skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134903, could it be merged there?
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One of the main barriers for early-on ramen-stage startups in many EU countries are compulsory "social, pension and health" insurance and minimal pay rules. Thankfully the health part is not a big component - usually around $100 per person per month if you pay yourself the minimum salary required by the law, but for example in Poland the minimum for other "insurances" is between $150 and $500 depending on if your startup qualifies for various discounts. You have to pay that per owner or employee regardless if you make any money or not.
You create companies that evade tax and pay workers as little as possible? Remind me why that is desirable again?

People act as if it's an either/or: if you make companies pay tax, Amazon will never exist. But if the market is there there's no reason someone wouldn't set up a company similar to Amazon that also happens to pay tax and maybe even give employees bathroom breaks.
There's been plenty of cases of startup founders being voted out by their VC or perhaps their former friends, the other founders. Or the board boots them after they do something silly and public, or offensive. What is the point starting a company if they can be voted out?...

There's quite a few variants on the co-op theme.
Perhaps if you are valuable and don't make mistakes, you wont get voted out in the first place :)
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I wrote an article in which I'm describing the 15 projects I've built so far for the #100Days100Projects challenge!

Hope you enjoy it!
I couldn't agree more but with a few additional points.

As some have pointed out below, It is more like a new drug that essentially has billions of people prescribed and now addicted to. Its creators (Zuckerberg, Dorsey and Spegiel) have invented the Like, Follow, Heart tools to give us the equivalent of a dopamine hit to manipulate us to stay and continue to get more of them. It then becomes a livelihood to do extreme things just for more attention and followers which dangerously merges social media into the real world and makes it difficult to distinguish on what is real or fake, which is very unhealthy for the mind.

Imagine if FB was a drugs-manufacturer and they are selling drugs called "The Facebook" or "Instagram", etc to you. To use it, just "Post/Like/Follow". Advertisers are also the drug dealers. When we are talking about billions of prescribed users and 100m daily active users, that sounds as if Zuckerberg has become one of the most successful drug kin-pins in history.

If this analogy doesn't sound terrifying, then perhaps its time for some social media therapy then.
They don't pay zero taxes. They pay zero taxes (or close to) in some countries. Understandably those countries aren't happy[1].

However, I can assure you that if you start a company in the UK that turns a profit, you will pay corporation tax at a rate substantially above 0%.

[1] Worth pointing out that this isn't the only way governments earn tax money from companies. The less direct route is through salaries. Amazon makes sales and, out of the money it earns, pays staff, these staff in turn pay income tax, which increases the tax take of the country in which they live. For tech companies with higher earning staff (granted Amazon may not be a great example because they have plenty of staff in lower-paying roles, e.g., in warehousing), in the UK those staff are likely to pay higher rate tax. I'm not saying this makes it OK for Amazon to pay no corporation tax: what I'm saying is that the tax benefit to a country flows via multiple streams. At the moment it seems like somebody has dammed one of those streams, but the point still stands.
I have "datasheet-envy".

I'm one of the co-founders at satsearch [1], where we're working on fixing procurement in the space industry. We're constantly battling shitty datasheets.

As a space engineer, I found it infinitely frustrating to work with flyers that suppliers provide on their website, that also double-up as preliminary datasheets. They're messy, inconsistent, and subject to whatever the supplier thinks their buyer might want to know.

We wrote a blog article about the mess that exists in the space industry [2], and a follow-up about what we think can be done to improve this through Electronic Data Sheets (EDS) [3].

The EEE industry seems streets ahead in this regard, which is perhaps primarily down to strong commercialization and rapid growth of the market over the past 20 years. I think with companies like Octopart [4] making it patently obvious who does a good job of supporting engineers, it might also have pushed suppliers to improve their documentation.

I'm curious though about the consistent use of PDFs. I understand from a usability point of view that they're great for documents, but I would have imagined that the EEE industry would have started distributing "smart documents".

To give you an example, the AD datasheet in this article includes a number of high-res graphs: why has the sector not moved to the point where these graphs are interactive elements that you can zoom into, programmatically read off of, export data from, etc.? The way I look at it, a Juypter notebook or something similar would be an awesome way to share datasheet content, allowing much more interactivity.

Anyone with any thoughts as to why datasheets haven't progressed in that direction?

[1] https://satsearch.co

[2] https://blog.satsearch.co/2018-02-21-building-better-datashe...

[3] https://blog.satsearch.co/2018-01-23-the-challenges-of-an-en...

[4] https://www.octopart.com
Allowing people to order their waifus on a poster or pillow at the end is sheer genius. I'd be surprised if this isn't paying for itself.
Thanks for reading, I'm glad you liked it!
This article is about wealth creation. Your comment just testifies to that (perceived) problem.
The last time I tried to do that, I struggled a lot with error handling. The errors your database give you for schema violations aren’t really user friendly, so I have to convert them to proper errors (you must not enter negative amounts). When using SQLite there didn’t seem a way to know what column cast the error without parsing the string. That often lead that I had to implement the business logic twice. One check for in the code for the error handling and another one in the database. That was also often quite inefficient and prone to race conditions (if using improper isolation). For example if the table has two unique fields, I cannot just check for a unique constraint violation because it doesn’t tell me the column in the error data structure.

Looking at the Postgres driver it seems easier but is there any good tutorial on how to do error handling properly for databases?
If it is too long for you, some key points:

- free software

- support decentralized internet: „Users must not be pushed to register at a proprietary social networks resp. at particular providers of such services. Users without such account must not be disadvantaged – use open and decentralized networks/protocols instead.“

- do not mix software engineering with irrelevant political topics: „in order to contribute, it must not be required: to sign any political, religious or other proclamation or agree with it“

Rest of the Manifest is mostly related to quality and security issues.
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I had a hard time finding CA glue here in the Netherlands until I discovered it is what we just call secondenlijm ('secondsglue').

Also whenever I find a tube or bottle of superglue I am always tempted to attach a red cape to it (using glue of course).
Wholesale data collection has become normalized in the US. For-profits, non-profits, it doesn't matter the industry, everyone is obsessed with capturing as much data as possible and believe it's just the standard way of business. No one outside of HN cares about PII or has an understanding of things like GDPR (it's just for the Europeans). Consumers are clueless or otherwise feel hopeless.
There is this 1 € GmBH concept, where there is almost no paper work.
It's funny to say PayPal didn't buy WeChat Pay.
There were probably articles very similar to this written when ATM's first bengan rolling out in the 60/70s.
I disagree with the parent comment, but tucking logic away in different parts of your DB does come at a cost. It increases the burden on the engineer who’s trying to understand it. Read the code > look at the schema is no longer enough. Now you also have to know where all of the strongly coupled business logic is inside the DB. Triggers and views can be especially dangerous in a complex system, and having to keep a mental view of how all these discrete resources work together can lead to all kinds of failure.
Weird you mention Up, as I was thinking of that throughout the whole video, and wondering when the next one is.
Financial instruments (including money) is fundamentally just data. There is no reason to keep maintaining a large labor force in the sector.

The first wave of labor downsizing in banking came from the closure of retail branches. The second wave of downsizing, I suspect will come projects like Libra or CBDCs [1] where issuers bypass banks (now reduced to a redundant middleman) and reach users themselves.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-10/why-china...
I'm all over the place -- I've got an Aoyue hot-air station, a Metcal MFR soldering station and a Pace SX90 vacuum desoldering rig. :)

Whatever I can get for cheap, basically. Home hobbyist :)
A 1964 Earthquake Might Have Unleashed a Deadly Fungus on the Pacific Northwest
Is it really? One could just get the product name and search Google for "XX European alternative"
You don't get to do that if you're "voted out" aka fired from the company you created to do the interesting thing, likely the interesting thing will fail to happen as well. So...
I'm not sure how one generates wealth by just pumping reserve bank cash through startup founds into very localized communities inflating prices. If you have a job, a home, food and can put aside a little cash after all expenses necessary for a comfortable living, I'm not sure how you get any wealthier by having the cash to wreak havoc with the local housing economy.
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Until you become big enough to trade and play countries off against each other. Multinationals have, for the most part, been placed above the nation and government. They get to pick and choose.
That sounds much less onerous than paying for your employees' healthcare in the United States.
Ask HN: Why do you guys need to use tools like notion, retool or airtable?
Hello hackers, I don't get it, what is the reason to use tools like these?

It's not a SaaS that solves a certain problem very well ... on the other hand if you think of these tools like dev tools, they are super unusual for a developer with limited functionalities ...

I don't know maybe I'm too old but ... is there anybody here who uses these guys?
That would make sense if say, 50 people got together and came up with a good idea and started to execute it. But what about the solo person who has a good idea and wants to execute their vision? Coops don't work then.
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Yea, I am working in this sector at the moment (banking and automation) and I can tell you compared to say, a tech company, they are very very far behind. Although some banks like Goldman and JPMogran, are lightyears ahead of the competition in this space. This is the consequence of having non-technologist in tech management roles for the past 50 years, and typically no technologists on the exec. boards either.
It's super helpful for database migrations.

Say you suddenly don't have data for a column anymore, because the API that you read from has stopped providing it. Now you can add a computed column that uses a heuristic as an interim until you have time to remove all the reads from that column.

Or say that you have an object with a separate display name, and product management decides that the display name now can't be chosen freely anymore, but must be generated from name and title. A computed column can do that trick pretty well.
The United States government classification system is established under Executive Order 13526, the latest in a long series of executive orders on the topic. Issued by President Barack Obama in 2009, Executive Order 13526 replaced earlier executive orders on the topic and modified the regulations codified to 32 C.F.R. 2001. It lays out the system of classification, declassification, and handling of national security information generated by the U.S. government and its employees and contractors, as well as information received from other governments.
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As I understood it, it's a cultural thing in USA where they really like the feeling of lots of dollar bills https://youtu.be/gonVHW_X79U
Of course everyone hates them, but if you're going to operate in the EU you're stuck with 'em.
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> Example, I think it is terribly misguided to think people care / read cookie banners and they're not helping / educating anyone.

But there have also been other events and developments that did (and do) help / educate people, and now the cookie banners help those people realise how utterly widespread the problem actually is.

It's slow, but awareness is growing, and even the ridiculous cookie banners play some part in it. Also, being ridiculous on the internet is not a failure state, there's quite a tradition of it.
I wouldn't say so. Doesn't matter who, if there is one controlling entity that acts as a business/corporation, it doesn't matter which one. They are all corruptible.
This of course is not intellectually gratifying - apart from one fantastic quote:

The late Simon Hoggart coined the phrase "the law of the ridiculous reverse", which states that if the opposite of a statement is plainly absurd, it was not worth making in the first place. School marketing literature is a veritable treasure trove of such statements:

"We are committed to high standards" as opposed to "We aim to fail."

That "ridiculous reverse" idea is a brilliant means to remove marketing speak and ensure copy has some value ...
Hi,

I have applied about a week ago. I haven't heard anything back yet.
Frankly the ISPs can go fuck themselves. They're a bit too comfortable in the role of bullying gatekeeper to the Internet.
I really enjoyed reading about your development process! I was thinking the entire way though that it was kind of a shame that most of the images were just making "hologram-like" pictures that we always see, but the last couple of pictures were more along the lines of the possibilities I was thinking of!

Have you considered adding some kind of depth support that would allow you to make "3D" images by moving not only left and right, but also back and forth?
Stock options are a vestige if the first dot-com boom. Candidates saw the likes of Netscape and other contemporaries and wanted a piece of that. Companies obliged. It cost them little, allowed them to dangle vapor money as enticement and most everyone likes it.
Similarly, we call it "instant glue". I had no idea it was the same until I looked at the ingredients.
Well, I think there might be a point in a bunch of hotels/hotel chains to start a web booking co-op to get rid of the rentseeking rates of the current crop of booking sites. I mean, technology behind a booking site can't cost that many percentage points from a night's price.
Fret not, Shunkov is just reciting the magical incantation meaning to keep the funds flowing, for instance.
I had a college professor in the nineties who took the whole “goddess culture” thing very seriously, that those many (many) figurines like the Venus of Willendorf were indisputable proof of a matriarchal prehistoric society.

Modern archaeologists have noticed that these figures are usually found in the junk heaps of digs along with broken things and animal bones, while the “treasures” — tools and jewelry — are found elsewhere, and speculate that the figures are just cast-off toys. I would love to hear what my professor thinks of this...
GDPR FWIW
This is a well-observed phenomenon in the care-industry. After a patient is diagnosed with a disability there is a danger of overfitting other behavior to the disease profile. Its called a "second/third order disability" depending on whether it the patient themself or their environment that is making the claim.

Take Greta Thunberg as an example. Her mother started claiming that her autism makes her more susceptible to the dangers of climate change. Her detractors are throwing this back at her, saying this little girl has autism which makes her susceptible to the global-warming lobby. Neither of these statements is any help to either side of the cause because they are an ad-hominem attack/defense.

When I squint my eyes, a lot of this autism awareness looks like identity politics by other means. Another argument to be made in the everlasting master-slave dialectic.
When this came up on hn before someone from Google said it was because they'd had problems with malformed responses from other DNS providers.
You're missing out on a host of vulnerabilities.
I kind of feel the same way about "creating wealth", mostly because all the created wealth goes to a few founders and their VCs.

Who all seem to be moving to New Zealand or Mars ...
This was not the only problem-framing aspect of MacCready's success: while previous attempts built complex airframes intended to have a low drag coefficient, he recognized that the issue was power dissipation - if the speed was low enough, the drag coefficient was not so critical, and things like wire bracing were acceptable. His initial insight was that "if you triple the size of a hang-glider-size plane and triple its wingspan to 90 ft. while keeping its weight the same, the power needed to fly it goes down by a factor of 3, to about 0.4 horsepower." And that, he knew, was what a trained cyclist could pump out for several minutes at a stretch.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,90512,0...
Yeah, I mentioned that because it was the only chemical I knew, but the general point still stands.
BT's DSL router/modems also only hand out BT DNS servers. You have to turn off their DHCP server and run your own to be able to hand out anything else.

Their tech support (the one that's "if we solve the problem we'll charge you") said they could not solve this for me.
The 1€ GmBH isn't available in all (most?) European countries. I know that Germany introduced them a couple of years ago. It's great if you live in the country where you register the GmbH, but it can get lots of tax paper work quickly when your country of residence differs from the country where your company is registered.
That's an interesting idea! You can already do that by just moving back and forth, all you need is to project the image flat and know when to turn. I will try that next, thanks for mentioning it! Do you have any particular ideas on what would be cool to try?
I considered offshoring my business to the US and the bureaucracy involved would be horrific.

For comparison, you can set up a business in the UK with a couple of clicks. Beyond that it's a matter of filing a tax return once a year and payroll returns monthly - or annually if you qualify for an exception.
Would the GPU have its own RAM or simply share address space with a CPU?
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I tend to agree with you but the GP may feel that we live in a society that has decided showing off one's body is the only way for a woman to get attention and succeed and that any feminist who realizes it should try not to go along with the trend.
And maybe they were correct.
> what definition of Europe doesn't include Azerbaijan?

From the Wikipedia article you mention: """The UN Statistics Department places Azerbaijan in Western Asia for statistical convenience: "The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories." The CIA World Factbook places Azerbaijan in South Western Asia, with a small portion north of the Caucasus range in Europe. National Geographic and Encyclopædia Britannica also place Georgia in Asia."""
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The reason for 8^4 being used for "can I connect to the internet" is valid since the DHCP DNS might be an internal router that's up even when the internet is unreachable; why it's being used for all DNS queries is less defensible. How long till it uses DoH to https://dns.google ?
I absolutely love the intersection of technology and art, nicely done!!
This looks great! Really impressive results! Have you considered attaching the light strip to a steady-cam type rig to minimise the amount of wobble?
This looks like impressive progress towards a Scheme implementation for systems programming. I'll be interested to see how GC, interrupt-handling, etc. work.

With an aarch64 backend, and some graphics&GUI work, it might also make sense atop PostmarketOS Linux kernel, for handhelds.[1] If one needs to heavily rework Linux userland anyway, and especially if motivated by enthusiasm, it's an opportunity to rethink, rather than automatically inherit decades of desktop stack.

[1] Notes on approaching this incrementally at https://www.neilvandyke.org/postmarketos/ , though you could alternatively start by building up atop bare kernel&drivers, and Loko Scheme looks like a promising candidate for that.
The Bullshit of Payment Providers
What's happening to Stackoverflow? This reads like an advertorial? Are they going the "Forbes route" with lending out their solid brand to contributors with agendas?
I wonder if a generated column can be referenced as a foreign key. Weirdness wouod probably ensue, so I'd guess... No?
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