skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is the functional difference from the “law” being the whims of a king, and the “law” being an incompressible mess where you are always guilty, but selectively prosecuted?

Marketing, plausible deniability and the ability of the higher levels of the system to tell the lower levels of the system to knock it off when they're being jerks under the color of law.

Monarchy worked so well for so long because the king didn't want to see his resources pissed away using the government to prosecute crap that didn't actually matter in the grand scheme of things.
Also, their last comment was in 2017. WTF?
No, in the same sense that working for the military tends not to.
Classic comedy sketch. There's also a "whoop" of gorillas. It appears that some people think flange is the correct collective noun for baboons, as it subsequently appeared in a televised pub quiz in which someone, taught how to memorize general knowledge facts by Derren Brown, took part.

https://youtu.be/l1-69AnA_To?t=900
The wells will have been traded between multiple companies (and not necessarily with the intent to abandon them so they don't need to pay costs.).

A lot of the 'current owners' will be defunct or bankrupt. Because wells can become productive again (due to new technologies or techniques becoming cheaper or price for oil increasing) it would be hard to show any company was playing shell games even if they were, so it will be hard to show who should be stuck with the cost if the current owner can't pay(and of course shareholders are shielded). It would be a costly forensic exercise and while no doubt it would pay off on average there would be a lot of cases where nothing could be done meaning the tax payer has still lost out.

Otherwise the only real way to claw back cash would be to retroactively add liability to the company that contracted drilling the well (this of course has the usual draw backs of retroactive laws).

Realistically the only thing that could be done to cover this cost efficiently is some form of tax on the industry as a whole going forward.

There also absolutely needs to be a law sooner rather than later that no new wells can be drilled without an appropriate bond (Now days this is the case in a lot of places or is a standard part of permitting).
Not to the degree seen in F1 since the start of the turbo hybrid era. Scrappy underdog teams could score wins with creative, out of the box thinking that was possible with a small budget. Today the only time you see a team with a budget less than Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull winning is because of some act of god during the race.
There are a set of “listed” parts that must be designed by the constructor team. There was a bit of a controversy this year because Racing Point used last year’s Mercedes brake duct design. The part was not listed last year, meaning it was ok then, but it became a listed part in 2020 season. Racing Point was penalized a few points in the standings as a result, but allowed to use the design since they couldn’t unlearn how Mercedes designed the brake duct.
I suggest we adopt terms of venery that subtly reflect reality. At work we would speak how of the recommendations from a genius of engineers was ignored by a lunacy of managers. Online we could lament how a delusion of Redditors failed to recognize the wisdom of an omniscience of HN readers. Or how an oppression of downvotes is battling with a glory of upvotes!

Don't get me started on the collective nouns for vim- and emacs-users.
Wow, thanks this was more than I expected. Here's my considerations on your reply, though it's likely not useful for you, but it is good for me to write this out.

1) DB performance has as much (or more) todo with time sorting as anything. But I am not an expert, I just rely on what I read from others. (hence, my questions to you, and I appreciate your time/effort on your responses here)

But, I do appreciate the inherit use of a time part, just makes me feel better about having a "randomish" id, but not loosing what I felt I had previously with incremented integers.

2) This is one reason I _prefer_ ULID to other options. I am using ULIDs in low count generated IDs per second, and I want to use in them in URLs. All lowercase is a trivial thing to implement. And I remove ambiguity about content (ie, 1,i,I,L, etc...)

So for human readable ULID is almost unparalleled from what I have found.

Is there another UID system that is just as human readable? I'd love to find something else to compare it to. (that I haven't already)

3) #2 dove-tails into #3 I guess, but yes, I look at data all day long, and the shorter the better. The fewer conflicts, misunderstandings, etc... the more human readable it is.

Is there another UID that is _more_ human readable?

4) I don't need my UIDs to be special, I just need them to be useful.

Why is something "odd" to you because of an arbitrary number like "80 bits"? Am I missing something about unique ids that require a specific hex/octet/base-10 value or they don't work properly?

As far as I know _all_ unique ids have the potential for conflicts, there is no getting around this.

A) I don't have any issues with making more than one ULID per millisecond, I spend way more CPU time on other things, I have no issue holding back ULID generation to avoid the "countable" error of multiple ULIDs that can be guessed.

Thank you for pointing out this flaw, it would be nice if it didn't exist, and maybe the libraries should have some kind of flag/option to enable guaranteed random values at the cost of speed. (which considering how long it takes to download very large background video on a splash/hero banner on a site, I think solves what seems to be 100% of the criticisms you have against ULIDs.

B) Here's a discussion about ULID vs KSUID, which includes replies from the author you linked to from Segment, Rick Branson.

https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid/issues/8

Rick says this about ULID vs KSUID:

"If one is concerned about the extra 4 bytes of data or if millisecond precision is needed, then ULID is probably a better choice."

It seems that ULID has some advantages over KSUID, and it's not so cut and dry that KSUID is superior in all ways.
I'm making the broader point. If the concern is that middle-school kids don't self-select into harder classes, I get the concern a bit better.

The implication, which I leave unstated, is that everything becomes an arms race to see which middle school can give its students the most ludicrous GPA (e.g. 7.5/4.0). Any grade other than a perfect one becomes a disaster, but that isn't a concern for most students because they all get perfect grades. With no more meaningful feedback from assessments, in the long run such policies do about as much good as throwing out grades entirely.

At least in a standardized testing-induced arms race, you have to learn something to succeed. Even the most cynical will concede testing strategies.
> Furthermore if you actually used "murder of crows" in a real context people would likely be confused.

You mix with different people than I. 90% of my friends would understand that seamlessly - and those that didn't would recognize it as a term of venery from context.
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I have disdain for Facebook as a company _but_ I am hiring a data scientist now (NLP focus, if you're interested/know someone) and would gladly hire someone from FB.

I've already interviewed someone who worked at FB and it was definitely a subject I would touch on in the process - their thoughts on working there, why they joined and left/were leaving, etc.

Their product is destructive but their engineering is great. If I were hiring an ethicist, on the other hand...
And because the word “happiness” at the time meant something more like felicity or properness, not pleasure or “near joy” as it does today.
Maybe they could just say that, and explain how it is different
I'll never forget watching the Prost vs. Senna battles with my dad. It was as much fun as watching the WRC.

The Netflix series covering F1 is fun to watch.
>why is it the people at the bottom have to hurt the most?

The people above them would have it that way. In a functioning democracy, the will of the people would naturally prevent that, but many of the people have been convinced that those in low places "deserve it".
Employer might fit your definition of “reasonable” but a couple of individuals (or even a single person) could easily keep ex-FB employees from getting through the gates.
Not overall. Sure, some employers might make the assumption that every single employee at Facebook bears responsibility for every single thing Facebook did, none were neutral let alone tried to improve things while there, etc. Most will reject that idea, or the idea that personal morality should be injected into the hiring process. Even among those who subscribe to it, that is likely to be outweighed by the fact that Facebook engineers have experience dealing with a scale and complexity few other employers can match. Facebook engineering has a pretty good reputation (whether one believes it's deserved or not) independent of Facebook as a commercial/political entity. Sorry, but Facebook experience will continue to be an asset on a resume.

Disclaimer: ex-Facebook myself, but I'm out of the game now so I don't really have a stake any more.
> How much can they honestly be making of this data?

There's no actual evidence that they make any money from this data, how did you come to this conclusion? This article is a very opinionated translation of a privacy policy that tells the narrative the writer wants to tell and assumes bad faith from the get-go. It's a very big stretch to go from "I don't think it fits with legitimate interest" to "Sonos is 100% selling my data".
It was not hard to find out who the engineers were. It is not illegal to target other business's engineers. Hence Apple's actions.

As an interesting aside, it is illegal to agree not to employ each others' engineers, AFAIK (IANAL).
As the kids say: LOL. While the pundits here and elsewhere on social media may rant about Facebook being evil, Google being evil, Amazon being evil, etc., they have little to do with the real world. I mean, IBM was the hated monopolist of the '70s-'90s and Microsoft was one of the most loathed software companies in the technology industry in the '00s and there isn't any significant prejudice against their former employees.
Is that a problem with Facebook or Facebook’s users?
> That is to say increase the pool of such jobs

Umm, no.

The reality is that research type jobs are not that numerous for a reason.

That reason being we just don't need that many of them.

The reason why industry pays more is because that is what society needs.
What does that have to do with subsidies?
As more people become aware of Facebook's deleterious effects on society, will having Facebook's ReactJS in your application be seen as a liability?
Kauffman’s book looks like a treasure trove! Reminds me of Penrosee’s RTR. Thanks for linking.
> The range of emotions we get from looking at other people's faces is intrinsically worth saving.

Citation needed? It's almost-certainly net-enjoyable - but, when you go on to acknowledge that the mere fact of those emotions leads to discrimination against some people, how do you justify this statement other than "those emotions are natural"?

To be clear, I am _not_ saying that I would support mandatory calli - forcibly changing someone's neurological responses is an astonishingly dangerous precedent to set; as another commenter points out, that would be terribly dystopian - but I don't think I can agree with your specific statement.

Regardless - this sounds like a fascinating story, I'll have a look - thanks!
The failure to account for externalities and to couple them to their causes was probably the fundamental failure of communism.

While what you say is mathematically correct, it fails to align the cost with those who received maximal benefit, instead blindly socializing the cost.

Frankly I’d prefer tha the west avoided the mistakes of the Soviet Union and instead assigned liability appropriately.
Why do they make all the cars the same?

Why not have a maximum size or something like that and let people innovate within that to do whatever they want? Why the 'formula'?
If we had a working government, we'd raise their taxes and add registration fees to cover the costs.

In our actual government, though, their lobbiests would kill that immediately.
Just to play devil's advocate:

I mean, yes, this hypothetical procedure does sound dystopian on its face (haha). But then again, imagine if you just judged people by how nice they actually were, not by what their face looked like? Imagine if you were evaluated by the merits of your mind, of you, not the 'flawed' representation of you (your face) given to you by your DNA?

I've been helped enormously in almost every area of my life by the way I look and how I'm able to present myself physically. Much of that is because of my DNA -- something I didn't work for or ask for. It was given to me for free. Likewise, others are deprived through no fault of their own. Of course, that's the way it is. I like being attractive and having attractive friends and romantic partners. But what if it didn't matter? Would my life be richer?
"Code readability is the most important pillar of code correctness and maintainability."

100% agree.

This is not related only to the importance of code reviews or team work, but directly to the way software is made, that is organic growth over time.

Software is too complex to be designed and built in one step, at least for us mere mortals.

For this reason we need many steps, where software has to be readable, compilable and testable.
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"term of venery" is also not a noun cluster that anybody uses.
Boo.

We used to make up our own names.

A group of accountants: a drab.
how many useless services can you really push between a renter and a landlord and call it a startup? In Europe sharing a flat with a few people is common, I've never heard of a company middleman, you just split your rent between your roomates and when the wi-fi doesn't work someone is literate enough to figure it out and someone else knows someone who can repair a washing machine.

Not only does it sound like a superfluous business, how is this supposed to generate startup returns?
I'm not sure it really matters? A consequence of getting into deep talks with corpdev is that they'll be alerted to employees they want to hire. And there's no way to look good suing someone for offering your employees a better job.
CS Lewis coined the term, according to https://people.howstuffworks.com/shrewdness-apes-collective-...

Owls don't flock, so a collective term for them is pointless.
> I don't understand how an audience for those exists when, for example, rally races exist.

People find competitive races more exciting than individual time trials. I don't think that's really unfathomable is it?
> For example, Tesla sold 300k cars last year - ford alone sold something like 6 million. Tesla have to compete with the entire world's car industry including companies that have much more experience selling cars at that scale. Is it impossible, no, is it unlikely yes - Tesla will grow from now but I just can't see that P/E turning into cold hard cash.

Tesla sold 367,500 vehicles last year, Ford sold about 5,387,000. In other words, Ford sold almost 15 times as many cars as Tesla in 2019, which is a significant difference in scale.

Fast forward to Q3 this year. Ford sold 551,796 vehicles (sales down significantly due to the pandemic). Tesla sold 139,300 (sales up significantly despite the pandemic). They are now just a factor of four apart.

And that's just vehicles; Tesla is really an energy company, don't forget. The battery and solar parts of their business are just getting started.

The P/E is extreme, but given how well Tesla is executing, and how steep their growth trajectory is, perhaps it's not so crazy after all...
"Pluto does not predate telescopes by thousands of years" - Rev. Berkeley
As someone who moved to the US from Europe and has spent decades living in both, I would say that it’s not a lack of humility driving these comments. The US really does have different characteristics and a different society, based on different values. It’s very easy to overlook the complexity of US society and culture.

It’s a trope in itself to see the US as dumb for not simply adopting ‘sensible’ policies that seem to work elsewhere.
Before React moved to an MIT license (forgot what they were previously) there was absolutely talk about companies moving away from React. Wanna say this was maybe late 2015/2016. I remember Wordpress (company may be wrong) was about to start moving everything away from react in a week. It was huge news in the Frontend world.
Nothing unique about Facebook here. "ex-FB employees" could be replaced with a different company, gender, race, political orientation, religion, etc. Still not a reason for someone to assume taking a role at Facebook is a bad move for them.
Are employees at McDonald’s responsible for obesity? Are car salesmen responsible for pollution? It sounds like you think yes and I just want to make sure.
If everyone except the IAU decided to keep calling Pluto a planet, that's just a divergence between technical definitions and popular ones (the latter of which is not well defined). This happens all the time, and it's not particularly interesting.
I'll believe Etymology Online over Wikipedia.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/venery#etymonline_v_4697
Not just American, nightmares about school are very common among adults from all places: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201606...

Anecdotically, I have this kind of nightmare at least once a year and I'm from Chile.
Passing the cost onto the consumer is preferable to passing the cost on to future generations, right?
Because there is already Indy...
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That's why both are described as "rule of man" rather than rule of law.
Formula E is entirely unlike how F1 was.

The big one is that all drivers drive the same chassis and battery, and with strict regulations regarding the engine. Pilots may as well all drive the same car. They also added Mario Kart style boosts. This is a game, mostly intended to provide entertainment and show off the pilot skills.

F1 was as much about constructors as it was about pilots, and in fact, being a pilot was as much about tuning and working with engineers as it was about driving. Technical advances driven by competition between constructors made the sport.

To replicate that with Formula E, constructors should be able to make everything from aerodynamics to the batteries. Have regulations that allows for technical breakthroughs to happen, with the minimum amount of limitations to ensure the competition still looks like car racing and to allow pilots to get old.
> If someone is rich enough to rent things to others, by definition, they have more than they need.

This is not the case. There are a significant number of landlords for which renting out properties is their occupation. You have someone who owns a small apartment complex, lives in one of the units, rents out the others, and their primary job is to be the superintendent and caretaker of the property. The rents pay their salary and the property tax and insurance on the building. Without them they can't pay their taxes or expenses and have nothing with which to buy food. Meanwhile the tenants are still living there and expecting the property to be maintained. In many cases the rent includes utilities, which the landlord can't pay if they don't receive rent to pay it with. And they're not the 1%, they're just a regular person whose full-time occupation is property maintenance.

There is no reason in putting the cost on such people, but also no fairness in waiving the rents of only those people who live in housing that really is owned by the 1%.

Which is why things like rent forgiveness and student loan forgiveness are intrinsically unfair and the better way to deal with those sorts of problems is stimulus checks. Anyone who needs the money gets it, meanwhile people who don't need it as much aren't punished for being more responsible and have the money to stimulate demand at a time when unemployment is higher than normal, and the money can come from taxes paid disproportionately by the people who actually do have more than they need rather than people we're only assuming do (and some of them don't).
> Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president.

There has been a specific legal battle about almost exactly this question. So far, the US court system disagrees with you.

> "These tweets are published by a public official clothed with the authority of the state using social media as a tool of governance and as an official channel of communication on an interactive public platform," [2nd circuit] appeals court Judge Barrington Parker wrote.

Trump is appealing that outcome though.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/donal...
Look at early 20th century American politics. We went from total domination by the trusts to the progressive era, to the disturbing Wilson (pre and postwar) to the new deal period.

IMO, we are witnesses to a historical tipping point that will usher in the next era.
You can still answer the question. Parroting fallacy allegations you think apply doesn’t make for a discussion.
Is it? Please explain which data is not included in the ICIJ database[0].

[0] https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database
Wouldn't an incentive to get it done quick encourage cutting corners? It's critical infrastructure, sure, but all the more reason it should be fixed properly AND quickly.
Formula E already exists. As a PR play, other power unit manufacturers may follow Honda. Volkswagen put a lot of pressure on them with their announcement last year. However, I don’t think (and hope) that ICE racing will go anywhere. The engineering challenges and reliability challenges are part of racing that EVs remove from the equation. I don’t understand why EVs can’t have their place as personal and commercial vehicles and racing can keep ICEs in competition vehicles.
At my last physical my doctor did an EKG. It was not requested by me.
I guess it all depends on your doctor.
Why take selfies at all?
We ended up not going the React route, but I literally ran the reasons why it could be problematic by a boss who is a licensed attorney, and he had no concerns. In situations where the rubber hits the road, the opinions expressed on message boards and in worker bee communities aren't necessarily reflective of the decision makers' opinions.
One could argue that roads have a lot less value in Europe than in the US, where trains just have to go much longer distance and have very little ability to get to even second stage towns, whereas in Europe the towns are more dense and better served by rail.