end and on the sequestration end - or climate change starts killing people (and making more people kill even more people). It's that simple.
That should be an Internet rule: Don't set up any mechanism that puts severe power in the hands of anonymous strangers. It will get exploited!
It does not support it on its own. You could build that functionality into an app as far as features go, but how easy they are to isolate will probably vary wildly, and it may be more work than it's worth.
Sending addresses can be spoofed.
What we do? Well, that's what antitrust laws and offices are for. In Europe they tend to work quite nicely.
"Your social credit score is too low to use Uber. The nearest bus stop is 450m northwest. Have a nice day."
To expand on this - a middle ground between the centralized exchanges dominating today and the (relatively) slow and expensive ones on the Ethereum mainnet would be a sidechain using a different physical topology and consensus model.

Some examples that have been gaining buzz recently (these are just examples, there are alternatives to each) if you want to read up and grok the statr of implementation and thoughts today: Plasma chains, PoA Networks xDAI, SKALE, PegaSys.
Climate scientists seem pretty sure already that climate change is happening. In 2028 when the effects should be even more obvious do you think there will still be denialists? There's reason to believe the bottom third of Florida will be underwater by 2030 [0], if a significant fraction of the US is still denying it by then it might be time to give up hope in our nation's continued presence on Earth.

[0]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/how-long-all-f...
Apartments with windows opening directly onto El tracks are discounted in line with the unpleasantness. If you’ll put up a fight over an apartment building 2 blocks away casting a few hours of shade, you’ll definitely put up a fight over frequent clattering metal 2 feet from your bedroom window forming a permanent roof over the street.
Are you going to sort huge files on a router?

Will the BusyBox version of sort use files when there isn't enough RAM, will you have a big enough read/write flash partition for that?
A thought I had the other day, that sort of fits in the context of what you're saying, but probably not completely:

It's interesting to step back and consider how the current Climate Change narrative is similar to the universal theme of "We offended God, so now he is punishing us."

Not really sure what the implications of that are, but seems like something that could be harnessed either for good or ill.
I'm a tech professional and security is a regular part of my jobs. At one point -- while contracting for a Fortune 500 client that shall remain unnamed -- I received an email that was quite clearly phishing. Curious as to what the payload was and whether it was worth reporting, I fired up lynx and followed the link in the email from the command line.

I was promptly informed that I had failed the test and I would be receiving a formal reprimand.

Did that make the company more secure?
> It is the only good/service in America in which the prices are known/paid only AFTER the services are rendered.

this is not really true. if you are having nontrivial repairs done on your house or car, they will give you an estimate upfront, but there can easily be unforseen problems that cause the work to cost a lot more. you might decide to have your car fixed later, but it's hard to pull the plug on a kitchen remodel halfway through. there's all kind of work that gets done without knowing how much it will cost beforehand.
I was homeschooled, and I learned way more way faster, your counter argument only applies to people too crazy for school as opposed to too smart. It's immediately clear when you meet people who are too crazy for school and who are too intense / smart.
The Big Dig strikes me as what could be as much a reason not to do that thing.
and they don't even stray particularly far from chromium.
Not every major expense is supply-constrained, though, particularly not the rigid supply constraints of real estate. So asserting that "supply constrained basics" will eat 100% of UBI is unrealistic.

And even in cases where much of it will be consumed by cost of living, UBI will offer considerable flexibility, relative to current systems. Those who are homeless and/or long term unemployed will at least have some cash income that can be used to relocate or get them by. Lots of homeless people live out of their cars - and UBI will keep that car running and out of impound. That's just one example.

In rural or small-town areas, cost of living isn't so much of a factor, if income is available. UBI will make things much easier for the rural poor.

It will also have a tremendous impact on the middle class. It will reduce the dangers of financial emergencies and increase the savings rates for that majority who aren't in poverty but aren't rich either.

Since need-based evaluation is no longer needed, administrative costs will go down considerably relative to the welfare state. And people will no longer be punished for working with a loss of benefits.
Safari doesn't support customized built-in elements, at all, and isn't going to. That is pretty far from being "perfectly fine".
Well in some places, you will be rating %95 of drivers below 5 stars then, since nobody uses turn signals in those cities.
Thank you, now I realized that I had misunderstood the notation.
C++'s design by committee is well-suited to achieve one of the key goals in the (ongoing) design on the language, which is maintaining extreme backwards compatibility and extensive mulling of potential changes by numerous independent interested parties so that changes that do make it in are nearly-consensual.

You could argue whether those are the goals a language should pursue, but it's pretty obvious a central designer with free reign would not have achieved those goals.
The cutoff is 4.6, which could be achieved by just 1 bad rating out of 10.

(E.g. one 1 star and 9 5 star reviews)
It seems like Boeing never considered the possibility of an MCAS failure beyond some footnotes in the manual.

It smells like a classic case of under-engineering. In a properly engineered system someone would have asked "What if an AoA sensor fails during flight?" and forced the MCAS to be redesigned. This question would have been asked about every single part of the system before it was deemed ready for production.
Oh, i wasn't disagreeing with OP, i was saying that even the "choice" you have for browsers is not exactly a choice.
Don't perpetuate the myth that intermittency of renewables is a dealbreaker. While intermittency of power supply with inflexible demand is a problem when renewables hit 80% penetration, the reality is we're going to see utilities buy up demand and then flexibly shift that demand to when renewables are producing electrons.

This makes economic sense because renewables are FAR FAR cheaper than new-build nuclear, and the big businesses who supply electricity to EVs, heating, cooling, and industry are going to continue to encourage flexibility of demand.

For all the software and tech we have, you think we can't shift our electricity demand? It's laughable in the USA to imagine new-build nuclear coming online anywhere near as fast as the scenario I outlined above. It's simply far easier to shift demand than to build new nuclear.
I wouldn't call something built by fabric (formerly owned by Twitter, now Google) some "random unchecked" dependency. Nor consider it could turn into malware.

I'll look that event-stream fiasco though. Thanks!
Unless it's windy.
My understanding about google is that they approach the dependencies as trying to build one statically linked binary and they tend to try to put all of the dependencies together in the same repo. (Mono-repo). For a large organization, I'm not convinced that's a sane way to go. Individual groups should have the primary responsibility for the modules that they produce.

What we need is:

1. Tools that will automatically upgrade for us and report back when there are failures.

2. Better automated tools on where our code is missing test coverage (automated upgrades should break our code when something changes)

3. Better CI/CD rejection support (Something breaks the build, force a revert of the code)
My wife has 4 degrees, including a PhD from Stanford. She's working on another one. She got phished at work.
There’s a ton of upside from 1 on 1 parental attention. Schools only get a few hours of real education time daily. A sharp parent can clear that in an hour or so. Give 3 hours 1 on 1 and the Gap grows even more.
The behavior of fsync is a battle of OS developers and OEMs versus application and database developers. Gaming the implementation of fsync to do less than fully fsync makes benchmarks look amazing, improves user perceived latency, and reduces flash wear. On the other hand, it corrupts data - but that's rare, "the hardware is failing anyway", etc.

That's how you end up with stuff like OS X's "no really, fsync" param [1], or Motorola shipping nobarrier on their phones. [2]

[1] https://github.com/google/leveldb/issues/203#issuecomment-55...

[2] http://taras.glek.net/post/Followup-on-Pixel-vs-Moto:fsync/
> Hopefully converting government services to digital services (the German government is planning to do this for all of its ~500 functions over the next decade) will eliminate a lot of the lower / middle management in the administration.

And provide a nice supply of testers! Nothing can beat German efficiency!!
this trend of condescending answers to a question no one asked for article titles really needs to go.
If Apple’s policies are an antitrust violation then it will likely extend to Amazon, Walmart, and any other retailer that also sells their own product. It would also impact Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

Amazon, Walmart.Com Marketplace...no. Because if you want to sell Physical Product X, you can sell on Amazon and Walmart.com. Or Ebay. Or your own website. You can't sell an iPhone app through the Google Store. Amazon has raised antitrust concerns, but they are very different from the ones facing Apple. Walmart.com hasn't raised any...because they aren't attempting to use their existing market position in physical retail to reduce competition in online retail.

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. No, because you can buy games for each console in physical stores, you don't have the same issue--none of these company's stores is the sole way to sell your game to a owner of that console.

The Spotify case is may not be the strongest case, but it's just one of hundreds or thousands. And worse for Apple, Spotify is an EU company, and the EU is still very much in favor of enforcing antitrust laws.

(I assume your reference to Shopify was a typo. Not sure what their beef with Apple is, if any.)
Canada Prepares AI Standards for Government Agencies
- probably 30 years older than the average HNer (62yo)

- Because I saw a post today where one person told about their old parents who where in their forties and just use their computers for email and videos.

Why do you ask this question? Do you want to know what are the temporal reference points of HNers, or what cultural reference they use for ageing?
I want a Python port of instaparse!
This is a great idea for defense contractors, and (probably) an exceptionally draconian idea for most other workplaces.