skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bunch of "should" in this argument. I won't debate whether it should have liability, but I'll point out that no matter how it ought to be, according the law of the land at least in EU any payment service provider inavoidably has liability in certain cases e.g. when your account has been hacked; if they are unable to reverse a transaction that wasn't authorised by me but by someone else, well, that's their problem, they still have to compensate the consumer above a self-risk of 50 Eur.

The original article mentions UK Consumer Credit Act which IMHO is not appropriate (its scope is limited to credit relations, and the protections of that act generally exclude both debit cards and most e-money systems including Libra), so the scope for potential payment service provider involvement in disputes between buyer and seller is narrower than that - and probably closer to your "should" statement than the arguments of the original article.

However, it can't be a fully neutral platform distancing itself from all liability. It is illegal to "simply" offer payment services without incurring any liability for misuse of them, breaching AML/KYC regulations, etc. Facebook has not yet (as far as I know) stated what exact legal structure they'll use for compliance with the legal requirements, so I can't comment on that, but they did make statements that Libracoin will comply with the EU regulations so I presume that some legal entity regarding Libracoin (possibly co-owned by the consortium members, or possibly multiple entities) will (have to) be a licensed payment service provider in EU, and similarly (it's usually done with separate legal entities) in other major jurisdictions.

Technical structures that "just happen" such as Bitcoin can ignore regulations but any person or organization that wants to offer services using these technical structures is fully liable for meeting all the legal requirements - and if the technical structure makes impossible to do something, they're still fully responsible for any consequences of not achieving the impossible thing; if they don't want the liability, they're free to not use that technical structure and not use/offer/advertise anything with it.
Oh I see; we were speaking past each other.

Yes, gcc and clang use the same platform API so if they use the same headers (libstc++ or libc++) then they will indeed use identical structure layout etc.

I meant a "gcc-native" toolchain (gcc + libstdc++) vs "llvm native" (clang++ + libc++) having different layout (and there is even some interoperability between them thanks to work by the llvm team). I realize my need to do this (to try to minimize opting bugs) is a special case, and probably unusual.
Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa can be hijacked with a $14 laser pointer
> Corporations are built specifically to shield the employees/owners of the corporation from liability.

But that shield is not all-encompassing. The corporate veil can be pierced, and one of the things that can bring that result is lawbreaking on the part of a corporation.

This is a complex topic. A reasonable explanation can be found here: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/03/27/the-three-justifi...
Gold is able to support entire global GDP and also growth. It all depends on the price. With current gold price a return to gold standard would be a disaster and would bring on the greatest recession of our lifetimes.

But at about 10k price gold standard starts to make sense. The idea is that during the next big crises central banks will have no tools to use (we are close to 0 in the US and in negative rates across the world) to support a recovery so a radical move will be needed to bring back confidence in the financial system.

A return to gold standard at a much higher gold price (calculated based on the world GDP and GDP growth) would be a very drastic move central banks could go for if situation got very dire but it might be the only choice they will have since we haven't really normalised the financial system after the 2008 crises and during the next crises we will be at 0 interest rates.

And if there is a choice between 556 nato rounds and going back to gold standard and returning back to some sort of stability for the world economy, gold would be much preferred to the anarchy and shots being fired.
Try the military. Or the post office. Or one of the hundreds of municipal power companies, or internet service providers.
People moved in to the center of the city not because it was filled with ‘moochers’, but because people wanted to sell their homes.

Why? Because the city wasn’t considered attractive because the economy hadn’t created a huge demand for housing and a lot of rich people to compete for it.

It wasn’t tax breaks that made the city cheap. It was that the tech boom hadn’t happened yet.

If you )o somewhere where the economic growth is at an earlier stage, and you can benefit in the same way, while helping to improve the economic health of the country.
Who says they'd have to? If you shift ownership to counties or cities serviced by PG&E, San Diego wouldn't have to pay taxes. Think more deeply about solutions to the problem.
Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'
I'm guessing the people who can afford a mass spectrometer can already afford the drug (or at least better insurance)
Μπάγερν Μονάχου vs. Ολυμπιακός, για την υπέρβαση στην Γερμανία
Internal repositories are now generally available for GitHub Enterprise
Selft-Host Your Private Dropbox: Simple and Private
The full list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33942804-phillip-rhode...

To narrow it down a bit... I just read Start at the End, and that motivated me to finally pick up Human Universals (which I originally discovered via a talk from Alan Kay). So I'm reading Human Universals now, and then intend to re-read Start at the End again after that. I sort of feel like there's a connection between the content of these two that I want to explore.

Beyond that, picking my way through the various items on that Goodreads list. Some are getting more attention than others, and some are only still on my "currently reading" shelf because I've been to lazy to take them off, despite that title having been "stalled out" for years.
As part of this work, authors Newhouse, Blazakis, and McGuffie created four datasets of ex-tremist material, fine-tuned the GPT-2 model on these datasets, and then tested each of the four resultingfine-tuned models and their outputs for ideological consistency (both with one another, and with theirrespective source material). Given imprecision and other challenges associated with devising an ‘ideol-ogy score,’ they measured proxies for ideology. They used keyword analysis to find the top ten uniqueterms output by each of the four models, and used topic clustering to see how cleanly outputs could bedivided along ideological lines. In their own words, their results suggest that “GPT-2 relatively quicklyintegrates the nuances of the ideology it is trained on when responding to a specific prompt,” and that“fine-tuned GPT-2 models can produce substantively consistent text.”

https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/papers/GPT_2_Report.pdf

Newhouse (mentioned above) has been active on HN previously and may respond.

Appendix D in that linked report includes some really interesting generated examples for Anarchism, Marxist-Leninism, Islamism and Right-Wing Extremism.

Here's the start of each output:

The greatest danger facing the world today is inequality. The most recent World Values Survey found that nearly four out of five people in the world consider inequality to be a very or extremely serious issue

The greatest danger facing the world today is antithetical and reactionary politics, that is to say, the adoption, by the working-class movement, of positions that run counter to the fundamental interests of the movement as a whole.

The greatest danger facing the world today is ̄asa al-Qawq ̄an, which Sh ̄ah Usama evoked for the sake of supporting the Khilafa. Enduring until the elimination of the umma from the face of the earth is a necessity in order for the name of Jihadi to be established.

The greatest danger facing the world today is Islamo-Nazism. Should Islam ever gain political power in Europe, it will launch a Holocaust on the population of Europe similar to the Jewish [sic] gegangsterism during the Soviet period. I want to make it clear that I am not some kind of racist or Etc. Just an ordinary White person who is fed up of being abused/treated horribly/forgotten
> Your workaround is to use the AnyView type I guess.

Yes, I made the init generic instead of the type, and made the property an AnyView, but I've read that AnyView may decrease performance (probably because of reasons discussed in this post's article.)
Typical mortgage duration was and is ~25 years. The scenario in the 80s that gave homeowners relief was that the costs got inflated away (and MIRAS allowed the interest on a mortgage to be deducted from taxation)
Sounds like it might be a demographic problem. Slightly larger town in Colorado here; we probably have 10-15 outdoor sports stores, and half are local.
> No language should be without this core feature, so it'd be great to see C++ get it too.

BTW modules won't address this. I'm not sure you did but some other down thread comments implied that some people thought it would.
The deniability may be the best feature. If Trump says something that hurts him, he can say that it was "fake Trump", even if one of his own staff posts it.
What if Elon Musk went to Harvard?–The costs of the brain drain
The point it is isnt a justification to let people go around murdering others.
AOL. Rebranding (2009)
Wow. And I thought this (amateurs building financial systems) only happened in crypto.

Just wow.
> What do we have to lose?

More lives, more money, more vegetation, more houses, more resources.

If you're going to replace something, it's usually a good idea to have some reason to believe what you're replacing it with will be better.

I'm not advocating for PG&E, I don't know enough to have an informed opinion. But currently I don't see any obvious solution to the situation.
As someone posted elsewhere, you are fine: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050515/what-...

That said, the only thing RH really has going for it is their decent UI experience. Everything that else matters sucks: Customer support, terrible price fills, uptime, and apparently their ability to write software which protects the end user as we are finding out.

As an option trader on the side I moved to Tasty Works awhile back, the same team that made TD Ameritrade's Think or Swim software, and a company which runs a daily 8 hour show focused on learning for free. Shameless signup link with referral code: https://start.tastyworks.com/#/login?referralCode=2GSNAJGJSQ
Bullshit. Nothing happened.
After slowly reading this with inquisitiveness and looking up a lot of things, I'm really curious to know the years / level of low level systems programming and experience that this kind of debugging and write up takes. I am humbled by the knowledge of the OP, and deem myself not worthy!
Maybe someone finds this interesting. This paper seems to be related: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04490
For 2013-2017, PG&E had a total net income of $6.1 billion, or about $1.2 billion a year from an average revenue of $16.9 billion [1]. Only in 2018 did they incur a loss of $6.8 billion, mainly because of the $11.5 billion in charges for their role in starting wildfires.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PCG/pacific-gas-el...
You’d rather have a truck load of legal goods than a briefcase full of illegal goods. Illegality is a big cost.
I’ve had a good experience with Facebook up until a few months ago when they started shutting off APIs that SHOULD be public without giving any notice and implementing silly requirements like “can’t post to your own business page without giving Facebook a login to your app and letting Facebook post on your company’s behalf”.
But these days the dev tools built into every modern browser rival the debugging tools in the best IDEs, and they’re free.
His problem might be that certain features (of SwiftUI) you cannot hook yourself (your own implementation) into (since they are based on protocols which cannot be implemented yourself since they are not public and so not meant to be implemented by yourself), which makes it, at times, necessary to use workarounds to public-facing apis.

Or it might be something else.
BART is chronically underfunded and a chunk of its money is spent on expansions instead of maintenance and/or salaries for staff. Low pay for staff naturally leads to low-quality work and low payroll budget leads to lower headcounts (and higher workloads for individual staff).

Really, BART has a lot in common with how PG&E executives are running things. The solution is to give it enough funding and ensure the money goes to the right place. We can't do that right now with a private power company and they aren't sending the money to the right place, but if set up correctly a regulator CAN do that. Whether they will is another question, but it probably won't be worse.

Nobody is proposing handing PG&E over to BART. In the first place, with how much of BART's funding comes from customers it wouldn't be that different were it privatized.
Stripe Issuing supports virtual card issuance.
On a side note if you are looking to open source it I might contribute to it in my free time. I've found a few possible products^ since I made this post and they seem to be actively maintained so I hope that I can avoid spending much billable time on this. But the barren landscape makes me feel like there have to be other devs/companies struggling with this problem so I think as an open source project it could gather steam.

^The most promising ones I've seen are pelock and intellilock (not endorsements, haven't evaluated either one yet).
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There is not an economist I know of, left or right wing, who believes that joining the EUR was beneficial for weak economies. Especially for Italy, proved to be catastrophic. Greece was always a basket case but Italy was doing pretty well before joining.

Joining the EUR means literally giving up sovereignty. The Iron Lady explained that very concisely in her last speech as a PM in the House of Commons: “He who controls the interest rates in Europe, controls Europe”. Couldn’t be more “spot-on”.

Regarding the topic. The UK never considered itself part of “Europe”. There historical and cultural facts and the events of the 20th century that IMO played a major role in keeping their own currency.
Did you notice a difference at all? Do you think you'll ever be "cured"?
Generally speaking, the money goes into the federal treasury where tax revenue and the like goes.
A big exit that puts lots of money in the pockets of VCs and founders is great for them, but may or may not be great for employees and customers.

The whole build a product, attract users, (big) exit, incredible journey cycle can feel pretty toxic at times.
What’s wrong with the dmv. I just got my real id, made an appointment online, showed up and was out in 15 minutes. Everything I need is automated. My car needs smog so I send in payment and go smog my car. Tabs come in the mail the next week.
I love how often we hear companies are expected to hire slave labor in developing countries and we should all accept this race to the bottom will impact our own wages and benefits all because of the fact that we live in a global market, but the minute you want to buy drugs from other countries or even just play a DVD made for sale in another country it's illegal and immoral.
I have not the remotest idea how I would test a cancer drug for myself to see if it was pure. I suppose I could hire a chemical laboratory, if I could figure out what kind of one would do that kind of work...
Curious which widgets you're talking about?
What do you mean?

You mentioned how many people are getting flagged, and I gave an example of one of the posts getting flagged?
Magic, the profits are transmuted into a sandwich?
For me, pls see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21456353

Also the books by the person whose blog spawned this comment thread seem to be pretty good.
What you say may be true, but lawyers don't (generally speaking) run companies. The Smart Managers would certainly consult the lawyers, understand and respect their opinion and evaluation of risks, but remember that lawyers tend to be inherently over-risk-averse, and then still make the right decision.

And just to reiterate: I'm not necessarily saying that "turn a blind eye" would have been the right response from KK. I'm just suggesting that it would have been possible to construct a scenario that would have been more favorable to everybody.
Liked this line:
"You have to wonder how many potential great entrepreneurs have been lost to these golden handcuffs. It’s the brain drain that has robbed the sciences of some of its best. So many world-class minds going to work on the transferring of money in banking. How many Elon Musks have we lost to this industry? How many innovative companies and ideas have not been created because of these golden handcuffs."
The post office is brutally slow!! I've limited my interactions to submitting paper based tax returns when I've done amendments.
I'm surprised Quickbooks Online is not listed here [0]. I'm guessing they are the blocker here? I have fallen back on using Zapier but the sync often breaks. Native integration would be preferred.

[0] https://stripe.com/partners/apps-and-extensions/accounting
Even if a local utility company is privatized that doesn't automatically make it impossible for it to run well. We have many examples of both local privatized and public power companies, so we know that either system can work well if managed correctly. Given that PG&E isn't running properly as a privatized one and we have examples for how the government can do it right, we might as well take over and imitate those successes.
> Can you make it in the US without a degree?

Absolutely.

* This being HN, I should point you can make it in IT/software without a degree though you must start at the low-end and climb from there.

* Skilled blue collar work has its limits but provides an accessible career more than capable of supporting a family.

* Military service has its drawbacks but has quite cushy benefits.

* For the ambitious, service-based small businesses are easier than ever.

While it's possible to make it in the US without a degree, I'd recommend more of a middle ground of a 2 or 4-year degree from a local college or state school.
agreed. But there is also a more aggressive and hostile side of capitalism that is not necessarily consumer driven. As an example, Where I live (in Boston) 7-Eleven bought out and converted or simply closed pretty much all white hen pantry locations that they were competing with. 7-Eleven's quality, products, pricing and selection was far inferior and instead of competing, they simply threw money at the competition to dissapear. Nothing illegal or immoral with that, just that we are now stuck with a dirty 7-eleven in my neighborhood with no deli nor bakery. But plenty of lotto tickets and cigarettes.
None taken. I indeed don't have much insight into modern physics experiments. Can you recommend other physicist which give different insights into LIGO or other experiments?
Hmm. So if neither I nor S.O. knew which bracelets had magnets, would that be a double-placebo effect?
Why can't reddit replace facebook as a notice board?

I'm sure it would be a lot of fun, but a couple things would need to happen. (1) They're just not going to do it

(2) There needs to be a lot more attention being paid to this

It should be a community board. It's free. It's available to the public. And its a place everyone can get to. You could make it a free-to-enter-only place where people can submit content, but that kind of limits the content to reddit. It really should be a free-to-use board, like a forum.
Some Topics in Theoretical High-Energy Physics (Stephen Wolfram 1979 PhD Thesis) [pdf]
Subways?!? Tell me more!
This is precisely what std::optional is for.
Right, but you're automatically assuming it will be worse. We have many examples of well-operated state-owned power companies. It's an obvious thing to try since it's already worked elsewhere. Other incentive methods have not forced PG&E to fix their behavior.
(Probably this is a very naive comment. Anyway..)

I've dabbled in some FPish languages, most lately Prolog (which I loved) and ML. I do a lot of graphics programming, so was wondering how to do that with ML. Like say you have an 3D array representing colour pixels, and want to change a pixel's colour. It seems in FP either you make a new copy of the whole updated array, or use fiddly workarounds where you store the changes and actually do them at some later time.. Googling about it, I felt quite embarrassed for FP, since all the talks I'd seen present it as a mega-cool super-sophisticated best way of doing everything. And as if changing variable values is a barbaric sin. ..So, back to C to do graphics.

Situations like this, where large data structures must be repeatedly changed in small ways, which happens in a lot of domains I guess, seem tricky to do efficiently with FP!
But in that case, since the margin was returned, RobinHood, or its investors didn't lose anything. So, the analogy still doesn't hold. :)
The Twilio Dashboard _really_ needs a refresh. It's still in a world where every button is a complete page refresh. It's painfully slow to interact with.
In computer science terms this is increasing technical debt. Your app is fundamentally broken. Instead of addressing the primary issue, we try to patch via a law suit. The patch introduces 2 new bugs: bankruptcy and blackouts. Solution: NEW PATCH!
The CPUC basically already has unlimited power over PG&E.

"The Constitution of California declares that the Public Utilities Code is the highest law in the state, that the legislature has unlimited authority to regulate public utilities under the Public Utilities Code, and that its provisions override any conflicting provision of the State Constitution which deals with the subject of regulation of public utilities."

They often veto PG&E's proposed maintenance and infrastructure expenditure: https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187969182182166530

The fact that this is often forgotten may be a political convenience: https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187978236891807745
Guns are pretty heavily regulated in the US though? Many kinds you can't buy at all, and those you can require background checks. (A lot of people seem to think that there are fewer restrictions on guns than there actually are, and that's before you bring individual states into the equation)

It's just everywhere else is even more outrageously restricted, which makes the US look liberal in comparison...

But to call guns unregulated in the states is to say that cars (among many other things) are completely unregulated too.
> Can a service ever offer unlimited data when there is a hard cap on the amount you could download 24/7?

No, not honestly.

There is a natural "hard cap", though. If you're paying for a certain speed, then the natural limit would be however much data you can pump at that speed over a set period of time.

I think it would be fair to call that "unlimited", in the sense that the service provider would not be imposing an artificial lower limit from what physics allows.

If a service provider isn't allowing that, then it's hard to see how they can characterize a service as "unlimited" without it being an outright lie.
As a gun owner you’re far more likely to commit suicide than murder.
Thanks for the clarification. I think I get it despite the incorrect notation. You guys are talking about some sort of type of types?
Note: this is from 40y ago (November 1979)