skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point. I agree with the overall thesis; there are a lot of things that get increasingly expensive as you approach perfection. (Perfection is still a useful guidestar, but each step toward it has to be made with costs in mind.)

However, I'm not nearly as breezy about $20 billion annually in fraud. Maybe that's fine from the perspective of the merchants and credit card networks. But from the societal perspective, that's subsidizing bad actors. People and groups who will not stop at one kind of crime as they try to grow. People who will divert other people into being parasitic. That's not healthy for society or for the individuals who end up living lives of crime.

So I think the society-optimal level of fraud is way below the merchant-acceptable amount of fraud.
Imo it’s less about the speed than the predictability.

I routinely pick the “next Monday and we’ll give you two bucks digital credit or whatever” option because I assume it’ll make the shipping a little more efficient or make some factory grunt’s life easier, and I’ll still pick Amazon over other vendors because when they say Monday, they mean Monday.

I’m always able to track the shipment, it’s always predictable, I never have to wonder. It’s a less tangible feature but far more valuable.
Probably because the mentions of peak extraction of any fossil fuel has a tendency of coming together with arbitrary non-sequiturs like this:

"Politicians cannot possibly admit that today’s world economy is headed for collapse, in a way similar to that of prior civilizations."

If the peak oil discussion do not divorce from Apocalypse fantasizing, it will never popularize. (What is not a big issue, the public isn't a very relevant party on solving that one problem anyway, and Global Warming already takes care of getting the public's sympathy.)
Are non-reusable rockets the future?!

Why don't we just stop Artemis program?

What's the point?
There surely is a game theory model for this.
I agree with the rewriting history part, but perhaps not by apple itself, but by people falsely attributing stuff to apple.

The only revolutionary that apple had was a unified big promoted appstore and marketing as magic and pompous as they usually do. They did not have a single feature that they invented or was revolutionary.

At that time people were already happily surfing, navigating, filming and listening to music on other phones like the Nokia N95 (which was a beast at this time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95), including the possibility to install Symbian apps. What was missing, were proper App stores to find those apps.

Also capacitive Touchscreens were on the market. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

The the only revolutionary thing Apple provided were Appstores and lots and lots of marketing.
“No politician wants to tell us the real story of fossil fuel depletion. The real story is that we are already running short of oil, coal and natural gas because the direct and indirect costs of extraction are reaching a point where the selling price of food and other basic necessities needs to be unacceptably high to make the overall economic system work.“

This is the real problem and also the lie. The people to whom the prices are “unacceptably high” are the people at the top of the pyramid who would subsequently need to pay appropriate wages. I would hazard a guess that if you took the current wages of workers which have essentially stagnated and regressed for fifty years and raised them to where they would have been had they been increasing at their pre 1970s rate, and then compared that purchasing power to where prices are at now, all of a sudden the prices of things would not seem so out of whack.

Executive suite are still getting ridiculous pay rises, investors are still getting ridiculous returns, meanwhile the same companies are continuing to try to shaft workers with below inflation pay rises. You cannot skim in this fashion indefinitely, eventually you get to the point we’re at now where the jig is up, you’ve put so much wealth at the top that it collapses the pillars holding the whole system up.

You cannot just park billions of money in ‘safe’ assets (e.g housing) like Smaug the dragon because you’re afraid of losing money. The money represents resources. If you’re not smart enough or brave enough to choose worthwhile and worthy people and enterprises, organisations etc to invest the money in then you don’t deserve to have it and it should be reallocated via the mechanisms of the market to smarter people who do. Yet the government keep bailing out failing company or bank after failing company or bank rather than letting the natural reallocation occur. And so we end up with a zombie economy that preys on the living to feed the dead.
I was thinking about this just the other day:

0. Secure food chains _now_. Nobody is talking about this yet. Droughts + fertilizer shortage + energy crisis + inflation = disaster. Name a single Country that got a good harvest this year. Personally I have begun to slowly store long-storage food items to get way ahead of panic buying.

1. Invest in nuclear power heavily. It's okay saying "people should change their lives to be more sustainable" - without ever giving details about exactly how that is supposed to be done. The people saying such things have _zero_ idea about how their Country actually works.

2. Reduce or remove green levies and stop subsidizing green energy initiatives. It is simply false to state that green energy is cheaper when it is heavily subsidized - if it was so affordable and cheap it should be able to fund itself, but it can't. If it needs growth and is such an amazing investment, allow for private investment. If the UK tax payer _must_ subsidize it, we want part ownership of it so we can set prices.

3. Stop pushing for electric cars when we don't have the energy infrastructure or raw materials. Fuel cars are likely to stay until 2050 or so. Hybrids also make more sense as the 'cheap' energy is likely to fluctuate.

4. If a war were to break out, it will likely happen very soon. Countries are on their back-foot, governments need a distraction and tensions easily rise over limited resources in contended locations. We need immediate preparations for defense and offense.
The authors (which I know) are failing to recognize all of the issues with Gitops.
Gitops, TF and Kubernetes are all mostly tools for infra people, who then try to push them on the rest of the organization they are a part of, usually causing lots of attrition.

Infrastructure people like Go and need to learn from its principles a bit more. Most people in software organizations are just mediocre devs. They don’t geek out on this stuff like you do, and we need to provide better interfaces that they feel comfortable using.

This creates the pattern where devs need to grab an infra person to do anything or pretend they know how to use a complex language/system that they don’t.

Ideas like this harm organizations
That explanation doesn't make sense because the fraud prevention/transaction denials are being done by the card holders bank, not by the merchant or payment processor and merchants don't get to decide what issuing banks they will be doing business with. For the most part they either have to accept all Visa cards or none (except maybe for some very broad categories like country of origin or pre-paid vs. non pre-paid).
Kinda neither. Her key tactic was waiting out crises until they went away by themselves. She didn't actually do much either way.
Maybe the casting shouldn’t be a problem, but the kids asked what happened to all of the black hobbits and elves in LotR.

I had to sidestep that landmine very fast.
Honestly OP, it’s pretty normal. You have gotten used to working at a different level of abstraction. If you’re really concerned, you could crack open some textbooks and jog your memory. But you likely haven’t forgotten, you’re just stuck into a different type of problem.

You’ll be okay and there’s no reason to panic! Panic will just make everything worse. Chill - you have got this and you will be okay.
If you are referring to "Hamilton" using a diverse cast to play characters that were white in reality, I'm not sure that is a good example. The commenter above said "Actors should be a good match for the role they play".

I haven't seen "Hamilton", but from what I've read it has little or no mention of slavery. When you don't have slavery in a story set in that era the character's race usually isn't important for the role so the actor's race doesn't matter.
That’s 10% of the average pre-pandemic yearly pre-tax profit of a dealership if WardsAuto is to be believed. So very much doable but not insignificant.
Elves in Tolkien word are a very specific and thoroughly described kind of fantasy creature.

When adapting Tolkien, I think it helps a lot to have a manual written by Tolkien himself.

> It was subsequent interpretations, like Disney's first version, that portrayed the fish as a whale.

Don't let me even start on that.

I believe the reasoning at the time was that a whale was already as big as a five story building.

Ironically today it would be unacceptable to use a whale with shark teeths [1] as a human eating monster-fish.

Animal rights activists would complain a lot most of all because wales are not even fish!!

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5SHMnaUIAA_GZ7?format=jpg&name=...
I wouldn't write them off, but certainly as you dig deeper you can see there's more than "one specific thing" and there's a disconnect between theoretical computer science vs practical programming. It would require more than an afternoon to be ready for the workplace and our company ended up having several weeks of bootcamps for all incoming college students...and still hear complaints that something is "too hard".
Or maybe it’s just the wrong idea…
> There is a good argument that it's a matter of pick your poison.

This would be a good argument if alcohol just harmed the people who use it. Unfortunately, the negative affects are wide-ranging, severely affecting many people who do not ever use alcohol. Many of the people that alcohol harms never picked any poison at all.
Art is an evolution and transforms over time both in its creation and it’s interpretation. The same stories are told across generations and they both influence, and are influenced by, the culture in which they originate.

It’s in this context that I believe every artist sends their creations out into the world. Having a vision of what it means to them and what it may mean to others. A world of the imagination is conveyed that can never be fully reproduced and for which we are left to fill the gaps. It is from these gaps, from our own imaginations, that the story continues. I appreciate that this is a story that will continue to be told, a universe that will continue to grow, through the imaginations of others.

I’ve enjoyed the storytelling and pacing so far, I believe there is time for the characters to become more developed and “likable”. Galadriel, however, was never a “hero”. She was an imperialist with a desire to rule her own realm. She was a self righteous dickhead who proudly refused forgiveness. So far the new series isn’t too far left field. Still, even if it was, I would watch it and judge it on its own merits. I want to see more of this type of content, just like I want to see more Star Wars content. I want to see the future continue to be inspired by, and inspire new additions to the story.

In the end we will collectively and individually determine what is and isn’t canon.
My argument is that those areas would be even denser, more walkable, would support more people, better infrastructure (thanks to more people bearing the costs, plus economies of scale). Would be even more engines of wealth generation, would benefit more people overall.

Regulations are obviously necessary to coordinate large populations with some decent throughput, but they need to be optimized for legibility, efficiency. (Eg. self-service portals, understandable - easily human computable - conditions, the less need for domain experts for regular business as usual things, the more transparent and standardized the decision making of bureaucracy is, the less waste there is in the coordination system.)

Therefore for housing, which is as basic a function as it gets, ought to be as easy to add more as it can be. Eg. copy paste an existing building.
Why do you think that academics investigating themselves carries any weight? Of course they'll conclude there was no problem. If you want a writeup that takes a rather different view on what happened you need it to be written by outsiders. Try this one:

https://www.rossmckitrick.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/climat...
The smallest human is under 3ft tall. The largest, over 8ft tall. Perfectly fit humans also have a widely varying maximum speed, and endurance.

The same is true of every other aspect of human capacity, intellectual abilities included.

We are not all equally capable.

Fairness comes from knowing this, knowing that each person is somewhat different, and working to enable the best outcomes for all.

To speak to this, imagine if a teacher explained an aspect of math to a student; multiplication perhaps. In this case, the student does not understand.

Would you feel it sensible for the teacher to explain again, without deviation, without changing the lesson, precisely as before, because it worked for others? And because we are all essentially the same?

Or would you consider that an inept, cruel teacher?
It didn’t have to be that way though. It probably does now, but reducing dependence on Russia would have been wise in hindsight. It doesn’t take a genius to see that depending on Russia is a bad idea.
Generalist can be a specialization in itself. Imagine someone that can do a bit of front-end, backend, infra, design, would be a specialist in bootstrapping a startup.

Don't get too attached to market/industry defined roles.

Another way to raise rates is to take risks (like deadlines, promises) but every person had their own risk profile.
This is a perfect example of why following Telemetry blindly is a shit approach to developing a product. Anyone who has used Trending knows it's probably the best feature on the site outside of actually working with a repository. In this case, the telemetry reflects not the usefulness of the page, but a total failing to promote its use.

I was actually shocked when I read the initial post because it showed a complete lack of awareness of how cornerstone this feature should be.
It is very unfortunate that they killed Upsource and the recommend Space as an alternative. It is like recommending a Swiss pocket knife as a replacement for a screwdriver. A screwdriver that is much easier and comfortable to handle.

Being a long-time customer of Jetbrains they didn't even want to offer a license so we could temporarily extend our Upsource license while searching for an alternative. Even not though we offered to pay for it.
That part has an easy infrastructural solution: a TCP loadbalancer in front that switches backend every X days, and two backend processes that are restarted after the other took over. Can be on a single machine if high availability is not a concern.
Don't we already have this with the majority of slave owners / traders depicted as white? While the reality of the slave trade was more semetic.
> At some point you reach diminishing returns, where the amount of time / effort / capital you're putting in to eliminating fraud outstrips the losses from the fraud itself.

That's not quite what I got from the article. I read it as the more friction you put in place to prevent fraud, the harder it is for legitimate transactions to happen. Therefore, it's not so much about the cost of the fraud, but the opportunity cost of legitimate transactions which don't happen in the zero-fraud environment.
Not really, but a large number of auditors (not sure if it's "most" but it's still surprisingly many) do insist on EV for some reason (and as you point out, it's not even mandated in the spec itself, at least the current ones). The insurance aspect, well it depends, our lawyers said that "insurance" on EV products (by DigiCert and Globalsign at least) are simply legalese garbage but I can remember a broad-spectrum cyberinsurer insisting on EV certs. Oh well, it's ultimately their territory, not ours.

Edit: thanks for reminding me that PCI-DSS 4.0 is now released - but it only states that you must securely deliver sensitive information over open networks (including internet) and explicilty bans all SSL versions and TLS lower than 1.2, which is the same as 3.2.1. It even references a NIST document which shows methods for automatic cert issuance featuring Certbot (https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...).
> the government has publicly available information about it

On what license? In which format? What is the quality of this data?

OSM community is not very import happy, for some quite good reasons.

And "publicly available" does not mean "on a compatible license". OSM was started because Ordnance Survey refused to make its data available under sane license.

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In meantime StreetComplete android app allows to relatively easily collect some of that - height limits under bridges, weight limits on bridges (disclaimer: I contributed to this app)
I know, but despite being a weird hybrid between Maemo and MeeGo, it was really capable.

I used a N9 as my daily driver for 7 years. The card-based UI was incredibly elegant and easy to use with one hand. I prefer it to current iOS or Android. Besides, gestures blended really well with the curved screen edges. It had a great dark mode which also blended well with the AMOLED screen.

Offline GPS navigation was a pleasure to use, and unmatched till date. It had a terminal, which let me SSH anywhere to do quick jobs. I handled lots of tasks this way. For example, I used a remote Mutt instance running on my workstation to read email. The terminal was a real terminal running on the N9. For example, ifconfig could work on all network devices, including the mobile radio.

Messaging was highly integrated. Different services (e.g. XMPP, Skype, etc) were just addons. All contact management, chat and calls were performed from the same application irrespective of the protocol used to handle transport.

And lastly, it was an open device. You could install anything you wanted. It was truly Linux on your pocket.
No, Japan is a good example of a place where there isn't a housing crisis because you are actually allowed to build things. They don't have strict zoning there! You can mostly build what you want to, by right!

>So even if you build multi-family dwellings, the crisis isn’t resolved because the cost of construction, maintenance, and property taxes are out of reach. Unless it is subsidized. The UK is evidence of this. Almost all their housing is multi-family and dense and unit size is small even by European standards. But it’s expensive still. And they keep building.

No, this is totally, completely wrong, the housing crisis here is not because of materials or labour costs. It is a policy failure: a sluggish, capricious planning system, entrenched NIMBYism and politicians that cave to it, massive legal restrictions on supply, and subsidies to demand. We aren't building enough, there is a massive shortfall in housing supply.

See this thread: https://nitter.net/AntBreach/status/1121362679367598080
Interesting read, particularly the mention about hypercore. In that sense the read is a bit anachronistic - it's geocities style regarding layout and text, but it is a keen observation about the sad state of an internet basically consisting of siloed networks and seo/sea marketing.

Coincidentally I made a quick and dirty overview of activitypub, hypercore and scuttlebutt this morning on my personal site https://olin.monster/pages/decentral/ - sometimes HN comes up with something that I was looking into just hours before. Are we a predictable bunch or just surfing the waves of cyberculture together?

Feel free to hyper-link :-)
"crossed the six figure threshold" likely refers to salary. this is pretty easy to estimate based on title if the person works at a large, well-known company. but otherwise, you're right. you can't possibly estimate an ordinary person's net worth without intimate knowledge of their investments, spending habits, etc.
Sorry, I thought we were doing the "my opinion is the rightest, because i said so!" thing.

But no, it's not a failure. "low user numbers" does not automagically mean something is a failure, as others in this post have hinted at
I wrote 10-15k rulesets for https-everywhere, starting when he was the maintainer. It was his generous understanding that got me from stupid to addicted, and I enjoyed our personal conversations going forward.

He asked to meet up, but it would have been at least a hundred miles to wherever he was speaking at the time. I regretted not putting the effort in - as well as being curious, kind, and understanding, he had the kind of systematizing mind that "sync"s so easily that he could almost instantly know what you're talking about and have a conversation about anything substantive. I regret losing touch.

I don't know what else to say. Shocked, saddened. I'm sure he'll be remembered for his contributions, more than most of us could ever hope for. Godspeed.
I get the idea, but why would you extend your laptop screen with this? Considering there's no VR or AR type tracking, as soon as you look at your laptop it would be obstructed by the second screen. Granting you no real benefits.

Edit: Apparently there's an accelerometer which can activate a screen when you look up vs looking down. But seems like that'd be clunky.
NASA gets so few opportunities. It always weighs on me when they run into issues, because I fear their charter and funding will be further reduced as a result of a big failure. Hoping for the best for the mission!
That's what a (Master-level) plumber charges per hour in Germany. By offering such discounted rates, people consider you 'less valuable' a priori.

I have indeed heard anti-"IT" sentiments in the UK, where managers often come from outside disciplines (e.g. "politics, philosophy and economics" type of oxbridge degrees). Some of these people adjust quickly and pick up technical skills naturally, whereas others couldn't insert a 9 V block battery into a toy without a YouTube video after a decade of "IT" exposure. But they also do not know what something is worth without a clear explanation, so your value is bound by your ability to articulate it.
The problem with accepting it is that people figure out repeatable tricks to get around the system.

If we view those repeated tricks as business as usual - we should probably make them accessible to everyone. Otherwise the small fraud becomes rampant.
Can't reply to the post below but where you say "I want to see black people stories, not just black people participating in white people stories where they are not originally mentioned." - I don't personally care if a movie reinterpretation casts a bald black actor (of either sex) for a character that's orginally a blue-haired pale-skinned fairy, but I definitely agree with this statement. And I wouldn't personally have an issue with using obviously caucasian actors in such a story, even if the original authors would have naturally assumed all the characters were black.
Unless the character's racial background is important to the story itself (12 years a slave etc.) or the movie is aiming for historical accuracy, I'm all for having an open slather approach to colour-blind casting.
Did you look at the link? Spain is better insulated than Britain. That it gets to -40 in Lapland is a red herring.

And if the climate is so mild that insulation is not needed, what's the problem then...

Having said that, all countries would benefit from better building.
"A 50% chance of winning $50 million would equate to an expected value of $25 million."

If you hit the green button you either get $50 million or 0$. Hitting the red button gives $1 million.

Unless you don't want $1 million or don't need it, you're going to hit the red button and not the green button.