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Normally, incentive compatibility is a concept from game theory and, more significantly, mechanism design (most known for auction theory).

In simple terms, it states that the mechanism that (say) Google offers to the consumer is such that the consumer finds it optimal to act according to their true preferences. In so called direct mechanisms, this means that the consumer would prefer to reveal their true type (information about themselves), rather than trying to fake being someone else. If this is true, it is much simpler to build mechanisms that are robust and achieve good outcomes.

For example, Hotel booking websites are typically not incentive compatible if they offer different prices to different users. Some user who is known to accept high prices will be offered higher prices in the future.
However, if this tracking is imperfect, the price mechanism is not incentive compatible. The consumer would prefer to pretend to have a lower willingness to pay, and would thus be offered the same hotel for a lower price.

On the other hand, bundled goods (like cars accessory packages) may be incentive compatible, because even though each package is somewhat imperfect for each customer, they still prefer the "their" package over another one that is less costly. That way, the car company can maximize profits.

In mechanism design (for example, in the design of auctions), incentive compatibility is usually a requirement to derive mechanisms to that maximize the objective function. This is so, because there are of course infinitely many complex mechanisms one could propose. But, under some conditions, incentive compatibility ensures that the "optimal" mechanism will have a simple structure.

Finally, there are substantive reasons: If a customer has to act against their true preferences, the system is likely unstable and gameable. And also, people might walk away.

Some people also consider the participation constraint a part of incentive compatibility.
That is, the consumer must at least gain as much as not participating at all.

In the present case, the participation constraint is violated. The consumer gains nothing by being targeted and, if asked, would rather opt out. In that case, Google can design whatever they want, an informed customer will reject it.

Google and Ad firms know this, which is why it is virtually impossible to truly opt out. The participation constraint is knocked away by deceptive practices and dark patterns.
Home diagnosis of skin cancer at the price of a smart watch
Yes compared to “anthk”, Newton was an idiot. “He”indeed.
Be careful criticizing government on HN it will be buried in down votes by the fanatics for whatever party is currently in power.
My fear is that the author is 100% correct but that what will go away in the near future isn't the office itself, but full-time salaries.
It's a fundamental debate about the nature of pay and work.

Do you think you are paying $X/year to achieve Y goals? Or, do you think you are paying $x/hour to put an ass in a chair?

Which one you pick seems to decide how you feel about flex time, remote work, ... .
At big companies this attitude eventually yields a stagnant product. No one is confidant that any impactful change wouldn’t break something and no one knows if that something even matters to customers. Even worse there may be teams that will make 0 changes as they’ve been marked as KTLO.

Having tooling to acknowledge that in fact no one will be affected by a change is a huge productivity boost.
Don't forget that married filing jointly allows about $106k of long term capital gains per year taxed at 0% federally within the US.

If you had a paid off home and $68k of tax-free income per year, would you really find it difficult to live? Seems pretty cushy to me.
Do Apple AirTags work on the Underground? [video]
The promise and perils of life lived online
It looks like they did this in 1.4.0 released in February 2021, the online man page on the project website has not been updated for this new code. If you read the man page source [1], the word replacement seems to be that Far==Master and Near==Slave - the surrounding text is identical.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/isync/isync/ci/master/tree/src/mbs...
It's quite obvious both PayPal and Stripe need to account for these terribly burdensome tax laws going into effect next month. The thresholds for most companies (UK excluded) was previously enough for most international sellers to not have to worry about filing for a VAT in multiple foreign countries. However, now they are making it even more burdensome by removing these thresholds entirely. No USA businesses selling small amounts of good are going to deal with that burden. If PayPal and Stripe can't deliver, that VAT ain't being paid by the majority of online shops. This is a case of them trying to go after the big guys and screwing the small. Good job on Stripe. PayPal needs to do the same. https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-news/eu-2021-one-stop...
Sorry! It’s in the HTML. That said, nothing about the blog post has become outdated AFAIK, which makes my points a bit stronger if anything...

I don’t put anything on my blog unless I think it has a pretty long contextual lifetime.
I was always interested in how much discretionary spending they had - you have to pay electricity or whale oil bill, and have whatever clothing is mininally required to not look homeless - but after all that, what do you have left?
From what I've seen, American suburbs are not very walkable. I mean, they do have sidewalks, but most of them are not places where you'd want to walk around, since everything is so far away.
Governments save all the time in various ways but that's not what I'm talking about when I say "absorb": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

What they never do is "earn." You wouldn't use that verb for money I took under threat of force or imprisonment, right? So why would you use it here? Try "steal," "rob," or, if you're feeling particularly generous, "take."

As for where it's going: Into a hole in the ground? My argument is that governments are inherently inefficient, not that governments shouldn't exist.

Government is emergent. It has to exist. If you see someone having the "Should government exist?" debate they're probably an anarchist in high school. Or an HNer, I guess. It's not a serious intellectual discussion topic. Drop 10 people off on a deserted island and they'll have a government 30 minutes later. There's no "no government."
Yea, but these cars aren't available or legal to drive in the USA. To import one, you need to pay fees and it must be registered. To get it registered, it must have safety standards on file with the federal government. Unless you want to pay the $$$ (millions?) to get that certification for your single imported car, you need to wait 25 years for it to be imported as a "classic" car so those safety regulations don't apply.

I would love to buy a Honda E, but I live in Texas and it will never happen. After 25 years, the tech will be so outdated that it's likely not worth it. Plus the batteries will likely need to be replaced and good luck sourcing parts for one stateside without paying $$$ in shipping again.
Thanks! It also says that in the footnote. I added it to the comment.
I'm not a medical professional, maybe my terms are off but that's what I've seen it called in the media. In any case people are admitted with what appears to be schizophrenia only to end up perfectly lucid a bit later once the drugs have worn off.
I think that many people who did not have heart issues before don't know what to look for or how it feels.

Personally, I did not know I had palpitations until I googled it later. Similarly, I suspect, that some kids/young adults may have had symptoms but don't report.
If it's really just contained to media content, that's like saying Sirus XM means your car operates on a subscription model.
Congrats on your work with APL. Please do not engage in flaming on obsolete business concerns from 30 years past, on a repeated basis.

J is fine, great, easier license, has a larger and more powerful set of primatives.
Maybe having immune system working hard somehow naturally puts strain on cardiovascular systems?
As an embedded software person who is also into cars, I am definitely going to be looking for something older for my next car. I have the luxury of not needing to drive it every day, but I like the idea of something I have at least a hope of repairing myself when it breaks.
Counterpoint, I'm not a car guy and I think too many people own them. But when I'm in a car my priorities are safety, mileage, seat comfort, climate control, sound quality, and smartphone support. I don't really care how much it costs to maintain, and I haven't changed my own oil in over a decade.

Modern cars are fine in the UX for what I do. I'd rather not own a car than drive manual, and even vehicles from 10 years ago aren't competitive in creature comforts or gasoline consumption.
I personally support legalization of recreational drugs and the expansion of education, harm reduction, and rehabilitation. The fear of going to jail never stopped any of my friends from dying by accidental overdose.
Very interesting given one of the lesser known complications of covid can be myocarditis in otherwise healthy individuals with few or no other covid symptoms.

In fact, it’s likely the incidence of covid-induced myocarditis is vastly underreported given it often shows no symptoms and can only reasonably be diagnosed with a cardiac MRI which is not always widely available or advised for less-serious heart conditions.

I was diagnosed with myocarditis last year and despite a negative PCR test around the onset of symptoms (light-headedness, heart palpitations, fatigue) was strongly suspected to have contracted covid.

I was lucky enough to get my first dose of the moderna vaccine a few months back and beside a few days of increased heart palpitations I’ve had no trouble as far as I’m aware, does make me wonder about getting that second dose though.
The real issue at hand is that businesses do not like getting played the same way they've been playing employees for a long time. If I get my work done in 50% of the time I don't get to take any time off, and the "quota" moves up without moving up my pay (or at least not proportionately) .

However if I'm late on my work there certainly will be "overtime" ... So which is it? Is it that I am paid for a certain quantity of work however long it takes, or that I'm paid for however much i can accomplish in a certain amount of time? (and during certain hours I might add...)

They're contradictory so it cannot be both.
> whether it was possible or even that tampering of electronic voting systems occurred an irrelevant.

Electronic voting security is a topic of concern, and people have been talking about it for a while and should continue to talk about it. Personally, I've been calling out people who think digital security concerns are overblown since 2000, and every computer professional I know thinks that at a minimum every voting machine needs to produce a readable paper receipt, and a significant portion I know think paper+pencil ballots should be the way things are done.

But ... unless there's places in the recent election where people who were concerned about it didn't have the opportunity for a manual recount and where there's enough combined votes to have changed the outcome and where statistical sampling looks fishy... electronic count tampering is irrelevant.

And as far as I know, all the manual recounts done have verified a Biden victory.

So, sure. Continue to talk about methods. At some point, there doesn't need to be more dialogue around the outcome of the last election. Especially from the actors -- fringe and media outlet alike -- who aren't actually pointing to any of the concrete concerns, who can't actually bring up a good reason, but are clearly stretching out the game of "just asking questions" or "just making dialogue" to give the illusion that there's still any kind of reasonable countercase in play.
Current state of tech – love, hate and in between
Perhaps the fact that some words can never follow other words would make it tractable.
It's truly amazing to me (in a bad way) how humans are on the internet. They don't seem to realize that other people are real people. There's something about a reply that snaps them out of it. I've seen it happen many times myself as well.
> FLoC is premised on a compelling idea: enable ad targeting without exposing users to risk

The second you open your browser you are exposed to risk. Many times I have had to tweak the default settings of my browser to comply with my (non paranoid) requirements. Basic things like putting DuckDuckGo as the default search engine, turning off various JS APIs like HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, using AD-blockers and other addons, tweaking about:config and hardening it, etc

Call me a power user if you want, but all this hardening stuff should ship out-of-the-box.
Minix, PC/IX and Microsoft/SCO Xenix were indeed multitasking systems (well, Unices) running on the 8086
Sorry Ot and won't sound offensive, but i am reading each 'commerce' interpreted with 'ads' -so my two cents... (-;

comic #646 are you in a partisan state ?:
> //abload.de/img/646_en_areyouinapartisxjts.png
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Well said. It's the perceived hypocrisy in hipsterdom that is seemingly so eyeroll-worthy, but to roll one's eyes, one needs to pointedly ignore the fact that we're all hypocrites about something.

I blame this on the deification of schadenfreude in popular culture. The advent of reality TV, and the prurient interest in other people's pain exemplified by the afternoon talk shows that predated it, gives us all not only the opportunity, but the permission and encouragement to feel like we're superior to others because of some dehumanizing glimpse into an uncontextualized portion of their private lives.

What a different world we might have if society cultivated a sense of humility, a 'hey, none of us are perfect and we're all out here struggling and I wish us all the best' mentality.

But then, fostering divisions and appealing to our baser, more ignoble instincts is more beneficial, both in terms of profit and also 'divide and conquer' social control.
Amazon (Kindle) and Patreon don't offer purchasing in their apps, exactly so they aren't charged 30%.
Of course, you're depending on your coworkers feeling likewise.
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

Also more facetiously, xkcd/1172
Similarily, 30 ounces of gold could buy you a car (Ford Model T) in 1912, and can still buy you pretty nice car now (anything that costs ca 60,000 USD)
"Paul Graham believed it was much easier to teach great Software Hackers how to business..."

I agree

"And your organization with 3 levels of technical management and all those divisions and departments will often get their lunch eaten by a very small group of people working in a startup, moving faster and accomplishing more in less time."

You misunderstand. It is not my org - it is the client orgs. And none of those are software companies. The speed with which you can move is irrelevant because you are constrained by the pace of the org you're working for.
That's awesome, and thank you for respecting the privacy of your users. :) I wish more people took the approach that you do.
USC, Stanford Launch Starling Lab to Protect Human Rights with Decentralization
If I'm the dark pattern developer I'm not logging when the EULA is accepted or how many times they declined it.
I, as much or more than most, fervently agree that companies don't own us - we exchange work for pay and that is a relationship that works best if respect flows both ways which, recently, has been declining.

That all said - most of this article is just a rant about how terrible middle managers are and I feel where that's coming from but it's not an absolute. Management can be extremely strong at shielding you from unnecessary distractions and silliness when it's done well. There is real value in middle managers and, since transitioning to remote work, my manager and their manager have both been working hard to ensure that devs are able to stay as productive as they were while also striving to protect and defend personal time.

I totally sympathize with people that have worked under space-occupiers and from what I've seen it's utterly miserable - but staying full remote doesn't mean a flat company structure is suddenly optimal for every workplace.
Yes. Wasn’t legal tender until then. Everything prior is conjecture. The value at creation wasn’t based on anything prior. So why analyze it that way?
Anecdote: I too experienced this reaction, albeit after the first dose.

Noticeable but not significant heart pain beginning approximately 4 hours after getting the first vaccine.

Speaking with medical professionals, they said symptoms should improve with time, and they have nearly completely across the 1.5 months since.

Unsure if worth noting, but I had very strong immune responses to both the first and second doses.
but he's not an expert, he clearly doesn't understand how any of it works, you can see it by simply reading that document
Isn't touch bar is at the edge of vision, so theoretically isn't that distracting?

Neither of my Macs have one of these. This is why I'm asking.
As others mentioned, the same guy is involved in Playwright. One thing I wanted to mention is that he is extremely responsive. I posted several issues a number of years ago and he fixed them pronto. And even dug into the underlying Chromium issues.
That article is ridiculous. Do you know how expensive it is to pave a road? I had to pave a small parking lot (15 spaces) for a building I own and it was $20k. It’s one think for a person to build a 400meter road it’s another for a person or company to build a network of roads. So this cute anecdote is entirely irrelevant especially when you consider that broadly over history there are no examples of road network built without governments leadership.
92 Civic owner here. Love my car.
There's no way to entirely avoid breaking compatibility. If you allow small API breakages then at least all of the team is aware of the possibility and designs their processes to handle backwards incompatible changes. If you design your processes assuming backwards compatibility then you'll run into the 1-in-1000 case where it's not possible and have to stop everything to handle the major update.

Are you saying that it is better to have to deal with a bunch of tiny changes, so that when you have to deal with a big change you'll be used to it? If so, I strongly disagree.

I would much rather have to deal with a big annoying change every 10 years, than a small annoying change every 6 months (which would still likely need the big one every 10 years).
I don’t want to imagine how Program Alarm 1202 looks like on a SpaceX Starship running Chromium instances on Intel Atom, the latter half of which is how they’re planning to do it.
Covid-19 Deaths This Year Have Already Eclipsed 2020’s Toll
Yes [fixed]. And in an interpreted language, moving the work to a single operation was a big win.
The role of the manager is to ensure the team can get on with their jobs, to celebrate their success and have their back when things don't go according to plan. Unfortunately most manager can't help to start interfering with the team and go for a top down driven management style.
How did Reaganomics happen in less than 1 year from when he was elected? What did he change?
> The bot could also be radio controlled and it would still remove the need of a human going in.

Yes. And it is radio controlled. To quote the article: "The Grain Weevil is a remote controlled specialized robot [...]" They also plan to make it autonomous but it is not yet.
I grew up in Michigan, but my dad's family was from PA. Every family vacation out there we'd bring TastyKakes home with us. Butterscotch krumpets haven't been the same since they tweaked the recipe to stop the frosting from sticking to the wrapper, though.
The problem is induced demand. By making oil cheaper, you encourage its continued and increased consumption.
It's getting hard to find dumb TVs anymore.
Making Your Ruby Gem Configurable
Women ofte report heart problems as nausea, differently than men, who report it as pain.

So this side effect may be under-reported or misdiagnosed in women, so not male-only.
I've been shopping for new tractor and found out that some newer tractors have software-controlled regeneration process. Then I watched on Youtube how buggy software in those tractors randomly kicks in regen process and does not allow owner to use tractor. I ended up buying lower HP tractor that has no chip and no regen process.
Whatever you think of the politics of the situation, I think we can all agree that this lecture could do with some tighter editing, good grief. Hope this isn't an 8am class.
I did this for years but my TVs and boxes were over WiFi and I couldn’t get fast enough network to play high res media files.

I switched to Plex running on Synology and that’s worked much better with the synology transcoding to match the app (usually appletv and smartphones nowadays)
Instead of 100% return to the office how about having (optional) get together offline meetup every once in a while, it can be about work or simple lunch.
> If you're a manager, how do you tell if your team is spending 50% of the time slacking vs. working....

It's sort of strange that we even take this point of view: that somehow human output is to be measured in the way a machine's output is measured or the efficiency of a light bulb.

But that opens up a whole can of worms....
When Time Runs Backwards
Interesting, though a border collie with "no tail" is probably an Australian Shepherd.
Arrhythmias are perhaps the most specific indicators that you should see a cardiologist, but chest pain and/or shortage of breath on mild exercise could well be caused by a heart problem. These are some of the symptoms of myocarditis, among other things.
credit where credit's due, it was the tories in 2011. Cameron's own initiative, rumour has it.
SARS-CoV-2 detected in waste waters in Barcelona on March 12, 2019 (2020)
My other career is breeding working dogs.

After observing hundreds of dogs I can tell you breed traits do not disappear just because we make the dog a house pet.

Sometimes the traits will remain dormant and simply need to be 'unlocked' through exposure the environment/conditions the dog was selectively breed for. Thus, when a collie is exposed to a herd of sheep, even if it never herded before, it will herd those sheep. Once this herding behavior is unlocked the dog will begin to herd everything.

This is why we hear stories of dogs which descend from fighting, war or defense breed that 'suddenly' become aggressive and violent. They are simply expressing all of those generations of selective pressure.

Dogs and genetics are truly amazing things.
We are talking about religion, not religious institutions. According to bible, these are not the same. Another key theme of religion that atheists seem oblivious to. The important point here is to understand that all powerful institutional hierarchies can and will become corrupt. Religion is meant to bypass corrupt religious institutions by design; there’s a higher authority.
Along those lines, I am wondering how this compares to other non-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Living with the Old to Appreciate the New
I'm amazed that in this entire article Autosar wasn't mentioned once. The giant 2 ton elephant in the room here is automotives reliance on god-awful "kitchen sink" style standards. Try reading through the various Autosar docs and ask yourself if you expect robust bug-free code to be written to comply with it.

There needs to be a complete cleaning-of-house in automotive software.

I2C, Flexray, Ethernet, CAN/CANFD & OBD, LIN, what are we even doing?

ARXML, FIBEX, DBC, fuckin kill me.

"Unmanaged complexity" a.k.a "we've never thrown away a single technology or standard even once"