skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's lucrative as long as your clients actually show up to court. If they don't, you (or someone you hire) is running around trying to drag their ass in so you get your money back from the court.
Doesn't that rule out intern positions too? Apprenticeship relationships? Formalized pay grade schemes like the military's? Collective bargaining? Minimum wage laws? "Cost of living" wage adjustments for location?

You're making this kind of absolutist argument that to my eyes is just ridiculous on its face. Different people want different things, and are willing to accept different raw salary numbers for them. The whole point of having an employment market is precisely to allow different people to make these choices and come to an appropriate equilibrium.

If you personally don't want to work for the government for lower pay than you could get in the private sector, that's fine. But that's not a principled argument about wage structures, it's just your choice. And empirically, it's not everyone's.
Remember how credit cards had a bunch of consumer legislation passed a few years ago to protect consumers in the US?

And how airfare comparison sites are required by law to show full prices, not before airport fees etc. the way they did way back when?

It's time for the same kind of legislation to be applied to car rental companies, and enforced on reservation sites so their policies apply worldwide (e.g. when an American books a car to rent from Hertz in Spain, they can't resort to saying it's a foreign subsidiary the law doesn't cover). I'd say they're now the #1 source of sneaky fees and hidden upsells, even worse than banks, cell service providers, and internet providers at this point.

Surprise fees at time of booking should be illegal (e.g. "driving out of country"), and "extra processing" fees (e.g. for a toll with no choice) legislated to a reasonable level (e.g. $5 instead of $50) -- the same way credit card late fees are currently set by law. And toll transponders included in the base price in any country that has any roads where paying in cash is unavailable.

Where's the movement for this? Why aren't we all writing our representatives about this?
Edible Microorganisms – Overlooked Tech to Counteract Agricultural Expansion
Right, and we don't even know what the cause is yet. I have been vaping for about nine years now. If you look through my comment history you'll what side of this issue I'm on.
Dumb question as I haven't used the feature: Why is dedupe flawed? Is it because it requires "enormous" amounts of RAM? Does it eventually slow down writes?
How about this article from 1985(!):

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/27/business/squeezing-profit...
Realistically? Stuck in a cycle of dead end, highly corporate developer positions. Provably still working with .NET, but I imagine non-tech companies will be migrated to core finally
I think this is called Sniper Targetting [1] or providing ads for a single audience.

Earlier I had read about someone who tried to spook his roommate by targetting him with heavily-personalized ads. Cannot seem to find it now.

[1]: https://medium.com/@MichaelH_3009/sniper-targeting-on-facebo...
You say that like writing testing, integrating with existing systems and maintaining the software to do that. The additional hardware. The insurance to cover losses and lawsuits when new system breaks is hacked. All the managers, Lawyers and others needed to craft agreements and contracts between thousands of banks across jurisdictions.

Is free.

Protip, it costs a lot of money. More money than it is worth.
> That's the theory, but in practice I think states have less competitive pressure. VA for example shifts massive amounts of funding from the northern part of the state. This has worked due to continuous gerrymandering that allows one party to maintain control despite statewide elections being far more competitive.

You're talking about competition between parties rather than between states. And gerrymandering is a problem exacerbated by strong national parties, because the opposition party is then laden with positions from their party's national platform that may be locally unfavorable. Otherwise they could tailor their platform and message to something which is locally competitive in light of how the district lines are drawn, and respond accordingly if they change, reducing the incentive to redraw the lines by making it less effective.

Even then, it only moves the debate to within that party and effectively makes the primary the election. You can still get individual representatives to change their position for fear of losing their seat, with much more ease than doing the same thing at the national level.

> In practice VA almost can't mess things up, simply by because it's so close to DC.

That's kind of the point. DC is a huge outlier created by federal activity.

And it's all relative. Nothing the government of Topeka does is ever going to turn it into New York City, but they can make it better or worse than it is, which is a thing that the local people who elect them or choose to live or do business there will certainly care about.

Whereas if a change in federal policy makes things worse for the people of a given state when all of that state's federal representatives were already from the opposing party, all they can really do is whinge about it and suffer from the negative impact.

> National elections on the other hand regularly shift power around.

That's half the problem. Instead of having many localities with many different policies that are largely locally stable, allowing each person a choice in which rules they prefer to live under, you have national policy that flip flops back and forth based on who is currently in power so that at any given time some 40+% of the people are unhappy with the latest national rules, and the uncertainty makes it difficult to plan for the future.

> People may not like the FBI, but few feel it’s ineffective.

The percentage of US citizens who ever have any interaction with the FBI rounds to zero, and their role is enforcement rather than policy-making.

There are a lot of people who think the current EPA is ineffective[1][2]. And the FCC[3], and the FAA[4], and the FDA[5][6], and so on. What's the approval rating of the US Congress? Still somewhere between Comcast and dog poop?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/26/trump-epa-ca...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-plans-to-revoke-californi...

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190702/09221042510/killi...

[4] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/24/faa-bo...

[5] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

[6] https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/perspectives/vaping-epidemic-...
I wonder if all the articles talking about the prevalence of microplastics, are in actuality demonstrating the safety of microplastics.

If it is in 93% of bottled water, and bottled water is used by millions of people (according to https://www.consumerreports.org/bottled-water/should-we-brea... around 110 Million people in the US avoid drinking tap water), then there has been widespread exposure to microplastics.

It does not seem like there has been huge health consequences due to microplastics, so microplastics are probably pretty safe for humans.
US senators green-light recruitment of crack infosec teams, public and private
More or less the same reason as to why the USA still uses checks as much as it does: the USA’s banking system lives in the 1950s or thereabouts.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck says

”A paycheck, also spelled pay check or pay cheque, is traditionally a paper document (a cheque) issued by an employer to pay an employee for services rendered. In recent times, the physical paycheck has been increasingly replaced by electronic direct deposit

[…]

A salary statement, commonly called a payslip, pay stub, paystub, pay advice, or sometimes paycheck stub or wage slip, is a document that an employee receives either as a notice that the direct deposit transaction has gone through or that is attached to the paycheck.“

The French and Swedish versions (sorry, can’t check the other ones due to language issues) of that page only discuss the pay slip, I think because “recent times” started half a century ago in those countries.

I think it also is telling that that page doesn’t even have a German or Dutch version linked to it, while https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entgeltabrechnung (German for ‘pay slip’) exists

It might be interesting for a poll: when did you last receive a physical pay check, and in which country?
Well in this case at least this €260 was not going to be refunded. It was a one off charge. And I have rented many cars elsewhere in Europe using only a debit card.
Isotope Beta-Battery Approaches for Long-Lived Sensors:
Technology Review

Long-lived energy sources are needed for remote placement of unattended electronics in sensor
network applications. The energy density of isotopes exceeds that of chemical energy storage by
6 orders of magnitude. This unique energy density characteristic is offset by the fact that power
output should be limited to 1 mW levels in situations involving human transport, for both
radiation regulation and safety. The low-power limitation is exceeded in long-lived power for
space travel applications, where 200 W isotope power sources (radio-thermal-generators) are
already available for long-lived space missions (6). Isotopes are used in many commercial
applications (1) and are produced and available at modest prices. As sensors get smaller, and
power level requirements are reduced, the use of compact, low-power, long-lived power sources
will increase. Isotope batteries are relevant in this operational regime.(2014)
My immediate thought when I saw this was "Fancy scam mixed with PR bomb", a little digging surfaced these:

https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2019/02/27/spinner/

https://www.prexamples.com/2018/07/frustrated-husbands-can-u...
> running in a legacy data center costing millions, and used it as a showcase as to how you can take a legacy application and move it to the public cloud to both improve its usability and reduce the cost by a factor of 10.

Hahaha ... what? You reduced the cost by moving into one of the most overpriced hosting options? Or are you telling me that the government is getting massive discounts?
nslookup reaxt.com resolves to 35.229.249.221 for me.
Plastic found in water contained in a plastic bottle. Not really shocked.
What? How are they controlling what articles the target sees via a cookie? What am I missing here?
And probably ruin the planet in under 10 years if everyone got on the mining craze
Meanwhile in Canada - a 50 year old using nicotine vapes to quit smoking is having problems.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/vaping-related-illne...
You shouldn't post that without also posting this:

> Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

> Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
Even Evian has it
Yes, I'm not so hot on Juul either. I don't think it's safe, but as a legal, regulated product it has a certain minimum baseline that these black market products lack. That's all I meant.
:( I'm sorry to hear that. Have you considered getting a job as a developer? I hit $100k just before my 19th birthday and have never been below it since (I'm almost double now), nor had problems finding work.
Because someone perpetrating massive frauds, or whatever, couldn't buy a fake passport and hire a private plane to a non-extradition territory?? /s

If there's any indication a perp might fly then you should keep them inside, passport or no.
Would a service like this work on people who don't use the popular social networks?

E.g. I get my news + dopamine from the local newspaper (physical paper edition) and HN, respectively. Ofc HN pretty much qualifies as a social network, but it has no targeting. My girlfriend isn't on any social network at all, unless WhatsApp qualifies as one and IMO it doesn't, unless you have a gazillion active group chats (which sounds like hell on earth).

I'm inclined to think that this makes both of us immune to attacks like the ones performed by this company, but I have an uneasy feeling that I'm missing something. Anyone with a better insight in targeting hacks than me able to chip in?
Neither do I but it's not even the extortion part that prevents me for signing up for a service like that.

It's knowing that they will link my viewing habits to my Google account and never delete them.
Seems like a problem easily solved with Github Actions or any other CI/CD platform, although it would require more work to make it as fast as Netlify builds it. Netlify's caching and build pipelines are really well optimized.
Regarding the engines, indeed none of them would have crashed without MCAS.
Maybe? Haven't watched television in 20 years.
I regularly use seven browsers: Three different ones at work, two different ones on my home desktop and three different ones on my phone.

My webmail intentionally runs in it's own browser profile which is only used for opening links in email. If the tracking cookie attached there it wouldn't apply to nearly any of my usual web browser usage.

If you use Chrome for your browser, you can create a new profile and "web app" to run your web mail in. In Firefox, pin your web mail to a container. (Hopefully links followed from there stay in the container?)

On your phone, open links from email in chat in Firefox Focus unless you have reason to do otherwise. In settings disable third party cookies. (Firefox Focus still allows normal cookies by default)
Yeah, the roommate story is great! You can read it here:

The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking My Roommate with Targeted Facebook Ads.
https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
I've long been thinking about this topic. I sometimes call it the "Grief economy" -- The entity which can suffer the most grief "wins" . For example, calling Comcast to cancel. The company is paying pennies per hour to have you on hold. But its costing you your real time. Therefore comcast can easily suffer more in the process and ultimately could just wait you out...

Another example is the idea that some people get a better price because they jumped through arbitrary and non-cost affecting hoops. Things like coupon codes or buying on an arbitrary sale day.

The best customer is one that comes in and says "I want this item, I will pay a reasonable price right now and walk out a happy customer"... Instead we give the best price to those who waste sales people's time with negotiations and give the worst prices to those who dont first put in a bunch of work extract the information about the right price. We are increasing the total cost of our products by making the purchase filled with uncertainty (am I getting a good price?) and external costs (I searched 2 hours for a $5 coupon) .

I would propose this. If you're going to give a customer $5 off then give them all $5 off. If you cant give them all $5 off, then give none (maybe give them all $1 off?).
I’m tempted to use this as a demonstration to a friend who still doesn’t believe me about targeted ads and the maliciousness of social media companies. I’d pay them to target her with an obviously irrelevant idea (have kids for example, considering she’s against kids and does not want any) and hand her an encrypted flash drive with a message saying I did that beforehand. A few weeks later I’d ask her about it and give her the key to decrypt the drive and read my message.
More Data ≠ Better Decisions: Wolfram and the Multiparadigm Approach
Tokyo, Japan?
I think it would be cool to walk into a room painted entirely with this material. I bet it would be so disorienting that people would fall down and get vertigo. So weird.
The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities
"> We need to make harm reduction via regulation the default case."

Yes, it seems we basically agree. Which means we're just arguing over my initially poor choice of words. Sorry!
Why not?

Our memory is a unreliable narrator and sanity might change overtime too. Why do you think those wouldn't be affected if you find yourself being victim to purposefully wrong and harmful information?
RMS has long been a controversial person, with a very abrasive personality. I think even had he been an angel he would have received the same result in today's cancel culture, but there's a lot of people who have looking to turn on him and just needed an excuse. Most people won't come to a bully's defense.
Takes less than 1% of the space for equivalent food value of soybeans.

Does it scale? It can, but needs more development. One advantage could be in combining it with carbon capture. Making the case for edible microorganisms as an integral part of a more sustainable and resilient food production system https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12571-019-00912-3

How does it taste? Start with Marmite, Spirulina, go from there. Better question is: How can it taste? With those potential economies of scale, I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
Correct - at the root of gaslighting is a bold-faced lie. From the source, it refers to a story where the husband turns down, and then back up, the gas-lights in their house continually, and denies that he is changing anything to his wife when she inquires why the light level keeps changing. Thus the term, "gas-lighting".
Yeah. That one. Thanks.
or write your own small app to do that :) there are a bunch of ways and premade libraries to get Youtube to deliver videos straight from its CDN. Then just play them using av foundation and add some features you want.
Yeah, with transponder fees sometimes they charge you weekly, even if you only use the transponder once. [1] In some places (e.g., the Golden Gate Bridge) there's no lane for manual payment so you pretty much have to have the transponder. I think there may be a way you can manually pay your toll online, but it's possible this has to be done in advance (and I know no one who has ever done it). Basically, you have to pay the rental car transponder fees in some places, and they're a cash cow for the rental car companies.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/dollar-overcharged-me-for-toll...
The climate control is tied to your key fob too so it changes based on who unlocks it. It even stores the direct of the vents for people who like air in their face vs over their head or below their feet.
There’s a lot of logical leaps your making hear. It might not be immediately deadly, but it could have lots of long term subtle effects. For example, it may contribute to cancer rates or obesity. Some people suspect it contributes to low sperm counts among men. All of these would be consistent with the current widespread consumption patterns.
German news site "Der Spiegel" with images: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/darknet-rechenzentrum-er...
ET302 ultimately turned the electric trim back on which was their death knell, in violation of procedures.

A contributing factor to ET302 is that mechanical trim wheel rotation can be very difficult in some flight regimes.

A further contributing factor is ET302 left an unreasonable amount of power in and got to an overspeed situation, which makes rotating the trim wheel yet more difficult. Being trimmed a bit nose down should not kill you. It should be the kind of thing you experience in training.

> It's much more aggressive than the kind of runaway trim pilots are trained for.

Bullshit. A stuck stabilizer trim switch will run away much faster than MCAS, and this is the primary thing they're trained for. The problem with MCAS is that it's an insidious, intermittent runaway-- an unlikely failure mode for a switch.

But sure, add to my list that "the trim wheel is often very hard to rotate manually", and "the flight crew left the thrust levers nearly full-forward creating an overspeed condition".
No. I think they are doing exactly that: They pay ad services like Outbrain pennies to run retargeting ads. The Spinner has no own platform, they just bid on the market (and can really lowball the bid, until some will go through). Real costs are about 0.50$ - 5$ so the markup is huge.
I think the problem is how not to get caught.
I feel like they missed the opportunity to name it None More Black [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkGtW-fQ3s
I saw someone write a check at a supermarket just a couple of weeks ago. I think it's the first time I've seen a checkbook in the wild in 5 or 10 years.
MicroConf – The World’s Most Popular Conference for Non-VC Startups
> The way they hire people you can only stay there for four year max. After that you are required by law to leave, so it very much is a temporary job. So to describe it they use that term as it pretty accurately describes what you are signing up for

There are lots of jobs, both in the government and in the private sector, which have fixed terms. Very few refer to this using the militaristic language "tour of duty".
Lots of people smoke cigarettes, and only incur negative health consequences 20+ years down the line. That doesn't mean that cigarettes are probably pretty safe for humans.
I didn't think the problem was it was necessarily harmful to us, but other aspects of the larger ecosystem.

These articles are providing easily-digestible imagery for how wide-spread microplastics are on the planet.
Uber Steps Up Layoffs
Involuntary psychological manipulation is messed up regardless of the intent.
I don't understand how 'resort fees' haven't been prosecuted as fraud or false advertising.
Yes. At least put it in standby and make sure nothing wakes it up while you're gone.

Here, try this: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget...

What's your GPU?
Sure, but 737's have crashed before from crews getting the nose too high on departure, so... arguably the entire 737 fleet would benefit from a "proper" MCAS.

The people who built MCAS thought they were taming a 737 handling weakness that was worsened by the new engines. Again-- a normal kind of thing to have to work on when stretching jets.
Thanks for creating this great resource and making it available for free!
The template syntax is a bit weird. Not sure what would have been better but thats just a gut feeling.
Checks are, quite literally the least secure mode of non cash transacting. Yet the banking system is built in a way that checks are often either the fastest way to get someone money, or the only way certain merchants accept payment.

This technology should have been sun-setted years ago, and wire transfers should be free and instant.
Why would you call him the "supreme hacker"? His claim to fame is his ideology, not necessarily his skill.
> Example: layer 3 knows nothing about ports?

correct
Looks like reaxt.com registered in China?

http://whois.domaintools.com/reaxt.com
Steve, Thanks for the love and trying it. Yeah, I've gone through the email, thanks much for it. Thought of replying to your email (by EOD), after resolving the issue.
> One would think a payroll middleman has the easiest job in the world next to printing money. Companies put money in the kitty, you disburse the monies to other parties and take a cut. HN crew could probably set up an event-sourced system with Lambda to automate it all. 8000 employees, that does not seem like a lot?

Oh falling into the "could built it in a weekend" trap? Go right ahead, start a payroll company from scratch that can correctly pay, with proper auditing, checks and balances, any employee in the US (nevermind international) as quickly as possible, deal with wage garnishments, special deductions (401Ks, IRAs, FSA, HSA, and so on, part-time hourly and full-time salaried, bonuses with net-to-gross and gross-to-net, commissions for sales people along with "draw").... annnnnnnnd go!