skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like, I want to know if people with power, or people providing vital civil services have lead poisoning.

What do you mean by power? The people, even the adults, of Flint have no power. This is how they ended up with poor water in the first place.
Yep: In US News global rankings, Cambridge is #9 and UIUC is #59. Is Cambridge really 6x better? Is Cambridge as far above UIUC as UIUC is above Brown, at about #100?

This is often a problem with Ordinal variables, they don't convey the true distance between the "observations". Think of class rankings in High School: The Valedictorian and Salutatorian (2nd place) almost always have practically identical academic records: 4.0 GPA, challenging courses, etc. The difference can come down to hundredths of a point, or the fact that #1 took 8 AP courses while #7 took 7 AP courses and 1 Honors course. There isn't much meaningful distance between them.
As a member of the 1%, please tell me more about the tax shelters that I'm using? The vast majority of salaried employees have essentially no options at all for sheltering from tax.
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This should probably mention Notch[0], a program for real time graphics that's written by a programmer[1] in the Fairlight group. It started as their demo tool and seems to have evolved to something more general. Other demo makers use it too now.

[0] https://www.notch.one/

[1] http://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=191
I'm not following your last statement. Land is already taxed on its assessed value, which changes regularly, and things like cars have easy to find residual value estimates from third parties. You wouldn't necessarily get the true market value to tax, but getting some baseline value wouldn't be particularly difficult. The only exceptions I can think of are really intangible value stores like artwork.
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Wow, this is awesome.

Mousing over the links there to see where they go, the first interesting-looking one was the supported/unsupported features list, over at https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=684. Ah, I see - a wall of text reminscent of "system requirements", except it's a list of things you don't get instead.

But then going up to https://ebaydts.com, I met with... a blank page. But it has a title, so something's blown up. I hit F12 half expecting to be met with some kind of implosion, and even then I was cynically amused: the page has `<body style="display:none;>`, with no closing quote, and while Chrome parses it properly the devtools don't, so the CSS editor leaks bits of HTML.

On the one hand my infosec-sense says there's probably some awesome stuff hiding in here... but on the other hand, between the 1000 feet of bureaucracy I'd have to all but drown to report _anything_ I found, and the tenterhooks I'd be on while poking around establishing there's anything there beyond plausible deniability... not worth it?
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I think they just mean expats, or dual citizens, or Saudi Citizens living in the US. I don't think they meant the Arab ethnicity.
Exactly. If you’re telling them that you’ve already made a decision not to convert to a paid user, then your trial evaluation is already complete. If you’d like to string them along until the last minute, that’s your prerogative, but don’t expect them to make it easy for you.

That being said, this “1 year free trial” of Apple TV+ is fairly ludicrous. It’s more like a public beta because they know that the service doesn’t yet have enough content to justify its cost, and the promo users are helping them create the perception of a popular service.
IMO there are two types of tech debt.

The first is "techincal" debt - which is stuff that gets ignored for the sake of faster delivery but slows down development in the long run. Missing tests, spaghetti code, weird hacks, poor documentation.

The second type is "product techincal" debt - stuff that purposely half baked / half delivered for the sake of meeting deadlines. Features that are delivered or bugs that are fixed in less-than optimal ways.

I'm much more sympathetic to the second kind. At a certain point you always have to negotiate quality with speed. As long as there is a shared understanding that "this isn't perfect, but we're agreeing to move forward", it can generally be corrected eventually.

The first kind is usually the kind that gets piled up though. It's the stuff that causes engineers to want to burn down everything and rebuild, and eventually leads people to quit. Nothing is worse than being forced under time constraints and then realizing you can't implement a new feature without being forced into a major refactor, or spending a week on adding tests that should have been there in the first place. It's this stuff that causes the most stress IMO, because management usually sees it as unnecessary.
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It's no more useless than a hashed password is.

Depending, of course, on how you want to use it.

One could arguably build chat apps and social media that retained no PII. In my opinion, providers retain PII primarily in order to monetize it.

But the problem is that it becomes toxic waste. And it always leaks, eventually. Putting users at risk, and damaging providers' reputations.

Consider the Tox P2P chat app. Each user device runs a Tor onion service. And chats involve only connections among them. Users need disclose no PII. And there's no need for central servers holding PII.

Regarding social media, consider all the "dark markets" that have run as Tor onion services. There's no reason why any sort of social media that you want couldn't be implemented similarly. Although there'd be central servers, there'd be no need for them to handle any PII. Indeed, the fact that "dark markets" handle PII is one of their main weaknesses.

And it's not even necessary to use Tor. One can achieve substantial privacy and anonymity using nested VPN chains, with far less risk of attracting unwanted attention.
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> They could not be reproduced consistently

I can perform a series of fair coin flips and have it land on heads 100% of the time (at very low probability). Unless it can be reproduced consistently, it proves nothing. There is always a random chance that something unexpected can occur, but that doesn't mean that there's some supernatural force at work.

> But all of them have been verified in laboratory.

Show me the peer reviewed papers. I've yet to see anything that holds up under scrutiny.

Besides, if its not consistent, then how is it in any way useful? I believe the same thing about string theory: its a fun thought experiment, but until it can be used to make predictions or otherwise tested in the real physical world, its little more than a nice idea.
The way they would game it would be by building unpermitted structures. Read Hernando de Soto’s mystery of capital - he talks how this happens all over the world as a way to store wealth. The problem is it can’t be financed so the capital is stranded and it’s unsafe - many years ago there was a small earthquake (maybe a 6) in turkey and it leveled the region despite earthquake building codes that had been in place for decades. If you had an old structure it survived, the new ones were decimated. Why? The unpermitted buildings avoided the building code regulations. Anyone remember the last time LA had a six earthquake... that’s right you don’t because no one in LA cares about a six because we haven’t yet destroyed our economy through perverse taxing and over regulation.
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The difference is in the awareness of the "fraud". A religious teacher truly believes in the existence of god, therefore they're not a fraud.

It seems you need these criteria:

1. The fraud knows they are duping the subject.

2. The subject truly believes the fraud is real.

In the magician example, 2 does not hold.

In the religion example, 1 does not hold.

Of course, there are _some_ frauds in religious circles. But I don't think the average church minister is rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the next donation.
They already compete under the same parameters before, so this should be unchanged.
Just want to point out that almost all Americans already pay a substantial wealth tax. Most of middle class wealth is in the value of their homes and that wealth is taxed as much as 2.4% per year by states and local government in the form of a wealth tax called a property tax.

And no, you don't get out of that wealth tax by renting. Renters are paying their landlords property taxes as part of each months rent check.

Given that, a 2% tax on billionaire wealth doesn't seem unreasonable. Shouldn't their wealth tax burden be the same as the middle class? Yes it would be complicated but not nearly as complicated as assessing the value of millions of homes in the US (and commercial property, vacate land, etc) and sending out a yearly property tax bill, handling appeals and then collecting.
It's called 'Mystery Shopper' in retail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_shopping
Thanks @petercooper, @lev272 also recommended her and I'm loving her work.
Thinking about this, if you work less but by doing that increasing the output you do in 4 days, shouldnt you then be paid for 5 days?
Which makes me think back about Steve Jobs's reference on his tens ( and now hundreds ) of billion in cash pile, waiting for one big bet. I wonder if this bet would be to acquire majority stake in Disney if Steve is still alive.
For a more contemporary – and informed – view of Astrology, please read “The Passion of the Western Mind” and “Cosmos and Psyche” (important: you must read in that order), by Richard Tarnas.
>> The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exercise the power that they have. And they have been very successful at it. The amount of people who believe that democracy is somehow inherently good for the people is beyond my belief.

Democracy is neither evil nor good. It is just a popularity contest. Merit doesn't matter - only popularity does.
Why's it strange? In a properly designed application, it shouldn't do anything any different to the no-cors requests you can already achieve with e.g. an <img> element. HEAD, GET et al are all supposed to be "safe methods" per the spec.
The Paris Agreement is a joke also because there was no universal obligation it imposed. Consider, for instance, the promise China made to stop increasing emissions by 2030. You read that right, _stop increasing_. Not reduce at all. Also, that's about when economists figured emissions would naturally stop increasing in any case. A bunch of nations got together, asked everyone to send in a promise, stapled them all together, and called it a "climate accord".
Not sure about the downvotes, but I live here for more than a decade and I agree. The city is very car friendly and not much was done to mitigate this. At least we have a new mayor now who's somewhat likely do do actually something.
Scary... but still very theoretical and thus people can't really relate to that I guess because
The average "target" client on the lead list of your average big name advertising agency in a European country with a population of 50 million will have a yearly spend of 50-100 million across all channels, with 1-10 million going on agency fees excluding 3rd party costs. 10k per day on Facebook is a small consumer start-up levels of adspend.
Is that inherit in wealth taxes, or simply how France chose to implement it? Thomas Piketty is from France after all, and he is advocating a wealth tax.

Another French economist is 'consulting' for / advising Elizabeth Warren:

* https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-frenc...

A review of the economics literature:

* https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-zucman-wealthtaxobjectio...
You should give an Oculus Quest a try if you ever get the opportunity.

VR isn't really about the 3D effect it's about having your head and hands tracked in a 3D space and what can come from that level of interaction. Daydream never really offered this and after using a decent amount of VR I find that the most important part of the experience.
As a patent creator that can’t get any message returned from potential licensees, what options are there aside from selling the patent to a troll or sending letters with my own lawyers

The market can’t seem to distinguish validity of claims, but a letter from Esq. LLP seems to change that notion quickly.

These discussions don’t factor in that companies never want to willingly exchange value for a royalty. There is no IP acquisition department. Everyone just wants to skirt around litigation, and lawyers fix that.

There’s also a conception of thinking it’s viable to create everything you’ve considered patenting
By the time we legitimately run out of materials on Earth

That's missing the point completely. No one is going to argue that a Helium, or Cadmium, or Carbon shortage will be the death of us all, and reducing this planet's natural resources to just its constituent chemical elements is depressingly naive.

When people talk about natural resources, they mean the functional elements of our planet's ecosystem that keeps this planet habitable for us. They mean forests, that regulate temperature and humidity. They mean insects, that pollinate our crops for us. They mean the glaciers, that create an abundant supply of fresh water.

We're nowhere near the level of engineering that we can replace the natural systems we're destroying with artificial machines. Not at scale, at least.
How many dimensions can you use this with efficiently? Could you use this to store embeddings from machine learning models and find nearest neighbours of various items, like aNNoy or faiss does?
‘Anyone relying on lidar is doomed,’ Elon Musk.

Around 1:41:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
Dictatorships rely solely on force. Democracies mostly rely on a common agreement to follow a social contract. There’s not nearly enough police in the US to quell a rebellion of the people if they lost faith in Democracy.
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Wasn't enough. You need to ticket someone every single time, or close to it. (The amount of the ticket hardly matters, it's the consistency.)

(You will notice this idea is unworkable due to excessive manpower requirements. It is undesirable for other reasons as well.)
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Great, I like the idea.

Something that you may find useful that I came across recently is Climateaction.tech [0], which may have some overlap that you could take advantage of.

[0] https://climateaction.tech/
From my first link:

“Although many small water systems are run well, it's often the case that they lack resources to monitor and update infrastructure in a timely fashion or manage the water's chemistry carefully. In theory, larger city water systems adjust their water's chemistry continuously to prevent health risks, but, as we've learned from Flint, this is not always the case.”
Electric aviation for aircraft larger than 4 passengers is extremely hard. Batteries don't have the energy density needed, and fuel cells are barely at the prototype stage for aviation. ARPA-E has been looking at this for while, see slide 6 in [1] for an overview of payloads by energy storage medium. If you read a little more through the deck you'll see there are also issues with power output of electric motors in this application.

I'm much more optimistic about low-carbon jet fuels. Biofuel options here have already been trialed successfully. And some new synthetic fuel companies [2] that use direct air capture CO2 are looking promising.

[1] https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/Grigorii-Solov...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Engineering
Not if the pressures pushes industry toward “higher productivity applications” as outlined by patent commenter.
couple of key points here:

#1 - this article is a great example of how the conversation is shifting, but the mid-point we're at now is a wasteland of nonsense and cognitive dissonance. the text of the article is about the truth of what things matter to reduce your footprint (kids, flying, cars, beef), but the tone of the article and the headline is one of "things are gonna be fine because the whiz kids are working on it" soft-denialism.

#2 - the co2 footprint from jet travel is somewhere between half and 1/4th of the overall greenhouse gas emission footprint of flying. this is because nitrogen oxide and water vapor are also greenhouse gasses (particularly at altitude). It gets very complicated to factor, but at a high level you should simply 3x the carbon cost of flights for the "CO2e" total: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...

#3 - the electrification of air travel is very well under way. it will not replace trans-oceanic flights in our lifetimes, but it can replace a massive amount of regional travel, and customers can be forced to adapt to a multi-hop world (jfk <-> ord <-> den <-> sfo). If you'd like to learn a ton about the state of the art 1 year ago, check out this playlist from the Sustainable Aviation Summit last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDU0Wgn0Lk&list=PLWUnMAqjJ9...
I have been using https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email with a dedicated email address for several years now, tracking around a hundred RSS feeds.

The system works quite well, and I can read my RSS both via a client-side app (thunderbird in my case) and on the go via the webmail. I even made a small modification to rss2email to automatically "tag" the mails so I can use mail filters to automatically sorts the feeds into different folders.

I have a server that fetches the RSS content a few times a day, but I guess it could also work "locally", for example by doing it once each time I turn on my computer (if you are okay with "missing out" sometimes on very active feeds).

I decided to do the switch when I noted that the interfaces of my email client and of my RSS reader were basically indistinguishable.

EDIT: for the anecdote, this project was initially created by the very same Aaron Swartz that, among other things, contributed to the creation of the RSS format http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001148
Presumably a SameSite=Lax cookie wouldn't have helped here, because

> "Safe" HTTP methods include "GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS", and "TRACE", as defined in Section 4.2.1 of [RFC7231].

But I wonder if GitHub could issue a separate SameSite=Strict cookie here as a defense in depth measure to cause the initial part of the PoC (HEAD request with credentials: include) to fail?
Whether US may or may not reduce emissions is completely irrelevant. There's an accord, and US is out. Period.

It's a prisoner's dilemma[0] instance we are all in, so finger-pointing does not help with anything, for anyone.

Furthermore, countries you point very lightly make up almost half the world population. And their emissions per capita are laughably low(especially India) compared to US.

1: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/prisoners-dilemma.asp
You can't achieve a HEAD request with <img> elements, can you?

In a rails env the only way to upgrade to non-standard methods (PATCH, PUT etc) were always to supply _method and pass CSRF protection first.

This trick is clearly a bypass because it instructs browser to make a HEAD request, something it never did before. If you try to make other non-standard request you will get this error:

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Failed to execute 'fetch' on 'Window': 'PATCH' is unsupported in no-cors mode.
Recently there has been some talk about banning air miles programs and actually flipping the incentives. Because you have to fly under your government ID it wouldn't be out of the question for people who fly a lot to pay more per mile in taxes.

I've been thinking about this a lot trying to root out the unintended consequences of such a plan, but I can't think of any.
Seems to be this one:

https://www.merkur.de/bayern/54jaehrige-unfall-vollautomatis...
If only it worked that way.

Under democracy you optimize for just a single metric - popularity. If leader is terrible and popular no garbage collection will occur.

Rise of populism is inherently built into nature of democracy itself.
> Thats super hard to value anyway, since without selling an item, you can't be sure what it would sell for.

Actually it's quite easy. For land, governments do it all the time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

For many other type of property: what is the insured value?

Certainly not exact, but probably with-in an order of magnitude of accuracy, which may be 'good enough'.
Energy density of hydrogen by mass is excellent (about 3x that of gasoline/jet fuel), but much worse by volume (about 1/4 of gasoline/jet fuel).

Finding a way to store liquid hydrogen in 4x the volume (plus any required cooling/insulation and safety systems) might be a challenge for long-haul flights.
No, but you can achieve a GET which is also a "safe request method" per RFC7231. All of these requests should be idempotent.

I'm not a fan of the hacks that exist to allow HTML forms to emulate other request methods. They're off by default in ASP.NET Core MVC, which is good IMO.
I found a very similar bug in my code, though not in such a dangerous place! So thank you Teddy Katz and GitHub for helping me to fix a mistake in a less stressful way. This is why sharing detailed vulnerability reports is such a good thing.
In terms of political maturity we are not much better than a banana republic :)
> I believe this is an important problem in medicine (not only psychology): there is a good difference between knowing the solution for something, and convincing the patient to abide to that solution.

The mirror image of this: the patient convincing the doctor that the problem is real and should be taken seriously. This is an absolutely huge problem for all sorts of chronic discomforts and minor mental health issues, or problems experienced by women.

Alternative medicine will always listen to you and take you seriously (so long as you pay them). That can be more helpful than being told there's nothing wrong with you or that you're faking it for attention. Even if the actual treatment is nonsense, the "consultation" is "real".
Wealth tax starts well below 100k in most Swiss cantons and it doesn't cause any particular issue.
Make slightly more relevant with your personal stance then. Because it is very much relevant.
I thought a result that was 'insignificant' meant that it was not possible to tell if it was an improvement or sampling noise?
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