skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos improved global quality of life EXACTLY the amount he's been paid. Otherwise, why would anybody volunteer their money his way?
I agree most of these don't appear necessary, have you thought to contact the DPO, wait 28 days and if no suitable response, contact the ICO?

Also, do you have a link to the EU court guidance?

From what I've read before, some functionally necessary and expected cookies don't need consent, but the user may have a right to be informed.

For instance, a login cookie might be fine, but arguably only if you have logged in - if it remains after you've logged out then that's a bit worrying.
A bank foreclosing on a mortgage is only entitled only to the value of the money owed. Those laws are structured specifically to avoid the perverse incentive created by being able to receive $60,000 on an $8.00 debt.
Facebook Sued by California over User-Data Practices Subpoenas
Ask HN: How do you successfully deal with sharing information internally?
No matter where I have worked so far, I have not found any company that has a really good knowledge database whether it's in the form of text, or even spoken word.

Complicated products have many facets and no one person can know or remember everything. We use confluence at my current company, and even if somebody writes a document detailing a process or something unknown, they'll receive their pat on the back from coworkers, but that document will never be opened again. And the same questions will be asked, regardless.

Has anybody solved this yet? Is it a tooling issue? Is it cultural? Process oriented?
They're hated because they make a lot of money and you don't have a choice about using them. Companies in competitive markets that piss off their customers don't end up hated; rather, people just don't patronize them, and they go out of business. To be hated requires an inability to simply ignore your existence.

If you look at institutions in terms of their favorability ratings, it's basically an inverse list of the level of competition they face. At the top you usually have things like beloved local restaurants, day cares, variety stores, computer games, etc. where if they weren't extremely good, you'd just go somewhere else. At the bottom you have the U.S. Government, the one institution that nobody in the world can escape. Near the bottom are monopolies with heavy network effects like Facebook and Comcast.
I'm pretty sure if they were better than humans by any real statistical margin they would be trumpeting that in press releases. The fact that they work so hard to maintain such secrecy- only revealing data that they are legally mandated to- suggests that they, the people must familiar with the system performance, think it is inadequate.

In essence, because the people who control the data have an interest in revealing data that is superior to human performance, the lack of conclusive data on this leads to an inference that it isn't.
How FightCamp (YC W16), the Peloton of boxing, grew 7x in 1 year
I appreciate your elaboration and reference to the guidelines, but I think your application of them here is dubious.

>There are two main ways to do that. The first is to include more information in your comment—in this case you could have spelled out your argument more clearly and relied less on one-liners. The second is to use neutral and factual language. For example, you could have macroexpanded the nearly-informationless "better" into an explanation of just what the relevant difference is.

Sometimes greater detail is warranted, yes, but elaborating that way wouldn't have added relevant or decisive information. "Better" was already implicit from the previous post (enabling residents to get to destinations without a car); and the greater ease of such living in Europe, in more locations, is already undisputed. No one contested that point except to note that there still exist car-necessary rural areas in both places, which is exactly how they would have replied if I had done as you suggested. No loss of conversational efficiency.

>There's another point about how your comment was flamebaity: it steered the thread in a more generic direction.

I could maybe understand that in the absence of my next sentence, which was:

>>Bottom line, car culture is not some fundamental invariant of reality for getting a job, as the original comment was suggesting.

That was specifically aimed at preventing the discussion from broadening to the generalities of "Europe vs the US", by reminding readers of the original issue in dispute (necessity of car culture and accessibility of typical destinations) and asking that any discussion of European planning be mentioned with an eye for whether it speaks to that.

>id=21456176 was a predictable response to the provocation, and you reacted by taking a swipe at the poster ("I'm glad that gave you the opportunity for the zinger").

Only in the sense that you "took a swipe at me" by calling my comments flamebait. The comment you linked was unprovoked and itself flamebait in how it elevated an accident of wording to an opportunity to humorously ridicule someone with a pithy remark (rightly called a zinger). And you don't seem to have a problem with that, or the commenter's refusal to make a good-faith effort to read context.

Just as you felt the need to call out aspects of my comment that hindered quality discussion, I felt a need to call out aspects of that comment that did the same.
Well VCs today are not known for taking risks in foreign areas (or knowing much about Physics or other natural sciences)

Would something like Intel or MOS technology get vc money today?
The Gallery of Lost Art (2012)
>99% is possible for the Starship because it has a lot of pitch control, and can fly a trajectory in the atmosphere where it maximizes lift for as long as it can.

A capsule doing a simpler landing generally needs to get rid of about 400m/s using other methods, based on NASA's past missions.
Why Meditation May Not Work for You
One thing I've learned dealing with other businesses in my company is that businesses don't necessarily need to be good. Selling to the public I'm sure you need to good but it seems to matter far less when you sell to other businesses. Just be able to hit their price point. Their employees could complain for years about it before moving on
That's an interesting model, especially with respect to how well it matches the reality. Since the transactions in the reality definitely do not look like the coin flip transactions in the model, it definitely warrants some more investigation as to why exactly it matches reality so well, despite not resembling reality as we see it.
Rome is nominally 225W/socket on the very high end of the price range; a 4P config puts you at 900W for the CPUs. Depending on other peripherals you might be at 1200-1500W total but I don't think you necessarily go much past that unless you're loading it up with power hungry graphics cards or something. You'd definitely want an efficient power supply!

You're right to express some concern -- practical residential limit for continuous load on a perfect incarnation of the typical residential circuit is something like 1440W total (80% of nominal 15A breaker on 120VAC).

Maybe more realistic mid-range products are 155-180W/socket, and that drops the CPU draw down to 620-720W.
Not a loophole, clearly in violation. The collection itself is already problematic, passing it on makes it a lot worse. They will have to paint this as an oversight and fix it pdq or they might get themselves in real trouble.
I meant, how many is 'some'?
The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
Amazon more or less won didn't it?

It doesn't have total domination of ecommerce but frankly it'd run into anti-trust issues if it did. No company is going to do ecommerce bigger than amazon without getting broken up so yeah... amazon.
Nope. Courts have upheld it.
And it's not a rare practice.

https://www.povertylaw.org/clearinghouse/articles/Remedies
I'm a consultant, so this doesn't really match 1:1 with expectations of a salaried employee.

My work phone goes into DnD from 5pm until 8am. I don't answer emails or phone calls, and I don't make exceptions for free.

If I'm on call for a weekend, I bill 16 hours, regardless of if I worked, because I cannot go anywhere if I'm needed at my laptop.

When I go on vacation, I leave my phone at home and take an sim-less android, and buy a new sim/number when I reach my destination.
That's exactly how property ownership works in America. Cf. adverse possession, in which a landowner who doesn't visit the property often enough to notice someone openly and notoriously using it without permission loses the right to do anything about it and it becomes the new person's property.

(However, in Michigan, the term required to acquire title by adverse possession is 15 years.)
He said he didn’t understand the obsession, that’s not the same as not understanding it.
Why do you want to make your code more complex by using select/epoll/etc and making continuation spaghetti instead of just embracing async?
It's only rent seeking if the capital isn't worth anything or was illicitly obtained.

If you drive a truck for ten years to save up enough to buy your own truck, and then drive it eight hours a day while you pay two other people to drive it the other sixteen hours a day, you're making more money than them for the same work. But it's only because you saved instead of spent for ten years, and the only reason they have a job driving a truck is that you have a truck. They have neither a truck nor the money to buy one, so without you they're standing on a street corner with no job.
Slightly tangential: Does anyone know how Uber was able to skirt Taxi regulation in the US? Did they actively lobby, or fight this in the courts? It's something that I've always been curious about, since this was a big problem for them in several European countries, and it's hard for me to imagine that in the US everybody just bought the "it's totally not a taxi" argument.
The subtitle of the article is "Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests." "Free-market economies" might not mean exactly the same thing as "capitalism," but it's pretty close, and it's pretty clear that the article is discussing the current world as it is.
My attempts below look nicer to me, the all caps probably leads to data sparsity issues. The global coherence of the first one is amazing, and the line "One of the best ways to test if you are a robot is to play against yourself." from the second one is pure gold.

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Chess is a fun sport, when played with shot guns.

This is the ultimate expression of that.

A lot of people have asked me why I didn't include it, and I think it's because the rules of the game prohibit this sort of thing. It would be illegal to use guns to play chess.

I would have added the rules to a version that didn't contain this type of action.

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Chess is a fun sport, when played with shot guns.

When your friend loses to a human player and says "I don't know how you do that, that's just stupid" - this is an indication of what it means to be a robot. If you're a human player, the player who lost was probably better than you - so you are probably not the stupid human. But if you lose, it means you're a robot - and thus the game has been rigged against you, even if it's not a complete sham.

When you play Chess, you have two opponents (two computers) that are very much alike in terms of ability. This is why the game can be so fun to play: The game is not rigged against you - it's rigged against all the other humans! This is why chess is not chess at all: it is a game that can be rigged against you, just as the stock market is rigged against everyone.

One of the best ways to test if you are a robot is to play against yourself.
The long interval between 2006 and 2018 makes it easy to forget.
It's a pretty unfortunate dark pattern that's wide spread in these contexts; I remember my senior year of high school and freshman year of college there were no end of mandatory workshops we had to attend about finances and this exact phenomenon.
Am I going to have to start a list of planes I shouldn't fly on?
That's one of the ways to develop intuitive sense - start using it everywhere. It will never develop if it's not used. Besides, officially US was supposed to switch to metric system anyway, so formally there is nothing wrong with using it and no one should be complaining. Except it takes ages and almost not moving anywhere due to complete apathy from the government about it.
Elon has overpromised many times in the past - and probably it won't happen in 2020 but I still believe that Tesla is leading the driverless competition. They have the data.
>I have literally never met anyone who places any value in advertising at all. Everyone hates it with 100% of their being.

I like ads -- but only if they're relevant to my interests. There lies the problem: 99% of all ads are not relevant to my interests. For online ads, 99.99% of ads are not relevant to me. So, I use a DNS blocker to filter out ads.
I know this is going to be down-voted to nonexistence since everyone now-a-days wants to serverless, AWS and what not. personally i've always used either hosting.com or inmotionhosting.com. yes they are more expensive than AWS and what not, but the thing is, they both have a support staff 24/7/365. I called whenever i need and have someone remote into my server and fix whatever is wrong. furthermore, i can even have the server alert emails routed to not only me, but them as well! so they know about the problem and are on it and i don't have to do a thing.
I use Leaseweb and they include a line item for the license price. It is all very affordable. I pay about $65 a month for a Windows 2016 server that I run IIS and SQL Server on for all of my projects I have going on. Very fast, affordable, etc. My SQL Server came from MS Bizspark for free (MSDN).
> Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.

I leave my laptop in office and don't even want to think about work the instant I walk past the door.
https://data.bloomberglp.com/professional/sites/24/Capture2....

https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-b...

"The key determinant of our forecast is the relationship between price and volume. From the observed historical values, we calculate a learning rate of around 18%. This means that for every doubling of cumulative volume, we observe an 18% reduction in price. Based on this observation, and our battery demand forecast, we expect the price of an average battery pack to be around $94/kWh by 2024 and $62/kWh by 2030."

TLDR Batteries will work out fine as storage. Recycling batteries is a known materials handling process.
> Ooooh man, your use of a racial descriptor in a generally dismissive sentence doesn't seem neccessary. What would be changed by omitting the word "black" here?

The article uses “white” twice in nearly identical contexts. It makes perfect sense to respond in kind.

> We're all neural networks navigating a complex maze of cultural biases we don't understand, and we internalise some of those biases as we go whether we're aware of it or not. It's difficult.

I dare say yours might be on display.
This idea needs to be incorporated into https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/
The kind of person who clicks on ads also buys stuff. The negative, "if you don't click on ads, you don't buy stuff," may not be true in the strictest sense, but may be true for so many ways that matter.

Facebook is full of ads, you know Facebook users. Instagram has the most effective ads on the planet, maybe the only inventory on Earth where brand advertising works. You know plenty of Instagram users. YouTube's ad value is an open question, but I think their brand advertising also works. You can't block their ads in the apps, which is how people use them.

Sure, I get it, you're talking about banner ads. The kind of person who clicks on banner ads buys stuff!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Plus, you're now the guy who quit rather than being a "team player".
I think it is a bubble. But we are pretty far away from popping imho...
This isn’t accurate. Amazon doesn’t ‘have the money’ that counts as Bezo’s wealth. It is the value of Amazon to others that produces his wealth.

Bezos may not be able to donate Amazon’s assets to charity, but he can donate his assets - in this case his shares of Amazon.

He can equally well sell his Amazon shares and buy something else with the proceeds, so the wealth that is attributed to him really his his.

Of course there is a point at which Amazon’s value might be impacted if Bezos sold his shares, but he could probably realize well over 50% of his holdings before that became an issue.
Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing
They were thinking of the children.
I’m currently using Vnote https://github.com/tamlok/vnote/ after trying Typora and other Markdown editors. What I like about Vnote is it is based on Qt and has most of the functions from Typora plus Vim mode, a lot of keyboard shortcuts, good search capacity across different notebooks (which basically folders and sub folders containing markdown files), and some extensions like MathJax, Flowchart, Mermaid. Vnote (and Typora) supports defining folders for images or attachments (relative or absolute path). Even though it does not have a kind of webcliper extension for browser like Joplin, you can copy the content of a webpage and paste it directly into Vnote (also Typora), it can reformat the content as markdown and copy the associated images to the defined folder. I used Joplin before and still like it a lot but recently switched to Vnote and version-control the notes with git. For that, I can "sync" the content of my notebooks using git across different devices (for iOS, I use Working Copy as a git client and it can render the markdown notes with images). Vnote needs to store the structure of your notebook and other metadata such as tags in JSON files. You do need to have those JSON files otherwise Vnote will not display the tree of your notebooks. But basically you can use other editors to open Vnote notebooks because they are just folders and markdown files.
In the Business of Trust
A lot of it misses the point.

Equality is unavoidable as long as people are allowed to compete for stuff.

If people are allowed to compete for property then those that are better at competing will have more property.

It might be possible to have property equality when people have access to same things but compete for different things, for example status, choice of partners, etc.

And the most important point people seem to forget:

Inequality does not mean we need to have people who can't satisfy their most basic things. It is possible for people to be allowed to compete for wealth and at the same time ensure those that don't want or can't compete have their basic needs like food, shelter and medical care satisfied.
I've often thought about standardizing on one of those (probably bbc.com) and then rewriting the other URLs. But we don't have any reason to believe that would always work, or that it would continue to work in the future.
If you read that, and think this means they don't cooperate with legal requests, then you've really made a huge mistake.

They "resist". All that means is they ask for a proper legal document, such as a warrant.

Warrants are easy to obtain. Judges give them out like candy, and I'd be incredibly surprised if after the success of the Golden State Killer case, that 23&me doesn't get 100's or 1000's of search requests per month.

Sure, they are probably not ever getting the full dataset, but you don't really think they are actually contesting the legal authority of the government to do this right? 23&me is not your doctor. You have no HIPAA protections.
This Bank Will Pay You Higher Interest Rates for Saving 20% of Your Paycheck
Here's one:https://www.povertylaw.org/clearinghouse/articles/Remedies
Did you mean "insightful" as in "has a lot of insight", or "inciteful" as in "likely to incite" or "provocative"? (I ask because "inciteful" isn't properly a word but it makes an interesting "mondegreen" in context.)

edit: Excuse me! OED recognizes "inciteful" as a word. Sorry. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/12/inciteful.html
you can, just click "maybe later" at the bottom where it says "become a member"
A genie grants you one wish; <poof> Facebook has been replaced with a decentralized social network based on open protocols.

To your horror, your friends _still_ install insipid quiz apps and grant them permission to all of "your" data. And now there is nothing to stop it and no one to blame.

From a systems perspective, the fact that the medium is currently named Facebook is irrelevant. The primary actors in the Cambridge Analytica Scandal are your friends. You can remove Facebook and the same narrative remains - you shared data with your friends, and they shared it with someone you don't like.
Ask residents whether they want this stopped if that means higher council tax and my bet if they'll all vote for as many ads as possible.
Indeed! Lucet is a great piece of engineering.

There are some very popular open-source runtimes that let you run WebAssembly server-side easily: Wasmer (Rust, with three different compilation tiers: Singlepass, Clif and LLVM), WAVM (C++. LLVM), and many more! (disclaimer: I work at Wasmer)

There is some nice blogposts benchmarking them:
https://00f.net/2019/10/22/updated-webassembly-benchmark/
For 1 2 and 3 we rely on the courts. It's already their job to decide when somebody has broken the law or not. The courts need to decide if a reasonable person could tell if some writing is sarcasm or fiction, and if it was written to intentional mislead, then its a crime. 4 is just a hard problem we need to work through.

5. The problem that needs fixing is that people don't trust anything they read any more. Nobody knows what to believe and can't make a good judgement call about what is a trustworthy news source. This results in a polarised, ignorant society.

If you post online that Trump likes your mums cooking, nobody is going to take you to court because the damages done is almost nothing. If you post online that Trump wants to evict all Chinese nationals from the country, well that's a lie that could cause some real strife, and I would be happy if that was just not written on the internet.
Peter Norvig did one of these.[1]

The authors can fit data better by adding parameters, which is no surprise. But these models omit an important feature of the real world: growth. "Yard sale" models are zero-sum.

[1] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics...
There's no point searching for nuclear fusion when nuclear fission can meet all of our needs for an extremely long time.
Yeah, it's architecturally infeasible on the current platform, nevermind that a single rando on HN's Tesla-priced "desktop" isn't a market segment worth pursuing.
Which Star Trek is post-scarcity. They all [within the Federation] have trading and limitations of resources, no?

They're entirely egalitarian either, perhaps that's why you say they're not communist, see for example the luxuries that a captain has that crew do not and the preferences (larger quarters) that accrue with seniority.
But, you like accessing content for free, correct? That content doesn't exist and then ads are layered on, the context exists BECAUSE of ads. Like, no one would produce the content without the plan to make their money back via ads.

This is how mass media has worked from the get-go. Radio stations were built by advertisers for the purpose of advertising. Entire genres of popular music wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Online advertising did not create the notion of advertising being the predominant media funding model.

And, just because you'd rather ads not exist, it doesn't mean there's something "evil" or whatever about a business promoting itself. I'm going to guess that if you ever find yourself needed to market a business you'll be happy if there's an option to advertise effectively.